SULFONALUM
A Coal-tar Product
By William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
(SULFONAL)
Vertigo of cerebral origin, cerebellar disease, ataxic symptoms and chorea, present a field for the homeopathic employment of this drug. Profound weakness , gone, faint feeling, and despondency. Loss of control of sphincter. Muscular inco-ordination.
Mind
Mental confusion, incoherency, illusions; apathetic. Alternation of happy, hopeful states with depression and weakness . Extreme irritability.
Head
Dropsy, stupid; pain on attempting to raise head. Double vision; heavy look about eyes; tinnitus, aphasia; tongue as if paralyzed. Eyes bloodshot and restless . Vertigo, unable to rise. Double vision; ptosis; tinnitus; dysphagia, difficult speech.
Urinary
Albuminuria, with casts. Scanty. Pink color. Constant desire to urinate; scanty, brownish red. Hæmato-porphyrinuria.
Respiratory
Congestion of lungs; stertorous breathing. Sighing dyspnœa.
Extremities
Ataxic movements, staggering gait ; cold, weak, trembling; legs seem too heavy. Extreme restlessness; muscular twitchings. Knee-jerks disappear. Stiffness and paralysis of both legs. Anæsthesia of legs.
Sleep
Fidgety, wakeful, drowsy. Insomnia.
Skin
Itching, bluish purpura. Erythema.
Relationship
Trional ; insomnia associated with physical excitement; (vertigo, loss of equilibrium, ataxia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhœa, stertorous breathing, cyanosis, tinnitus, hallucinations).
Dose
Third trituration.
*Non-Homeopathic Uses. *
As a hypnotic. Dose, ten to thirty grains in hot water. Takes about two hours to act.