Remedy

Glonoin glon.

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Duration of action

Not a dosing interval.

Relationships

Knerr's Drug Relationships, from Hering's Guiding Symptoms

Named under 10 other remedies in this book

These rows are the other remedies’, naming Glonoin.

Compatible

calc-ar.

Antidotes

calc-ar. pall.

Relationship of Remedies

Named under 3 other remedies in this book

These rows are the other remedies’, naming Glonoin.

Remedies that follow well

calc-ar.

Antidotes

calc-ar. pall.

Polar generals

Thirst

Side

Time

Motion

Rest

Position

Warmth

Cold the books disagree

Open air

Pressure

Sleep the books disagree

  • worse after sleepKent
  • better after sleepKent

Menses

  • worse during mensesKent

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915

Region

BRAIN. VASO-MOTORS: CIRCULATION. HEAD (forehead). HEART. Mastoids. Respiration.

Worse

HEAT: ON HEAD. Overheating. OF SUN, lamp, etc. HOT WEATHER. MOTION: SHAKING. JAR. Bending head back. Injury. Wine. Suppressed menses. Fruits. Weight of hat. Hair cut.

Better

Open air. Elevating head. Cool things. Cold application, bathing, etc.

General

A tempestuous remedy, full of VIOLENT PULSATIONS. EBULLITIONS or irregular congestion; general P.; with numbness. UPWARD RUSHES OF BLOOD. As if enlarged, distended or being smaller. Bursting, expansion or enlarged feeling of eyes, head, tongue, etc. Pains that come long after injuries.

Particulars

Confused, bewildered; loses himself. Sinks down unconscious. Sun-stroke. Apoplexy. Congestion to head in suppressed menses, eclampsia, albuminuria, etc. WAVES; OF TERRIBLE BURSTING, POUNDING HEADACHE, as if standing on head; expanding and contracting or blood surging back and forth from head, < carotids to heart; alternating between temples; < sunshine; < damp days. Cracking, snapping, shocks, explosions or soreness deep in brain. Head lies too heavy on pillow. Pains in malar bones, ending in a headache. Numb, sore vertex. Sharp, shooting behind ears. Red lower eyeballs or lids. Staring, dry, protruding or sunken eyes; lids stick to balls (Guai.). Blind spells. Bluish face. Veins of temples swelled. Heavy tongue. Thick saliva in A.M. Throat feels swelled. Heavy breathing. As of a load on chest. Heart seems full, quivers; strong pulsation, and into (l) neck. Violent palpitation. Cardiac pains; radiate to all parts; toward arms. Cardiac pains, < leaning backward or wine. Neck feels full and stiff. Trembling hands. Awakes fearing apoplexy. Full, tense pulse. Venous pulse. Heat on crown of head and along spine. Burning in small areas or single parts. Heat, with hot sweat. Horrible sinking in epigastrium.

Related

Complementary: Bell. Related: Amy-n. Bell.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · 1898

Keynote

Nervous temperament; plethoric, florid, sensitive women; persons readily affected. Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical injuries and their later consequences; from having the hair cut. (Acon., Bell.). Head troubles: from working under gas-light, when heat falls on head; cannot bear heat about the head, heat of stove or walking in the sun (Lach., Nat. c.). Cerebral congestion, or alternate congestion of the head and heart. Head: feels enormously large; as if skull were too small for brain; sunstroke and sun headache; increases and decreases every day with the sun (Kal., Nat. c.). Terrific shock in the head, synchronous with the pulse. Throbbing, pulsating headache; holds head with both hands; could not lie down, "the pillow would beat.". Brain feels too large, full, bursting; blood seems to be pumped upwards; throbs at every jar, step, pulse. Intense congestion of brain from delayed or suppressed menses; headache in place of menses. Headache: occurring after profuse uterine haemorrhage; rush of blood to head, in pregnant women. Violent palpitation, with throbbing in carotids; heart's action labored, oppressed; blood seems to rush to heart, and rapidly to head. Convulsions of children from cerebral congestion; meningitis, during dentition, cases that seem to call for Belladonna. Children get sick in the evening when sitting before and open coal fire, or falling asleep there. Flushes of heat; at the climacteric (Amyl., Bell., Lach.); with the catmenia (Fer., Sang.).

Relations

Compare: Amyl., Bell., Ferr., Gels., Melil., Stram.

Aggravation

In the sun, exposure to sun's rays; gas- light; overheating; jar; stooping; ascending; touch of hat; having the hair cut.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · 1887

General

Troubles from heat of the head in type-setters, and in men who work under a gas-light steadily, so that heat falls on the head; bad results from sun-stroke; can't bear any heat about the head; can't walk in the sun, must walk in the shade or carry an umbrella; can't bear heat from a stove; great vertigo on assuming an upright posture from rising up in bed; rising from a seat, etc. Heat in the head; throbbing headache. Patient feels lost or feels strange even in a familiar street or in familiar surroundings, things look so strange and unfamiliar.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · 1905

Red line symptom

Confusion of ideas, cannot tell where he is, streets seem strange, and the way home too long. Sensation as if the head was enormously large. Distinct feeling of the pulse in the head, throbbing without pain. Undulating or wave-like motion in the brain. Violent action of the heart, distinct pulsation over the whole body. Bad effects from exposure to the rays of the sun.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

General

Recent German provings of Glonoine confirm the original American provings and clinical indications and bring out very marked nerve disturbances. Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms. The sixth potency alone produced itching all over body with later acne and furuncle formation, also bulimy.

Great remedy for congestive headaches, hyperæmia of the brain from excess of heat or cold. Excellent for the intercranial, climacteric disturbances, or due to menstrual suppression. Children get sick when sitting before an open fire. Surging of blood to head and heart. Tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. Violent convulsions, associated with cerebral congestion. Sensation of pulsation throughout body. Pulsating pains. Cannot recognize localities. Sciatica in other-omatous subjects, with cold shriveled limbs; seasickness.

Head

Confusion, with dizziness. Effects of sunstroke; heat on head, as in type-setters and workers under gas and electric light. Head heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow. Cannot bear any heat about head. Better from uncovering head. Throbbing headache. Angio-spastic neuralgia of head and face. Very irritable. Vertigo on assuming upright position. Cerebral congestion. Head feels enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain. Sun headaches; increases and decreases with the sun. Shocks in head, synchronous with pulse. Headache in place of menses. Rush of blood to head in pregnant women. Threatened apoplexy. Meningitis.

Eyes

See everything half light, half dark. Letters appear smaller. Sparks before eyes.

Mouth

Pulsating toothache.

Ears

Throbbing; each beat of heart is heard in ears; full feeling.

Face

Flushed, hot, livid, pale; sweaty; pains in root of nose; faceache. Dusky face.

Throat

Neck feels full. Collars must be opened. Chokes and swells up under ears.

Stomach

Gastralgia in anæmic patients with feeble circulation. Nausea and vomiting. Faint, gnawing, and empty feeling at pit of stomach. Abnormal hunger.

Abdomen

Constipation with itching, painful hæmorrhoids, with pinching in abdomen before and after stool. Diarrhœa; copious blackish, lumpy stools.

Female

Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion to head. Climacteric flushing.

Heart

Laborious action. Fluttering. Palpitation with dyspnœa. Cannot go uphill. Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and fainting spells. Throbbing in the whole body to finger-tips.

Extremities

Itching all over, worse extremities. Pain in left biceps. Drawing pain in all limbs. Backache.

Modalities

Better, brandy. Worse, in sun; exposure to sun-rays, gas, open fire; jar, stooping, having hair cut; peaches, stimulants; lying down; from 6 am to noon; left side.

Relationship

Antidote: Acon.

Compare: Amyl nit; Bellad; Opium; Stram; Verat vir.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

For palliative (non-homeopathic) purposes, in angina pectoris, asthma, heart-failure, etc, physiological doses-i.e, 1-100 of drop-must be given. Here it is the great emergency remedy. The conditions calling for it are small, wiry pulse, pallor, arterial spasm, anæmia of brain, collapse, feeble heart, syncope, dicrotic pulse, vertigo,-the opposite of those indicating a homeopathic dosage. Often thus used to lower the arterial tension in chronic interstitial nephritis.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · 1899

Leaders

Sudden local congestion, especially to head and chest; bursting headache rising up from neck, with great throbbing and sense of expansion as if to burst; cannot bear the least jar.

Can't bear anything on the head, especially hat; or pressure as of a hat.

