Angina pectoris. Aphasia. Apoplexy. Brain, congestion of. Bright's disease. Convulsions. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Fright, effects of. Goître. Headache. Heart, affections of; palpitation of; jarring, effects of. Location, sense of, lost. Mania. Meningitis. Menses, suppression of. Neuralgia. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Sea-sickness. Snow-headache. Sun-headache. Sunstroke. Toothache. Trauma.

"Nitro-glycerine was discovered by Sobrero in 1847, but none could be obtained for physiological experiment until Morris Davis, a Philadelphia chemist, in the same year, after long and laborious trials, under direction of Hering, succeeded in producing the substance in sufficient quantities for proving." I quote this from the Guiding Symptoms. Glon. is one of the many monuments of Hering's therapeutic genius. It is to him that we owe the introduction of this notable remedy into the materia medica, and into medicine. The note of the action of Glon. is a tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. It acts very quickly and very violently. The "signature" of this potent explosive may be said to be "bursting" and "expansion." Bursting, throbbing headaches; sensations of expanding in the head and elsewhere. Throbbing of carotids; violent action of heart; rush of blood to head; flushes of heat rising from chest to head, then throbbing pain in head. The characteristic neuralgias of Glon. are accompanied with much throbbing, and are often < at night, preventing sleep. Supra-orbital neuralgia, pulsating; retinal congestion from exposure to strong light. Facial neuralgia, extending through head. Cardiac neuralgia (angina pectoris) with radiating pains.

Guernsey, with his usual graphic terseness, says that Glon. is suited to "Troubles of the head in type-setters, and in men who work under a gas-light steadily, so that the 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 on assuming an upright posture, from rising up in bed, rising from a seat, &c. Heat in the head; throbbing headache." The great sensitiveness to the least jar, which is a very marked feature of the Glon. headache, causes the patient to carry his head very carefully in order to avoid the chance of it. The headache is in the whole head and every part─forehead, vertex, occiput. Many pains appear in occiput and base of brain; gnawing in occiput; sore pain; pressure; severe pain in occiput, extending to eyes and temples; sensation as if something were moving in nerves from back of neck upward to head. The eyes may be fixed or protrude; aversion to bright light; black spots before sight. Face flushed or pale. Climacteric disturbances.

Fainting, sudden unconsciousness; convulsions, especially during labour. Nausea and vomiting of cerebral origin. Violent, stabbing, neuralgic pains, so violent as to make patient frantic, he wants to escape, to jump out of window. Bad effects of fear; horrible apprehension; fear of being poisoned. A characteristic mental condition is loss of sense of location: "well-known streets seem strange to him." Among the peculiar sensations are: Chin feels too long. Chest feels screwed together. Brain as if expanding; as if moving in waves; as if hanging with head downwards; as if something were pumped into vertex; as if everything were crowded out at forehead; as if warm water were running upwards from nape of neck; as if the neck were gripped by a hand; as if some one were pulling eyes from within outward. Noise in left ear as if it came from heart. Lower lip feels swollen. As if heart would rise to throat. Pains are: Bursting; throbbing; pulsative; tearing; piercing; stabbing; gnawing. Burning between shoulders. Sitting or lying still, or walking in cold air > headache. Bending forward; bending head backward, and almost every movement < headache. Rest < pain in knee. Excessive heat and cold = hyperæmia of brain. Heat generally <; cold applications and cool air >; but cold water applied to head < head symptoms, even = spasms. < Damp weather. Bad effects of having hair cut; of exposure to sun or fire heat. All summer, headache < every day with the sun. < From wine. Pains from within outward; from front to back. Bad effect of too much riding or driving; sea-sickness; < from jarring. Pressure > headache. Cannot bear weight of hair; clothing seems too tight. Suited to: Florid, plethoric, sensitive women; nervous, sanguine, readily affected persons. Old scars break out again.

