# Picrotoxinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **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 
fishes are swimming “they make winding and boring movements of the body. Alternating with quiet swimming, 
open their mouths and gill caverns frequently, fall on their side and rapidly die of asphyxia.”  
 
 
J. H. Henry proved Picro. on himself. The symptoms were so severe t hat he was alarmed and took Op. and 
Camph. to antidote them. 
Nausea with tendency to faint, violent intestinal pain and purging, dysenteric diarrhea and excessive secretion 
of urine, cramps and paralytic sensations were experienced. The symptom which gave the most concern was 
the pain in the bowels and sensation as if the bowels would protrude at left inguinal ring.  
COMMENTS - Brunton said the local appli cation of Picro. as an ointment to the head for tinea capitis and to 
destroy lice has been followed by convulsions and death. 
Hansen mentioned that it has been given at bedtime to relieve the night -sweats of tuberculosis. With Pictx-ac 
3x, Dorr cured in a few weeks a case of advanced locomotor ataxia with amaurotic amblyopia.

## Symptoms by System