STRYCHNINUM


Strychininum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe…


Introduction

An alkaloid, obtained from several species of Strychnos, especially from Strychnos Nux vomica, L. Formula, C21H22N2O2.

Preparation: Trituration of the alkaloid, or solution of its salts.

Mind.

Emotional. Delirious; she, however, possessed sufficient lucidity to state that a certain person had given her a white power in a glass of wine (after eighteen hours). She was much like a mad woman all night. Shouted out, “They are coming for me.” A species of imbecility arising from an excessive acuteness to impressions. A peculiar nervous erethism, almost resembling one I had seen in a case of hydrophobia several years before. The patient was very much alarmed and excited, slightly delirious, answering questions correctly when asked, but wandering when left to himself, and begged must piteously that I would not hurt him.

I was forcibly struck with the very marked resemblance of the delirium in this case to that which I had often seen in mania a potu. The same nervous restlessness and fear of being injured, the same hyperaesthesia and shrinking for current affairs, made the similarity very striking (after seven hours). Nervous agitated feeling, with sensation of stupor and headache (twenty- first night). Extreme nervous excitability, ugly face passing before the eyes (twentieth night). Extreme nervous excitability; she felt light and nonsensical (thirty-seventh day). Mental condition agitated by consciousness perfect throughout.

Excessively nervous and alarmed (after two hours and a half).

Painful nervousness (fiftieth day). Involuntary idiotic-like chuckle (seventeenth day). Immoderate fits of laughing (thirty- fourth day). Fits of laughing, with a light swimming sensation and giddiness (after one hour, forty-first day). Extreme nervous excitability (forty-first and forty-seventh days). Screaming.

Loud groans, convulsive sobbing (after fifteen minutes). Moaning (in fifteen minutes). Loud moaning (after one hour).

Constant moaning, with complete consciousness. Exceedingly lowspirited (eighth day); very lowspirited and gloomy (thirteenth day); low spirits, gloomy, and desponding (twenty-seventh day); extremely low and gloomy (twentieth day); low spirits, gloominess (thirty-fifth day); low spirits, gloomy and desponding (forty- first day); low-spirited (eighth day); very low-spirited and gloomy (thirteenth day); low spirits, gloomy, and desponding (twenty-seventh day); extremely low and gloomy (twenty-eighth day); low spirits, gloominess (thirty-fifth day); low spirits, gloomy, and desponding (forty-first day); low spirited and gloomy (fifty second night). Rather morose and wholly un inclined to answer any questions in explanation of his symptoms. Anxiety, (after second powder). Great anxiety of mind. Great anxiety and restlessness. Anxiety and agitated. Excessive anxiety and uneasiness. General depression of spirits. A tendency to despondency. He had a feeling of dread, and begged he might not be left alone. A fear of something about to occur. Great fear and anxiety for relief. Mind harassed with dread; he is afraid, and sheds tears all the while; when asked why, replies, “I don’t know.” Irritability of temper (forty-third and forty-ninth day).

Short, irritable temper (fifty-fourth day). Intellectual. Mind active and anxious. Muddled, confused feeling, in the morning (seventh day). Slight confusion of ideas (second day); considerable (after second dose, third day); slight (seventeenth day). Confusion of ideas. His answers to my inquiries were rapid and unconnected (after three hours and three-quarters).

Peculiar muddled vacant feeling, forgetfulness; she felt disposed to sit still and sleep (first day). Vacant feeling, forgetfulness (second day). Loss of memory (fourth day). Loss of memory, with a confused giddy feeling, at intervals (thirteenth day). Loss of memory and drowsiness, with extreme giddiness (seventeenth day).

Feeling of stupor and drowsiness, with the severe pains in the head, at 8 P.M. (second day). A feeling of stupor and great weariness, with dull pains in the head and eyes (fourth day). A feeling of extreme stupor, at 10 A.M. (seventh day). A feeling of extreme stupor (eighth day). Feeling of intense stupor (twenty-seventh night). A feeling of stupor and giddiness (after forty minutes, forty-third day). Consciousness perfect, till death. During every violent paroxysm there will be temporary loss of consciousness, accompanied by a cessation of the act of respiration, the wide opening of the eyelids, and extreme dilatation of the pupils. Unconsciousness. Stupefaction, with complete loss of consciousness, body stretched out stiff upon the bed, the paroxysms recurring at short intervals, followed by death. The patient suddenly fell down unconscious. Insensibility ensued and lasted three hours, although the convulsions hardly ever ceased.

