Drunkenness Homoeopathic remedies.

ByIn the books Homoeopathic Therapeutics I find recommended, on the strength of the Homoeopathic theory, more than forty remedies for drunkenness which may be efficacious if they are indicated by the totality of the somatic and physical symptoms in the person to be treated. But not being able as yet to make their differential indications throughly precise , I will now mention the remedies, which as the result of clinical experience, seem to be the most efficacious. I briefly state their differential indications, which my fellow physicians will complete by seeking for the remedies best indicated according to the law similia similibus curantur I the person to be treated.
Nux vom
Violent people, often cross, and whom sorrows or cares lead to drink as a means of forgetting and who spit frequently, or mild temperd people, kind and affectionate in their ordinary condition, who while drinking, become brutal even to striking, Insulting, sometimes weeping. Tendency to jealousy to, suicide by shooting or stabbing, before and during drunkenness.Inclination to sadness or to great genital excitement during drunkenness. Easily made drunk by a small quantity of alcoholic drink.Longing for red wine , white wine, beer absinth, rum ,persons inclined to get drunk for lack of anything else to do , neurotic men , and women addicted to drunkenness during or after pregnancy. Licentious, but only in imagination, still sometimes even in the urgent cases.Sometimes really immoral, mania for refusing treatment even in urgent cases. Sometimes thieving and shrewed, inclined to constipation, to vomiting, to regurgitationsb, to difficult digestion. Using tobacco inclined to gamble, spending their entire wealth little by little. Spending through ostentation, close toward his family, open handed to strangers, avoiding any society but his own family.
Lachesis
Ill natured people, hard to get along with. Inclined to violent crimes, vindictive, wicked, jealous, envious, licentious. Inclined to kill others but not to kill them selves , except to get themselves run over by a vehicle. Talking ceaselessly before or during drunkenness. Saying or doing while drunk what they would not say or do before. Appetite for brandy and absinth. Tobacco users . Sometimes spending too freely , sometimes close fisted , inconsequential.
Causticum.
Fussy quarrelsome, cheating, much inclined to be moved to years before and after drink, very great genital overexitement before and during drunkenness. Desire for brandy and wine.Sometimes inclined to theft . Tobacco users . Unable to stand continence .Young girls burning with the desire of marrying. Spendthrifts.
Sulphur.
Psoriatics. Suffers from hemorrhoids. Persons who work and go to sleep slowly with a prolonged, but not restful sleep.Slow going people, getting drunk in secret . Having neither the sentiment of duty nor streanth of will to accomplish duty. Desire for wine and whiskey. Mild before and brutal during drunkenness.More intelligent while they are drunk, saying and doing while drunk what they would neither say not do before. Obese and corpulent people. Thoughtless harum- scarum . Inclined to steal and to lie . Envious somewhat licentious. Some times shrewd and thieving. Tobacco users , gamblers .
Calc carb
After excessive mental labours which have weakened the intellect and inspire a fear of losing their mind . Devoid of will power and unable to refuse a glass of alcohol.
Hepar sulph persons who are not affectionate always dissatisfied, high temperd, easily angered even to homicide, inclined to be criminal. Needing alcohol to be able to work mentally.
ARS alb.
Wicked , vindictive, merciless, sometimes jealous, inclined to commit crimes. Inclined to suicide, by stabbing, poisoning or hanging. Persons who are always thirty and takes any kind of drink , even water. Inclined to vomiting, and more still to diarrhoea, much inclined to perscute others.
Petroleum
Drunkards without energy without strength of will, unable to refuse a glass of wine, vomiting after the least excess in drink, talking much when they are drunk .
Opium
Especially brandy drinkers getting drunk over humiliations, inclined to weep easily. Very gay or stupid, or sleepy while drunk . This remedy suits in the first case those who get drunk on wine , in the latter those who get drunk on cider , beer ethylic or amylic alcohol.
Mercurius vivus
Always dissatisfied with every thing, every body , and themselves. Incline to caries of the teeth , to engorgement of the gums , to salivation, neuralgia, diarrhoea, dysentery, intenstinal worms . Great Gamblers.sometimes spending freely and sometimes closed fisted Spending day by day what they earn . Hard to get along  with and weak minded . Having diseases which have been pallaited rather than cured.
Staphysagaria
Suits drunkard who have made an abuse of venereal pleasures.Being unnerved, they imagine they can restore their poor organism by the abuse of alcoholic liquors , rather by means mild than than strong liquors. Sad before during and after drunkenness. Hypochondriac. Inclined to persecute . Bachelors and more still licentious husband's. Onanism , jealous, tobacco users .
Conium Mac
People who drink to brace up because they  feel extremely lonesome cold and chilly. Persons who cannot stand continence. Great indifference . Intelligent not as yet throughly developed. Adults lacking in reason , like chicken. Paralytic weakness of lower spine, and especially of the lower legs Inclined to paraplegia.
Pulsatilla.
People who imagine they strengthen their stomachs by drinking and whose digestive powers are really insufficient. Sad while they are drunk . Desire for cider . Chlorotic women and girls who drink for the purpose of gaining strength. Jealous and still more envious inclined to hate . Spendthrifts through ostentation.Timid and even cowardly.
Mag carb .
Suits drinkers of mild liquors, those who make very frequent use of dainnties and candies . Shrewd sad taciturn or loquacious. Face livid or scarlet . Sleeplessness during the night, Sleep during the day . Speaking ceaselessly while drunk.
All are principal remedies which administered in high potencies 200 and above one single dose for about three or four weeks partially or completely destroys of the inclination to get drunk and often prevents the manifestations of divers symptoms which are cured during drunkenness.