{"id":1118,"remedy_name":"Pilocarpinum Microphyllum","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Sycotic Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Piloc. is one of the most characteristic of  several alkaloids which have been isolated from \njaborandi (Pilocarpus pin - natus). It has been used like Jab. to produce and cure profuse sweating, and by \noculists to produce contraction of the pupil, which it does whether it is injected subcutaneously or  applied \ndirectly to the eye. It has also an action on the ear. \nThe hair as well as the skin is affected by Piloc., which is an ingredient in many \u201chair restorers.\" Schmitz of \nCologne treated two bald men with injections of Piloc. mur. to produce absorptio n of inflammatory residue \nwithin the eye. \nIn both a secondary effect occurred, the growth of young downy hairs on the bald parts of the scalp. One, age \n60 in four months and his head covered \u201cpartly with gray and partly with black hairs\u201d of considerable gr owth, \nso as to entirely obliterate his previous baldness. Piloc. has also been known to turn white hair black. \nIn a case of lead paralysis, it produced profuse salivation and sweat with sensation of great coldness and \nexcessive tremors of limbs. Salivation and sweating speedily occur. \nDilatation of blood vessels, temporal artery becomes a thick, pulsating cord, veins of forehead stand out blue. \nExhaustion (after the perspiration) during which most of the patients fell asleep. Faintness.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":{"Head":"Throbbing in temples with acceleration of pulse. Turns white hair black. Throbbing in temples with acceleration of pulse. Turns white hair black.","Eyes":"Profuse lachrymation. Pupils contracted to pin-head. Sight for distance improved.","Ears":"Aural verti go. Tinnitus of left ear. Deafness with tinnitus. Labyrinthine deafness, worse when tired. \nIncreased secretion of wax.","Face":"Forehead and face red, veins stand out. Perspiration begins on face.","Mouth":"Saliva thick, stringy, exceedingly tenacious. Sudden salivation, maximum reached in fifteen minutes, \ncontinues two hours, one and a half pints of thin saliva being secreted in that time.  \nNose - Nasal secretion increased.","Chest":"Weakness of the heart. Pulse accelerated, blood pressure diminished. After the perspiration the pulse \nsinks to normal. Increased bronchial mucus, much cough and expectoration. Constantly tak ing cold and in fear of \nbronchitis.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Nausea, only occurring when salivation is complete (does not go on to vomiting as that of Jab. \ndoes). Nausea and retching. \nTemperature - Sensation of coldness and shaking chill without fall of temperature. Increase of temperature \nwith feeling of intens e cold. Sweat profuse, may lose Vom tow to tow powvts tu fet sw catwg. After sweat, \nthirst, feeling of relief and sense of increased vigor. \n \n \nCOMMENTS - G. P. Field gave it with good effect in labyrinthine deafness, tinnitus and auditory nerve vertigo. \nThe cases least amenable to its influence were those in which the hearing was better in a noise as of a train, \netc. and those in which the hearing is worse after a cold. Subjects of syphilis, hereditary or acquired and \npatients who are more deaf when tired, are the most suitable. \nWood went to see a woman three months pregnant. She was a picture of distress and despair. For eight weeks \nshe had saturated from six to ten handkerchiefs daily with tenacious saliva. Nausea and vomiting were \nconstant, emaciation extreme. Nausea worse by slightest movement. \nAlternate redness and paleness of face, flushes of heat and perspiration. Urine scanty, high colored, depositing \nmuch uric acid. Very chilly, obstinate constipation. Piloc. was given, a teaspoonful every two hours.  \nThe next day Wood found his patient sit ting up, cheerful and free from nausea and salivation. The \nimprovemen,t with some fluctuations, continued. Merc., Ip., Nit -ac., Kali-bi., Hydr., Cimic. had all previously \nfailed. \nA woman who had Piloc. injections com plained to Cooper that thereafter she had been constantly catching \ncolds and had fears of getting bronchitis. Her skin too, became irritable. Piloc. 3x is Burnett's chief remedy in \nmumps. He regarded it (and Jab.) as an organ remedy of the sweat glands, parotid and pancreas. \nFrohling related a case showing the power of Piloc. over debilitating sweats left after acute diseases. With \nMerc. 12c he cured a case of rheumatic fever so far as the joint affection was concerned, but the sweats \npersisted and strength  declined in spite of remedies until Piloc. was given, when the sweating stopped after \nthe first dose. Intense thirst following the sweating.","Urinary & Genital":"Menses two days early.","Skin":"Irritable skin.","Sleep":"Patients fall asleep under its influence."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}