Succinum
Amber (fossil resin) · Mineral
Indicated in nervous, hysterical individuals — particularly women — who suffer from spleen affections accompanied by convulsive or hysterical attacks. The remedy is also a leading choice for hay-fever and respiratory catarrh where nervous and spasmodic elements predominate.
Key symptoms
- Fear of trains and enclosed places (claustrophobia)
- Asthma, especially paroxysmal and nervous in character
- Painful spleen affections with hysterical or convulsive episodes
- Hay-fever with paroxysmal sneezing and watery nasal discharge
- Headache with lachrymation and sneezing
- Globus sensation (lump in throat)
- Persistent hiccough
- Whooping-cough
Worse (aggravation)
- Drafts (itching of eyelids and nose worse from drafts — Succinic acid)
- Confined or enclosed spaces
Better (amelioration)
- Open air (implied by fear of closed places)
Nervous and hysterical symptoms. Asthma. Affections of spleen.
Head
Fear of trains and close places. Headache, lachrymation, sneezing.
Respiratory
Asthma, incipient phthisis, chronic bronchitis, pains in chest. Whooping-cough.
Relationship
Compare: Do not confound with Ambergris (Ambra). Succinic acid (Hay-fever. Paroxysmal sneezing, dropping of watery mucus from nostrils; asthma. Inflammation through respiratory tract; causing asthma, chest pains, etc; itching of eyelids and canthi and nose worse drafts. Use 6 to 30th potency). Compare: Arundo, Wyethia, Sabadilla, Sinapis.
Dose
Third trituration. Five drop doses of the oil.
Electron. Amber. (A mineralised resin not to be confounded with Ambergris, Ambra.) Trituration. Solution of the non-rectified oil (Oleum Succini non rectificatum) prepared by dry distillation of Amber. Solution of Succinic acid. C4H6O4.
Clinical
Asthma. Fear; of trains and close places. Globus. Hay-fever. Hiccough. Hysteria. Leucocythæmia splenica. Spleen, affections of.
Characteristics
Dr. Morris Weiner (quoted in New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies, tested Succin. ac., which he prepared himself from Amber by dry distillation. The fumes of the crude acid, he says, are inflammable, and produce asthma, cough, sneezing, weeping, dropping of watery mucus from nostrils, pain in chest, and headache. On this indication he treated thirty persons suffering from hay-fever, and cured them all, and saved them the necessity of making an annual exodus. He gave one or two grains of the 3x trit. of Succinum itself diluted in twelve teaspoonfuls of water; a teaspoonful every two hours. Burnett (Dis. of Spleen) used the …
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