Cannot protrude tongue in a strains line.
Restless sleeps: wakes with fear of apoplexy.
Congestions; blood tends upwards: vessels pulsate; veins, jugular temporal, enlarged.
Rapid deviations in distribution of blood. Useful as a substitute for bleeding.
Bad effects from mental excitement, fright fear, mechanical contusions and their later consequences, from having hair cut, and from exposure to rays of sun.
Antidoted by ACON., Camph., Coffea, Nux.
Compare AMYL NITR., Belladonna, Ferrum, Gelsemium, Natrum Carb., Potassium. nitr., Sod. nitr., Stramonium
As seem from above, the action of Glonoine so local., so sudden, so definite, so alarming and torturing, and therefore so remedial is, once grasped, impossible to forget. In fact, it seems hardly worth writing about!
However we will run through what some of or great prescribers and writers have to say about it. This one emphasizes one point coinciding with his experience, that one another; and so one learns.
HUGHES writes: “The name Glonoine was formed by its introducer into medical practice,, dr. C.Hering, out of the chemical formula (GlO NO5) denoting its composition. Dr. Hering proved it on himself and others in 1948.
Hughes says, “The action of Glonoine lies a within a very small compass. If any one will touch his tongue with a 5 per cent. solution, he will pretty certainly find in a few minutes that his pulse has increased by twenty, forty or even sixty beaten. He may feel throbbing all over his body, but will almost always experience it in his head which will go on beating until a pretty violent bursting headache has developed itself. With this, there will be probably some giddiness, a sense of fullness on the head and at the heart,.and ones of constriction about the throat. All this reminds used of Amyl nitrite but the effects of the two drugs are not identical. Amyl causes a general flushing without marked sense of throbbing nor is the pulse much affected by it. It seems to have been demonstrated that Amyl produces its dilating effects on the arteries by directly paralysing their muscular coats while Glonoine affects the nervous centres of the circulation, and is limited to this sphere.”
Then he distinguishes between the action of Gloninum and Belladonna. “With Belladonna, the circulation within the cranium is excited because the brain is irritated: with Gloninum, the brain is irritated because the circulation is excited. It would be indicated in such hyperaemia as can be produced by excessive heat or cold, by strong emotions, by mechanical jarring, by suppression of the menses or other haemorrhage and excretions.”
He evidences not only sunstroke, but the striking benefit he has obtained from the drug in the distressing after-effects of sunstroke.
He says, “perhaps the greatest boon which Dr. Hering has conferred upon patients in introducing Glon, to medicine is the relief it gives to menstrual disturbances of the cerebral circulation as the intense congestion of brain induced in plethoric constitutions by sudden suppression of the menses. Glonoine is an exquisite similimum here: for in one of Dr. Dudgeon’s provers, who took it while an catamenia were present, these immediately ceased, and the headache went on increasing in violence till night. It does not, like Lachesis or Amyl nitrite, act on the flushings of the climacteric; but is most valuable when these are localized in the head.
He says, “it was the statement of its discover, Soberer, that even a very small quantity placed on the tongue causes a violent headache of several hours’ duration’, which led Dr., Hering to investigate its action.”
The kind of headache–fullness, tension, throbbing, bursting– these are the phrases used by the provers to describe it. It acts as rapidly in disease as in health.
He discusses its stroking power to relieving paroxysms of neuralgia, even in some cases, permanently curing.
GUERNSEY epitomizes Glonoine,.and its uses. “Troubles from heat of the head in type-setters in men who work under a gas-light steadily, so that heat falls on the head: bad results from sunstroke; can’t bear any heat about the head; can’t walk in the sun, must walk in the shade or carry an umbrella; can’t bear heat from a stove; great vertigo from assuming an upright posture from rising up in bed, rising from a seat. Heat in head;throbbing headache.”
Patient feels lost, or strange even in unfamiliar street or surroundings. Things look strange and unfamiliar.
