Glonoinum
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General EN
Glonoinum.
Nitro-glycerine. C3 H5 (NO3) O3. Dilutions with alcohol.
Clinical EN
Angina pectoris. Aphasia. Apoplexy. Brain, congestion of. Bright's disease. Convulsions. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Fright, effects of. Goître. Headache. Heart, affections of; palpitation of; jarring, effects of. Location, sense of, lost. Mania. Meningitis. Menses, suppression of. Neuralgia. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Sea-sickness. Snow-headache. Sun-headache. Sunstroke. Toothache. Trauma.
Characteristics EN
"Nitro-glycerine was discovered by Sobrero in 1847, but none could be obtained for physiological experiment until Morris Davis, a Philadelphia chemist, in the same year, after long and laborious trials, under direction of Hering, succeeded in producing the substance in sufficient quantities for proving." I quote this from the Guiding Symptoms. Glon. is one of the many monuments of Hering's therapeutic genius. It is to him that we owe the introduction of this notable remedy into the materia medica, and into medicine.
The note of the action of Glon. is a tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. It acts very quickly and very violently. The "signature" of this potent explosive may be said to be "bursting" and "expansion." Bursting, throbbing headaches; sensations of expanding in the head and elsewhere. Throbbing of carotids; violent action of heart; rush of blood to head; flushes of heat rising from chest to head, then throbbing pain in head.
The characteristic neuralgias of Glon. are accompanied with much throbbing, and are often < at night, preventing sleep. Supra-orbital neuralgia, pulsating; retinal congestion from exposure to strong light. Facial neuralgia, extending through head. Cardiac neuralgia (angina pectoris) with radiating pains.
Guernsey, with his usual graphic terseness, says that Glon. is suited to "Troubles of the head in type-setters, and in men who work under a gas-light steadily, so that the heat falls on the head; bad results from sunstroke; can't bear any heat about the head; can't walk in the sun, must walk in the shade or carry an umbrella; can't bear heat from a stove; great vertigo on assuming an upright posture, from rising up in bed, rising from a seat, &c. Heat in the head; throbbing headache." The great sensitiveness to the least jar, which is a very marked feature of the Glon. headache, causes the patient to carry his head very carefully in order to avoid the chance of it.
The headache is in the whole head and every part—forehead, vertex, occiput. Many pains appear in occiput and base of brain; gnawing in occiput; sore pain; pressure; severe pain in occiput, extending to eyes and temples; sensation as if something were moving in nerves from back of neck upward to head. The eyes may be fixed or protrude; aversion to bright light; black spots before sight. Face flushed or pale.
Climacteric disturbances.
Fainting, sudden unconsciousness; convulsions, especially during labour. Nausea and vomiting of cerebral origin. Violent, stabbing, neuralgic pains, so violent as to make patient frantic, he wants to escape, to jump out of window. Bad effects of fear; horrible apprehension; fear of being poisoned.
A characteristic mental condition is loss of sense of location: "well-known streets seem strange to him." Among the peculiar sensations are: Chin feels too long. Chest feels screwed together. Brain as if expanding; as if moving in waves; as if hanging with head downwards; as if something were pumped into vertex; as if everything were crowded out at forehead; as if warm water were running upwards from nape of neck; as if the neck were gripped by a hand; as if some one were pulling eyes from within outward.
Noise in left ear as if it came from heart. Lower lip feels swollen. As if heart would rise to throat. Pains are: Bursting; throbbing; pulsative; tearing; piercing; stabbing; gnawing.
Burning between shoulders. Sitting or lying still, or walking in cold air > headache. Bending forward; bending head backward, and almost every movement < headache. Rest < pain in knee.
Excessive heat and cold = hyperaemia of brain. Heat generally <; cold applications and cool air >; but cold water applied to head < head symptoms, even = spasms. < Damp weather. Bad effects of having hair cut; of exposure to sun or fire heat.
All summer, headache < every day with the sun. < From wine. Pains from within outward; from front to back. Bad effect of too much riding or driving; sea-sickness;
< from jarring. Pressure > headache. Cannot bear weight of hair; clothing seems too tight. Suited to: Florid, plethoric, sensitive women; nervous, sanguine, readily affected persons.
Old scars break out again.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Acon., Camph., Coff., Nux v. Compare: Amyl nit.; Act. r. (waving in brain);
Petrol. and Crotal. h. (loss of location); Bell. (cephalic cry but not as marked in Bell.; also Bell. has > bending head back, and > covering head;
Glon. > uncovered); Apis, Hyo. (fears being poisoned);
Gels. (inclination to jump out of window); Stram. Sang.
