{"id":1117,"remedy_name":"Picrotoxinum","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Falk noted that Cocc. is used to stupefy fishes and when Picro. is added to water in which \nfishes are swimming \u201cthey make winding and boring movements of the body. Alternating with quiet swimming, \nopen their mouths and gill caverns frequently, fall on their side and rapidly die of asphyxia.\u201d  \n \n \nJ. H. Henry proved Picro. on himself. The symptoms were so severe t hat he was alarmed and took Op. and \nCamph. to antidote them. \nNausea with tendency to faint, violent intestinal pain and purging, dysenteric diarrhea and excessive secretion \nof urine, cramps and paralytic sensations were experienced. The symptom which gave the most concern was \nthe pain in the bowels and sensation as if the bowels would protrude at left inguinal ring.  \nCOMMENTS - Brunton said the local appli cation of Picro. as an ointment to the head for tinea capitis and to \ndestroy lice has been followed by convulsions and death. \nHansen mentioned that it has been given at bedtime to relieve the night -sweats of tuberculosis. With Pictx-ac \n3x, Dorr cured in a few weeks a case of advanced locomotor ataxia with amaurotic amblyopia.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":[],"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}