Amyl Nitrite aml-n.

For nervous, sensitive, plethoric women, during or after menopause. Often palliative in incurable cases; very important as regards euthanasia. Rapidly dilates the arteries and accelerates, but later weakens and retards the pulse. Intense surging of blood to face and head (Bell., Glon.). Craves fresh air; opens clothing, removes bed covering and opens windows in the coldest weather (Arg. n., Lach., Sulph.). Flushings: start from face, stomach, various parts of body, followed by sweatings, often hot, profuse; abruptly limited, parts below are icy cold; followed by great prostration. Face flushes at the slightest emotion (Coca, Fer.). Blushing: chronic or acute; sea sickness. Hemicrania, especially when afflicted side is pallid. Collar seems too tight, must loosen it (Lach.). Angina pectoris; tumultuous heart action; intense throbbing of heart and carotids (Glon.). Constant stretching for hours; impossible to satisfy the desire; would seize the bed and call for help to stretch. Profound and repeated yawning (Kali c.). Puerperal convulsions immediately after delivery.

Similar: to, Bell., Cac., Coca, Fer., Glon., Lach.

Mental or physical exertion. Acts promptly by inhalation; resuscitates persons sinking under anaesthetics. Crude drug chiefly palliative; must be repeated as patient becomes accustomed to it; is curative in the stronger higher potencies. The cure more frequently depends upon the strength of the potency than many who have not put it to the curative test imagine.

Amyl Nitrite (AMYL NITROSUM)

On inhaling this drug, it rapidly dilates all arterioles an capillaries, producing flushings of face, heat, and throbbing in the head.--Superficial arterial hyperæmia. Palpitation of the heart and similar conditions are readily cured by it, especially the flushings and other discomforts at climacteric. Hiccough and yawning. Often relieves temporarily epileptic convulsions. Seasickness.

Anxiety, as if something might happen; must have fresh air. Surging of blood to head and face; sensation as if blood would start through skin, with heat and redness. Flushings, followed by sweat at climacteric. Ears hyperæmic. Throbbing.

Constriction; collar seems too tight.

Dyspnœa and asthmatic feelings. Great oppression and fullness of chest; spasmodic, suffocative cough. Præcordial anxiety. Tumultuous action of heart. Pain and constriction around heart. Fluttering at slightest excitement.

After-pains; hæmorrhage associated with facial flushing. Climacteric headache and flushes of heat, with anxiety and palpitation.

Much flushing of heat; sometimes followed by cold and clammy skin and profuse sweat. Throbbing throughout whole body. Abnormal sweat after influenza.

Constant stretching for hours. Veins of hands dilated; pulsations felt in tips of fingers.

Compare: Glonoine; Lachesis.

Antidotes: Cactus; Strychn; Ergot.

Third potency.

For palliations. In all conditions where the blood-vessels are spasmodically contracted, as in angina pectoris, epileptic seizure, megrim, accompanied by cold, pallor, etc, also in paroxysms of asthma, chloroform asphyxia, inhalation of the Amyl nit will give immediate relief. For this non-homeopathic application, two to five minims (put up in pearls) dropped on a handkerchief and inhaled may be required.

It has quite a reputation for arresting paroxysms of epilepsy and resuscitating patients sinking under anæsthetics. It is given here by olfaction. There are various speculations as to how it does this; the most important thing, after all, is that it does it.

We know that it causes and cures tumultuous heart action very similar in appearance to that of Glonoine. I have cured a very bad case of chronic blushing or flushing of blood to the face on the least excitement, either mental or physical. It was in a young married woman, not near the climacteric, and she had suffered very much for a long time. The cure is permanent and the patient is very grateful, for, as she said, she supposed it was natural and medicine could not help it. Those who cannot blush don't need it. This is all the experience I have had with this remedy and I always used it in the 30th.

