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This remedy mostly affects head (esp. forehead) and
circulation.

There is great congestion of head (also chest and
pelvic organs) with pulsating or bursting pain which
is ameliorated by rest, hemmorrhage and discharges
(>epistaxis, menses and profuse urination).

Complaints are usually accompanied by flushes of heat
with redness of face.

'Delusion of being persecuted' and 'desire to run away
and escape.'
'Sudden impulse to commit suicide.'

It is compared with Glonoinum.
From Allen's Handbook:

General Action. - On the peripheral (capillary) circulation, dilating the
arterioles and causing intense congestion (see physiol. action of Amyl n.).
Allies. - Amyl n., Glon., Cact., magnolia, Bell., Ferr.
Generalities. - Sudden, shooting, stinging, burning, rheumatic pains,
agg. knees and elbow, yet metatarsal joint of great toe is most swollen and
red. Bruised, sore, tired feeling all over body. Oppression i morning, with
heaviness and weariness. Weakness; in forenoon. Wearied easily, as if I
could not get air enough to do any good. Stiff on trying to walk; on rising
from a seat, with dizziness. Many symptoms appear in forenoon and wear off
during the day; return of all symptoms at 3pm Amelioration in open air; A.
from walking and change of position.
Clinical. - Epilepsy resulting from a blow on the head has been cured.
Puerperal convulsions. Convulsions of teething children.
Mind. - Furious, had to lock him in his room for twenty - four hours.
irascible, impatient, discontented, fault - finding. Indolent, reluctant to
rise in morning, unwilling to set about anything, desire to do something
else than the task belonging to the hour. Weeping in three attacks, without
melancholy. Nervous and easily annoyed. Desire o be in the open air. Unable
to fix mind, stupid, indifferent. Omit words and letters in writing. Unable
to study, memory will not retain anything. Talk incoherently, know what I
want to say, but seem unable to express myself clearly, "words trip each
other up. "
Clinical. - Religious melancholy. Hypochondriasis.
Head. - Aching; amel. nosebleed, with cough and oppression of chest; so
that he was almost delirious; causing purple redness of face and bloodshot
eyes, amel. epistaxis; sick, amel. epistaxis or menstrual flow, blood bright
red; periodical, nervous, every week or once in four weeks, more frequent in
winter; worse once in three of four days; oppressive; oppressive, at 9pm
after a hard day's work, with dizziness, faintness and nausea; heavy, amel.
applying vinegar; heavy, in afternoon, becoming towards night heavy
throbbing. Heaviness. Fullness; and oppression; as if all the blood were
there; as if blood would burst through nose, eyes and ears, with dizzy, sick
feeling that is agg. motion. Throbbing (Glon.); and sensation as if all the
bloodvessels of the brain would give way and cause some lesion of that
organ. Congestion, which has left meningeal capillaries enlarged, and this
has made me very nervous. Swaying sensation in brain, with tired pain,
coldness and listlessness. Vertigo; on moving; with nausea, with wavelike
movement in brain and tension.
Frontal pain in forenoon; every day at 9 or 10am; in afternoon preceded
by hot, flushed face and feverish sensation; in left supraorbital region,
agg. motion or thinking hard, amel. lying down, on talking it changed to
occiput and returned to forehead when I stopped talking, it took about a
minute to travel back and forth, I could feel it migrate, especially when
returning to forehead, when I walked the whole head was affected, agg. over
eye (I am right - handed and have a weak right eye); throbbing, preceded by
prostration; throbbing, in right eminence, agg. from 9 till noon. Sharp pain
in right temple alternating with sharp pain in right knee. headache in right
side waking him at 4am, agg. motion, agg. afternoon, with gastric
flatulence.
Clinical. - Neuralgic headaches recurring every day at 4pm Violent
neuralgic headache, driving him almost crazy, with violent congestion of the
head, pulsation, purple redness of the face, extreme nervousness, symptoms
associated with nosebleed, which relieved.
Eyes. - Tired and sore, desire to close them tightly for relief.
Sensation as if too large for orbits and as if pressed outward. heavy, hot
and as if pressed outward. Lids heavy. Sensation in lids as if unable to
close them. Vision imperfect; blurred; almost unable to focus objects;
floating bodies before eyes when studying.
Ears, Nose and Face. - Sensation of puffing of wind from ears. nose
dry; N. stopped, must breathe through mouth. Hard clinkers in nose.
Nosebleed; with high fever and congestion of head and face; gush of bright
red blood; gushing, with loss of consciousness. Redness of face and head,
with throbbing in carotids (Amyl n., Bell.); red face all day, and feverish;
red in afternoon, and hot; red before haemorrhages from nose, lungs and
uterus; almost livid (Bell.). Pallor.
Throat. - Soreness on left side, swallowing painful, swallowing caused
the wind to puff out of ears. Tickling, with cough and spasmodic breathing,
causing nervousness. Fullness.
