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Picrotoxinum

PICROTOXIN · 2 entries across 2 books
PreparationTrituration. Clarke
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No dose stated in the library’s booksDose · T. F. Allen

Reason for use

Obtained from the fruit of Cocculus.

Authority. John H. Henry, M.D., Amer. Obs., vol. xv, 1878, p. 16, most of the symptoms were produced on myself by taking the P. for five days.

The full T. F. Allen text, by section

Mind

Sad thoughts, desires to sleep.

Stomach

Pressure in stomach, without coated tongue and eructations; dyspepsia, with eructations, with pain in the pit of the stomach; frequent eructations; nausea, with a tendency to faint; inclination to vomit, with headache.

Abdomen

It caused flatulence, with fetid diarrhoea, followed by tenesmus, painful and continued; seems to extend all over the bowels; fainting, violent, subacute irritation of the intestinal lining membrane. Pain in the bowels as if bruised; soreness in the inguinal ring, left side, as if the bowels would protrude. I became alarmed, and resorted to Camphor, Chloroform, and Opium combined, to give relief to the violent sore pains in the bowels, attended with diarrhoea and dysentery, with large and frequent discharges of urine.

Urinary Organs

A large quantity of clear urine passes as many as twelve times a day.

Respiratory Organs.

A feeling as if one wanted to get more breath, impeding respiration.

Back

The back feels bruised. Drawing pain in the back. Drawing in the left side of the back.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. Dragging sensation of the right arm. Pain in left arm, forearm, runs up into the shoulder.

Inferior Extremities. The lower limbs have a tendency to draw backwards with the back, giving great relief to the extremities. The lower extremities feel bruised and paralyzed. Constrictive painless sensation in the lower extremities.

Cramp pain in the lower extremities.

A paralytic feeling in the left lower extremity.

Pains in the left outer ankle.

Complete text of the Picrotoxinum entry in T. F. Allen - Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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Simple remedy · Mineral

2 entries across 2 books · abbreviations: PICROTOXIN

Remedies said to end or reduce the action of Picrotoxinum, for example if it has caused an unwanted reaction. What is an antidote?

Antidoted byNo antidote recorded in these books