Nitro-glycerine (C3H5N3O9)
- Nervous temperament; plethoric, florid, sensitive women; persons readily affected.
- Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical injuries and their later consequences; from having the hair cut (Acon., Bell.).
- Head troubles: from working under gas-light, when heat falls on head; cannot bear heat about the head, heat of stove or walking in the sun (Lach., Nat. c.).
- Cerebral congestion, or alternate congestion of the head and heart.
- Head: feels enormously large; as if skull were too small for brain; sunstroke and sun headache; increases and decreases every day with the sun (Kal., Nat. c.).
- Terrific shock in the head, synchronous with the pulse.
- Throbbing, pulsating headache; holds head with both hands; could not lie down, "the pillow would beat.".
- Brain feels too large, full, bursting; blood seems to be pumped upwards; throbs at every jar, step, pulse.
- Intense congestion of brain from delayed or suppressed menses; headache in place of menses.
- Headache: occurring after profuse uterine haemorrhage; rush of blood to head, in pregnant women.
- Violent palpitation, with throbbing in carotids; heart's action labored, oppressed; blood seems to rush to heart, and rapidly to head.
- Convulsions of children from cerebral congestion; meningitis, during dentition, cases that seem to call for Belladonna.
- Children get sick in the evening when sitting before and open coal fire, or falling asleep there.
- Flushes of heat; at the climacteric (Amyl., Bell., Lach.); with the catamenia (Fer., Sang.).
Relations
- Compare: Amyl., Bell., Ferr., Gels., Melil., Stram.
Aggravation
- In the sun, exposure to sun's rays; gas-light; overheating; jar; stooping; ascending; touch of hat; having the hair cut.
