Glonoinum

General

GLONOINUM. [Glonoin.] Nitro-glycerin. Hering. C3H5 (NO2)O3.

Mind

► Loses senses, sinks down unconscious, congestion alternately to head and heart. ► Well-known streets seem strange ; way home too long ; forgets on which side she lives. ► Bright, loquacious, great flow of ideas. ► Weeps and shudders between attacks of pain. ► Agitation, attempt to run away. ► Frantic ; attempted to jump from window (with headache). ► Fear, throat feels swollen ; chest as if screwed together ; apprehensive of approaching death ; fears she has been poisoned.

Sensorium

► Head felt larger. ► Balancing sensation, constant effort to keep head erect. ► Vertigo : confusion, faintness, black spots before eyes ; worse from stooping or moving head ; worse in the open air. ► Syncope, nausea, face pale or livid ; beating in the head. ► Sunstroke : vertigo, violent pain ; pale face, feeble pulse ; labored breathing, nausea ; comatose ; or throbbing in head ; face yellowish-red, or livid ; eyes fixed ; pulse full, slow ; tongue coated, no appetite.

Inner Head

► Tensive pain over eyes and nose, also behind ears, followed by choking sensation about throat. ► Headache from below upwards. ► Sensation of soreness through whole head, is afraid to shake head ; it seems to him as if head would drop to pieces. ► Shocks in the brain synchronous with the pulse. ► Throbbing : in temples ; in vertex ; occiput ; in whole head. ► Dull headache in the forehead, with warm sweat. ► Severe pain in forehead, throbbing in the temples, worse from walking. ► Dull, pressive pain, worse in occiput and neck ; worse from moving head or twisting the neck. ► Brain feels too large ; bursting feeling ; fulness, throbbing of arteries ; all the blood seems to be pumped upwards ; holds the head with the hands. ► Brain as if moving in waves. ► Congestion to head, sudden, violent ; throbbing felt with every pulse at every step or jarring ; blood mounts from neck, throat or chest ; from occiput toward eyes. ► Hemicrania, sees half light, half dark. ► Headache with increased secretion of urine. ► Headache with red face, accelerated pulse, sweat on face, unconsciousness ; better in open air, after sleep, after vomiting. ► Cri encephalique. ► Headaches worse : from shaking or jarring the head ; stooping ; bending it backwards ; after lying down ; when ascending steps ; in damp weather ; in the sun ; while working under gaslight ; after overheating, with copious sweat ; could not bear touch of hat ; cold water (even causing spasms) ; reading, writing ; wine. ► Better ; from uncovering ; in open air. ► Headache. ► Sunstroke.

Outer Head

► Consequences of cutting the hair. ► Rigidity of occipito frontalis. ► Head feels too large.

Eyes

► Flashes of lightning, sparks before eyes. ► Objects dance with every pulsation. ► Dim sight with vertigo, with fainting, black spots before the eyes. ► Pupils contracted. θ Sunstroke. ► Pupils dilated ; eyes upturned ; sunstroke ; eyes rolled outwards and up ; convulsions. ► Eyes injected red, protruding wild, staring ; eyes dull, staring, sunken. ► Photophobia. ► Sees everything half light, half dark. ► Letters appear smaller. ► Drawing, pressing, aching, bursting pain ; soreness, quivering, twitching.

Ears

► Deafness, ears as if stopped up, deafness followed by blurred vision. ► Ringing in the ears, audible pulse. ► Throbbing piercing from within outward, in right ear. ► Throbbing : above ears ; from occiput to ears. ► Sensation of fulness in and around ears. ► Ears red.

Nose

► Pains in root of nose, headache extends to nose. ► Sudden sneezing ; fluent coryza.

Face

► Flushed, hot, especially about the eyes and forehead, with headache ; livid, purple ; alternately flushed and pale ; pale during the heat, in sunstroke, congestions to brain, etc. ► Sweat on the face. ► Faceache, muscles twitch, even unconsciousness, breathing stertorous ; faceache worse in heat of bed. ► Masseter muscles affected. ► Sudden neuralgic pains from decayed tooth, concentrating in temple ; head heavy, but cannot lay it on the pillow.

Lower Face

► Jaws clenched in sunstroke. ► Lower lips feel swollen. ► Chin feels elongated.

Teeth

► Pulsating, throbbing pains, teeth feel elongated ; decayed. ► Stabbing in gums worse from hot applications, better from cold.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : bitter, with nausea ; aromatic, sweet, warm, leaves fatty taste. ► Tongue : milk-white without coating, violent headache ; or, light coating ; cannot eat ; weak ; typhoid ; feels swollen, raw ; numb, as if burnt ; prickling, stinging. ► Difficulty in conversing, from diminished power of tongue and confusion of ideas.

Mouth

► Saliva increased, slimy. ► Froth about mouth. θ Convulsions. ► Sensation of soreness and swelling on roof of mouth, with pulsation.

Throat

► Soft palate : dry, feels as if drawn up. ► Hard palate, sensitive as if swollen ; throbbing ; swollen sensation in the fauces. ► Throat feels as if swelling ; full sensation in both sides of neck. ► Constriction at top of larynx ; in throat, as if throttled. ► Tickling heat, soreness in throat.

Desires And Aversions

► Increased desire to smoke. ► Wants cold water ; also from dry, parched feeling. ► Loss of appetite ; sunstroke, etc.

Eating And Drinking

► Wine aggravates all symptoms. ► Alcoholic stimulants cause delirium, congestions, stupor.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Nausea : with the congestions ; retching, during sunstroke, and faint feeling ; causing sweat, which relieves. ► Vomiting : spasmodic, in hydrocephalus ; in sunstroke.

