INTRODUCTION
ZINC MET. See Hahnemann’s “Chronic disease, ” V.
COMPARE WITH.
Anacardium, Arnica, Arsenicum, Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Cantharis, Carb. veg., Hep- s., Ignat., Hyoscyamus, Kali-c., Lycopodium, natr.mur., Nux-v., Phosph., Platina, Plumb., Pulsatilla, Rhus-t., Sepia, Silicea, Stann., Staphysagria, Stront., Sulphur, Thuja
ANTIDOTES.
Chamomilla, Hep-s., Ignat.Is used as an antidote for Baryta Cham and Nux v. aggravate the effects of Zincum met.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Jactitation in various parts of the body. Twitchings in various muscles. violent trembling of all the limbs. Camp-pain in the muscles, here and there. A sort of subsided nausea, a with a tremulous feeling in the chest, aching in the forehead General exhaustion the whole day, drowsiness, aversion to noise. Violent beating in the whole body. Pressure on the chest and back. Cutting stitching pain in the while right side. Very violent drawing lactating in the middle of almost all the long bones, with pain being so great that they seem unable to cold together. Piercing stitching in the joints. Stitching and lacerating in all the limbs. Great heaviness in the limbs. Great weakness in the hands of the knees and small of the back, when walking. Sudden weakness of all the limbs, at noon, w with tremor and sensation of canine hunger. Paralytic weakness and heaviness in the lower limbs. Great weakness in all the limbs.
CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES.
The pains caused by Zinc-met. seem to exist sometimes between the skin and flesh. Wine increases the suffering. Most of the symptoms appear after dinner and towards evening. The symptoms are generally felt during rest and when sitting, less during motion.
SKIN.
Itching all over, sometimes with burning or redness. itching in the bends of he joints. Itching rash in the bends of the knee sand elbows. red pimples on the chest and face. herpes and herpetic ulcers. Ganglia. Great sensitiveness to the cold.
SLEEP.
Constant stretching of the limbs, the face looking pale and attached. Constant yawning. Drowsiness, with spasmodic lightness forehead frequent waking in the night. restless. Great drowsiness. frequent waking from frightful dreams. Restlessness asleep, with vivid dreams. Deep, fatiguing sleep. Sleep full of fancies. restless night. Jerks through the whole body. Uneasiness in the lower limbs at night. Anxious feeling of soreness, especially at night. Violent pain in the small of he back and colic at night, with stitching in the left side, and drying pin in the lower limbs, drawing pain in the knee at night.
FEVER.
Shuddering in the evening. Frequent feverish shuddering over the back. Chilliness in the open air, or after dinner. Constant chilliness, with increase internal warmth. chilliness, with shaking, from afternoon till evening. Several attacks of a fever a day. chilliness and shuddering, flushes of that over the whole body, violent trembling of all the limbs, extreme malaise to fainting, qualmish taste, violent throbbing throughout he whole body, short and hot breath, dry mouth, hot and dry hands. Heat sand thirst, with cool skin. Pulse dry mouth, hot and dry hands. heat and thirst, with cool skin. Pulse quicker in the evening. Sour smelling sweat. profuse nigh-sweat.
MORAL SYMPTOMS.
Desponding nd sad. Excessively sullen and peevish. Low- spirited. hypochondrIac mood. Indifference Aversion to labor. He moans from charging.
SENSORIUM.
Illusion of the fancy. Incoherent ideas Absence of throughout, the mind being in a soft of stupor. Forgetful. dizziness, drowsiness and heavens of the head. Feeling of weakness in the head, especially in the eyes, Dullness and painful heaviness of the occiput. Stupefied and dizzy, at noon. Vertiginous stupefaction, in short paroxysms with obscuration of sight and general weakness. Violent vertigo.
HEAD.
Violent pain its head eyes, and abdomen. Pain in the occiput, as if bruised. Stupefying headache. Pressure in the head, with stupid feeling. Pressure in the forehead, with dullness of the head. Aching pain in he forehead, with general dullness of the head. Frequent aching in the forehead. Pressure in the sinciput, with dullness of the head, extending as far as the eyes. Frequent pain in both sides of the head. Drawing and beating in the forehead. Lacing in the temples after dinner. Drawing lacerating, with pressure, in the type of the head, and still more in the forehead, in frequent transitory paroxysm. Violent beating and lacerating in the whole head, especially in he right frontal region, from morning till evening. Feeling of that in the head, with redness of the face., Ulcerative pain in the vertex when touching it. Feeling of soreness in the scalp, even when not touched. Great falling of the hair.
