Ethyl-Nitrate


Ethyl-Nitrate homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

Nitric ether, C2H5ONO2 (not to be confounded with Nitrous ether, C2H5ONO, which is the principal ingredient of Sweet spirits of nitre). For use, Inhalations of vapor.

Head

A tendency to pitch forward. A sense of fullness of the vessels of the brain. Sensations of noise and fullness in the head are, in general, excessive. Much headache and giddiness for some time have usually followed its employment.

Face

Extreme suffusion of the face.

Respiratory organs

Rapid and painful respiration.

Heart

Excessive over action of the heart.

General symptoms

Insensibility (after a few inspirations). The effects cease after the agent is withdrawn more quickly than when Nitrate of amyl is employed; but for intensity of action, up to the period of full action, the Ethyl is as powerful as the Amyl.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.