Amylenum nitrosum

Amylenum nitrosum
(amyl nitrite)
* On inhaling this drug, it rapidly dilates all arterioles and capillaries, producing flushings of
face, heat, and throbbing in the head.
* -Superficial arterial hyperaemia.
* Palpitation of the heart and similar conditions are readily cured by it, especially the
flushings and other discomforts at climacteric.
* Hiccough and yawning.
* Often relieves temporarily epileptic convulsions.
* Seasickness.
Head
- Anxiety, as if something might happen; must havefresh air. Surging of blood to head and
face; sensation as if blood would start through skin, with heat and redness.
- Flushings, followed by sweat at climacteric.
- Ears hyperaemic.
- Throbbing.
Throat
- Constriction; collar seems too tight.
Chest
- Dyspnoea and asthmatic feelings.
- Great oppression and fullness of chest; spasmodic, suffocative cough.
- Praecordial anxiety.
- Tumultous action of heart.
- Pain and constriction around heart.
- Fluttering at slightest excitement.
Female
- After-pains; haemorrhage associated with facial flushing.
- Climacteric headache and flushes of heat, with anxiety and palpitation.
Fever
- Much flushing of heat; sometimes followed by cold and clammy skin and profuse sweat.
- Throbbing throughout whole body.
- Abnormal sweat after influenza.
Extremities
- Constant stretching for hours.
- Veins of hands dilated; pulsations felt in tips of fingers.
Relationship
- Compare : Glonoine; Lachesis.
- Antidotes : Cactus; Strychn.; Ergot.
Dose
- Third potency.