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Nicotinum

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Nicotinum · Nicotine (Alkaloid of Tobacco) · "The Tobacco Alkaloid Remedy"

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🎯 It acts as a powerful nervous system depressant and stimulant, producing violent spasms, coldness, and profound disturbances of consciousness.

📖 Clarke writes:

Nicotine. An alkaloid from Nicotiana tabacum. C10H14N2. Solutions in distilled water or alcohol.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Very violent tonic and clonic spasms

•Indistinctness of senses

•Loss of consciousness

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Great sensitiveness of eye to light, along with indistinct vision

•Aura in upper jaw

•As though a sharp brush had been drawn through oesophagus to stomach

•Disagreeable sensation extending upwards and downwards from stomach

•Emptiness and faintness in stomach

•Coldness extends from tips of fingers and toes over trunk

•Warmth streams into fingers and toes from the stomach

•Jerking respiration

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Violent tonic and clonic spasms with jerking respiration.

Clarke

Sensation as though a sharp brush were drawn through the esophagus to the stomach.

Clarke

Coldness starting in fingers and toes, with warmth streaming out from the stomach.

Clarke

Excessive desire for stool, relieved by the emission of flatus and urine.

Clarke

Eructation with vomiting that provides relief.

Clarke

Great aversion to tobacco and tobacco smoke.

Clarke

Persistent sensation of emptiness and faintness in the stomach.

Clarke

Paroxysms of faintness with loss of consciousness.

Clarke

Head drawn back with rigidity of neck and back muscles.

Clarke

Pulse and respiration are highly irregular, alternating between rapid and sinking.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Delirium with frightful visions and inability to focus.

Delirium with frightful visions.

Inability to think or fix attention on any subject.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Climbing stairs

weakness of lower limbs

↑Better from

Eructation

vomiting

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Tabacum →Absinthium →

📚 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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