GLONOINUM : GL = Glycerin; O = Oxygen; N = Nitrogen (Nitro-glycerine--Spirits Glycerinus Nitrate)
- Recent German proving of Glonoine confirm the original American proving 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 bulimia.
- 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 atheromatous subjects, with cold shriveled limbs; seasickness.
Head
- Confusion, with dizziness.
- Effects of sunstroke; heat on head, as in type-setters 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
- See everything half light, half dark.
- Letters appear smaller.
- Sparks before eyes.
Mouth
- Pulsating toothache.
Ears
- Throbbing; each beat of heart is heard in ears; full feeling.
Face
- Flushed, hot, livid, pale; sweaty; pains in root of nose; face ache.
- Dusky face.
Throat
- Neck feels full.
- Collars must be opened.
- Chokes and swells up under ears.
Stomach
- Gastralgia in anemic patients with feeble circulation.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Faint, gnawing, and empty feeling at pit of stomach.
- Abnormal hunger.
Abdomen
- Constipation with itching, painful hemorrhoids, with pinching in abdomen before and after stool.
- Diarrhea; copious blackish, lumpy stools.
Female
- Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion to head.
- Climacteric flushing.
Heart
- Laborious action.
- Fluttering.
- Palpitation with dyspnea.
- Cannot go uphill.
- Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and fainting spells.
- Throbbing in the whole body to finger-tips.
Extremities
- Itching all over, worse extremities.
- Pain in left biceps.
- Drawing pain in all limbs.
- Backache.
Modalities
- Better, brandy.
- Worse, in sun; exposure to sun-rays, gas, open fire; jar, stooping, having hair cut; peaches, stimulants; lying down; from 6 am to noon; left side.
Relationship
- Antidote: Acon.
- Compare: Amyl nit; Bellad; Opium; Stram; Verat vir.
Dose
- Sixth to thirtieth potency.
- For palliative (non-homeopathic) purposes, in angina pectoris, asthma, heart-failure, etc., physiological doses-i.e., 1-100 of drop-must be given.
- Here it is the great emergency remedy.
- The conditions calling for it are small, wiry pulse, pallor, arterial spasm, anemia of brain, collapse, feeble heart, syncope, dicrotic pulse, vertigo, the opposite of those indicating a homeopathic dosage.
- Often thus used to lower the arterial tension in chronic interstitial nephritis.
