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Strychninum Purum
30CStrych PurPure Strychnine · "The Tetanic Spasm Remedy"
stry.PlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts as a powerful stimulant to the spinal cord and central nervous system, inducing muscle spasms and heightened reflex sensitivity.
📖 Boericke writes:
(STRYCHNINUM)
Its primary function is to stimulate the motor centers and the reflex action of the spinal cord. Homeopathic to spasms of muscles, cramps from an undue reflex excitability of the cord, spasms of the bladder, etc. Strychnin stimulates the central nervous system, mental activities, special senses rendered more acute. Respiration increased. All reflexes are made more active. Stiffness in muscles and face and neck. Opisthotonos. Tetanic convulsions with opisthotonos. The muscles relax between paroxysms; worse slightest touch, sound, odor. Influences more directly the spinal cord and is less appropriate in visceral derangements than Nux. Tetanus. Explosive nervousness. The pains and sensations come suddenly and return at intervals.
👤 Constitution
•Typically individuals who are highly nervous, restless, and over-irritable, with a tendency toward muscle stiffness and sudden, explosive physical reactions.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Over-irritability.
head
Rigitidy of cervical muscles.
back
Icy sensation down spine.
back
Violent jerking, twitching, and trembling.
extremities
Cramp-like pains.
extremities
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for headaches characterized by a bursting sensation and extreme nervous irritability.
Restless.
Over-irritability.
Full and bursting headache, with heat in eyes.
Vertigo, with roaring in ears.
Jerking of head forwards.
Scalp sore.
Itching of scalp and nape.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3rd to 30th
Other
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Eucalyptus Globulus →
🔄 Compare With
Arnica Montana →Cicuta Virosa →Urinum →Eucalyptus Globulus →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Boericke's Materia Medica↗✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Hering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraClarke's DictionaryPhatak's Concise MM
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