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Chromium Oxydatum

16 sectionsClarke · 16
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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke

The effects of the C. maculata are very like those of the Virosa, the most

prominent symptom being: Falls unconscious, tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with

sweat. For comparisons see Cic. v.

Ears

Symptoms — Ears
Clarke

Occasionally sensation in r. ear, as if water was in it; it appears and disappears

  • suddenly (A.
  • ).
  • —Sudden jerking pain in |.
  • ear, and a cold feeling in a small spot in meatus
  • (S.
  • ).
  • —Pain from toothache extends into ear (A.
  • ).

Nose

Symptoms — Nose
Clarke

Fetid, musty smell in posterior nares, chiefly perceived during expiration, after

breakfast and dinner (A.).—Ozzena.

Face

Symptoms — Face
Clarke

Face bloated like that of a drowned person, deathly pale.—Face livid, even

purple.—Jaws rigid.

Mouth

Symptoms — Teeth
Clarke

Toothache; pain extending into ear; with restlessness; teeth feel too long; < from cold

water; in sudden attack; < night (A.).

Stomach

Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

Nausea and vomiting; frothy, glairy fluid.

12, 13. Abdomen and Stool.—Pain in bowels; ineffectual desire for Stool.

  • 20, 21.
  • Back and Limbs.
  • —Falls backward in convulsions.
  • —Every muscle in the body in

powerful clonic spasm.—Body and extremities cold.

Abdomen

Symptoms — Abdomen
Clarke
  • Pressive pain r.
  • hypochondrium in morning on waking (S.
  • ).
  • —Abdominal
  • symptoms > after rising in the morning.
  • —Wakes early morning (4 to 5 a.
  • m.
  • ), sick feeling in

abdomen, which is tender to touch, esp. along colon; restless; sharp pains in hypogastrium along

  • colon; > profuse diarrhoea (A.
  • ).
  • —Flatulence and rumbling in abdomen (S.
  • ).
  • —In evening,

disagreeable, violent pain, like flatulence, r. side, from lumbar region down to cecum, caused by

any movement of trunk or deep inspiration; not felt in sitting or lying still (S.).

Stool

Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Fulness about rectum, and difficult evacuation of a soft, scanty stool

  • (S.
  • ).
  • —After tea, sudden pressing desire for stool; scanty, thin, lumpy evacuation (S.
  • ).
  • —Small

stool of mucus and knotty feeces (A.).—Fulness and slight shooting pains about anus, morning

  • (S.
  • ).
  • —Watery diarrhoea, with nausea and dizziness (A.
  • ).
  • —Blind piles, with costiveness
  • (A.
  • ).
  • —Copious discharge of hemorrhoidal blood; with weakness in back (A.
  • ).
  • —External piles

disappeared, became internal and bleeding (A.).

Respiratory

Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

Consumption of larynx, with very red face during attacks of

  • coughing.
  • —((Edema of glottis.
  • ).
  • —Cough hard, sometimes deep, swallows sputa, vomits breakfast
  • (A.
  • ).
  • —Pains over whole upper |.
  • chest, with deep cough (A.
  • ).

Chest

Symptoms — Chest
Clarke

In the night, severe boring pain in I. side of chest below axilla, about the fourth rib,

  • not < by motion or respiration, > turning on r.
  • side (S.
  • ).
  • —Deep-seated pain in back of |.
  • chest and

corresponding place in front, with a feeling on deep inspiration as if rest of lung could not

expand and was painful (S.).

Symptoms — Heart
Clarke

Angina, waking at night, pains much, short hacking and retching (A.).—In evening,

in bed, pain in region of heart, a fine drawing, nervous pain, at times reaching through chest to

shoulder and neck; on lying on heart, a sort of clucking, painful sensation on deep inspiration

  • (S.
  • ).
  • —Fixed pressive pain at apex of heart (S.
  • ).
  • —Pain under apex of heart awoke him

(S.).—Suddenly, a violent stitch in region of heart; pain disappears gradually after several

minutes (A.).

Neck & Back

Symptoms — Neck and Back
Clarke

Turning head to left and backward was impossible (A.).—Cold sensation

  • on back of neck, 10 a.
  • m.
  • (A.
  • ).
  • —Heavy pains in muscles of neck and shoulders, and various parts
  • of trunk, soon went off, and were only slightly felt in back during day (S.
  • ).
  • —Pains in |.
  • shoulder

and shoulder-blade; with sensitiveness of all muscles attached to scapula; pain extends to

occiput; later, moved to pelvis; lumbar region sensitive (A.).—Dull pain at inner angle of 1.

scapula in evening, and at inferior angles of both in morning (S.).—Rheumatic pains in r.

shoulder and various parts of back (S.).—Superficial burning pains about middle dorsal spine

(with sudden jerking pains in |. ear, and cold feeling in small spot in meatus)—Lumbar pain,

  • most painful morning in bed (S.
  • ).
  • —Shooting pain from small of back into 1.
  • hip-bone.

Upper Limbs

Symptoms — Upper Limbs
Clarke

Itching in armpits at night (S.).—Transitory pains in either elbow; in

morning.

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke
  • Pain in upper thigh-bone, extending to |.
  • hip-joint (A.
  • ).
  • —Pains in

knee.—Knee-joints weak and knocking.—Pains in balls of feet.

Chromium Kali Sulphuratum.

Chrome Alum. Potassic-Chromic Sulphate (Cr2K2S4016, 24H20).

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • Compare: Cep.
  • , Psor.
  • , Sabad.
  • , Naphthal.
  • , Sang.
  • Ka.
  • bi.

Chrysophanicum Acidum.

Chrysophanic acid. (CH3 C14 Hs (OH)2 O2). (An organic acid obtained from rhubarb and

some lichens. A constituent of "Goa powder.")

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.

Additional notes

Symptoms — Limbs
Clarke

Uneasiness, stiffness and dull pain in muscles in morning; chiefly in shoulder-

blades and back of neck, also between shoulders and in hips; coming occasionally during day till

evening (A.).

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