Mental confusion and a dreamlike state. θ Epilepsy.
A trance-like state, everything seeming unreal to her.
Unconsciousness, with inability to swallow. θ Convulsions of a child.
Unable to do any business ; head in a constant state of dull confusion. θ After long-continued convulsions.
Increasing sense of stupefaction, with flushing of face and scalp.
Flow of ideas becomes more lively.
Frequent piercing shrieks. θ Child in convulsions.
Melancholy.
Melancholy without sensation of anguish.
Actual fright at throbbing of head.
Cannot sit still for fear of something dreadful happening.
Anxiety as if something might happen ; must have fresh air.
Haunted many times a day with an indescribable dread and sensation as of an oncoming fit, although it came on only once or twice a week. θ Epilepsy.
From the slightest emotion flushing of face.

Dulness in head, and peculiar confusion. θ Headache.
Confused feeling after congestion to head.
Confusion of head with vertigo and drowsiness.
Vertigo, headache and nausea on rising.
Giddy ; drunken feeling.
Dizziness.
Heaviness of head.
Dizziness with slight nausea, < when eyes are closed.
Produced so much giddiness and sensation of fulness in head that he preferred ether. θ Angina pectoris.
Giddiness, confusion of mind, heaviness in head, headache and general weakness.
Giddiness, mental confusion and a dreamlike state.
Congestive state of head.
Great rush of blood to head and face.

Dull heavy aching all through head.
Conscious of a dull headache for about three hours.
Headache in frontal region.
Severe dull heavy pains across forehead, without marked external heat.
Heaviness and pressure outward in forehead and temples.
When pain in forehead was <, pain in occiput was >.
Sense of fulness, pressure, tension and throbbing in temples.
Pain in right temple.
Painful pressure outward in temples, < in left, with dull, heavy aching pain in occipital region extending to nape of neck, while walking.
Severe pain in temples, occiput and over eyes, with burning in stomach.
Visible pulsating in temples.
Headache on left side, parietal region.
Hemicrania, especially where affected side looks pale in comparison with sound one.
A dull aching in cervical region, gradually moving to suboccipital region, during morning.
Sensation of something rushing upward and throbbing in vertex.
No pain in head is felt until some time after attack comes on, and it is then of a dull aching character in vertex, accompanied by unusual paleness of face and coldness of feet and hands.
Severe occipito-frontal headache, felt most in sub-occipital region.
Pain in right occipital region.
Dull pain in occiput.
Pain in occiput < in heat of room and from writing.
Constant occipital headache and aching across loins, < from fatigue.
Occipito-frontal headache, with aching in right renal region.
Heat and throbbing in head ; feeling of fulness to bursting.
A quick, somewhat sharp throbbing in head.
Throbbing headache with flushed face and confusion of mind.
Beating and throbbing in head and ears with constriction of throat and heart.
A sense of fulness and distension of head amounting at last to severe pain, and accompanied by intense flushing of face, starting perspiration on head, face and neck.
Pressure in head, forehead and temples, with moist skin.
Severe pain accompanied with sense of distension of head.
Bursting sensation in head and ears as if all blood was rushing to head.
Pain in head, with a stupid, drowsy sensation and burning in stomach and up throat.
(OBS :) Hemicrania or sick headache ; pain most violent left side.
Sick headache.

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A yellow ethereal liquid (C5 H11 N O2). It is dissolved in alcohol for internal use.

A direct and powerful dilator of aterioles and capillaries, causing flushing of upper part of body, with rapid tumultuous action of heart. ▶ Action rapid, evanescent.

Glon., Cactus., Mellilotus, etc.

Stiffness as after taking cold. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Uncertain trembling sensation over whole body. ▶ Tingling in different parts. ▶ Numb feeling along the arteries after the weakness had passed off. ▶ Weakness; with tendency to perspire on slight exertion. ▶ Muscles generally seemed relaxed and heavy, causing sensation of unsteadiness while walking. ▶ All symptoms ameliorated by exercise in open air (Glon.).

