Sulphide of Cadmium. Cd S. Trituration.
Clinical
Apoplexy. Boils. Chilblains. Cholera infantum. Corneal opacity. Eyes, affections of. Facial paralysis. Indigestion. Meningitis. Nasal polypus. *Ozaena. Yellow fever.
Characteristics
*Cadmium is found in nature in intimate association with *Zinc, which it nearly resembles in action, but *Cadmium acts more powerfully. The profound action of *Cad. s. on the stomach, burning and cutting pain, intense retching, gagging, bringing up
tough mucus, intense nausea and vomiting_led to its being given in yellow fever with brilliant success. Black vomit is very characteristic. The least thing touching the lips will excite vomiting. Pitchy taste, food tastes like salt. *Cadm. is a cross between *Bryonia and *Arsenicum: it has the desire to keep quiet of *Bryonia, with the exhaustion and stomach irritability of *Arsenicum (Kent). Cadmium is a chilly medicine. There is icy coldness. Coldness even when near a fire. Horripilation: after drinking, with hot hands. Sweat in axillae. Effect of a drought of cold air in checking sweat. Worse From cold air, itching of skin when cold. Worse Sunshine. Worse In morning and after sleep. Worse Walking, worse ascending stairs. Worse When swallowing. Worse After grief. Worse After intoxication. better By eating. Effects of: anxiety, or fit of passion, of cold winds (facial paralysis). Acts well in drunkards. It is a notable antipsoric. There is much itching of skin, at night in bed, when touched when cold, better scratching, which causes a voluptuous feeling. Skin blue, yellow, scaly, cracking, damp, suppurating herpes, chilblains. Cutting, lancinating pains are prominent, also a sense of constriction. The nasal symptoms are very important, no remedy has served me better in cases of ozaena and polypus.
Relations.
*Compare: Zincum met. (but in Zincum met. the action is primarily on brain, in Cadm. primarily on stomach), in constriction across chest with palpitation, Kali-chlo., weakness, nausea, vomit and burning, Arsenicum, black vomit, affections of drunkenness, Arsenicum, Lachesis, in nausea and retching, Asarum europaeum, Bryonia, Crot-t., Cuprum, Nux-v., Podophyllum, Ant-t., in deathly nausea, Ip., Tabacum, greenish gelatinous vomit, Aethusa, Arsenicum, Bryonia, Ip., Veratrum, gelatinous stools. Aloe., Cubeb., Helleborus, Kali-bich., Podophyllum, Rhus-t., Sepia (green), loss of breath on going to sleep, Carb-an., Carb-v., Opium, Grindelia, Lachesis *Followed well by: Belladonna (rolling of head with open eyes in cholera infantum), Carb-v., Lobelia inf. (in yellow fever), Nit-ac,, Alet. (nausea of pregnancy). *Follows well: Ip., Arsenicum, Belladonna
Causation
Sun. Draught of air. Cold wind. Alcohol.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Excessive irritability.- Horror of solitude and of work.
Head
Constriction, stitches, pulsation. Hammering in the head, preceding vomiting.- Headache with restlessness, icy coldness of body, epistaxis, constriction in throat, thirst, nausea, vomiting, mostly present when awaking, in open air, from draught of air, in sun.- Herpes on temples.
Eyes
Cannot read small type.-Night-blindness.-Scrofulous inflammation. Opacity of cornea.- Hot tears. Swellings of lids. Hollow eyes, blue circles.
Ears
Sounds echo in head.
Nose
Ulcerative or cancerous smell (ozaena). Tightness at root and tension in nose.- Obstruction of nose by swelling.- Numbness of nose.- Erysipelas.- Boils on nose.- Caries of nasal bones. Ulceration of nostrils.
Face
Spasmodic movements of upper lip.- Facial paralysis from cold air.- Crawling sensation. Chronic eruption on forehead, nose, and round mouth.- Swelling of lips.
Mouth and Throat
Salivation.- Taste first sweetish, then bitter and burning. Fetid breath.- Ulcers, dryness, itching, burning, constriction in throat.- Dysphagia.
Stomach
Nausea, must lie quiet. Nausea in mouth, chest, abdomen. Saltish, rancid belchings, cold sweat on face. Vomiting of acid or yellow substances, cold perspiration on face and cutting pains in abdomen. Black vomit. Burning and cutting pain in stomach. Gastric symptoms worse after drinking beer, in forenoon, during pregnancy, in drunkards, after cramps in stomach.
Abdomen
Pain in abdomen with vomiting. Pain and pulsation in sides of abdomen. Cutting pains in bowels and kidneys. Lancinations in left hypochondrium. Symptoms of stomach and hypochondria worse by walking or carrying burdens.
Stools
Stools, almost gelatinous, yellowish-green, semi-fluid. (Cholera infantum.).
Urinary Organs
Severe cutting in region of kidneys, urine suppressed, or scanty, or bloody.
Male Sexual Organs:-
(Too frequent seminal emissions checked by it.).
Female Sexual Organs:-
Acts well during pregnancy. Erysipelas of mammae. Inflamed nipples.
Respiratory Organs and Chest
Chest feels dilated.- Feeling as if lungs adhered to chest.- Cough with loss of consciousness, agitation, red face, pain in stomach, or vomiting of bile. Interrupted breathing during sleep.- Chest symptoms worse squatting. Brown spots on chest. Swelling of external chest.
Limbs:
Suppuration of axillary glands. Brown spots on elbow. Boils on buttocks.- Restlessness, jactitations, startings.
Sleep:
Sleeps with eyes open.- Stops breathing on going to sleep, wakes up suffocating.- Symptoms worse after sleep.- Annoying protracted sleeplessness.
