Materia Medica de A a Z

AMYLENUM NITROSUM (aml-ns)

"I do not propose to adopt the usual way by beginning with /Aconite/ and ending with /Zincum/, but to follow the bent of my inclinations, or, as it is sometimes expressed, the movings of the spirit; and may I not here invoke the aid of the spirits of the immortal Hahnemann, Boenninghausen and the galaxy of bright names that adorn the fair page of the history of Homoeopathy to help me."

First: NUX VOMICA (nux-v)

Previus: MELILOTUS ALBA (Meli)

Next: KALI BROMATUM (Kali-br)

It has quite a reputation for arresting paroxysms of epilepsy and resuscitating patients sinking under anæsthetics. It is given here by olfaction. There are various speculations as to how it does this; the most important thing, after all, is that it does it.

We know that it causes and cures tumultuous heart action very similar in appearance to that of Glonoine (Glon). I have cured a very bad case of chronic blushing or flushing of blood to the face on the least excitement, either mental or physical. It was in a young married woman, not near the climacteric, and she had suffered very much for a long time. The cure is permanent and the patient is very grateful, for, as she said, she supposed it was natural and medi cine could not help it. Those who cannot blush don't need it. This is all the experience I have had with this remedy and I always used it in the 30th.