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Zincum Oxydatum
6XZinc-oZincum Oxydatum · Oxide of Zinc · "The Sour Vomiting Zinc Salt"
MineralUncommonPsoric
Source
🎯 It acts as a profound depressant and irritant, particularly affecting the nervous system, the left lung, and the digestive tract.
📖 Clarke writes:
Flowers of Zinc. Oxide of Zinc. Zincic oxide. ZnO. Trituration.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Contracting, shrivelling-up effect
•Irritating, weakening, and depressing action
•Marked effect on the left lung
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
•Hypochondriasis and melancholy from masturbation (similar to Conium, but more irritating)
•Constant impulse to laugh
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Undulating movement in some muscles
•Contraction of the risible muscles
•Teeth blunted; incisors feel soft and glued together
•Hiccough, relieved after regurgitation of bile
•Liquid stools which relieve all symptoms
•Coryza, worse after a meal, with difficulty of respiration and nasal secretion
•Stoppage of the nose
•Anorexia, relieved after a meal
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Liquid stools that bring a marked relief to all other symptoms.
Clarke
Coryza that worsens after a meal, accompanied by difficulty breathing.
Clarke
Spasmodic, sardonic laughter and a constant impulse to laugh.
Clarke
Teeth feel blunted, soft, and as if glued together.
Clarke
Violent hiccough that stops only after regurgitating bile.
Clarke
Undulating, twitching movements in the muscles.
Clarke
Left-sided lung and chest symptoms, including pain and oppression.
Clarke
Pain throughout the body that improves during rest.
Clarke
Anorexia that improves after eating.
Clarke
Anguish and agitation as if having committed a crime.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Mental agitation, melancholy, and sardonic laughter.
Anguish and agitation, as from a consciousness of having committed some crime.
Ill-humour, sometimes very great.
Unfitness for serious occupation.
Spasmodic laughter (sardonic).
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Meal
coryza
regurgitation of bile
anorexia
↑Better from
Repose
pain throughout body
📚 Sources & References
✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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