Over-heating in the sun, or sunstroke.

This is, in the first place, one of our great head remedies. It has intense pain in the head, with great throbbing and sensation of fullness and constriction of the vessels of the neck. There are so many symptoms attending this condition of congestion that it is not wise to try to give them all here. I used, in my early practice, to carry a small vial of the 1st dilution in my case on purpose for those who were inclined to sneer at the young doctor and his sweet medicine, and many a disbeliever have I convinced, in about five or ten minutes, that there might be power in small doses of sweet medicine, by dropping on the tongue a drop of this preparation, for it seldom failed to produce its characteristic throbbing headache within that time. One lady, not willing to acknowledge that it affected her, rose to leave the room, and fainted and would have fallen to the floor if I had not caught her. No one ever asked after that experiment for any more proof of the power of homœopathic medicine. This throbbing headache, seeming to arise from the neck, is very characteristic, and the throbbing is not a mere sensation but is visible in the carotid arteries. The vessels are full to bursting, and if their walls were not healthy there is danger of apoplexy. No remedy equals this one for producing sudden and severe congestion of the head, and none can cure it quicker when indicated by the symptoms. The remedies that stand nearest Glonoine in their effect on the head I believe to be Belladonna and Melilotus. Belladonna and Glonoine both have the fullness, pain and throbbing, but that of Glonoine is more intense and sudden in its onset, and, on the other hand, subsides more rapidly when relieved. Again, Glonoine is better adapted to the first or congestive stage of inflammatory diseases of the brain, while Belladonna goes further and may still be the appropriate remedy after the inflammatory stage is fully initiated. Belladonna is better by bending the head backward; Glonoine worse. Belladonna is made worse by having the head uncovered, and suffers from having the hair cut; Glonoine must have the head uncovered, can't bear to wear his hat, or wants the hair cut. Belladonna is worse lying down, even if he keeps still; Glonoine, though sometimes worse after lying down, is also sometimes better when lying still. One symptom very characteristic of Glonoine is, that the patient carries the head very carefully, for the least jar or shaking of it greatly aggravates the pain. Another peculiar symptom is, it seems to the patient that there is not only throbbing, but there is an undulating sensation as if the brain were moving in waves synchronous with the pulse. There is more disturbance of the heart action with Glonoine than with Belladonna, though both have it strongly. Glonoine has a sensation of rush of blood to the heart or chest.

Melilotus also has great congestion to the head, with pain and sense of fullness. Not being so thoroughly proven as Belladonna and Glonoine, we cannot so clearly indicate the exact place for it, but there is one very prominent symptom which always makes one think of it, viz.: "Glowing redness of the face." No remedy that I know of has it more strongly. Glonoine and Belladonna may both have very red face; on the other hand, a pale face, with the other congestive symptoms, does not contraindicate them, but does Melilotus. Then, again, with Melilotus the head symptoms are often relieved by a profuse epistaxis, which is also another very prominent symptom of this remedy. I cured a very bad case of typhus cerebralis, and also a case of insanity of long standing, with this remedy, being guided to it by these symptoms.

"Loses his way in well-known streets" is a symptom of Glonoine that has several times been confirmed. The local congestions of Glonoine are often found in different diseases; for instance, climacteric flushings are often most felt in the head. Glonoine cures such cases. It is also useful in puerperal convulsions. And another symptom often present in these cases is, a sense as if the head were expanding from fullness. Now look out for convulsions and give Glonoine, especially if there be albumen in the urine. Congestion to the head from suppressed or retarded menses sometimes finds a remedy here; also, different pathological conditions of the heart, but the symptoms must be present.

For sunstroke it is probably oftener indicated than any other remedy; also for the after-sufferings therefrom. Not only from sunstroke, but from other bad effects of radiate heat; for instance, children get sick in the night after sitting too long or falling asleep before an open coal fire.

Then, again, warm room increases the headache and warm bed the faceache.

"Burning between the shoulders" is another symptom of this remedy, like Lycopodium and Phosphorus. Ammonium muriaticum and Lachnanthes have the opposite. While we are here now I will call attention to another remedy, which, for flushings and congestions to head and face, resembles Glonoine, that is, Amyl. nit.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · 1866

Mind and Disposition

Fear, with the sensation of constriction of the chest and as if the neck were swollen, or as if something unpleasant would happen to him. Unusually bright and loquacious, with great flow of ideas. Loses his way in the known streets, the walk seems too long ; the chin feels too long.

Head

Unsteady gait. Giddiness when the head is moved. Heaviness in the head, principally in the forehead. Dull headache with warm perspiration in the forehead. Fulness in the head, as if the brain was expanding itself, were moving in waves. Congestion of blood to the head (apoplexy). Pulsation in the forehead, in the temples, on the vertex ; when walking every step is felt in the neck, when moving the head. Stitches in the temples or the right side of the forehead. Sore and bruised feeling in the brain, worse when shaking the head. The pain, heat and fulness in the head ascend from the chest, neck or back part of the head. Shaking aggravates the headache, as well as stooping motion, ascending steps. External pressure relieves. Waking in the open air, uncovering the head, relieves. Headache with accelerated pulse, red face, perspiration on the face ; he becomes unconscious.

Eyes

Eyes dull, staring, sunken. The whites of the eye is red, the eyes protrude, look wild. Protruding pains. Heat in the balls of the eyes, lids, around the eyes. In the eyeballs, stitches, twitchings, soreness, pressure. Sparks, flashes before the eyes. The letters appear smaller. Black spots before and obscuration of the eyes, with fainting.

Ears

Sensation of fulness, in and around the ears. Stitches in the ears, the ears feel as if closed. Ringing, singing in the ears.

Nose

Pain at the root of the nose. The headache extends into the nose.

Face

Paleness of the face with heat and congestion of blood to the head and chest. Heat in the face with pulsations in the head and palpitations of the heart. Redness of the face, especially the upper part of it, with headache. Itching, especially in the middle of the face. Pain and stiffness of the articulation of the jaw. Sensation as if the under lip were swollen.

Mouth and Throat

Pulsating toothache with headache. Tongue swollen with pricking it, the tongue smarts. Sensation of soreness and swelling on the roof of the mouth with pulsation. The soft palate feels contracted and dry. In the throat tickling, heat, soreness.

Stomach and Abdomen

Nausea causing perspiration. Nausea with and caused by the headache, with colic ; congestion of blood to the head and chest and pale face. Gnawing in the pit of the stomach. Sensation of emptiness in the pit of the stomach. Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach, especially on stooping. Colic, cutting pain principally below the navel, wakening one in the morning before and after loose stools. Rumbling in the lower part of the abdomen, principally when lying on the left side.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœic stools with rumbling and discharges of flatulency, beginning in the morning and lasting all day.

Urinary Organs

Increased secretion of pale (albuminous) urine ; has to rise frequently during the night and must pass large quantities of albuminous urine.

Genital Organs

Women. Menstruation suppressed by Glonoine. During the menstruation, congestion of blood to the head and chest, headache, fainting. During pregnancy headache, congestions of blood to the head and chest.

Respiratory Organs

Constriction of the chest. Oppression of the chest alternating with headache. Desire to take a long deep inspiration. Sighing. Congestions to the chest. Palpitation of the heart with heat in the face, accelerated pulse and pulsation of the carotid arteries. Severe stitches from the heart, extending into the back. In the heart sensation of fulness, heaviness ; and heat, with labored beating of the heart.

Back and Neck

The neck feels weak and tired, cannot support the head. Stiffness of the neck, clothing seems to be too tight. On the neck sensation of fulness, tension, pulsation. Pain in the whole spinal column, or heat and chilliness. Burning heat between the shoulder-blades.

Extremities

Upper. In the arms restlessness, weakness, want of circulation. Sensation of weakness ; and numbness in the left arm. Feels the beating of all the pulses in the tips ; of the fingers, accompanied by trembling of the fingers. Lower. Weakness and numbness of the left thigh. Weakness of the legs, the knees and ankles give way. Restlessness in the limbs causes him to rise.

Sleep

Yawning with headache, congestion of blood to the head. Sleepiness early in the evening. He is difficult to waken.

Generalities

Weakness as from loss of sleep. Fainting with consciousness. Unconscious falling down. Pulsations, tingling, thrills, and a peculiar sensation of warmth through the body, extending from above downward. Convulsions (from congestions to the head) ; the fingers are spread apart and stretched out (left side).

