Chlorum
Chlorine · Human-made/chemical
Chlorum suits persons with acute and violent respiratory spasms, particularly laryngeal spasm and suffocation. The chief difficulty is with expiration, and symptoms may arise from exposure to irritating gases or damp air.
Key symptoms
- Spasm of the glottis with sudden dyspnea and blue face
- Inspiration free but expiration obstructed
- Corroding coryza with sharp fluid making nose sore inside and about the alae
- Loss of voice from damp air
- Prolonged loud whistling rales
- Extreme dryness of tongue
- Fear of becoming crazy with marked loss of memory especially for names
- Cold sweat with small pulse during laryngeal spasm
Worse (aggravation)
- Damp air causes loss of voice
Chlorine Gas in Water
The marked effect on the respiratory organs, producing spasm of the glottis, is the chief symptom of the drug. Asthma to relieve the spasm of glottis. Useful externally and internally in gangrene.
Mind
Fear of becoming crazy. Marked loss of memory, especially for names.
Respiratory
Sooty, smoky nostrils. Coryza with sudden gushes of sharp, corroding fluid, making nose sore inside and about the alæ. Constriction, with suffocation. Spasm of the glottis. Irritation of epiglottis, larynx, and bronchi. Loss of voice from damp air. Sudden dyspnœa from spasm of the vocal cords, with staring protruding eyes, blue face, cold sweat, pulse small. Inspiration free, with obstructed expiration. (Mephit). Livid face. Prolonged, loud, whistling rales. Extreme dryness of tongue.
Dose
Chlorine water, when required of full strength, must be freshly prepared. Fourth to sixth potency.
Chlorine, the element. Cl. Solution.
Clinical
Aphthæ. Asthma. Catarrh. Chlorosis. Cold. Convulsions. Croup. Dentition. Diphtheria. Gastritis. Hæmoptysis. Impotence. Laryngismus. Phthisis. Pleurisy. Sore-throat. Typhus. Ulcers.
Characteristics
Chlorum has been proved in the form of "Chlorine water, and has been tested clinically. It produces spasms and convulsions, coryza and catarrh. Laryngeal spasm is especially pronounced; the chief difficulty is in exhaling, can draw in the air well enough. Convulsive attacks on cutting eye-teeth. Mouth inflamed; ulcerated. Rapid emaciation. Acute rheumatic pains. Excessive sensitiveness of skin. Nettlerash, with fever. Cutis anserina. Skin dry, yellow, shrivelled. Malignant pustule and carbuncle. Typhoid state. The mental state is noteworthy. Fears he will go crazy; that he won't be able to make a living. Cannot remember names of people he sees, or if he sees the names cannot remember the person. E. Z. Bacon has recorded (Med. Visitor, Dec., 1893) two cases of …
Respiratory Organs
Crowing inspirations, expiration almost impossible.
Phatak's chapter on Chlorum is available in the app.
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