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Kerosolenum
6XKerosolKerosolenum · Kerosene · "The Kerosene Vapour Remedy"
OtherRarePsoric
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🎯 It acts as a potent anesthetic agent that induces a state of pleasurable intoxication, muscular rigidity, and altered consciousness.
📖 Clarke writes:
[One of the lighter products (probably the lightest) obtained by distillation from the crude oil obtained from Albatite from Nova Scotia, Kerosolene being the trade name given by the "Downer Kerosene Oil Company." Nearly or quite identical with "Gasolene," the lightest oil from Petroleum.-Allen.] Solution in Rectified Spirit.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Produces a pleasurable kind of intoxication
•Causes excessive muscular rigidity
•Causes asphyxia
•Causes intermittent pulse
•Unsafe as an anesthetic due to physiological side effects
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
•Laughter (observed in two cases)
•Potential indication for use in certain kinds of delirium and insanity
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Symptoms are better in open air
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Pleasurable intoxication accompanied by a sense of floating and complete loneliness.
Clarke
Inappropriate laughter during states of delirium or following medical procedures.
Clarke
Excessive muscular rigidity and contraction during periods of insensibility.
Clarke
Intermittent and accelerated pulse with diminished volume.
Clarke
Eyes remain unnaturally open and staring even during complete insensibility.
Clarke
A sense of being the only object in the universe.
Clarke
Dusky redness of the face occurring momentarily during convulsions.
Clarke
Breathing checked by rigid contraction of chest muscles.
Clarke
Peculiar lightness of the head.
Clarke
Weakness of the limbs.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for delirium or insanity where the patient exhibits inappropriate laughter or a detached, lonely state.
On breathing the vapour one seems to float away into a wavy maze with a sense of complete loneliness
there seems but one object in the universe, oneself
on recovery, the first object seen seems the only other object.
Laughed (after tooth extraction) and only felt he had had a pleasant dream.
Lost himself, but was inclined to laugh and would not keep still.
🔑 Modalities
↑Better from
Open air
insensibility
general symptoms
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Petroleum →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM
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