====== ATROPINUM PURUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Atropinum.</span>

<span grade2>Atropine.</span> C<sub>17</sub>H<sub>23</sub>NO<sub>3</sub>.

{{anchor:s4}}Discovered in 1833 as being the alkaloid in the berries, leaves and root of Atropa Belladonna; it was at first used in the Homeopathic School by such as wanted something stronger, and proved years after. {{anchor:s5}}As it is, we have to regard all the symptoms, provings, poisonings and cures, as very uncertain. {{anchor:s6}}See Fehling's Dictionary, vol. i, 1871, p. 902. {{anchor:s7}}The only trustworthy preparation is the <span grade2>Atropinum sulphuricum.</span> {{anchor:s8}}This may have been the drug used in many cases in which it was not considered worth while to add the name of the mineral acid.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s10}}Vertigo on rising in morning.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Furious delirium at night.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s13}}Fine drawing, very sensitive stitches across forehead and temples, recurring every few minutes, lasting some seconds.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s14}}Dull pain in temples, at intervals, and transitory.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s15}}Very sensible sticking in left temporal region on waking in morning, extending into ear and eye; amel. moving in open air.</span>\\ {{anchor:s16}}Sensation as if head was screwed up; agg. walking; agg. towards 11 A. M.; amel. towards evening.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s17}}Sticking pains in back of skull and over eyes, agg. from every motion and on stepping.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Severe headache, beginning in occiput, passing over right side, locating over eyes and in balls, followed by an epileptic attack, with unconsciousness.</span>\\ {{anchor:s19}}Headache, with flushing of face and head, with rush of blood to head.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Periodical headache, coming on suddenly, increasing rapidly, until intensely severe, making blind and delirious.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Headache of epileptics.</span>\\ {{anchor:s22}}Sudden pain soon making her blind and delirious, lasting three hours; no nausea and vomiting; no flushing of face; pain deep in brain; dreads attacks.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Slender married woman, aet. 32, nervous temperament; headache once a month, not with menses.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Sharp neuralgic pains in and about eyes.</span>\\ {{anchor:s26}}Eyelids felt heavy and difficult to keep open.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Sharp pain under right eye, with slight pain in temples.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Neuralgic pains, commencing under left orbit, and running back to ear, lasting perhaps ten minutes at a time, and then disappearing for fifteen or twenty.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Opaqueness; violent pain; dacryorrhea; photophobia; swelling of lids.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s30}}~</span> <span grade3>Keratitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s31}}Dimness of vision, with dilated pupils.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}A bad incised wound of cornea, with protruding iris.</span>\\ {{anchor:s33}}(Atrop. externally and Arnic. internally; cured in seven days.)\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}Blepharo-spasmus and irritability of eye;</span> <span grade4>with corneal ulcers.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Conjunctivitis, with lachrymation.</span>\\ {{anchor:s36}}Erysipelatous inflammation of conjunctiva and lids.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Amblyopia; diplopia and chromopsia.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Iritis, if exudation has taken place, and inflammation is violent, to prevent adhesion.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Used for purpose of lessening intraocular blood pressure in inflammatory diseases of internal structures of eyeball, and also in inflammations of cornea and even conjunctiva.

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s41}}Mouth and throat dry.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s43}}Dark, red, dusky hue of throat.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Difficult swallowing from great dryness.

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s46}}In affections of diaphragm Atrop. stands between Bellad. and Stramon.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}Frenzy, with distressing abdominal pain, occasionally leaves her; pulse quick; tongue dry; skin hot, but sweating.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}~</span> <span grade3>Peritonitis.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s51}}Catarrhal dysentery.</span>

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s53}}Congestive states of kidneys and liver, with disturbance of right heart; neuralgia of head; nausea and vomiting; soporous condition. <span sbita>{{anchor:s54}}~</span> Bright's disease.

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

{{anchor:s56}}Ovarian neuralgia, with headache, or epilepsy.

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s60}}Puerperal convulsions.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s61}}~</span> <span grade3>Albuminuria.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Locomotor ataxia.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s65}}From sleeping in a damp bed, acute rheumatism; pain in all his limbs, which are swollen and red; no sleep; general feverish and profuse sweat.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s69}}Moving: sticking in left temple better.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Stepping: sticking in back of skull worse.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Walking: sensation as if head were screwed up worse.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s73}}Muscular spasms in different parts of body.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Tetanus.</span>

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s76}}Morning: vertigo on rising; sticking in left temple on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s77}}At 11 A. M.: sensation as if head were screwed up, agg.; amel. towards evening.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Night: furious delirium.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s80}}Open air: sticking in temple better.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Sleeping in damp bed: acute rheumatism.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s83}}Right: occipital headache passes side; pain under eye; disturbance of right heart.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Left: sticking in temple; neuralgic pains commence under orbit and extend to ear.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s86}}As if head was screwed up.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Pain: in all his limbs.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Stitches: across forehead and temples.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Sticking pain: in left temporal region; in back of skull; over eyes.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Sharp pain: under right eye.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Distressing abdominal pains.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Neuralgic pains: in and about eyes; under left orbit to ear; in head.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Dull pain: in temples.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Heaviness: of eyelids.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s96}}Influences cerebro-spinal centres, involving head, throat and eyes.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Vessels increase in volume, not in tone.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s99}}Nervous, but not hysterical temperaments.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s101}}Very similar to <span grade2>Bellad.</span>\\ {{anchor:s102}}When <span grade2>Bellad.</span> fails give <span grade2>Atrop.</span>, both affect principally right side.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Antidotes: <span grade2>Opium, Physostigma.</span>\\ {{anchor:s104}}In <span grade2>Opium</span> poisoning, has been found useful when applied hypodermically.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 02, 1880 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r313|Atropinum purum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r313|Atropinum purum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C. |
^ Year: | 1880 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}