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Chloralum Hydratum

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Chloral Hydrate · "The Urticaria Insomnia Remedy"

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🎯 A powerful sedative and cardiac depressant that acts on the nervous system and skin, particularly useful for hives and emotional excitability.

📖 Boericke writes:

(CHLORALUM)

This drug, used in physiological doses, is a powerful hypnotic and cardiac depressant. It has a marked effect on the skin, producing erythema, ecchymosis, etc, which symptoms have been utilized homeopathically with much success, especially in the treatment of hives. Emotional excitability, hallucinations. Night terrors in children. Muscular prostration.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are emotionally excitable, prone to hallucinations, or suffering from muscular weakness and physical exhaustion.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Urticaria, worse, spirituous liquors, hot drinks.

skin

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for morning headaches with a sensation of a hot band around the head.

Morning headache; worse in forehead, also in occiput, on motion; better in open air.

Passive cerebral hyperaemia (use 30th).

Feeling as if hot band were drawn from temple to temple.

Hears voices.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Decimal

📝First trituration in hives

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Ammonium →Digitalis Purpurea →Moschus →Atropinum

🔄 Compare With

Belladonna →Apis Mellifica →Opium →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Chloralum Hydratum is listed in 33 rubrics across 10 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 6 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Skin11 Nervous System8 Eyes3 Mind3 Respiratory System2 Female Sexual System2 Head1 Urinary System1 Locomotor System1 Abdomen1

See all 33 rubrics for Chloralum Hydratum →