CHININUM ARSENICOSUM

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.