====== NITRI SPIRITUS DULCIS ====== {{anchor:s1}}Nitri Spiritus Dulcis. {{anchor:s2}}Sweet Spirits of Nitre. {{anchor:s3}}C2 H5 NO2. {{anchor:s4}}Alcoholized nitric ether is colorless, perfectly limpid, of a strong and agreeable smell, a sweetish, aromatic taste. {{anchor:s5}}It should be kept in well-stoppered vials, filled completely. {{anchor:s6}}--Am. Hom. Pharm. {{anchor:s7}}Provings by Lembke (Zeit. fr Hom. Klin., vol. 4, p. 145, and Neue Zeit. fr Hom. Klin., vol. 17; p. 36). ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s9}}- Prosopalgia, Liedbeck, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 187; Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 73, p. 66; Soreness of mouth, Georgii, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 203; Diarrhea, Liedbeck, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 424; Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 73, p. 66; Typhoid, Hahnemann, Fielitz, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 758; Hering's Cond. Mat. Med., p. 751. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s11}}Lethargy.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Sensorial apathy, a sort of half paralysis of mental organs; can be aroused, when he answers slowly but relevantly, and again goes into a stupor. {{anchor:s13}}~ Typhoid fever.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Lies indolently without sleeping or speaking; scarcely answers; appears to hear without understanding what is said or without allowing it to make any impression upon him. {{anchor:s15}}The few words he says he whispers, but not irrelevant; he appears to feel almost nothing and to be almost immovable, and yet not quite paralyzed.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Vertigo with dullness; while sitting, upper part of body sways to and fro. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s18}}Confusion, fullness, heaviness or violent boring pains in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Drawing, tearing pains or pressure and heaviness in head.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Boring or pressure in temple; heaviness.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Stitches in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Pressure, heaviness and heat in occiput. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s24}}Drawing or horripilation on scalp. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s26}}Black spots and rings float before eyes; pupils contracted.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Stitches in eyes and lids; burning in margins.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Twitches in right upper lid. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s30}}Sensation as of a cloud over upper part of face.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Prosopalgia after catching cold during stormy weather; both sides affected; photophobia; burning heat in cheeks; vomiting followed by lassitude; at times attacks accompanied by pains in arms and back; if pain is confined to right side it is less severe, but vomiting is agg., often thirteen times in twenty-four hours; if pain is on left side it is very severe and vomiting is amel.; eye sympathetically affected, pupil contracted, eyelid hanging, shortness of breath and wheezing before an attack, especially while eating; least mental disturbance brings on or aggravates attack; attacks more frequent and severe during Winter and Spring; very sensitive to cold.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Boring and pressure in bones of face; stitches in muscles. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s34}}Boring in lower jaw, in angles.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Twitching in middle of left upper lip.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Chronic soreness in corners of mouth; patient eats much salt. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s38}}Tearing drawing pain in teeth. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s40}}Taste: salty on tip of tongue; of lye.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Cutting, burning and stitches in tongue, fine stitches in tip. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s43}}Cankers after eating cheese.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Much mucus in mouth; salivation. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s46}}Increased mucus, dryness in throat.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Cramp extending from elbow upward in esophagus. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s49}}After eating cheese cankers in mouth. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s51}}Eructations of air.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Qualmishness, nausea, vomiting. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Paroxysmal cutting deep in stomach, flushes of heat and hot sweat.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Heaviness, fullness and oppression in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Pressure in stomach: extending up esophagus; as from a dull instrument.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Aching, contracting pain from eating too much salt, fullness in stomach after a meal, with sour or slimy vomiting; loss of appetite; heartburn; acidity.\\ {{anchor:s58}}For more than ten years has suffered from an affection of stomach supposed to be cancer; passive motion like riding greatly aggravates his suffering; eats too much salt and salted food. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s60}}Incarcerated gall stones (with yolk of egg beaten up applied inwardly and outwardly). ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s62}}Rumbling in abdomen; cutting in umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Colic.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Stitches in left side below navel, extending towards bladder. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Bloody diarrhea after purpura caused by excessive use of salt.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Epidemic dysentery with lethargy. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s69}}Frequent desire to urinate, urine clear.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Increased urination; diuretic effects. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s72}}Violent cutting stitches in tip of urethra. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Tickling in larynx; short, dry cough.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Stitches in larynx and constriction. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s78}}Inhalations intermit.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Breathing slow and regular; on walking a short distance it becomes very hurried; if attempt is persevered in it becomes quick, difficult and painful, and a most distressing sense of painful constriction is felt underneath sternum. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s81}}Short, dry cough. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s83}}Pressure and stitches in chest.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Cramp rising up in esophagus; pressure behind sternum. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s86}}Violent beating of heart; feeling of pressure.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Small intermitting pulse. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s89}}Violent pressure in nape of neck and cervical vertebrae.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Pressure and stitches in region of spine.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Sensation as if hot water creeping through back from below upward. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s93}}Painful weakness in left shoulder and in several fingers.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Stitches in shoulder joints, muscles of arms and finger joints.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Violent pain in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Pressure in clavicles, shoulder joints, shoulders, muscles of arms, wrists and fingers. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s98}}Persistent, pressive pain in left hip joint.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Boring, pressive pain in lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Boring in left hip, tibiae and feet.