Stomach and Abdomen. - Very hungry, but nothing satisfied the taste;
ravenous about 10am, with the onset of frontal headache; appetite
capricious, agg. morning; A. lost, especially for breakfast. Eructations
burning, acid, smarting, all day; acrid, burning, all the evening. Cramp in
stomach. Congestion of stomach. Abdomen full; at night before sleep, with
crawling as of worms near rectal muscles. Flatulent distention of A., agg.
during menstruation.
Rectum and Stool. - Internal piles, with oppressive fullness; and heavy
throbbing. Shooting, cutting pin in rectum when walking, amel. sitting.
Constipation, with gastric discomfort, fullness, flatulence and other
symptoms. No stool for three or five day, the daily stool for three or four
days. No desire until there is a large accumulation, then difficult, painful
stool, with constriction in rectum and discharge (with the faeces) of
stringy, glairy, milky - white mucus, each succeeding stool less painful
till normal, then constipation again.
Urinary Organs. - Frequent micturition; and excessive (Bell.). urine
profuse, watery, relieving the dull, congestive headache (Gels.).
Sexual Organs. - Leucorrhoea excited by walking, with pain and soreness
in back and pelvic organs. Stitching or cutting through uterus; frequent
momentary S. in external genitals (agg. agg. labia) at close of
menstruation, with nausea and dull, heavy pain in pelvis, menses lasted four
days (usually only from twenty four to thirty - six hours), intermittent
only during the day. Enlargement of left ovary. Congestion of ovaries, with
heaviness and oppressive pain. Scanty, intermittent menstruation, thin,
pale, offensive; scanty, intermittent, with nausea, pain n back and bearing
down pains in pelvis; scanty, intermittent, with headache, vertigo,
stiffness in back and limbs, dull, heavy pain in pelvis.
Respiratory Organs. - Cough form fullness in chest; C. amel. nosebleed,
blood bright red; hacking C. from tickling; dry, spasmodic, distressing;
harsh, dry, spasmodic, causing anxiety, towards night slight expectoration
difficult to detach, relieving somewhat, heaviness and oppression os that he
could lie on neither side; harassing, as I could not relieve throat or
bronchi by getting anything up till near midnight, could expectorate freely
next morning on waking. haemoptysis, bright red. Could not get air enough,
felt as if smothering. Breath short, difficult on climbing a hill or from
rapid walking; difficult, from weight on chest (Ferr.)
Chest. - Pain in right lung before 10pm, with occasional pain in left
hip and with twitching of muscles. Oppression; with smothered feeling and
difficult breathing, next day oppressed, spasmodic breathing, with fullness
of chest. Smothering. Soreness; internally and externally; just under ribs,
as if in pleura; internally, on waking from bad sleep, with oppression,
through the day difficult breathing, with fullness of chest and head, next
morning woke with spasmodic cough, same oppression and spasmodic breathing,
during the day was nervous and had oppressive, heavy, throbbing headache,
was easiest when perfectly quiet, towards night was sure that I had internal
haemorrhage from the congestion, next day distressing cough causing anxiety,
easily wearied, with inability to get air enough, towards night slightly
amel. scanty, difficult expectoration, all night had hot cloths applied to
the chest to give relief, delirious a part of the night and talked
incessantly.
Back. - Broken sensation in lumbo - sacral articulation; in sacro -
lumbar region on sitting, amel. walking or standing, constant change of
position to obtain relief, inclination to press or strike the part, this
backache alternated with headache.
Extremities. - Rheumatic pains in all joints on approach of a rain -
storm or in rainy, changeable weather. Feeling as if I had taken a hard
cold, stiff and sore when rising, amel. careful movements. Uneasiness in
large joints. Arms heavy. Soreness about hip - joints, with bruised
sensation on pressure. Cutting in knees alternating with frontal, right
orbital and occipital headache. Gnawing, throbbing pain in right knee, with
desire to stretch the leg, but stretching does not relieve. Numbness and
aching in right, then left knee. Rheumatic pain in right leg, agg. about
knee and hip, amel. motion.
Sleep. - Sleepiness; i afternoon, with dulness. Sleeplessness; from
unpleasant, disconnected, meaningless things coursing through the brain.
Sleep poor; amel. towards morning. Disturbed for weeks, one night sleepless,
tossing, dozing, dreaming, the next, probably from exhaustion, sleep without
waking, but rise tired. Head seemed too high though I lay without pillow or
bolster. Dreams full of contention and bickering.
Fever. - Chilliness; all the forenoon; between 12 and 1pm, with sharp
pain in cardiac region of stomach and flatulence; with sleepiness, dulness
and listlessness; at 10am, beginning in back, lumbar region or occiput and
passing in waves to vertex. Cold limbs; hands and feet.
Lynn M. Lammer, Pres.
Homeopathic Consultants, Inc.
P. O. Box 824
Hudson, Wisconsin 54016
U.S.A.
Phone: (651) 592-3502
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