Hydrocyanicum acidum

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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Mind

Unconscious. Wild delirium. Fear of imaginary troubles. Fears everything-horses, wagons, houses falling, etc.

General

Prussic Acid One of the most toxic agents known. Convulsions and paralysis express the action of this remedy. 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 (Ars; Verat). Coldness. Tetanus narcolepsy.

Head

Violent stupefying headache. Brain feels on fire. Pupils motionless or dilated. Supra-orbital neuralgia, with flushing on same side of face.

Face

Jaws clenched in rigid spasm. Froths at mouth. Pale, bluish lips.

Stomach

Tongue cold. Drink rumbles through throat and stomach. Gastralgia; worse when stomach is empty. Great sinking at pit of stomach. Pulsative pain in præcordial region.

Respiratory

Noisy and agitated breathing. Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough. Asthma, with contraction of throat. Whooping-cough. Paralysis of lungs (Aspidos). Marked cyanosis; venously congested lung.

Heart

Violent palpitation. Pulse, weak irregular. Cold extremities. Torturing pain in chest. Angina pectoris (Spigel; Oxal ac).

Sleep

Yawning with shivering. Irresistible drowsiness. Vivid, incoherent dreams.

Relationships

Antidotes: Ammon; Camph; Opium. Compare: Cicuta; Oenanthe; Camph; Lauroc.

Dose

Sixth and higher potencies.

What the other books say about Hydrocyanicum acidum

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

Hydrocyanicum acidum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Hydrocyanicum acidum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Hydrocyanicum acidum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/hydrocyanicum-acidum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.