Hydrocyanicum acidum



Abdomen

Coldness of the whole abdomen (with stitches), sometimes alternated with burning. Rumbling and borborygmi in the abdomen, flabby inflation of the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Involuntary stools. Involuntary stools, hiccough, and great prostration. Sudden cessation of all discharges. Cholera sicca.

Urinary Organs

Retention of urine, frequent emission of urine, copious emission of an aqueous urine, pale or a pale yellow, depositing a turbid cloud. Urine with sediment thick and reddish. Involuntary emission of urine. Burning in the urethra.

Respiratory Organs

Painful scraping and burning in the larynx, inflammation of the larynx, sensation of swelling of the larynx, constriction of the throat, tickling in the larynx, sometimes lancinations and draggings, roughness and hoarseness of the voice. Loud voice. Frequent coughing, caused by smarting (pricking) in the larynx and trachea. Haemoptysis. Respiration rattling, groaning, slow, very difficult, with mucous rale. Difficulty of respiration by reason of the lancinations in the larynx. Want to breathe deeply. Respiration profound, frequent, and stertorous. Anxious respiration. Paralysis of the lungs.

Chest

Oppression of the chest, asthma, sometimes painful. Feeling of suffocation, with severe pains in the chest. Great oppression and constriction of the chest. Sharp pains in the chest. Aching in right side of chest. Lancinations in the left side, below inferior cartilage of sternum or thereabout, in the chest, on breathing deeply.

Heart

Pains and pressure in the region of the heart. Palpitations of the heart. Irregular movements of the heart, feeble action of the heart. (Angina pectoris, sudden outcry, long fainting spells, suffocation with torturing pains in chest, irregular, feeble heart-movements).

Generalities

Speedy failing and weakness of the limbs, especially of the thighs, extreme weakness and weariness, nervous weakness. Spasms, spasms at the back, spasms of face and jaws, convulsions. Paralysis of inferior extremities, afterwards of the upper ones, loss of sensation, then stiffness of the parts, trembling and staggering, immobility, insensibility, stiffness of the body. Cataleptic attacks, great flexibility of the limbs, pulsations of the heart become slower, weaker, less appreciable, until lethargy supervenes, diminution of vital heat. Muscles of back and face principally affected. Activity of the senses stimulated, internal feeling of ease, gentle languor with sensation of agreeable weariness. Dullness of the senses, and insensibility to external influences, disappearance of all pain, insensibility, loss of consciousness, wandering of the senses, shivering and lassitude.

Skin

Itching in various places, especially between the chin and lips. Small red pustules on hip, burning itching vesicles on upper extremities, and neck. Dryness of the skin. General pallor with a bluish tint. Varicose ulcers on legs.

Sleep

Frequent yawning, sometimes with shuddering and spasm of the skin. Drowsiness, sometimes uncontrollable, or else after a meal, heavy sleep in the morning, continued inclination to sleep, coma vigil, somnolency. Wakefulness, to sleep is difficulty. almost impossible, frequent awakening. Lively dreams, without connection, anxious, disquieting dreams, dreams of death.

Fever

Chilliness, frequent shudderings, especially after midnight or in the morning, shivering, with yawning or with thirst. Coldness of the limbs, sensation of cold internally and externally. Coldness within and without. Fever, shivering, afterwards burning heat, heat in the head, with coldness of the extremities, heat and sweat over the whole body, in the afternoon, general febrile agitation, with intense excitement, heat, at intervals, and irregular motion of the heart. During the shivering, giddiness and vertigo, during the shudderings, mist before the sight.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica