Glonoinum

distended or being smaller. Bursting, expansion or enlarged feeling of eyes, head, tongue, etc. Pains that come long after injuries. .................... Confused, bewildered; loses himself. Sinks down unconscious. Sun-stroke. Apoplexy. Congestion to head in suppressed menses, eclampsia, albuminuria, etc. WAVES; OF TERRIBLE BURSTING, POUNDING HEADACHE, as if standing on head; expanding and contracting or blood surging back and forth from head, < carotids to heart; alternating between temples; < sunshine; < damp days. Cracking, snapping, shocks, explosions or soreness deep in brain. Head lies too heavy on pillow. Pains in malar bones, ending in a headache. Numb, sore vertex. Sharp, shooting behind ears. Red lower eyeballs or lids. Staring, dry, protruding or sunken eyes; lids stick to balls (Guai.). Blind spells. Bluish face. Veins of temples swelled. Heavy tongue. Thick saliva in A.M. Throat feels swelled. Heavy breathing. As of a load on chest. Heart seems full, quivers; strong pulsation, and into (l) neck. Violent palpitation. Cardiac pains; radiate to all parts; toward arms. Cardiac pains, < leaning backward or wine. Neck feels full and stiff. Trembling hands. Awakes fearing apoplexy. Full, tense pulse. Venous pulse. Heat on crown of head and along spine. Burning in small areas or single parts. Heat, with hot sweat. Horrible sinking in epigastrium.

HEAT: ON HEAD. Overheating. OF SUN, lamp, etc. HOT WEATHER. MOTION: SHAKING. JAR. Bending head back. Injury. Wine. Suppressed menses. Fruits. Weight of hat. Hair cut.

Open air. Elevating head. Cool things. Cold application, bathing, etc. A tempestuous remedy, full of VIOLENT PULSATIONS. EBULLITIONS or irregular congestion; general P.; with numbness. UPWARD RUSHES OF BLOOD. As if enlarged,

BRAIN. VASO-MOTORS: CIRCULATION. HEAD (forehead). HEART. Mastoids. Respiration.

Complementary: Bell. Related: Amy-n. Bell.

Glonoine

Nitro- glycerine. C3H5 ( AT02) O3.

Nervous temperament; plethoric, florid, sensitive women; persons readily affected.

Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical injuries and their later consequences; from having the hair cut (Acon., Bell.).

Head troubles : from working under gas-light, when heat falls on head; can not bear heat about the head, heat of stove or walking in the sun (Lach., Nat. c.).

Cerebral congestion, or alternate congestion of the head and heart.

Head: feels enormously large; as if skull were too small for brain ; sunstroke and sun headache ; increases and decreases every day with the sun (KaL, Nat. c.).

Terrific shock in the head, synchronous with the pulse. Throbbing, pulsating headache ; holds head with both hands; could not lie down, “the pillow would beat.’’

Brain feels too large, full, bursting; blood seems to be pumped upwards ; throbs at every jar, step, pulse.

Intense congestion of brain from delayed or suppressed menses ; headache in place of menses.

Headache : occurring after profuse uterine haemorrhage ; rush of blood to head, in pregnant women.

Violent palpitation, with throbbing in carotids; heart’s action labored, oppressed; blood seems to rush to heart, and rapidly to head.

Convulsions of children from cerebral congestion; meningitis, during dentition, cases that seem to call for Belladonna.

Children get sick in the evening when sitting before an open coal fire, or falling asleep there.

Flushes of heat; at the climacteric (Amyl., Bell., Lach.) ; with the catamenia (Fer., Sang.).

Melik, Stram.

Aggravation. — In the sun, exposure to sun’s rays ; gas-light; overheating; jar; stooping; ascending; touch of hat ; having the hair cut.

Lecture XLI — Tabacum, Dulcamara, Capsicum and Glonoin

Glonoin.

Still other effects of this congestion are found in the eye. The eyes feel as if too large and protrude as though bursting out of the head. Glo?win is indicated in eye diseases arising from exposure to very bright light, as in the case of one obliged to work at a desk beneath a hot, bright light, as a bright Argand burner. If you should examine such an eye with the ophthalmoscope, you will find the bloodvessels of the retina distended or, in extreme cases, apoplexy of the retina. Again the effects of the increased blood pressure under Glonoin may be noticed in the symptoms of the mouth. For instance, there is difficulty in conversation from diminished power of the tongue, this due to pressure on the cerebral centres. Wine aggravates all these symptoms. Sometimes the congestion is so great as to make the patient frantic ; he tries to escape, to jump out of the window. Another effect of the cerebral congestion is convulsions. Glonoin is an admirable remedy for the convulsions coming on during labor, puerperal convulsions. The face is bright red and puffed, the pulse full and hard and the urine albuminous. The patient froths at the mouth ; she is unconscious. The hands are clenched, the thumbs being in the palms of the hands. At other times the hands are stretched out as under Secale, and the patient is unconscious. I think that Glonoin is one of the best remedies we have for the congestive form of puerperal convulsions, that form which is announced by rush of blood to the head, especially if there is albuminuria. It is also invaluable in congestion to the head from suppressed menses.

