HYDROCYANICUM ACIDUM

Prussic Acid


  • One of the most toxic agents known. 
  • Convulsions and paralysis express the action of this remedy. 
  • Spasmodic constriction in larynx, feeling of suffocation, pain and tightness in chest, palpitation; pulse weak, irregular. 
  • Sinking sensation at the epigastrium. 
  • Hysterical and epileptic convulsions. 
  • Cyanosis. 
  • Collapse, due to some pulmonary condition not a cardiac collapse. 
  • Catalepsy. 
  • Cholera. 
  • Stage of collapse (Ars; Verat). 
  • Coldness. 
  • Tetanus narcolepsy.

Mind

  • Unconscious. 
  • Wild delirium. 
  • Fear of imaginary troubles. 
  • Fears everything-horses, wagons, houses falling, etc.

Head

  • Violent stupefying headache. 
  • Brain feels on fire. 
  • Pupils motionless or dilated. 
  • Supra-orbital neuralgia, with flushing on same side of face.

Face

  • Jaws clenched in rigid spasm. 
  • Froths at mouth. 
  • Pale, bluish lips.

Stomach

  • Tongue cold. 
  • Drink rumbles through throat and stomach. 
  • Gastralgia; worse when stomach is empty. 
  • Great sinking at pit of stomach. 
  • Pulsative pain in precordial region.

Respiratory

  • Noisy and agitated breathing. 
  • Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough. 
  • Asthma, with contraction of throat. 
  • Whooping-cough. 
  • Paralysis of lungs (Aspidos). 
  • Marked cyanosis; venously congested lung.

Heart

  • Violent palpitation. 
  • Pulse, weak irregular. 
  • Cold extremities. 
  • Torturing pain in chest. 
  • Angina pectoris (Spigel; Oxal ac).

Sleep

  • Yawning with shivering. 
  • Irresistible drowsiness. 
  • Vivid, incoherent dreams.

Relationship

  • Antidotes: Ammon; Camph; Opium.
  • Compare: Cicuta; Oenanthe; Camph; Lauroc.

Dose

  • Sixth and higher potencies.