Strontium Carbonicum

• ▸C.
• ▸M.
• ▸Boger (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xv.
• ▸337) records the following cases: (/) Miss D.
• ▸, 18,

brunette, had dull pains over eyes < by sunlight, motion, loss of sleep, sewing, reading; > after

stool. With the headache, swelling of upper lids, < in morning. Sometimes bad taste in mouth.

• ▸Menses irregular, profuse, dark.
• ▸Feels tired and weak.
• ▸Is addicted to eating cloves.
• ▸In hot weather

sweats profusely and easily about head and chest, staining yellow. Very susceptible to cold.

Cough provoked by oppression of breathing and talking. Formerly bad catarrh; now has right-

sided deafness. Had typhoid fever two years before, and during the fever was allowed unlimited

quantities of ice. Preceding the fever she had a post-auricular eczema suppressed by salves; now

is anzemic and bloated. The urine contained epithelium, excess of chlorides, calcium oxalate, and

a trace of albumen (due probably to the clove habit). Glonoin helped the case, but for a time

• ▸only.
• ▸Stront.
• ▸nit.
• ▸was chosen because Stront.
• ▸irritates the kidneys, and Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸corresponds to the

• ▸vaso-motor disturbance, besides having cravings for odd things.
• ▸Stront.
• ▸nit.
• ▸6x was given, and in

a few days the headache vanished. At the end of a month the post-auricular eruption had

reappeared. Five months later there had been no return of headache or palpebral cedema; the

craving for cloves had gone; the patient had taken on good flesh and colour. The eruption had not

all gone. (2) A case of passive congestion of the kidneys was completely relieved by Stront. nit.

in a woman at the climacteric. The menses, which were usually exceedingly scanty, became

profuse.

• ▸Inquietude and anguish.
• ▸—(Depression of spirits—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Apprehension as from a

bad conscience.—Peevishness, with tendency to fly into a rage —Excessive forgetfulness.

• ▸Vertigo with headache and nausea.
• ▸Distensive pressure.
• ▸Aches from nape of neck, spreading upwards; better wrapping head up warmly (Sil).
• ▸Flushes in face; violent pulsating.
• ▸Supraorbital neuralgia; pains increase and decrease slowly (Stann).
• ▸Bloody crusts in nose.
• ▸Face red; burns, itches.
• ▸Itching, redness and burning of nose.

Headache, with nausea and vertigo.—Troublesome pressure in forehead.—Threatening

apoplexy; violent congestion to head; > wrapping head up.—(Dizzy when talking to people.—R.

• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Burning in forehead.
• ▸—Tensive headache as if all the skin were being drawn towards the

vertex, and the contents of the skull pressed outwards; < in evening when lying with the head

low, slowly increasing and decreasing, > from heat.—Chilliness over scalp and upper part of

back, < in evening, at night, and in cold air.—Tension on head (externally and internally), < in

evening, and from cold, > from warmth, esp. in heat of the sun —Tension from vertex to upper

• ▸jaw.
• ▸—Distensive pressure in entire head; in |.
• ▸side of head —Lancinating headache.
• ▸—Stitches in

head.—Vibration in temples in evening.—Sensation of burning heat in head and face, when

walking in afternoon, with redness of face, anguish, and sleepiness.—Boring in small spot r. side

of occiput.—Dull, pressive pain in occiput.—Sensation of heat of head and face, with red face,

• ▸anxiety, and sleepiness.
• ▸—(Tendency of hair to fall out with irritation of scalp.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)

Burning and redness of eyes. Pain and lachrymation on using eyes, with dancing and chromatic alterations of objects looked at.

Burning in eyes.—Burning, drawing, and redness in eyes.—Pressure on upper part of

eyeball.—Violent jerking and quivering of eyelids —Red and blue circles before eyes, after

rubbing them, with pressure, as by sand.—Sparkling before eyes.—Luminous vibrations before

the eyes.—Photopsia, remaining after an operation, esp. when objects appear covered with

blood.—Green spots before eyes in the dark.

• ▸Tearing in front of r.
• ▸ear as if in the bone.
• ▸—Sticking in front of 1.
• ▸ear extending into

• ▸it.
• ▸—Boring and tearing in r.
• ▸ear—Roaring and tearing in r.
• ▸ear in frequent paroxysms.
• ▸—Humming

in the ears.

Quivering on one side of nose.—Blowing of (dark) sanguineous scabs from

nose.—T witching of 1. side of nose.

