- Zinc-val is a favorite anti-hysteric medicine in old-school practice.
- One provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces., done with substantial doses by C.
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- Finney, brought out a st rong action on the genital sphere, the usual starting -point of hysteria.
- Finney noted the brain-fatigue symptoms of Zinc, and the gastro -intestinal disturbance.
- The abdominal pains woke him from sleep and he had to rise at 6:30 a.m for stool, which was p artly fecal and partly fluid.
- Later he was constipated and had tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain..
- Zinc-val affects the nerves, ovaries and spine.
- A remedy for neuralgias, hysteria, anginaChest pain from reduced heart blood flowA condition marked by severe pain in the chest, often also spreading to the shoulders, arms, and neck, caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart. pectoris and other painful affections, notably in ovarian disorders.
- Facial neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves., violent in left temple and inferior maxillary.
- Painful nervous effects.
- Oversensitive, nervous and sleepless.
- Uncontrollable sleeplessness from pain in head with mel ancholy.
- Sleeplessness in children.
- Hysteria.
- Fidgety feet.
- Hypochondriasis, groundless f ear.
- Hysterical heart-pain.
- EpilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions. without an aura.
- Obstinate hiccoughs.
- Finney had distinct heart pains and Hale mentioned angina pectoris as having been cured by Zinc -val.
- Other conditions named by him are prosopalgia, spinal neuralgia, sciaticaNerve pain radiating from the lower back down the legsPain radiating along the sciatic nerve, which runs down one or both legs from the lower back., ovarian neuralgia, cerebrospinal meningitis and tubercular meningitis
