CHININUM SULPHURICUM

Sulphite of Quinine


  • A dose of Chinin sulph in high potency sometimes arouses suppressed malaria, and brings back the paroxysm. 
  • Aside from its undoubted influence over malaria, it is indicated homeopathically whenever there is marked periodicity and spinal sensitiveness. 
  • Acute articular rheumatism. 
  • Polyarticular gout. 
  • Pruritus and congested conditions of the rectum. 
  • Symptoms of chronic interstitial nephritis. 
  • Retro-bulbar neuritis with sudden loss of sight. 
  • Thready vessels. Hiccough.

Blood

  • An immediate and rapid decrease in red blood cells and reduction in hemoglobin with increase in elimination of chlorides. 
  • Tendency to polynucleated leukocytosis.

Head

  • Pain in forehead and temples, increasing gradually at noon, of malarial origin, with vertigo and pulsation. 
  • Worse left side. 
  • Falling in street. 
  • Inability to remain standing. 
  • Amaurosis.

Ears

  • Violent ringing, buzzing, and roaring in ears, with deafness.

Face

  • Neuralgia commences under eye; extends into and around it. 
  • Pains return with great regularity; relieved by pressure.

Spine

  • Great sensitiveness of the dorsal vertebrae; pain on pressure. 
  • Last cervical sensitive. 
  • Pain extends to head and neck.

Urine

  • Bloody. 
  • Turbid, slimy, clay-colored, greasy sediment. 
  • Small amount of urea and phosphoric acid with excess of uric acid and abundance of chlorides, accompanied by subnormal temperature. 
  • Excessive flow. 
  • Albuminuria

Skin

  • Itching; erythema, urticaria, icterus, vesication, pustules, purpura. 
  • Great sensitiveness. 
  • Shriveled skin.

Fever

  • Chill daily at 3 pm. 
  • Painful swelling of various veins during a chill. 
  • Shivering even in a warm room. 
  • Anguish. 
  • Subnormal temperature.

Relationship

  • Compare: 
    • Chin salicyl (Deafness, tinnitus, and Meniere's disease). 
    • Ars; Eupat; Methyl blue. 
    • Camphor mono-bromide (is said to intensify the action of Quinine and render it more permanent). 
    • Baja, an East Indian drug, (said to be almost infallible in intermittent fever, quartan type; pulsating headache injected eyes, flushed face. Liver and spleen enlarged. Edema). 
    • Also Pambotano, Mexican remedy for intermittent and tropical fevers.
  • Antidotes: Parthenum; Natr mur; Lach; Arn; Puls.

Dose

  • First to third trituration; also thirtieth potency and higher.