Chloralum chlol.

BRAIN. Heart. Muscles. Liver. Skin.

Alcohol. Night. Exertion.

Open air.

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.

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, hallucinations. Night terrors in children. Muscular prostration.

Morning headache; worse in forehead, also in occiput, on motion; better in open air. Passive cerebral hyperæmia (use 30th). Feeling as if hot band were drawn from temple to temple. Hears voices.

Eyes blood-shot and watery. Circles of light, black spots. Illusions of sight where eyes are closed or at night. Dim vision. Conjunctivitis, burning in eye and lids; eyeball feels too large; everything looks white.

Red blotches, like measles. Urticaria, worse, spirituous liquors, hot drinks. Erythema aggravated by alcoholic drinks, with palpitation; causes pain in tendons and extensors. Intense itching. Surface of body stone-cold. Wheals come on from a chill; better, warmth. Purpura (Phos; Crotal).

Extreme dyspnœa, with sensation of weight and constriction of chest. Asthma, with sleeplessness.

Insomnia, hallucinations, horrid dreams. Somnolence.

Worse, after hot drinks, stimulants, eating, night.

Antidotes: Ammon; Atrop; Dig; Mosch.

Compare: Bell; Opium; Apis; Veronal--(a dangerous drug made by the action of alcohol upon urea and contains the same radical that alcohol does. Makes a man just as drunk as pure alcohol. Staggers, cannot stand up) (Dr. Varney). (Confluent reddish spots; dermatitis, itching of glans and prepuce; circumscribed dermatitis patch on first metacarpal phalangeal joint). Luminal--(Sleeplessness with skin symptoms in migraine; lethargy like epidemic encephalitis) (Dr. Royal).

First trituration in hives, otherwise, higher potencies. Locally, in offensive foot-sweat, bathe with one per cent solution. For its physiological effects, five to twenty grains. Use cautiously.

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. Night-terrors. Palpitation. Ptosis. Puerperal convulsions. Purpura. Urticaria.

Introduced as a hypnotic, Chloral soon showed that it possessed wide powers of disturbing the organism, and many persons (including the late Professor Tyndall) have been fatally poisoned by overdosing. The brain, eyes, urinary and sexual organs and skin are most affected. W. S. Gee cured with it a terrific headache of several days' duration: dull, heavy aching in forehead; coming on each morning 8 a.m.; < sudden motion; < lying down; > in, open air. The 6th gave great relief though it aggravated at first, the aggravation occurring ten minutes after each dose. One dose of the 25x cured permanently. A person under the influence of Chloral hears voices, sees visions of arches, &c., when in the dark or when the eyes are shut. Night-terrors in children have been cured with it. The brain tissue is probably congested in the same way as the skin in the urticaria of the drug. Urticaria gives a good illustration of the effect of the drug on the minute tissues. The brain is congested; hard, full, pressing pains in head. Eyes injected; the eyeballs feel too large; lids swollen, heavy, can hardly lift them. Asthma and wheezing respirations are probably due to an urticarious condition of the lung tissue. A symptom that is very significant is this: When lying on back, inspiration was through the nose, while expiration was blown from the lips as in apoplexy. The heart's action is increased, with oppression. Palpitation, hypertrophy. Later there is paralysis of heart. Heart dilated or weakened, with peculiar fulness and lightness of chest and sense of emptiness in stomach. The sense of sinking and oppression at the pit of the stomach is marked and shows a profound action on the solar plexus. The insomnia for which Chloral is suited is that due to over-fatigue. Snoring in sleep. Lying down < . Wants fanning; open air > . < Night and evening.

Antidoted by: Ammon., Atrop., Digit. (heart), Moschus, Electricity. Compare: Bell., Chlorof., Chi., and Opium in stertorous breathing and puffing out cheeks; Gels., Nux.; in urticaria, Astac.

Comatose for days, ending in cerebral congestion. — Melancholia, idiocy, and insanity. — Constantly hears voices. — Hurried and excited, walking up and down the room conversing with imaginary beings.

Hard, full pressing pains in head, long-lasting. — Dull, heavy headache in occiput and forehead over eyes; < moving about and lying down, slightly > by going into open air. — Headache in forehead, extending to occiput. — Headache over eyes running down into eyes; < l. side; eyes feel constricted.

Retinal hyperæsthesia. — Dim sight. — Eyelids feel too large. — Burning in eyes and lids. — Conjunctiva injected; great pain. — Ulcer on cornea; phlyctenæ; catarrhal ophthalmia: intense itching of inner canthi and edges of lids.

