Amylenum Nitrosum

The Nitrite of Amyl was introduced into medicine by the old school as a

• ▸remedy for angina pectoris, and was supposed to act by lessening arterial tension.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸G.
• ▸W.

Balfour has, however, shown that this cannot always be the case, since samples which have been

kept for a time in imperfectly sealed bottles, whilst retaining their power to relax tension, have

none over the pain. Homeeopathic provings have shown that in some cases at any rate Amy! nit.

has a specific action. The most striking action of the drug is the deep facial flushing it causes and

the pulsation all over the body. The specific heart symptoms are: Sensation of swelling of front

of chest as if convex, with a feeling as if the lower end of the sternum made a deep depression

bent in towards the spine. Precordial anxiety. Accelerated, intensified beating at the heart.

Oppression and tumultuous action. Constriction (relieved by Cactus) and aching pain. Strong,

full pulse. Other prominent symptoms are: Anxiety as if something might happen; must have

• ▸fresh air.
• ▸Throbbing in head.
• ▸Bursting-out feeling in ears.
• ▸Smacking of lips as if in act of tasting.

Munching movement of lower jaw as if chewing. Constriction of throat and heart from actual

fright ran to window for air. Intense fulness in head sensation of rushing to vertex. Eyes

• ▸protruding, staring.
• ▸Exophthalmic goitre from grief.
• ▸Flushing of face.
• ▸Flushing on least emotion.

Nash has cured with it "chronic blushing on least excitement mental or physical." Heat, redness,

• ▸turgidity.
• ▸Choking feeling; collar feels tight.
• ▸Tremor and weakness of limbs.
• ▸> Open-air exercise;

cold water and cold air. < In warm room.

Anxiety, as if something might happen; cannot sit still; must have fresh air—Mental

confusion, and a trance-like state.

General relaxed, weak feeling over the whole body.—In chorea every muscle

in the body seems in Motion.—Succession of spasms, coming more and more rapidly, till, finally,

no sooner does one end than another begins.—After an extensive burn, trismus, with horrid

tetanic grin, marked opisthotonos and interrupted deglutition, was cured by inhalation.—Can't

endure warmth, must throw off all covering, and open the doors and windows, even in cold

weather.—In convulsions, muscles become rigid.—Cures some forms of sea-sickness.

• ▸Anxiety, as if something might happen; must have fresh air.
• ▸Surging of blood to head and face; sensation as if blood would start through skin, with heat and redness.
• ▸Flushings, followed by sweat at climacteric.
• ▸Ears hyperaemic.
• ▸Throbbing.

Great confusion of the head, with vertigo and drowsiness.—Convulsions with piercing

shrieks.—Heat and throbbing in the head, with feeling of intense fulness to bursting.—Beating,

throbbing, bursting sensation in the head and ears, with constriction of the throat and

heart.—Visible pulsating throbbing in the temples, with sense of tension in the

temples.—Sensation of something rushing upward, and throbbing in the vertex.—Sick-headache;

< |. side.—Crushing on head, threatening to cause unconsciousness.

Objects appear pea-green or yellow.—Protruding, staring eyes; conjunctiva

injected.—Ciliary neuralgia; eye injected; face or cheek suffused.—Sight blurred,

wavering.—Arteries of optic disc small, but the veins enlarged and tortuous.—Aching eyes in

sunlight, trembling and wavering of objects, lachrymation and sneezing.

Flushing of the face; face scarlet, afterward paler than usual.—Neuralgia of fifth pair of

nerves.—Flushing of the face, followed by turgidity of the facial veins.—Surging of blood to face

and head; heat and redness of the face; feels as if the blood would start through the skin, with

lachrymation—Smacking of lips as if tasting —Munching, chewing movement of lower jaw.

Choking feeling in throat on each side of the trachea, along the carotids; feeling of

constriction.—The collar seems too tight; desires to loosen it.

Constriction; collar seems too tight.

Hiccough.—Nausea; with dryness of throat——Crampy pains in

• ▸epigastrium.
• ▸—Fulness and pressure with belching.
• ▸—Cadialgia.
• ▸—Hot, burning sensation in

stomach.

After-pains; haemorrhage associated with facial flushing. *Climacteric headache and flushes of heat, with anxiety and palpitation.

Contraction of muscles of lower abdomen over uterus.—During

menses, violent 1—side headache, beginning morning; most violent at noon; lasting till evening

• ▸with frequent vomiting.
• ▸—Neuralgia during menses.
• ▸—Climacteric blushing.
• ▸—Convulsions

immediately after delivery.

The feeling of constriction in throat extended to the chest, and

produced dyspnoea and asthmatic feeling in larynx and trachea, with desire to

• ▸eructate.
• ▸—Asthma.
• ▸—Hastens and deepens breathing.
• ▸—Suffocation and cough in paroxysms of

several minutes.

• ▸Dyspnoea and asthmatic feelings.
• ▸Great oppression and fullness of chest; spasmodic, suffocative cough.
• ▸Praecordial anxiety.
• ▸Tumultuous action of heart.
• ▸Pain and constriction around heart.
• ▸Fluttering at slightest excitement.

Feeling as if a weight on sternum.—Sensation of swelling of front of chest, with a

feeling as if lower end of sternum made a deep depression.

Precordial anxiety —Violent beating of the heart and carotids (is felt up

into the ears); with sense of constriction —Accelerated heart action.—Fluttering of heart on least

excitement.—Cardiac oppression and tumultuous heart action.—The heart has an irregular,

rumbling sort of sound.—Aching pain and constriction around the heart.—Pulse accelerated, full,

hard; quickened in a very variable degree; irregular, jerking.—Angina pectoris, with great

agony.—Precordial pain extending to r. arm.

The right shoulder, scapula, and arm seem to sympathise with the region of

the heart very much.—The hands of children in convulsions tremble and grasp at imaginary

objects; much trembling and sense of numbness in the hands.

Constant stretching for hours. Veins of hands dilated; pulsations felt in tips of fingers.

In coma, during an unconscious state, profound, and repeated yawning.—Waking

with frequent starts, and feels unrefreshed in the morning.

Much flushing of heat; sometimes followed by cold and clammy skin and profuse sweat. Throbbing throughout whole body. Abnormal sweat after influenza.

Chilliness and crawlings repeatedly, face pale all day—Much flushing of heat, whilst

some parts of the body feel burning hot—Sometimes after the flushings the skin becomes cold

and clammy.—Heats are often followed by profuse sweatings.—Throbbing throughout the whole

body often attends these heats, which are followed by much prostration.

• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Blushing.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Climacteric flushing.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Exophthalmos.

• ▸Flushings.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Sea-seakness.
• ▸Sunstroke.

• ▸Compare: Glon.
• ▸, Aco.
• ▸, Ether.
• ▸, Cact.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸dulc.
• ▸spir.
• ▸, Laches.
• ▸, Coca (flushing when

excited, as in company); Bell. /t antidotes: Chloroform (failure of respirations); Strychnine

(convulsions). Antidoted by: Cactus (cardiac constriction).

Compare: Glonoine; Lachesis.

Antidotes: Cactus; Strychn; Ergot.

Third potency.

For palliations. In all conditions where the blood-vessels are spasmodically contracted, as in angina pectoris, epileptic seizure, megrim, accompanied by cold, pallor, etc, also in paroxysms of asthma, chloroform asphyxia, inhalation of the Amyl nit will give immediate relief. For this non-homeopathic application, two to five minims (put up in pearls) dropped on a handkerchief and inhaled may be required.