Condensed Materia Medica

Glonoin glon.

Hering (1877)In every bookSave

Mind

Loses senses, sinks down unconscious, congestion alternately to head and heart.
Well-known streets seem strange; way home too long; forgets on which side she lives.
Bright, loquacious, great flow of ideas.
Weeps and shudders between attacks of pain.
Agitation, attempt to run away.
Frantic; attempted to jump from window (with headache).
Fear, throat feels swollen; chest as if screwed together; apprehensive of approaching death; fears she has been poisoned.

Sensorium

Head felt larger.
Balancing sensation, constant effort to keep head erect.
Vertigo: confusion, faintness, black spots before eyes; worse from stooping or moving head; worse in the open air.
Syncope, nausea, face pale or livid; beating in the head.
Sunstroke: vertigo, violent pain; pale face, feeble pulse; labored breathing, nausea; comatose; or throbbing in head; face yellowish-red, or livid; eyes fixed; pulse full, slow; tongue coated, no appetite.

Inner Head

Tensive pain over eyes and nose, also behind ears, followed by choking sensation about throat.
Headache from below upwards.
Sensation of soreness through whole head, is afraid to shake head; it seems to him as if head would drop to pieces.
Shocks in the brain synchronous with the pulse.
Throbbing: in temples; in vertex; occiput; in whole head.
Dull headache in the forehead, with warm sweat.
Severe pain in forehead, throbbing in the temples, worse from walking.
Dull, pressive pain, worse in occiput and neck; worse from moving head or twisting the neck.
Brain feels too large; bursting feeling; fulness, throbbing of arteries; all the blood seems to be pumped upwards; holds the head with the hands.
Brain as if moving in waves.
Congestion to head, sudden, violent; throbbing felt with every pulse at every step or jarring; blood mounts from neck, throat or chest; from occiput toward eyes.
Hemicrania, sees half light, half dark.
Headache with increased secretion of urine.
Headache with red face, accelerated pulse, sweat on face, unconsciousness; better in open air, after sleep, after vomiting.
Cri encephalique.
Headaches worse: from shaking or jarring the head; stooping; bending it backwards; after lying down; when ascending steps; in damp weather; in the sun; while working under gaslight; after overheating, with copious sweat; could not bear touch of hat; cold water (even causing spasms); reading, writing; wine.
Better; from uncovering; in open air.
Headache.
Sunstroke.

Outer Head

Consequences of cutting the hair.
Rigidity of occipito frontalis.
Head feels too large.

Eyes

Flashes of lightning, sparks before eyes.
Objects dance with every pulsation.
Dim sight with vertigo, with fainting, black spots before the eyes.
Pupils contracted. θ Sunstroke.
Pupils dilated; eyes upturned; sunstroke; eyes rolled outwards and up; convulsions.
Eyes injected red, protruding wild, staring; eyes dull, staring, sunken.
Photophobia.
Sees everything half light, half dark.
Letters appear smaller.
Drawing, pressing, aching, bursting pain; soreness, quivering, twitching.

Ears

Deafness, ears as if stopped up, deafness followed by blurred vision.
Ringing in the ears, audible pulse.
Throbbing piercing from within outward, in right ear.
Throbbing: above ears; from occiput to ears.
Sensation of fulness in and around ears.
Ears red.

Nose

Pains in root of nose, headache extends to nose.
Sudden sneezing; fluent coryza.

Face

Flushed, hot, especially about the eyes and forehead, with headache; livid, purple; alternately flushed and pale; pale during the heat, in sunstroke, congestions to brain, etc.
Sweat on the face.
Faceache, muscles twitch, even unconsciousness, breathing stertorous; faceache worse in heat of bed.
Masseter muscles affected.
Sudden neuralgic pains from decayed tooth, concentrating in temple; head heavy, but cannot lay it on the pillow.

Lower Face

Jaws clenched in sunstroke.
Lower lips feel swollen.
Chin feels elongated.

Teeth

Pulsating, throbbing pains, teeth feel elongated; decayed.
Stabbing in gums worse from hot applications, better from cold.

Tongue, etc

Taste: bitter, with nausea; aromatic, sweet, warm, leaves fatty taste.
Tongue: milk-white without coating, violent headache; or, light coating; cannot eat; weak; typhoid; feels swollen, raw; numb, as if burnt; prickling, stinging.
Difficulty in conversing, from diminished power of tongue and confusion of ideas.

Mouth

Saliva increased, slimy.
Froth about mouth. θ Convulsions.
Sensation of soreness and swelling on roof of mouth, with pulsation.

Throat

Soft palate: dry, feels as if drawn up.
Hard palate, sensitive as if swollen; throbbing; swollen sensation in the fauces.
Throat feels as if swelling; full sensation in both sides of neck.
Constriction at top of larynx; in throat, as if throttled.
Tickling heat, soreness in throat.

Desires and Aversions

Increased desire to smoke.
Wants cold water; also from dry, parched feeling.
Loss of appetite; sunstroke, etc.

Eating and Drinking

Wine aggravates all symptoms.
Alcoholic stimulants cause delirium, congestions, stupor.

Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea: with the congestions; retching, during sunstroke, and faint feeling; causing sweat, which relieves.
Vomiting: spasmodic, in hydrocephalus; in sunstroke.