Enuresis, passes water in bed copiously without knowing it.

Pruritus during pregnancy. — Chorea during pregnancy. — Tedious labour; nervous, irritable, hysterical; pains apparently forcible have no effect. — Puerperal convulsions.

Gasping breathing and confusion of thought. — Dyspnœa and suffocation, pressure at base of chest in front, urgent thirst. — Slow respiration; imperceptible pulse. — When lying on back, inspiration through nose, expiration blown from lips as in apoplexy.

Increased action with dyspnœa. — Violent palpitation; hypertrophy with dilatation. — Angina pectoris. — Threatened paralysis.

Foul-smelling foot-sweat.

Anæmia and emaciation. — Coagulability of blood destroyed; hæmorrhagic diathesis. — Bedsores. — Muscular prostration and somnolence.

Violent stinging-itching over whole body. — Diffuse inflammatory redness like scarlatina. — Urticaria, coming out at night, disappearing by day. — Wheals come on suddenly from a chill; so long as she remains in the warmth is not troubled with them. — Purpura hæmorrhagica. — Desquamation in patches. — Bedsores. — Dropsy.

Insomnia from over-fatigue. — Night-terrors, esp. in teething children.

Sensation of heat all over body, particularly on face.

Comatose for days, ending in cerebral congestion.
Melancholia, idiocy and insanity.
Fixed despair of recovery ; believes he will give his imaginary disease (syphilis) to others.
Confusion of mind, inability to concentrate thoughts, impaired memory ; could not keep the thread of sermon.
(OBS :) Mental diseases, and general paralysis of patients suffering from mental diseases.
Constantly hears voices.
Sleeplessness at night, with restless irritability ; headache, confusion in head ; melancholy ; inclined to wander and hide herself, avoiding shrewdly the vigilance of her friends ; would then return, unable to give any account of
where she had been.
He walks hurriedly up and down the room, talking to himself in an excited manner, and holding conversation with imaginary beings. θ Acute mania induced by severe mental excitement.
Jumps out of bed with fear, cold sweat, screams as if in mortal terror ; night terrors of children.
Gorgeous visions of arches, tapestry and colors pass before the eyes when shut, or open in the dark.
Wild delirium changing to a busy delirium ; visions of fantastic objects ; a great deal of fever ; pulse 120 most of the time. θ Delirium tremens.
Delirious, she hurls a hot water bottle at an imaginary figure at foot of bed.
Boisterous mania.
(OBS :) Delirium of typhus.
Delirium tremens, when brain is congested.
Puerperal mania, with sleeplessness.
Hydrophobia.

Cephalalgia.
Hard, full, pressing pains in head, continuing a long time without relief. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Dull, heavy, aching pain in forehead and occiput all day, < by motion.
Severe pain in frontal region over supraorbital ridge, which nothing relieves, < by motion.
Headache in forehead, extending to occiput.
Headache over both eyes, running down into eyes, left side <, with feeling as if eyes were constricted.
Neuralgia of temporal region.
Feeling as if a hot band was drawn across forehead from temple to temple directly over eyes, with sensation of a burning ring around each eye.
Dull, heavy headache in occiput and forehead over eyes ; a feeling of weight and soreness, which seems wholly within cranium ; < by moving about and lying down, slightly > by going into open air.
Cerebro-spinal congestion.
Cerebral congestion following a condition of extraordinary depression of nervous system.
Congestion of brain with some mental excitement.

Great heaviness of head ; cannot lift it.
Erythema of head and neck.

