Chloralum hydratum

Chloralum hydratum
(chloral hydrate)
* 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 prostration.
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 totemple.
- 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.
- Urticaria, 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. [Phos.; Crotal.]
Respiratory
- Extreme dyspnoea, with sensation of weight and constriction of chest.
- Asthma, with sleeplessness.
Sleep
- Insomnia, hallucinations, horrid dreams.
- Somnolence.
Modalities
- Worse, after hot drinks, stimulants, eating, night.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Ammon.; Atrop.; Dig.; Mosch.
- Compare : Bell.; Opium; Apis; Veronal - (a dangerous drug made by the action of alcohol
upon urea and contains the same radical that alcohol does. Makes a man just as drunk as pure
alcohol. Staggers, cannot stand up). (Dr. Varney.)
- (Confluent reddish spots; dermatitis, itching ofglans and prepuce; circumscribed dermatitis
patch on first metacarpal phalangeal joint.) Luminal - (Sleeplessness with skin symptoms in
migraine; lethargy like epidemic encephalitis). (Dr. Royal.)
Dose
- First trituration in hives, otherwise, higher potencies.
- Locally, in offensive foot-sweat, bathe with oneper cent. solution.
- For its physiological effects, five to twenty grains.
- Use cautiously.