Amylenum nitrosum

Flushing heats; then drenching (unilateral) sweat. Dilated cerebral vessels. Throbbings; < head. .................... Blood surges to head; with fiery red face. Easy blushing. Migraine, with pallor (Ars.). Aching, backward, along left floating ribs. Tumultuous palpitation. Constriction at heart. Full, soft pulse. Stretching and yawning, with hiccough.

CLIMACTERIC. SLIGHT CAUSES. Emotions. Heat. Close room.

VASO-MOTOR NERVES: Circulation. HEAD. Heart. Respiration.

Related: Glo. Lach.

Amylenum nitrosum

Nitrite of Amyl. C^oH^iO, NOs-

For nervous, sensitive, plethoric women, during or after the menopause.

Often palliative in incurable cases; very important as regards euthanasia.

Rapidly dilates the arteries and accelerates, but later weakens and retards the pulse.

Intense surging of blood to face and head (Bell., Glon.).

Craves fresh air; opens clothing, removes bed covering and opens windows in the coldest weather (Arg. n., Lach., Sulph.).

Flushings: start from face, stomach, various parts of body, followed by sweatings, often hot, profuse; abruptly limited, parts below are icy cold ; followed by great prostration.

Face flushes at the slightest emotion (Coca, Fer.).

Blushing : chronic or acute ; sea sickness.

Hemicrania, especially when afflicted side is palid.

Collar seems too tight, must loosen it (Lach.).

Angina pectoris; tumultuous heart action; intense throbbing of heart and carotids (Cion.).

Constant stretching for hours; impossible to satisfy the desire; would seize the bed and call for help to stretch.

Profound and repeated yawning (Kali c. ).

Puerperal convulsions immediately after delivery.

Relations.— Similar: to. Bell., Cac., Coca, Fer., Cion., Lach.

Aggravation.— Mental or physical exertion.

Acts promptly by inhalation; resuscitates persons sinking under anaesthetics.

Crude drug chiefly palliative; must be repeated as

3^ patient becomes accustomed to it; is curative in the stronger higher potencies.

The cure more frequently depends upon the strength of the potency than many who have not put it to the curative test imagine.

Amyl Nitrite On inhaling this drug, it rapidly dilates all arterioles an capillaries, producing flushings of face, heat, and throbbing in the head.––Superficial arterial hyperæmia. Palpitation of the heart and similar conditions are readily cured by

it, especially the flushings and other discomforts at climacteric. Hiccough and yawning. Often relieves temporarily epileptic convulsions. Seasickness.

Anxiety, as if something might happen; must have fresh air. Surging of blood to head and face; sensation as if blood would start through skin, with heat and redness. Flushings, followed by sweat at climacteric. Ears hyperæmic. Throbbing.

Constriction; collar seems too tight.

After-pains; hæmorrhage associated with facial flushing. Climacteric headache and flushes of heat, with anxiety and palpitation.

Dyspnœa and asthmatic feelings. Great oppression and fullness of chest; spasmodic, suffocative cough. Præcordial anxiety. Tumultuous action of heart. Pain and constriction around heart. Fluttering at slightest excitement.

Constant stretching for hours. Veins of hands dilated; pulsations felt in tips of fingers.

Much flushing of heat; sometimes followed by cold and clammy skin and profuse sweat. Throbbing throughout whole body. Abnormal sweat after influenza.

Compare: Glonoine; Lachesis. Antidotes: Cactus; Strychn; Ergot.

Third potency. For palliations. In all conditions where the blood-vessels are spasmodically contracted, as in angina pectoris, epileptic seizure, megrim, accompanied by cold, pallor, etc, also in paroxysms of asthma, chloroform asphyxia, inhalation of the Amyl nit will give immediate relief. For this non-homeopathic application, two to five minims (put up in pearls) dropped on a handkerchief and inhaled may be required.