The mental symptoms traceable to this congestion are syncope or sudden fainting, the face being pale or often livid, black spots before the eyes, sudden onset of unconsciousness, well-known streets seem strange to the patient. This last s} 7mptom is one decidedly dangerous.

It may be the forerunner of an actual attack. A person who is subject to apoplectic congestion is suddenly seized in the streets with one of these attacks and does not know where he is. Glonoi?iis the remedy for him.

Another remedy for this loss of location is Petroleum. Glonoin is also useful for the bad effects of fear. I mentioned that briefly when speaking of Opium. There is horrible apprehension and also sometimes the fear of being poisoned. 1ms last symptom places it alongside of Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Rhus fox.

, Bromide of Potassium and Baptisia.

Another use of Glonoin is its application to trauma. It has been found an excellent remedy for pains and other abnormal sensations, following some time after local injuries. Long after the reception of an injury, the part pains or feels sore, or an old scar breaks out again; then Glonoin seems to relieve.

Natrum sulphuricum should be compared, especially after head injuries.

It is necessary for you to remember the distinctions between Belladonna and Glonoin, because they meet in the congestions and inflammations of the brain in children and old persons. They divide the honors in these diseases, because each has a number of confirmed cures. We have the cri encephalique in Glonoin which is not so marked under Belladonna y so it would seem that the Glonoin case is more severe than that of Belladonna. The symptoms which would help you to differentiate the two drugs are these: First, Glonoin; the head symptoms are worse by bending the head backward; worse in damp weather; worse from the application of cold water, which may even cause spasms; better from uncovering; better in the open air; sometimes the patient is obliged to get up and walk about despite the soreness that jarring causes. A very marked symptom which anticipates puerperal convulsions, and which is an early symptom in congestion of the brain from suppressed menses, and a prominent symptom in the bad effects of the heat of the sun, is a feeling as if the head were enormously large. The head seems as if it were expanding. Although that symptom is found under Belladonna, it is not so characteristic of that drug as of Glonoin.

Now Belladonna has relief from bending backward, from sitting up with the head quiet Belladonna usually has relief from covering the head, while Glonoin has relief from uncovering, although the latter symptom is of less importance than the others.

The best antidote to Glonoiji, that I know of, is Aconite.

GL = Glycerin; O = Oxygen; N = Nitrogen Nitro-glycerine Spirits Glycerinus Nitrate Recent German provings of Glonoine confirm the original American provings and clinical indications and bring out very marked nerve disturbances. Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms. The sixth potency alone produced itching all over body with later acne and furuncle formation, also bulimy. Great remedy for congestive headaches, hyperæmia of the brain from excess of heat or cold. Excellent for the intercranial, climacteric disturbances, or due to menstrual suppression. Children get sick when sitting before an open fire. Surging of blood to head and heart. Tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. Violent convulsions, associated with cerebral congestion. Sensation of pulsation throughout body. Pulsating pains. Cannot recognize localities. Sciatica in other-omatous subjects, with cold shriveled limbs; seasickness.

Better, brandy. Worse, in sun; exposure to sun-rays, gas, open fire; jar, stooping, having hair cut; peaches, stimulants; lying down; from 6 am to noon; left side.

Confusion, with dizziness. Effects of sunstroke; heat on head, as in type- setters and workers under gas and electric light. Head heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow. Cannot bear any heat about head. Better from uncovering head. Throbbing headache. Angio-spastic neuralgia of head and face. Very irritable. Vertigo on assuming upright position. Cerebral congestion. Head feels

enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain. Sun headaches; increases and decreases with the sun. Shocks in head, synchronous with pulse. Headache in place of menses. Rush of blood to head in pregnant women. Threatened apoplexy. Meningitis.

Flushed, hot, livid, pale; sweaty; pains in root of nose; faceache. Dusky face.

See everything half light, half dark. Letters appear smaller. Sparks before eyes.

