Glonoïnum appears in 11 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Nitro-glycerine. (C3H4(NO2)O3) Nervous temperament; plethoric, florid, sensitive women; persons readily affected. Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, mechanical injuries and their later consequences; from having the hair cut. (Acon., Bell.). Head troubles: from working under gas-light, when heat falls on…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Nitroglycerin, C3H5 Preparation , Dilutions with alcohol. Authorities. ( Nos. 1 to 121, from Hering's revised Monograph in N. E. Med. Gaz., 1874 and 1875 ).”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Nitro-glycerine--Spirits Glycerinus Nitrate Recent German provings of Glonoine confirm the original American provings 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…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“BRAIN. VASO-MOTORS: CIRCULATION. HEAD (forehead). HEART. Mastoids. Respiration. HEAT: ON HEAD. Overheating. OF SUN, lamp, etc. HOT WEATHER. MOTION: SHAKING. JAR. Bending head back. Injury. Wine. Suppressed menses. Fruits. Weight of hat. Hair cut. Open air. Elevating head. Cool things. Cold application, bathing, etc. A…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Nitro-glycerine. C 3 H 5 (NO 3 ) O 3 . Dilutions with alcohol. Angina pectoris / Aphasia / Apoplexy / Brain, congestion of / Bright's disease / Convulsions / Epilepsy / Epistaxis / Fright, effects of / Goître / Headache / Heart, affections of; palpitation of; jarring, effects of / Location, sense of, lost / Mania /…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Nitro-glycerine. C 3 H 5 (NO 2 )O 3 . Nitro-glycerine was discovered by Sobrero, in 1847, but none could be obtained for physiological experiment until Morris Davis, a Philadelphia chemist, in the same year, after long and laborious trial, under direction of Hering, succeeded to produce the substance in sufficient…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“The most common feature in this remedy is the surging of blood to the head and to the heart. A patient often describes the state as a feeling as if all the blood in the body must be rushing around the heart, with a sense of heat or a boiling sensation in the region of the heart, or in the left side of the chest. Again…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Fear, with the sensation of constriction of the chest and as if the neck were swollen, or as if something unpleasant would happen to him. Unusually bright and loquacious, with great flow of ideas. Loses his way in the known streets, the walk seems too long; the chin feels too long. Unsteady gait. Giddiness when the…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: nitro-glycerine. The symptoms calling for it are violent and appear suddenly (Amyl-N., Bell., Ferr-P.) (Bl.). Head troubles from working under gas-light, when heat falls on the head; cannot bear heat about the head, heat of stove or walking in the sun (Lach., Nat-C.) (A.). HEADACHE FROM BELOW UPWARDS…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Sudden local congestion, especially to head and chest; bursting headache rising up from neck, with great throbbing and sense of expansion as if to burst; cannot bear the least jar. Can’t bear anything on the head, especially hat; or pressure as of a hat. Over-heating in the sun, or sunstroke. This is, in the first…”