Fever

Pulse accelerated, irregular, intermitting, full and hard, small and rapid. Heat, especially in the face, ascending from the pit of the stomach to the head. Perspiration principally in the face, after sleeping. Perspiration relieves the nausea.

Conditions

Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical contusions and their later consequences. Bad effects from having the hair cut. Bad effects from being exposed to the rays of the sun.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902

General

Nitro-glycerine. C 3 H 5 (NO 3 ) O 3 . Dilutions with alcohol.

Clinical

Angina pectoris . Aphasia. Apoplexy. Brain, congestion of . Bright's disease. Convulsions. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Fright, effects of. Goître. Headache . Heart, affections of; palpitation of; jarring, effects of. Location, sense of, lost. Mania. Meningitis. Menses, suppression of. Neuralgia . Paralysis. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Sea-sickness. Snow-headache. Sun-headache. Sunstroke . Toothache. Trauma.

Characteristics

"Nitro-glycerine was discovered by Sobrero in 1847, but none could be obtained for physiological experiment until Morris Davis, a Philadelphia chemist, in the same year, after long and laborious trials, under direction of Hering, succeeded in producing the substance in sufficient quantities for proving." I quote this from the Guiding Symptoms. Glon . is one of the many monuments of Hering's therapeutic genius. It is to him that we owe the introduction of this notable remedy into the materia medica, and into medicine. The note of the action of Glon . is a tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. It acts very quickly and very violently. The "signature" of this potent explosive may be said to be "bursting" and "expansion." Bursting, throbbing headaches; sensations of expanding in the head and elsewhere. Throbbing of carotids; violent action of heart; rush of blood to head; flushes of heat rising from chest to head, then throbbing pain in head. The characteristic neuralgias of Glon . are accompanied with much throbbing, and are often < at night, preventing sleep. Supra-orbital neuralgia, pulsating; retinal congestion from exposure to strong light. Facial neuralgia, extending through head. Cardiac neuralgia (angina pectoris) with radiating pains.

Guernsey, with his usual graphic terseness, says that Glon . is suited to "Troubles of the head in type-setters, and in men who work under a gas-light steadily, so that the heat falls on the head; bad results from sunstroke; can't bear any heat about the head ; can't walk in the sun, must walk in the shade or carry an umbrella; can't bear heat from a stove; great vertigo on assuming an upright posture, from rising up in bed, rising from a seat, &c. Heat in the head; throbbing headache." The great sensitiveness to the least jar, which is a very marked feature of the Glon . headache, causes the patient to carry his head very carefully in order to avoid the chance of it. The headache is in the whole head and every part — forehead, vertex, occiput. Many pains appear in occiput and base of brain; gnawing in occiput; sore pain; pressure; severe pain in occiput, extending to eyes and temples; sensation as if something were moving in nerves from back of neck upward to head. The eyes may be fixed or protrude; aversion to bright light; black spots before sight. Face flushed or pale. Climacteric disturbances.

Fainting, sudden unconsciousness; convulsions, especially during labour. Nausea and vomiting of cerebral origin. Violent, stabbing, neuralgic pains, so violent as to make patient frantic, he wants to escape, to jump out of window. Bad effects of fear; horrible apprehension; fear of being poisoned. A characteristic mental condition is loss of sense of location: "well-known streets seem strange to him." Among the peculiar sensations are: Chin feels too long. Chest feels screwed together. Brain as if expanding; as if moving in waves; as if hanging with head downwards; as if something were pumped into vertex; as if everything were crowded out at forehead; as if warm water were running upwards from nape of neck; as if the neck were gripped by a hand; as if some one were pulling eyes from within outward. Noise in left ear as if it came from heart. Lower lip feels swollen. As if heart would rise to throat. Pains are: Bursting; throbbing; pulsative; tearing; piercing; stabbing; gnawing. Burning between shoulders. Sitting or lying still, or walking in cold air > headache. Bending forward; bending head backward, and almost every movement < headache. Rest < pain in knee. Excessive heat and cold = hyperæmia of brain. Heat generally < ; cold applications and cool air > ; but cold water applied to head < head symptoms, even = spasms. < Damp weather. Bad effects of having hair cut; of exposure to sun or fire heat. All summer, headache < every day with the sun. < From wine. Pains from within outward; from front to back. Bad effect of too much riding or driving; sea-sickness; < from jarring. Pressure > headache. Cannot bear weight of hair; clothing seems too tight. Suited to: Florid, plethoric, sensitive women; nervous, sanguine, readily affected persons. Old scars break out again.

Relations

Antidoted by: Acon., Camph., Coff., Nux v. Compare: Amyl nit.; Act. r. (waving in brain); Petrol. and Crotal. h. (loss of location); Bell. (cephalic cry but not as marked in Bell.; also Bell. has > bending head back, and > covering head; Glon. > uncovered); Apis, Hyo. (fears being poisoned); Gels. (inclination to jump out of window); Stram. Sang. (headache with the sun; ear sensitive to jar); Nit. ac. and Bell. (sensitiveness to jar); Melilot. (headache with crimson face) Lyc. and Phos. (burning between shoulders); Dig. and Diosc. (headache extending into nose); Sec. (fingers spread apart).

Causation

Sun. Bright snow. Fire-heat. Fear or fright. Jarring. Injuries.

Mind

Falling down, with loss of consciousness and alternate palpitation of the heart, and congestion of the head. — Fear; throat feels swollen, chest as if screwed together; apprehensive of approaching death; fears she has been poisoned. — Fear, as if something unpleasant would happen to him. — Unusually bright and loquacious, with great flow of ideas. — Confusion of ideas; cannot tell where he is; well-known streets seem strange; way home too long; forgets on which side of the street he lives. — Great mental agitation (with headache); frantic, attempts to run away; to jump out of window. — Cephalic cry. — The chin feels too long.

Head

Vertigo; < from stooping or moving head; in open air. — Giddiness when the head is moved. — Heaviness in the head, principally in forehead. — Dull headache with warm perspiration on forehead. — Headache with accelerated pulse, red face, perspiration on the face; he becomes unconscious. — Headache < from the heat of the sun; > in the open air and from pressure. — Headache, throbbing, &c., during or in place of menses. — Fulness in the head, as if the brain was expanding itself, were moving in waves. — Fulness in the head; distinct feeling of the pulse in the head; throbbing without pain. — Sensation as if the blood were mounting to the head. — Congestion of blood to the head (apoplexy). — Pulsation in the forehead, in the temples, on the vertex; when walking every step is felt in the neck, when moving the head. — Throbbing in the head; in forehead; in temples; in vertex; in occiput; < when moving; > when sitting still and lying and from pressure. — Throbbing in the temporal arteries, which were raised, and felt like cords. — Stitches in temples or r. side of forehead. — Sore and bruised feeling in the brain, worse when shaking the head. — Sensation of soreness through the whole head; is afraid to shake the head, as it seems that it would make the head drop to pieces. — The pain, heat, and fulness in the head ascend from the chest, neck, or back part of the head. — Severe pain in the occiput, extending to the eyes and temples. — Shaking < the headache, as well as stooping motion, ascending steps; external pressure > ; walking in the open air, uncovering the head > . — Cracking sensation in the brain. — Skull seems too small, and as if the brain were attempting to burst the skull; violent action of the heart, and a distinct pulsation over the whole body. — Shocks in the brain synchronous with the pulse. — Undulating or wave-like motion in the brain. — Hemicrania; sees half light, half dark. — Gnawing in occiput.

Eyes

Eyes dull, staring, sunken. — The white of the eye is red, the eyes protrude, look wild. — Eyes feel as if some one were pulling them from within outward. — Pressing, protruding pains in eyes. — In the eyeballs, stitches, twitchings, soreness, pressure. — Pupils dilated, eyes rolled upward. — Heat in the balls of the eyes, lids, and around the eyes. — Sparks, flashes before the eyes. — The letters appear smaller. — As if focus of r. eye were suddenly displaced; sees everything half light and half dark. — Black spots before, and obscuration of the eyes; with fainting.

Ears

Sensation of fulness, in and around the ears. — Ears sensitive to jarring. — Deafness, ears feet as if stopped up. — Stitches in the ears, the ears feel as if closed. — Throbbing, piercing from within outward in r. ear. — Ringing, singing, or cracking in the ears. — Ringing in the ears, audible pulse.

Nose

Pain at root of nose. — The headache extends into the nose. — Epistaxis on going out into the heat of the sun, face flushed, hot, red.