Redness of face, with burning heat.—Itching of face; of r. cheek, < by

• ▸scratching.
• ▸—Jerking, tearing and boring in zygomatic processes.
• ▸—T witching of 1.
• ▸malar bone

• ▸extending to frontal eminence.
• ▸—Violent boring pain in (r.
• ▸) malar bone.
• ▸—Stitch in |.
• ▸side of chin

extending into jaw-joint.

Bad odour from mouth.—Sensation of numbness and of dryness in mouth, in

morning (early when waking), without absence of saliva.

Toothache, with jerking pain.—Sensation in teeth as if screwed together.—Tearing at

root of teeth—Grasping pain in teeth, preceded by copious accumulation of salivaa—Gums

swollen, painful when touched.

Roughness and dryness of throat —Inflammation of palate, with pain during

deglutition.—The fauces are inflamed and painful (stinging) during deglutition —Sticking in

throat on swallowing.

• ▸Loss of appetite, aversion to meat, craves bread and beer.
• ▸Food tasteless.
• ▸Eructations after eating.
• ▸Hiccough causes chest pains; cardialgia.

Earthy taste in mouth.—Violent thirst, esp. for beer—Appetite only for brown

bread.—Hunger after dinner.—(Ravenous, but discomfort prevents him eating more than a few

• ▸mouthfuls.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)

Nausea, with burning heat in face —Violent hiccough.—Sickness after all food,

• ▸sometimes quickly, sometimes after an hour or two (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—(Heartburn,

• ▸distension of abdomen, flatus with dull aching across waist and aching in |.
• ▸temple.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pressure in stomach, > by eating; < on walking.
• ▸—Constriction in stomach with uprisings of

• ▸clear water.
• ▸—Stitches in stomach now r.
• ▸now I.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Pressure in stomach, with sensation of

fulness in abdomen, esp. after a meal.

• ▸Sticking in abdominal ring.
• ▸Diarrhoea; worse at night; continuous urging; better towards morning.
• ▸Burning in anus lasts a long time after stool (Ratanh).
• ▸Uncomfortable fullness and swelling of abdomen.

Pressive, bruised pains in hypochondria.—Abdomen distended and painfully

inflated.—Colic in umbilical region.—Gripings, with diarrhoea, with chilliness, and

shiverings.—Lancination in sides.—Grumbling in abdomen, with abundant expulsion of very fetid

flatus.

Hard, knotty feeces (compact and in large lumps), evacuated slowly, with

effort and much pain (in anus).—The stool is passed in lumps like sheep-dung, and only with

great effort so that she thought she would faint, and with most frightful pain followed by boring

in anus.—Diarrheea, of yellow water, with gripings and pinchings in abdomen.—Diarrhcea < at

night, is scarcely off the vessel before he must return, > towards morning at 3 or 4

o'clock.—Tenesmus after (the diarrhoea-like) stool.—Burning sensation in, anus, during and after

a stool.—Pain, as from hemorrhoids in rectum.

Diminished secretion of urine.—Increased secretion of a yellow, deep-

coloured urine.—Nocturnal emission of urine.—Pale urine, with a strong smell of

ammonia.—Urine has a normal appearance with a strong smell of Jodine —(Urine strong-

• ▸smelling.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)

Retarded catamenia, at first serous (like meat-water), afterwards in

clots—Menses too early, and of too short a duration —Leucorrhoea while walking.

Hoarseness and roughness in throat, which excites a cough.—Dry

cough, excited by irritation in trachea, < at night.—Dyspnoea, when walking, with heat and

redness of face.

Pressure at chest Drawing pain in muscles of chest.—Constriction; pressive pain <

walking.—Spasmodic drawing and clawing; stitches on coughing and inspiring.—Painfulness of

• ▸sternum to touch.
• ▸—Slight burning I.
• ▸side of sternum extending upwards.
• ▸—Pressure in

sternum.—Pressive pain beneath sternum, at night, disappeared in morning on rising.—Slight

sticking in ensiform cartilage on walking in open air.—Dull stitches deep internally beneath

• ▸ensiform cartilage, taking away the breath.
• ▸—(Pain in |.
• ▸breast with oppression < after meals.
• ▸—R.

TCG

Dull, intermitting pressure in preecordial region.—Violent beating of arteries and of

heart.

Tearing tension in nape as if tendons were drawn up.—Sensations as if

bruised in back and sacrum, < from stooping and when touched.—Pain, as of a fracture, in loins

and back.—Drawing pain in back, and lumbar region.—Slight drawing pain along spine in

afternoon, changing to a seated dull tearing in joints of legs, < walking.

Painful paralytic sensation in |. shoulder and elbow-joint at night.—Constant

burning pains in r. shoulder-joint.—Veins of arms and hands injected and large; prostration; ill-

humour.—Tearings in arms hands, and fingers, esp. in joints—Numbness, almost paralytic, of the

forearms and hands.

