Aconite Acon
Often from exposure to dry, cold air; teething; very restless, anguish; biting its fists; dry, hot skin; twitching of single muscles; costive or dark, watery stools; convulsions from otitis or from the irritation of worms; vertigo on rising from a recumbent position.
Aethusa Aeth
Spasms with stupor, delirium; turning of eyes downward; epileptiforms; with clenched thumbs, red face; opisthotonos; great weakness, children cannot stand or hold their heads up.
Agaricus Agar
Spasms, with tremors of body; involuntary movements while awake.
Amyl nitrite Aml-n
Convulsions, with unconsciousness and inability to swallow; frequent piercing shrieks; after long-continued convulsions weak; emaciation with tendency to sweat easily from slight exertion; during convulsions rigidity of limbs.
Antimonium tart Ant-t
Spasms from repelled eruptions, with paleness of skin and difficult breathing; great prostration and faintness; cold sweat on forehead.
Apis mel Apis
Nervous restlessness; convulsions; trembling and jerking of limbs; shrieking; boring the head into the pillow; cerebral affections.
Arnica Arn
Spasms, in consequence of a fall or other injury. (Hep. follows well.)
Arsenicum Ars
The child lies as if dead; pale, but warm; is breathless for some time; finally it twists its mouth, fist to one side, then to the other; a violent jerk appears to pass through the whole body and respiration and consciousness gradually return.
Artemisia Art-v
Convulsions from irritation of worms (Cin., Stann.).
Belladonna Bell
Starting from sleep with a wild look, dilated pupils; heat of the head and hands; red eyes and flushed face; sopor after
spasms. Convulsion may commence in arm and then the body he thrown forward and backward; child very drowsy, but cannot sleep; sudden twitchings or jerks while asleep or awake, screaming for hours without cause.
Bryonia Bry
Spasms developed through repercussion of measles.
Calcarea carb Calc
Tendency to spasms in scrofulous diathesis; open fontanelles; teething process generally very slow or may be too rapid; often needful after Bell.
Camphora Camph
Spasms from suppressed catarrh of head and chest; TRISMUS AND TETANUS NEONATORUM, ORIGINATING IN SOME WOUND, affecting the nervous and venous system.
Causticum Caust
Affecting upper part of body, with feverish heat and coldness of hands and feet; convulsive motions of the extremities in the evening while sleeping, with disturbed vision and icy coldness of body.
Chamomilla Cham
Child makes itself stiff and bends backward; petulant and angry disposition, kicks with the feet and screams immoderately. Convulsions of children; legs moved up and down; grasping and reaching with the hands; mouth drawn from side to side; hot sweat about head and face, eyes starting, jerking and twitching even in sleep. The nurse may have had a fit of anger which causes the convulsions of the child.
Cicuta vir Cic
Violent shocks through the head, arms and legs, which cause them to jerk suddenly; spasmodic rigidity of the body, either opisthotonos or emprosthotonos. The child seems well and in great spirits, when suddenly it becomes rigid, then relaxation sets in, with great prostration. Tonic spasms, renewed from the slightest touch, or the least talking or walking about. Helminthiasis, or dentition.
Cimicifuga Cimic
Children wake at night with a frightened look and trembling of the limbs, covered with cool, clammy sweat.
Cina Cina
Child is feeble, lax and ailing; painful sensibility in the limbs of whole body on motion or touch; attacks worse early in morning and evening, and most violent after eating; convulsive attacks at night; spasms of children with throwing the arms from side to side; convulsions of the extensor muscles, the child becomes suddenly stiff, followed by trembling of whole body, with blue lips, and whining; complains of pain in throat, chest and all the limbs; there is a clucking noise during convulsion as if water were poured out of a bottle from throat down to abdomen; paralytic pains in arms and legs; child cross, will not be pleased, strikes around him.
Cocculus Coc-c
Irritable weakness, spasms from sleeplessness, during convalescence.
Coffea Coff
Convulsions of teething children; with grinding of teeth and coldness of limbs after over-excitement; weakly and excitable children.
Cuprum met Cupr
Spasms often preceded by violent vomiting of phlegm; marked blueness of face and mouth; any attempt to swallow fluids causes gurgling in throat; biting on the glass or spoon; SPASMS BEGIN IN FINGERS AND TOES, with fingers clenched, (<) on arousing from sleep; child lies on belly and spasmodically thrusts the breech up; after convulsion child screams, turns and twists till another spasm begins, convulsions from dentition or from failure of eruption to come out, or from its retrocession.
Cuprum acet Cupr-acet
SPASMS FROM RETROCESSION OF ERUPTION AS IN SCARLET FEVER.
Gelsemium Gels
Convulsions from reflex irritation, head feels very large, face deep red.
Helleborus Hell
Convulsions of nursing children, with extreme coldness; urine very dark, with a sediment like coffee-grounds; intense and intolerable pain in head, as if an electric shock passed through it, followed by spasms.
Hepar Hep
Convulsions after injury where Arn. fails; trismus neonatorum.
