• Profound sedative and hypnotic action.

• Marked depression of the vital forces.

• It causes general relaxation and weakness.

• A tendency to collapse.

• It causes great restlessness and jactitation.

• It causes sensations of numbness and tingling.

• It causes convulsions and spasms.

• It produces erythema, ecchymosis.

• Its symptoms have been utilized homeopathically with much success, especially in the treatment of hives.

• It causes emotional excitability, hallucinations.

• It causes night terrors in children.

• It causes muscular prostration.

• It causes skin eruptions: Urticaria

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• It causes emotional excitability, easily startled.

• It causes hallucinations, especially visual and auditory.

• It causes delirium, often of a low, muttering type.

• It causes night terrors in children, waking in fright.

• It causes anxiety, restlessness, and apprehension.

• It causes irritability and impatience.

• It causes confusion and disorientation.

• It causes loss of memory and concentration.

• It causes a comatose state with stertorous breathing.

• It causes mental dullness and apathy.

• It causes hysteria.

• It causes delirium tremens.

• It causes headache, often with a sensation of fullness or pressure.

• It causes vertigo, especially on movement.

• It causes congestion of the head.

• It causes pupils dilated or contracted.

• It causes nystagmus.

• It causes double vision.

• It causes photophobia.

• It causes ringing in the ears (tinnitus).

• It causes decreased hearing.

• It causes coryza with watery discharge.

• It causes epistaxis (nosebleed).

• It causes dryness and burning in the throat.

• It causes difficulty swallowing.

• It causes hoarseness.

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• It causes depressed respiration.

• It causes stertorous breathing.

• It causes bronchitis with rattling mucus.

• It causes cough, dry and hacking.

• It causes dyspnea (difficulty breathing).

• It causes a weak and rapid pulse.

• It causes palpitations.

• It causes cardiac depression.

• It causes oppression of the chest.

• It causes a sensation of constriction in the chest.

• It causes nausea and vomiting.

• It causes diarrhea, often watery and offensive.

• It causes abdominal pain and distention.

• It causes loss of appetite.

• It causes offensive stool.

• It causes increased or decreased urination.

• It causes incontinence of urine.

• It causes decreased libido.

• It causes impotence.

• It causes muscular prostration and weakness.

• It causes trembling of the limbs.

• It causes numbness and tingling in the extremities.

• It causes heaviness and stiffness of the limbs.

• It causes convulsions and spasms.

• It causes coldness of the extremities.

• It causes urticaria.

• It causes erythema.

• It causes ecchymosis.

• It causes confluent reddish spots.

• It causes dermatitis, itching of glans and prepuce.

• It causes a circumscribed dermatitis patch on first metacarpal phalangeal joint.

• It causes insomnia.

• It causes night terrors.

• At night.

• From noise.

• From touch.

• From motion.

• From excitement.

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• From rest.

• From quiet.

• From cold applications (sometimes).

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• Compare: Belladonna, Opium, Apis.

• Compare: Veronal (a dangerous drug made by the action of alcohol upon urea and contains the same radical that alcohol does; makes a man just as drunk as pure alcohol; staggers, cannot stand up) (Dr. Varney).

• Compare: Luminal (Sleeplessness with skin symptoms in migraine; lethargy like epidemic encephalitis) (Dr. Royal).

• Antidotes: Coffee, Camphor. Stimulants may be needed in cases of overdose.

• Useful in conditions involving: Insomnia, Hysteria, Delirium tremens, Convulsions, and various skin eruptions like Urticaria.