GLONOINUM = GL = Glycerine O = Oxygen N = Nitrogen

GLONOINUM = GL = Glycerine
O = Oxygen
N = Nitrogen

(Nitro-glycerine, Spirits Glycerinus Nitrate)

Glon.

Recent German studies on Glonoinum confirm the original American findings and clinical indications, highlighting significant nervous disturbances. There is great fatigue, no desire to work, and extreme irritability easily triggered by minor opposition, leading to congestive head symptoms. The sixth potency alone caused itching all over the body followed by acne and boils, as well as excessive hunger.

It is a great remedy for congestive headaches and hyperemia of the brain caused by heat or cold. It is excellent for intracranial or climacteric disturbances or menstrual suppression issues. Children get sick when sitting near an open fire. There is a surge of blood to the head and heart, with a tendency towards sudden and severe irregularities in circulation, violent convulsions with cerebral congestion (meningitis), and sensations of pulsations throughout the body. Pulsating pain, inability to recognize places, sciatica in atheromatous patients with cold, shriveled limbs, and seasickness are also symptoms.

Head: Confusion and dizziness, effects of sunstroke, heat on the head (common in typesetters and those working under gas and electric light), heavy head that cannot rest on a pillow, inability to tolerate heat around the head (better with the head uncovered), throbbing headache, angio-spastic neuralgia of the head and face, extreme irritability, vertigo when standing up, cerebral congestion, head feeling enormous as if the skull is too small for the brain, sun headaches that increase and decrease with the sun (sunstroke), shocks in the head synchronized with the pulse, headache in place of menses, rush of blood to the head in pregnant women, threatened apoplexy, and meningitis.

Eyes: Vision is half light, half dark, letters appear smaller, and there are sparks before the eyes.

Ears: Throbbing with each heartbeat heard in the ears and a full feeling.

Face: Flushed, hot, livid, pale, sweaty, pain at the root of the nose, faceache, dusky face.

Mouth: Pulsating toothache.

Throat: Neck feels full (goitre), collar must be opened, choking, and swelling under the ears.

Stomach: Gastralgia in anemic patients with weak circulation, nausea and vomiting, faint and gnawing feeling in the pit of the stomach, abnormal hunger.

Abdomen: Constipation with itching, painful hemorrhoids, pinching in the abdomen before and after stool, diarrhea with copious blackish, lumpy stools.

Female: Delayed menses or sudden cessation with congestion of the head, climacteric flushing.

Heart: Laborious action, fluttering, palpitations with dyspnea (angina pectoris), inability to go uphill, exertion causing a rush of blood to the heart with fainting spells, throbbing throughout the body including fingertips.

Extremities: Itching all over, especially in the extremities, pain in the left biceps, drawing pain in all limbs, backache.

Modalities: Better with brandy; worse in the sun, exposure to sun-rays, gas, open fire, jar, stooping, having a haircut, peaches, stimulants, lying down, from 6 a.m. to noon, left side.

Relationship: Antidote: Acon. Compare: Aml-ns., Bell., Op., Stram., Verat-v.

Dose: Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Non-homeopathic Uses: For palliative purposes in angina pectoris, asthma, heart failure, etc., physiological doses (1-100 of a drop) must be given. It is the great emergency remedy for conditions such as a small, wiry pulse, pallor, arterial spasm, brain anemia, collapse, weak heart, syncope, dicrotic pulse, and vertigo, opposite of those indicating a homeopathic dosage. It is often used to lower arterial tension in chronic interstitial nephritis.