Temporarily relieved epileptiform convulsions. ▶ Hysterical symptoms, with flushes, profuse menstruation, etc.

Valuable for violent neuralgic headaches, with great flushing of the face, gasping for breath, tremulousness, dyspnœa, or alternating paleness and coldness of the face, especially of one side. ▶ Sometimes useful in the results of sunstroke with the characteristic surging of the blood to the head and face, oppressed respiration, staring eyes, choking in throat.

Exophthalmic goitre, the result of grief, with the characteristic flushings of the drug, enlarged thyroid gland, irregular, tumultuous action of heart, dyspnœa.

Effects of suppression of the menses, of after the cessation of menses, flushing headache or general flushes over the face and upper part of the body. ▶ Said to be valuable in hour-glass contraction of the uterus and hæmorrhages from the uterus. ▶ Valuable for after-pains which are associated with flushing of the face.

Cough, spasmodic, suffocative, with great oppression of chest. ▶ Dyspnœa of Bright's disease.

Heart. ▶ Cardiac oppression, tumultuous action of the heart, violent pulsation in carotids. ▶ A valuable palliative in hypertrophy of the heart, with insufficiency of the aortic valves.

▶ Anxiety as if something might happen (Mosch.), must have fresh air. ▶ Oblivious of recent conversation. ▶ Stupefaction, with flushing of face and scalp, sudden smarting of conjunctivæ, injection of ocular conjunctivæ, dim vision as through a film, smartings in præcordial region, then right renal region, then right axilla, then mid-sternum, then lumbar region, then lower lobe of right lung, at apex of heart, and in lower lobe of left lung, with tenderness on pressure, increasing dyspnœa, sneezings, nasal catarrh and sighing, pulse 68, small and feeble, smartings changing position rapidly, being most persistent in eyes, bases of lungs and spine, then gaspings.

Aching; morning on rising, with nausea; from violent exercise, afterwards heat of room caused the headache to extend from temple to occiput, agg. left side and remained long in occiput. ▶ Heavy aching. ▶ Crushing pain upon head, that gathered into a feeling of confusion, threatening to make him unconscious, with throbbing in head, glowing of face, general sweat, agg. palms and sensation as if scalp were jerked from occiput towards forehead, ceasing just before it reached that point, then dull headache.

Feeling of a band about (Acon., Gels.). ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Intoxicated feeling. ▶ Surging of blood to head and face (Bell., Glon., Mellilot.). ▶ Fulness; with flushing of face, increasing to agony (Acon.) with palpitation, which shook the whole body, then sinking to the floor, then unconsciousness, with livid red color of face and eyes, followed by anæsthesia of second phalanges of left middle and ring fingers.

Confusion; full confused feeling, mostly frontal, then throbbing and bursting sensation. ▶ Throbbing; and heat (Bell.). ▶ Throbbing, with bursting-out feeling in ears and constriction of throat and heart. ▶ Throbbing and fulness, then a confused weak feeling and a weight in top of head as if it would be crushed in. ▶ Vertigo; morning on rising; with heaviness of head; with nausea, also agg. when eyes are closed.

Aching. ▶ Fronto-orbital pain. ▶ Aching over eyes; as if a weight were within. ▶ Bursting pain. ▶ Heavy pain across in morning. ▶ Heaviness over eyebrows. ▶ Heaviness in forehead, head would fall to one side, then the other. ▶ Heaviness and pressure outward in forehead and temples, with a stupid, drowsy sensation and burning in stomach extending up to throat. ▶ Oppression in fronto-parietal suture, then proceeding to frontal bone. ▶ Dull feeling. ▶ Humming.

Aching; right. ▶ Throbbing (Glon., Chin.). ▶ Pressure outward while walking, agg. left, with heavy pain in occipital region, extending to nape.

▶ Sensation of something rushing upward and throbbing in. ▶ Throbbing, and in carotids, with redness and heat in face, head and neck. ▶ Humming.

