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Chlorum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
GENERAL
  • Chlorum has been proved in the form of “Chlorine water, ” and has been tested clinically.
  • Marked effect on the respira tory organs, producing spasm of the glottis as the chief symptom of the drug.
  • Asthma to relieve the spasm of glottis.
  • Useful externally and internally in gangrene.
  • Spasms and convulsions.
  • Laryngeal spasm is especiall y pronounced, the chief difficulty is in exhaling, can draw in the air well enough.
  • Coryza and catarrh.
  • Convulsive attacks on cutting eye-teeth.
  • Mouth inflamed, ulcerated.
  • Rapid emaciation.
  • Acute rheumatic pains
MODALITIES ETC
  • Chest affections better from open air, causes running of tea rs.
  • Spasm of glottis worse from midnight to 7 a.m.
  • Nasal complaints worse lying down.
  • Inclination to lie down with headache.
  • Restless, worse walking up and down.
  • Sitting with sun shining on back causes shuddering.
  • Damp air causes loss of voice
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

It is antidote to: Hydrocyanic acid and Sulfuretted hydrogen. Albumen. Compare: (1) Meph. -
inability to exhale, closely resembles Bromine and Iodine. (2) Nat-m. - sore mouth and other chlorides. (3) Lyc.
- impotence. (4) Plb-a. - blood-spitting and pleurisy. Follows well: Phos.

MIND
  • Irritability, inclined to anger.
  • Ma rked loss of memory, especially for names.
  • Ap prehension.
  • Fear of becoming crazy.
  • Fear of poverty.
  • Inclined to anger.
  • Want of self confidence.
  • Effects of excitement.
  • Quiet de - lirium, alternating with greatest restlessness and desire to run away.
  • Coma, fainting with cold, viscous sweats.
  • Irritability, inclined to anger.
  • Ma rked loss of memory, especially for names.
  • Ap prehension.
  • Fear of becoming crazy.
  • Fear of poverty.
  • Inclined to anger.
  • Want of self confidence.
  • Effects of excitement.
  • Quiet de - lirium, alternating with greatest restlessness and desire to run away.
  • Coma, fainting with cold, viscous sweats
HEAD
  • Painful aching in vertex and down left side, with inclination to lie down.
  • Warm sweat breaks out on forehead while coughing.
  • Painful aching in vertex and down left side, with inclination to lie down.
  • Warm sweat breaks out on forehead while coughing
EYES
  • Running of tears, worse in open air.
  • Suddenly numerous, fantastic images appeared before the eyes, disappearing with lightning-like rapidity
FACE
  • Face swollen with protruding eyes.
  • Face pale, often greenish.
  • Heightened color
MOUTH
  • Mouth dry.
  • Putridodorfrommouth.
  • Very acid saliva.
  • Aphthae.
  • Tongue black, as if burnt.
  • Nose - Nose dry, smoky or sooty.
  • Corrosive feeling in corners of nose.
  • Violent sneez ing, in the morning.
  • Sudden running in drops of sharp corroding fluid with tears in eyes, dry tongue, palate and fauces.
  • Coryza with headache.
  • Thin coryza, soon changing to yellow, copious mucus.
  • Loss of smell
THROAT
  • Dry, sore from uvula to bronchi.
  • Choking sensation, inability to swallow.
  • COMMENTS - Excessive sensitiveness of skin.
  • Nettle rash with fever.
  • Cutis anserina.
  • Skin dry, yellow, shriveled.
  • Malignant pustule and car - buncle.
  • Typhoid state.
  • Fears he will go crazy, that he won't be able to make a living.
  • Cannot remember names of people he sees, or if he sees the names, cannot remember the person.
  • E.
  • Z.
  • Bacon recorded two cases of chlorine poisoning.
  • The first case was in a boy of 5, who, after passing through diphtheria to apparent complete recovery, was suddenly seized with symptoms of croup.
  • Loss of voice, crowing inspiration, prolonged ex piration incessant dry cough, great restless ness, high fever, and profuse perspiration.
  • The symptoms were worse lying on a lounge by the fire, better wh en lying in his mother's lap and still more relieved by being carried about.
  • During the previous illness, Platt's chlorides had been placed in the room as a disinfectant and it occurred to the doctor that chlorine vapor is much heavier than air.
  • He himself lay down, and in a few minutes felt the irritating vapor and began to cough and hack.
  • This soon passed away on sitting up.
  • The removal of the chlorides has a remarkable effect on the child, cough and respiration were greatly relieved.
  • But the relief came too late, as the cause was not discovered for several days during which time the patient had become steadily weaker, and he died the same afternoon.
  • The other case was that of an old woman who suffered from chronic bronchitis and on January 2,1892, developed an attack of laryngitis.
  • In three days she was well, but in the two subsequent weeks, on exactly the same day, a fresh attack occurred.
  • As the doctor soon discovered, his patient went to the back room, where chlorides were kept, every Monday to wash a few things she did not care to send to the laundry.
  • The chlorides were banished, and though the washing was continued, there were no more attacks of laryngitis.
  • Dr.
  • Bacon added, that since giving up the use of disinfectants, other than plenty of fresh air, he has never had laryngeal complications in scarlatina or diphtheria, though his neighbors have had plenty.
  • Whitman recommended chlorine water as a efficient palliative in a fit of asthma.
  • He began with 10 drops, then in five minutes 20 more, and than in another five minutes, half a teaspoonful in a little water.
  • It greatly facilitates expectoration.
  • In typhus fever, Goullon recommended chlorine water, five drops every two or three hours until the tongue is dry.
  • Clarke had excellent results from the 12c an d 30c in nasal catarrh and in breathlessness remain ing after acute bronchitis
CHEST
  • Increased action of the heart.
  • Constriction with suffocation.
  • In spiration free with obstructed expiration (Meph.).
  • Sudden dyspnea from spasm of the vocal cords with staring protruding eyes, blue face, cold sweat, pulse small.
  • Spasm of the glottis.
  • Irritation of epiglot tis, larynx and bronchials.
  • Coryza with sudden gushes of sharp, corroding fluid, making nose sore inside.
  • Prolonged, loud, whistling rales.
  • Loss of voice from damp air.
  • Sooty, smoky nostrils, livid face
ABDOMEN
  • Acid stomach and other gastric troubles (in workmen exposed to chlorine fumes and who eat chalk for it).
  • Desire to vomit when coughing, without nausea
GENITALS ETC
  • Sudden impotence and aversion to sexual intercourse

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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