STRYCHNINUM



Formication of the tips of the fingers. Intense itching of the skin of the entire body, even of the scalp (fourteenth day).

Troublesome itching of the skin for about two hours (sixteenth day). Itching of the skin generally, more particularly of the legs and arms (thirty-fourth night). Intense itching of the skin (thirty-seventh, forty-first, and fifty-second days).

Intense itching of the skin, at night (forty-third day). Intense itching of the entire skin, lasting for several hours (fifty- third day). Intense itching of the face, ears, and neck, at night (forty-fifth day). Intense itching of face, arms, and legs (fiftieth day). Itching of the face, arms, and legs (forty- seventh day). Violent itching of the legs (twenty-first and twenty-fourth night).

Sleep.

Sleepiness. Yawning and extreme weariness, in the afternoon (twenty-third day). Extreme drowsiness and chilliness (second day). General drowsiness, lasting for some hours (third day).

Sudden drowsy sensation, at 11.30 A.M. (sixth day).

Extreme drowsiness, with stupid headache (fifteenth day).

Drowsiness and loss of memory, with extreme giddiness (seventeenth day). Drowsiness and extreme dulness (twenty-fifth day). Drowsiness, with a shattered sensation in the head (thirty- third day). Extreme drowsiness and yawning (thirty-fourth day).

Extreme drowsiness (thirty-fifth and forty-sixth days).

Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness, with internal uneasiness, anxiety, and oppression, so that she was unable to sleep. Sleeplessness caused by dread of the rectal spasms. Sleeplessness, visions of dead persons (first day). Very sleepless night. (twenty-seventh day), Sleepless night (first and second night). Has not slept at all during the night. Not at all drowsy, rather the opposite. Extreme restlessness and talking in her sleep, accompanied by a peculiar working in the back of the brain (twentieth night). Restless nights, with profuse perspiration, since the last dose, the twenty-fourth day (twenty-seventh day).

Restless nights and profuse perspiration since taking the last dose, on the thirty-first day (thirty-fourth day). Very restless night (forty-fifth day). Rest bad (forty-seventh day). Great restlessness (fifty-fourth night). At night, disagreeable dreams; strange wanderings of the imagination (sixth day).

Fever

Chilliness. Extreme chilliness (several days). Extreme chilliness and drowsiness (second day). Peculiar creeping chilliness all over, with a tremulous sensation in the jaws (third day). Extreme chilliness, even in a warm room (fourth day). Extreme chilliness and drowsiness (twenty-fifth day).

Slight shivering (twenty-second day). Shivering. Shaking chill.

Icy coldness all over, with shivering and yawning (eleventh day).

General coldness, especially in the sacral region, which feels as if iced (twenty-third day). Icy coldness of the entire body (twenty-eighth day). A feeling of coldness suddenly came over him; he shivered all over, and his limbs became quite rigid.

Whole surface of body quite cold. Surface cold. Skin rather cool (after one hour and a half). Skin cold and clammy and of a dark livid hue. Painful coldness of the head, at 3.30 P.M. (seventh day). Peculiar creeping chilliness, with heat, in the right side of the head and face (first day). Cold chills passing over the head and down the back (forty-third day). Icy coldness of the head and down the spine (sixteenth day). A single cold chill down the entire length of the spine; afterwards she felt deathly cold (third day). Icy coldness down the spine, accompanied by a kind of nervous shuddering (fourteenth day). Icy coldness down the spine (fifteenth day). Cold chills down the spine, at night (twenty-fifth day). Cold chills down the back, frequently (twenty-first night). Cold chills down the back (fifty-second night). Extremities cold. Extremities cold and rigid (after six hours). Arms and legs cold (after three hours and three quarters). Lower extremities cold, and perspiration flowing in a stream from his head and chest (after twenty minutes). Feet cold to touch. Heat. Fever of an adynamic intermittent type (such as I have frequently witnessed in Peshawar, on the northwest frontier of India), with considerable prostration, during these seven days (thirtieth day). Slight fever caused by the dread of the rectal spasms. Began to get hot during the spasms. Temperature of the body higher than usual, between the paroxysms. Suffering from heat. Temperature 100 (after seven hours). An intolerable sense of heat complained of over the entire body, although on some parts cool to the feel, so that he could not bear the slightest covering. Burning heat all over, with a hot sweat. Skin warm, and covered with a profuse clammy sweat. Body warm, but hands and feet rather cold (after one hour). Increased warmth of the body. Sensation of warmth starting from the abdomen and spreading over the whole body, and ending with general profuse perspiration. Burning heat and great fullness in head. Heat and intense pain in the head.

Sudden burning heat in the face (twenty-seventh day). Sudden heat down the spine, with trembling faint feeling at night (seventeenth day). Sweat. Perspiration rolling off him. Profuse perspiration, with restlessness (forty-fourth night).

Profuse perspiration, with relief of the symptoms. Perspiration flowing profusely from the face and chest (after twenty-minutes).

Profuse sweat after the spasm. After the attack subsided, very copious sweating ensued. Profuse perspiration during sleep (forty-seventh and forty-eighth days). Skin bathed in perspiration, warm (not hot) and uniformly so. Surface bathed in perspiration. Body bathed in warm perspiration (after seven hours). The skin was bedewed with perspiration, and the capillary circulation congested, so as to give an unusual floridness to the complexion on the upper part of the forehead, amounting to a slight bluish or purplish color. Regularly recurring perspiration. Large drops of perspiration on the face, and matting of the hair, arising from profuse perspiration.

Perspiration of the chest became excessively violent. Skin covered with cold sweat. Cold sweat. Sudden cold perspiration and icy coldness of the entire body (twenty-fourth day). Cold perspiration, with the convulsive shocks and increased shaking and stiffening (forty-first day).

Conditions.-Aggravation.

(Morning), Headache; griping pain in bowels; weariness.

(Evening), Thumping pain in head.

(Night), Toothache; symptoms.

(Bending head down), Stiff sensation up the spine.

(Exertion), Pain in back.

(After meals), Oppression of chest.

(Noise), Tetanic spasms.

(Opening mouth), Jerking sensation in stomach; jerks in back.

(Sitting on hard seat), Uneasiness about bladder and urethra.

(After sitting), Stiffness of muscles of legs.

(After standing), Aching and stiffness in back.

(Touch), Twitching of muscles; spasms; violent convulsions.

(Walking), Uneasiness about bladder and urethra; burning in urethra; aching and stiffness in back; aching in shin bones; aching in feet.

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.