Aching in left. ▶ Constriction as if pressed in. ▶ Dull throbbing in sides and back of head.

Boring. ▶ Aching; right; agg. right; agg. heat of room and writing, amel. when forehead was painful; suboccipital aching, agg. fatigue and evening. ▶ Throbbing.

Glassy and rolling vacantly. ▶ Arteries of optic disk small, while veins were dilated, varicose and tortuous. ▶ Pain in sunlight, with lachrymation, then sneezing, weakness. ▶ Sudden sharp pain under left. ▶ Smarting of balls in evening with injection of conjunctivæ. ▶ Pupils dilated. ▶ Twitching under left outer canthus. ▶ Conjunctivæ bloodshot. ▶ Pain back of eye on looking at near objects. ▶ Vision dim; blurred when reading; wavering; yellow; primrose halo, even with eyes closed and shaded.

▶ Throbbing; behind ear. ▶ Sensation of a piston working up and down in. ▶ Sensation as if membrana tympani would be forced out with each beat of heart.

Pressure over root. ▶ Numb feeling in bones. ▶ Sneezing, after rising; constant desire for. ▶ Bleeding from left nostril.

▶ Flushed; then turgidity of facial veins; then pale. ▶ Grayish white. ▶ Sensation as if blood would start through skin, with heat and redness, and with lachrymation. ▶ Creeping in left cheek; right cheek below malar-bone, then twitching and creeping under left eye. ▶ Vesication of lips, nostrils, etc.

Wide open.

Swelling and inflammation of left tonsil. ▶ Collar seemed too tight. ▶ Constriction; amel. motion; on each side of trachea, along carotids; extended to chest and caused dyspnœa and asthmatic feeling in larynx and trachea, with desire to eructate. ▶ Sensation as from fumes of a match, with desire to cough. ▶ Tickling. ▶ Dry sensation in throat and mouth at 5 A.M., on waking, with stiffness and dryness of lips.

Appetite lost. ▶ Eructations. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Crampy pain in epigastric region. ▶ Burning; with empty eructations. ▶ Fulness and pressure, with belching of gas. ▶ Discomfort.

Rumbling. ▶ Stool, with rumbling, then empty feeling. ▶ Distention, with pain. ▶ Griping. ▶ Pain, agg. when lying down. ▶ Oppression near liver. ▶ Gripping in umbilical region. ▶ Crampy pain in umbilical region. ▶ Contraction of muscles of lower abdomen as if drawn together over region of uterus, with hard feeling on pressure in region of uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries.

Acid, contained a cloud of an oxalate (probably lime), with traces of sugar, specific gravity increased.

▶ Menstrual flow begins at once, but ceases when no longer under influence of drug.

Cough; inclination to, with indescribable feeling of fulness about chest; hacking. ▶ Respiration accelerated. ▶ Peculiar sensation of choking. ▶ Suffocated feeling from palpitation. ▶ Dyspnœa with inclination to cough. ▶ Respiration difficult and rapid, with feeling of weight on sternum. ▶ Respiration spasmodic and irregular, a few breaths very rapid, then slow and long-drawn, finally they became barely perceptible. ▶ Sighing, desire to sign convulsively. ▶ Easier and deeper, apparently from dilatation of bronchi.

Aching in right. ▶ Drawing pain in left, between seventh and ninth ribs. ▶ Peculiar sensation in right lung or chest, not exactly a pain. ▶ Oppression on walking; especially at lower part of sternum; at end of sternum on descending stairs. ▶ Contraction at left of heart. ▶ Warmth in.

▶ Præcordial anxiety (Acon., Cact.). ▶ Stitching and constriction in cardiac region. ▶ Pain in region of heart, amel. eructations; pain in region of, extending round to back; pain and constriction around (Cact.). ▶ Constriction and pressure over præcordial region as if he wanted to rub it. ▶ Cardiac oppression and tumultuous heart action. ▶ Marked beating of heart and carotids. ▶ Palpitation; after exercise, action accelerated. ▶ Blood pressure diminished. ▶ Pulse rapid; and small, then full; and irregular; irregular and jerking, then so slow and feeble that it could not be detected at the wrist; slow and strong, then quicker and jerking; pulse distinctly felt in fingers (Glon.).

