Zincum Oxydatum
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General EN
Zincum Oxydatum.
Flowers of Zinc. Oxide of Zinc. Zincic oxide. ZnO. Trituration.
Clinical EN
Coryza. Debility. Deltoid, pain in. Diaphragm, neuralgia in. Elbow, pain in. Hiccough. Hypochondriasis. Laughter, involuntary. Sleeplessness.
Characteristics EN
An extensive proving of Zn. o. was made by Wernek, Buchner, and Michaelis. 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 much complained of. Anorexia > after a meal. Farrington says Zn. o. is very like Con. in hypochondriasis and melancholy from masturbation, the difference being that Zn. o. is irritating as well as weakening and depressing.
Mind EN
Anguish and agitation, as from a consciousness of having committed some crime
Ill-humour, sometimes very great
Unfitness for serious occupation
Spasmodic laughter (sardonic).
Head EN
Confusion in head: on awaking, with vertigo; with aching in forehead, in occiput, with heaviness; giddiness; violent, with transient heat
Vertigo, sometimes with transient heat
Headache: with slight vertigo; tension in forehead, sometimes with pressure; at night, lancinations and tearing pains in r. side of head, above temple.
Ears EN
Pulsation and noise in ears, esp. in l., with increased secretion of liquid cerumen and hardness of hearing.
Nose EN
Tickling in nose and impulse to sneeze
Inability to breathe through nose (nose stopped), with anxiety and oppression; or else as during a violent coryza
Coryza < after a meal, with difficulty of respiration and nasal secretion.
Face EN
Paleness of complexion; convulsive drawing in facial muscles, sometimes with constant nausea; or else with contraction of the risible muscles, and constant impulse to laugh.—Dryness of lips.
Teeth EN
Teeth as if blunted on closing them; the incisors appear to be soft and glued together.
Mouth EN
Flow of an acrid and bitter water into mouth; frequent flow of saliva, with nausea; salivation increased.
Throat EN
Pressure in throat; accumulation of mucus, with tickling in larynx.
Appetite EN
Anorexia: total, with violent thirst; at breakfast, with loathing, > after a meal
Disgust, which, however, may be overcome
Ardent thirst
Strong desire for cold water, which affords great relief.
Stomach EN
Frequent risings: empty; bitter; after partaking of broth, with hiccough
Regurgitations: of a yellow, bitter, bilious water after a meal
Violent hiccough, ceasing after a regurgitation of bile
Nausea: after supper, proceeding from the stomach, with acidulated taste in mouth and flow of acid water; with heat, followed by vertigo; with transient heat, spasmodic pulse, and general depression
Nausea, with loathing
Retching, with risings and want to evacuate
Vomiting: often sudden and involuntary, in the case of children; of a mucous water after the nausea, succeeded by another fit of nausea, and then the headaches are dissipated; bilious vomiting, sometimes very violent, of a yellow colour and bitter vomiting and diarrhoea
Pressure in stomach: after supper, with risings spasmodic, sometimes chiefly in pit of stomach, or else with tension and sensitiveness of the stomach; burning pain in region of stomach, sometimes with loathing
Fulness of stomach, sometimes with sweat on hands and head, followed by easy vomiting of contents of stomach, which are rather acrid, and occasioning a burning of the parts touched; the throat also preserves a long time afterwards a sensation of roughness, which is succeeded by a keen appetite
Lancinations in diaphragm.
Abdomen EN
Colicky pains below navel, tearing pains from side to side until evening; dull pain in umbilical region; spasmodic drawing in abdomen, with dull pain
Lancinations in hepatic region
Pinchings in abdomen
Inflation of abdomen
Borborygmi in abdomen, sometimes with aching
Boil above the genital parts, first red then dark-blue, with hard areola; later, discharge of a yellow foul pus, after which the areola remains for a long time, red and hard.
Stool EN
Liquid stools: with tenesmus and pinchings in abdomen, and followed by a marked > of all symptoms.
Respiratory Organs EN
Abundant accumulation of mucus in larynx, with dryness of throat and constant want to hawk, with viscid and mucous saliva.—Impeded respiration, esp. in the l. lung.
Chest EN
Great oppression of chest
Constriction of the entire thorax
Spasmodic sensation in lungs and heart
Spasmodic aching in chest and pit of stomach
Lancinations in l. side of chest, sometimes with aching, or else with soreness of the l. nipple
The l. lung is affected
Externally ribs painful to touch.
Heart EN
Frequent palpitation of heart, with anguish, sometimes chiefly in evening, and with spasmodic pulse; pulsations more rapid.—Sensation of pressure, weight, and spasmodic tension in the heart itself.
Back EN
Sacral pains: at night on turning body in bed; on stooping, extending to lumbar vertebrae
Sensation of paralysis, extending to hips
Tearings and lancinations between shoulders; or else pains extending to loins and sacrum
Throbbing below l. shoulder-blade
Pressure on the shoulders on waking in morning, with confusion in head.
Limbs EN
Drawing pain in the limbs, sometimes with sacral pains
Tearing pains in limbs
Tingling which passes along limbs
Undulating movement in some muscles
Trembling of limbs, sometimes with jerking of muscles of legs
Lassitude in limbs.
Upper Limbs EN
Arms: Pain as if broken, sometimes chiefly in deltoid muscle, or else in bend of elbow; heaviness and paralytic aching in the bend of the l. elbow.
Lower Limbs EN
In lower extremities: permanent debility, pain as if broken, sometimes chiefly in the l. leg, or else in joints of hip and knee; pulsations in the l. buttock; tension in the l. leg, in the l. knee-joint, frequent tingling in l. foot; drawing pains in the bones; trembling of the feet.
Generalities EN
Tension in muscles and painful sensation during movement; pain throughout body > during repose; pains in all limbs.—Depressed state of whole body, sometimes with lassitude.—Perceptible failing of the strength, sometimes with general internal uneasiness.—Conversation occasions fatigue.—Turgor vitalis sensibly diminished.
Sleep EN
Very restless nights.—Agitated sleep, with concourse of dreams of all kinds; with dreams of fire, of falling, of false coin; with fanciful ideas, and towards morning general perspiration.
Fever EN
Sensation of coldness: of the extremities; constant, with general uneasiness; followed by febrile movement throughout the body, with shuddering and drawing pains in back; with shivering of whole body
Shivering which passes over the whole body
Coldness of hands and feet
Shuddering over the whole abdomen, with retching
Pulse small and hare., sometimes to a very great degree; spasmodic, and sometimes small at the same time; wiry, accelerated, irregular, hard, and dull
Perspiration, esp. towards morning, sometimes while sleeping.