Antidoted by: Acon., Camph., Coff., Nux v. Compare: Amyl nit.; Act. r. (waving in brain); Petrol. and Crotal. h. (loss of location); Bell. (cephalic cry but not as marked in Bell.; also Bell. has > bending head back, and > covering head; Glon. > uncovered); Apis, Hyo. (fears being poisoned); Gels. (inclination to jump out of window); Stram. Sang. (headache with the sun; ear sensitive to jar); Nit. ac. and Bell. (sensitiveness to jar); Melilot. (headache with crimson face) Lyc. and Phos. (burning between shoulders); Dig. and Diosc. (headache extending into nose); Sec. (fingers spread apart).

Sun. Bright snow. Fire-heat. Fear or fright. Jarring. Injuries.

Falling down, with loss of consciousness and alternate palpitation of the heart, and congestion of the head.─Fear; throat feels swollen, chest as if screwed together; apprehensive of approaching death; fears she has been poisoned.─Fear, as if something unpleasant would happen to him.─Unusually bright and loquacious, with great flow of ideas.─Confusion of ideas; cannot tell where he is; well-known streets seem strange; way home too long; forgets on which side of the street he lives.─Great mental agitation (with headache); frantic, attempts to run away; to jump out of window.─Cephalic cry.─The chin feels too long.

Vertigo; < from stooping or moving head; in open air.─Giddiness when the head is moved.─Heaviness in the head, principally in forehead.─Dull headache with warm perspiration on forehead.─Headache with accelerated pulse, red face, perspiration on the face; he becomes unconscious.─Headache < from the heat of the sun; > in the open air and from pressure.─Headache, throbbing, &c., during or in place of menses.─Fulness in the head, as if the brain was expanding itself, were moving in waves.─Fulness in the head; distinct feeling of the pulse in the head; throbbing without pain.─Sensation as if the blood were mounting to the head.─Congestion of blood to the head (apoplexy).─Pulsation in the forehead, in the temples, on the vertex; when walking every step is felt in the neck, when moving the head.─Throbbing in the head; in forehead; in temples; in vertex; in occiput; < when moving; > when sitting still and lying and from pressure.─Throbbing in the temporal arteries, which were raised, and felt like cords.─Stitches in temples or r. side of forehead.─Sore and bruised feeling in the brain, worse when shaking the head.─Sensation of soreness through the whole head; is afraid to shake the head, as it seems that it would make the head drop to pieces.─The pain, heat, and fulness in the head ascend from the chest, neck, or back part of the head.─Severe pain in the occiput, extending to the eyes and temples.─Shaking < the headache, as well as stooping motion, ascending steps; external pressure >; walking in the open air, uncovering the head >.─Cracking sensation in the brain.─Skull seems too small, and as if the brain were attempting to burst the skull; violent action of the heart, and a distinct pulsation over the whole body.─Shocks in the brain synchronous with the pulse.─Undulating or wave-like motion in the brain.─Hemicrania; sees half light, half dark.─Gnawing in occiput.

Eyes dull, staring, sunken.─The white of the eye is red, the eyes protrude, look wild.─Eyes feel as if some one were pulling them from within outward.─Pressing, protruding pains in eyes.─In the eyeballs, stitches, twitchings, soreness, pressure.─Pupils dilated, eyes rolled upward.─Heat in the balls of the eyes, lids, and around the eyes.─Sparks, flashes before the eyes.─The letters appear smaller.─As if focus of r. eye were suddenly displaced; sees everything half light and half dark.─Black spots before, and obscuration of the eyes; with fainting.

Sensation of fulness, in and around the ears.─Ears sensitive to jarring.─Deafness, ears feet as if stopped up.─Stitches in the ears, the ears feel as if closed.─Throbbing, piercing from within outward in r. ear.─Ringing, singing, or cracking in the ears.─Ringing in the ears, audible pulse.

Pain at root of nose.─The headache extends into the nose.─Epistaxis on going out into the heat of the sun, face flushed, hot, red.

Paleness of the face with heat and congestion of blood to head and chest.─Pale during heat, sunstroke, congestions, &c.; flushed and hot with headache.─Heat in the face with pulsations in the head and palpitations of the heart.─Redness of the face, esp. upper part of it, with headache.─Redness of the face, which comes and goes.─Itching, esp. in the middle of the face.─Pain and stiffness of the articulation of the jaw.─Sensation as if the under lip were swollen.

Throbbing pain in all the teeth.─Pulsating toothache with headache.─Stabbing pains in gums r. side passing to l. without ceasing in r.; < from hot, > from cold applications.

Taste: bitter with nausea; aromatic; sweet; warm; leaves a fatty taste.─Tongue numb, as if burnt; prickling, stinging.─Tongue feels swelled and raw with spasmodic twitchings.─Tongue: milk-white without coating; coated heavily at back.─Difficulty in conversing from diminished power of tongue and confusion of ideas.─Tongue swollen with pricking in it, the tongue smarts.─Sensation of soreness and swelling on the roof of the mouth with pulsation.

The soft palate feels contracted and dry.─Itching of the soft palate and throat.─In the throat tickling, heat, soreness.─Sensation as if the throat were swelling.

Appetite lost.─Wants cold water; also from dry parched feeling.─Increased desire to smoke.─Wine < all symptoms.

Nausea causing perspiration.─Nausea with and caused by the headache, with colic; congestion of blood to the head and chest, and pale face.─Nausea and vomiting in brain-congestions, or during sunstroke.─Faint feeling at pit of the stomach; also with throbbing.─Sensation of emptiness in the pit of the stomach.─Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach, esp. on stooping.─Gnawing in the pit of the stomach.

Colic, cutting pain principally below the navel, wakening one in the morning, before and after loose stools.─Gall-stone colic.─Rumbling in lower part of the abdomen, principally when lying on l. side.

Diarrhœic stools with rumbling and discharges of flatus, beginning in the morning and lasting all day.─Diarrhœa; copious, loose, blackish, lumpy stools.─Morning diarrhœa with sharp burning; with rumbling.─After eating peaches diarrhœa evening and night.─Constipation and hæmorrhoids which itched and pained.─At an unaccustomed time, a hard and unusual stool; pinching in abdomen before and after it.─No stool.

Increased secretion of pale (albuminous) urine; has to rise frequently during the night, and must pass large quantities of albuminous urine.─Tubal nephritis, with headache, brought on by walking in the sun; numbness in arms and hands alternating with intense tingling.

Menstruation suppressed by Glon.─Instead of menses congestion to head; face pale; worse in warm room; fainting; throbbing.─During menstruation congestion of blood to head and chest; headache; fainting.─At climaxis, flushes of heat, pressure in head, nausea, loss of senses, vertigo, swelling of feet.─During pregnancy headache, congestions of blood to the head and chest.─Eclampsia; unconscious; face bright-red; puffed; pulse full, hard; urine copious and albuminous.

Inclination to deep respiration.─Desire to take a long, deep inspiration.─Sighing.

Constriction of the chest.─Constriction and oppression of the chest.─Oppression of the chest alternating with headache.─Congestions to the chest.

Palpitation of the heart with heat in the face, accelerated pulse and pulsation of the carotid arteries.─Violent action of the heart, distinct pulsation over the whole body.─Excessive perceptible palpitation of the heart.─In the heart sensation of fulness, heaviness, and heat, with laboured beating of the heart.─Pulse accelerated; rises and falls alternately; low and feeble in sunstroke.─Laborious action of the heart, oppression.─Sharp pains in heart.─Severe stitches from the heart, extending into the back.─Purring noise in region of heart when lying, pulse intermittent.

Tightness around the neck.─The neck feels weak and tired, cannot support the head.─Stiffness of the neck, clothing seems to be too tight.─On the neck sensation of fulness, tension, pulsation.─Burning heat between the shoulder-blades.─Hot sensations down back.─Pain in the whole spinal column, or heat and chilliness.

In the arms restlessness, weakness, want of circulation.─Sensation of weakness and numbness in l. arm.─Feels the beating of all the pulses in the tips of the fingers, accompanied by trembling of the fingers.

