HomeoRemedyChloralum hydratum
Chloral hydrate
Main symptoms
- This drug, used in physiological doses, is a powerful hypnotic and cardiac depressant.
- It has a marked effect on the skin, producing erythema, ecchymosis, etc., which symptoms have been utilized homoeopathically with much success, especially in the treatment of hives.
- Emotional excitability, hallucinations.
- Night terrors in children.
- Muscular extreme weakness.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Morning headache; worse in forehead, also in occiput, on motion; better in open air. Passive cerebral hyperaemia (use 30th). Feeling as if hot band were drawn from temple to temple. Hears voices.
Eyes
Eyes blood-shot and watery. Circles of light, black spots. Illusions of sight where eyes are closed or at night. Dim vision. Conjunctivitis, burning in eye and lids; eyeball feels too large; everything looks white.
Skin
Red blotches, like measles. Hives, worse, spirituous liquors, hot drinks. Erythema aggravated by alcoholic drinks, with palpitation; causes pain in tendons and extensors. Intense itching. Surface of body stone-cold. Wheals come on from a chill; better, warmth. Purpura.
Respiratory
Extreme dyspnoea, with sensation of weight and constriction of chest.
Sleep
Insomnia, hallucinations, horrid dreams. Somnolence.
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