The following drug picture has been extracted from Boericke’s Materia Medica. This is provided here for doctors’ and students’ easy and instantaneous reference.
METHYLENUM COERULEUM
One of the Aniline Dyes
(METHYLENE BLUE)
General.–A remedy for neuralgia, neurasthenia, malaria; typhoid, here it diminishes the tympanites, delirium, and fever; pus infection. Tendency to tremor, chorea and epilepsy. Nephritis (acute parenchymatous), scarlatinal nephritis. Urine acquires a green color. Bladder irritation from its use antidoted by a little nutmeg. Surgical kidney with large amount of pus in urine. Gonorrhoeal rheumatism and cystitis. Backache, sciatica. Later states of apoplexy (Gisevius).
Dose.–3x attenuation. A 2 per cent solution locally, in chronic otitis with foul smelling discharge.
A 1 per cent aqueous solution for ulcers and abscesses of cornea.