Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Convolvulus scammonia. Scammony. N. O. Convolvulaceae. Triturations of the dried milky juice of the root.

Clinical.─Diarrhoea. Gastro-enteritis.

Characteristics.─Scam. is a drastic cathartic, producing copious watery evacuations, and griping a good deal. Sprengel records a case of fatal poisoning in an infant whose mother took a large quantity of Scam., and herself suffered no effects. Scam. must be compared with Jalap., another purging convolvulus.

SYMPTOMS.

11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen.─Sudden vomiting and copious green stools, distension and sensitiveness of abdomen and death (in an infant whose nursing mother took a large dose of Scam. and herself experienced no symptoms).─Slight pain in stomach with evacuation of faeces.─Violent pain and rapid succession of stools, leaving inactivity of lower intestines for several days.─Inflammation of mucous membrane attended with loss of appetite and headache.

13. Stool.─Loose evacuation of faeces with slight pain in stomach.─Green stools.─Rapid succession of stools.