Zincum oxydatum
Zinc oxide · Mineral
Key symptoms
- Contraction of risible muscles with constant impulse to laugh (sardonic laughter)
- Teeth feel blunted and glued together on closing
- Violent hiccough better after regurgitation of bile
- Liquid stools ameliorate all symptoms
- Coryza worse after a meal with difficulty of breathing
- Undulating movement in some muscles
- Anguish as from consciousness of having committed some crime
- Impeded respiration especially in left lung
- Anorexia better after a meal
- Strong desire for cold water affording great relief
Worse (aggravation)
- After a meal (coryza, difficulty of breathing)
- Movement (tension in muscles and painful sensation during movement)
- Night (headache with lancinations and tearing in right side)
Better (amelioration)
- Repose (pain throughout body better during repose)
- After a meal (anorexia better after eating)
- After liquid stool (marked amelioration of all symptoms)
- After regurgitation of bile (violent hiccough ceases)
- Cold water (strong desire; affords great relief)
Flowers of Zinc. Oxide of Zinc. Zincic oxide. ZnO. Trituration.
Clinical
Coryza. Debility. Deltoid, pain in. Diaphragm, neuralgia in. Elbow, pain in. Hiccough. Hypochondriasis. Laughter, involuntary. Sleeplessness.
Characteristics
An extensive proving of Zn. o. was made by Wernek, Buchner, and Michælis. These symptoms have been included by Allen in the pathogenesis of Zincum, and some of them will be found in my Schema of Zincum. Jahr kept a separate record of Zn. o. I append his account. The contracting, shrivelling-up effect of Zinc was marked in these provings. Among the more Peculiar Symptoms were: Undulating movement in some muscles. Contraction of the risible muscles and constant impulse to laugh. Teeth blunted; incisors feel soft and glued together. Hiccough, > after regurgitation of bile. Liquid stools which > all symptoms. In these provings the left lung was very markedly affected. There was coryza < after a meal, with difficulty of respiration and nasal secretion. Stoppage of the nose was …
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