Zincum valerianicum

(valerinate of zinc)

Pharmacy
Zinc-Valer. Valerianate of Zinc. Zinc valerianicum. Zinc Isovalerate. Trituration.
Historical dose: All potencies, first and second trituration.
History
Zinc-Valer. is a favorite anti-hysteric medicine in old-school practice. There is one
proving with substantial doses by C. B. Finney, which brought out a strong action
on the genital sphere, the usual starting-point of hysteria.
Finney had the brain-fatigue Symptoms of Zinc Met. and the gastro-intestinal
disturbance. The abdominal pains waked him from Sleep and he had to rise at
6:30 to stool, which was partly focal and partly fluid. Later he was constipated and
had tenesmus.
Hansen gives "epilepsy without aura." Finney had "Sensation as if a very heavy
weight on Chest," and dull Headache and stiffness of muscles of Neck.
Hale quotes C. Dradwick as saying that a considerable number of patients having
hemorrhoids, who were taking Zinc-Valer. for other troubles, had their
hemorrhoids relieved by the remedy. Planets: Moon.
Homeopathic
Zinc-Valer. affects the nerves, ovaries and spine. Sleeplessness in children.
Obstinate hiccough. A remedy for neuralgia, hysteria, angina pectoris and other
painful affections, notably in ovarian disorders. Epilepsy without an aura.
Hysterical Heart-pain.
Facial neuralgia, violent in left temple and inferior maxillary. Painful nervous
effects. Neuralgia. Oversensitive, nervous and Sleepless. Hysteria. Obstinate
hiccough. Epilepsy without aura.
Finney had distinct Heart pains and Hale mentions angina pectoris as having been
cured by Zinc-Valer. Other conditions named by him are: Prosopalgia, spinal
neuralgia, sciatica, ovarian neuralgia, cerebrospinal meningitis and tubercular
meningitis. Zinc-Valer. is indicated in hysteria with fidgety feet, hypochondriasis,
groundless fear.
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Clinical
Angina pectoris. Asthma. Brain-fag. Deltoids, pain in. Diarrhea. Emaciation.
Epilepsy. Hemorrhoids. Hypochondriasis. Hystero-epilepsy. Priapism. Seminal
emissions. Stiff-Neck.
Modalities
Better from rubbing.
Symptoms
Mind
Excitable. Distressed mentally, Mind all mixed up. Groundless fear. Dullness of
Mind and Headache with erections. Great fullness of Head with difficult thinking.
Abdomen
Mucous colitis. Crampy pains from flatulence in hypogastrium.
Back
Aching up.
Eyes
Tickling over left ear.
Face
Prosopalgia.
Female
Dysmenorrhea, pains down the thighs. Ovarian pain that shoots down Limbs,
even to foot during and after menses.
Head
Violent, neuralgic intermittent Headaches. Becomes almost insane with pain,
which is piercing and stabbing. Uncontrollable Sleeplessness from pain in Head
with melancholy.
Limbs
Severe pain in Neck and spine. Cannot sit still, must keep legs in constant motion.
Sciatic neuralgia.
Mouth
Sour taste in morning. Smothers on attempting to eat.
Temperature
Chills after mental excitement or exertion. Cold parts burn as they warm up.
Sources
Boericke. Clarke.