• Amylenum Nitrosum has sudden, intense, and transient symptoms.

• Marked vasodilation and consequent flushing.

• A sensation of fullness and throbbing.

• It causes superficial arterial hyperemia.

• Effective for palpitation of the heart.

• Useful for flushings and other discomforts at climacteric.

• Hiccough and yawning.

• It often provides temporary relief from epileptic convulsions.

• Useful for seasickness.

• It causes a general feeling of expansion.

• Weakness and exhaustion follow the intense symptoms.

• It causes a sensation of blood rushing to the affected part.

• Symptoms are often of a congestive nature.

• It causes a great sense of anxiety and suffocation.

• Adapted to plethoric individuals.

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• It causes anxiety and apprehension, especially during paroxysms.

• It causes fear of death.

• It causes irritability and impatience.

• It causes confusion and disorientation during attacks.

• It causes a feeling of being overwhelmed.

• It causes hysterical tendencies.

• It causes excitement and loquacity alternating with depression.

• It causes mental cloudiness, difficulty concentrating.

• It causes forgetfulness.

• It causes restlessness and fidgetiness.

• It causes delirium, sometimes with violent behavior.

• It causes aversion to being alone and desires company.

• It causes a throbbing headache, with a feeling as if the head would burst.

• It causes a congestive headache with a red face and pulsating arteries.

• Headache is relieved by pressure or open air.

• It causes vertigo, with a tendency to fall forward.

• It causes heaviness and fullness in the head.

• It causes a headache accompanying menstrual irregularities.

• Headache is aggravated by heat and lying down.

• Vision is blurred or flickering.

• Pupils are dilated.

• It causes photophobia (sensitivity to light).

• It causes redness and congestion of the conjunctiva.

• Vision is dim.

• It causes double vision (diplopia).

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• Blurred vision; objects appear distorted.

• Redness of the eyes, with dilated pupils.

• Photophobia; sensitive to light.

• Dim vision, spots before the eyes.

• Burning sensation in the eyes.

• Diplopia (double vision).

• It causes pulsating tinnitus (ringing in the ears).

• It causes congestion and heat in the ears.

• It makes one sensitive to loud noises.

• Hearing is impaired.

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• Ringing in the ears (tinnitus).

• Throbbing sensations in the ears.

• Sensitivity to noise.

• Feeling of fullness in the ears.

• It causes epistaxis (nosebleeds), with bright red blood.

• It causes nasal congestion.

• Sense of smell may be heightened or diminished.

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• Frequent nosebleeds (epistaxis).

• Nasal congestion and dryness.

• Sensation of burning in the nose.

• Profuse watery discharge from the nose.

• It causes a feeling of constriction or choking in the throat.

• It causes difficulty swallowing.

• It causes a sensation of a lump in the throat.

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• Sensation of constriction or choking in the throat.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Spasmodic cough.

• Dryness and burning in the throat.

• It causes spasmodic asthma, with a sensation of suffocation.

• It causes shortness of breath, especially during paroxysms.

• It causes rapid, shallow breathing.

• It causes wheezing.

• It causes a cough that is dry and hacking.

• It feels like the throat is constricted.

• It causes great difficulty in breathing.

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• It causes palpitation of the heart, violent and irregular.

• It causes angina pectoris, with intense chest pain and anxiety.

• It causes a sensation of constriction around the heart.

• It causes a rapid pulse, often followed by a slow pulse.

• It causes flushing of the face and neck.

• It causes oppression of the chest.

• Pulse is full and bounding.

• Heart feels as if it would burst.

• It causes nausea and vomiting, especially with seasickness.

• It causes hiccough.

• It causes abdominal distension.

• It causes loss of appetite.

• It causes thirst for cold drinks.

• It causes belching of sour or bitter fluids.

• It causes a sensation of emptiness in the stomach.

• It causes diarrhea, watery and offensive.

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• It causes frequent urination.

• Urine is profuse and watery.

• It causes hot flushes associated with menopause.

• It causes amenorrhea (absence of menstruation).

• It causes dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation).

• Menstrual flow is profuse.

• It causes leucorrhea, profuse and acrid.

• Sexual desire is increased or decreased.

• It causes cold hands and feet, alternating with heat and redness.

• It causes numbness and tingling in the extremities.

• It causes trembling of the limbs.

• It causes heaviness and weakness in the arms and legs.

• It causes pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region.

• It causes cramps in the legs.

• Joints feel stiff and painful.

• Skin feels hot and dry.

• It causes redness and flushing of the skin.

• It causes sweating, especially at night.

• It causes itching of the skin, without eruption.

• It causes restless sleep.

• It causes frequent waking during the night.

• It causes dreams that are vivid and disturbing.

• It causes insomnia.

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• Back: Pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region.

• Stiffness in the neck and back.

• Extremities: Cold hands and feet.

