Vertigo of cerebral origin, cerebellar disease, ataxic symptoms and chorea, present a field for the homeopathic employment of this drug. Profound weakness, gone, faint feeling, and despondency. Loss of control of sphincter. Muscular inco-ordination.
SULFONALUM
HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
Natural
Clinical Applications
Trional ; insomnia associated with physical excitement; (vertigo, loss of equilibrium, ataxia, nausea, vomiting, diarrha, stertorous breathing, cyanosis, tinnitus, hallucinations).
Key Symptoms & Indications
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Vertigo of cerebral origin, cerebellar disease, ataxic symptoms and chorea, present a field for the homeopathic employment of this drug. Profound weakness, gone, faint feeling, and despondency. Loss of control of sphincter. Muscular inco-ordination.
Mental & Emotional Symptoms
Mental confusion, incoherency, illusions; apathetic. Alternation of happy, hopeful states with depression and weakness . Extreme irritability.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Dropsy, stupid; pain on attempting to raise head. Double vision; heavy look about eyes; tinnitus, aphasia; tongue as if paralyzed. Eyes bloodshot and restless . Vertigo, unable to rise. Double vision; ptosis; tinnitus; dysphagia, difficult speech.
Urinary
Albuminuria, with casts. Scanty. Pink color. Constant desire to urinate; scanty, brownish red. Hæmato-porphyrinuria.
Respiratory
Congestion of lungs; stertorous breathing. Sighing dyspna.
Extremities
Ataxic movements, staggering gait ; cold, weak, trembling; legs seem too heavy. Extreme restlessness; muscular twitchings. Knee-jerks disappear. Stiffness and paralysis of both legs. Anæsthesia of legs.
Sleep
Fidgety, wakeful, drowsy. Insomnia.
Skin
Itching, bluish purpura. Erythema.
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SULFONALUM
Mental confusion, incoherency, illusions; apathetic. Alternation of happy, hopeful states with depression and weakness. Extreme irritability.
Dropsy, stupid; pain on attempting to raise head. Double vision; heavy look about eyes; tinnitus, aphasia; tongue as if paralyzed. Eyes bloodshot and restless. Vertigo, unable to rise. Double vision; ptosis; tinnitus; dysphagia, difficult speech.
Albuminuria, with casts. Scanty. Pink color. Constant desire to urinate; scanty, brownish red. Hæmato-porphyrinuria.
Congestion of lungs; stertorous breathing. Sighing dyspnœa.
Ataxic movements, staggering gait; cold, weak, trembling; legs seem too heavy. Extreme restlessness; muscular twitchings. Knee-jerks disappear. Stiffness and paralysis of both legs. Anæsthesia of legs.
Fidgety, wakeful, drowsy. Insomnia.
Itching, bluish purpura. Erythema.
Trional; insomnia associated with physical excitement; (vertigo, loss of equilibrium, ataxia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhœa, stertorous breathing, cyanosis, tinnitus, hallucinations).
Third trituration.
Non-Homeopathic Uses.--As a hypnotic. Dose, ten to thirty grains in hot water. Takes about two hours to act.
Sulfonal.
Albuminuria. Cramps. Cyanosis. Ears, noises in. Epilepsy. Headache, with tinnitus. Hæmatoporphyrinuria. Locomotor ataxy. Paralysis, ascending. Reflexes abolished.
Sulfonal was at first regarded as one of the safest of hypnotics, but many cases of poisoning by medicinal doses have occurred, and my Schema is made up of reported effects produced on patients. The accounts will be found in recent numbers of H. W. Prominent symptoms were: Stupor. Headache, with noises in ears. Vomiting and diarrhœa. Urine retained, or secretion arrested; claret-coloured; containing albumen; porphyrin. Ataxic gait and diminished or abolished reflexes point to locomotor ataxy. Ascending paralysis has been observed. The heart is weak; fainting occurs; and death takes place by heart failure. Rashes have been noticed on the skin, purpuric, erythematous, &c. One man (H. W., xxxii. 174) observed uniform skin effects every time he took Sfo., more intense the larger the dose. This occurred from gr. v.: Patches of erythema appeared (1) first on inner side of first phalanx of right little finger; (2) next over proximal ends of metacarpal bones of left thumb and index; (3) on posterior surface of left forearm a little below elbow; (4) fourth on prepuce. The symptoms were > by cold douches.
Stupidity.─Unconscious, with dilated and fixed pupils and profuse sweat.
Headache and tinnitus aurium.
Pupils dilated and fixed.
Tinnitus.
Breath smells of onions.
Face livid.
Vomiting, diarrhœa, and violent chills.─Constant retching, vomiting, and soreness over epigastrium.─Great disturbance of digestion with scanty urine.
Spleen enlarged; hyperæmic.
Diarrhœa and vomiting.─Great constipation.
Dark brown urine.─Urine very scanty; albuminous; almost solid when cooled.─Hæmatoporphyrinuria and death; urine oscillated between deep claret and light claret colour.─Retention of urine; had to be drawn off; dark-coloured.─Urine cherry-colour, later like dark port wine.
Erythema on prepuce.
Œdema of lungs.─Signs of broncho-pneumonia.
Death from heart failure and œdema of lungs.─Heart's action feeble, occasionally intermittent.
Chronic leptomeningitis, circumscribed softening of dorsal portion of cord, with hypostatic pneumonia of r. lung, and cyanosis of liver and kidneys (post mortem of poisoning cases).
Gait ataxic; reeled about.─Plantar reflex deficient.─Paralysis of lower limbs.─(Cramps of legs and single muscles.)
The symptoms disappear slowly.─Paralysis of body.─> By cold water; cold douches.─Great prostration.─Progressive paralysis affecting legs first then arms.─Paralysis sometimes progressive sometimes with hyperæsthesia and abnormal sensation.─Twitching of muscles, esp. of face and flexors: < by voluntary movement, but always present in sleep.─Reflexes abolished.─(Epilepsy, inveterate cases with over-excitability of the cortical substance.).─Fainted and vomited.─Livid, esp. face.─Cyanosis.─Death by respiratory failure preceded by unconsciousness.
Discoloured patches like purpura on skin.─Patches of erythema, of intensity proportionate to dose:─(1) On inner side of first phalanx of r. little finger; (2) over proximal ends of metacarpal bones of l. thumb and index; (3) on posterior surface of l. forearm, a little below elbow; (4) on prepuce.─Erythematous measles-like eruption.
Stupor.─Heaviness and drowsiness.─Sleepiness and weariness with unsteady gait.
Violent chills.
Sulfonalum
Sulfonalum
• A coal tar product produces ataxic symptoms; staggering gait; anesthesia of legs with absence of knee jerks.
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Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Third trituration. Non-Homeopathic Uses.-- As a hypnotic. Dose, ten to thirty grains in hot water. Takes about two hours to act.
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