SANTONINUM


Clarke gives the toxic effects of homeopathy drug Santoninum and its therapeutic uses in non-toxic doses in his book The ABC Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1901….


      Santonin-Cina.

CHARACTERISTICS.

      Lumbricoid worms. Ascarides. Fever in children from gastric irritation. Child has pale face, is blue about the eyes, has restless sleep, grinding of the teeth, nervous cough. Frequent, imperative calls to urinate. Nocturnal incontinence of urine.

TOXIC EFFECTS.

      Restless sleep. Pale face. Blue color about the eyes. Field vision yellowish or yellowish-green. Amaurosis. Congested and hot head and face. Unconsciousness. Dilatation of the pupils. Twitching of the eye-balls and the muscles of the face. Trembling. Clenching of the teeth. Stertorous breathing. Muscular rigidity. Clonic convulsions. Colicky pains.2. Vomiting. Purging. Yellow-colored urine. Frequent urination. Incontinence of urine, especially at night.3. Spasmodic cough.4.

DOSE.

      Santoninum, 1/4-1/2 gr. for children.

Trochisci santonini, 1/4-1/2 gr.

A two grain dose has caused death in a child. An adult may be given from one to three grains. The dose of the homoeopathic tincture of cina is from ten to twenty drops for an adult. The first to the third triturations of Santoninum, and the first to the third decimal dilutions of cina are very effective.

THERAPEUTIC USES.

      Lumbricoid worms. (One-fourth grain for children or one grain for adult, followed by castor oil).

Ascarides. (Administer in castor oil per rectum).

Chorea and other nervous derangements from worms. 1-2.

Fever in children from gastric irritation.1-2. (Minute doses of cina or santonin).

Exceedingly irritable children. They cry, must be carried about or rocked.1. (Minute doses).

The child desires many things, but refuses them when offered.1.

Nervous, spasmodic cough, worse at night.4.

Frequent urination in children. Inability to retain the urine. 3. (Second or third decimal dilution of cina).

Nocturnal incontinence of urine in children.3.

Amaurosis from atrophic or inflammatory diseases of the optic nerve or retina.1.

Spasmodic dysmenorrhoea in debilitated and irritable women.1-2.

George Hardy Clark
Clark, George H. (George Hardy) 1860-1941 was the author of: Homeopathic Treatment of Asthenopia; Lee and Clark's Cough and expectoration : a repertorial index of their symptoms; The A B C Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; A system for the care and training of children; The Black Plague and Its Control.