Head.

Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion and slight giddiness (twenty- seventh day); confusion and slight giddiness, at noon (twenty- eighth day); confusion and giddiness with slight trembling (after one hour, thirty-seventh day); muddled feeling in the head (thirty-ninth day); confusion in the head, with feeling of intoxication, at night (forty-first day); confusion and loss of memory (forty-third day). Vertigo etc. Vertigo and inclination to fall forward (after three to four minutes); (after a few minutes. Vertigo with roaring in the ears. Excessive vertigo even while lying down, associated with nausea. Great dizziness. Giddiness and nausea, a sensation as if the brain had been overworked, with great weariness (third day); slight giddiness, at intervals (tenth day); sudden giddiness and extreme drowsiness while walking in the street; she felt as if a cloud was coming over her (after one hour, eleventh day); confused giddy feeling, at intervals, with loss of memory (thirteenth day); giddiness (fourteenth day); giddiness, at intervals (fifteenth day); extreme giddiness, with loss of memory and drowsiness (seventeenth day); giddiness, at intervals, with tremulous feeling, in the afternoon (nineteenth day); extreme giddiness, with a tremulous sensation down the back (after three quarters of an hour, twenty-first day); giddy bewildered feeling (twenty-seventh day); extreme giddiness, with fixed stiff sensation in the eyes (after half an hour, thirty-fourth day); giddiness; light swimming sensation, with fits of laughing (after one hour, forty-first day); sudden momentary giddiness, with dull pains in the head and eyes, at noon (forty-second day); a feeling of giddiness and stupor (after forty minutes, forty-third day); giddiness; light swimming sensation in the head (after three- quarters of an hour, forty-seventh day); extreme giddiness; light swimming sensation in the head (two hours after first dose, fiftieth day). Extreme giddiness and confusion in the head (after half an hour, fifty-third day). General head. Jerking of the head forwards (twenty-fourth day). Head jerked backwards. Head drawn backward. Veins of the head, neck, and face became highly turgid. Violent congestion of the head, so that the face looked bluish-black, with very red protruding eyes. A feeling of weariness in the brain; she felt a great desire to lie down and sleep (fourth day). Dull pains in the head and eyes, with a feeling of stupor and great weariness (fourth day). Dull pains in the head and eyes (forty-third day). Slight dull pain in the head, behind the right ear (after two hours, fifth day).

Headache. Violent headache, with bursting pains in the forehead, especially the left side, at 10 A.M. (eighth and ninth days) Stupid headache, with extreme drowsiness (fifteenth day). Violent bursting headache, with stiff contracted feeling in the eyes, in the morning (sixteenth day). A feeling as if a bad headache was coming on, with extreme fullness of the head and ears, in the afternoon (twenty-second day). Slight headache, with dull pains in the forehead and eyes, in the morning (twenty-third day). Distressing headache, in the morning (forty-third day).

Slight headache (forty-seventh day). Headache, with pains in the eyes (fifty-second day). Constant headache, sleeplessness, and slight fever, caused by nervous apprehension and dread of rectal spasms, which came on very suddenly, and without previous warning. Headache coming on suddenly, especially in the left half of the head and left eye, at 4 P.M. (third day). On rising in the morning, severe headache, a sensation as if the head would burst when stooping (second day). Severe pains in the head, generally in the left eye and behind the ears, with a feeling of stupor and drowsiness, at 8 P.M. (second day). Violent pains through the head, from the back to the front (eleventh day). Violent pains in the head, especially in the forehead and over the left eye, in the morning (thirty-third day). Violent pains in the head and muscles of back of neck, in the morning (thirty-fourth day).

Violent pains in the head and eyes (forty-first day). Momentary darting pains, in the head and under the jaw, left side (third day). Severe darting pains, in the head and back of the neck (eleventh day). Sharp pains flying about the head; at times a fixed pain in the vertex (second day). Sensation as if an iron cap was on the head (twenty-fourth day). Racking pains seized her whole head. Violent thumping pains, in the head, especially the right half, and over the left eye, lasting about two hours, in the evening (nineteenth day). Shattered sensation, in the head, with drowsiness (thirty-third day). Darting pains, in the head and eyes (fifty-third night). Convulsive jerkings and shocks transversely through the hemispheres of the brain, associated with pain extending into the eye. Feeling of a cold in the head, in the evening (thirty-fifth day). Felt strange sensation in head (after twenty minutes). Throbbing pain in head; less pain about the forehead than in any other part of his head.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.