Zincum picricum


Zincum picricum signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Zincum picricum is used…


      Picrate of Zincum met. Zn(C6H2(NO2)3O)2. Trituration.

Clinical

Bright’s disease, headaches of. Exhaustion. Facial paralysis. Headaches. Nymphomania. Paralysis agitans. Priapism. Satyriasis. Seminal emissions. Spinal weakness.

Characteristics

Hale gives this indication of *Zn. pi.: “Cerebrospinal troubles of the erethistic character.” Hugh Pitcairn (quoted *H.W., xix. 366) gives these indications: (1) Brain-fag. (2) Nervous exhaustion from over-worked brain or sexual excess. (3) Chronic occipital headaches, periodic. (4) Headache occurring in Bright’s disease. (5) Threatened cerebral paralysis, especially in children. (6) Profound neurasthenia., when nervous exhaustion has passed beyond stage of erethism. (7) Seminal emissions. (8) Erotomania. He gives this case: Mr. M., 36, merchant. Above ordinary intelligence. Single: correct in his habits, but subject to seminal emissions since early manhood, occurring about 3 a.m. every third night, leaving him very weak and debilitated, worse every change of weather, especially in hot weather and before and during thunderstorms. Never masturbated. Complains of loss of memory and energy, dull, heavy feeling in head, sticky, pasty mouth, dry throat, poor appetite. Belches torrents of tasteless flatus after eating, followed by relief and diarrhoea. At other times inclined to constipation. Languid, heavy feeling throughout body. Dull aching pain in back. *Zn. pi. 2nd trit. caused steady improvement, the emissions being reduced in frequency to one in six weeks. Halbert (*Clinique, *H.W., xxxiv. 511) reports: (1) A case of recent facial paralysis from cold cured by *Zn. pi. 3x, and (2) Paralysis agitans in lady, 45, very greatly improved by the same.

Relations

*Compare: Fag, Pic. ac., Fe. pic., and picrates generally.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica