Amylenum nitrosum

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

AMYLENUM NITROSUM

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Keynotes

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.

What the other books say about Amylenum nitrosum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Amylenum nitrosum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Amylenum nitrosum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Amylenum nitrosum — Keynotes, pp. 29–30. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/amylenum-nitrosum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.