# Nicotinum

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

## Keynote Indications
Nicot. had a very heroic proving by Flak, Wochenfeld, Wertheim, Schroff and Re il. Very 
violent tonic and clonic spasms were produced. Dullness of senses. Loss of consciousness.  
Alternate tonic and clonic spasms, fol lowed by general relaxation and trembling, nausea, cold sweat and 
speedy collapse. Coldness extends from fingertips and toes over trunk. 
Jerking respiration. Breathing difficult and impeded, every respiratory effort consisting of a series of short jerks 
in quick succession. So weak could scarcely hold up head. Paroxysms of faintness beginning with a vanishing 
of senses and ending with loss of consciousness. 
Great aversion to tobacco and tobacco smoking. One prover, a smoker was unable to smoke more than a 
few whiffs, the other, a non-smoker, could not approach any one who was smoking.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Excitement.
- Inability to think or fix attention on any subject.
- Delirium with frightful vision.
- Uneasiness.
- Brain-fag.
- Loss of consciousness.
- Excitement.
- Inability to think or fix attention on any subject.
- Delirium with frightful vision.
- Uneasiness.
- Brain-fag.
- Loss of consciousness.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo and headache.
- COMMENTS - Increasing clonic spasms, trembling limbs, extending over whole body, which violently shakes.
- Head drawn back, contraction of eyelids and masseter muscles, muscles of neck and back rigid, hissing 
respiration from spasm of laryngeal and bronchial muscles.

### Head
- Dullness of head, heaviness, dizziness, stupefaction.
- Head drawn back with rigidity of muscles of neck 
and back.
- Dullness of head, heaviness, dizziness, stupefaction.
- Head drawn back with rigidity of muscles of neck 
and back.

### Eyes
- Pupils dilated.
- Indistinct vision with sensitiveness of eyes to light.
- Lachryma tion.
- The eyelids feel too 
 
 
heavy.

### Ears
- Indistinct hearing, sensation as if ears filled with cotton.

### Face
- Face pale, features drawn.
- Sensation of an aura in upper jaw.

### Mouth
- Increased saliva.
- Scraping, burn ing taste, especially low down in throat, causing hiccough and 
hawking.
- Sharp, burning sensation in tongue.
- Nose - Expired air had odor of alcohol.

### Throat
- Dryness and scraping in throat.
- Sensation as though a sharp brush drawn through esophagus to 
stomach.
- Sensation of dysphagia.

### Chest
- Oppression, compelling deep breathing.
- Sensation of foreign body behind sternum.
- Pulse and respiration very irregular, sometimes becoming very rapid, some times sinking.
- Constant 
sinking of pulse.
- Pulse increased in frequency in direct proportion to dose.
- Kidneys - Urgent desire, urine copious, increased.
- Breathing, very rapid and difficult.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Loss of appetite.
- Emptiness and faintness in stomach and intestines.
- Disagreeable sensation 
extending from stomach upwards and downwards.
- Hiccough.
- Eructation with some vomiting which relieves.
- Temperature - Shaking chill.
- Limbs icy cold.
- Coldness beginning in fingertips and toes and extending to trunk.
- Cold sweat.
- Sensation of warmth commencing in stomach, rapidly extending over chest and to head and like 
a streaming into fingertips and toes, not followed by sweat.
- Distended.
- Disagreeable sensation through whole intestinal canal.

### Extremities
- Formication, beginning in finger tips, extending to the wrists and afterwards to elbows.
- Weakness of 
lower limbs, on 
going up stairs,

### Skin
- Dryness of skin.

### Sleep
- Sleepy.
- Restless night, sleepless, hot and excited.

### Generalities
- Great sensitiveness of eye to light, along with indistinct vision.
- Aura in upper jaw.
- As though a 
sharp brush had been drawn through esophagus to stomach,