• Numbness and tingling in the limbs.

• Heaviness and weakness of the extremities.

• Throbbing pains in the limbs.

• Trembling of the hands and feet.

• Cramps in the legs.

• Pain in the joints.

• Restless legs.

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• Skin: Flushed, red skin.

• Hot and dry skin.

• Urticaria (hives) with itching.

• Cold sweat.

• Formication (sensation of insects crawling on the skin).

• Sleep: Sleeplessness.

• Restless sleep.

• Dreams: Vivid dreams.

• Nightmares.

• Sleep disturbed by palpitations and anxiety.

• In a warm room.

• From exertion.

• From emotions.

• During menopause.

• From suppression of discharges.

• From pressure (sometimes).

• From lying down.

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• In open air.

• From pressure (sometimes).

• From rest.

• From cold applications.

• From cold bathing.

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• Antidotes: Cactus; Strychnine; Ergot; Glonoinum.

• For palliations:

• In all conditions where the blood-vessels are spasmodically contracted, such as angina pectoris, epileptic seizure, migraine accompanied by cold and pallor.

• Also in paroxysms of asthma.

• Chloroform asphyxia.

• Inhalation of Amyl Nitrite will give immediate relief.

• Comparisons: Glonoinum, Belladonna, Lachesis, Coffea, Cactus, Aconite.

• Complementary: Natrum Muriaticum.

• Sensation of fullness and throbbing throughout the body.

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• Tendency to faint, with a cold sweat.

• General weakness and fatigue.

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• Attacks are often periodical and sudden.

• Characteristic aggravation from suppressed discharges.

• Sensitive to light, noise, and touch.

• Symptoms often appear and disappear quickly.

• General feeling of expansion and then contraction.

• Desire for open air and to be uncovered.

• Great prostration after attacks.

• General amelioration from bleeding.

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• Apprehension of death; feels death is near.

• Irritability and impatience; easily angered.

• Confusion of mind; difficulty concentrating.

• Hysterical tendencies, especially in women.

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• Great excitement alternating with depression.

• Sudden changes in mood and behavior.

• Mental dullness and apathy.

• Fear of being alone.

• Intense fear, bordering on panic.

• Restless and fidgety, cannot sit still.

• Weeping mood, easily moved to tears.

• Clairvoyance; feeling of expanded awareness.

• Congestive headaches with red face and throbbing carotids.

• Vertigo and dizziness, especially on rising or motion.

• Sensation of fullness and pressure in the head.

• Headache relieved by nosebleed.

• Headache aggravated by heat and suppressed discharges.

• Pulsating pain in the head.

• Heaviness and fullness in the forehead.

• Dyspnea; shortness of breath, especially on exertion.

• Asthma-like attacks, with wheezing and constriction of the chest.

• Violent, paroxysmal cough, with red face.

• Hyperventilation.

• Cough worse from warmth and exertion.

• Feeling of tightness across the chest.

• Rapid, shallow breathing.

• Angina pectoris; constricting pain in the chest radiating to the left arm.

• Irregular pulse; rapid and weak, or full and bounding.

• Flushing of the face and chest.

• Sensation of oppression and weight on the chest.

• Palpitations from slightest exertion.

• Pain radiating from heart to shoulder and arm.

• Heart feels enlarged.

• Appetite: Increased or decreased appetite.

• Stomach: Eructations; nausea and vomiting.

• Abdomen: Abdominal distension and flatulence.

• Rectum: Constipation, alternating with diarrhea.

• Nausea with dizziness and headache.

• Vomiting of bile.

• Burning sensation in the stomach.

• Abdominal pain relieved by passing gas.

• Stool: Offensive stools.

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• Urinary: Frequent urination.

• Increased flow of urine.

• Burning sensation during urination.

• Involuntary urination.

• Sexual:

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• Hot flushes of climaxis

• Sexual desire increased or decreased.

• Amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea.

• Metrorrhagia (uterine hemorrhage).

• Vaginismus (painful spasm of the vagina).

• Warmth.

• Heat.

• Suppressed discharges.

• Exertion.

• Motion.

• Emotional excitement.

• Warm room.

• Being covered.

• Alcohol.

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• Open air.

• Cold applications.

• Rest.

• Lying down.

• Uncovering.

• Nosebleed.

• Complementary Remedies: Glonoine, Lachesis, Belladonna.

• Antidotes: Alcohol, Coffee.

• Comparisons:

• Glonoine: Similar vascular disturbances but Amylenum Nitrosum has a greater nervous element.

• Lachesis: Similar hot flushes and constriction, but Lachesis has a more marked left-sidedness and loquacity.

• Belladonna: Similar congestion and throbbing, but Belladonna has more delirium and dilated pupils.

• Aconite: For sudden onset of anxiety and fear.

• Ignatia: For hysterical symptoms and contradictory states.