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 blueness 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 starlings; 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 consciousness 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 Yom. 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, Locomotors Ataxia. Numbness in paralyzed 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 rigidity 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, lockjaw, 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. Pronounced 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 wounds 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.
