SPHERE OF ACTION
Through the cerebro-spinal nervous system, this powerful remedy acts especially on the cerebral bloodvessels, medulla oblongata and pneumogastric nerve.
No remedy produces so quickly and so violently such a severe congestive, throbbing, bursting headache, with increased action of the heart and arteries, with sometimes nausea and vomiting.
How does it produce this effect? Dr. Hughes says: I think that the phenomena of both head and heart can be accounted for by supposing that Glonoine acts as a direct sedative upon the medulla oblongata, from this centre come off the vagi, to whose depression we have referred the cardiac symptoms of the drug.
Through the medulla oblongata also, (according to Schiff’s observations), the vaso-motor nerves of the brain proper can be excited or paralyzed. The same sedative influence of Glonoine, therefore, upon this nervous centre, would, through the vagi, set the heart off palpitating, and through the vascular nerves, would dilate the cerebral arteries, so as to give us the phenomena I have described.
Prof. Hempel says: Repeated experiments would seem to show that Nitro-glycerine acts upon the medulla oblongata, and that the symptoms of cerebral congestion which it occasions are depending upon a momentary irritation of this great nervous centre. The pneumogastric nerve is involved in its disturbing influence.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.
Intense congestion of blood to the head with a feeling as if the temples and top of the head would burst open. Violent throbbing headache.
somnolence.–R.J. McCLATCHEY, M.D.
Bursting feeling in the head, tremulousness about the chest, the mind bewildered.–Dr. T.S.SCALES.
The heart is affected before the head, alternate congestion of the heart and head.–C.WESSELHOEFT, M.D.
Violent headache, with the catamenia; increasing with motion; has to tie the head up; cold feet.–L.
Vertigo, fainting, with violent throbbing of the temporal arteries. Congestive, nervous headache, with no gastric or bilious symptoms, caused from anxiety, or fright.
It has proved the great remedy for sunstroke.-.
It is a capital remedy for the disturbance of the intracranial circulation, which obtains in menopausia, and for that which often results from menstrual suppression.-.
It has checked puerperal convulsions where cerebral hyperaemia was prominent.-.
One of the most promising remedies in convulsions of children arising from cerebral congestion; especially in the incipient stages of meningitis, in plethoric children, during dentition, cases that seem to call for Belladonna–C.WESSELHOEFT.
Loss of location when walking on streets that he has traveled in for years.–Dr. C.A.COCHRAN.
Toothache, pain continues, with sudden aggravations.– S.LILIENTHAL.
Nervous palpitation of emotional origin.-.
This remedy ought to prove of great value, for the acute symptoms of apoplexy and epilepsy.
Has acted well in some cases of neuralgia.
Marcy and Hunt say it is homoeopathic to no disease without it has its origin in the nerve mass.
It produces intense throbbing pains in the epigastrium.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881