Face

Paleness of the face with heat and congestion of blood to head and chest. — Pale during heat, sunstroke, congestions, &c.; flushed and hot with headache. — Heat in the face with pulsations in the head and palpitations of the heart. — Redness of the face, esp. upper part of it, with headache. — Redness of the face, which comes and goes. — Itching, esp. in the middle of the face. — Pain and stiffness of the articulation of the jaw. — Sensation as if the under lip were swollen.

Teeth

Throbbing pain in all the teeth. — Pulsating toothache with headache. — Stabbing pains in gums r. side passing to l. without ceasing in r.; < from hot, > from cold applications.

Mouth

Taste: bitter with nausea; aromatic; sweet; warm; leaves a fatty taste. — Tongue numb, as if burnt; prickling, stinging. — Tongue feels swelled and raw with spasmodic twitchings. — Tongue: milk-white without coating; coated heavily at back. — Difficulty in conversing from diminished power of tongue and confusion of ideas. — Tongue swollen with pricking in it, the tongue smarts. — Sensation of soreness and swelling on the roof of the mouth with pulsation.

Throat

The soft palate feels contracted and dry. — Itching of the soft palate and throat. — In the throat tickling, heat, soreness. — Sensation as if the throat were swelling.

Appetite

Appetite lost. — Wants cold water; also from dry parched feeling. — Increased desire to smoke. — Wine < all symptoms.

Stomach

Nausea causing perspiration. — Nausea with and caused by the headache, with colic; congestion of blood to the head and chest, and pale face. — Nausea and vomiting in brain-congestions, or during sunstroke. — Faint feeling at pit of the stomach; also with throbbing. — Sensation of emptiness in the pit of the stomach. — Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach, esp. on stooping. — Gnawing in the pit of the stomach.

Abdomen

Colic, cutting pain principally below the navel, wakening one in the morning, before and after loose stools. — Gall-stone colic. — Rumbling in lower part of the abdomen, principally when lying on l. side.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœic stools with rumbling and discharges of flatus, beginning in the morning and lasting all day. — Diarrhœa; copious, loose, blackish, lumpy stools. — Morning diarrhœa with sharp burning; with rumbling. — After eating peaches diarrhœa evening and night. — Constipation and hæmorrhoids which itched and pained. — At an unaccustomed time, a hard and unusual stool; pinching in abdomen before and after it. — No stool.

Urinary Organs

Increased secretion of pale (albuminous) urine; has to rise frequently during the night, and must pass large quantities of albuminous urine. — Tubal nephritis, with headache, brought on by walking in the sun; numbness in arms and hands alternating with intense tingling.

Female Sexual Organs

Menstruation suppressed by Glon . — Instead of menses congestion to head; face pale; worse in warm room; fainting; throbbing. — During menstruation congestion of blood to head and chest; headache; fainting. — At climaxis, flushes of heat, pressure in head, nausea, loss of senses, vertigo, swelling of feet. — During pregnancy headache, congestions of blood to the head and chest. — Eclampsia; unconscious; face bright-red; puffed; pulse full, hard; urine copious and albuminous.

Respiratory Organs

Inclination to deep respiration. — Desire to take a long, deep inspiration. — Sighing.

Chest

Constriction of the chest. — Constriction and oppression of the chest. — Oppression of the chest alternating with headache. — Congestions to the chest.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart with heat in the face, accelerated pulse and pulsation of the carotid arteries. — Violent action of the heart, distinct pulsation over the whole body. — Excessive perceptible palpitation of the heart. — In the heart sensation of fulness, heaviness, and heat, with laboured beating of the heart. — Pulse accelerated; rises and falls alternately; low and feeble in sunstroke. — Laborious action of the heart, oppression. — Sharp pains in heart. — Severe stitches from the heart, extending into the back. — Purring noise in region of heart when lying, pulse intermittent.

Neck and Back

Tightness around the neck. — The neck feels weak and tired, cannot support the head. — Stiffness of the neck, clothing seems to be too tight. — On the neck sensation of fulness, tension, pulsation. — Burning heat between the shoulder-blades. — Hot sensations down back. — Pain in the whole spinal column, or heat and chilliness.

Upper Limbs

In the arms restlessness, weakness, want of circulation. — Sensation of weakness and numbness in l. arm. — Feels the beating of all the pulses in the tips of the fingers, accompanied by trembling of the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Weakness and numbness of l. thigh. — Weakness of the legs, the knees and ankles give way (during headache). — Limbs relaxed, motionless in sunstroke. — Acute pain in l. knee on moving, seems to be deep in joint without much heat or swelling; sudden twinges or pricks while at rest, is obliged to rise and straighten limb. — Jerking of limbs with loss of consciousness. — Restlessness in the limbs causes him to rise. — (Sciatica.). — Cold feet, with nausea, palpitation.

Generalities

Fainting; with consciousness. — Great weakness and prostration. — Unconscious falling down. — Painless throbbing in the whole body. — Pulsations, tingling, thrills, and a peculiar sensation of warmth through the body, extending from above downward. — Convulsions (from congestions to the head); the fingers are spread apart and stretched out. — Seeming plethora, rapid deviations in distributions of blood.

Sleep

Yawning with headache, congestion of blood to the head. — Sleepiness early in the evening. — He is difficult to waken. — Weakness as from loss of sleep.

Fever

Pulse accelerated, irregular, intermitting, full and hard, small and rapid. — Chill: after getting heated; alternates with sweat; with vomiting; head as if screwed up; intermittent fever. — Heat, esp. in face, ascending from pit of stomach to head. — Warmth general; flushes of heat; waves of heat upward. — Perspiration principally in the face, after sleeping. — Perspiration on forehead. — Profuse sweat, mostly on face and chest. — Perspiration relieves the nausea.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Loses senses, sinks down unconscious ; congestion alternately to head and heart.
Recognized no one ; repulsed her husband and children ; raved, screamed, and wished to rush from house ; jumped out of bed, but fell because her knees gave way.
She could not remember which side of the street her house was on.
Well-known streets seem strange ; way home too long.
Loses his way in the known streets.
The chin feels too long.
Loss of location ; commenced about ten years ago ; loses himself, even when walking in streets that he has traveled in for years ; all right in regard to everything else.
Long forgotten old offenses come back to him.
Frantic ; attempted to jump from the window. θ Headache.
After an attack of epilepsy patient awoke in a state of violent mania, struggling with great violence ; eyeballs projecting, mouth half open, looked as if he were contemplating some afflicting sight, while he rapidly reiterated an unmeaning monosyllable, doe-doe-doe, in a painfully
plaintive voice.
Unusually bright and loquacious, with great flow of ideas.
Great mental agitation ; attempts to run away ; attempted to spring from window.
During intermissions of pain, she shudders and weeps bitterly.
Disinclined to speak ; would scarcely answer.
Fear ; throat feels swollen ; chest as if screwed together ; apprehensive of approaching death ; fears she has been poisoned.
Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical contusions and their later consequences.

Sensorium

Heaviness in head, principally in forehead.
Fulness in head, as if all blood had mounted to head ; very disagreeable sensation, but without pain.
Fulness in head, as if brain was expanding itself, were moving in waves.
Sensation in head as if he were hanging with head downwards, and as if there was a great rush of blood to head in consequence.
Determination of blood to head sometimes preceding apoplexy, also for that which often occurs in softening and tumors of brain.
Could not allow his head to be on a level with his body, but must have it elevated, it felt full, could not see objects distinctly ; dizzy.
Giddiness when the head is moved.
Confusion and vertigo ; after stooping.
Throbbing, pulsation and confusion of all senses ; sensation of balancing, requiring a constant effort to keep head erect, which inclined to droop as on going to sleep.
Undulating sensation in head.
Head feels larger.
Vertigo ; confusion, faintness, black spots before eyes ; < stooping or moving head ; < in open air ; with headache ; with nausea ; in sunstroke ; after a violent fall on head ; when rising in morning.
Congestive vertigo ; forerunner of apoplexy ; intoxication and heaviness of head, with bending head forward ; reeling, trembling, falling ; headache ; heat in head ; redness of face ; photophobia ; injection of conjunctivæ ; flickering before
eyes ; buzzing in ears ; pulsation of carotids ; < sitting up.
Nausea, then unconsciousness, with convulsive action of facial muscles ; face pale, breathing stertorous, feeble pulse.
Sinking down unconscious, with congestion, alternating to head and heart.
Syncope, nausea, face pale or livid ; beating in head.

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Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1905

Head

The most common feature in this remedy is the surging of blood to the head and to the heart. A patient often describes the state as a feeling as if all the blood in the body must be rushing around the heart, with a sense of heat or a boiling sensation in the region of the heart, or in the left side of the chest.

Again he complains of a surging in the head, a warm glowing sensation in the head or a feeling of intense glowing from the stomach or from the chest up into the head, attended at times with loss of consciousness.

There are also wave-like sensations in the head, as if the skull were being lifted up and lowered, or as if it were being expanded and contracted. Along with this there is most intense pain, sometimes as if the head would burst, sometimes great soreness in the head, or a sense of soreness felt in the skull. Another accompaniment of the surging is great throbbing, synchronous with the heat of the heart, and when the skull has this soreness then the throbbing is like the beating of hammers, and every pulsation is painful, so that there are painful pulsations and sometimes painless pulsations.

The pulsations are tremendous and when they are greatest in the head they are felt also in the extremities. The fingers and toes pulsate, there is pulsation throughout the back, and it seems that the whole body throbs. If this continues a while the soreness in the skull is likely to come on and with it the painful throbbing, every throb is a pain. In this state, with every jar in stepping, and every motion, it seems as if the head would be crushed.

Throbbing

The throbbing becomes more painful from motion. The vomiting which attends this condition relieves. The head is relieved in the open air, it is worse in the warmth, and is often relieved from the application of cold. It is made worse by lying down, or lying, with the head low. In the extremities we have great coldness. The extremities cold, pale and perspiring, the head hot and the face flushed and purple or bright red. The pupils are dilated and the eyes red. Now, if this progresses only a little while, the tongue becomes dry, red and then brown. There is no great thirst, but the mouth is very dry. The eyelids become dry and stick to the eyeballs. At times the skin becomes dry and hot, and the face is red and glistens. All degrees of confusion of mind, even loss of consciousness, will be present.

Headaches

Have I not described to a great extent that which is seen in a typical sunstroke? It is noticeable also that Glonoine symptoms are worse in the heat of summer and relieved in winter. The dull headaches and the continuous headaches are aggravated from warm weather and ameliorated from cold.

They are worse in the sun and better in the shade. All sorts of contrivances will be resorted to by Glonoine patients to keep the sun's beat from the head. When he has had these troubles for years, and it has become a chronic state, he will never go out in the warmth of the sun without an umbrella.

Glonoine corresponds to congestive states in the head that come on suddenly, especially from heat, but also from gaslight, or from any bright light.

The headaches that book-keepers are subject to, especially in those that have at their desk, or over the head, a hot gaslight. The bright light accompanied by the heat so close to the head will make this individual subject to headaches. These headaches are relieved by going into the cold air. The head aches all day when he is at his books, and when he goes home at night and lies down the headache comes on again, and he bas to be bolstered up in bed.

He wants the head high, and cold applications to the head; the headache is relieved from a long sleep, not generally relieved from siesta. From lying down and taking a nap the headache is sometimes aggravated, but from a good long sleep, a night's sleep, he is refreshed.

His feet and hands become warm, the feverish state, and the throbbing all over the body subsides and he wakes up in the morning comfortable; but if he goes out in the sun, or goes to the gaslight, he comes home with the headache again. Since electric lights have been brought into use there is not so much heat in the light, but gas throws out an immense amount of heat in its light,

The child comes down with cerebro-spinal meningitis, the neck is drawn back, the face is intensely hot, red and shiny, the eyes congested or glassy, the head and upper part of the body are very warm, the feet and hands and lower portions of the body and the extremities are cold and covered with cold sweat.

It is a most violent congestion to the brain and spinal cord. Convulsions come on, convulsions throughout all the limbs, the neck and whole body drawn back, opisthotonos. Cold feels good to the head; heat feels good to the extremities. The warm room increases the convulsions. When the lower limbs are covered with clothing in a cool room and the windows open the convulsions are relieved and the patient breaths more easily. With this head congestion there is difficulty in breathing and audible palpitation.

The head is made worse from shaking or jar, from stooping, from bending head backwards, after lying down, when ascending steps. It is aggravated in damp weather, and in the sun, while working under the gaslight, after overheating with copious sweat, and from the touch of the hat.

The weight of the hat is a very common aggravation in headaches in school children. The little ones work all day in a hot stuffy room and feel better in the open air, but the weight of the hat seems an encumberance as in Nitric acid and Calc. phos.

The Glonoine patient is also worse from wine and from stimulants, and from mental application. When the headache is on he cannot think, and he cannot write. An additional hindrance to writing is that he trembles so that he cannot write. Trembling and throbbing of the fingers so that he is unable to do his work or perform any delicate work with the fingers or hands.

We have puerperal convulsions with such an appearance as I have described. We may have the same violence in congestive chills, or in any type of congestion of the brain.

Brain

There is a milder form of trouble that calls for its use, a condition corresponding to the chronic types of disease. This milder form exists where the patient has simply what might be called a hyperemia of the brain, a rush of blood to the head when able to be about. It comes in spells, comes in moments when be least expects it; while walking on the street he feels a surging to the brain like a flush of heat and a flush on the face, his hands tremble, and the hands and feet become cold, he breaks out in a sweat; he looks around him and does not know which way to go home, he does not know where his dwelling is.

He looks in the faces of friends and they seem strange, he loses his way when be is near home. It is a confusion which soon passes away, and he feels better again. But these spells come closer together, and constitute the earlier stages of softening of the brain. This surging of blood to the brain is attended with dizziness; he rolls and staggers, and must take hold of things, and especially does he suffer in this way from a warm day, or from the heat and light of the sun.

In threatened apoplexy, and when apoplexy has taken place, if the violent pressure keeps on, think of this remedy. The clot may not be at first in the place to take life, it may be outside of the life line, but if the congestion continues that blood clot will increase.

Such medicines as Opium and Glonoine relieve the blood pressure when the symptoms agree. They equalize the circulation, and the patient may not die. A paralytic condition in one arm or leg may go on for a while, and at the end of many weeks or months the motion may be regained, and the patient recover; whereas if the suitable remedy had not been administered to reduce that blood pressure the continued congestion would certainly have ended in death in a few days.

The stertorous breathing, the coma, the history, and the general appearance of an apoplectic patient are found in this remedy, but the intense heat that comes on in many cases of apoplexy along with the shiny skin and coldness of the extremities are the guiding features.

Opium is the most frequently indicated medicine, but it must not be administered in large doses. The highest potencies are the best and one single dose is enough.

In a case noted it says, "frantic attempts to jump from the window."

The headache was so intense that the patient became violent and attempted to jump from the window. You may rest assured that with his headache there was all this determination of blood to the head. It is enough to make one frantic to feel this continued hammering upon every fraction of the skull. He cannot lie down, and he cannot walk, because every step increases the jar, so you see why it is that the word "frantic" is wed there. The patient becomes frantic with the pain.

Another expression used is "disinclination to step around."

The patient wants the room perfectly still. If sitting up in bed, you will often find a Glonoine patient with both hands pressing upon the head with all the power possible until the arms are perfectly exhausted. He wants the head pressed upon all sides. Wants it bandaged, or a tight cap fitted down upon it.

The headache is worse from bending backward and from stooping forward. There are times when the headache is so severe that lying back upon the pillow cannot be tolerated. There is a sense of great heaviness in the head. You will notice, in reading over these congestive headaches as reported, that each patient has a different way of describing his headache and yet all have the same story to tell, that of violent determination of blood to the head.

"Some months after being violently jarred by being thrown from a carriage, a sensitiveness of the upper part of the back and neck came on."

There are two strong characteristics of Glonoine in that cure, viz:

"< from wine and the < from lying down."

The other symptoms might have pointed to other remedies, but these two features are there. It is interesting when reading a case, if you have first a knowledge of the Materia Medica, to note what symptoms are verified when you do not know the Materia Medica then the case is confusing.

Now, as we glance over that description we see at once these two things verified and the rest is fairly consistent. Very commonly the pain begins in the occiput and goes to the forehead, but the whole head is in a state of throbbing.

But, we notice more particularly, the "aggravation from motion and the least noise."

This patient will sit in perfect quietude and silence for hours. You will be astonished to, know how long a Glonoine patient can sit without moving a muscle, because motion is so painful.

