Glonoinum
The great sunstroke and congestive headache remedy. Terrible bursting headache with violent throbbing. Blood rushes upward. Cannot bear any heat, especially sun. Head feels enormously large.
Source
Dilution of nitroglycerin (glyceryl trinitrate, C3H5(NO3)3) in alcohol.
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Keynote Symptoms
Terrible, bursting, throbbing headache — head feels enormously expanded, as if skull were too small. Waves of blood rush upward. Cannot bear any heat around head, especially sun. Headache instead of menses (suppressed menses). Throbbing in every vessel. Confusion — loses sense of location. Better from uncovering head.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Confusion — cannot tell where he is, well-known streets seem strange. Fear of being poisoned. Disinclination to talk. Becomes furious from congestion.
General Symptoms
Violent, surging congestion upward. All blood seems to rush to head. Throbbing everywhere, in every vessel. Sun and heat aggravate tremendously. Suppressed menses replaced by congestion to head. Better from cold applications, open air. Seasickness. Effects of sun and heat.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Terrible, bursting, throbbing headache. Head feels enormously large, expanded. Pulsation felt in skull. Cannot bear hat, heat, sun. Waves of blood surging upward. Headache from sun exposure, from suppressed menses, from menopause.
Eyes
Eyeballs feel protruded. Sparks before eyes. Letters appear smaller.
Face
Red, flushed, hot. Pallor alternating with redness.
Chest
Violent palpitations. Throbbing of carotids. Labored heart action. Cannot go uphill.
Female Genitalia
Menses delayed or suppressed, replaced by congestion to head. Climacteric flushes with bursting headache.
Fever / Chill / Perspiration
Hot flushes. Surging of blood. Sunstroke with high temperature.
Modalities
Better From
Open air. Uncovering. Cold applications. Brandy. Pressure. Elevation of head.
Worse From
Sun. Heat in any form. Jar. Stooping. Bending head backward. Ascending. Cutting hair. Peaches. Wine. Suppressed menses.
Constitutional Type
Full-blooded, plethoric persons prone to congestive headaches. Menopausal women with flushes and headaches. Those who cannot tolerate sun or heat. Strong pulsations.
Clinical Indications
Sunstroke. Congestive headache. Menopausal headache. Hypertensive headache. Angina pectoris. Menstrual headache (suppressed menses). Throbbing headache.
Comparative Materia Medica
Compare Belladonna (congestive headache with fever but more acute and less chronic), Melilotus (congestive headache relieved by nosebleed), Natrum carbonicum (sun headache). Glonoinum has the most violent throbbing and expansion sensation of all headache remedies.
Safety Information
Aconitum. Camphor. Coffea. Nux vomica. Tabacum.
Nitroglycerin is a powerful vasodilator. Material doses cause violent headaches, hypotension, and collapse. Used medicinally for angina in conventional medicine. Low potencies may have pharmacological effects.
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