Chloralum

▲   GENERAL

General

Chloralum, used in physiological doses, is a powerful hypnotic and cardiac depressant. It has a marked effect on the skin, producing erythema, ecchymosis, etc., which symptoms have been utilized homeopathically with much success, especially in the treatment of hives. Emotional excitability, hallucinations. Night terrors in children. Muscular prostration.

Dose

First trituration in hives, otherwise, higher potencies. Locally, in offensive foot-sweat, bathe with one percent. solution. For its physiological effects, five to twenty grains. Use cautiously.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, after hot drinks, stimulants, eating, night.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Belladonna ^Bell.; Opium; Apis Mel ^Apis; Verona - (a dangerous drug made by the action of Alcohol upon urea and contains the same radical that alcohol does. Makes a man just as drunk as pure alcohol. Staggers, cannot stand up ( Dr. Barney.) (Confluent, reddish spots; dermatitis, itching of glans and prepuce; circumscribed dermatitis patch on first metacarpal phalangeal joint.) Luminal - (Sleeplessness with skin symptoms in migraine; lethargy like epidemic encephalitis) ( Dr. Royal.)

Antidotes

Antidotes: Ammon.; Atropinium ^Atro.; Digitalis Purpurea ^Dig.; Mosch.

▲   MIND

Mind

Behaviour

childish behaviour (see foolish)

dancing

jumping; out of bed

Delirium

wild

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

about bed; stands at the foot menacing

hears sounds; voices

visions (see visions or presence of phantoms, figures, people)

visions or presence of phantoms, figures, people; figures; hurled bottle at figures

Desires, wants

hide

to go home

Dishonesty; deceitful, lying

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

deceitful, lying

indecisive

irritability

morning

morose

unhappy; despair; of recovery

Hysteria

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

impaired thinking; confusion

impaired thinking; idiocy

impaired thinking; imbecility

thoughts wandering

Insanity

mania, madness

from drinking (delirium tremors)

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

fear; hydrophobia (fear of water)

Memory; weakness of memory

Talking, conversation

answers not lucid; difficult

answers not lucid; incoherently

speech; hasty

speech; incoherent

speech; nonsense

talks to himself

Unconsciousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

▲   HEAD

Head

Passive cerebral hyperaemia (use 30th)

Feeling as if hot band were drawn from temple to temple

Hears voices.

Headache

Morning headache; worse in forehead, also in occiput, on motion; better in open air

Pain, headache

in forehead

in forehead; extending to other parts; back of head (occiput)

in forehead; above eyes

pressing (see bursting, pulling)

Scalp

Hair; falling

▲   EYES

Eyes

Eyes blood-shot and watery

Circles of light, black spots

Illusions of sight where eyes are closed or at night

Dim vision

Conjunctivitis, burning in eye and lids; eyeball feels too large; everything looks White.

Discoloration; redness

Bruise

Sensation of enlargement

Hair falling from eye-lashes

Eye feels hot

Heaviness; lids

Inflammation

of catarrh from cold

wounds; conjunctiva (external lining of eye); oozing pus (including cornea)

Infected; full of dark vessels, conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

Movement of eyeballs; turned; upward

Pain; burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

Paralysis; lids; upper

Swellings

conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

Tears

Ulceration; cornea (transparent part of eye)

Vision

Colour blindness

Colours and shapes in front of eyes

colours; black; spots; floating (aka muscae volitantes or spiders)

colours; dark; spots

Dim

Double vision; after sleep

Exertion of vision

Lost vision, blindness

▲   EARS

Ear

Noises in ear

ringing

roaring

Swelling

▲   FACE

Face

Expression

anxious

intoxicated

Sensation of hairs

Heat

Lips; discoloration; red

Pain

Skin

discoloration; bluish

discoloration; pale

discoloration; red; while lying down; lying on back

discoloration; red; during sleep

out-breaks on skin; like nettle rash

Swelling

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

submaxillary gland (gland under jaw, by throat)

Twitching

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Discoloration; redness

Odour (halitosis, bad breath); putrid

sickening

Pain; burning, raw and smarting

Inflamed lining of mouth from ulcer

Gums and teeth

Gums; spongy

Teeth

mucus on teeth (see deposits on teeth during illness); brown

pain; neuralgic (pain along nerve)

pain; pressing; of the filling

Tongue

Bleeding; tongue

Discoloration

tongue; black

tongue; black; centre

streak like ink

Growths, blisters, swellings

blisters; tongue

ulcers; tongue

▲   THROAT

Throat

Discoloration; redness

Paralysis; gullet

Spasms, convulsions etc.

