Botulinum
Clostridium botulinum toxin/nosode · Nosode
Botulinum suits cases presenting with a picture resembling bulbar paresis: cranial nerve involvement with ptosis, diplopia, difficulty swallowing, and respiratory distress. The characteristic mask-like facial expression from muscular weakness and severe constipation are hallmarks of this remedy.
Key symptoms
- Ptosis, double vision, and blurred vision
- Difficulty swallowing and breathing; choking sensation
- Weakness and uncertainty in walking; blind staggers
- Dizziness with thickening of speech
- Cramping pain in stomach
- Mask-like expression of face from facial muscle weakness
- Severe constipation
Toxin of Bacillus Botulinum
Food poisoning from canned spinach produced a clinical picture suggested in a bulbar paresis.
Eye symptoms, ptosis, double vision, blurred vision.
Difficulty in swallowing and breathing, choking sensation; weakness and uncertainty in walking, "blind staggers", dizziness, thickening of speech. Cramping pain in stomach.
Mask-like expression of face, due to weakness of facial muscles. Severe constipation.
Dose
Higher potencies.
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