For homoeopathic use 1 part of Chloral hydrate is dissolved in 9 parts of Alcohol.
General Action
Chloral is a powerful hypnotic, as well as a depressant of the heart; it also causes vasomotor paralysis, feeble and slow respiration and muscular weakness. It produces a decided erythema, particularly aggravated by alcoholic stimulants; ecchymoses, and destruction of tissue in consequence.
Affinities. – Opium, Belladonna, Nux-v., the Carbons, Plumb.
Generalities
Uncertainty of movement, with tendency to fall forward. Almost jumping and springing, he changed form one bed to another. Agility. Appearance as if intoxicated; by brandy. Resemblance to a living skeleton, a maudlin, semi-narcotized condition, when aroused by loud and repeated questionings her answers were incoherent, her manner wild and uncertain, evincing as state bordering on idiocy. The blood contained garnet-colored amorphous particles, a number of dark red globules (double the diameter of white corpuscles, and many smaller), some of these dark red. Epileptiform convulsions. Ataxic symptoms, with numbness and burning. Muscular pains, (<) upper limbs. Pain as sometimes from chronic alcoholism, (<) about joints, encircling the limb, finger, etc., just above or below the joint, (<) moist and cold weather. Restlessness. Weakness; and limbs extended, head low, and at times aspect of impending dissolution. Lipothymia. Inaptitude for exertion. Anaesthesia.
Mind
Delirium; hurled a hot-water bottle at an imaginary figure which stood at the foot of the bed menacing her; wandering about in the upper stories of the building. Delirium tremens. Muttering and talking about dead friends; M. of a religious character; unable to resist uttering what he knew to be nonsense, though conscious of everything going on around him (Stramonium). Pleasant excitation, with rapid pulse. Excitability as form champagne, with pleasant feeling, smiling and dancing. Lively mood, with loud laughter and witty remarks. Talkative. Listless, peevish, childish, begging for chloral. Perversion of moral sense. Morose, deceitful and imbecile in intellect, memory and will. Terror, with weakness. Melancholia; and irresolution.
Stupefaction. Inability to concentrate thought. Confusion; feeling now as if in one country, now as if in another, with anxiety to get home. Almost idiotic. Memory impaired. Insensibility; with quiet but incoherent talking; with screams now and then, restlessness, retching, foaming at the mouth, pallor, dilated pupils, l. leg spasmodically stretched, r. relaxed.
Head
Bent upon chest. Aching; on waking; in morning on waking, lasting on all day; (<) sudden motion. Discomfort. Dullness. Fulness at 8 A.M., and constriction. Veins filled to bursting, and in neck. Heaviness. Intoxication; on waking; feeling as if he had been intoxicated by wine (Gloninum, Nux-v., Valer.) Vertigo.
Pain in forehead; extending to occiput; over r. supraorbital ridge, (<) movement; over eyes, running down in eyes, M l. side, with constriction of eyes. Heavy pain over eyes, (<) l., during supper. Fulness over eyes, (<) over l. eye, with nausea and sour eructations of liquid, supposed to be what had been eaten for breakfast. Feeling as if a hot band were drawn from temple to temple, directly over eyes, with sensation of a burning ring around each eye. Pain about cerebellum after any alcoholic stimulant, with red face and suffused eyes (Nux-v.). Weight and soreness in occiput and over eyes, inside skull, (<) moving about and lying down, slightly (>) in open air. Hair woolly, with a dry and fluffy feel.
Clinical Has cured morning frontal headaches, with great sensitiveness to motion, laughing, etc., and better in open air.
Eyes
Bloodshot and watering; B. and as if starting from sockets. Staring wildly. Glistening. Inflammation and photophobia; I., with weakness and burning lachrymation. Lachrymation. Capillary congestion of l. disc. Disc transparent, like white wax, retina pale, the central artery and vein and their branches dark and prominent. Haziness of fundus. Throbbing pain in l. ball at 11.20 A.M., (<) leaning forward.
Pupils dilated; with sensitiveness to light. Pupils contracted; and insensible to light; C., (<) r., then dilated, then alternations of myosis and mydriasis. Pupils elliptical, then almost angular contraction of l., at first directed downward and outward, afterwards outward and upward, and at the same time dull notches in an outward direction in middle of r. Pupils more sensitive to light. Conjunctiva congested; or yellow; and lids red and swollen. Ptosis. Lids closed and difficult to open. Vision dim; lost. Diplopia, then muscae volitantes. Colored objects look white.
