====== CHLOROFORMUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Chloroformum. ====== Chloroform. CHCl3. ====== {{anchor:s4}}Provings by Lembke, A. H. Z., vol. 39, p. 369, and E. W. Berridge, effects of inhalation, M. H. Rev., vol. 16, p. 38. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s6}}- Arachnitis ending in convulsions, E. E. Marcy, N. A. J. H., vol. 1, p. 337; Mania-a-potu, Pearce, Add. to Hom. Mat. Med.; Sick headache, G. A. Hall, Burt's Mat. Med.; Biliary calculi, C. Hering; T. H. Buckler, Hom. Times, vol. 8, p. 48; E. M. Hale, Am. Hom. Obs., vol. 7, p. 471; Paralysis of sphincter vesicae, Woodward (10 drop doses), Burt's Mat. Med.; Puerperal convulsions, Sanford, Browne, and Talbot, Med. Inv., vol. 7, p. 169; Puerperal convulsions (per rectum), W. H. Holcombe, Trans. Am. Inst., 1870, p. 446; Tetanic spasms in typhus, Watson, Add. to Hom. Mat. Med. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s8}}Difficult comprehension.\\ {{anchor:s9}}Excitement quickly subsiding into stupefaction, in which, however, the will of the individual is evidently active.\\ {{anchor:s10}}Great weakness of brain, with loss of memory, retarded power of comprehension and thinking, with frequent occurrence of confusion of intellect.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Weeping.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Low moaning.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Mania from intoxication (olfaction).\\ {{anchor:s14}}Delirium, sometimes quiet, sometimes violent.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Delirium tremens where excitement and violence predominate. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s17}}Giddiness.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Seasickness. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s20}}Pressure in brain and roaring in ears.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Headache with dizziness.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Sick headache with excessive nausea and vomiting. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s24}}A desire to lay head upon one side, to stretch lower limbs and to let the arms hang down.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Head drawn down upon shoulders. {{anchor:s26}}~ Arachnitis. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s28}}Inclination to close the eyes.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Floating images before eyes.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Photophobia (greatly relieved by fumes of chloroform).\\ {{anchor:s31}}First contraction, then dilatation of pupils.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Eyes open and close with incredible rapidity, eyeballs rolled downward, pupils contracted. {{anchor:s33}}~ Arachnitis.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Exophthalmic goitre, morbus Basedowii. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s36}}Ringing in ears, buzzing and rumbling in ears like the noise of railroad cars or the striking of clocks.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Singing in ears, with pressure in head, as after use of tea.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Indistinct hearing.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Earache. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s41}}Blueness of face.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Rapid convulsive movements of muscles of face; whole face frightfully distorted. {{anchor:s43}}~ Arachnitis. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s45}}A slight stinging and burning in lips.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Foaming at mouth; jaws locked, lips tightly compressed. {{anchor:s47}}~ Arachnitis. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s49}}Sweetish taste in mouth. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s51}}Coolness in mouth. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s53}}Hiccough of nervous form.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Nausea and vomiting, seasickness or morning sickness, with much acidity of stomach, and great distension of stomach and bowels with gas. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s56}}Pain in region of cardiac orifice of stomach. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s58}}Cholestric gall stones and biliary colic. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s60}}Enteralgia, or colic, with intense suffering, and tympanitis; especially if accompanied by great restlessness from intense pain.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Gastralgia, enteralgia, hepatic and renal colic. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s63}}Involuntary stools.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Involuntary stools of mucus and blood, with great tenesmus. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Bladder irritable.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Paralysis of sphincter vesicae. {{anchor:s68}}~ After parturition.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Renal colic during passage of calculi. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s71}}Great weakness and relaxation of sexual organs. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s73}}Hysterical conditions dependent on irritability and spasm of the cervix.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Neurosis of sexual organs. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s78}}Prevents the shock engendered by labor, in very nervous patients.\\ {{anchor:s79}}No freedom from suffering between the pains; she complains much of her back, or of extreme pain and perhaps tenderness over whole abdominal region; she is very restless, can find rest in no position, tosses about and is very nervous.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Protracted and severe labors; rigidity of os uteri.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Women subject to convulsions during labor.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Complete paralysis of sphincter vesicae following labor. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s85}}Aphonia.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Pain in larynx. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s88}}Sighing or snoring breathing.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Stertorous breathing. {{anchor:s90}}~ Arachnitis.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Want of breath.