Strychninum

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Strychninum symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Strychninum? Keynote indications and uses of Strychninum…

COMMON NAME:

      AN ALKALOID OF NUX-VOMICA; STRYCHNINE.

Symptoms

      STRYCHNINE is the principal alkaloid of Nux Vomica (as well Ignatia) Bean. It is so intensely bitter that 1 part in 600000 can be detected by the taste.

GENERAL ACTION OF STRYCHNINE.- The motor centres of the spinal cord are powerfully irritated, and hence their reflex excitability is enormously increased; the medulla is also stimulated and the respiratory centre is increased in activity. causing increased frequency and depth of movements of the chest; peristalsis is increased. It produces a condition very much like tetanus (D.).

TETANIC CONVULSIONS WITH OPISTHOTONOS (Cuprum, Ignatia, Nux vomica,) (Br.).

The muscles relax in between the paroxysms (Br.).

Trismus or lock-jaw (Cuprum Cur., Hydroc-Ac., Hypericum, Ignatia, Nux- V., Oenan., Phys., Stramonium) (Br.).

Vertigo, with roaring in the ears (Calcarea, China, Kali carb., Nat_M., Pulsatilla) (Br.).

VIOLENT JERKING TWITCHING AND TREMBLING OF THE EXTREMITIES (Belladonna, HYos., Ignatia, Nux vomica, Stramonium) (Br.)

Spasms provoked by the slightest touch and attempt to move (Nux- V.) (Br.).

Violent jerks in spinal columns (Br.).

Icy sensation down the spine (Gelsemium). (Br.).

Icy sensation down the spine (Gelsemium) (Br.).

EXCESSIVE DYSPNOEA (Ant-T., Arnica, Arsenicum, Cuprum, Ferr-P., Lachesis, Laur., Lycopodium, Mosch., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Sulphur). (Br.).

Desire for coitus (Cantharis, Lachesis, Phosphorus, Platina). (Br.,)

Any touch on the body excites a voluptuous sensation (Platina). (Br.).

Faeces discharged involuntarily during spasms (Oenan.). (Br.)

Constant retching (Ant-T., Cuprum, Ipecac., Secale); violent vomiting (Arsenicum, Cuprum, Ipecac., Veratrum) (Br.).

Deglutition impossible (Belladonna, Lachesis, Phosphorus) (Br.).

Spasm of the oesophagus (Ignatia, Laur., Secale) (Br.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From the slightest touch, sound and and odour; from motion; and after meals.

AMELIORATION:

      From lying on the back.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare: Arnica, Belladonna, Cicuta, Cuprum, Cur., Gelsemium, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Kali-P., Lachesis, Mercurius, Nux vomica, Opium, PHos-Ac., Rhus- T., Secale, Veratrum

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Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)