Materia Medica

Chininum Arsenicosum

Arsenite of Quinine

The symptoms of general wrariness and prostration produced by the drug have been utilized in prescribing it homceopathically as a general tonic, often with very marked beneficial ani prompt effect. In diphtheria with great prostration, cases that are prolonged, especially, and in malarial affections, neuralgia, etc., it has been found curative Asthmatic attacks which recur peri- odically, with great prostration. Icy skin. Pressure in the solar plcxus, with tender spine back of it.

Head

Tired feeling. Head feels too full. Throb- bing. Great anxiety. Great irritability. Vertigo; worse looking up. Dull, heavy headache, frontal and occipital. Darting pains running up into head.

Eyes

Intense photophobia and orbicular spasm; gushing hot tears. Flickering with pain and lachryma- tion.

Mouth

Tongue thickly furred ; yellow, slimy coat- ing. Bitter taste. No appetite.

Stomach

Alternation of hyperacidity and decrease of acid. Hyperchlorhydria. [Robinia; Arg. nit.; Or- exinc tannate.] Thirst for water, yet it disturbs. An- orcria. Eggs produce diarrhoea.

Heart

Palpitation. Sensation as if heart stopped. Suffocative attacks, occurring in periodical paroxysms. Must have open air.

Extremities

Weak limbs. Coldness of hands and feet, knees and limbs. Tearing pains.

Sleep

Sleeplessness due to nervous causes. (Single dose of 5th or 6th potency.)

Fever

Continuous, with weakness. System de- plete. 15

Relationships

Compare: Chininum; also Fcrr- Citricum (in nephritis with great anaemia. Morbus maculosus Werlhoffi) ; Chinin. mur. (in severe neu- ralgic pains around eyes, with chills; exaggerated sen- sitiveness to alcohol and tobacco; prostration and rest- lessness). Enothera (effortless diarrhcea with nerv- ous exhaustion; incipient ‘hydrocephaloid). Macro- zamia spiralis (extreme debility after illness; collapse).

Dose

Second and third trituration.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 219. Public domain.

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