Retinal hyperesthesia.
Sensitive to light.
Colors are unusually bright.
Objects look white ; color blindness.
Dark spots before eyes.
Dimness of sight.
Eyesight weak, dim, globe congested, lids swollen and sometimes partially paralyzed.
Peculiar dimness or weakness of sight ; must read with one eye at a time-for a minute or two with each ; if one eye was used longer than a minute the words and letters became blurred and indistinct.
If one eye only is used until objects fade, the other sees objects plainly for awhile.
Can see small objects only for a few moments, they fade away.
Eyeballs feel too large.
Burning in eyes and lids.
Sensation of a burning ring around each eye.
Feeling as if eyes were constricted, with headache.
Sharp pain in eyeballs.
Redness and watering of eyes.
Watery eyes, especially when looking at anything.
Conjunctiva congested.
Eyes injected and bloodshot, constantly watering.
Face and eyelids so swollen that he could hardly see. θ Urticaria.
Conjunctivæ injected, face has a puffed and swollen appearance, especially below eyes.
Ocular and palpebral conjunctiva of left eye much injected, with considerable pain ; a small ulcer on cornea reduced to size of a pin point.
Right eye much injected, with great pain ; left eye also slightly injected. θ Conjunctivitis.
Conjunctivitis of right eye, which is very red and painful, deep cut ulcer in centre of cornea ; of a strumous family.
Conjunctivitis and corneitis on left eye ; cornea is dim ; in r. eye considerable redness of palpebral and ocular conjunctiva at one point ; great photophobia.
Conjunctivitis of both eyes ; small ulcer on left cornea ; feeling of sand in eyes, but almost no photophobia ; is a very strumous patient.
Catarrhal ophthalmia ; there are one or two phlyctenæ on right eye, at edge of cornea ; severe circumorbital pain and photophobia.
Intense itching of inner canthi and edges of lids.
Puffy swelling of lids.
Eyelids feel so heavy he can hardly lift them.
Ptosis (in a man who took it for overtaxed mind).

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For homœopathic use 1 part of Chloral hydrate is dissolved in 9 parts of Alcohol.

Chloral is a powerful hypnotic, as well as a depressant of the heart; it also causes vasomotor paralysis, feeble and slow respiration and muscular weakness. ▶ It produces a decided erythema, particularly aggravated by alcoholic stimulants; ecchymoses, and destruction of tissue in consequence.

Op., Bell., Nux v., the Carbons , Plumb.

Uncertainty of movement, with tendency to fall forward. ▶ Almost jumping and springing, he changed from one bed to another. ▶ Agility. ▶ Appearance as if intoxicated; by brandy. ▶ Resemblance to a living skeleton, a maudlin, semi-narcotized condition, when aroused by loud and repeated questionings her answers were incoherent, her manner wild and uncertain, evincing a state bordering on idiocy. ▶ The blood contained garnet-colored amorphous particles, a number of dark red globules (double the diameter of white corpuscles, and many smaller), some of these dark red. ▶ Epileptiform convulsions. ▶ Ataxic symptoms, with numbness and burning. ▶ Muscular pains, agg. upper limbs. ▶ Pains as sometimes from chronic alcoholism, agg. about joints, encircling the limb, finger, etc., just above or below the joint, agg. moist and cold weather. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Weakness; and limbs extended, head low, and at times aspect of impending dissolution. ▶ Lipothymia. ▶ Inaptitude for exertion. ▶ Anæsthesia.

Delirium; hurled a hot-water bottle at an imaginary figure which stood at the foot of the bed menacing her; wandering about in the upper stories of the building. ▶ Delirium tremens. ▶ Muttering and talking about dead friends; M. of a religious character; unable to resist uttering what he knew to be nonsense, though conscious of everything going on around him (Stram.). ▶ Pleasant excitation, with rapid pulse. ▶ Excitability as from champagne, with pleasant feeling, smiling and dancing. ▶ Lively mood, with loud laughter and witty remarks. ▶ Talkative. ▶ Listless, peevish, childish, begging for chloral. ▶ Perversion of moral sense. ▶ Morose, deceitful and imbecile in intellect, memory and will. ▶ Terror, with weakness. ▶ Melancholia; and irresolution.

Stupefaction. ▶ Inability to concentrate thought. ▶ Confusion; feeling now as if in one county, now as if in another, with anxiety to get home. ▶ Almost idiotic. ▶ Memory impaired. ▶ Insensibility; with quiet but incoherent talking; with screams now and then, restlessness, retching, foaming at the mouth, pallor, dilated pupils, left leg spasmodically stretched, right relaxed.

Bent upon chest. ▶ Aching; on waking; in morning on waking, lasting all day; agg. sudden motion. ▶ Discomfort. ▶ Dullness. ▶ Fulness at 8 A.M., and constriction. ▶ Veins filled to bursting, and in neck. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Intoxication; on waking; feeling as if he had been intoxicated by wine (Glo., Nux v., Valer.). ▶ Vertigo.

Pain in forehead; extending to occiput; over right supraorbital ridge, agg. movement; over eyes, running down in eyes, agg. left side, with constriction of eyes. ▶ Heavy pain over eyes, agg. left, during supper. ▶ Fulness over eyes, agg. over left eye, with nausea and sour eructations of liquid, supposed to be what had been eaten for breakfast. ▶ Feeling as if a hot band were drawn from temple to temple, directly over eyes, with sensation of a burning ring around each eye. ▶ Pain about cerebellum after any alcoholic stimulant, with red face and suffused eyes (Nux v.). ▶ Weight and soreness in occiput and over eyes, inside skull, agg. moving about and lying down, slightly amel. in open air. ▶ Hair woolly, with a dry and fluffy feel.