Throbbing; each beat of heart is heard in ears; full feeling.

Pulsating toothache.

Neck feels full. Collars must be opened. Chokes and swells up under ears.

Gastralgia in anæmic patients with feeble circulation. Nausea and vomiting. Faint, gnawing, and empty feeling at pit of stomach. Abnormal hunger.

Constipation with itching, painful hæmorrhoids, with pinching in abdomen before and after stool. Diarrhœa; copious blackish, lumpy stools.

Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion to head. Climacteric flushing.

Laborious action. Fluttering. Palpitation with dyspnœa. Cannot go uphill. Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and fainting spells. Throbbing in the whole body to finger-tips.

Itching all over, worse extremities. Pain in left biceps. Drawing pain in all limbs. Backache.

Antidote: Acon. Compare: Amyl nit; Bellad; Opium; Stram; Verat vir.

Sixth to thirtieth potency. For palliative (non-homeopathic) purposes, in angina pectoris, asthma, heart- failure, etc, physiological doses-i.e, 1-100 of drop-must be given. Here it is the great emergency remedy. The conditions calling for it are small, wiry pulse, pallor, arterial spasm, anæmia of brain, collapse, feeble heart, syncope, dicrotic pulse, vertigo,-the opposite of those indicating a homeopathic dosage. Often thus used to lower the arterial tension in chronic interstitial nephritis.

Glonoinum

Head: The most common feature in this remedy is the surging of blood to the head and to the heart. A patient often describes the state as a feeling as if all the blood in the body must be rushing around the heart, with a sense of heat or a boiling sensation in the region of the heart, or in the left side of the chest.

Again he complains of a surging in the head, a warm glowing sensation in the head or a feeling of intense glowing from the stomach or from the chest up into the head, attended at times with loss of consciousness.

There are also wave-like sensations in the head, as if the skull were being lifted up and lowered, or as if it were being expanded and contracted. Along with this there is most intense pain, sometimes as if the head would burst, sometimes great soreness in the head, or a sense of soreness felt in the skull. Another accompaniment of the surging is great throbbing, synchronous with the heat of the heart, and when the skull has this soreness then the throbbing is like the beating of hammers, and every pulsation is painful, so that there are painful pulsations and sometimes painless pulsations.

The pulsations are tremendous and when they are greatest in the head they are felt also in the extremities. The fingers and toes pulsate, there is pulsation throughout the back, and it seems that the whole body throbs. If this continues a while the soreness in the skull is likely to come on and with it the painful throbbing, every throb is a pain. In this state, with every jar in stepping, and every motion, it seems as if the head would be crushed.

Throbbing: The throbbing becomes more painful from motion. The vomiting which attends this condition relieves. The head is relieved in the open air, it is worse in the warmth, and is often relieved from the application of cold. It is made worse by lying down, or lying, with the head low. In the extremities we have great coldness. The extremities cold, pale and perspiring, the head hot and the face flushed and purple or bright red. The pupils are dilated and the eyes red. Now, if this progresses only a little while, the tongue becomes dry, red and then brown. There is no great thirst, but the mouth is very dry. The eyelids become dry and stick to the eyeballs. At times the skin becomes dry and hot, and the face is red and glistens. All degrees of confusion of mind, even loss of consciousness, will be present.

Headaches: Have I not described to a great extent that which is seen in a typical sunstroke? It is noticeable also that Glonoine symptoms are worse in the heat of summer and relieved in winter. The dull headaches and the continuous headaches are aggravated from warm weather and ameliorated from cold.

They are worse in the sun and better in the shade. All sorts of contrivances will be resorted to by Glonoine patients to keep the sun's beat from the head. When he has had these troubles for years, and it has become a chronic state, he will never go out in the warmth of the sun without an umbrella.

Glonoine corresponds to congestive states in the head that come on suddenly, especially from heat, but also from gaslight, or from any bright light.

The headaches that book-keepers are subject to, especially in those that have at their desk, or over the head, a hot gaslight. The bright light accompanied by the heat so close to the head will make this individual subject to headaches. These headaches are relieved by going into the cold air. The head aches all day when he is at his books, and when he goes home at night and lies down the headache comes on again, and he bas to be bolstered up in bed.