Stomach

Pain in stomach; distress in epigastrium; sunstroke.
Stomach and head feel as if he had been out in hot sun.
Gnawing in epigastrium.
Faint feeling at pit of stomach; also, with throbbing there.
Pain in pit of stomach, as if sore, when touched; worse when stooping.

Abdomen

Rumbling in bowels, belching, passing offensive flatus.
Cutting, mostly below the navel (wakens one in morning).

Stool, etc

Stools: loose, scanty, with much rumbling; copious, loose dark, lumpy, with colic heat in the anus, nausea and sudden urging.
Diarrhœa, with sudden cessation of the menses.
Costive.

Urine

Abundant, highly albuminous; must rise often at night to pass it; high-colored, burning while passing; with red sediment and reddish-yellow slime.

Female Sexual Organs

Instead of menses: congestion to head, face pale; worse in warm room; better when walking in the cold air; diarrhœa; fainting.
Before, during and after menses, or when it does not appear, fulness in the head, throbbing.
At climaxis: flushes of heat, pressure in head, nausea, loss of senses, vertigo, swelling of feet.

Pregnancy

During pregnancy congestions.
Eclampsia: unconscious; face bright red; puffed; pulse full, hard; urine copious and albuminous.

Breathing

Breathing: heavy, labored, stertorous; oppressed; from feeling of weight; accelerated; must often breathe deeply; sighing.

Lungs

Chest feels as if laced.
Sinking feeling in head and chest, as from working in hot room.
Congestion to chest alternately with head.
Numb sensation moving upwards in chest and down left arm.

Heart and Pulse

Laborious action of the heart; oppression; frequent pulse.
Pressure in heart as if it was being contracted.
Sharp pains in the heart.
Fulness in the heart.
Anxiety in præcordia; weakness.
Heart's action easily excited; violent palpitation, throbbing carotids, pulsating headache; worse stooping.
Purring noise in region of heart when lying; pulse intermittent; must have head high; worse when lying on left side; better on right.
Pulse: accelerated, rises and falls alternately; increased during headache, motion, walking; quick, small, irregular, with violent action of heart; low, feeble, in sunstroke.

Outer Chest

Sweat on the chest.

Neck and Back

Nape of neck stiff, with headache.
Sharp cutting across scapulæ.
Hot sensation down the back; burning between scapulæ.
Pain down entire spine; after constriction in chest; shiverings downward.
Old contusions.

Upper Limbs

Arms: nervous, uneasy; heavy, as if circulation was checked; numbness, heaviness following the throbbing; numbness, weariness in left arm.
Weakness of wrist after headache.
Rheumatic pains in fingers of left hand.
Feels pulse in fingers.

Lower limbs

Knees give way, thigh weak during headache; left thigh numb.
Limbs relaxed, motionless in sunstroke.
Rheumatism of left knee, deep twinging, pricking; worse from motion; better from straightening limb.
Could not rise on account of weakness in limbs; headache, worse when covered.
Cold feet, with nausea, palpitation.

Position, etc

Worse from moving, shaking, jarring parts.
Walking eases pain in limbs.
Better from general motion.
Walking: 3, 29. Motion: 29, 33; of head: 2, 3. Ascending: 3. Stepping or jarring: 3. Cannot lay head on pillow: 9. Must have head high: 29. Lying: 3, 29. Worse lying on left, better on right side: 29. Stooping: 2, 3, 17, 29. Bending head backward: 3.

Nerves

Prostration.
Restlessness in limbs, must rise and walk.
Convulsions; epileptiform, cerebral congestion, scanty or suppressed menses; hands clinched, thumbs in palms, face red, eyes rolled upwards, then sopor; left-sided, with fingers spread; face alternately red and pale.

Sleep

Drowsy, yawning; face hot and pale.
Restless sleep; awakens with fear or apoplexy.
Confused dreams.
Difficult to awaken.

Time

Worse morning and forenoon; headache, languor, colic.
Worse afternoon and evening; headache, diarrhœa.

Temperature and Weather

Warmth: 10. Warm room: 23. Heat: 3, 40. Heat of bed: 8. Sun: 3. Cold: 10, 23. Open air: 2, 3, 23. Damp weather: 3.
Children after being out in the winter cold, warm their feet at the fire and fall asleep there.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill: after getting heated; alternates with sweat; with vomiting; head as if screwed up; intermittent fever.
Warmth general; flushes; waves of heat upwards; fever heat, with quick, small pulse, in sunstroke.
Sweat: relieves; most profuse on face and chest; cold on face during congestion; after sleep.

Sides

Right: 6. Left: 32, 33, 36. Above downwards: 28, 31. Below upwards: 3, 28, 40.

Tissues

Congestions, blood tends upwards; vessels pulsate; veins (jugular, temporal) enlarged.
Seeming plethora, rapid deviations in distribution of blood.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Pain and other sensations following later after local injuries.
Touch: 3, 17. Holding head with hands: 3.

Stages and States

Females florid, plethoric; sensitive.
Nervous, sanguine, readily affected.

Relationship

Antidotes to Glonoinum: Acon., Camphor., Coffea, Nux vom.