Weakness and numbness of l. thigh.─Weakness of the legs, the knees and ankles give way (during headache).─Limbs relaxed, motionless in sunstroke.─Acute pain in l. knee on moving, seems to be deep in joint without much heat or swelling; sudden twinges or pricks while at rest, is obliged to rise and straighten limb.─Jerking of limbs with loss of consciousness.─Restlessness in the limbs causes him to rise.─(Sciatica.).─Cold feet, with nausea, palpitation.

Fainting; with consciousness.─Great weakness and prostration.─Unconscious falling down.─Painless throbbing in the whole body.─Pulsations, tingling, thrills, and a peculiar sensation of warmth through the body, extending from above downward.─Convulsions (from congestions to the head); the fingers are spread apart and stretched out.─Seeming plethora, rapid deviations in distributions of blood.

Yawning with headache, congestion of blood to the head.─Sleepiness early in the evening.─He is difficult to waken.─Weakness as from loss of sleep.

Pulse accelerated, irregular, intermitting, full and hard, small and rapid.─Chill: after getting heated; alternates with sweat; with vomiting; head as if screwed up; intermittent fever.─Heat, esp. in face, ascending from pit of stomach to head.─Warmth general; flushes of heat; waves of heat upward.─Perspiration principally in the face, after sleeping.─Perspiration on forehead.─Profuse sweat, mostly on face and chest.─Perspiration relieves the nausea.

Glonoinum

• Nitro glycerine is an explosive substance, therefore its action is quick and violent; with bursting and expansion;a tempestuous remedy.

• It acts upon the CIRCULATION where it causes VIOLENT PULSATIONS, EBULLITIONS and irregular congestions.

• BLOOD RUSHES UPWARDS.

• General pulsations; with numbness.

• Bursting, expansion or enlarged (or even being smaller), feeling in different organs; eyes; head; tongue etc.

• Pains that come long after injuries.

• Convulsions; epileptiform, from cerebral congestion or suppressed menses.

• Burning in small areas or single parts.

• Climacteric disturbances.

• Clothing seems tight.

• Ill effects of sun heat, bright snow; fire heat; fear or fright.

• Old scars break out again.

• Sunstroke.

• Apoplexy.

• Working under electric or gas light.

• Eclampsia.

• Sea-sickness.

• Walks in shade or with an umbrella.

• HEAT - ON HEAD; OF SUN.

• Overheated.

• HOT WEATHER.

• MOTION.

• JARRING.

• SHAKING.

• Bending head back.

- Injury.

• Suppressed menses.

• Fruits.

• Weight of a hat.

• Wine.

• Gas light.

• Cutting hair.

- Peaches.

• Open air.

• Elevating head.

- Cold things; cold application.

• Loses senses, sinks down unconscious.

• Confused, bewildered; loses himself in well-known localities.

• Frantic, with pain, attempts to run away or jump out of a window.

• Shudders and weeps during intermissions of pain.

• Fears she has been poisoned.

• Shock, sudden attacks of terror, dares not go out into the street.

• Recognizes nobody; repulses her husband and children.

• Disinclined to speak.

• WAWES OF TERRIBLE, BURSTING, POUNDING, HEADACHE; with feeling as if standing on the head; with expanding and contracting sensation or as if blood were surging back and forth in the head; from carotids to heart; amel. vomiting, alternating between temples agg. sunshine, damp days.

• Cracking, snapping, shocks, explosions or soreness deep in brain.

• Head heavy but can not lay it on a pillow.

• Headache before, during, after or in place of menses.

• Numb; sore hot; vertex.

- Veins of temples swelled.

• Headache amel. from long sleep.

• Holds the head tightly.

• As if skull were too small for the brain.

• Red, lower eyeballs or lids.

• Eyes protrude,look wild.

• Eyes, upturned or rolled outwards and upwards, in convulsions.

• Sees everything half light and half dark.

• Lids stick to ball.

• Blind spells.

• Eyes sunken.

• Eyes dry.

• Lids red.

• Black specks, sparks, flashes, before the eyes.

• Letters appear smaller.

• Throbbing; each heart beat is heard in the ears.

• Sharp shooting behind ears.

• Mastoiditis.

• Deafness; paralysis of auditory nerve.

• Bleeding on going out in the heat of sun.

- Bluish.

• Flushed, hot.

