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Benzinum

6XBenz
Benzinum · Benzene · "The Nervous System & Blood Hydrocarbon"
OtherRarePsoric
Source
🎯 It acts as a profound toxicant causing systemic exhaustion, mental instability, and upward-darting neuralgic pains.
📖 Clarke writes:
Benzol, Benzoline, Benzene. A product of distillation from coal tar. C6 H6. Tincture with alcohol.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Profound disturbance of mind and body
Pains travel from below upward (headache, pain in anus)
Chills travel from below upward
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
Weeping at trifles
Irritability
A sort of clairvoyant state
Visual hallucinations: a great white hand appeared in the darkness, coming outspread towards his face
Terror causing him to scream for the watcher
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Pain darting upwards in occiput
Severe aching and throbbing in eyes when turning them upward
Sense of falling through the bed and floor
Insomnia
Photopsic illusions
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Severe darting pains in the occiput that travel from below upward.
Clarke
Clairvoyant-like illusions, such as seeing a great white hand approaching the face in the dark.
Clarke
Sensation of falling through the bed and floor.
Clarke
Extreme irritability and weeping at trifles.
Clarke
Thirst for ice-water, satisfied with only a single sip.
Clarke
Stools smelling of benzine, containing lead-colored mucus and bright blood.
Clarke
Painful round white ulcers inside the cheeks.
Clarke
Chills that travel from remote parts of the body upward toward the head.
Clarke
Photopsic illusions (flashes of light) with wide-open eyes.
Clarke
Urine that is dark, offensive, and contains sediment like red sand.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for emotional instability characterized by irritability, despair, and weeping.
Weeping at trifles and despairing of recovery.
Extremely irritable and fault-finding.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Motion
occipital headache
📚 Sources & References
Kent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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