Boericke Pocket Book of MM\Succinum Succinum
(Electron. Amber - A Fossil Resin)
Nervous and hysterical symptoms.
Asthma.
Affections of spleen.
Fear of trains and close places.
Headache, lachrymation, sneezing.
Asthma, incipient phthisis, chronic bronchitis, pains in chest.
Whooping-cough.
Compare : Do not confound with Ambergris (Ambra).
Succinic acid. (Hay-fever. Paroxysmal sneezing, dropping of watery mucus
from nostrils; asthma. Inflammation through respiratory tract; causing
asthma, chest pains, etc.; itching of eyelids and canthi and nose worse
drafts. Use 6 to 30th potency).
Compare : Arundo, Wyethia, Sabadilla, Sinapis.
Third trituration.
Five drop doses of the oil.
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Clarke Dictionary\Succinum Succinum
Electron.
Amber. (A mineralised resin not to be confounded with Ambergris, Ambra.)
Trituration.
Solution of the non rectified oil (Oleum Succini non rectificatum) prepared
by dry distillation of Amber.
Solution of Succinic acid.
C4 H6 O4.
Asthma. Fear ; of trains and close places. Globus. Hay fever. Hiccough.
Hysteria. Leucocythaemia splenica. Spleen, affections of.
Dr. Morris Weiner (quoted in New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies, tested
Succin. ac., which he prepared himself from Amber by dry distillation. The
fumes of the crude acid, he says, are inflammable, and produce asthma,
cough, sneezing, weeping, dropping of watery mucus from nostrils, pain in
chest, and headache. On this indication he treated thirty persons suffering
from hay fever, and cured them all, and saved them the necessity of making
an annual exodus. He gave one or two grains of the 3x trit. of Succinum
itself diluted in twelve teaspoonfuls of water ; a teaspoonful every two
hours.
Burnett (Dis. of Spleen) used the non rectified oil as an organ remedy in
spleen affections, especially when accompanied by nervous and hysterical
phenomena. The crude oil is a thick brown liquid having a strong
empyreumatic odour. It is a powerful local irritant, and has been used with
success as such in lumbago, rheumatism, and sciatica. It enters into the
composition of "Roche's Embrocation," and "Haarlem Oil," and has a popular
reputation as a remedy for whooping cough, the directions being for it to be
rubbed into the spine night and morning (Murrell, in Brit. Med. Jour.).
A tablespoonful dose, says Murrell, has caused persistent vomiting,
diarrhoea, and symptoms of collapse ; and the patient aborted. These
observations are of value in relation to Burnett's experience. He gave the
oil thus : To six ounces of Acorn water are added half a scruple of the oil.
They do not mix chemically, but by shaking each time a dose is taken the
required division and attenuation is attained.
Burnett's keynote is : "Painful spleen affections wherewith there are
convulsive attacks such as the hysterical and hypochondriacal often have".
Burnett relates in his book a most remarkable case of "chronic enlargement
of the spleen, with hemi hyperaesthesia, cephalalgia, dyspnoea, orthopnoea,
convulsions" in a young lady "towards the end of her teens". After years of
treatment under others nad himself, Burnett concluded from Rademacher's
account of Succ. ol. that it might provide the remedy. It was given in five
drop doses three times a day. In forty eight hours the convulsive attacks
ceased for good, and all the phenomena slowly disappeared. Burnett had also
found Succ. ol. curative in splenic leucocythaemia.
A keynote of Burnett's is : Fear of trains and close places". His dose is
five drops of the oil three times a day.
Compare. Splenics, Cean., Nat. m., Querc., Mang. ac., Nat. sul.
Fear of trains and close places.
Headache.
Lachrymation.
Sneezing ; dropping of watery mucus from nostrils.
Globus.
Persistent hiccough. Violent vomiting.
Persistent diarrhoea and vomiting.
Abortion.
Asthma.
(Incipient phthisis. Chronic bronchitis. Whooping cough.)
Pain in chest.
Symptoms of collapse ; the patient aborted, but recovered.
Hysterical convulsions in women (from the smell. Burnett).
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Eleana
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