Glonoine
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 304
O = Oxygen N = Nitrogen (Nitro-glycerine) (Spirits Glycerinus Nitrate) Recent German provings of Glonoine confirm the original American provings and clinical indications and bring out very marked nerve disturbances. Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms. The sixth potency alone produced itching all over body with later acne and furuncle formation, also bulimy.
Great remedy for congestive headaches, hyperemia of the brain from excess of heat or cold. Excellent for the intercranial, climacteric disturbances, or due to menstrual suppression. Children get sick when sitting before an open fire. Surging of blood to head and heart. Tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. Violent convulsions, associated with cerebral congestion. Sensation of pulsation throughout body. Pulsating pains. Cannot recognize localities. Sciatica in otheromatous subjects, with cold shriveled limb; seasickness.
Head p. 305
Confusion, with dizziness. Effects of sunstroke; heat on head, as in typesetters and workers under gas and electric light. Head heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow. Cannot bear any heat about head. Better from uncovering head. Throbbing headache. Angio-spastic neuralgia of head and face. Very irritable. Vertigo on assuming upright position. Cerebral congestion. Head feels enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain. Sun headaches; increases and decreases with the sun. Shocks in head, synchronous with pulse. Headache in place of menses. Rush of blood to head in pregnant women. Threatened apoplexy. Meningitis.
Eyes p. 305
See everything half light, half dark. Letters appear smaller. Sparks before eyes.
Mouth p. 305
Pulsating toothache.
Ears p. 305
Throbbing; each beat of heart is heard in ears; full feeling.
Face p. 305
Flushed, hot, livid, pale; sweaty; pains in root of nose; faceache. Dusky face.
Throat p. 305
Neck feels full. Collars must be opened. Chokes and swells up under ears.
Stomach p. 305
Gastrlagia in anæmic patients with feeble circulation. Nausea and vomiting. Faint, gnawing, and empty feeling at pit of stomach. Abnormal hunger.
Abdomen p. 305
Constipation, with itching, painful hemorrhoids, with pinching in abdomen before and after stool. Diarrhœa; copious blackish, lumpy stools.
Female p. 306
Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion to head. Climacteric flushing.
Heart p. 306
Laborious action. Fluttering. Palpitation with dyspnœa. Cannot go uphill. Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and fainting spells. Throbbing in the whole body to finger-tips.
Extremities p. 306
Itching all over, worse extremities. Pain in left biceps. Drawing pain in all limbs. Backache.
Modalities p. 306
Better, brandy. Worse, in sun; exposure to sun-rays, gas, open fire; jar, stooping, having hair cut; peaches, stimulants; lying down; from 6 a. m. to noon; left side.
Relationship p. 306
Antidote: Acon.
Compare: Amyl. nit.; Bellad.; Opium; Stram.; Verat. vir.
The book’s Dose section is left out: Samepath quotes the books but gives no dosing advice.