CHININUM ARSENICOSUM
Arsenite of QuinineThe symptoms of general weariness and
prostration produced by the drug have been utilized in prescribing it
homeopathically as a general tonic, often with very marked beneficial and 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
periodically, with great prostration. Icy skin. Pressure in the solar plexus, with tender
spine back of it.
Head.–
Tired feeling. Head feels too full. Throbbing. 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 lachrymation.
Mouth.–
Tongue thickly furred; yellow, slimy coating. Bitter
taste. No appetite.
Stomach.–
Alternation of hyperacidity and decrease of acid.
Hyperchlorhydria (Robinia; Arg nit; Orexine tannate).
Thirst for water, yet it disturbs. Anorexia. Eggs produce diarrhśa.
Heart.–
Palpitation. Sensation as if heart stopped.
Suffocative attacks, occurring in periodical paroxysms. Must have open air. Short of breath
on ascending; cardiac dyspnśa; circulatory weakness after acute infections; early
myocardial degeneration.
Sleep.–
Sleeplessness due to nervous causes (Single dose of
5th or 6th potency).
Extremities.–
Weak limbs. Coldness of
hands and feet, knees and limbs. Tearing pains.
Fever.–
Continuous, with weakness. System depleted.
Relationship.–
Compare: Chininum;
also Ferrum Citricum (in nephritis with great anćmia;
acid dyspepsia in chlorosis. Morbus maculosus Werlhoffii); Chinin
mur (in severe neuralgic pains around eyes, with chills; exaggerated
sensitiveness to alcohol and tobacco; prostration and restlessness). Śnothera
(effortless diarrhśa with nervous exhaustion; incipient hydrocephaloid). Macrozamia spiralis (extreme debility after illness;
collapse).
Dose.–
Second and third trituration.
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