Zincum picricum
Zinc picrate · Mineral
Key symptoms
- Brain-fag; nervous exhaustion from overworked brain or sexual excess
- Chronic occipital headaches, periodic
- Seminal emissions occurring about 3 a.m. every third night
- Loss of memory and energy; dull heavy feeling in head
- Sticky, pasty mouth; dry throat; poor appetite
- Belches torrents of tasteless flatus after eating followed by relief and diarrhea
- Dull aching pain in back; languid heavy feeling throughout body
- Threatened cerebral paralysis especially in children
- Facial paralysis from cold
- Profound neurasthenia when nervous exhaustion has passed beyond erethism
Worse (aggravation)
- Change of weather (seminal emissions worse with every change)
- Hot weather
- Before and during thunderstorms
Picrate of Zinc. Zn[C6H2(NO2)3O]2. Trituration.
Clinical
Bright's disease; headaches of. Exhaustion. Facial paralysis. Headaches. Nymphomania. Paralysis agitans. Priapism. Satyriasis. Seminal emissions. Spinal weakness.
Characteristics
Hale gives this indication of Zn. pi. Cerebro-spinal troubles of the erethistic character." Hugh Pitcairn (quoted H. W., xix. 366) gives these indications: (1) Brain-fag. (2) Nervous exhaustion from over-worked brain or sexual excess. (3) Chronic occipital headaches, periodic. (4) Headache occurring in Bright's disease. (5) Threatened cerebral paralysis, especially in children. (6) Profound neurasthenia, when nervous exhaustion has passed beyond stage of erethism. (7) Seminal emissions. (8) Erotomania. He gives this case: Mr. M., 36, merchant. Above ordinary intelligence. Single; correct in his habits, but subject to seminal emissions since early manhood, occurring about 3 a.m. every third night, leaving him very weak and debilitated; < every change of weather, …
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