Stiffness and pain, neuralgic or rheumatic, in right side, and in right shoulder, extending to wrist. ▶ Aching in morning, moving to suboccipital region.

Twinges near dorsal vertebræ. ▶ Aching across loins; on waking and lying down at night; agg. fatigue and evening. ▶ Aching in right renal region. ▶ Pain and weariness in lower lumbar region in morning.

Trembling, with feeling of weakness. ▶ Shifting pains caused by movement, on dorsal surface of right hand, on left patella and from left thumb to axilla. ▶ Rheumatic pain in left leg and knee, then soreness of right arm and shoulder, then lameness of right scapula. ▶ Soreness of extensor muscles. ▶ Uneasy feeling. ▶ Tired.

Discomfort in right shoulder. ▶ Arms trembling; pain and stiffness of right arm, especially near wrist, agg. motion; lameness of flexor muscles of right arm. ▶ Tremulousness of hands, with stiffness and numbness of fingers. ▶ Hand tired when writing, with crampy feeling in wrist and thumb, and the thumb gasps the pen so tightly that it is difficult to guide it. ▶ Drawing tensive pain in left wrist and fingers.

Lower extremities stiff. ▶ Sharp pain in left calf.

Drowsiness; and confusion; overpowering. ▶ Sleep restless, full of anxious dreams, frequent waking, with aching in temples, stomach and abdomen.

Chill creeping over back and sides. ▶ Cold and clammy skin, suffused with adhesive perspiration supersaturated with Amyl. ▶ Heat. ▶ Heat about head; with throbbing; and along œsophagus to stomach. ▶ Heat of face; with redness. ▶ Burning of right cheek, extending into eye and around right ear. ▶ Heat in left ear. ▶ Warmth of neck. ▶ Sweat; profuse, with cold chill running down back; on forehead; on hands, with warm feeling of head and body, especially abdomen.

A volatile liquid producing, when inhaled, speedy dilatation of the capillaries in the upper part of the body - flushing of the face, heat and throbbing in the head, rapid and tumultuous action of the heart - very similar to glonoine (nitro-glycerine).

Great desire for open air, which affords relief.
General trembling and weakness follows the flushing of the head and face.

Anxiety as of impending danger.

Throbbing and heat, a surging of blood.
Feeling of a band, tightly bound.

Glassy, rolling (extremely protruded, as in exophthalmic goitre, which has been relieved and even cured by this drug).

Throbbing.
As if the drum were forced outward.

Flushed and turgid.
Feeling as if the blood would start through the skin.

Constricted sensations; collar seems too tight. SEXUAL ORGANS, FEMALE
Promotes menstrual flow and is often beneficial for the results of suppression (or cessation at the climacteric).

Chest oppressed, suffocated sensation.

Precardial anxiety.
Tumultuous action.

Amy. / Amy.

Amyl's sanguine current rushes
To the face with reddening flushes.
Starts a heart-pang; thence proceeding,
Sets the nose or lungs to bleeding.
Then brings state of nerve chaotic,
Fits- and fainting- pains spasmodic;
And including in its grouping
Asthma dire and cough with whooping.
Daily inhalations, short, are
Cure for exophthalmic goitre.
Decimal drops I would propose
As the most befitting dose.

Amy,- Has flushes of heat.

Amy Su Sang is an ugly, fussy maid.

This Amy,- Who is subject to a red face,- Is at sweet Irene's jubilee.

Flushes of Heat: Amyl, Sul., Sang., Gel., Lach., Fer., Sep., Ustil.

Red Face: Amyl, Meli., Fer., Aco., Bell.