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cocainum hydrochloricum
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Besides the great usefulness of Cocaine as a local anaesthetic, it has specific homeopathic uses, though the symptoms are mainly clinical only.
Sensation as if small foreign bodies or worms were under the skin.
Mind: Talkative. Constant desire to do something great, to undertake vast feats of strength. Cerebral activity. Frightful persecutory hallucinations; sees and feels bugs and worms. Moral sense blunted. Personal appearance neglected. Thinks he hears unpleasant remarks about himself. Hallucinations of hearing. Irrational jealousy. Insomnia.
Head: Throbbing and bursting sensation. Pupils dilated. Hearing greatly increased. Roaring and noises in head.
Eyes: Glaucoma, increased tension, decreased corneal sensibility. Eyes staring, expressionless.
Throat: Dry, burning, tickling, constricted, paralysis of muscles of deglutition. Speech difficult.
Stomach: Loss of appetite for solid food. Likes sweets. Haemorrhages from bowels, stomach.
Nervous System: Chorea; paralysis agitans; alcoholic tremors and senile trembling. Local sensory paralysis. Formication and numbness in hands and forearms.
Sleep: Restless, cannot sleep for hours after retiring.
Fever: Coldness with intense pallor.
Antidote
to disagreeable effects occasionally resulting from injection of cocaine into skin or gums, drop doses of nitroglycer. 1 % sol
Compare
Stovain (an analgesic, a vasomotor dilator).
