Chloroformium
Chloroform (trichloromethane) · Human-made/chemical
Chloroformium suits persons with profound nervous exhaustion, muscular weakness, and spasmodic conditions. It is indicated in states of collapse with weak, quick pulse and shallow breathing, and in convulsive disorders requiring antispasmodic action.
Key symptoms
- Great weakness especially on right side, limbs very tired from knees down
- Much perspiration over face and chest with drowsiness and dizziness
- Dry tickling cough at night with dry lips and throat
- Sore and bruised feeling in stomach with flatulence and food regurgitation
- Sharp pain in right chest on deep inspiration
- Delirium with excitement and violence predominating
- Convulsions with rapid convulsive movements of face and extremities
- Complete muscular relaxation in anesthetic doses
Chloroform (CHLOROFORMUM)
General anæsthetic, antispasmodic. Complete muscular relaxation. Weak and quick pulse, shallow or stertorous breathing. Convulsions, nephritic or biliary colic, gastralgia.
Symptoms obtained by Dr. D. Macfarlan with the 6th potency.
Great weakness, especially on right side. Limbs very tired from knees down. Much perspiration all over face and chest; drowsy and dizzy; dry lips and throat; dry tickling cough at night. Flatulence; food regurgitates; sore and bruised feeling in stomach; catching pain around heart. Sharp pain in right chest when he takes long breath; shortness of breath on exertion.
Head
Delirium where excitement and violence predominate. Head drawn down upon the shoulders, eyes opened and closed rapidly, pupils contracted; rapid convulsive movements of face, of muscles, of extremities.
Relationship
Ether Post-operative Bronchitis (Prof. Bier). Spiritus Aetheris Compositus.--(Hoffman's Anodyne)--(Flatulence; angina pectoris. Dose 5m to 1 dram in water).
Dose
Higher attenuations, or sixth. Phosphorus is the remedy to give in narcosis of chloroform.
CHCl3. Solution.
Clinical
Arachnitis. Convulsions. Delirium tremens. Gall-stones. Muscæ volitantes. Paralysis of sphincter vesicæ. Puerperal convulsions. Sick headache. Smell, lost. Taste, lost. Tetanus. Typhus. Vertigo.
Characteristics
Chloroform is the well-known anesthetic, the general effects of which in arresting sensation need no description. Unlike Ether and Nitrous oxide, which require to be administered without air, chloroform vapour must have abundance of air inhaled with it, or asphyxia results. Its most noteworthy effect is complete relaxation of all the voluntary muscles of the body. It may cause death by paralysing the respiration or the heart. Its use is contraindicated where there is brain softening; fatty heart; alcoholism; or albuminuria. Marcy cured with it a case of arachnitis ending in convulsions. It is especially indicated in delirium where excitement and violence predominate; desire to kill. Paralysis of voluntary and involuntary muscles and special senses. Chloroform will dissolve gall-stones, and cases have been treated by the injection of Chloroform into the gall-bladder.
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