He wants the head high, and cold applications to the head; the headache is relieved from a long sleep, not generally relieved from siesta. From lying down and taking a nap the headache is sometimes aggravated, but from a good long sleep, a night's sleep, he is refreshed. His feet and hands become warm, the feverish state, and the throbbing all over the body subsides and he wakes up in the morning comfortable; but if he goes out in the sun, or goes to the gaslight, he comes home with the headache again. Since electric lights have been brought into use there is not so much heat in the light, but gas throws out an immense amount of heat in its light, The child comes down with cerebro-spinal meningitis, the neck is drawn back, the face is intensely hot, red and shiny, the eyes congested or glassy, the head and upper part of the body are very warm, the feet and hands and lower portions of the body and the extremities are cold and covered with cold sweat.

It is a most violent congestion to the brain and spinal cord. Convulsions come on, convulsions throughout all the limbs, the neck and whole body drawn back, opisthotonos. Cold feels good to the head; heat feels good to the extremities. The warm room increases the convulsions. When the lower limbs are covered with clothing in a cool room and the windows open the convulsions are relieved and the patient breaths more easily. With this head congestion there is difficulty in breathing and audible palpitation.

The head is made worse from shaking or jar, from stooping, from bending head backwards, after lying down, when ascending steps. It is aggravated in damp weather, and in the sun, while working under the gaslight, after overheating with copious sweat, and from the touch of the hat.

The weight of the hat is a very common aggravation in headaches in school children. The little ones work all day in a hot stuffy room and feel better in the open air, but the weight of the hat seems an encumberance as in Nitric acid and Calc. phos.

The Glonoine patient is also worse from wine and from stimulants, and from mental application. When the headache is on he cannot think, and he cannot write. An additional hindrance to writing is that he trembles so that he cannot write. Trembling and throbbing of the fingers so that he is unable to do his work or perform any delicate work with the fingers or hands.

We have puerperal convulsions with such an appearance as I have described. We may have the same violence in congestive chills, or in any type of congestion of the brain.

Brain: There is a milder form of trouble that calls for its use, a condition corresponding to the chronic types of disease. This milder form exists where the patient has simply what might be called a hyperemia of the brain, a rush of blood to the head when able to be about. It comes in spells, comes in moments when be least expects it; while walking on the street he feels a surging to the brain like a flush of heat and a flush on the face, his hands tremble, and the hands and feet become cold, he breaks out in a sweat; he looks around him and does not know which way to go home, he does not know where his dwelling is. He looks in the faces of friends and they seem strange, he loses his way when be is near home. It is a confusion which soon passes away, and he feels better again. But these spells come closer together, and constitute the earlier stages of softening of the brain. This surging of blood to the brain is attended with dizziness; he rolls and staggers, and must take hold of things, and especially does he suffer in this way from a warm day, or from the heat and light of the sun. In threatened apoplexy, and when apoplexy has taken place, if the violent pressure keeps on, think of this remedy. The clot may not be at first in the place to take life, it may be outside of the life line, but if the congestion continues that blood clot will increase.

Such medicines as Opium and Glonoine relieve the blood pressure when the symptoms agree. They equalize the circulation, and the patient may not die. A paralytic condition in one arm or leg may go on for a while, and at the end of many weeks or months the motion may be regained, and the patient recover; whereas if the suitable remedy had not been administered to reduce that blood pressure the continued congestion would certainly have ended in death in a few days.

The stertorous breathing, the coma, the history, and the general appearance of an apoplectic patient are found in this remedy, but the intense heat that comes on in many cases of apoplexy along with the shiny skin and coldness of the extremities are the guiding features.

Opium is the most frequently indicated medicine, but it must not be administered in large doses. The highest potencies are the best and one single dose is enough.

In a case noted it says, "frantic attempts to jump from the window."

The headache was so intense that the patient became violent and attempted to jump from the window. You may rest assured that with his headache there was all this determination of blood to the head. It is enough to make one frantic to feel this continued hammering upon every fraction of the skull. He cannot lie down, and he cannot walk, because every step increases the jar, so you see why it is that the word "frantic" is wed there. The patient becomes frantic with the pain.

Another expression used is "disinclination to step around."

The patient wants the room perfectly still. If sitting up in bed, you will often find a Glonoine patient with both hands pressing upon the head with all the power possible until the arms are perfectly exhausted. He wants the head pressed upon all sides. Wants it bandaged, or a tight cap fitted down upon it.

The headache is worse from bending backward and from stooping forward. There are times when the headache is so severe that lying back upon the pillow cannot be tolerated. There is a sense of great heaviness in the head. You will notice, in reading over these congestive headaches as reported, that each patient has a different way of describing his headache and yet all have the same story to tell, that of violent determination of blood to the head.

