CHININUM SULPHURICUM


Homeopathic remedy Chininum Sulphuricum drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Sulphate of Quinine.

Mind

      Buoyancy, excited state; later despondency.

Feeling of impending evil; anxiety.

Memory “muddled;” lost power of naming substantives.

Sensorium

      Whirling in the head like a milk-wheel.

Inner Head

      Violent throbbing headache; vertigo; heat in face; closes eyelids involuntarily from sheer prostration; intermittent type of cerebro-spinal meningitis (clinical).

Eyes

      Disk and retina very anaemic; disk looks dry.

Dim vision, as from a net, or as from a fog.

Pupils dilated.

Eyes very sensitive to light; lachrymation in the full glare of light.

Bright light and sparks before the eyes. Black spot size of pin’s head moves with the right eye.

Intermittent strabismus.

Can see objects only when looking sideways.

Ears

      Ringing in the eras; also with deafness. Meniere’s disease.

Face

      Pale; suffering; sickly.

Puffy face : oedematous.

Aching about left malar bone in the evening.

Mouth

      Mouth dry.

Tongue white : thick yellow fur on it; yellow at the root; flabby.

Saliva increased.

Taste : pasty, flat; bitter.

Speech disturbed or difficult.

Hypochondria

      Pain in the region of the liver, shortly before going to bed.

Dull pain in region of spleen, disappears on pressure.

Stool.

     etc.

Dysentery, the fever intermits or the evacuations exhale a gangrenous odor.

Urine

      Deposit of a straw-yellow, granular, or of a brick-red sediment.

Heart Pulse

      Precordial anxiety; palpitation; or heart feeble, general prostration.

Pulse full and large; weak and trembling.

Neck Back

      Sensitiveness of last cervical and first dorsal vertebrae to pressure; also of dorsal vertebrae. Third dorsal painful to touch, with oppression of the chest.

Limbs in General

      Weakness; trembling; power of will over limbs seems greatly hampered.

Inflammatory rheumatism, fever remitting intermitting; joints exquisitely sensitive.

Nerves

      Restlessness, excessive sensibility to touch, noises.

Weakness; trembling; faintness; hunger.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Chill 10-11 A.M. and -10 P.M. periodical anteponing or tertian. Trembling of the limbs; pain in spleen; spine sensitive; face pale; thirst; lips blue; ringing in the ears.

General chilliness, especially on the back.

Extremities, also nose, chin, cold.

Bodily temperature diminished.

Heat intense; fulness of head, face red; great thirst; after going to bed, heat, with frequent yawning and sneezing; delirious. Veins on arms and legs enlarge; skin hot, dry. Pain in spine on pressure. Flushes of heat, thirst, 4.P.M.

Sweat with thirst; profuse even while quiet, coming on gradually after the heat; profuse also on least motion; soaking sweat mornings in bed; profuse, exhausting, nightly diarrhoea. Profuse during sleep.

Congestive chills.

Attacks

      Symptoms return periodically, on alternate days, or antepone.

To be thought of when typhoid fever, eruptive fevers, pneumonia, etc., display intermittent symptoms or become rapidly pernicious.

Tissues

      Suppuration with chilliness; profuse sweat.

OEdema, especially with liver and spleen affections; malaria.

Relationship

      Compare with : Cedron (clock-like regularity of symptoms; debility, but of nervous origin rather than from sweating); Helian. follows well to prevent return of chill.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.