Sulfonalum
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General
SULFONALUM A Coal-tar Product (SULFONAL)
Vertigo of cerebral origin, cerebellar disease, ataxic symptoms and chorea, present a field for the homeopathic employment of this drug. Profound weakness, gone, faint feeling, and despondency. Loss of control of sphincter. Muscular inco-ordination.
Mind
Mental confusion, incoherency, illusions; apathetic.
Alternation of happy, hopeful states with depression and weakness.
Extreme irritability.
Head
Dropsy, stupid; pain on attempting to raise head.
Double vision; heavy look about eyes; tinnitus, aphasia; tongue as if paralyzed.
Eyes bloodshot and restless.
Vertigo, unable to rise.
Double vision; ptosis; tinnitus; dysphagia, difficult speech.
Urinary
Albuminuria, with casts.
Scanty.
Pink color.
Constant desire to urinate; scanty, brownish red.
Haemato-porphyrinuria.
Respiratory
Congestion of lungs; stertorous breathing. Sighing dyspnoea.
Extremities
Ataxic movements, staggering gait; cold, weak, trembling; legs seem too heavy.
Extreme restlessness; muscular twitchings.
Knee-jerks disappear.
Stiffness and paralysis of both legs.
Anaesthesia of legs.
Sleep
Fidgety, wakeful, drowsy. Insomnia.
Skin
Itching, bluish purpura. Erythema.
Relationship
Trional; insomnia associated with physical excitement; (vertigo, loss of equilibrium, ataxia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, stertorous breathing, cyanosis, tinnitus, hallucinations).
Dose
Third trituration.
Non-Homeopathic Uses.--As a hypnotic. Dose, ten to thirty grains in hot water. Takes about two hours to act.