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Ethylum Nitricum

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Ethylum Nitricum · Sweet Spirit of Nitre (Nitrous Ether) · "The Sweet Spirit of Nitre"
OtherRareClarke only

Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 Acts primarily as a vascular stimulant and anesthetic agent affecting the brain and cardiovascular system.
📖 Clarke writes:
Nitric Ether. C2 H5 NO3 (not to be confounded with nitrous ether, C2 H5 NO2, which is the principal ingredient in Sweet Spirit of Nitre).
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Acts as an anesthetic
Experimented on by J. Y. Simpson and B. W. Richardson
Produces a few definite symptoms
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Tendency to pitch forward
Clarke
Sense of fullness in the vessels of the brain
Clarke
Extreme suffusion of the face
Clarke
Excessive over-action of the heart
Clarke
Rapid and painful respiration
Clarke
Persistent headache following use
Clarke
Persistent giddiness following use
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
Clarke Exclusive
👤Head
Consider for congestive headaches and sensations of instability or pitching forward.
A tendency to pitch forward.
Sense of fulness in vessels of brain.
Much headache and giddiness for some time after its employment.
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Glonoinum
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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