▲   CHEST

Chest

Constriction, tension

Heat

Inflammation; bronchial tubes (bronchitis)

Oppressed feeling

after eating

Skin; discoloration; redness; blotches

Respiration

Extreme dyspnoea, with sensation of weight and constriction of chest

Asthma, with sleeplessness.

Asthma attack

night

Difficult (dyspnea)

Slow

Like deep snoring

Wheezing

▲   COUGH

Cough

Intermittent

Whooping

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Yellow

▲   SKIN

Skin

Red blotches, like measles

Urticaria, worse, spirituous liquors, hot drinks

Erythema aggravated by alcoholic drinks, with palpitation; causes pain in tendons and extensors

Intense itching

Surface of body Stone-cold

Wheals come on from a chill; better, warmth

Purpura ( Phosphorus ^Phos.; Crotalus Cascavella ^Crotal.)

Discoloration

bluish; spots

mottled

purple (purpura haemorrhagica purplish spots or patches from haemorrhage under skin)

red; spots

coppery

Inflammation

Itching

night

burning

as from nettles

must scratch

until it bleeds

stinging

Loss of feeling

Out-breaks on skin

blotches

merging together

rash (see granular)

night

receding in eruptive fevers; scarlet fever

red

like nettle rash

afternoon

night

nodular

nodular; rosy (erythema)

from wine

Pain; like bruising

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Skin; out-breaks on skin; neck; rose-coloured patches of varying size

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Pain; liver; colic, gall-stones

Bladder

urination; frequent; afternoon

urination; involuntary, incontinence; morning; early hours

urination; involuntary, incontinence; night, bed wetting

toward morning

urination; unconscious; no feeling in urethra (urinary part of genitals)

Kidneys; pain; cutting; ureters (tubes between kidneys and bladder)

Stomach

disordered; after eating

burping, belching; fluid

sinking (see emptiness)

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Stool

Knotty, nodular, lumpy

Odour; offensive

Soft

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Albuminous (white, thick)

Copious

night

Odourless

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); painful during erection

itching

passage; erotic

numbness; sensation absent, when urinating

Genitals

Female; irritation; itching; during pregnancy

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Movements and positions

chorea (convulsive twitching, involuntary movements of limbs)

incoordination

lower limbs

Pain

aching; leg

aching; leg; calf

Skin

discoloration; bruise-like black and blue

discoloration; red; alternating with bluish-grey spots

discoloration; upper limbs; blotches

discoloration; upper limbs; red

out-break on skin; rash

out-break on skin; red

out-break on skin; like nettle rash

out-break on skin; upper limbs; rash

out-break on skin; upper limbs; like nettle rash

out-break on skin; fingers; around nails; desquamating (peeling in scales)

out-break on skin; lower limbs; like nettle rash

ulcers; fingers; around nails

Swollen; upper limbs

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Insomnia, hallucinations, horrid dreams

Somnolence.

Comatose

Deep

Dreams; frightful

Interrupted

Prolonged sleep

Sleepiness, tiredness

evening

Sleeplessness, insomnia

night; from itching

Not refreshing

Waking; as from fright

Convulsions

Convulsions; with tetanus rigidity

Generalities

Affects of alcohol

Catalepsy (dazed, allows others to position limbs)

Constriction; internally

Eating and food; beer

Faintness, fainting

Haemorrhage; blood does not clot

Pulsation

Twitching; twitching, involuntary movements (chorea)

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

Wine

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