Materia Medica
Chininum Sulphuricum
Sulphte of Quinine
A dose of Chinin. sulph. in high potency sometimes arouses suppressed malaria, and brings back the paroxysm. Side from its undoubted influence over malaria, it is indirated homcopathically whenever there is marked periodicity and spinal sensitiveness. Acute articular rheumatism. Polyarticular gout. Symptoms of chroric interstitial nephritis. Blood.—- An immediate and rapid decrease in red blood cells and reduction in hemoglobin with increase in elimination of chlorides. Tendency to polynucleated leucocytosis.
Head
Pain in forehead and temples, increasing gradually at noon, of malarial origin, with vertigo and pulsation. Worse left side. Falling in street. Inability to remain standing. Amaurosis.
Ears
Violent ringing, buzzing, and roaring in ears, with deafness.
Face
Neuralgia commences umder eye: extends into and around it. Pains return with great regularity; re- lieved by pressure. Spine. — Great sensitiveness of the dorsal vertebra; 227 pain on pressure. Last cervical sensitive. Pain ex- tends to head and neck. Urine.— Bloody. Turbid, slimy, clay-colored, greasy sediment. Small amount of urea and phosphoric acid with excess of uric acid and abundance of chlorides, accompanied by subnormal temperature. Excessive flow. Albuminuria.
Skin
Itching; erythema, urticaria, icterus, ·vesica- tion, pustules, purpura. Great sensitiveness. Shriveled
Fever
Painful swelling of various veins during a chill. Shivering even in a warm room. . Anguish. Sweat with general shivering. Trembling in limbs, with slow pulse. Subnormal temperature.
Relationships
Compare: Chin. salicyl. (Deafness, tinnitus, and Meniere's disease). Ars.;Eupat.; Mcthyl. blue. Camphor mono-bromide (is said to in- tensify the action of Quinine and render it more per- manent.) Baja, an East Indian drug, (said to be almost infallible in intermittent fever, quartan type) ; also Pam- botano, Mexican remedy for intermittent and tropical fevers. Antidotes: Parthenum; Natr. mur.; Lach.; Arn.: Puls.
Dose
First to third triturations; also thirtieth po- tency and higher.