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Respiration deeper and slower, constantly increasing retardation and weakness of action of heart and arteries; trembling of hands and feet, total cessation of motion and sensibility.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Respirations almost stopped, so few and feeble; unconsciousness; motionless features; livid lips; feeble pulse, as if dying. {{anchor:s94}}~ Shock of injury.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Neurosis of respiratory organs, as laryngismus stridulus, asthma, and pertussis. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s97}}Dry, hard, spasmodic, irritable cough. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s99}}Constantly increasing retardation and weakening of action of heart and arteries.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Fluttering of heart. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s102}}Pain in region of left kidney. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s104}}Desire to let the arms hang down.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Pain in dorsum of hand and joint of thumb. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s107}}Desire to stretch the lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Pain in region of right sciatic nerve. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s110}}A sensation of fingers and toes being asleep.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Trembling of hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Convulsive twitching of extremities.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Rapid convulsive movements of muscles of arms and legs, blue color under the nails. {{anchor:s114}}~ Arachnitis.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Rheumatic pain about the joints. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Can find rest in no position.\\ {{anchor:s120}}A desire to lay head upon one side, to stretch lower limbs and to let the arms hang down.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Total cessation of motion. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s123}}Insomnia, deafness, apathy, and tremulousness of hands.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Sudden jerking and trembling of every muscle of body, which continues for about one minute and then passes off, without waking him from sleep. {{anchor:s125}}~ Arachnitis.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Spasms resembling hysteria, especially in females.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Tonic and clonic spasms.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Tetanic spasms. {{anchor:s129}}~ Typhus fever.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Trismus.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Convulsions.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Puerperal convulsions from uraemia or reflex irritation.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Entire inactivity of all the external sensibilities, so that even considerable injury to the nerves produces no reflex motion in the periphery.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Total cessation of motion and sensibility. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s136}}Great sleepiness, yawning, and invincible lassitude.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Sleep commonly dreamless.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Comatose sleep. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s140}}A general feeling of warmth flowing through whole body.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Typhus fever, with tetanic spasms.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Typhus fever, with great prostration, delirium, subsultus, irregular respiration and nervous restlessness. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s144}}As if fingers and toes were asleep; as of warmth flowing through whole body.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Pain: in region of cardiac orifice of stomach; in abdomen; in back; in larynx; in region of left kidney; in dorsum of hand and joint of thumb; in region of right sciatic nerve.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Stinging: in lips.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Burning: in lips.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Colic: biliary; abdominal; renal.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Rheumatic pain: about joints.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Pressure: in brain. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s152}}Skin cold, pale.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Unhealthiness of skin, it is slow to heal. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s155}}"Those that bear chloroform best are delicate, weakly people, reduced by disease, and women and children. {{anchor:s156}}The robust and healthy are more exposed to the dangerous effects of this agent.\\ {{anchor:s157}}The age of the individual seems to have no special influence."\\ {{anchor:s158}}"It must not be used when there is softening of brain; severe organic heart disease, with intermittent pulse; aneurisms of aorta; extreme weakness from hemorrhages; extreme anemia, and great tendency to syncope."\\ {{anchor:s159}}"In drunkards the stage of excitement can not be overcome without grave danger to life."\\ {{anchor:s160}}"Use contraindicated: in fatty degeneration of heart; in those addicted to the use of spirituous liquors; where there is albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Son of J. W. Crane, M. D., aet. 13, sanguine bilious temperament, previous to attack had enjoyed good health; arachnitis ending in convulsions.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Clergyman, aet. 58, who had suffered twenty-three years from gall stones. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s164}}Antidotes: Nitrite of Amyl., Ipecac. (against action on stomach); brandy ameliorates the symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s165}}In narcosis from chloroform, small pieces of ice placed in rectum produce deep inspiration soon followed by natural breathing.\\ {{anchor:s166}}It antidotes: Strychnine. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r700|Chloroformum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r700|Chloroformum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1884 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}