Delphininum

Alkaloid from Delphinium staphisagria, Linn.

Formula

, C24H35 NO2

Preparation , Triturations.

Authorities.

1 , Schroff, Pharmacologie, effects of 0.006 to 0.01 of a grm.; 2 , Turnbull, On the Medical Properties of the Ranunculaceæ, effects of 0.18 to 0.25 grm. a day (0.03 grm. at a dose); 3 , Soubeiran, Journ. de Pharm., 1837, effects of inunction; 4 , Falk and Roerig, Archiv f. Phys. Heilk., xi, effects of 1 to 3 drops of alcoholic solution (1 drop equals 0.01 grm.); 5 , Albers, Allg. Zeit. Psych., 1858, effects of 0.015 grm. four times a day for several days, in a case of "torpor of the brain and irritability of the spine."

• Sensation of crawling and burning in the tongue, which, however, does not seem red or swollen, lasting an hour and a half; it produces the same sensation of burning when introduced into a wound in the skin, 4.
• Salivation, redness, and inflammation of the whole of the fauces, with a gnawing burning sensation in the throat, nausea, efforts to vomit, diminished appetite, urging to stool without relief, urging to urinate, accompanied by sensation of burning, but without special increase of the secretion of urine; itching and sticking of the whole skin, so that the patient could not lie in bed, and lastly, a small but normal pulse, 5.
• Intensely bitter taste, with sensation of burning in the tip of the tongue and lower lip, increased secretion of saliva, eructations, nausea, feeling of pressure in the stomach, and diminished rapidity of the pulse, 1.
• Diuresis and a sensation of burning and prickling in various parts of the body; such as is caused by rubbing it upon the skin, 2.
• Warmth, prickling redness, and a kind of goose-flesh; applied to the nose, it caused sneezing, to the conjunctiva pain and redness, 3.