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Drawing, pressure and stitches in knee.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Violent pressure in right leg, ankle and malleoli.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Tearing, drawing, boring in feet.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Stitches in toe joints. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s106}}Pressure, boring and stitches in muscles and joints of extremities.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Drawing in calves and scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Wandering pains in limbs. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s112}}Lies in bed motionless.\\ {{anchor:s113}}While sitting: upper part of body sways to and fro.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Walking: a short distance, breathing becomes hurried. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s116}}Loss of muscular power; laming of muscles.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Exerts a stimulant action upon nervous system; has the same action upon disturbed innervation as the so-called anti-spasmodics. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s119}}After catching cold during stormy weather: prosopalgia.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Cold: very sensitive to. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s122}}Chilliness: internal, with cold hands; frequent; creeping under skin, from small of back to lower limbs; followed by heat; in back and limbs.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Heat: in head and face; in nape of neck and occiput; with swollen veins; from cervical spine into occiput; in head and face, with chilliness in back, and cold hands; in back; with inclination to perspire.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Sensorial apathy, a sort of half paralysis of mental organs; lies in bed motionless, and without sleeping or speaking; will hardly answer when urged to do so; appears hardly to feel anything, and yet there is not complete stupor. {{anchor:s125}}~ Typhoid.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Wild, staring eyes; hears nothing; dry, brown lips; desires nothing, unconscious of natural necessities, great prostration; murmuring and delirium during sleep; cannot be wholly aroused from her apathy, and appears to be unconscious of touch. {{anchor:s127}}~ Typhoid.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Adynamic rather than sthenic fevers; fever with nervous symptoms, such as startings, jerkings, etc. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s130}}In twenty-four hours: vomiting thirteen times.\\ {{anchor:s131}}For more than ten years: suffered from an affection of stomach supposed to be cancer.\\ {{anchor:s132}}During Winter and Spring: attacks of prosopalgia more frequent and severe. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s134}}Right: twitches in upper lid; pain on side of face less severe; violent pain in shoulder; violent pressure in leg, ankle and malleoli; crawling in forepart of tibia.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Left: pain on side of face very severe; twitching in middle of upper lip; stitches in side below navel; painful weakness in shoulder; pressive pain in hip joint; boring in hip; stitching in axilla.\\ {{anchor:s136}}From below upward: cramp in esophagus. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s138}}As of a cloud over upper part of face; pressure as from a dull instrument in stomach; as if hot water was creeping through back from below upward.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Pains: in arms and back.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Violent pain: in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Violent boring pains: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Tearing, drawing, boring: in feet.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Drawing, tearing pains: in head; in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Cutting: in tongue; deep in stomach; in umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Boring: in temple; in bones of face; in lower jaw; in left hip, tibiae and feet.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Boring, pressive pain: in lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Violent cutting stitches: in tip of urethra.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Stitches: in vertex; in eyes and lids; in muscles of face; in tongue; in left side below navel towards bladder; in larynx; in chest; in region of spine; in shoulder joints, muscles of arms and finger joints; in knee; in toe joints; in muscles and joints of extremities; in skin of left axilla.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Fine stitches in tip of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Wandering pains: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Aching, contracting pain in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Cramps extending from below upward in esophagus.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Drawing: in scalp; in knee; in calves and scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Persistent pressive pain: in left hip joint.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Violent pressure: in nape of neck and cervical vertebrae; in right leg, ankle and malleoli.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Pressure and heaviness: in head; in occiput.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Pressure: in temple; in bones of face; in stomach; in chest; behind sternum; about heart; in region of spine; in clavicles, shoulder joints, shoulders, muscles of arms, wrists and fingers; in knee.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Painful weakness: in left shoulder and in several fingers.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Soreness: in corners of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Burning heat: in cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Burning: in margins of lids; in tongue.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Heat: in occiput; in head and face; in nape of neck; from cervical spine to occiput; in back.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Dryness: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Constriction: in larynx; painful underneath sternum.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Fullness: in forehead; in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Heaviness: in forehead; in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Confusion: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Twitches: in right upper lid; in left upper lip.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Crawling: in skin and forepart of right tibia. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s173}}Passive motion like riding greatly aggravates affections of stomach. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s175}}Crawling in skin and forepart of right tibia.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Stitches in skin of left axilla.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Warts from having used too much salt. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s179}}Young girl, otherwise healthy, suffering two or three years; soreness in corners of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Boy, after recovery from purpura, caused by excessive use of salt; diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Woman, aet. 33, unmarried, blonde, anemic, five years ago had pneumonia and measles, and was bled much; prosopalgia.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Man, aet. 50, small stature, smoker, suffering ten years; affection of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Woman, aet. 55, weak during typhoid; stupor. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s185}}Antidoted by: Calc. ostr., Camphor, Carbo veg., Caustic., Conium, Kali carb., Natr. carb., Natr. mur., Nitrum, Opium, Sepia.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Incompatible: Digit. and Ran. bulb. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r592|Nitri spiritus dulcis]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r592|Nitri spiritus dulcis]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1889 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}