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.