Has cured morning frontal headaches, with great sensitiveness to motion, laughing, etc., and better in open air.

Retinal asthenopia, with circles of light, black spots, etc. (Coca?).

Seasickness.

Asthmatic attacks, with sleeplessness, delirium, etc.

Has been prescribed for erythema and urticaria.

▶ Bloodshot and watering; B. and as if starting from sockets. ▶ Staring wildly. ▶ Glistering inflammation and photophobia; I., with weakness and burning lachrymation. ▶ Lachrymation. ▶ Capillary congestion of left disc. ▶ Disc transparent, like white wax, retina pale, the central artery and vein and their branches dark and prominent. ▶ Haziness of fundus. ▶ Throbbing pain in left ball at 11.20 A.M., agg. leaning forward.

Pupils dilated; with sensitiveness to light. ▶ Pupils contracted; and insensible to light; C., right, then dilated, then alternations of myosis and mydriasis. ▶ Pupils elliptical, then almost angular contraction of left, at first directed downward and outward, afterwards outward and upward, and at the same time dull notches in an outward direction in middle of right. ▶ Pupils more sensitive to light. ▶ Conjunctiva congested; of yellow; and lids red and swollen. ▶ Ptosis. ▶ Lids closed and difficult to open. ▶ Vision dim; lost. ▶ Diplopia, then muscæ volitantes. ▶ Colored objects look white.

Tinnitus aurium.

Pale; and anxious; and hippocratic, veins sunken. ▶ Purple. ▶ Dusky. ▶ Red; and anxious. ▶ Cheeks and lips livid. ▶ Wistful and haggard. ▶ Swollen; agg. below eyes. ▶ Rush of blood, with heat. ▶ Jaws firmly closed. ▶ Lips and mucous membrane of mouth excoriated, afterwards lips covered with crusts.

Gums spongy. ▶ Tongue coated; white. ▶ Tongue blistered and ulcerated. ▶ T. dry, brown. ▶ Tongue thick, speech indistinct. ▶ Speech broken as if partially drunk. ▶ Mucous membrane livid. ▶ Frothy mucus flowed from mouth, and it seemed filled with a membranous substance, not unlike membranous croup. ▶ Fetid breath.

Pharyngeal congestion, with rash resembling that of scarlet fever. ▶ Spasm involving epiglottis and almost strangling him. ▶ Catarrhal soreness, with pain in fauces. ▶ Sensation of a cold in head on waking at 7 A.M., with sensitiveness, rawness and burning in throat and posterior nares. ▶ Burning in fauces and stomach. ▶ Swallowing difficult, the act not beginning till he strangled and coughed. ▶ Partial paralysis of œsophagus (Op.), with nervous disinclination to eat or drink, and interfering with nutrition; partial paralysis, not spasmodic stricture (Plumb.).

Longing for food. ▶ Little appetite for dinner. ▶ Appetite lost; capricious. ▶ Thirst; in morning on waking, with dryness of tongue and fauces, headache, vertigo, nausea and nervous sensibility. ▶ Eructations, amel. eating; sour E. of food. ▶ Nausea; amel. supper, but returning in evening, with oppression of stomach, without inclination to vomit. ▶ Retching. ▶ Vomiting (Nux v.). ▶ Pain in pit of stomach; in epigastrium on waking; in stomach and abdomen, with difficult breathing; sharp, in epigastric region. ▶ Epigastric tenderness. ▶ Burning in stomach. ▶ Sinking at stomach-pit, with oppression. ▶ Colic.

Diarrhœa; twice in afternoon; containing gelatinous matter. ▶ Soft, with pain in rectum; soft, light-yellowish; with sharp pain in rectum. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Pale and hard. ▶ Frequent.

▶ Copious micturition in bed without knowing it. (Op.). ▶ Frequent and profuse micturition; frequent in afternoon and night. ▶ Urine albuminous. ▶ Seminal emissions at night; copious. ▶ Menses reappeared in seven or eight days.

Redness and swelling of epiglottis and of false vocal cords. ▶ Suffocating sensation and oppression of chest in front and at its base. ▶ Dyspnœa; increasing to asphyxia, with swelling of face, paralysis of facial muscles and all the signs of cerebral effusion. ▶ Respiration stertorous; and slow (Op.). ▶ Panting. ▶ Gasping. ▶ Respiration rapid; and shallow and stertorous. ▶ Respiration intermittent (Plumb.). ▶ R. deep, at times imperceptible.

