{"id":1188,"remedy_name":"Strychninum Phosphoricum","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Emotional Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Liquor Strychnie is responsible for many of the poisonings, the powdered c rystals, either \npure or mixed in pills or rat-poison, for others. Strychnia itself \nis very sparingly soluble in cold water (1 in 5760). A homeopathic proving of Stry. was made by Henry Robinson \non two provers, a man and a woman. \nThe man took 900 drops in twenty-three days, the woman 445 drops in fifty-three days. These have furnished \nthe most distinctive symptoms. Extreme nervous excitability. Visions of an ugly face. Fits of laughing with light. \nIdiotic-like chuckle. Confusion of ideas, stupor and weariness were some of the mental symptoms. Swimming \nsensation in the head and giddiness involuntary. \nStimulates the motor centers and the reflex action of the spinal cord. Stimulates the central nervous system, \nmental activities, special senses rendered more acute. All reflexes are made more active. \nSpasmodic rigidity. Spasms of muscles, cramps from an undue reflex excitability of the cord, spasms of the \nbladder, etc. Stiffness in muscles and face and neck. Athetosis. Tetanus with violent jerking, twitching and \ntrembling. \nTetanic convulsions with opisthotonos. The muscles relax between paroxysms, worse slightest touch, sound, \nodor. Influences more directly the spinal cord and is less appropriate in visceral derangements than Nux -v. \nExplosive nervousness. The pains and sensations come suddenly and return at intervals. Darting, pinching \nlancinating, fulgurating, electric pains. Spine is cold. Gushing sweat from head and chest.  \nDrowsiness, with headache. Frontal headaches, momentary dartings like electric shocks. Re spiration \nincreased. Inability to take deep breath, fixation of chest walls. Sudden palpitations.  \nThe direct \u201ctonic\u201d action of Stry. was shown in one of Robinson\u2019s provers, who had \u201cunusually good appetite, \n \n \nshe enjoys her food amazingly.\u201d \nStry. is an antidote to chloral, used in asphyxia from gas and chloroform and early stages of opium poisoning.","modalities":"Better from lying on back. Worse morning, after meals. Worse touch, noise, motion, exertion, \nwalking.","symptoms_by_system":{"Head":"Over irritability. Restless. Full and bursting headache with heat in eyes. Vertigo with roaring in ears. \nJerking of head forwards. Scalp sore. Itching of scalp and nape. Over irritability. Restless. Full and bursting headache with heat in eyes. Vertigo with roaring in ears. \nJerking of head forwards. Scalp sore. Itching of scalp and nape.","Eyes":"Hot, painful, protruding, staring. Pupils dilated. Spasmodic contraction of ocular muscles, twitching and \ntrembling of lids. Sparks before eyes.","Ears":"Hearing very acute, burning, itching and roaring in ears.","Face":"Pale, anxious, livid. Jaws stiffened, lower jaw spasmodically closed.","Throat":"Dry, contracted, feeling of a lump. Swallowing impossible. Burning along and spasms of esophagus. \nViolent itching in roof of mouth. \nCOMMENTS - Innumerable poisonings with strychnine are on record, the s ymptoms being convulsions of a \ntetanic nature, in the fatal cases ending in asphyxia. The spasms are intermittent and the least touch or \nmovement is sufficient to induce an attack. Lying on the back is the only tolerable position.  \n\u201cLying on her back, body rigid, jaws set, arms and hands flexed, the thumbs nearly touching across the chest \nand the whole muscular system convulsed with shortjerky spasms. Which would continue for about a minute \nand then remit, the muscles remain ing contracted and as hard as woo d during the intervals between the \nparoxysms.\u201d \nThe convulsions generally take the form of opisthotonos, cries, terror, hippocratic countenance and frothing at \nthe mouth are common occurrences. \nMeyhoffer experimented with Stry. on himself and two other persons, one of whom was a woman of lymphatic \ntemperament. \n\u201cIt always brought on electric shocks, occurring whenever the prover was touched or whenever any one lightly \nshook the bed on which he or she was lying. This happened to all, only the woman (lymphatic  and feeble) \nneeded a stronger dose.\u201d Any touch on any part of the body caused a voluptuous sensation.  \nGamper of St. Petersburg experimented with Stry -n. on healthy young hospital assis tants and found that it \nincreased the amount of gastric juice secreted, the general acidity and the quantity of free acid in the secretion. \nIt hastened the absorption from the stomach and strengthened mechanical movements. The effects continued \nsome time after the administration was stopped. \nMarked action on the rectum and genitourinary organs (Ign. and Nux-v.). The male prover had his left testicle \nand cord swollen and an abscess of the scrotum developed and discharged.  \n\u201cGurgling noise in rectum with electric darts\u201d is a symptom of one prover. Many pains center about the lips and \neyes. Pains and chills occur in the occiput and nape and run down whole length of spine. Stiffness is a leading \nnote of Stry. and Cooper gave \u201crheumatism with stiff joints\u201d as an indication.  \nItching of the whole body and \u201cviolent itching in roof of  mouth.\u201d Jerkings, twitch- ings and shocks in all parts. \nIncreased activity of the spinal senses. Dread of touch, shrinks from drafts. \nClarke found Cooper\u2019s suggestion that many cases of persistent cough recurring after influenza are met by \nStry. to be co rrect. The influenza cough has in it a strong spasmodic and asthmatic element, whether dry or \nnot, and this seems to give one point of correspondence. \n \n \nC. W. Lawson related the case of a medical man who took continuously for two years, Stry. hydrochlor., 5  to \n10 minims, thrice daily with a little sal volatile. He was at first benefited, but afterwards experienced a desire \nto take deep insoirations. \u201cHe felt that to do so would overcome the inhibitory power over the lung, probably \nthe action of the diaphragm.\u201d \nOne morning after a dose of Stry., he was taking such an inspiration and from that moment experienced the \nsensations complained of an inability to take a deep breath. Fixation of chest walls compelled him to stoop, \nweakness on exertion, great confusion of thought and memory, occasional clay-colored feces, usually greater \nin amount than ordinary. \nAfter six months, the apex beat descended to the 6th interspace and headache and drowsiness became \nmarked. He traveled for six months without benefit. All attem pts to act on the heart with drugs increased the \nheadache. Lawson then found the heart dilated, wide sub -costal angle, chest em physematous, moving en \nmass. \nAfter a full year of treatment with Hyos. tincture at bedtime, which proved strikingly beneficial, drowsiness \nceased entirely and improvement in all other respects followed. \nHale mentioned the following uses of Stry. and its salts as observed by him and others. Stry. 6c. in the tetanic \nspasms of cerebrospinal meningitis. Amaurosis from atony of retina. Diplopia and night-blindness. Stry-s., and \nin one case when all other Stry. preparations had failed, Stry -val. cured facial neuralgia and neuralgic \nheadache. \nSpasms of esophagus in an hysterical woman. Stry -val. 2x. cured brain exhaustion of women in whom high \nnervous weakness exists. Stry. 12c or 30c for chorea, when the convulsions do not cease during sleep.","Chest":"Spasm of muscles about larynx. Sharp, contractive pains in muscles of chest. Excessive dyspnea. \nPersistent cough, recurring after influenza.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Constant retching. Violent vomiting. Nausea of pregnancy. \nTemperature - Cold chills down spine. Perspiration in a stream down head and chest. Lower limbs cold. Sharp pain in abdominal muscles, griping pain in bowels.","Urinary & Genital":"Desire for sex increased (Plat.). Any touch on body excites a voluptuous sensation.","Extremities":"Cramp-like pains.  Rheumatism with stiff joints. Limbs stiff. Violent jerking, twitching and \ntrembling. Tetanic convulsions and opisthotonos, spa sms provoked by slightest touch and attempt to move. \nShocks in the muscles.","Neck & Back":"Rigidity of cervical muscles.  Sharp pain in nape and down spine. Back stiff, violent jerks in spinal \ncolumn. Icy sensation down spine.","Skin":"Itching of whole body, especially nose. Icy sensation down the spine.","Generalities":"Feeling as if head and face were enlarged, after affects of debauches (Nux-v.). As if an iron cap \nwere on head. Paralyzed feeling in left half of head and face. Scalp sore, as if hair had been pulled. As if \nnerves suddenly pulled out of teeth. As of a lump in throat. As if water dripped off right elbow, at intervals and \noff right shoulder. As if chopped in half at waist, at night."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}