HYDROCYANICUM ACIDUM
Prussic Acid
(HYDROCYANIC ACID)
One of the most poisonous dealers known. Convulsions and paralysis categorical the motion of this remedy. Spasmodic constriction in larynx, feeling of suffocation, ache and tightness in chest, palpitation; pulse weak, irregular. Singing sensation at the epigastrium. Hysterical and epileptic convulsions. Cyanosis. Collapse, due to some pulmonary circumstance no longer a cardiac collapse. Catalepsy. Cholera. Stage of fall down (Ars; Verat). Coldness. Tetanus narcolepsy.
Mind.–Unconscious. Wild delirium. Fear of imaginary troubles. Fears everything-horses, wagons, homes falling, etc.
Head.–Violent stupefying headache. Brain feels on fire. Pupils immobile or dilated. Supra-orbital neuralgia, with flushing on equal facet of face.
Face.–Jaws clenched in inflexible spasm. Froths at mouth. Pale, bluish lips.
Stomach.–Tongue cold. Drink rumbles thru throat and stomach. Gastralgia; worse when belly is empty. Great sinking at pit of stomach. Pulsative ache in praecordial region.
Respiratory.–Noisy and agitated breathing. Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough. Asthma, with contraction of throat. Whooping-cough. Paralysis of lungs (Aspidos). Marked cyanosis; venously congested lung.
Heart.–Violent palpitation. Pulse, susceptible irregular. Cold extremities. Torturing ache in chest. Angina pectoris (Spigel; Oxal ac).
Sleep.–Yawning with shivering. Irresistible drowsiness. Vivid, incoherent dreams.
Relationship.–Antidotes: Ammon; Camph; Opium.
Compare: Cicuta; Oenanthe; Camph; Lauroc.
Dose.–Sixth and greater potencies.
