# Amylenum Nitrosum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
The Nitrite of Amyl was introduced into medicine by the old school as a remedy for angina 
pectoris and was supposed to act by lessening arterial tension. Vasomotor nerves are affected by Aml -n 
causing dilatation of all arterioles and capillaries, thereby flushing of face, heat and throbbin g in the head are 
produced. 
Homeopathic provings have shown that, in some cases at any rate, Aml -n. has a specific action. Also in 
paroxysms of asthma, chloro form asphyxia inhalation of the Aml -n. will give immediate relief. For this non -
homeo- pathic application, two to five minims (put up in pearls) dropped on a handkerchief and inhaled may 
be required. 
The most striking action of the drug is the deep facialflushing it causes and the pulsation all over the body. 
Superficial arterial hyperemia. Palpitations of the heart and similar conditions are readily cured by it. Amy 1 -
n. is for all conditions where the blood vessels are contracted,  as in angina pectoris. Headaches 
accompanied by cold, pallor, etc. Hiccoughs and yawning. Seasickness. Often relieves temporarily epileptic 
convulsions. Weak and emaciated. 
The flushings and other discomforts at menopausal are helped. Hot flashes.  Flushing heats, followed by 
drenching sweats are marked symptoms. Cerebral vessels dilate. Weak, emaciated, walking with tottering gait 
inclined to go to one side when walking. Rigid muscles of limbs. Child has convulsions.  
Worse since exposure to the sun, heat stroke, vascular headaches, severe palpi tations, and the keynote is a 
sudden rush of blood to the head with palpitations (Glon.).

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from open air. Better exercise. Better in open air. Better cold water. Worse from 
menopause. Worse slight causes, emotions. Worse fromheat. Worse closed or warm room.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Confused feeling after congestion to head.
- Anxiety, as if something bad might happen, must have 
fresh air.
- Anxiety can't sit still.
- Shrieking before convulsion.
- Mel ancholy.
- Mental confusion and a dreamlike 
state.
- Trancelike state, everything seems unreal.
- Increasing sense of stupefaction.
- Unconsciousness, inability 
to swallow.
- Confused feeling after congestion to head.
- Anxiety, as if something bad might happen, must have 
fresh air.
- Anxiety can't sit still.
- Shrieking before convulsion.
- Mel ancholy.
- Mental confusion and a dreamlike 
state.
- Trancelike state, everything seems unreal.
- Increasing sense of stupefaction.
- Unconsciousness, inability 
to swallow.

### Vertigo
- Great confusion of the head, with vertigo and drowsiness.
- COMMENTS - The specific heart symptoms of Aml-n.
- are the sensation of swelling of the chest as if convex, 
with a feeling as if the lower end of the sternum made a deep depression bent in towards the spine.
- Precordial anxiety.
- Accelerated intensified beating of the heart.
- Oppression and tumultuous action.
- Constriction 
(relieved by Cact.) and aching pain.
- Strong, full pulse.
- Eyes protruding, staring.
- Exophthalmic goiter from grief.
- Flushing of face.
- Flushing on least emotion.
- Nash has cured “chronic blushing on least excitement mental or physi cal” with it.
- Heat, redness, turgidity.
- Choking feeling, collar feels tight.
- Tremor and weakness-of limbs.
- Better open-air exercise, cold water and cold air.
- Worse in a warm room.
- Other prominent symptoms include anxiety as if something might happen, and a desire for fresh air.
- Throbbing 
in head.
- Bursting-out feeling in ears.
- Smacking of lips as if in act of tasting.
- Munching move ment of lowerj aw 
as if che Wing.
- Constriction of throat and heart from actual fright ran to window for air.
- Intense fullness in head, 
sensation of rushing to vertex.
- “Impending apoplexy.” Threatened apo plexy.
- Flushing of the face, heat and throb bing, palpitations.
- Boericke 
said, “Flushings followed by sweat at menopausal,” hot flashes with a red face during menopause (Lach).
- Boericke also notes “chloroform asphyxia,” antidote for chloroform.

### Head
- Bursting sensation in the head and ears.
- Throbbing in head.
- Surging of blood to head andface with 
fiery red face.
- Sensation as if blood would start through skin with heat and redness.
- Throbbing.
- Migraine with 
pallor, worse left side Bursting sensation in the head and ears.
- Throbbing in head.
- Surging of blood to head andface with 
fiery red face.
- Sensation as if blood would start through skin with heat and redness.
- Throbbing.
- Migraine with 
pallor, worse left side

### Eyes
- Exophthalmic goiter from grief.
- Protruding, starting eyes, conjunctiva injected.
- Ciliary neuralgia, eye 
injected, face or cheek suffused.
- Objects appear pea -green oryellow.
- Sight blurred, wavering.
- Aching eyes in 
sunlight, trembling and wavering of objects, lachrymation and sneezing.

### Ears
- Throbbing in the ears, bursting, burning.
- Ears hyperemic.

### Face
- Easy flushing or blushing of the face, on slightest emotion.
- Chewing motion of the lower jaw.
- Smacking 
of lips as if in act of tasting.
- Neuralgia of fifth pair of nerves.

### Throat
- Constriction, collar seems too tight.
- Choking feeling in the throat.

### Chest
- Pain and constriction around the heart.
- Dyspnea and asthmatic feelings.
- Great oppression and fullness 
 
 
of chest, spasmodic, suffocative cough.
- Achi ng backward along the left floating rib.
- Feel ing as if a weight on 
sternum.
- Sensation of swelling of front of chest.
- Constitutions - Nervous, sensitive women and men.
- Aching pain and constriction around the heart.
- Angina pectoris  with great anxiety.
- Tumultuous 
action of the heart.
- Pain and constriction around heart.
- Fluttering of heart on least excitement.
- Full, soft pulse.
- Violent beating of the heart and carotids  with sense of constriction.
- The heart has an irregular, rumbling 
sort of sound.
- Precordial pain extending to right arm.
- Kidneys - Increased quantity of urine increased, with sugar in it.
- Constriction in throat extended to the chest, with dyspnea and asthmatic feeling in larynx and trachea.
- Asthma.
- Hastens and deepens the breathing.
- Suffocation and cough in paroxysms.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Hot, burning sensation in stomach.
- Hiccough and yawning with stretching.
- Nausea with dryness of 
throat.
- Crampy pains in epigastrium.
- Fullness and pressure with belching.
- Temperature - Flushings, followed by sweat at menopause, sometimes followed by cold and clammy skin 
with profuse sweat.
- Abnormal sweat after influenza.
- Throbbing throughout whole body.
- Oppression near liver.
- Crampy, colicky pains, rumbling.
- Blood - Intense surging of blood to face and head, later veins turgid (Bell.).
- Rapidly dilates ar teries and 
quickens but weakens circulation.
- Venous and arterial blood are of same hue.
- Hypertension.
- Loss of appetite.

### Urinary & Genital
- Hemorrhages after -pains with facial flushing.
- Menopausal headache and flushes of heat  with 
anxiety and palpitations.
- Neuralgia during menses.
- Convulsions immediately after delivery.

### Extremities
- Constant stretching for hours.
- Veins of hands dilated, pulsations felt in fingertips.

### Sleep
- Repeated yawning in coma.
- Yawns profoundly and repeatedly.
- Stretches almost constantly, it is almost 
impossible to satisfy the desire.
- Stretching and yawning with hiccough.