Arsenite of Quinine
- The 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 diarrhea.
Heart
- Palpitation.
- Sensation as if heart stopped.
- Suffocative attacks, occurring in periodical paroxysms.
- Must have open air.
- Short of breath on ascending; cardiac dyspnea; 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 sulph;
- also Ferrum Citricum (in nephritis with great anemia; 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).
- Oenothera (effortless diarrhea with nervous exhaustion; incipient hydrocephaloid).
- Macrozamia spiralis (extreme debility after illness; collapse).
Dose
- Second and third trituration.
