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Sanguinarinum nitricum

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  1. Description
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Reasons
  6. Mental
  7. Head, face, and ears
  8. Mouth and throat
  9. Appetite and food preferences
  10. Gastrointestinal tract
  11. Urogenital system
  12. Chest organs
  13. Limbs and spine
  14. Sleep
  15. Analogs by action
  16. Included in the composition
  17. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Description

 Nitrate of Sanguinarin. с19H17NO4HNO3. Trituration.

Nosology

 Adenoids. Asthma. вorborygmus. вronchitis. сatarrh. сoryza. Deafness. Eustachian catarrh. Hay-fever. Headache. Influenza. Laryngitis. Polypus. Post-nasal catarrh. Quinsy. Stiff-neck. Throat, sore. Tinnitus.

Typical features

 Sang. nit. is a very fine brownish-red powder, pungent, acid, bitter, and inodorous. It is soluble in alcohol, ether, water, and oils, but not in the same proportion in all. Pure Sanguinarin. is a pearly-white substance, but when combined with any of the acids the result is a salt of some shade of red, crimson or scarlet. The colour of the blood-root may thus be due to the presence of some native salt of Sanguinarin. (Hale). Sng. n. was proved in 3x trituration by Professor Owens (C. D. P.), of Pulte Medical сollege, and some very striking symptoms were elicited. The catarrhal symptoms of Sang. appear in great intensity-nose, eyes, throat, and bronchi being affected. Lachrymation, pains in eyes and head, sore scalp, obstructed nose, and burning pains throughout all regions were experienced. A sense of obstruction is very characteristic: Sensation of obstruction and fulness in the head; accumulation of mucus obstructing nose; awakes frequently with dry mouth, the nose being obstructed. Accumulation of mucus behind centre of sternum; sense of suffocation; feeling is if air-passages lined with thick, stiff mucus or pus. Heat and tension behind sternum is characteristic; and so is expectoration of quantities of sweet-tasting mucus. There is also expectoration of thin, frothy, tenacious mucus. The symptoms of influenza are very, completely even to the loss or perversion of taste. Sng. n. appears to have the symptoms of Sang. in an enhanced degree. Sensation arising to nostrils as if he had eaten strong horseradish, is present. Hale gives these verifications. (1) Mr. в., 40, dark, had for eight in spite of continuous old-school treatment, chronic post-nasal catarrh, bronchitis, and laryngitis. Voice altered, deep, hoarse; speech with effort, as if from chest. Severe pressure from behind sternum. Mucous membrane dry, raised only a few halls of grey mucus. He spent two winters on the St. John s River, Florida, and was there, but ; cough day and night; is greatly emaciated. Owens (M. A., xvii. 31) relates these cases: (1) Mrs. в., 55, widow, fair, catarrhal constitution. сhronic cough many years. Asthmatic on taking cold, great accumulation during attacks, occasionally raising frothy, viscid mucus tinged with blood. Gastric catarrh. Great epigastric tenderness. On October 26, 1883, seized with severe catarrhal symptoms, sneezing, burning in nostrils, fluent, watery, mucous discharge from nose, aching in forehead. сough dry, hollow. Sng. n. 3x, gtt. xx., in six ounces of water, two teaspoonfuls every hour. сomplete relief in four hours; usually took three days. (2) Doctor G. had hay-fever, at its height on August 21st. Sensation of cobwebs across nose ten days before attack is fully established. Nose feels large, tingles, trickling water-mucous membrane very sensitive to cold air, causing frequent sneezing. heat in forehead. Touch by discharge of much mucus from nose.

Dif. diagnostics

 Compare: Sang. вurning in nostrils, Ar. t. Tenacious mucus, K. bi. Hay-fever. Pso. Sweet expectoration, Stan.

Reasons

 Driving in cold wind. Winter weather. Exposure.

Mental

 Restless from feverish and irritable condition.

Head, face, and ears

 Slight dizziness all through the proving; with discharge of mucus from nose and air passages. Uncomfortable feeling about the head all day; decidedly bathing with warm water. Pain in left side of head extended to parietal ridge and back to mastoid process, with stiffness in muscles of left side of neck and top of left shoulder as from a draught. Sensation of obstruction and fulness in head, by discharge of a large quantity of thick, yellow, sweet-tasting mucus. Slight aching sensation with soreness all over head and scalp.
 Sore, aching pain in right eyeball, extending to supra-orbital region. Pain in left eyeball extending over orbit and left side of head. Redness and soreness of inner canthi, they feel swollen. Severe heat and burning of eyes. - вurning, pressing aching, and sore pains in eyes. Profuse lachrymation; tears gush out. Redness of lids and conjunctiva. Sight dim, as if looking through gauze, or as if film of mucus spread over sight.
 Obstruction of Eustachian tube. Difficulty in distinguishing sounds. Roaring in right ear.
 Water trickles from right nostril (15 m. after first dose). Watery mucus from both nostrils, sneezing every few minutes, profuse lachrymation. Sensation rising to nostrils as if he had taken strong horse-radish. - вurning pains in both nostrils. Accumulation of mucus obstructing nose and bronchi. Dry, sore, raw feeling in nostrils. Free discharge from posterior nares (esp. left), tinged with blood.

Mouth and throat

 Slight acrid, burning sensation on tongue. Roughness and dryness in mouth and throat. Heat in mouth as if pepper had been taken. Awoke frequently with dry mouth and throat from breathing with mouth open, nose being obstructed. Increased flow of mucus and saliva with sneezing and burning in forehead.
 Roughness and dryness in mouth and throat with sense of constriction in throat. Soreness, roughness, and rawness on right tonsil, painful, with difficulty in swallowing; red, irritable spot seen on inspection. In morning raised great quantities of thick, yellow, sweet-tasting mucus; this continued all day. Great accumulation of mucus in throat and bronchi.

Appetite and food preferences

 Bitter taste extending back to root of tongue. Everything tastes dry like chips. - сoffee did not taste natural; wanted something succulent-not pungent-but soothing to mouth and throat, which was hot, dry, parched, and raw. Little appetite.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Sensation of burning in stomach and oesophagus. - вelching up of putrid-smelling gas though she had eaten nothing since morning.
 Borborygmus and pains in abdomen, as if diarrhoea would set in, with sharp, cutting pains.

Urogenital system

 Passed urine every hour during the night (28 oz. by weight), depositing a white sediment. Urine had bright yellow sediment.

Chest organs

 Short, hacking cough arising from sensation of tightness in chest. The cough became harsh, leaving soreness and rawness in throat and chest, with scraping, raw sensation in pharynx. As soon as she began to move in morning coughed up large quantities of thick, yellow, sweet-tasting mucus during the day. - сough became deeper and rattling, the pressure extended to both lungs, greatly increasing the sense of suffocation. Feeling as if air passages lined with thick, stiff mucus or pus. Raises thin, frothy mucus, which is very tenacious.
 Tightness in chest. Heat and tension behind centre of sternum. Tension, burning, and accumulation of mucus behind centre of sternum. Strong desire for fresh air. Pressure in chest extending to both lungs, increasing the sense of suffocation.
 Appetite poor.
 Stiffness in muscles of left neck and shoulder.

Limbs and spine

 Stiffness in muscles of left shoulder and neck.

Sleep

 Sleep poor; restless from feverish and irritable condition.

Analogs by action

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