Chininum Muriaticum.
Muriate of Quinine. (C20 H24 N2O2 HCl 2H2O.) Trituration or
solution.Clinical.─
Alcoholism. Eye: neuralgia of.
Gastritis. Headache. Intermittents. Iritis. Keratitis. Neuralgia. Pannus. Sclerotitis.
Tobacco, effects of. Trachoma.
Characteristics.─
Chi.
mur. resembles Chi. ars. very closely. An
excellent proving by old-school authorities was published in Virchow’s
Archiv., and is translated in C. D. P. It has
been used in eye affections, especially when accompanied by severe neuralgic intermitting
pains in and around eyes, with chills; lachrymation, photophobia, ulceration of cornea of
malarial origin. Intermittent fever following broncho-pneumonia; shaking chill 5 a.m.
accompanied by fatiguing cough, rattling in bronchi without expectoration. In one prover it
caused an exaggerated sensitiveness to alcohol and tobacco. Two glasses of beer make him
tipsy. Prostration and weakness are marked in all provers and accompany the headaches and
other symptoms. There is a feeling of enlargement─in eyeballs, in
tongue, head symptoms are > after a walk.
Relations.─
Compare:
Chi. sul., Chi. ars., Nat. m. (headaches). Antidoted by:
Fer. oxid.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Exhausted, apathetic, listless.─Anxiety
and excitement, with increased heart-beat.─Depressed.─Restlessness
increased to anxiety; startled by every step on the stair or knock on the door.─Disinclination
to work.─Irritable, depressed.─Weakness and
stupidity.
2. Head.─
Confused head, pressure, vertigo; < on looking at bright objects.─Great
thirst, noise in ears, vertigo on rising.─Headache recurs every morning,
esp. severe over l. supra-orbital border.─Slight l. sided headache every
morning lasting till noon.─Headache reappeared at same hour, with
flashing before eyes.─Feeling of weight about head, extreme drowsiness.─Violent
raking pains in head, only slightly > by a walk.─Orbital
pain recurred regularly 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.─Numbness and fatigue in head.─Headache
> by beer.
3. Eyes.─
Conjunctivć injected, lids adherent;
feeling as if eyeball too big for orbit as if sand in eye.─Fatigued by
reading.─Eyes feel as if not open enough as if something pinched upper
lids down preventing distinct vision; flickering before eyes.─Intense
pain in and around eyes, periodic, accompanied by chills.─Lachrymation,
photophobia, violent paroxysms of pain daily 5 p.m.─Ulceration of cornea
from malaria, or anćmia.─Trachoma, with and without pannus.─Eyelids
heavy.─Weight in eyes.
4. Ears.─
Noise in ears with dulness of hearing.─Roaring
in ears with itching of skin of back.─After dinner, sensation in ears as
if stopped with cotton wool.─Shooting pains in r. meatus.
5. Nose.─
Epistaxis.
6. Face.─
Congestion of blood to head, face red
and bloated, as from alcohol.─Neuralgia of fifth pair of nerves;
agonising 3 to 6 a.m.; the pains began in teeth, spread over head and ended in nape;
increased rapidly in intensity, and were only > by
acupuncture and cold water.
8. Mouth.─
Rheumatic toothache in sound teeth, < by cold, or cold food.─Pain in teeth
recurs, < by closing jaws.─Tongue
thickly furred, appetite bad, all food disrelished.─Tongue furred and
pale; too large for mouth.─Great fetor from mouth.─Gums
sensitive, bleed from least touch.
11. Stomach.─
Voracious appetite; completely
satisfied by a little piece of bread.─Extremely sensitive to alcohol and
tobacco.─Easily made drunk.─Inability to smoke (in a
great smoker).─Half a cigar made him feel extremely ill; cold
perspiration broke out; inclination to vomit.─Fulness in epigastrium,
colicky pains in abdomen, flatulence.─Appetite very bad, inclination to
vomit.─Inclination to vomit, >
after dinner.─Thirst, satisfied with a very little drink.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Diarrhśa three times a day
(probably caused by too new beer).─After dinner liquid stool.─Bowels
irregular; every other day opened two or three times.─Flatulence,
constipation.─At noon, very hard stool, transient cutting in bowels.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Frequent urging, but urine
not very copious; turbid, deposits sediment.─Constant urging; quantity
markedly increased.─No desire to urinate, but forced himself to do so,
and passed a litre of dark urine of intensely sour smell.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Inclination to erections;
mucous secretion in urethra.─Strong erections.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Fatiguing cough with
rattling in bronchi until exhaustion.
19. Heart.─
During dinner transient palpitation.─Severe
palpitation after dinner.─Pressure, anxiety, and palpitation in
afternoon.
24. Generalities.─
Intolerable restlessness;
driving him out of the house.─Extensive prostration.─Symptoms
recurred at regular periods; returned long after drug was discontinued.
25. Skin.─
Itching of skin of chest and back.
26. Sleep.─
Sleep disturbed by confused dreams.─Anxious
dreams, woke in fright.─Dreams of worms, lice, vermin.─Strange,
confused dream, then great fear.─Sleep disturbed by pain in head and
teeth.
27. Fever.─
Disagreeable chilliness all over body.─About
8 a.m., profuse perspiration of disagreeable sour smell broke out and lasted till 11 a.m.® 2000
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