NASH. One of our great head, medicines. He says he used to carry Glon I in his case, for those inclined to sneer at the young doctor and his sweet medicine. He seldom failed to convince, in five to ten minutes, that there was power here; for a drop on the tongue produced the characteristic throbbing headache. No one ever asked for more proof of the power of Homoeopathic medicine.
(One members a young woman doctor at the”New”:, as the Elizabeth Garret Anderson Hospital was then called, who described the terrible headache from touching her tongue with some preparation of nitro-glycerine).
The pains of Belladonna are sudden in onset, and suddenly gone: those of Glonoine are even more so.
Nash says that “Glonoine is better adapted to the first, congestive stage of inflammatory diseases of the brain: Belladonna goes farther, and may still be the remedy after the inflammatory stage is fully initiated.” Neither can stand the least jar. But pain “waves” upsurging, are absolutely characteristic of Gloninum
FARRINGTON emphasizes that the keynote to the whole symptomatology of the drug is expressed in this one sentence: “a tendency to sudden and violent irregularity of the circulation.” With that, he says, we can easily work out the other symptoms.
“Glon is a drug that acts very quickly and very violently; the throbbing (head) is not a mere sensation, it is an actual fact. It really seems that the blood vessels would burst, so violent is the action of the drug. The blood seems to surge in one great current up the spine and into the head. The external jugulars look like tortuous cords, the carotids throb violently and are hard, tense and unyielding to pressure. The face is deep red. This throbbing is either associated with dull, distressing aching, or with sharp, violent pains.”
“Sunstroke also we find Gloninum to be our best remedy for the effects of heat, whether the trouble arises from the direct rays of the sun, from hot weather, or from working in the intense heat of a furnace, as in the case of foundrymen and machinists. these effects are not confined to the head, but involve the whole body, and we note oppression of breathing, with palpitation of the heart and nausea and vomiting the nausea not gastric, but cerebral a horrible, sunken feeling in the epigastrium and often, too, diarrhoea. Eyes too large and protrude as though bursting out of the head eye diseases from exposure to very bright light blood vessels of retina distended, or, in extreme cases, apoplexy of the retina. Admirable remedy for puerperal convulsions: full, heard pulse, and albuminuria.”
“Well-known streets seem strange to the patient (Petroleum). Suppose a person, subject to apoplectic congestions, is suddenly seized in the streets with one of these, and does not know where he is, then Glonoine is the remedy for him.”
“Bad effects of fear (Opium). Horrible apprehension, and sometimes the fear being poisoned.”
“Then, trauma. An excellent remedy for pains and other abnormal sensations, following late after local injuries: the part pains, or feels sore; or an old scar breaks out again.”
He, also, contracts Belladonna and Gloninum”because they meet in the congestions and inflammations of the brain with children and old persons. The divide the honours here.”
BELL. GLON. Cri encephalique. Less marked. Worse bending head backwards. Better bending head backwards Head feels enormously large. Better for uncovering head. Better from covering head. Better open air.
We will end by extracting some of KENT’S most graphic little flashes; even where there is repetition, that merely serves to emphasize and drive the facts in.
“Surging of blood to heart and head. As if all the blood in the body were rushing round the heard: a surging in head; a warm, glowing sensation in head; or in tense glowing from stomach or chest up to head, at times with loss of consciousness. Wave like sensations, as if skull were lifted and lowered; expanded and contacted. Intense pain, therewith, as if head would burst. Great throbbing: : beating of hammers; every pulsation painful. Even fingers and toes pulsate.”
“Head is relieved in open air: worse in warmth, often relieved by cold. Worse lying, Worse head low. Extremities cold, pale and perspiring, head hot, face flushed and purple or bright red. Mouth dry; eyelids dry, stick to eyeballs., All degrees of confusion to unconsciousness.”:
“Sunstroke sudden congestions of head. Cold feels good to head; heat feels good to extremities. When lower limbs are covered with clothing in a cool room, and windows open, convulsions are relieved, and patient breathes more easily.”