Also "aggravation from lying with the head low and after sleeping." it is important for you to know what that sleeping means. As I have said before, the patient very often is worse after a little sleep, but the common state is relief after a prolonged sleep. If he can sleep long enough it will subside, unless it be the congestive sleep, or coma, and then it is a different thing.

"Amelioration from cold and external pressure."

"Vertex burning hot, likewise upper part of back."

The whole crown of the head feels as if it were covered by a hot iron, as if an oven were close by. Hot, especially in the back of the neck and between the shoulders.

The burning heat seems to appear at the top of the head and extend down between the shoulders; a sensation of heat, as from a band.

"Face bluish, with a heavy, stupid expression."

The face is bright red, but if the condition becomes severe the face assumes a dusky appearance, and the longer this state lasts the more dusky it becomes; that is true with apoplexy and also with sunstroke. When the sunstroke first comes on the face is bright red, intensely hot and shiny, but as the heat increases the face grows dusky, even to purple. In all of these cerebral congestions there is a stupid, heavy expression, even going on to coma.

"Frequent deep inspirations."

With this congestion of the head there is commonly vomiting, palpitation of the heart, pain in the stomach, great difficulty in breathing and finally loss of consciousness. In another clinical case reported we read:

"Every pulsation is felt as if the head would burst."

Now, suppose the head bones were already intensely sensitive and sore and the head filled as full as possible with blood, and then you commenced hammering upon the blood column you can understand that the pain would be most intense and would soon end in stupefaction.

"Sunken eyes, bluish pallor under the eyes."

"Red eyes, with photophobia; optical illusions.

Black specks before the eyes; blindness."

"Face pale, in spite of high fever."

In all of these cerebral congestions of great violence the pulse fluctuates; it even becomes fine and wiry and hard; sometimes becomes irregular and also slow.

Another common accompaniment of these congestions is tumefaction about the neck. The neck feels full. The collar must be opened as it causes choking, as if he would suffocate. Even in the chronic state in the one who stands upon the street corner not knowing his way home because of the surging of blood in the head, that state is accompanied by choking and the collar causes uneasiness about the neck like Lach. He chokes and swells up under the ears. There is not only a sensation, but with the sensation there is actual swelling. Tumefaction about the neck and throat, under the chin, and the glands become swollen.

The next circumstance in the text that brings forth the general aspect of the remedy is in connection with the catamenia. The menstrual flow does not appear, it is delayed, with violent congestion to the head, violent headaches and these symptoms already described. These congestions may also come on during the menstrual period. Again, if a uterine hemorrhage stops suddenly, or a copious flow from any part stops suddenly, the patient comes down with great violence and the blood rushes to the head.

There are many conditions and complaints in life where we have surging of blood to the head, when this will be the remedy wanted. Persons who are subject to palpitation with dyspnea, upon any effort, he cannot go uphill, he cannot walk along the pavement without bringing on palpitation and dyspnea; any little exertion or excitement brings on the rush of blood to the heart and fainting spells; fainting, spells in women, who are not supposed to be subject to fainting. Great weakness, palpitation, trembling of the limbs, shaking of one or both hands as with palsy.

"Laborious action of the heart" is a strong feature of the remedy; pulsation all over.

Fluttering in the region of the heart. Pulse quick, irregular, slow or quick and wiry. There are some persons that are apparently plethoric; very much affected by the slightest exertion and who have pulsation all over; pulsation in a warm room. They are sometimes relieved by opening the window if it is cool, by fanning, by cold air, by cold applications to the head. In keeping with the remedy, this is clinical application of it:

"Children get sick in the night after sitting up at an open fire or falling asleep there."

"Bad effects from having the hair cut."

Bell . is generally thought of for taking cold in the head from having the hair cut.

"Bad effects from being exposed to the sun's rays."

"Bad effects from sunstroke."

Condensed Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · Condensed Materia Medica · 1877

Mind

Loses senses, sinks down unconscious, congestion alternately to head and heart.
Well-known streets seem strange; way home too long; forgets on which side she lives.
Bright, loquacious, great flow of ideas.
Weeps and shudders between attacks of pain.
Agitation, attempt to run away.
Frantic; attempted to jump from window (with headache).
Fear, throat feels swollen; chest as if screwed together; apprehensive of approaching death; fears she has been poisoned.

Sensorium

Head felt larger.
Balancing sensation, constant effort to keep head erect.
Vertigo: confusion, faintness, black spots before eyes; worse from stooping or moving head; worse in the open air.
Syncope, nausea, face pale or livid; beating in the head.
Sunstroke: vertigo, violent pain; pale face, feeble pulse; labored breathing, nausea; comatose; or throbbing in head; face yellowish-red, or livid; eyes fixed; pulse full, slow; tongue coated, no appetite.

Inner Head

Tensive pain over eyes and nose, also behind ears, followed by choking sensation about throat.
Headache from below upwards.
Sensation of soreness through whole head, is afraid to shake head; it seems to him as if head would drop to pieces.
Shocks in the brain synchronous with the pulse.
Throbbing: in temples; in vertex; occiput; in whole head.
Dull headache in the forehead, with warm sweat.
Severe pain in forehead, throbbing in the temples, worse from walking.
Dull, pressive pain, worse in occiput and neck; worse from moving head or twisting the neck.
Brain feels too large; bursting feeling; fulness, throbbing of arteries; all the blood seems to be pumped upwards; holds the head with the hands.
Brain as if moving in waves.
Congestion to head, sudden, violent; throbbing felt with every pulse at every step or jarring; blood mounts from neck, throat or chest; from occiput toward eyes.
Hemicrania, sees half light, half dark.
Headache with increased secretion of urine.
Headache with red face, accelerated pulse, sweat on face, unconsciousness; better in open air, after sleep, after vomiting.
Cri encephalique.
Headaches worse: from shaking or jarring the head; stooping; bending it backwards; after lying down; when ascending steps; in damp weather; in the sun; while working under gaslight; after overheating, with copious sweat; could not bear touch of hat; cold water (even causing spasms); reading, writing; wine.
Better; from uncovering; in open air.
Headache.
Sunstroke.

Outer Head

Consequences of cutting the hair.
Rigidity of occipito frontalis.
Head feels too large.

Eyes

Flashes of lightning, sparks before eyes.
Objects dance with every pulsation.
Dim sight with vertigo, with fainting, black spots before the eyes.
Pupils contracted. θ Sunstroke.
Pupils dilated; eyes upturned; sunstroke; eyes rolled outwards and up; convulsions.
Eyes injected red, protruding wild, staring; eyes dull, staring, sunken.
Photophobia.
Sees everything half light, half dark.
Letters appear smaller.
Drawing, pressing, aching, bursting pain; soreness, quivering, twitching.

Ears

Deafness, ears as if stopped up, deafness followed by blurred vision.
Ringing in the ears, audible pulse.
Throbbing piercing from within outward, in right ear.
Throbbing: above ears; from occiput to ears.
Sensation of fulness in and around ears.
Ears red.

Nose

Pains in root of nose, headache extends to nose.
Sudden sneezing; fluent coryza.

Face

Flushed, hot, especially about the eyes and forehead, with headache; livid, purple; alternately flushed and pale; pale during the heat, in sunstroke, congestions to brain, etc.
Sweat on the face.
Faceache, muscles twitch, even unconsciousness, breathing stertorous; faceache worse in heat of bed.
Masseter muscles affected.
Sudden neuralgic pains from decayed tooth, concentrating in temple; head heavy, but cannot lay it on the pillow.

Lower Face

Jaws clenched in sunstroke.
Lower lips feel swollen.
Chin feels elongated.

Teeth

Pulsating, throbbing pains, teeth feel elongated; decayed.
Stabbing in gums worse from hot applications, better from cold.

Tongue, etc

Taste: bitter, with nausea; aromatic, sweet, warm, leaves fatty taste.
Tongue: milk-white without coating, violent headache; or, light coating; cannot eat; weak; typhoid; feels swollen, raw; numb, as if burnt; prickling, stinging.
Difficulty in conversing, from diminished power of tongue and confusion of ideas.

Mouth

Saliva increased, slimy.
Froth about mouth. θ Convulsions.
Sensation of soreness and swelling on roof of mouth, with pulsation.

Throat

Soft palate: dry, feels as if drawn up.
Hard palate, sensitive as if swollen; throbbing; swollen sensation in the fauces.
Throat feels as if swelling; full sensation in both sides of neck.
Constriction at top of larynx; in throat, as if throttled.
Tickling heat, soreness in throat.

