Zincum Muriaticum

An extensive proving of Zn. o. was made by Wernek, Buchner, and Micheelis.

These symptoms have been included by Allen in the pathogenesis of Zincum, and some of them

• ▸will be found in my Schema of Zincum.
• ▸Jahr kept a separate record of Zn.
• ▸o.
• ▸I append his

account. The contracting, shrivelling-up effect of Zinc was marked in these provings. Among the

more Peculiar Symptoms were: Undulating movement in some muscles. Contraction of the

risible muscles and constant impulse to laugh. Teeth blunted; incisors feel soft and glued

• ▸together.
• ▸Hiccough, > after regurgitation of bile.
• ▸Liquid stools which > all symptoms.
• ▸In these

provings the /eft lung was very markedly affected. There was coryza < after a meal, with

difficulty of respiration and nasal secretion. Stoppage of the nose was much complained of.

• ▸Anorexia > after a meal.
• ▸Farrington says Zn.
• ▸o.
• ▸is very like Con.
• ▸in hypochondriasis and

melancholy from masturbation, the difference being that Zn. o. is irritating as well as weakening

and depressing.

Anguish and agitation, as from a consciousness of having committed some crime.—IIl-

humour, sometimes very great.—Unfitness for serious occupation.—Spasmodic laughter

(sardonic).

Emaciation extreme.—Nervous prostration, hypereesthesia.—Spasmodic

• ▸movements of muscles of face and arms.
• ▸—Convulsions.
• ▸—Faintness.
• ▸—Collapse.

(Vertigo > lying down.).—Severe frontal headache, accompanied by frequent stabs of

pain, apparently darting from before backward to occiput, but intra-cranial, and not attended with

altered sensation in scalp.—Bursting headache.

Pulsation and noise in ears, esp. in 1., with increased secretion of liquid cerumen and

hardness of hearing.

Tickling in nose and impulse to sneeze.—Inability to breathe through nose (nose

stopped), with anxiety and oppression; or else as during a violent coryza.—Coryza < after a meal,

with difficulty of respiration and nasal secretion.

Paleness of complexion; convulsive drawing in facial muscles, sometimes with

constant nausea; or else with contraction of the risible muscles, and constant impulse to

laugh.—Dryness of lips.

Flow of an acrid and bitter water into mouth; frequent flow of saliva, with nausea;

salivation increased.

Teeth as if blunted on closing them; the incisors appear to be soft and glued together.

Anorexia: total, with violent thirst; at breakfast, with loathing, > after a

meal.—Disgust, which, however, may be overcome.—Ardent thirst—Strong desire for cold water,

which affords great relief.

Colicky pains below navel, tearing pains from side to side until evening; dull

pain in umbilical region; spasmodic drawing in abdomen, with dull pain.—Lancinations in

• ▸hepatic region.
• ▸—Pinchings in abdomen.
• ▸—Inflation of abdomen.
• ▸—Borborygmi in abdomen,

sometimes with aching.—Boil above the genital parts, first red then dark-blue, with hard areola;

later, discharge of a yellow foul pus, after which the areola remains for a long time, red and hard.

Liquid stools: with tenesmus and pinchings in abdomen, and followed by a marked >

of all symptoms.

Diarrheea: violent, with vomiting and collapse.—Stools: thin, dark brown;

fetid; coffee-ground; pitchy; olive-green; pale, clayey, dry, crumbling. —Constipation.

Erections with unusual voluptuousness and desire.—Emissions with

voluptuous dreams and intense nervous thrill.

Abundant accumulation of mucus in larynx, with dryness of throat

and constant want to hawk, with viscid and mucous saliva.—Impeded respiration, esp. in the 1.

lung.

• ▸Neuralgic pains and skin symptoms like those of zoster (Mohr, M7.
• ▸A.
• ▸, xxi.
• ▸259).

Frequent palpitation of heart, with anguish, sometimes chiefly in evening, and with

spasmodic pulse; pulsations more rapid.—Sensation of pressure, weight, and spasmodic tension

in the heart itself.

Sacral pains: at night on turning body in bed; on stooping, extending to lumbar

vertebree.—Sensation of paralysis, extending to hips.—Tearings and lancinations between

shoulders; or else pains extending to loins and sacrum.—Throbbing below I. shoulder-

blade.—Pressure on the shoulders on waking in morning, with confusion in head.

Arms: Pain as if broken, sometimes chiefly in deltoid muscle, or else in bend

of elbow; heaviness and paralytic aching in the bend of the |. elbow.

In lower extremities: permanent debility, pain as if broken, sometimes

chiefly in the |. leg, or else in joints of hip and knee; pulsations in the 1. buttock; tension in the 1.

leg, in the I. knee-joint, frequent tingling in |. foot; drawing pains in the bones; trembling of the

feet.

24. Generalities—Tension in muscles and painful sensation during movement; pain throughout

body > during repose; pains in all limbs.—Depressed state of whole body, sometimes with

lassitude.—Perceptible failing of the strength, sometimes with general internal

uneasiness.—Conversation occasions fatigue.—Turgor vitalis sensibly diminished.

Skin: dusky; ghastly bluish green; harsh and dry, with odour as in starvation; bluish

mottled; dry; hot—Skin of legs covered with thick scales.

Sleepless after 3 a.m.; "it wakes me at three, and I feel as if under the influence of

pleasant and quick music" (from third trit.)

Sensation of coldness: of the extremities; constant, with general uneasiness;

followed by febrile movement throughout the body, with shuddering and drawing pains in back;

with shivering of whole body.—Shivering which passes over the whole body.—Coldness of hands

• ▸and feet.
• ▸—Shuddering over the whole abdomen, with retching.
• ▸—Pulse small and hare.
• ▸, sometimes

to a very great degree; spasmodic, and sometimes small at the same time; wiry, accelerated,

irregular, hard, and dull.—Perspiration, esp. towards morning, sometimes while sleeping.

Zincum Phosphoricum.

• ▸Phosphide of Zinc.
• ▸Zincic Phosphide.
• ▸Zn3P2.
• ▸Trituration.

• ▸Brain-fag.
• ▸Delirium tremens.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Herpes zoster.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Kidneys, irritable.

• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Sleeplessness.
• ▸Tremors, mercurial.

• ▸Characteristics—Ashburton Thompson gave pills, each containing 2/3 gr.
• ▸of Zn.
• ▸ph.
• ▸, to two

patients, and both experienced a severe frontal headache with frequent stabs of pain backward,

deep in the head, to occiput. Hale has used it on a combination of the indications of the elements,

and especially in brain-fag of business men. Hammond has cured with it nervousness, and

vertigo > lying down. In some patients the 3rd potency has caused sexual excitement and

• ▸sleeplessness after 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸According to him, Zn.
• ▸ph.
• ▸removes the mental depression and paralysis

• ▸following cerebral congestion and apoplexy.
• ▸J.
• ▸E.
• ▸Baldwin (N.
• ▸A.
• ▸J.
• ▸H.
• ▸, xiii.
• ▸266) reports this

case: A lady in perfect health prepared a long report and read it to a large audience without

undue excitement. Next day had some pressure in occiput to cervical spine, lasting four days.

• ▸Feeling of fatigue with disinclination to any mental exertion.
• ▸Zn.
• ▸Ph.
• ▸2x cured in a few doses.
• ▸Zn.

ph. 6x has cured irritable kidney with loss of memory in an old man.

Drawing pain in the limbs, sometimes with sacral pains.—Tearing pains in

limbs.—Tingling which passes along limbs.—Undulating movement in some

muscles.—Trembling of limbs, sometimes with jerking of muscles of legs.—Lassitude in limbs.