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Strychninum Arsenicicum
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Strychninum Arsenicicum
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Strychninum Arsenicicum Reference Specimen
Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
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🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
Liquor Strychnie is responsible for many of the poisonings, the powdered c rystals, either pure or mixed in pills or rat-poison, for others.
A homeopathic provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. of Stry was made by Henry Robinson on two provers, a man and a woman.
The man took 900 drops in twenty-three days, the woman 445 drops in fifty-three days.
These have furnished the most distinctive symptoms.
Extreme nervous excitability.
Visions of an ugly face.
Fits of laughing with light.
Idiotic-like chuckle.
Confusion of ideas, stupor and weariness were some of the mental symptoms.
Swimming sensation in the head and giddiness involuntary.
The pains and sensations come suddenly and return at intervals.
Darting, pinching lancinating, fulgurating, electric pains.
Spine is cold.
Gushing sweat from head and chest.
Drowsiness, with headache.
Frontal headaches, momentary dartings like electric shocks.
Re spiration increased.
Inability to take deep breath, fixation of chest walls.
Sudden palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
The direct “tonic” action of Stry was shown in one of Robinson’s provers, who had “unusually good appetite, she enjoys her food amazingly.” Stry is an antidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy. to chloral, used in asphyxia from gas and chloroform and early stages of opium🌿 OpiumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. poisoning.
COMMENTS-Innumerable poisonings with strychnine are on record, the s ymptoms being convulsions of a tetanic nature, in the fatal cases ending in asphyxia.
The spasms are intermittent and the least touch or movement is sufficient to induce an attack.
Lying on the back is the only tolerable position.
“Lying on her back, body rigid, jaws set, arms and hands flexed, the thumbs nearly touching across the chest and the whole muscular system convulsed with shortjerky spasms.
Which would continue for about a minute and then remit, the muscles remain ing contracted and as hard as woo d during the intervals between the paroxysms.” The convulsions generally take the form of opisthotonos, cries, terror, hippocratic countenance and frothing at the mouth are common occurrences.
Meyhoffer experimented with Stry on himself and two other persons, one of whom was a woman of lymphatic temperament.
“It always brought on electric shocks, occurring whenever the prover was touched or whenever any one lightly shook the bed on which he or she was lying.
This happened to all, only the woman (lymphatic and feeble) needed a stronger dose.” Any touch on any part of the body caused a voluptuous sensation.
Gamper of St. Petersburg experimented with Stry-n on healthy young hospital assis tants and found that it increased the amount of gastric juice secreted, the general acidity and the quantity of free acid in the secretion.
It hastened the absorption from the stomach and strengthened mechanical movements.
The effects continued some time after the administration was stopped.
Marked action on the rectum and genitourinary organs (Ign and Nux-v.).
The male prover had his left testicle and cord swollen and an abscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection. of the scrotum developed and discharged.
“Gurgling noise in rectum with electric darts” is a symptom of one prover.
Many pains center about the lips and eyes.
Pains and chills occur in the occiput and nape and run down whole length of spine.
Stiffness is a leading note of Stry and Cooper gave “rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. with stiff joints” as an indication.
Itching of the whole body and “violent itching in roof of mouth.” Jerkings, twitch-ings and shocks in all parts.
The influenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh. cough has in it a strong spasmodic and asthmatic element, whether dry or not, and this seems to give one point of correspondence.
C. W. Lawson related the case of a medical man who took continuously for two years, Stry hydrochlor., 5 to 10 minims, thrice daily with a little sal volatile.
He was at first benefited, but afterwards experienced a desire to take deep insoirations.
“He felt that to do so would overcome the inhibitory power over the lung, probably the action of the diaphragm.” One morning after a dose of Stry., he was taking such an inspiration and from that moment experienced the sensations complained of an inability to take a deep breath.
Fixation of chest walls compelled him to stoop, weakness on exertion, great confusion of thought and memory, occasional clay-colored feces, usually greater in amount than ordinary.
After six months, the apex beat descended to the 6th interspace and headache and drowsiness became marked.
He traveled for six months without benefit.
All attem pts to act on the heart with drugs increased the headache.
Lawson then found the heart dilated, wide sub-costal angle, chest em physematous, moving en mass.
After a full year of treatment with Hyos tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. at bedtime, which proved strikingly beneficial, drowsiness ceased entirely and improvement in all other respects followed.
Hale mentioned the following uses of Stry and its salts as observed by him and others.
DiplopiaDouble visionThe simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. and night-blindness.
Stry-s., and in one case when all other Stry preparations had failed, Stry-val cured facial neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. and neuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. headache.
3Stry. ars.
- Paresis in the aged, relaxe d musculature. Prostration. Psoriasis, chronic diarrhea with paralytic symptoms.
Compensatory hypertrophy of heart with be ginning fatty degeneration. Stry -ar➔Marked dyspnea when lying
down, edema of lower limbs, urine scanty, high specific gravity, heavily loaded with glucose. Diabetes, use the
6x trituration.
4Stry -f-c➔chlorotic and paralytic conditions, dyspepsia with vomiting of ingesta, 2x and 3x
trituration.
5Stry-n➔2x and3x. Saidtoremovecravingforalcohol. Use for two weeks.
6Stry-s➔Gastric atony.
7Stry-val➔exhaustion of brain-power, women of high nervous weakness, 2x trituration.
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👁️Head & Sensory Organs
▲HEAD
Over irritability.
Restless.
Full and bursting headache with heat in eyes.
VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with roaring in ears.
Jerking of head forwards.
Scalp sore.
Itching of scalp and nape.
Restless.
▲EYES
Hot, painful, protruding, staring.
Pupils dilated.
Spasmodic contraction of ocular muscles, twitching and trembling of lids.
Sparks before eyes
▲EARS
Hearing very acute, burning, itching and roaring in ears
▲FACE
Pale, anxious, livid.
Jaws stiffened, lower jaw spasmodically closed
🫁Respiratory & Throat
▲THROAT
Dry, contracted, feeling of a lump.
Swallowing impossible.
Burning along and spasms of esophagus.
Violent itching in roof of mouth
▲CHEST
Spasm of muscles about larynx.
Sharp, contractive pains in muscles of chest.
Excessive dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions..
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.
⚠️ Important: This information is for educational and informational purposes only and should not replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or a professional homeopathic practitioner before starting any treatment.
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