Zincum valerianicum
Zinc valerate · Mineral
A nervous, excitable, mentally distressed constitution with groundless fears and hypochondriasis. Marked hysteria with fidgety feet and inability to keep still; must constantly move the legs. Dulness of mind, difficult thinking, and great fulness of the head accompany the painful neuralgic states.
Key symptoms
- Neuralgia and painful nervous affections, especially ovarian
- Epilepsy without aura
- Hysteria with fidgety feet; must keep legs in constant motion
- Violent neuralgic intermittent headaches; almost insane with pain
- Ovaralgia with pain shooting down limbs to the feet
- Sciatic neuralgia; severe pain in neck and spine
- Obstinate hiccough
- Hysterical heart-pain; cramp-like pain in heart
- Sleeplessness in children from pain
- Facial neuralgia; violent pain in left temple and inferior maxillary
Better (amelioration)
- Rubbing
- Passing flatus (abdominal pains)
Valerinate of Zinc (ZINCUM VALERIANUM)
A remedy for neuralgia, hysteria, angina pectoris, and other painful affections, notably in ovarian affections. Epilepsy without aura. Hysterical heart-pain. Facial neuralgia, violent in left temple and inferior maxillary. Sleeplessness in children. Obstinate hiccough.
Head
Violent, neuralgic, intermittent headaches. Becomes almost insane with pain, which is piercing and stabbing. Uncontrollable sleeplessness from pain in head with melancholy.
Female
Ovaralgia; pain shoots down limbs, even too foot.
Extremities
Severe pain in neck and spine. Cannot sit still; must keep legs in constant motion. Sciatic neuralgia.
Dose
First and second trituration. Must be continued for some time in treatment of neuralgia.
Valerianate of Zinc. Zincic Isovalerate. Zn(C5H9O2)2. Trituration.
Clinical
Angina pectoris. Asthma. Brain-fag. Deltoids, pain in. Diarrhœa. Emaciation. Epilepsy. Hæmorrhoids. Hypochondriasis. Hystero-epilepsy. Priapism. Seminal emissions. Stiff-neck.
Characteristics
Zn. v. is a favourite anti-hysteric medicine in old-school practice. There is one proving with substantial doses by C. B. Finney, which brought out a strong action on the genital sphere, the usual starting-point of hysteria. Finney had the brain-fag symptoms of Zn., and gastro-intestinal disturbance. The abdominal pains waked him from sleep, and he had to rise at 6.30 to Stool, which was partly fœcal and partly fluid. Later he was constipated and had tenesmus. Hale quotes C. Dradwick as saying that a considerable number of patients having piles, who were taking Zn. v. for other troubles, had their piles relieved by the remedy. Finney had distinct heart pains, and Hale mentions angina pectoris as having been cured by Zn. v. Other conditions …
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