Zincum muriaticum
Zinc chloride · Mineral
Key symptoms
- Perversion of smell and taste; putrid things seem fresh, fresh things seem putrid
- Quinine has no bitter taste; acids and alkalies lack characteristic taste
- Insipid things most relished; no natural appetite but morbid craving
- Vomiting of all food except boiled milk
- Emaciation extreme; skin looks stretched tightly over bones
- Spasmodic twitchings and tetanic spasms of face, forearm, and hand
- Sleeps on right side with legs drawn up; grinds teeth during sleep
- Bluish and blue-mottled skin
- Intellect clear by day, wanders at night
- Coldness in stomach and bowels with cold, clammy sweating
Worse (aggravation)
- Food (severe pain in left hypochondrium worse from food)
Chloride of Zinc. Zincic Chloride. ZnCl2. Solutions in water or alcohol.
Clinical
Bright's disease. Constipation. Convulsions. Cramps. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Emaciation. Hæmatemesis. Hiccough. Hydrocephalus. Smell, perverted. Taste perverted. Typhoid fever. Wounds.
Characteristics
The bulk of the symptoms of Zn. m. are derived from poisoning cases. Chloride of Zinc is an active poison and a powerful disinfectant., and being readily accessible in the form of "Sir Wm. Burnett's Disinfectant Fluid," has occasioned many poisonings, both accidental and suicidal. Most of the symptoms are the usual effects of a corrosive poison, but some characteristic symptoms appear. One of them was the perversion of the senses of smell and taste: Things had a putrid smell and taste which were not putrid; and fæces had no odour at all. Quinine had no bitter taste, and acids and alkalies had no acid or alkaline taste. Insipid things were most relished. Other symptoms were: "No natural appetite, but a morbid craving for something …
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