STRYCHNINUM PURUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Spasms of muscles
  • Cramps from undue reflex excitability of the cord
  • Spasms of the bladder
  • Stimulates the central nervous system
  • Mental activities increased
  • Special senses rendered more acute
  • Respiration increased
  • Reflexes more active
  • Stiffness in muscles, face, and neck
  • Opisthotonos
  • Tetanic convulsions with opisthotonos
  • Muscles relax between paroxysms
  • Worse slightest touch, sound, odor
  • Tetanus
  • Explosive nervousness
  • Pains and sensations come suddenly and return at intervals
  • Restless
  • Over-irritability
  • Full and bursting headache
  • Heat in eyes
  • Vertigo
  • Roaring in ears
  • Jerking of head forwards
  • Scalp sore
  • Itching of scalp and nape
  • Hot, painful, protruding, staring eyes
  • Pupils dilated
  • Sparks before eyes
  • Spasmodic contraction of ocular muscles
  • Twitching and trembling of lids
  • Hearing very acute
  • Burning, itching, and roaring in ears
  • Pale, anxious, livid face
  • Jaws stiffened
  • Lower jaw spasmodically closed
  • Dry, contracted throat
  • Feeling of a lump in throat
  • Deglutition impossible
  • Burning along esophagus
  • Spasms of esophagus
  • Violent itching in roof of mouth
  • Constant retching
  • Violent vomiting
  • Nausea of pregnancy
  • Sharp pain in abdominal muscles
  • Griping pain in bowels
  • Feces discharged involuntarily during spasms
  • Very obstinate constipation
  • Desire for coitus
  • Any touch on body excites a voluptuous sensation
  • Spasm of muscles about larynx
  • Excessive dyspnea
  • Sharp, contractive pains in muscles of chest
  • Persistent cough, recurring after influenza
  • Rigidity of cervical muscles
  • Sharp pain in nape and down spine
  • Back stiff
  • Violent jerks in spinal column
  • Icy sensation down spine
  • Limbs stiff
  • Rheumatism with stiff joints
  • Violent jerking, twitching, and trembling
  • Tetanic convulsions and opisthotonos
  • Spasms provoked by slightest touch and attempt to move
  • Shocks in the muscles
  • Cramp-like pains
  • Cold chills down spine
  • Perspiration in a stream down head and chest
  • Lower extremities cold
  • Itching of whole body, especially nose
  • Icy sensation down the spine

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