"Some months after being violently jarred by being thrown from a carriage, a sensitiveness of the upper part of the back and neck came on." There are two strong characteristics of Glonoine in that cure, viz:

"< from wine and the < from lying down." The other symptoms might have pointed to other remedies, but these two features are there. It is interesting when reading a case, if you have first a knowledge of the Materia Medica, to note what symptoms are verified when you do not know the Materia Medica then the case is confusing. Now, as we glance over that description we see at once these two things verified and the rest is fairly consistent. Very commonly the pain begins in the occiput and goes to the forehead, but the whole head is in a state of throbbing. But, we notice more particularly, the "aggravation from motion and the least noise." This patient will sit in perfect quietude and silence for hours. You will be astonished to, know how long a Glonoine patient can sit without moving a muscle, because motion is so painful. Also "aggravation from lying with the head low and after sleeping." it is important for you to know what that sleeping means. As I have said before, the patient very often is worse after a little sleep, but the common state is relief after a prolonged sleep. If he can sleep long enough it will subside, unless it be the congestive sleep, or coma, and then it is a different thing. "Amelioration from cold and external pressure." "Vertex burning hot, likewise upper part of back." The whole crown of the head feels as if it were covered by a hot iron, as if an oven were close by. Hot, especially in the back of the neck and between the shoulders.

The burning heat seems to appear at the top of the head and extend down between the shoulders; a sensation of heat, as from a band. "Face bluish, with a heavy, stupid expression." The face is bright red, but if the condition becomes severe the face assumes a dusky appearance, and the longer this state lasts the more dusky it becomes; that is true with apoplexy and also with sunstroke. When the sunstroke first comes on the face is bright red, intensely hot and shiny, but as the heat increases the face grows dusky, even to purple. In all of these cerebral congestions there is a stupid, heavy expression, even going on to coma.

"Frequent deep inspirations."

With this congestion of the head there is commonly vomiting, palpitation of the heart, pain in the stomach, great difficulty in breathing and finally loss of consciousness. In another clinical case reported we read:

"Every pulsation is felt as if the head would burst."

Now, suppose the head bones were already intensely sensitive and sore and the head filled as full as possible with blood, and then you commenced hammering upon the blood column you can understand that the pain would be most intense and would soon end in stupefaction. "Sunken eyes, bluish pallor under the eyes." "Red eyes, with photophobia; optical illusions. Black specks before the eyes; blindness." "Face pale, in spite of high fever."

In all of these cerebral congestions of great violence the pulse fluctuates; it even becomes fine and wiry and hard; sometimes becomes irregular and also slow.

Another common accompaniment of these congestions is tumefaction about the neck. The neck feels full. The collar must be opened as it causes choking, as if he would suffocate. Even in the chronic state in the one who stands upon the street corner not knowing his way home because of the surging of blood in the head, that state is accompanied by choking and the collar causes uneasiness about the neck like Lach. He chokes and swells up under the ears. There is not only a sensation, but with the sensation there is actual swelling. Tumefaction about the neck and throat, under the chin, and the glands become swollen. The next circumstance in the text that brings forth the general aspect of the remedy is in connection with the catamenia. The menstrual flow does not appear, it is delayed, with violent congestion to the head, violent headaches and these symptoms already described. These congestions may also come on during the menstrual period. Again, if a uterine hemorrhage stops suddenly, or a copious flow from any part stops suddenly, the patient comes down with great violence and the blood rushes to the head. There are many conditions and complaints in life where we have surging of blood to the head, when this will be the remedy wanted. Persons who are subject to palpitation with dyspnea, upon any effort, he cannot go uphill, he cannot walk along the pavement without bringing on palpitation and dyspnea; any little exertion or excitement brings on the rush of blood to the heart and fainting spells; fainting, spells in women, who are not supposed to be subject to fainting. Great weakness, palpitation, trembling of the limbs, shaking of one or both hands as with palsy.

"Laborious action of the heart" is a strong feature of the remedy; pulsation all over.

Fluttering in the region of the heart. Pulse quick, irregular, slow or quick and wiry. There are some persons that are apparently plethoric; very much affected by the slightest exertion and who have pulsation all over; pulsation in a warm room. They are sometimes relieved by opening the window if it is cool, by fanning, by cold air, by cold applications to the head. In keeping with the remedy, this is clinical application of it: "Children get sick in the night after sitting up at an open fire or falling asleep there." "Bad effects from having the hair cut." Bell. is generally thought of for taking cold in the head from having the hair cut.

"Bad effects from being exposed to the sun's rays."

"Bad effects from sunstroke."