Desires and Aversions

Increased desire to smoke.
Wants cold water; also from dry, parched feeling.
Loss of appetite; sunstroke, etc.

Eating and Drinking

Wine aggravates all symptoms.
Alcoholic stimulants cause delirium, congestions, stupor.

Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea: with the congestions; retching, during sunstroke, and faint feeling; causing sweat, which relieves.
Vomiting: spasmodic, in hydrocephalus; in sunstroke.

Stomach

Pain in stomach; distress in epigastrium; sunstroke.
Stomach and head feel as if he had been out in hot sun.
Gnawing in epigastrium.
Faint feeling at pit of stomach; also, with throbbing there.
Pain in pit of stomach, as if sore, when touched; worse when stooping.

Abdomen

Rumbling in bowels, belching, passing offensive flatus.
Cutting, mostly below the navel (wakens one in morning).

Stool, etc

Stools: loose, scanty, with much rumbling; copious, loose dark, lumpy, with colic heat in the anus, nausea and sudden urging.
Diarrhœa, with sudden cessation of the menses.
Costive.

Urine

Abundant, highly albuminous; must rise often at night to pass it; high-colored, burning while passing; with red sediment and reddish-yellow slime.

Female Sexual Organs

Instead of menses: congestion to head, face pale; worse in warm room; better when walking in the cold air; diarrhœa; fainting.
Before, during and after menses, or when it does not appear, fulness in the head, throbbing.
At climaxis: flushes of heat, pressure in head, nausea, loss of senses, vertigo, swelling of feet.

Pregnancy

During pregnancy congestions.
Eclampsia: unconscious; face bright red; puffed; pulse full, hard; urine copious and albuminous.

Breathing

Breathing: heavy, labored, stertorous; oppressed; from feeling of weight; accelerated; must often breathe deeply; sighing.

Lungs

Chest feels as if laced.
Sinking feeling in head and chest, as from working in hot room.
Congestion to chest alternately with head.
Numb sensation moving upwards in chest and down left arm.

Heart and Pulse

Laborious action of the heart; oppression; frequent pulse.
Pressure in heart as if it was being contracted.
Sharp pains in the heart.
Fulness in the heart.
Anxiety in præcordia; weakness.
Heart's action easily excited; violent palpitation, throbbing carotids, pulsating headache; worse stooping.
Purring noise in region of heart when lying; pulse intermittent; must have head high; worse when lying on left side; better on right.
Pulse: accelerated, rises and falls alternately; increased during headache, motion, walking; quick, small, irregular, with violent action of heart; low, feeble, in sunstroke.

Outer Chest

Sweat on the chest.

Neck and Back

Nape of neck stiff, with headache.
Sharp cutting across scapulæ.
Hot sensation down the back; burning between scapulæ.
Pain down entire spine; after constriction in chest; shiverings downward.
Old contusions.

Upper Limbs

Arms: nervous, uneasy; heavy, as if circulation was checked; numbness, heaviness following the throbbing; numbness, weariness in left arm.
Weakness of wrist after headache.
Rheumatic pains in fingers of left hand.
Feels pulse in fingers.

Lower limbs

Knees give way, thigh weak during headache; left thigh numb.
Limbs relaxed, motionless in sunstroke.
Rheumatism of left knee, deep twinging, pricking; worse from motion; better from straightening limb.
Could not rise on account of weakness in limbs; headache, worse when covered.
Cold feet, with nausea, palpitation.

Position, etc

Worse from moving, shaking, jarring parts.
Walking eases pain in limbs.
Better from general motion.
Walking: 3, 29. Motion: 29, 33; of head: 2, 3. Ascending: 3. Stepping or jarring: 3. Cannot lay head on pillow: 9. Must have head high: 29. Lying: 3, 29. Worse lying on left, better on right side: 29. Stooping: 2, 3, 17, 29. Bending head backward: 3.

Nerves

Prostration.
Restlessness in limbs, must rise and walk.
Convulsions; epileptiform, cerebral congestion, scanty or suppressed menses; hands clinched, thumbs in palms, face red, eyes rolled upwards, then sopor; left-sided, with fingers spread; face alternately red and pale.

Sleep

Drowsy, yawning; face hot and pale.
Restless sleep; awakens with fear or apoplexy.
Confused dreams.
Difficult to awaken.

Time

Worse morning and forenoon; headache, languor, colic.
Worse afternoon and evening; headache, diarrhœa.

Temperature and Weather

Warmth: 10. Warm room: 23. Heat: 3, 40. Heat of bed: 8. Sun: 3. Cold: 10, 23. Open air: 2, 3, 23. Damp weather: 3.
Children after being out in the winter cold, warm their feet at the fire and fall asleep there.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill: after getting heated; alternates with sweat; with vomiting; head as if screwed up; intermittent fever.
Warmth general; flushes; waves of heat upwards; fever heat, with quick, small pulse, in sunstroke.
Sweat: relieves; most profuse on face and chest; cold on face during congestion; after sleep.

Sides

Right: 6. Left: 32, 33, 36. Above downwards: 28, 31. Below upwards: 3, 28, 40.

Tissues

Congestions, blood tends upwards; vessels pulsate; veins (jugular, temporal) enlarged.
Seeming plethora, rapid deviations in distribution of blood.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Pain and other sensations following later after local injuries.
Touch: 3, 17. Holding head with hands: 3.

Stages and States

Females florid, plethoric; sensitive.
Nervous, sanguine, readily affected.

Relationship

Antidotes to Glonoinum: Acon., Camphor., Coffea, Nux vom.

Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889

General

One part of Nitro-glycerine is dissolved in nine parts of alcohol for the tincture.

General Action

Identical with Amyl nitrite, paralyzing the peripheral vaso-motor nerves. ▶ Its action is more lasting than that of Amyl.

Allies

Amyl nit., Cactus, Mellilotus, Nitrous oxide.

Generalities

Head fell backward, jaw dropped, stertor, pulseless at wrist. ▶ Tremor, sopor, lassitude. ▶ Falling down unconscious, congestion to head or heart, face sometimes pale, sometimes red; F. down senseless, with convulsions and frothing at mouth, after alternations of palpitation and congestion to head. ▶ Spasms after cold water was poured on head, ending in vomiting, then short relief, then return twice of pressure and throbbing in brain, each amel. vomiting. ▶ Fulness in vertex, forehead, through body, chest and abdomen. ▶ Throbbing through whole body; when lying; on moving about; wherever the body touches anything, wherever he puts his hands; with heat and sweat. ▶ Feeling as after ether; lightness, then fulness in brain, with dizziness. ▶ Discomfort. ▶ Inclination to stretch backward. ▶ Sensation as before ague. ▶ Nervousness; with clammy sweat.

▶ Weakness; in morning; during headache; with apathy; with sleepiness, inability to study, dullness when thinking, wandering of thoughts when writing. ▶ Faintness; before nausea; fell senseless on pavement, lay breathless, sighing at long intervals, face pale, conscious in two minutes, sweat, nausea, cold hands and feet, pulse feeble, must have head elevated, it felt full, vision indistinct, dizzy, face pale, at times flushed, at times dark livid, symptoms agg. motion, amel. hot foot baths, vomiting caused by jolting of carriage, sticking in occiput. ▶ Body seemed asleep while the mind was awake, the latter resolved to take notice of crooked, jagged objects before the closed eyes, attempted in vain to raise the body, it seemed to shrivel till completely asleep. ▶ Paralysis of all voluntary muscles, partial P. of muscles of mastication and of face and eyes. ▶ Aggravation on right side; A. during rest; from coffee if wine has been taken. ▶ Amelioration from black coffee; A. during sweat; after each evacuation, but return of headache each time he vomited; partial A. from tea. ▶ Alternations of head and heart symptoms.

Clinical

Epilepsy, with great rush of blood to the head and vascular excitement generally.

Mind

Delirious, then comatose. ▶ Familiar things seemed strange. ▶ She felt as if she woke from a dream and she moved her arms like one waking from a dream. ▶ Animated, talkative, great flow of thought and inclination to jest. ▶ Agitation. ▶ Terror. ▶ Fear, with sensation as if chest were screwed together; F. that she had been poisoned; F. that her death was approaching. ▶ Anxiety; with headache; with inclination to run away. ▶ Depression. ▶ Recalls old grievances and determines to justify himself. ▶ Confusion of ideas, so that he could not tell where he was; scarcely knew what he was about, amel. effort of will; C., with weakness and with diminished power of tongue. ▶ Inability to collect the thoughts. ▶ Memory difficult. ▶ Stupor, weakness of mind and body. ▶ Partial insensibility and dislike to being aroused. ▶ Unconsciousness.

