Tetanus

Hydrocyanic Acid

In persistent tonic spasms, especially of the muscles of face, jaws and back, embarrassed respiration with lividity and frothing of the mouth. Firm rigidity of the limbs and body and is bent backward.

Lachesis

In lock jaw and spasms of the larynx with blue-ness from asphyxia and the patient sleeps into the paroxysm.

Veratrum Album

Lock jaw with spasms of the glottis, constriction of the chest amounting almost to suffocation. The hands and feet are drawn inwards and the pupils are contracted. Here convulsions are secondary to an exhausting disease whereas in Stry­chnia they are primary.

Belladonna

Tetanus of infants; twitchings; sudden startl-ings; dilated pupils; staring eyes; severe convulsions; rigidity of throat muscles; opisthotonos.

Stramonium

Tetanic convulsions worse from touch and light. Mind confused with mania.

Camphor

Is indicated in tetanic convulsions with showing of the teeth from drawing up of the corner of the mouth. Deathly coldness.

Cuprum Met

Spasms with loss of cosciousness which may be due to traumatism or to injury from sharp weapons. Paleness of face, contraction of the jaw, frothing of the mouth, jerking of the limbs and severe opisthotonos.

Strychinum

Convulsion with constriction of the chest. It may be tried when Nux Vom. fails.

Angustura Vera

In tetanus, traumatic or otherwise, when there is spasmodic twitching or jerking of muscles – catalepsy, with body bent backward. Convulsions. Twitching and jerking along the back, like electric shocks.

Physostigma

Tetanic convulsions, Locomotor Ataxia. Numbness in paralysed parts, crampy pains in limbs. Fibrillary tremors.

Passiflora Inc

Specific for tetanus. It should be given in ten drop doses of mother tincture. It has extreme regidity of the muscles of the neck and shoulders with difficulty in swallowing. Peculiar sardonic smile and cry.

Cicuta Virosa

In sudden rigidity with jerking; violent dis­tortion, followed by utter prostration, tonic spasms renewed by touch. Great oppression of breathing, lock-jaw, face dark red, froth at the mouth, opisthotonos, loss of consciousness. In suppurating wounds or when the discharge of pus is stopped.

Arsenic Alb

Tetanus with attempt to commit suicide by hanging. Spasms with frightful contortions of the limbs. Pronouned septicemia.

Aconite N

Fear, anxiety, tension of muscles, tingling and numbness.

Hypericum

With excruciating pains in the wounds. It should be given as a prophylactic in newly born children whose navels present unhealthiness.

Silicea

In suppurating wound or when discharge of pus has ceased.

Nux Vom

Tetanic convulsions with opisthotonos, distortion of eyes, of face, with dyspnoea. Renewal of spasms by slightest touch, light or noise. It should be especially thought of when the consciousness is retained.