EYES.
Pain in the eyes, as if they would be pressed into the head. Tensive pressure in the eye, rheumatic Lancinations in the eyes and heat. Itching of the eyes. Feeling of soreness in the inner canthi. Continual burning of the eyes. Inflammation and redness of the conjunctiva of the eye, with suppuration of the internal canthus. Violent inflammation of the eyes, without photophobia. the upper lids are lame and droop. Constant weariness of the eyes. Vanishing of sight, with absence of ideas. Obscuration of sight. Dimness and haziness of the eyes, in the morning. Whirling motions before the eyes. Yellow, blue, and green wheels before the eyes, with drowsiness and a wretched look. Fiery balls hover before the eyes in large semicircles.
EARS.
Otalgia. Lacerating in the ear. Sticking and itching in the ear. Frequent and continued intensely-painful Lancinations deep in the ear. Purulent. Discharge from the left ear. Hardness of hearing. Whizzing in the ears.
NOSE.
Intolerable pressure at the root of the nose. Crampy feeling at the root of the nose, with dullness of the forehead. Selling and painfulness of the left nasal wring. Sneezing, preceded by a cutting creeping in the nose. Obstruction of both nostrils. Violent dry coryza the whole day, with pain in the back. Alternate dry and fluent coryza.
FACE.
Pale face. Livid face. Bruised pain below and in front of the right ear. apparently in the bone, with dullness of the forehead. Aching pain in the upper jaw. Lacerating in the bones in front of the left ear. Bruised pain of the facial and orbital bones. Pimples in the face. Pain in the lips. Swelling of the upper lip. Thick viscid humor on the lips. Dry chapped lips. Sores ulcerate robes of the mouth. Soreness of the upper lip, ulcerated in the middle. Tensive painful rhagades in the lower lip.
JAWS AND TEETH.
Cramp-like lacerating in the lower jaw, especially in the chin. Swelling of the submaxillary glands. Frequent drawing toothache in the roots of the upper molars. Sore pain of the inner surface of the gums, as if they were detached from the teeth. Gnawing and itching of the inner gums. white gums. Swelling of the gums. The gums bleed at the slightest touch. Violent bleeding of the gums. Bleeding from the teeth and gums.
MOUTH.
Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, with inclination to vomit. Increased secretion of saliva, with metallic taste in the mouth and shootings in the tip of the tongue. The tongue is painful, as if sore. Dry tongue. Vesicles on the tongue. Weakness of the organs of speech, when reading loud. Stinging smarting in the palate. Painfulness of the palate and gums.
THROAT.
Dryness of the throat. Scraping rawness in the pharynx. Aching pain in both tonsils, when swelling. Spasmodic and crampy sensation in the pit of the throat. Pain in the throat as from an internal swelling. Lacerating drawing pain, in both sides of the posterior fauces. Herpes in the throat, after neglected gonorrhoea, bluish. Sort of the heart burn in the throat, also when swallowing.
TASTE AND APPETITE.
Bitter taste in the mouth. Burning thirst. Little appetite, and almost no taste. Canine hunger.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.
Difficult digestion. Sour eructations after eating. Great fullness and distention of he abdomen. Felling of emptiness in the abdomen and stomach, w with hunger. Dizziness after dinner. Frequent and empty eructations. sourish empty eructations, after drinking. Nausea at the stomach, with tremor,. exhaustion, and debility in the stomach, with tremor, exhaustion, and debility in the whole body. Nausea, with retching, and vomiting of a bitter slimy fluid.
STOMACH.
Pain in the stomach, as if empty, an with nausea. Qualmishness in the stomach, in bed, and sometimes after breakfast or dinner. Sharp pains in the stomach and pit of the stomach. Pains in the
pit of the stomach when taking an inspiration. Pain in the pit of the stomach, where a burning pain is experienced when pressing of the stomach, where a burning pain is experienced when pressing upon it, in the evening. pressure in the pit of the stomach. Contraction from both sides of the stomach, with anxiousness and increase warmth in the head and whole body. Frequent cramp- feeling in the pit of the stomach. Pinching deep in the region of the heart, increase during deep inspiration. Drawing in and below the pit of the stomach.