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A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892

Generalities

Paralysis of the peripheral vaso-motor nerves, with a peculiar sensitiveness, so that the beating of the heart seems to be felt through all the blood vessels.
Throbbing throughout the body, with a feeling of fullness and congestion, which seems to be a characteristic feature of this drug.
Like Amyl nit. the dilatation of the blood vessels is greater in the upper part of the body.

Mind

Sudden attacks of unconsciousness, with rush of blood to the head.
Falls down senseless; even with convulsions and congestion of the head.
Mind becomes very much confused, so that he loses the sense of locality; partially controlled by a great effort of the will.

Head

Intense fullness and throbbing, apparently of all the blood vessels in the head and brain; < motion, especially by shaking the head.
The blood seems to surge into the head, where it beats and throbs with every impulse of the heart; he is afraid to shake the head lest it would drop to pieces.
Undulating sensation in the brain.
He feels as though he were hanging with the head downward, with consequent rush of blood.
Skull feels too small, as if the rush of blood to the brain would burst it.

Eyes

Staring; wild and protruded.
Vision confused; objects dance with every beat of the pulse.
Black, floating objects always on stooping.

Ears

Ringing and rushing in the ears.
Deafness, with a stopped sensation.

Face

Face very much flushed, especially with a headache.

Clinical:
Neuralgia of the face; characterized by pulsating pains, extending through the head.

Mouth

Pulsating toothache.

Throat

Feeling as if swollen, with choking sensation.

Heart

A feeling of fullness in the region of the heart; sometimes sharp pains.
Sticking pains on stooping.
Lancinations extending to between the shoulders.
Heart's action rapid; palpitation, with pulsation over the whole body, heat in face, etc.
Pulse full.

Clinical:
Angina pectoris, with fluttering of the heart and violent beating, as if it would burst the chest open, with labored breathing; pains radiating in all directions, even into the arms; with loss of power in the arm.

Fever

Flushes of heat, especially in the head and face, with violent pulsation.
Perspiration on the face and chest.

The Mnemonic Similiad

Stacy Jones · The Mnemonic Similiad · 1904

Mnemonic names

Glo. / (GG.) /Glora.

Verse

Glonoine,-Bespeaks the job,
When the keynote is a throb.
Or when Death adjusts his traps,
In the form of a collapse.
Is there any one who has them-
Failing heart, or shock, or spasm.
Ague-asthma, hiccough? or
Throbbing pains, that always are
Worse by motion, or a jar?
Then give Glonoine a call,
And find rescue from the thrall.

Mnemonic sentences

Glora,-Has Heart failure.

Glora Crat, Is with Horace, the ailing actor, in the Cafe at Adon.

This Glora,-Who is subject to throbbing carotids,-Is at Meli, with a box of gold from China.

Indications

Weak Heart-Heart Failure: Glo., Crataeg., Helo. h., Lach., Aco., Caffein, Adon. v. (Shock, Glo.)

Throbbing Carotids: Glo., Meli., Bell., Hyo., Aur., China.

First Lessons in the Symptomatology of Leading Homœopathic Remedies

Hugo R. Arndt · First Lessons in the Symptomatology of Leading Homœopathic Remedies · 1904

Symptoms

Indicated in cerebral hyperaemia and violent congestion. Important in congestive headaches (from exposure to the stun, from suppression of menses); in apoplectic states; meningitis. Palpitation and embarrassment of the heart. In physiological doses used in asthma, angina pectoris, failure of circulation.

Head feels enormously enlarged.

Headache worse from stooping; after exposure to the sun.

Heavy headache; intense crushing, pulsating, throbbing.

Cannot bear any heat about the head.

Pulse beats hard; every heat is felt in the head; must hold the head with both hands; it seems as though the head would burst from the pressure within; it jars painfully at every step;

Heart's action labored, oppressed, from rush of blood to the heart; violent palpitations; throbbing of the carotids.

Worse in the sunlight, in gaslight; from overheating, from motion, from jar.

Better from brandy.

Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica · 1905

Mind

Familiar things seem strange. Confusion, he could not tell where he was. Difficult memory. Unconsciousness.

Head

Throbbing: With fullness, gradually increasing and gradually decreasing, with shocks at every heat beat, heart - beat felt like a hammer beating in head. Aching in and pulse increase and diminish together. Congestion to: It seems as if he must lose his reason, alternating with congestion to heart, causing a sensation of coldness. Sensation: As if hanging with head downward, of bursting, the skull seems too small, with violent heart action and pulsation over whole body, of enormous enlargement, as if brain were loose, as if sore, bruised, of undulation in, of cracking in brain, as if a cold cloth were spread over brain, of constriction around forehead, of aching deep in brain. Sudden, piercing pain in. Burning pain in. Excessive heat in. Brain fever. Numbness of scalp. Worse: Shaking head. Heat, external, of sun, of gas, etc. Stepping. Sitting erect. Stooping. Rising. Exertion. Blows or jars to head. Better: Open air. Cold applications. Pressure. Lying down. Throwing head back. After stool. Must have head uncovered.

Eyes

Staring and wild, protruding. Redness of. Burning and aching in balls. Sensation of water running out of. Lightnings before. Lids heavy.

Ears

Audible pulse in. Redness of.

Nose

Twitchings in wings of.

Face

Red during headache. Burning twitching or simple pain in malar bone. Sensation: As if swelled, as if chin were elongated, as if lower lip were hanging down, of gnawing in masseter muscles. contraction of temporal and masseter muscles.

Teeth

Throbbing in all.

Mouth

Dry, parched feeling in. Saliva increased. Swelled sensation of tongue, hard palate, fauces and throat. Tongue numb, twitching.

Taste: Sweetish, fatty, like pine wood.

Throat

Itching in, and in soft palate. Tingling in. Tight, chocky feeling about.

Stomach

Gnawing, pain or faintness in pit. Emptiness in.

Hypochondria: Sensation as if blood rushed thro' chest to head from.

Nausea: With pain in stomach, with sinking in epigastrium.

Abdomen

Rumbling in.

Stool

Diarrhoea, with sudden cessation of menses. Copious. Blackish. Lumpy. Foamy, like soapsuds.

Urine

Albuminous.

Sexual Organs

Sensation as after repeated coition. Menses ceased and the headache increased in violence.

Respiration

Inclination to deep breathing, to sigh.

Back

Neck: Weakness of muscles of. Cramp in. Constriction, as of a band around. As if something moved from nape to head, stiffness of.

Chest

Constriction. Oppression with palpitation. Sudden throbbing in way as from left chest to head, worse motion. Fullness or heat rising into head. Heart: Lancinations extending to between shoulders, to scapula. Anxiety at, worse lying on left side, must lie with head high. Heaviness. Fullness. Alternation of palpitation and congestion to head. Shocks at, with pricking in arms and hands.

Extremities

Sensation of picking, tingling, being bloated, weariness, heaviness, or numbness. Falling asleep of part, lain on.

Upper Extremities

Arms droop. Pains in bones of. Feeling in right wrist as if tied up or contracted. Pulsation in finger - tips.

Lower Extremities

Great weakness, even to giving way.

Generalities

Sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. Sensations of throbbing expansion or fullness predominate. Inability to bear any heat about head, bad effects of heat of sun, body seems asleep. Trickling sensations over face, inside of forehead, down throat, etc. Gnawing in stomach, occiput and masseter muscles. Worse: Injury. Jar, Heat, wine. Better: Coffee, sweat, after stool.

Skin

Dark blue. Rash on, after washing.

Sleep

Sleepiness, with hot face and pallor. Dreams, causing weeping, ludicrous.

Fever

Pulse. Sudden great variableness, m now quick, now slow. Failing. Chill: After getting heated. Coldness of single parts, head, feet, etc. Cold shudders down back. Heat:Stinging, burning, sudden glowing, in flushes. With pulsation in head: Of single parts. Burning between shoulders. Going upward. Sweat: During headache. Sweat ameliorates the symptoms.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: AMYL-N., AP., Bell., Cact., Ferr. Gels. Melil., Nat-c., Nat-m., Op., Phos., Sang., Stram., Sul.

Complementary: Bell.