Paralytic drawing in limbs.—Swelling and caries of femur, usually on

scrofulous children; diarrhoea—Cramp in calves and soles, esp. in people who suffer from cold

• ▸feet.
• ▸—Sprains, esp.
• ▸of ankle —Jerking of legs.
• ▸—Jerkings and tearings in legs, feet, and toes, esp.

in joints.—Swelling of feet—Sensation of icy-coldness in outer surface of calf (in spots).—Icy-

cold feet, evening.

24. Generalities—Excessive emaciation.—The majority of the pains, the exact situation of which

it is difficult to determine, seem to be in the medulla of the bones (?).—The symptoms

imperceptibly increase to a certain intensity, and diminish in the same manner.—Predominance of

symptoms on one side of the body.—Violent involuntary starts of the body; tension in inner or

outer parts; heat, with aversion to undress or uncover one's self—Affections in joints of legs.—~<

In night; evening; from cold in general; from undressing; after lying down and rising again; from

rubbing; in darkness.—> from light; from a very bright light; from warmth in general; from

• ▸wrapping up warmly.
• ▸—> In open air, esp.
• ▸from heat of sun.
• ▸—Great lassitude and depression,

morning and evening.

• ▸Sciatica with oedema of ankle.
• ▸Rheumatic pain in right shoulder.
• ▸Rheumatism with diarrhoea.
• ▸Gnawing as if in marrow of bones.
• ▸Cramps in calves and soles.
• ▸Chronic spasms, particularly of ankle-joint.
• ▸OEdematous swelling.
• ▸Icy-cold feet.
• ▸Rheumatic pains, especially in joints.
• ▸Veins of hands engorged.

Moist, itching, burning eruption; better in open air, especially warm sunshine. Sprains of ankle-joint, with oedema. Violent perspiration at night.

Tension of skin in different parts, when in bed, in evening.—Skin adherent to scar in

forearm becomes looser.—Eruption of small pimples in different parts, with burning itching, esp.

after scratching.—Sycotic eruption on face and elsewhere in mouth, itching, burning.

Retarded sleep.—Jerking in body and starts when sleeping.—Frequent waking at

night, principally caused by a dry cough.—Sleep, with many fantastic dreams.

Heat, with aversion to uncover or undress.

Pulse full and hard, with violent pulsation in the arteries.—Chill in forenoon,

descending from sacrum to posterior part of thighs —Chilliness from head over shoulder-

blades.—Shiverings, morning and evening.—Heat seeming to stream from nose and mouth, with

thirst—Dry heat at night (with thirst).—Profuse perspiration at night, and when a limb is

uncovered pain is instantaneously felt in the part.—Perspiration of parts affected (during morning

hours).

Strontium Nitricum.

Nitrate of Strontium. SrNOs. Solution.

• ▸Cravings, morbid.
• ▸Ears, eczema behind.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Kidneys, congestion of.
• ▸Menses,

scanty.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸Compare: Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸(closest congener; scrofulous, apoplectic

• ▸conditions; chilliness).
• ▸In headache > wrapping up warmly, Sil.
• ▸(Sil.
• ▸headache comes up spine

• ▸and over head; Farrington says Stron.
• ▸has the same).
• ▸> Wrapping; sheep-dung stools, Mag.
• ▸m.

• ▸Sprains, Arn.
• ▸, Rhus, Ruta.
• ▸Caries of femur with watery diarrhoea, Sil.
• ▸Scrofulous bone affections,

• ▸Staph.
• ▸Pains increase and decrease gradually, Plat.
• ▸, Stan.
• ▸> By light; aversion to darkness,

• ▸Stram.
• ▸, Am.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸a.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Rhus, Val.
• ▸(Cin.
• ▸,

• ▸aversion to light).
• ▸< Walking, Aésc.
• ▸h.
• ▸Threatened apoplexy, Ast.
• ▸r.

• ▸Compare: Arnica; Ruta; Sil; Baryta c; Carbo; Stront jodat (arterio-sclerosis).
• ▸Strontium brom (often gives excellent results where a bromide is indicated.
• ▸Vomiting of pregnancy.
• ▸Nervous dyspepsia.
• ▸It is anti-fermentative and neutralizes excessive acidity).
• ▸Stront nit (Morbid cravings; headache and eczema behind ears).

Sixth trituration and thirtieth potency.

Tearing (rheumatic pains) in the limbs, esp. in the joints, < in the evening, and at

night in bed.—One side of the body is generally only affected (r. side)—Immobility of the limbs,

on one side only (the r. side of the body), like paralysis, in the evening —Trembling of the limbs.