Hydrocyanicum Acidum

▲   GENERAL

General

One of the most toxic agents known. Convulsions and paralysis express the action of Hydrocyanicum Acidum. Spasmodic constriction in larynx, feeling of suffocation, pain and tightness in chest, palpitation; pulse weak, irregular. Singing sensation at the epigastrium. Hysterical and epileptic convulsions. Cyanosis. Collapse, due to some pulmonary condition not a cardiac collapse. Catalepsy. Cholera. Stage of collapse ( Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Veratrum Album ^Verat.) Coldness. Tetanus narcolepsy.

Dose

Sixth and higher potencies.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Cicuta Virosa ^Cicuta; Oenanthe Crocata ^Oenanthe; Camphora ^Camph.; Laurocerasus ^Lauroc.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Ammon.; Camphora ^Camph.; Opium.

▲   MIND

Mind

Unconscious

Wild delirium

Fear of imaginary troubles

FEARS everything - horses, wagons, houses falling, etc.

Behaviour

biting

makes gestures; of hands; involuntary movements; over head

Dazed; during vertigo, dizziness

Delirium; wild

Fantasies; of exaltation; frightful

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

irritability

irritability; afternoon

laughing; loudly

sentimental

unhappy; despair

discouraged

unhappy; lamenting, regretting; moaning, groaning

unhappy; sadness, mental depression; afternoon

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); violent

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

impaired thinking; confusion

open air

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

Insecure, uncertain, scared

fear

fear; of others approaching; of vehicles

fear; in a crowd

fear; of misfortune

fear; of being run over, on going out

fear; of imaginary troubles

Memory; forgetful

Perception; senses; acute

Quiet, peace (or lack of); feeling of tranquillity

Restlessness, nervousness

Talking, conversation; speech; incoherent

Unconsciousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Open air

From movement

Perception of objects distorted; objects seem to move

Reeling

While standing; with staggering

Spinning

▲   HEAD

Head

Brain feels on fire

Pupils motionless or dilated

Supraorbital neuralgia, with flushing on same side of face.

Brain; pulsating in brain; beating of brain, against skull

Coldness; forehead

Congestion (see pulsation)

Pulled

forwards

sideways; upon shoulders

Hot

Movements in head

swimming, as from alcohol (see confusion of mind)

on stooping

knocking in head; as of brain against skull

Movements of head; falling (see heaviness); forward

Prickling

Pulsating; on stooping

Weakness; after exertion

Headache

Violent stupefying headache

Heaviness (see pain

pressing)

pressing); evening

Pain, headache

night

air

open (see walking in open air)

from certain movements; from stooping

with other pains; pain in neck

with other pains; pain in nape of neck

pain in small spot

in forehead

open air

back of head (occiput)

open air

extending to other parts; down back of neck

forehead and back of head (occiput)

temples

and forehead

forehead and top of head (vertex)

boring, digging, screwing; forehead

burning; as if brain were on fire

burning; brain

pressing (see bursting, pulling)

evening

open air

dull

forehead

back of head (occiput)

back of head (occiput); downward

back of head (occiput); extending to other parts; downward

back of head (occiput); extending to other parts; forward

back of head (occiput); at sides

sides

sides; extending to forehead

temples

top of head (vertex)

top of head (vertex); extending to other parts; forehead

shooting (see cutting, piercing, stabbing, shocks, stitches, etc.); extending to other parts; different places

stitching, sudden, sharp

Shocks, blows, jerks, etc. (see jerking pain, pulsation, plug, nail)

▲   EYES

Eyes

Lids

opening eyes difficult

half open

eyes closed; half open

eyes open; eyes permanently open

Distorted

Glassy appearance

Movement of eyeballs

turned; left

turned; upward; to left

Pain

extending to other parts; outward

aching

pressing; in corner; inner

Paralysis; lids

Protrusion

Pupils

dilated

insensitive to light

Staring

Twitching; lids

Wild look

Vision

Foggy

Lost vision, blindness

Moving; objects seem to be moving

▲   EARS

Ear

Noises in ear

blowing

buzzing

reverberating, echoes

ringing

roaring

rushing

Pain

boring pain in ear

pressing

Hearing

Impaired

Lost, deafness

▲   FACE

Face

Jaws clenched in rigid spasm

Froths at mouth

Pale, bluish lips.

Bloated (see swelling, congestion)

Coldness

Congestion (see heat)

Convulsions, spasms

jaws

Distortion

Expression

fierce

old looking

Motions of jaw

clenched jaw

lockjaw

Lips

discoloration; bluish

discoloration; pale

Perspiration

Skin

discoloration; black

discoloration; bluish

from oxygen starvation

discoloration; dark

discoloration; earthy

discoloration; greyish

discoloration; pale

discoloration; red; bluish red

discoloration; sallow

drawn, pulled

dryness (see skin)

out-breaks on skin; acne; chronic, especially nose and cheeks

Sunken

Swelling

▲   NOSE

Nose

Discharge from nose

greenish

greenish; greenish-brown

hard, dry

Dryness; inside

Pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; inside

Skin or lining of nose; discoloration; bluish; wings

Swelling; wings

Tingling; inside

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Froth, foam, from mouth

Open

Speech; unable to speak

Saliva

Salivation

Tongue

Sensation of coldness; tongue

Discoloration; tongue; white

Paralysis; tongue

Tongue

lame tongue

movement of tongue; protruded

stiff tongue

Taste

Taste

strong and sharp (acrid)

offensive

putrid

sweetish

▲   THROAT

Throat

Larynx (voice box); scraping, clearing

spasm in vocal cords, stopping breathing

Choking, constricting; trachea (wind pipe)

