Nitri Spiritus Dulcis

• ▸Nit.
• ▸spi.
• ▸dulc.
• ▸has been proved by Lembke.
• ▸It has been found to be an antidote

• ▸to several medicines (an instance is given under Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸It was recommended by Hahnemann

for hospital typhoid with apathy, and has been used with success in typhoid fevers with

symptoms of cerebral paralysis; in diarrhoea and sore mouth of salt caters. Poisonings with WN. s.

d. give a perfect picture of the typhoid state. It has been used as a remedy for incarcerated gall-

stones, given beaten up with yolk of egg, and applied outwardly in the same form. The

• ▸symptoms of NV.
• ▸s.
• ▸d.
• ▸go from below upward.
• ▸They are much < on passive motion, riding in

• ▸carriage.
• ▸Catching cold in stormy weather = prosopalgia.
• ▸Cold <.
• ▸Walking < breathing and heart.

• ▸< Afternoon.
• ▸Among the effects of salt cured by N.
• ▸s.
• ▸d.
• ▸are: Sore mouth; scurvy; bloody

• ▸diarrhoea; hands covered with warts.
• ▸< From cheese.
• ▸In fevers Hahnemann advised that NV.
• ▸s.
• ▸d.

should be given thus: a few drops dissolved in an ounce of water, a teaspoonful every three

hours.

Complete apathy, without desire for anything.—Delirious and incoherent in manner;

dizzy as if intoxicated; when roused could answer questions, complained of headache, and said

he found it difficult to walk straight of late—Excessive ill-humour, irascibility, passion, and

quarrelsome disposition, with tendency to weep, dislike to labour and conversation.

Great fatigue; a recumbent position can alone mitigate and tranquillise

• ▸it.
• ▸—Excessive emaciation—Swelling of veins.
• ▸—< Afternoon.
• ▸—Very sensitive to cold.

Black spots and rings float before eyes; pupils contracted.—Stitches in eyes and lids;

burning on margins.—Pupils somewhat dilated, acting feebly.

• ▸Prosopalgia, with photophobia.
• ▸Burning in cheeks, and vomiting, followed by lassitude.
• ▸Boring in facial bones; in angles of lower jaw.
• ▸Very sensitive to cold.

Sensation as of a cloud over upper part of face.—Haggard look.—Paleness of face, with

eyes sunken, and surrounded by livid circles—Chronic soreness at corners of mouth (in salt

eaters).—Boring and pressure in bones of face.

Tongue dry.—Heat in mouth; sour taste-—Cankers after eating

cheese.—Accumulation of water in mouth.

Continued nausea and loathing —A fter a meal, vomiting of sour matter and

mucus, followed by headache —Vomiting and purging.—Pyrosis.—Contractive pain and aching in

stomach, with sensation of fulness, immediately after a meal.

Epidemic dysentery with lethargy.—Bloody diarrhoea after purging (from

salt).—Constipation marked.

Very rapid breathing by going only a short walk. Painful constriction beneath sternum.

Inhalations intermit.—Stertorous breathing.—Breathing slow, regular;

on walking a short distance it becomes very hurried; if persisted in, quick, difficult, painful, and

a most distressing sense of painful constriction is felt under sternum.—Short, dry cough.

Cramp rising up in cesophagus, extending to upper chest wall.—Pressure in and under

sternum.

Pulse 60, small, hard —Violent, tumultuous beating, < walking; frequently in

evening on lying down.

Violent pressure in nape and cervical vertebree.—Sensation as of hot water

creeping through back from below upward.

Weakness, heaviness, stitches through shoulders, arms, hands, and

fingers.—Nails blue.

Boring, pressing pains in lower limbs.—Boring in tibiz.—Stitches in

toes.—Nails blue.

Chilliness: internal with cold hands; frequent; creeping, under skin, from small of

back to lower limbs.—Heat: in head and face; nape and occiput; with swollen veins; from

cervical spine into occiput; in head and face with chilliness in back and cold hands; in back; with

inclination to perspire —Typhoid with sensorial apathy and semi-paralysis of brain; wild, staring

eyes.—Adynamic fevers, with nervous symptoms such as shootings, jerkings, &c.

• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Gall-stones.
• ▸Mouth, sore.
• ▸Prosopalgia.
• ▸Tibize, pains in.
• ▸Typhoid.
• ▸Warts.

• ▸Antidote to: Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸(crude or in potencies); Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸; Phyt.
• ▸Antidoted by: Calc.
• ▸, Carb.

• ▸v.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Kalic.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, K.
• ▸nit.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸Incompatible: Dig.
• ▸, Ran.
• ▸b.
• ▸Compare:

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸(< afternoon; fulness after meals).
• ▸Coloc.
• ▸(< from cheese).
• ▸Hell.
• ▸, Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(typhoid,

• ▸sensorial apathy, stupor—Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸has apathy more pronounced than N.
• ▸s.
• ▸d.
• ▸, Hell.
• ▸most of all).

Increases the action of Digitalis.

Compare: Phos ac; Lycop.

A few drops of the pure spirits in water every two or three hours.