by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
Muscle prostration. .................... Indifferent and sleepy or cerebral excitement; hears voices. Mania. Bileless stools. Bed-wetting. Wants to be fanned. Dyspnœa. As of a weight on chest. Weak heart. Urticaria. Sleepless from fatigue. Night terrors.
Related: Ap. Cancer-flu.
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Chloralum appears in 5 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.
“Chloralum hydratum crystallisatum, Hydrate of Chloral. Formula , C2 HCl3 O+H2 Preparations , Triturations. Authorities.”
“Chloral Hydrate (CHLORALUM) 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 homeopathically with much success, especially in the treatment of hives. Emotional excitability…”
“Hydrate of Chloral. C 2 HCl 3 OH 2 O. Solution; trituration. Anæmia / Angina pectoris / Apoplexy / Asthma / Bedsores / Bronchitis / Chorea / Conjunctivitis / Dropsy / Dysmenia / Enuresis / Erysipelas / Hæmorrhagic diathesis / Heart, hypertrophy of; paralysis of / Hydrophobia / Keratitis / Labour, abnormal / Leucorrhœa…”
“Hydrate of Chloral. C 2 HCl 3 O + H 2 O. Discovered in 1832, by Liebig. Proved by W. Eggert, S. Swan, D. A. Babcock, etc. See Encyclopædia , vol. iii . Poisoning, by E. W. Berridge, N. Y. J. H., vol. i, p. 307. "Prepared by passing a stream of chlorine through absolute alcohol, until it comes over unchanged. The thick…”
Kent's Repertory lists Chloralum in 209 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in MIND (36), SKIN (25), EXTREMITIES (18), EYE (17), FACE (13).
