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Hydrocyanicum Acidum

30C / 200CHydrocyan Ac

Prussic Acid · Hydrogen Cyanide · "The Sudden Death Collapse Remedy"

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🎯 A powerful toxic agent that acts primarily on the nervous system to produce convulsions, paralysis, and rapid collapse.

📖 Boericke writes:

(HYDROCYANIC ACID)

One of the most toxic agents known. Convulsions and paralysis express the action of this remedy. Spasmodic constriction in larynx, feeling of suffocation, pain and tightness in chest, palpitation; pulse weak, irregular. Singing sensation at the epigastrium. Hysterical and epileptic convulsions. Cyanosis. Collapse, due to some pulmonary condition not a cardiac collapse. Catalepsy. Cholera. Stage of collapse (Ars; Verat). Coldness. Tetanus narcolepsy.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for individuals in states of extreme physical collapse, often with coldness, bluish skin, and a tendency toward rigid, convulsive movements.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Singing sensation at the epigastrium.

introduction

Drink rumbles through throat and stomach.

stomach

Great sinking at pit of stomach.

stomach

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Used for states of mental shock, unconsciousness, and irrational, intense fears.

Unconscious.

Wild delirium.

Fear of imaginary troubles.

Fears everything-horses, wagons, houses falling, etc.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 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.

Sixth and higher

Other

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Ammonium Carbonicum →Camphora →Opium →

🔄 Compare With

Cicuta Virosa →Oenanthe Crocata →Camphora →Laurocerasus →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Hydrocyanicum Acidum is listed in 113 rubrics across 18 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 36 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System27 Nervous System22 Circulatory System15 Stomach9 Mind6 Generalities5 Urinary System5 Abdomen5 Head4 Female Sexual System3 Face3 Throat2 Mouth2 Locomotor System1 Tongue1 Eyes1 Fever1 Nose1

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