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Zincum Muriaticum

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Zincum Muriaticum · Chloride of Zinc · "The Bedclothes-Picking Zinc Salt"
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🎯 Acts as a powerful corrosive poison that profoundly disrupts the nervous system and sensory perception.
📖 Clarke writes:
Chloride of Zinc. Zincic Chloride. ZnCl2. Solutions in water or alcohol.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Symptoms derived from poisoning cases (Chloride of Zinc)
Acts as a corrosive poison
Powerful disinfectant
Produces perversion of the senses of smell and taste
Spasmodic twitchings of face and hands
Sprains and convulsions are prominent features
Effectual in securing rapid healing of fresh wounds (De Noë Walker)
Temperament & Physical Profile
Emaciation; skin looked as if stretched tightly over bones of face and hands
Bluish and blue-mottled skin
Sleeps on right side with legs drawn up
Grinds teeth
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
No natural appetite
Morbid craving for something to allay the irritation at the stomach
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Things had a putrid smell and taste which were not putrid
Faeces had no odour at all
Quinine had no bitter taste
Acids and alkalies had no acid or alkaline taste
Insipid things were most relished
Vomiting of all food except boiled milk
Occasional attacks of tetanic spasms of right forearm and hand
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Perversion of senses: things smell and taste putrid when they are not, while actual odors may be absent.
Clarke
Severe pain in the left hypochondrium, aggravated by eating.
Clarke
Vomiting of all food except for boiled milk.
Clarke
Extreme emaciation with skin appearing stretched tightly over the bones.
Clarke
Spasmodic twitchings of the face and hands, with occasional tetanic spasms of the right forearm.
Clarke
Sleeps on the right side with legs drawn up, grinding teeth during sleep.
Clarke
Bluish or blue-mottled skin appearance.
Clarke
Morbid craving for food to allay stomach irritation despite lack of natural appetite.
Clarke
Intellect clear during the day but wandering or delirious at night.
Clarke
Rapid, fluttering pulse with a sensation of collapse.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Nervous derangement, anxiety, and states of semi-coma or delirium.
Excessive nervous derangement and prostration.
Picks bedclothes.
Anxiety, dulness.
Depressed.
Intellect clear by day, wanders at night.
Semi-comatose.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Food
pain in left hypochondrium
📚 Sources & References
Kent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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