CHININUM SULFURICUM

CHININUM SULFURICUM. [Chin. sulf.] Sulphate of Quinine.

► Buoyancy, excited state ; later despondency. ► Feeling of impending evil ; anxiety. ► Memory "muddled" ; lost power of naming substantives.

► Whirling in the head like a mill-wheel.

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

► 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.

► Ringing in the eras ; also with deafness. Menière's disease.

► Pale ; suffering ; sickly. ► Puffy face ; oedematous. ► Aching about left malar bone in the evening.

► Mouth dry. ► Tongue white ; thick yellow fur on it ; yellow at the root ; flabby. ► Saliva increased. ► Taste : pasty, flat ; bitter. ► Speech disturbed or difficult.

► Pain in the region of the liver, shortly before going to bed. ► Dull pain in region of spleen, disappears on pressure.

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

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

► Precordial anxiety ; palpitation ; or heart feeble, general prostration. ► Pulse full and large ; weak and trembling.

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

► Weakness ; trembling ; power of will over limbs seems greatly hampered. ► Inflammatory rheumatism, fever remitting or intermitting ; joints exquisitely sensitive.

► Restlessness, excessive sensibility to touch, noises. ► Weakness ; trembling ; faintness ; hunger.

► Chill 10-11 A.M. and 3-10 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.

► 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.

► Suppuration with chilliness ; profuse sweat. ► Oedema, especially with liver and spleen affections ; malaria.

► 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.