Stomach

► Pain in stomach ; distress in epigastrium ; sunstroke. ► Stomach and head feel as if he had been out in hot sun. ► Gnawing in epigastrium. ► Faint feeling at pit of stomach ; also, with throbbing there. ► Pain in pit of stomach, as if sore, when touched ; worse when stooping.

Abdomen

► Rumbling in bowels, belching, passing offensive flatus. ► Cutting, mostly below the navel (wakens one in morning).

Stool, Etc

► Stools : loose, scanty, with much rumbling ; copious, loose dark, lumpy, with colic heat in the anus, nausea and sudden urging. ► Diarrhoea, with sudden cessation of the menses. ► Costive.

Urine

► Abundant, highly albuminous ; must rise often at night to pass it ; high-colored, burning while passing ; with red sediment and reddish-yellow slime.

Female Sexual Organs

► Instead of menses : congestion to head, face pale ; worse in warm room ; better when walking in the cold air ; diarrhoea ; fainting. ► Before, during and after menses, or when it does not appear, fulness in the head, throbbing. ► At climaxis : flushes of heat, pressure in head, nausea, loss of senses, vertigo, swelling of feet.

Pregnancy

► During pregnancy congestions. ► Eclampsia : unconscious ; face bright red ; puffed ; pulse full, hard ; urine copious and albuminous.

Breathing

► Breathing : heavy, labored, stertorous ; oppressed ; from feeling of weight ; accelerated ; must often breathe deeply ; sighing.

Lungs

► Chest feels as if laced. ► Sinking feeling in head and chest, as from working in hot room. ► Congestion to chest alternately with head. ► Numb sensation moving upwards in chest and down left arm.

Heart And Pulse

► Laborious action of the heart ; oppression ; frequent pulse. ► Pressure in heart as if it was being contracted. ► Sharp pains in the heart. ► Fulness in the heart. ► Anxiety in praecordia ; weakness. ► Heart's action easily excited ; violent palpitation, throbbing carotids, pulsating headache ; worse stooping. ► Purring noise in region of heart when lying ; pulse intermittent ; must have head high ; worse when lying on left side ; better on right. ► Pulse : accelerated, rises and falls alternately ; increased during headache, motion, walking ; quick, small, irregular, with violent action of heart ; low, feeble, in sunstroke.

Outer Chest

► Sweat on the chest.

Neck And Back

► Nape of neck stiff, with headache. ► Sharp cutting across scapulae. ► Hot sensation down the back ; burning between scapulae. ► Pain down entire spine ; after constriction in chest ; shiverings downward. ► Old contusions.

Upper Limbs

► Arms : nervous, uneasy ; heavy, as if circulation was checked ; numbness, heaviness following the throbbing ; numbness, weariness in left arm. ► Weakness of wrist after headache. ► Rheumatic pains in fingers of left hand. ► Feels pulse in fingers.

Lower Limbs

► Knees give way, thigh weak during headache ; left thigh numb. ► Limbs relaxed, motionless in sunstroke. ► Rheumatism of left knee, deep twinging, pricking ; worse from motion ; better from straightening limb. ► Could not rise on account of weakness in limbs ; headache, worse when covered. ► Cold feet, with nausea, palpitation.

Position, Etc

► Worse from moving, shaking, jarring parts. ► Walking eases pain in limbs. ► Better from general motion. ► Walking : 3, 29. Motion : 29, 33 ; of head : 2, 3. Ascending : 3. Stepping or jarring : 3. Cannot lay head on pillow : 9. Must have head high : 29. Lying : 3, 29. Worse lying on left, better on right side : 29. Stooping : 2, 3, 17, 29. Bending head backward : 3.

Nerves

► Prostration. ► Restlessness in limbs, must rise and walk. ► Convulsions ; epileptiform, cerebral congestion, scanty or suppressed menses ; hands clinched, thumbs in palms, face red, eyes rolled upwards, then sopor ; left-sided, with fingers spread ; face alternately red and pale.

Sleep

► Drowsy, yawning ; face hot and pale. ► Restless sleep ; awakens with fear or apoplexy. ► Confused dreams. ► Difficult to awaken.

Time

► Worse morning and forenoon ; headache, languor, colic. ► Worse afternoon and evening ; headache, diarrhoea.

Temperature And Weather

► Warmth : 10. Warm room : 23. Heat : 3, 40. Heat of bed : 8. Sun : 3. Cold : 10, 23. Open air : 2, 3, 23. Damp weather : 3. ► Children after being out in the winter cold, warm their feet at the fire and fall asleep there.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill : after getting heated ; alternates with sweat ; with vomiting ; head as if screwed up ; intermittent fever. ► Warmth general ; flushes ; waves of heat upwards ; fever heat, with quick, small pulse, in sunstroke. ► Sweat : relieves ; most profuse on face and chest ; cold on face during congestion ; after sleep.

Sides

► Right : 6. Left : 32, 33, 36. Above downwards : 28, 31. Below upwards : 3, 28, 40.

Tissues

► Congestions, blood tends upwards ; vessels pulsate ; veins (jugular, temporal) enlarged. ► Seeming plethora, rapid deviations in distribution of blood.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Pain and other sensations following later after local injuries. ► Touch : 3, 17. Holding head with hands : 3.

Stages And States

► Females florid, plethoric ; sensitive. ► Nervous, sanguine, readily affected.

Relationship

► Antidotes to Glonoinum : Acon., Camphor., Coffea, Nux vom.