Chininum sulphuricum
The malarial fever remedy. Intermittent fevers with periodicity. Marked periodicity — every 7 or 14 days. Spine sensitive. Tinnitus and deafness. Worse at same hour, periodically.
Source
Prepared from quinine sulphate (C20H24N2O2·H2SO4), triturated and potentised.
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Intermittent fevers with exact periodicity — every 7 or 14 days. Spine sensitive to touch. Tinnitus, ringing, roaring, buzzing in ears. Deafness. Meniere-like vertigo. Periodicity is the keynote — symptoms recur at fixed intervals. Used when China fails to hold the cure in malarial cases.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Apathetic during fever. Depressed. Dull. Noise sensitivity.
General Symptoms
Periodicity — 7 or 14 day cycles. Spine sensitive. Worse periodically, cold, touch, noise, jarring. Better from warmth, pressure, lying down.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Periodic headache. Vertigo with tinnitus. Sensitive to noise.
Ears
Tinnitus — the chief particular symptom. Ringing, buzzing, roaring. Deafness. Meniere's disease. Vertigo with ear symptoms.
Back
Spine extremely sensitive to touch and pressure. Dorsal and cervical spine tender. Neuralgia of spine.
Fever / Chill / Perspiration
Intermittent fever — exact periodicity of 7 or 14 days. Chill, then fever, then sweat in sequence. Anticipating type — comes earlier each time.
Modalities
Better From
Warmth, pressure, lying down
Worse From
Periodically (7 or 14 days), cold, touch, noise, jarring
Constitutional Type
Malarial patients with fixed periodicity. Those with tinnitus and spinal sensitivity.
Clinical Indications
Malaria with 7/14-day periodicity, tinnitus, Meniere's disease, spinal sensitivity, deafness, intermittent fevers
Comparative Materia Medica
China has similar periodicity and debility but less spinal sensitivity. Cedron has exact hourly periodicity. Natrum muriaticum has periodic fevers every 10-11 days. Chininum arsenicosum is for pernicious malaria.
Safety Information
Arnica, Arsenicum, Ferrum, Ipecacuanha, Lachesis, Pulsatilla, Veratrum.
Quinine causes cinchonism in large doses — tinnitus, deafness, visual disturbance, headache, nausea. Can cause hemolysis in G6PD deficiency. Potentially fatal in overdose. Use potentised forms.
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