Hydrocyanic acid Hydr-ac
Epileptiform convulsions; spasms affecting muscles of face, jaws and back; blueness of the surface of the body.
Hyoscyamus Hyos
Sudden starting and twitching of muscles, one arm will twitch, then the other, MOTIONS, ANGULAR, twitchings and convulsions after meals; every muscle is convulsed, frothing of mouth, followed by profound sleep; sudden shrieks, followed by convulsions and insensibility; sleeplessness from twitching when going to sleep; retention of urine; from fright and fear, from worms.
Ignatia Ign
SPASMS RETURN AT SAME HOUR DAILY; during commencement of eruptive fevers; during dentition, with frothing at the mouth, kicking with legs; after punishment of child, screaming and violent trembling all over; after fright of grief (of the nurse); spasms of children, preceded by hasty drinking; affection of single parts; excessive timidity and nervousness.
Ipecacuanha Ip
Convulsions from over-indulgence in mixed food; much nausea or vomiting, either before or during or after spasms; child is spasmodically drawn in some direction; body rigid, stretched out, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms; from a suppressed eruption.
Kali brom Kali-br
Night terrors of children; convulsions reflex from dentition or worms; child is constantly active or in motion, nearly afraid to sleep.
Kali carb Kali-c
Convulsions (>) or pass off by frequent eructations.
Kreosotum Kreos
Convulsions from swelling of gum over a tooth not quite through; TEETH LOOK BLACK AND DECAY as soon as they appear; otitis; bronchial irritation from teething; great restlessness, wants to be in motion all the time and screams the whole night.
Lachesis Lach
Spasms come on during sleep; trembling of tongue, cold feet, stretching backward of the body and screaming.
Laurocerasus Laur
Much gasping for breath before, during or after a spasm, with bluish tint of skin; after fright; emaciation.
Lycopodium Lyc
Half-open condition of eyelids during sleep; conjunctiva dry and as if powder were sprinkled on it, cornea hidden under upper eyelid; spasms from incarcerated, with screaming, foaming at mouth, throwing arms about, unconsciousness.
Magnesia phos Mag-p
Where Bell was apparently indicated, but failed; after the spasm excessive sensitiveness to every impression on its senses, even to touch and especially to noise; look of suspicion and fear; easily agitated; spasms at early morn; especially convulsions during dentition.
Melilotus Meli
Convulsions in nervous children during dentition, with loss of consciousness; easily furious; (<) from nosebleed.
Mercurius Merc
Convulsions, with cries, rigidity, bloated abdomen; itching of nose and throat; (<) at night; swelling of gums, profuse ptyalism or from suppressed salivation.
Monotropa Mono
Excessive nervousness; convulsions from dentition, worms. temper of nurse; SPASM RENEWED BY LEAST TOUCH, followed by deep sleep.
Opium Op
Child wakes up apparently frightened, crying and screaming, finally spasms set in, child jerks from head to foot, throws its head back, with upturned eyes, open mouth and quivering chin, legs and arms spread out followed by deep sleep; spasm from fright or anger; from approach of strangers; in newborn babes screaming even during spasm.
Platina Plat
Tonic spasms without loss of consciousness in anaemic children, preceded and followed by constriction of OEsophagus and respiratory embarrassment.
Secale Sec
In thin, scrawny children; affecting single muscles; twisting of head to and fro; labored and anxious respiration, hands stretched out.
Silicea Sil
Spasms returning at change of the moon; after vaccination; at night; attacks preceded by coldness of left side, shaking and twisting of left arm; sweating scalp.
Stannum Stann
Spasms during dentition, with worm symptoms, more excitability, more disturbance of the brain and more fear than in Cin.; opisthotonos and unconsciousness.
Stramonium Stram
Suppression of an eruption, or the exanthem fails to come out; the child is afraid and shrinks back from objects on first seeing them; opisthotonic convulsions from bright, dazzling objects, water, or touch; abdomen puffed; body very hot; spasms continually change character; (>) in light, (<) in dark room; child wants company and cries out frightened as soon as it falls asleep.
Sulphur Sulph
After suppressed eruptions; often removes tendency to convulsions when other remedies fail.
Terebinthina Ter
Dentition accompanied by suppression of urine and convulsions; child is wakeful at night, screaming as frightened, has a staring look, clenches his fingers; twitchings in different parts of the body; picking of nose; dry, short cough; aching in limbs and head; burning soreness and interstitial distension of gums; OTITIS INFANTILIS.
Veratrum alb Verat
Convulsions of children, with pale face and cold sweat on forehead; cough before or after the spasm; trembling all over, after sudden violent emotions.
Veratrum vir Verat-v
Convulsions in anaemic children from exhausting diarrhoea; opisthotonos.
Zincum Zinc
Child cries out during sleep, and if awakened expresses fear and rolls its head anxiously from side to side; twitching in various muscles; the whole body of the child jerks during sleep; child has been cross and irritable for days previous, with hurried motions, distended, abdomen and more frequent urination than usual; pale children during teething; child has not strength enough to bring out the eruption; after the disappearance of old eruptions.