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Atropinum Sulphuricum
30CAtrop SulphSulphate of Atropine · "The Spasmodic Neuralgia Remedy"
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🎯 A powerful alkaloid acting primarily on the nervous system, eyes, and digestive tract, often used in acute, intense, or convulsive states.
📖 Hering writes:
Atropinum Sulphuricum.
Mind. Sensorium. Inner head. Outer head. Sight and eyes. Hearing and ears. Smell and nose. Upper face. Lower face. Teeth and gums. Taste, speech, tongue. Inner mouth. Palate and throat. Appetite, thirst. Desires.. Eating and drinking. Hiccough, belching, nausea..
Scrobiculum and stomach. Hypochondria. Abdomen and loins. Stools and rectum. Urinary organs. Male sexual organs. Female sexual organs. Pregnancy. Parturition.. Voice and larynx. Trachea.. Respiration. Cough. Inner chest and lungs. Heart, pulse and circulation. Outer chest. Neck and back. Upper limbs. Lower limbs. Limbs in general. Rest. Position. Motion. Nerves. Sleep. Time. Temperature and weather. Fever. Attacks, periodicity. Locality and direction. Sensations. Tissues. Touch. Injuries.. Skin. Relations.
Atro-s. * Full text (45 Ko) * Red and blue only * Red only
Alkaloid from Atropa Belladonna. C17H23NO3.
Is most commonly used or abused by ophthalmologists to dilate the pupil. See Sickel, British Quarterly, 1868, vol. xxvi, p. 672, and Norton, in New York J. M., vol. i, p. 365, 1873. Hence seventy symptoms are marked '(In sick :)', such being observed on patients. A good proving by Kafka may be found in the British Quarterly, vol. xv, page 238.
👤 Constitution
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Spectral illusions and rambling speech.
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Deep red, distorted face with bloody foam at the mouth during convulsions.
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Iritis with severe pain or exudation, requiring pupil dilation.
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Sudden, violent vomiting without nausea, often associated with pancreatic disease.
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Deep ulcers in the center of the cornea to prevent iris perforation.
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Headache accompanied by great physical weakness.
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Tongue is hard, parched, and cracked in typhoid states.
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Region of the stomach is extremely sensitive to pressure.
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Diarrhea alternating with constipation in pancreatic disorders.
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Bending in of thumbs during convulsive episodes.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Consider this remedy for states of profound mental confusion, spectral illusions, rambling speech, or unconsciousness, particularly when associated with epilepsy or eclampsia.
Spectral illusions.
Rambling speech.
Unconsciousness. ✓ Puerperal eclampsia. ✓ Epilepsy.
Sad and morose, prefering solitude and a dark room to society of friends. ✓ Epilepsy.
Great fear and anxiety. ✓ Diseased pancreas.
(In sick :) Appears profoundly intoxicated.
(In sick :) Complete unconsciousness of all preceding events.
(In sick :) Mind confused, commenced a sentence and forgot what she wished to say.
(In sick :) Incoherent in observations, while thoroughly wakeful.
(In sick :) She insisted repeatedly that her blood did not circulate, and that her feet must be put into warm water or she should die.
Slight delirium
- •picking and other motions of hands and fingers in air, as if they came in contact with real objects..
(In sick :) All day wakeful and partially delirious.
(In sick :) Delirium alternating with stupor.
(In sick :) Hallucinations of hearing and vision.
(In sick :) Frenzied with excitement and frantic in her appeals.
(In sick :) Laughed in an idiotic manner.
Muttering and smiling.
Mirthful humor.
(In sick :) Began to quarrel incoherently with his supporters.
Exaltation of brain and spine, followed by prostration.
Violent stitches in base of brain, above eyes and in temples.
Languor of body and mind, rendering incapable of active bodily or mental exertion.
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Evening
visual illusions
diarrheic stool
↑Better from
Bending
pain in left ovary
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Atropinum →Sulphur →Belladonna →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Hering's Guiding Symptoms↗✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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