Dryness; larynx

Feels hot

gullet

Inflammation; larynx

Irritation

larynx

trachea (wind pipe)

Mucus; larynx

Pain

swallowing; on swallowing

gullet

burning; air passages

burning; larynx

sore

sudden, sharp; larynx

Paralysis; gullet

Roughness; air passage

Scraping

Sounds; gullet gurgling; when drinking

Spasms, convulsions etc.; gullet

Swallowing; impossible

Swelling; larynx; swollen sensation, no swelling visible

Voice

hoarseness

powerful

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Violent palpitation

Pulse, Weak, irregular

Cold extremities

Torturing pain in chest

Angina pectoris ( Spigel.; Oxalicum Acidum ^Oxal-ac.)

Anxiety; region of heart

Constriction, tension

Heart

dilatation of heart

palpitations

Movements in and of chest

convulsions

fluttering

Murmurs

Oppressed feeling

Pain

region of heart

aching

pressing

heart

stitching, sudden, sharp

breast bone

tearing; sides

Paralysis

heart

lung

Skin

out-breaks on skin

out-breaks on skin; spots (see discoloration)

Respiration

Noisy and agitated breathing

Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough

Asthma, with contraction of throat

Whooping-cough

Paralysis of lungs ( Aspidos.) Marked cyanosis; venously congested lung.

Accelerated

on going to sleep

Asphyxia; cholera

Asthma attack

periodic

spasmodic

Deep

Difficult (dyspnea)

with cough

Forcible

Gasping

Impeded, obstructed

Imperceptible

Interrupted

Irregular

Loud

Moaning

Problems come on suddenly

Rattling

Slow

Snoring

Like deep snoring

Wheezing

▲   COUGH

Cough

Evening

Dry cough

from scraping in larynx

from tickling in larynx

From emotions; nervous

Hacking cough

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); from irritation in air passages; in larynx

from irritation in air passages

in wind pipe

from prickling in wind pipe

scraping; from larynx

Painful to cough; stitching, sudden, sharp pain; in larynx, from coughing

Comes on suddenly

Rattling

Short

Intermittent

Suffocating

Tickling

larynx

throat

Tormenting

Violent

Whooping

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Evening

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage)

Blackish

yellow lumps in centre

Yellow

Mucous

▲   SKIN

Skin

Coldness

Discoloration; bluish

Dry

Hard; with thickening

Out-breaks on skin

dry

pus-filled pimples; itching

pus-filled pimples; red

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Skin; itching; neck

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Tongue cold

Drink rumbles through throat and stomach

gastralgia; worse when stomach is empty

Great sinking at pit of stomach

Pulsative pain in precordial region.

Coldness

Pain; burning; after eating

Skin; discoloration; brown spots

Bladder; urination; delayed, difficult; must wait for urine to start

Kidneys

pain; extending over kidneys

pain; extending to other parts; upper, middle region of abdomen

Stomach

gurgling

gurgling; when drinking

inflammation

sensation of lump

pain; violent

pulsation

sinking (see emptiness)

without thirst

Vomiting

vomiting; black

vomiting; water

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Cholera

Involuntary stool

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Burning (includes hot)

Cloudy

Colour; yellow; light

Sediment

cloudy

red

thick

Clear as water

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); pain; burning; during urination

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Coldness

upper limbs; fingers

Contraction of muscles and tendons

upper limbs

hand

fingers

spasmodic

lower limbs

Hands and feet; clenching fingers (see extremities; convulsions, contraction)

Movements and positions

convulsion

convulsion; with tetanus

convulsion; upper limbs

convulsion; lower limbs

movement difficult

flexed; during convulsion

flexed; upper limbs

spasmodically

flexed; thigh, flexed on to abdomen

loss of power of movement

trembling

hand

Pain; fingers; joints

Paralysis

when walking up hill or stairs

hand

lower limbs

extending to upper limbs

foot

Skin

discoloration; paleness

discoloration; upper limbs; red

discoloration; knee; dark, depending on position

discoloration; knee; reddish

itching; like insects crawling on skin

thigh

itching; upper limbs

ulcers; lower limbs

varicose

Stiffness

forearm

fingers

lower limbs

thigh

Weakness

lower limbs

evening

foot; afternoon

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Localised; cerebro-spinal fever

Continued fever

Perspiration with heat

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Yawning, with shivering

Irresistible drowsiness

Vivid, incoherent dreams.

Prolonged sleep

Sleepiness, tiredness

Yawning

Convulsions

Convulsions

children

without consciousness

epileptic

in women

from childbirth

with tetanus rigidity

as in kidney failure (uremic)

Perspiration

While walking (see exertion)

Generalities

Open air

Constriction; externally

Faintness, fainting

prolonged

Knotted sensation internally (see ball, sensation of)

Numbness; externally

Pain; pressing; internally

Paralysis

extends upwards

one-sided; left

of organs

painless

Pulse

slow

soft

Lack of reaction

Stretching; convulsive, comes on suddenly

Tension; internally

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

afternoon

evening

from movement

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