(headache with the sun; ear sensitive to jar); Nit. ac. and Bell. (sensitiveness to jar); Melilot.
(headache with crimson face) Lyc. and Phos. (burning between shoulders); Dig. and Diosc. (headache extending into nose);
Sec. (fingers spread apart).
Causation EN
Sun. Bright snow. Fire-heat. Fear or fright. Jarring. Injuries.
Mind EN
Falling down, with loss of consciousness and alternate palpitation of the heart, and congestion of the head
Fear; throat feels swollen, chest as if screwed together; apprehensive of approaching death; fears she has been poisoned
Fear, as if something unpleasant would happen to him
Unusually bright and loquacious, with great flow of ideas
Confusion of ideas; cannot tell where he is; well-known streets seem strange; way home too long; forgets on which side of the street he lives
Great mental agitation (with headache); frantic, attempts to run away; to jump out of window
Cephalic cry
The chin feels too long.
Head EN
Vertigo;
< from stooping or moving head; in open air
Giddiness when the head is moved
Heaviness in the head, principally in forehead
Dull headache with warm perspiration on forehead
Headache with accelerated pulse, red face, perspiration on the face; he becomes unconscious
Headache < from the heat of the sun;
> in the open air and from pressure
Headache, throbbing, &c., during or in place of menses
Fulness in the head, as if the brain was expanding itself, were moving in waves
Fulness in the head; distinct feeling of the pulse in the head; throbbing without pain
Sensation as if the blood were mounting to the head
Congestion of blood to the head (apoplexy)
Pulsation in the forehead, in the temples, on the vertex; when walking every step is felt in the neck, when moving the head
Throbbing in the head; in forehead; in temples; in vertex; in occiput;
< when moving;
> when sitting still and lying and from pressure
Throbbing in the temporal arteries, which were raised, and felt like cords
Stitches in temples or r. side of forehead
Sore and bruised feeling in the brain, worse when shaking the head
Sensation of soreness through the whole head; is afraid to shake the head, as it seems that it would make the head drop to pieces
The pain, heat, and fulness in the head ascend from the chest, neck, or back part of the head
Severe pain in the occiput, extending to the eyes and temples
Shaking < the headache, as well as stooping motion, ascending steps; external pressure >; walking in the open air, uncovering the head >
Cracking sensation in the brain
Skull seems too small, and as if the brain were attempting to burst the skull; violent action of the heart, and a distinct pulsation over the whole body
Shocks in the brain synchronous with the pulse
Undulating or wave-like motion in the brain
Hemicrania; sees half light, half dark
Gnawing in occiput.
Eyes EN
Eyes dull, staring, sunken
The white of the eye is red, the eyes protrude, look wild
Eyes feel as if some one were pulling them from within outward
Pressing, protruding pains in eyes
In the eyeballs, stitches, twitchings, soreness, pressure
Pupils dilated, eyes rolled upward
Heat in the balls of the eyes, lids, and around the eyes
Sparks, flashes before the eyes
The letters appear smaller
As if focus of r. eye were suddenly displaced; sees everything half light and half dark
Black spots before, and obscuration of the eyes; with fainting.
Ears EN
Sensation of fulness, in and around the ears
Ears sensitive to jarring
Deafness, ears feet as if stopped up
Stitches in the ears, the ears feel as if closed
Throbbing, piercing from within outward in r. ear
Ringing, singing, or cracking in the ears
Ringing in the ears, audible pulse.
Nose EN
Pain at root of nose
The headache extends into the nose
Epistaxis on going out into the heat of the sun, face flushed, hot, red.
Face EN
Paleness of the face with heat and congestion of blood to head and chest
Pale during heat, sunstroke, congestions, &c.; flushed and hot with headache
Heat in the face with pulsations in the head and palpitations of the heart
Redness of the face, esp. upper part of it, with headache
Redness of the face, which comes and goes
Itching, esp. in the middle of the face
Pain and stiffness of the articulation of the jaw
Sensation as if the under lip were swollen.
Teeth EN
Throbbing pain in all the teeth
Pulsating toothache with headache
Stabbing pains in gums r. side passing to l. without ceasing in r.;
< from hot, > from cold applications.
Mouth EN
Taste: bitter with nausea; aromatic; sweet; warm; leaves a fatty taste
Tongue numb, as if burnt; prickling, stinging
Tongue feels swelled and raw with spasmodic twitchings
Tongue: milk-white without coating; coated heavily at back
Difficulty in conversing from diminished power of tongue and confusion of ideas
Tongue swollen with pricking in it, the tongue smarts
Sensation of soreness and swelling on the roof of the mouth with pulsation.
