Fainting. -swooning. (syncope):

-JAHR Georg Heinrich Gottlieb
Fainting from debilitating losses
Medicinal treatment
China officinalis
Is the best medicine.
Dose. -Three drops in a little water every fifteen minutes to half an hour during the attack, afterwards increasing the intervals to four or six hours.
Accessory treatment
Plenty of chk must be given, with wine or brandy.

Hysterical fainting
Medicinal treatment
Chamomilla
When there is a tendency to faint from the least suffering, or great excitability of disposition.
Dose. -Two drops in a dessertspoonful of water every quarter of an hour to one or two hours.
Ignatia amara
If there is great nervous excitement and headache.
Dose. -As Chamomilla.
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Moschus
Is useful in obstinate cases of fainting.
Dose. -As Chamomilla.
Nux vomica
Is a useful remedy when fainting occurs in persons debilitated by excessive study, or sedentary habits, or if the fits occur after a meal, or after taking exercise.
Dose. -As Chamomilla, during the attack: afterwards every three or four hours.
Accessory treatment

Place the patient in a horizontal position, let her smell ammonia, spirits of camphor, strong vinegar, or any pungent odour: admit plenty of fresh air, and loosen the dress; sprinkle the face with cold water and apply friction to the legs and arms. Persons subject to fainting should be careful to keep themselves as quiet as possible, abstain from stimulating food, and live a regular and equable life, with plenty of fresh air and gentle exercise on foot, horseback, or in open carriage. -See Hysteria.

Fainting from mental emotions
Medicinal treatment:
Ignatia amara
If from grief.
Dose. -Two drops in a dessertspoonful of water every quarter of an hour during the attack, afterwards every two or three hours.
Opium
If from fright.
Dose. -As Ignatia.
Accessory treatment
See under Hysterical Fainting.