Strontium nitricum
Strontium nitrate · Mineral
Suited to young, anemic, bloated individuals — often brunette women — who have a history of suppressed eruptions (particularly post-auricular eczema), kidney irritation, and vaso-motor disturbances. There is a tendency to morbid cravings, headaches aggravated by light and mental exertion, and scanty menses at the climacteric.
Key symptoms
- Dull headache over eyes worse by sunlight, motion, and loss of sleep
- Swelling of upper eyelids, worse in the morning
- Morbid craving for unusual substances (cloves)
- Profuse yellow-staining perspiration about head and chest
- Post-auricular eczema, suppressed or recurring
- Passive congestion of the kidneys
- Headache better after stool
- Very susceptible to cold; anemic and bloated
Worse (aggravation)
- Sunlight
- Motion
- Loss of sleep
- Sewing and reading
- Morning (eyelid swelling)
- Cold (very susceptible)
Better (amelioration)
- After stool (headache relieved)
Nitrate of Strontium. SrNO3. Solution.
Clinical
Cravings, morbid. Ears, eczema behind. Headache. Kidneys, congestion of. Menses, scanty.
Characteristics
C. M. Boger (H. R., xv. 337) records the following cases: (1) Miss D., 18, brunette, had dull pains over eyes < by sunlight, motion, loss of sleep, sewing, reading; > after stool. With the headache, swelling of upper lids, < in morning. Sometimes bad taste in mouth. Menses irregular, profuse, dark. Feels tired and weak. Is addicted to eating cloves. In hot weather sweats profusely and easily about head and chest, staining yellow. Very susceptible to cold. Cough provoked by oppression of breathing and talking. Formerly bad catarrh; now has right-sided deafness. Had typhoid fever two years before, and during the fever was allowed unlimited quantities of ice. Preceding the fever she had a post-auricular eczema suppressed by salves; now is anæmic and bloated. The urine contained epithelium, excess of chlorides, calcium oxalate, and a trace of albumen (due …
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