Zincum sulphuricum
Zinc sulfate · Mineral
Key symptoms
- Violent convulsions with trembling and extreme prostration
- Burning, acute pain in head as if electric shock passed through
- Sensation blood can scarcely struggle through the veins
- Titillation all over body with irresistible desire to laugh
- Corneal opacity and granular lids; eye inflammation
- Obstinate dysentery with bloody, pale stools and painful tenesmus
- Headache with frightful visions; saw child with head shattered
- Dull pressive pain across forehead as if head compressed in a vice
- Burning and constriction in fauces; oesophagus contracted
- Milky-white pallor of the skin surface
Worse (aggravation)
- Before, during, and after menses (headache and spinal pain)
- A few days before and after menses: painful burning and weakness in spine
White Vitriol. Sulphate of Zinc. Zincic Sulphate. ZnSO47H2O. Solution. Trituration.
Clinical
Convulsions. Cornea, opacity of. Dysentery. Granular lids. Headache. Heartburn. Laughter, involuntary. Metrorrhagia. Œsophagus, stricture of. Prurigo. Tongue, paralysis of.
Characteristics
A large number of poisonings with Zn. s. are on record, and these have furnished the symptoms of the Schema. The use of Zn. s. in solution as an eye lotion is founded on a specific relationship, and in homœopathic attenuations it has cured corneal opacities. Severe gastric and dysenteric symptoms were induced, and Zn. s. has cured many cases of dysentery. Farrington says it is chiefly in subacute cases that it is indicated, when the pains are confined to the sides of the abdomen, probably to the colon. Peculiar Symptoms are: Burning, acute pain in head. Immediately sensation as if a strong electric shock passed through head, he expected his brains would have burst through his skull. Abdomen contracted. She felt as if the …
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