Clinical Retinal asthenopia, with circles of light, black spots, etc. (Coca?).
Ears
Tinnitus aurium.
Face
Pale; and anxious; and hippocratic, veins sunken. Purple. Dusky. Red; and anxious. Cheeks and lips livid. Wistful and haggard. Swollen; (<) below eyes. Rush of blood, with heat. Jaws firmly closed. Lips and mucous membrane of mouth excoriated, afterwards lips covered with crusts.
Mouth
Gums spongy. Tongue coated; white. Tongue coated; white. Tongue blistered and ulcerated. T. dry, brown. Tongue thick, speech indistinct. Speech broken as if partially drunk. Mucous membrane livid. Frothy mucus flowed from mouth, and it seemed filled with a membranous substance, not unlike membraneous croup. Fetid breath.
Throat
Pharyngeal congestion, with rash resembling that of scarlet fever. Spasm involving epiglottis and almost strangling him. Catarrhal soreness, with pain in fauces. Sensation of a cold in head on waking at 7 A.M., with sensitiveness, rawness and burning in throat and posterior nares. Burning in fauces and stomach. Swallowing difficult, the act not beginning till he strangled and coughed. Partial paralysis of oesophagus (Opium), with nervous disinclination to et or drink, and interfering with nutrition; partial paralysis, not spasmodic stricture (Plumb.).
Stomach and Abdomen
Longing for food. Little appetite for dinner. Appetite lost; capricious. Thirst; in morning on waking, with dryness of tongue and fauces, headache, vertigo, nausea and nervous sensibility. Eructations, (>) eating; sour E. of food. Nausea; (>) supper, but returning in evening, with oppression of stomach, without inclination to vomit. Retching. Vomiting (Nux v.). Pain in pit of stomach; in epigastrium waking; in stomach and abdomen, with difficult breathing; sharp, in epigastric region. Epigastric tenderness. Burning in stomach. Sinking at stomach-pit, with oppression. Colic.
Clinical – Seasickness.
Stool
Diarrhoea; twice in afternoon; containing gelatinous matter. Soft, with pain in rectum; soft, light-yellowish; with sharp pain in rectum. Constipation. Pale and hard. Frequent.
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Copious micturition in bed without knowing it (Opium). Frequent and profuse micturition; frequent in afternoon and night. Urine albuminous. Seminal emissions at night; copious. Menses reappeared in seven or eight days.
Respiratory Organs
Redness and swelling of epiglottis and of false vocal cords. Suffocating sensation and oppression of chest in front and at its base. Dyspnoea; increasing to asphyxia, with swelling of face, paralysis of facial muscles and all the signs of cerebral effusion. Respiration stertorous; and slow (Opium). Panting. Gasping. Respiration rapid; and shallow and stertorous. Respiration intermittent (Plumb.). R. deep, at times imperceptible.
Clinical Asthmatic attacks, with sleeplessness, delirium, etc.
Chest
Oppression after eating, (<) ascending stairs, interfering with speech. Pain.
Heart and Pulse
Heart’s sounds indistinct. Cardiac debility. Action increased and arterial tension. Heart’s action rapid but feeble. Failure of l. ventricle. Strong pulsation in arteries after a glass of beer, with swollen red face. Pulse rapid; and bounding; and hard, tense; and weak and wavy; and weak, irregular in force and rhythm and frequently intermittent (Digitalis). Pulse weak; and slow and intermittent; could hardly be felt in carotids. Pulse of r. arm (she had lain on that side) not perceptible, that of l. small and thready.
Neck
Veins full. A “singing sensation” comes from nape or medulla oblongata.
Extremities
Jactitation. Tingling, and weight as if asleep. Blood settles under finger-nails and purple spots appear on side on which she had lain. Staggering. Lower limbs, acute wandering pains, (<) in calves; crampy pains, (<) through knees and ankles; weakness.
Leg. – Cramp; and inability to coordinate movements of lower limbs. Giving away suddenly in morning on rising, inability to stand or walk, then nervous depression, general weakness, vacuity of mind and inability to concentrate the attention. Pain in calves, at times running down into feet, with sense of fulness in skin and throbbing, then steady leg ache. Feeling “As if in a mash,” “as if he could not clearly distinguish between one part and another,” in morning on putting feet to the ground. Feeling as if asleep. Weakness and want of coordinative power. Paralysis from knees downward on waking at 10 A.M.; P. of motion and sensation.
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.