Strychninum phosphoricum
Strychnine phosphate · Plant · Loganiaceae
Indicated in debilitated individuals suffering from spinal anemia, paralytic weakness, and nervous instability following acute illnesses. The patient displays muscular incoordination, emotional lability with uncontrollable laughing, and signs of beginning cardiac degeneration such as fatty heart changes.
Key symptoms
- Twitching, stiffness, weakness, and loss of muscular power
- Uncontrollable desire to laugh; lack of mental control
- Very irregular pulse; tachycardia
- Burning, aching, and weakness of the spine
- Tenderness on pressure in mid-dorsal region
- Cold, clammy feet; hands and armpits covered with clammy perspiration
- Useful in chorea and hysteria after acute fevers
- Anemia of the spinal cord with paralytic symptoms
Worse (aggravation)
- Motion
Better (amelioration)
- Rest
- Open air
Phosphate of Strychnin (STRYCHNIA PHOSPHORICA)
This drug acts through the cerebro-spinal system upon muscles, causing twitching, stiffness, weakness and loss of power; upon circulation, producing irregularity of pulse, and upon the mind, producing lack of control, uncontrollable desire to laugh and disinclination to use the brain. Very irregular pulse. Tachycardia. Rapid and weak pulse. Useful in chorea, hysteria, acute asthenia after acute fevers. Symptoms worse motion, better rest and in open air. An excellent remedy in anæmia of spinal cord; paralysis; burning, aching, and weakness of spine; pain extends to front of chest; tenderness on pressure in mid-dorsal region; cold, clammy feet; hands and axillæ covered with clammy perspiration. Atelectasis and break in the compensation of a hypertrophied heart; the beginning of fatty degeneration of the heart muscle (Royal).
Dose
Third trituration.
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