Sanguinarinum tartaricum
Sanguinarine tartrate · Human-made/chemical
Sanguinarinum tartaricum is characterised by pronounced ocular symptoms including extreme mydriasis unresponsive to light, exophthalmos, and dim vision. The patient presents with haggard expression, cold extremities, cold sweats, and marked pulse irregularity. It suits acute toxic states with prominent eye and circulatory disturbances.
Key symptoms
- Eyes protruded and staring; extreme mydriasis unresponsive to strongest sunlight
- Cloud before sight; dim vision
- Vertigo
- Haggard expression with cold surface especially of extremities
- Nausea and epigastric uneasiness
- Very large quantity of bright yellow bile passed in stool
- Pulse rate diminished and irregular
- Cold sweat
Tartrate or Sanguinarin. C19H17NO4C4H6O6. Trituration.
Clinical
Exophthalmos. Mydriasis. Stool, bilious. Vision, dim.
Characteristics
Tully and Terry (C. D. P.) experimented with Sng. tart. in considerable doses. Tully says he has repeatedly witnessed "all the effects of Sanguinaria root, save the neuralgic pains and the convulsive affections," from the use of Sng. tart. The most peculiar of the symptoms he mentions are: Staring, and protrusion of the eyes; extreme mydriasis; haggard expression, and cold surface and cold sweats.
2. Head
Vertigo.
3. Eyes
Pupils dilated.─Mydriasis very great; strongest sunlight fails to contract.─Cloud before sight.─Eyes protruded, staring.
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