Oppression after eating, agg. ascending stairs, interfering with speech. ▶ Pain.

Heart's sounds indistinct. ▶ Cardiac debility. ▶ Action increased and arterial tension. ▶ Heart's action rapid but feeble. ▶ Failure of left ventricle. ▶ Strong pulsation in arteries after a glass of beer, with swollen red face. ▶ Pulse rapid; and bounding; and hard, tense; and weak and wavy; and weak, irregular in force and rhythm and frequently intermittent (Dig.). ▶ Pulse weak; and slow and intermittent; could hardly be felt in carotids. ▶ Pulse of right arm (she had lain on that side) not perceptible, that of left small and thready.

Veins full. ▶ A "singing sensation" comes from nape or medulla oblongata.

Jactitation. ▶ Tingling, and weight as if asleep. ▶ Blood settles under finger-nails and purple spots appear on side on which she had lain. ▶ Staggering. ▶ Lower limbs, acute wandering pains, agg. in calves; crampy pains, agg. through knees and ankles; weakness.

Cramp; and inability to co-ordinate movements of lower limbs. ▶ Giving away suddenly in morning on rising, inability to stand or walk, then nervous depression, general weakness, vacuity of mind and inability to concentrate the attention. ▶ Pain in calves, at times running down into feet, with sense of fulness in skin and throbbing, then steady legache. ▶ Feeling "as if in a mash," "as if he could not clearly distinguish between one part and another," in morning on putting feet to the ground. ▶ Feeling as if asleep. ▶ Weakness and want of co-ordinate power. ▶ Paralysis from knees downward on waking at 10 A.M.; P. of motion and sensation.

▶ Red blotches on arms, legs and face, then over whole body, gradually coalescing, till they resembled measles. ▶ Red spots becoming confluent, with fever and rapid pulse, then swelling of face, cheeks, lids and ears, with now impetiginous, now moist, now scaly eczema and ichthyoses, desquamation in great sheaths, then falling of hair and nails of all fingers and toes, with this skin disease watery diarrhœa and then similar affection of conjunctiva and bronchi, abscesses on arms, over shoulders and arm-pits. ▶ Redness on chest and shoulders, next day extending over whole trunk and limbs, livid spots and red patches alternating, afterwards the spots on chest and abdomen were yellowish, with white patches between them, then general desquamation, and fissures over sacrum and near joints. ▶ Scarlet color of face from roots of hair down to ramus of jaw, agg. over cheek-bones, and shading in different directions, ears of same color and red blotches over neck and chest down to centre of sternum, all amel. paroxysm of sneezing, with contraction of pupils, injection of conjunctiva and excitement of circulation. ▶ Redness of face, forehead and whole head to neck. ▶ Smooth scarlet eruption over whole body.

Diffuse inflammatory redness. ▶ Erythematous redness over head and neck, with twitching of facial muscles. ▶ Scarlatina; rash over whole body, with fever and tenderness of skin, then desquamation. ▶ Erythema of head and neck, with dark areola, agg. wine, beer or spirits, with palpitation, the hyperæmia disappearing last from forehead. ▶ Erythema of head in spots, then more diffuse, the vessels being dilated, in pronounced forms extending to trunk and becoming general, following by preference the larger trunk nerves. ▶ Petechial and purpuric eruptions, which may run into a species of pyæmic condition, with ulceration of gums and prostration, as in scurvy, with abscesses and deep ulcers. ▶ Erysipelatous inflammation of fingers, with desquamation of skin and ulceration around borders of nails. ▶ Erysipelatous eruption on face, face so swollen that she could not see. ▶ Papular rash on arms, with red bases. ▶ Nettle-rash; on arms and legs. ▶ Anæsthesia. ▶ Itching preventing sleep at night.

Gaping. ▶ Sleepiness; in evening, retired early, unrefreshed on waking in morning; S. but remained awake till 1 A.M. ▶ Prolonged sleep. ▶ Deep sleep; from 1 to 5 P.M., with loud snoring; with red face, fulness of veins of neck, deep respiration and rapid pulse. ▶ Snoring. ▶ Woke with a scream, jumped out of bed, sat on the edge of it, semi-conscious (Bell.).

Coldness. ▶ Cool skin. ▶ Cold limbs. ▶ Fever. ▶ Sweat; in beads on forehead; cold. ▶ Singular dryness of skin.