Zincum Valerianicum

• ▸Zn.
• ▸v.
• ▸is a favourite anti-hysteric medicine in old-school practice.
• ▸There is one

proving with substantial doses by C. B. Finney, which brought out a strong action on the genital

sphere, the usual starting-point of hysteria. Finney had the brain-fag symptoms of Zn., and

gastro-intestinal disturbance. The abdominal pains waked him from sleep, and he had to rise at

6.30 to Stool, which was partly foecal and partly fluid. Later he was constipated and had

tenesmus. Hale quotes C. Dradwick as saying that a considerable number of patients having

• ▸piles, who were taking Zn.
• ▸v.
• ▸for other troubles, had their piles relieved by the remedy.
• ▸Finney

had distinct heart pains, and Hale mentions angina pectoris as having been cured by Zn. v. Other

conditions named by him are: Prosopalgia, spinal neuralgia, sciatica, ovarian neuralgia, cerebro-

• ▸spinal meningitis, and tubercular meningitis.
• ▸Zn.
• ▸v.
• ▸is indicated in hysteria with fidgety feet;

hypochondriasis; groundless fears. Hansen gives 44 epilepsy without aura." Finney had

"Sensation as if a very heavy weight on chest and dull headache and stiffness of muscles of neck.

Dulness of mind and headache with erections.—Great fulness of head, with difficult

thinking.—Distressed mentally, mind all mixed up.

Violent, neuralgic, intermittent headaches. Becomes almost insane with pain, which is piercing and stabbing. Uncontrollable sleeplessness from pain in head with melancholy.

No appetite —Belched up bitter fluid —Woke with empty feeling in pit of

stomach.

• ▸Rose 6.
• ▸30 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸with colicky pains —Abdominal pains > by passing

flatus.—Crampy pain in abdomen.—Drawing pain at umbilicus and sense of pressure in rectum

when standing.—Pain in bowels while dressing and after breakfast.

At 2 p.m. evacuation of feecal matter, followed by watery flow, with pain

• ▸in belly.
• ▸—Pressure on rectum when standing.
• ▸—At 6.
• ▸30 had to get up to stool, which was small,

brown, and mushy, discharged with much wind.—Ineffectual desire for stool.—Stool scanty,

much tenesmus.

Ovaralgia; pain shoots down limbs, even too foot.

• ▸Tendency to erections all day.
• ▸—Strong erection 8.
• ▸15 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; with

dulness of mind and headache.—Nocturnal emissions on several successive nights; after them

weight and constriction in perinzeum.

Severe pain in neck and spine. Cannot sit still; must keep legs in constant motion. Sciatic neuralgia.

• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Brain-fag.
• ▸Deltoids, pain in.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Emaciation.

• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Hypochondriasis.
• ▸Hystero-epilepsy.
• ▸Priapism.
• ▸Seminal emissions.
• ▸Stiff-

neck.

First and second trituration. Must be continued for some time in treatment of neuralgia.