Condensed Materia Medica

Chininum Sulphuricum chin-s.

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Mind

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

Sensorium

Whirling in the head like a mill-wheel.

Inner Head

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

Eyes

Disk and retina very anæmic; 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.

Ears

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

Face

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

Mouth

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

Hypochondria

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

Stool, etc

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

Urine

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

Heart and Pulse

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

Neck and Back

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

Limbs in General

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

Nerves

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

Chill, Fever and Sweat

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 diarrhœa.
Profuse during sleep.
Congestive chills.

Attacks

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.

Tissues

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

Relationship

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.