• Pain at the root of the nose.

• Chin feels too long.

• Pain in a malar bones, ending in headache.

• Lower lip feels swollen; or numb.

• Jaws clenched in sunstroke.

• Throbbing pain in teeth; teeth feel elongated.

• Tongue; heavy; can not protrude straight; conversation difficult with confused ideas.

• Saliva; increased; thick, in a.m.

• Froth at mouth.

• feels swelled; collars must be opened.

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Horrible faint feeling at the pit of stomach; with throbbing.

• Rumbling in hypogastrium esp. agg. lying on left side.

• Diarrhoea, with sudden stoppage of menses.

• Profuse pale, albuminous urine; more frequent at night.

• Climacteric flushing.

• Headaches after profuse menses.

• Sudden cessation of menses with congestion to head.

• Eclampsia.

• Throbbing pain begins in breast (L), darts suddenly to head agg. motion.

• Heavy laboured breathing.

• As of a load on chest.

• Takes deep breath.

• Sighing.

• Numbness moves upwards in chest and down left arm.

• Oppression of chest alternating, with headache.

• Violent palpitation;throbbing carotids.

• Heart seems full, quivers.

• Pulsations in the whole body to the finger tips.

• Purring noise at the region of the heart.

• Cardiac pain radiate to all parts, towards arms agg. leaning back or taking wine.

• Full tense pulse.

• Venous pulse.

• Boiling sensation in the region.

• Neck feels full and stiff; weak and tired; can not support the head.

• Hot sensation down back; along spine; burning between the scapulae.

• Trembling hands.

• Knees give way.

• Thighs and knees weak and knock together, during headache.

• Unsteady gait.

• Fingers and toes spread apart during convulsions.

• Sciatica amel. flexing legs on abdomen.

• Itching all over, agg. extremities.

• Awakes with fear of apoplexy.

• Heat with hot sweat.

• As if warm water running upward from nape of neck.

• Flushes of heat.

• Bell.

• Amy-n; Bell.

Confusion, cannot tell where he is; well known streets seem strange; forgets on which side of the street he lives.

Headache from recent exposure to the sun.

Headache from below upwards; brain as if moving in waves.

Fullness of the head, distinct feeling of a pulse in the head; throbbing with or without pain.

Is afraid to shake the head, it increases the ache and seems as though the head would drop in pieces.

Eyes injected, protruding, look wild, pupils dilated, objects dance before them with every pulsation.

Violent action of the heart, distinct pulsation over the whole body, especially in back of neck and head.

Bad effects from exposure to the rays of the sun (sunstroke).

Nervous temperament; plethoric, florid, sensitive women; persons readily affected. Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical injuries and their later consequences; from having the hair cut. (Acon., Bell.). Head troubles: from working under gas-light, when heat falls on head; cannot bear heat about the head, heat of stove or walking in the sun (Lach., Nat. c.). Cerebral congestion, or alternate congestion of the head and heart. Head: feels enormously large; as if skull were too small for brain; sunstroke and sun headache; increases and decreases every day with the sun (Kal., Nat. c.). Terrific shock in the head, synchronous with the pulse. Throbbing, pulsating headache; holds head with both hands; could not lie down, "the pillow would beat.". Brain feels too large, full, bursting; blood seems to be pumped upwards; throbs at every jar, step, pulse. Intense congestion of brain from delayed or suppressed menses; headache in place of menses. Headache: occurring after profuse uterine haemorrhage; rush of blood to head, in pregnant women. Violent palpitation, with throbbing in carotids; heart's action labored, oppressed; blood seems to rush to heart, and rapidly to head. Convulsions of children from cerebral congestion; meningitis, during dentition, cases that seem to call for Belladonna. Children get sick in the evening when sitting before and open coal fire, or falling asleep there. Flushes of heat; at the climacteric (Amyl., Bell., Lach.); with the catmenia (Fer., Sang.).

. - Compare: Amyl., Bell., Ferr., Gels., Melil., Stram.

. - In the sun, exposure to sun's rays; gas- light; overheating; jar; stooping; ascending; touch of hat; having the hair cut.