- Liquor Strychnie is responsible for many of the poisonings, the powdered c rystals, either pure or mixed in pills or rat-poison, for others.
- Strychnia itself is very sparingly soluble in cold water (1 in 5760).
- A homeopathic provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. of Stry was made by Henry Robinson on two provers, a man and a woman.
- The man took 900 drops in twenty-three days, the woman 445 drops in fifty-three days.
- These have furnished the most distinctive symptoms.
- Extreme nervous excitability.
- Visions of an ugly face.
- Fits of laughing with light.
- Idiotic-like chuckle.
- Confusion of ideas, stupor and weariness were some of the mental symptoms.
- Swimming sensation in the head and giddiness involuntary.
- Stimulates the motor centers and the reflex action of the spinal cord.
- Stimulates the central nervous system, mental activities, special senses rendered more acute.
- All reflexes are made more active.
- Spasmodic rigidity.
- Spasms of muscles, cramps from an undue reflex excitability of the cord, spasms of the bladder, etc.
- Stiffness in muscles and face and neck.
- Athetosis.
- TetanusBacterial disease causing lockjaw and muscle spasmsA bacterial disease marked by rigidity and spasms of the voluntary muscles, especially of the jaw. with violent jerking, twitching and trembling.
- Tetanic convulsions with opisthotonos.
- The muscles relax between paroxysms, worse slightest touch, sound, odor.
- Influences more directly the spinal cord and is less appropriate in visceral derangements than Nux -v.
- Explosive nervousness.
- The pains and sensations come suddenly and return at intervals.
- Darting, pinching lancinating, fulgurating, electric pains.
- Spine is cold.
- Gushing sweat from head and chest.
- Drowsiness, with headache.
- Frontal headaches, momentary dartings like electric shocks.
- Re spiration increased.
- Inability to take deep breath, fixation of chest walls.
- Sudden palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
- The direct “tonic” action of Stry was shown in one of Robinson’s provers, who had “unusually good appetite, she enjoys her food amazingly.” Stry is an antidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy. to chloral, used in asphyxia from gas and chloroform and early stages of opium poisoning