Hydrocyanicum acidum

Sudden effects; collapse; spasms; apoplexy. Lacks reaction. Cramps every where. Evacuations cease. Lightning-like jerks from head to feet. .................... Fear of death. Loud, involuntary cries. Sinks down unconscious. Intense cerebral congestion. Prolonged faints. Pale or bluish face. Cramps in masseters; in nape. Mouth dry. Taste pussy; metallic; astringent. Noisy swallowing. Gasping, irregular, slow breathing. Asphyxia. Cholera. Dry, tickling, night cough. Heart: failure; compression at. Contracted dorsal muscles. Blue exanthema. Pulse, failing; unequal; with occasional strong beats. Distended blood-vessels; writhing in them. Icy coldness; < hands.

Full moon. Suppressions. Storms.

Brain. Heart: Circulation. Respiration. Epigastrium.

Related: Agar. Cup. Laur.

Lecture LI — Nitric, Hydrocyanic and Picric acids

Hydrocyanic Acid.

f Spasms; epilepsy; tetanus.

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Scarlatina.

(^ Heart; cough.

Hydrocyanic acid acts upon the cerebro-spinal nervous system, and particularly upon the medulla and upper portion of the spinal cord. It produces convulsions which are very much like those of the fullydeveloped epileptic attack. Dr. Hughes, of Brighton, England, recommends it as a specific for epilepsy. This, of course, it is not. To cure any disease, you will have to take into consideration the symptoms of each case, and prescribe accordingly.

Hydrocyanic acid also produces a tetanus which resembles very much that produced by Nux vomica. The body is stiffened and thrown back, there is cramp in the nape of the neck like Cicuta; breathing comes in paroxysms, the jaws are set, there is foaming at the mouth, but the face is flushed.

It is also useful in convulsions during severe attacks of illness, when the face is blue, and the prostration is very great. There are gasping breathing, clutching at the heart, and livid color of the surface of the body.

You may also give Hydrocyanic acid for very severe cases of prostration, with approaching paralysis of the brain and lungs, and when there is gurgling from the throat to the stomach when swallowing. In cholera, Hydrocyanic acid is to be placed by the side of Camphor, being indicated in marked collapse with sudden cessation of all discharges, as vomiting and purging.

In scarlatina it is indicated in almost hopeless cases of a malignant type, in which the rash is livid from the very beginning. The feet are almost always cold.

Hydrocya?iic acid may be given for the cough of heart disease when it is reflex from organic changes in the heart. It may also be used for the dry tickling cough of consumptives.

You may prefer Laurocerasus for the dry, teasing cough of consumptives, worse at night, and indeed for heart cough. You may also give it for cough with expectoration which contains little specks of blood scattered through it.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Sixth and higher potencies.