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Zincum Picricum
6XZinc-pZincum Picricum · Picrate of Zinc · "The Facial Paralysis Brain-Fag Zinc Salt"
MineralRarePsoric✨ Clarke only
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Exclusively Documented in Clarke
This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.
🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system to address exhaustion, brain-fag, and paralysis.
📖 Clarke writes:
Picrate of Zinc. Zn[C6H2(NO2)3O]2. Trituration.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Cerebro-spinal troubles of the erethistic character
•Brain-fag
•Nervous exhaustion from over-worked brain or sexual excess
•Profound neurasthenia, when nervous exhaustion has passed beyond stage of erethism
•Threatened cerebral paralysis, especially in children
•Paralysis agitans
•Recent facial paralysis from cold
Temperament & Physical Profile
•Above ordinary intelligence
•Languid, heavy feeling throughout body
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
•Loss of memory and energy
•Erotomania
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Chronic occipital headaches, periodic
•Headache occurring in Bright's disease
•Seminal emissions
•Seminal emissions occurring about 3 a.m. every third night
•Seminal emissions leaving patient very weak and debilitated
•Aggravation: every change of weather, especially in hot weather and before and during thunderstorms
•Dull, heavy feeling in head
•Sticky, pasty mouth
•Dry throat
•Poor appetite
•Belches torrents of tasteless flatus after eating, followed by relief and diarrhoea
•Inclined to constipation at other times
•Dull, aching pain in back
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Profound neurasthenia and nervous exhaustion.
Clarke
Brain-fag from overwork or sexual excess.
Clarke
Chronic, periodic occipital headaches.
Clarke
Threatened cerebral paralysis, especially in children.
Clarke
Seminal emissions occurring at 3 a.m.
Clarke
Headache associated with Bright's disease.
Clarke
Erotomania.
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Belching of torrents of tasteless flatus after eating.
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Dull, aching pain in the back.
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Languid, heavy feeling throughout the body.
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📋 Clinical Indications
Conditions Clarke associates with this remedy — no detailed symptom-by-system breakdown exists for this entry.
Bright's diseaseheadaches ofExhaustionFacial paralysisHeadachesNymphomaniaParalysis agitansPriapismSatyriasisSeminal emissionsSpinal weakness
Open in Clarke ↗🔑 Modalities
✨ Clarke Exclusive↓Worse from
Change of weather
seminal emissions
↑Better from
Eating
belching of flatus
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Picricum Acidum →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
Compiled from classical homeopathic texts in the public domain. Click any active source badge to open the original text. For educational and reference purposes only. Always consult a qualified homeopath for treatment.