Eserinum - General symptoms
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Eserinum in traditional homeopathic usage, not approved by the FDA.
GENERAL
General
The alkaloid of Physostigma — slows action of heart and increases arterial tension; in ciliary spasm and spasmodic ASTIGMATISM due to irregular action of ciliary muscles; blepharo-spasms; PUPILS CONTRACTED. Twitching of lids, soreness of eyeballs, blurring of vision AFTER USING EYES, pains around eyes and head. Used locally to contract the pupil. ESERINE contracts the pupils dilated by ATROPINE, but not those dilated by GELSEMIUM. Internally 6X.
Eserine. Physostigmine. The alkaloid of Physostigma Physostigma venenosum, Calabar Bean. C15 H21 N3 O2. Trituration or solution.
Eserine is best known as used by oculists to procure contraction of the pupils in glaucoma. It has been used by Fenoch of Berlin (H. R., iv. 127) in a case of chorea in a child of nine. Half a millegramme of Eser. Sulphur sulph. was injected into the right upper arm, and the following proving was the result In fifteen minutes the child cried out loudly, vomited profusely, and complained of violent headache. Soon the face and upper part of the body became covered with profuse sweat. Half an hour later the flow of saliva was increased. The heart-beats sank to 64, radial artery contracted, pulse small and thready. After repeated vomitings signs of cardiac weakness increased in spite of remedies, whilst sweat and saliva decreased, and in one half-hour had disappeared. A moderate contraction of the pupil took place, reaction slow. The child lay apathetic on the bed, pale and collapsed. Antidotes were administered, and the child was well next morning. A remark of Mittendorf that "spasm of the accommodation is also produced artificially by Eserin." led R. B. Leach (Med. Adv., xix. 262) to prescribe successfully the 6x trituration in cases of ciliary spasm, and of astigmatism due to irregular action of the ciliary muscles. Eserin. has also produced blepharospasm. A solution of one grain to the drachm (mixed in mistake for a grain to the ounce) was instilled into the eye of a lady of 60 suffering from cataract. Sweating and lachrymation followed, and, as these passed off, in a quarter of an hour "clonic spasm of the eyelids" set in, "the upper lid failing down on the lower every few seconds." Spasmodic feeling in lips and the same sensation under jaw of left side followed. Feeling of tremor and spasm, without retinal movement, followed in an hour. Pupils contracted to small point.
Clinical
Blepharospasm. Ciliary spasm. Glaucoma. Headache. Pupil, contracted. Salivation. Sweat, excessive.