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AMYLENUM NITROSUM--Amyl. Nitrit · Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 4,002 chars
General
The heart, arteries, and circulation soonest feel the influence of this remedy; thence the action passes through the nervous system.
Mental.-- Seems confused and in a dreamy state, unfit for business, melancholia. Convulsions with piercing shrieks. Unconsciousness with inability to swallow. Often feels haunted with an indescribable dread as if a fit would overtake him.
Head
Heat, throbbing, and intense fulness in.
Sensation as if something were rushing up into the head, with throbbing.
The head is heavy, giddy, and confused with prostration.
Sick headache, mostly on left side, which often looks paler than the other side, which is less affected.
Terrible crushing pain in the head, with confusion and partial unconsciousness.
Eyes
Protruding, staring, and look as if glazed in convulsions. Aching eyes in sunlight, trembling, and wavering of objects, lachrymation and sneezing; eyes injected and painful, face flushed.
Ears
Much throbbing in the ears, and bursting sensation with each beat of the heart.
Nose
Bleeds from left side; much sneezing.
Face
Intense rushing of blood to the face and head in paroxysms, making them red and hot, as if the blood would be forced through the skin.
The slightest emotion causes the face to flush deeply.
These flushings sometimes affect the left side and ear to intense redness, coming and going suddenly.
Throat
Sensation of constriction and choking in the throat along each side of the trachea.
Collar seems too tight, and wishes to looser. it.
(Also Laches.) Hiccough.
Stomach
Fulness and pressure in the stomach, often heat and burning, with belching. Cardialgia.
Abdomen
Rumbling in the bowels, often colicky pains, increased by lying down.
Sexual.-- Female : Violent left-sided headache during the menses, beginning in the morning, worse at noon, lessening as evening approaches, with frequent vomiting.
Erythism, rushes of blood, or flushes of heat in climacteric years.
Immediately after parturition, convulsions, with face symptoms as above.
Chest
Dyspnoea, commencing by a feeling of constriction in the throat, which extends to the chest.
Difficulty in breathing is a very prominent symptom.
In diseases of the heart with anasarca and great dyspnoea.
Sometimes suffocating cough in paroxysms.
Sensation as of a band drawn tightly around the chest.
Heart and Circulation.-- Angina pectoris, particularly with the flushings and facial symptoms as given above.
Tumultuous action of the heart, with much dyspnoea, and the patient feels that all the trouble and distress is in the heart.
The action of the heart and carotids is felt up into the ears.
The heart has an irregular, rumbling sort of a sound.
Every disturbance in chest and heart easily excited by motions or emotions.
Extremities
Upper : The right shoulder, scapula, and arm, seem to sympathize with the region of the heart very much. The hands of children in convulsions tremble and grasp at imaginary objects; much trembling and sense of numbness in the hands.
Sleep
In coma during an unconscious state, profound and repeated yawning. Walking with frequent starts, and feels unrefreshed in the morning.
Fever
Chilliness and crawlings repeatedly, face pale all day.
Much flushing of heat, whilst some parts of the body feel burning hot.
Sometimes after the flushings, the skin becomes cold and clammy.
Heats are often followed by profuse sweatings.
Throbbing throughout the whole body often attends these heats, and are followed by much prostration.
Generalities
In chorea every muscle in the body seems in motion. Succession of spasms, coming more and more rapidly, till finally, no sooner does one end than another begins. After an extensive bum, trismus, with horrid tetanic grin, marked opisthotonos and interrupted deglutition was cured by inhalation. Can't endure warmth, must throw off all covering, and open the doors and windows, even in cold weather. In convulsions, muscles become rigid. Cures some forms of sea-sickness.