• Confusion, cannot recognise well known streets
• Congestive headaches, every throb of the arteries in the brain seems to be synchronous with the beats of the heart
• Bad effects of sunstroke, carries an umbrella all the time
• Sensation of pulsations throughout the body
• Cannot bear heat around the head, better uncovering; worse jar, motion, worse lying down

Source: Mineral kingdom
Synonyms: Nitro-glycerine, Spiritus glycerinus
Prover: Dr. Constantine Hering
Duration of Action: As per Dr G. Miller, one day
Miasmatic Background: Psora in the background
Temperament: Nervous
Thermal Relationship: Hot patient

Introduction and History: Nitro-glycerine is a combination of two elements – glycerine and nitrogen; glycerine is a more inert and bland oil. It is used as a toiletry. Nitrogen is a colourless, tasteless and odourless gas. When both of them are mixed in 1:4 proportion, potentized and proved according to the doctrine of proving, it becomes an extremely valuable medicine with alarming characters.

Nitro-glycerine is an explosive substance, therefore its action is quick and violent. According to Hering, nitro-glycerine was discovered by Sobreo in 1847 but none could be obtained for physiological experiment until Morris Davis, who after long and labourous trials, under the direction of Hering, succeeded in producing the substance in sufficient quantities for proving. The keynote of it’s action is the tendency to sudden congestions and violent irregularities of circulations.

Preparation: It is prepared from nitro-glycerine by dilutions with alcohol. Alcoholic preparations are made from pure nitro-glycerine. One part of pure nitro-glycerine is dissolved in 9 parts of 95 per cent alcohol making our strongest preparation called 1x. Higher potencies are prepared from 1x in decimal or centesimal scale.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is suited for florid, plethoric, sensitive women of nervous and sanguine temperament; for readily affected persons.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology): Through the cerebrospinal nervous system, this powerful remedy acts especially on the cerebral blood vessels, medulla oblangata and pneumogastric nerve. It produces violent and severe congestive, throbbing, bursting headaches with increased action of the heart and arteries and sometimes produces nausea and vomiting.

Ailments From: ill-effects of sun heat, bright snow, fire heat, fear or fright, jarring injuries, bad effects of mental excitements, from having a hair cut.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It mainly acts on the cerebrospinal nervous system, cerebral blood vessels, medulla oblongata and the pneumogastric nerve.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Frantic with pain, attempts to run away or jump out of a window.
2. Confused, bewildered. Loses himself in well known localities.
3. Shudders and weeps during intermissions of pain.
4. Fears, she has been poisoned.
5. Shocks, sudden attack of terror, dares not to go out in the Street.
6. Recognizes nobody, refuses her husband and children.
7. Disinclined to speak. Very irritable. Loses sense, sinks down unconscious.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Children: Children get sick in the evening when sitting before a fire, an open coal fire or falling asleep there.

Head troubles: From working under gas light, when heat falls on the head, cannot bear heat about the head, heat of stove or walking in the sun.

Cerebral congestions: Alternate congestion of the head and heart.

Sensation: Head feels enormous, large, as if the skull were too small for the brain.

Sunstroke and sun headache: It increases and decreases every day with the sun.

Headache: Throbbing, pulsating headache, holds head with both hands, could not lie down, ‘the pillow would beat.’

Shocks: Terrific shocks in the brain synchronous with the pulse.

Brain: Feels too large, full, bursting; blood seems to be pumped upwards; throbs at every jar, step and pulse.

Congestions: Intense congestion of the brain from delayed or suppressed menses; headache in place of menses.

Haemorrhages: Headache appearing after profuse uterine haemorrhages; with rush of blood to the head, in pregnant women.

Palpitations: Violent palpitations with throbbing in carotids, heart’s action laboured, oppressed, blood seems to rush to the heart and rapidly to the head.

Convulsions: Convulsions of children from cerebral congestion, meningitis, during dentition.

Menopause: Flushes of heat, during climacteric with catamenia.

Important Characteristic Features

Sunstroke and headache: It is a well indicated remedy for sunstroke and sun headaches. Headache due to bad effects of sun heat, fire heat, working under gas light. Throbbing and bursting headache. Sun headache increases and decreases with the sun. Sunstroke, heat on head. Waves of terrible, pounding headache.

Cracking, snappings, shocks, explosions, Soreness deep in the brain. Head heavy but cannot lay it on pillow; shocks in head, synchronous with the pulse. Holds the head tightly. Head feels large as if skull were too small for the brain; as if standing on the head with an expanding and contracting sensation. Worse before, during and after or in place of menses, from sleep.

General Modalities

Aggravation: In the sun, exposure to sun’s rays, gaslight, from 6 am to noon, left side, suppressed menses, fruits, overheating, jar, stooping, touch of a hat, having a hair cut.

Amelioration: From sleep, from open air, elevating the head, cold things, cold applications.

Remedy Relationships

Antidoted by: Acon, Camph, Coff, Nux-v.

Dosage: 3 to 200.

Repetition: Frequent in acute conditions.

Therapeutic Value: Angina pectoris, Aphasia, Brights disease, Convulsions, Epilepsy, Goitre, Headache, Hypertension, Mania, Meningitis, Neuralgia, Nosebleed, Palpitations, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Seasickness, Snow headaches, Toothache, Trauma.