Throat EN
The soft palate feels contracted and dry
Itching of the soft palate and throat
In the throat tickling, heat, soreness
Sensation as if the throat were swelling.
Appetite EN
Appetite lost
Wants cold water; also from dry parched feeling
Increased desire to smoke
Wine < all symptoms.
Stomach EN
Nausea causing perspiration
Nausea with and caused by the headache, with colic; congestion of blood to the head and chest, and pale face
Nausea and vomiting in brain-congestions, or during sunstroke
Faint feeling at pit of the stomach; also with throbbing
Sensation of emptiness in the pit of the stomach
Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach, esp. on stooping
Gnawing in the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen EN
Colic, cutting pain principally below the navel, wakening one in the morning, before and after loose stools
Gall-stone colic
Rumbling in lower part of the abdomen, principally when lying on l. side.
Stool And Anus EN
Diarrhoeic stools with rumbling and discharges of flatus, beginning in the morning and lasting all day
Diarrhoea; copious, loose, blackish, lumpy stools
Morning diarrhoea with sharp burning; with rumbling
After eating peaches diarrhoea evening and night
Constipation and haemorrhoids which itched and pained
At an unaccustomed time, a hard and unusual stool; pinching in abdomen before and after it
No stool.
Urinary Organs EN
Increased secretion of pale (albuminous) urine; has to rise frequently during the night, and must pass large quantities of albuminous urine.—Tubal nephritis, with headache, brought on by walking in the sun; numbness in arms and hands alternating with intense tingling.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Menstruation suppressed by Glon
Instead of menses congestion to head; face pale; worse in warm room; fainting; throbbing
During menstruation congestion of blood to head and chest; headache; fainting
At climaxis, flushes of heat, pressure in head, nausea, loss of senses, vertigo, swelling of feet
During pregnancy headache, congestions of blood to the head and chest
Eclampsia; unconscious; face bright-red; puffed; pulse full, hard; urine copious and albuminous.
Respiratory Organs EN
Inclination to deep respiration
Desire to take a long, deep inspiration
Sighing.
Chest EN
Constriction of the chest
Constriction and oppression of the chest
Oppression of the chest alternating with headache
Congestions to the chest.
Heart EN
Palpitation of the heart with heat in the face, accelerated pulse and pulsation of the carotid arteries
Violent action of the heart, distinct pulsation over the whole body
Excessive perceptible palpitation of the heart
In the heart sensation of fulness, heaviness, and heat, with laboured beating of the heart
Pulse accelerated; rises and falls alternately; low and feeble in sunstroke
Laborious action of the heart, oppression
Sharp pains in heart
Severe stitches from the heart, extending into the back
Purring noise in region of heart when lying, pulse intermittent.
Neck And Back EN
Tightness around the neck
The neck feels weak and tired, cannot support the head
Stiffness of the neck, clothing seems to be too tight
On the neck sensation of fulness, tension, pulsation
Burning heat between the shoulder-blades
Hot sensations down back
Pain in the whole spinal column, or heat and chilliness.
Upper Limbs EN
In the arms restlessness, weakness, want of circulation
Sensation of weakness and numbness in l. arm
Feels the beating of all the pulses in the tips of the fingers, accompanied by trembling of the fingers.
Lower Limbs EN
Weakness and numbness of l. thigh
Weakness of the legs, the knees and ankles give way (during headache)
Limbs relaxed, motionless in sunstroke
Acute pain in l. knee on moving, seems to be deep in joint without much heat or swelling; sudden twinges or pricks while at rest, is obliged to rise and straighten limb
Jerking of limbs with loss of consciousness
Restlessness in the limbs causes him to rise.—(Sciatica.)
Cold feet, with nausea, palpitation.
Generalities EN
Fainting; with consciousness.—Great weakness and prostration.—Unconscious falling down.—Painless throbbing in the whole body.—Pulsations, tingling, thrills, and a peculiar sensation of warmth through the body, extending from above downward.—Convulsions (from congestions to the head); the fingers are spread apart and stretched out.—Seeming plethora, rapid deviations in distributions of blood.
Sleep EN
Yawning with headache, congestion of blood to the head
Sleepiness early in the evening
He is difficult to waken
Weakness as from loss of sleep.
Fever EN
Pulse accelerated, irregular, intermitting, full and hard, small and rapid
Chill: after getting heated; alternates with sweat; with vomiting; head as if screwed up; intermittent fever
Heat, esp. in face, ascending from pit of stomach to head
Warmth general; flushes of heat; waves of heat upward
Perspiration principally in the face, after sleeping
Perspiration on forehead
Profuse sweat, mostly on face and chest
Perspiration relieves the nausea.