Cinchoninum sulphuricum
Cinchonine sulfate · Human-made/chemical
Cinchoninum sulphuricum suits individuals with a neurasthenic, debilitated constitution prone to recurrent febrile states and sexual excitability. There is marked weariness, sleepiness, and general aching especially in the eyes, ears, and genitals, with a tendency to recurrence of symptoms.
Key symptoms
- Bursting headache on waking; pain as if a net drawn through the brain substance
- Darkness before the eyes on exerting them
- Sensation as if the throat were burnt with hot drink
- Cold feeling at pit of stomach; pasty taste and pasty stools
- Voluptuous dreams and painful erections at night
- Menses a week too soon and more copious than usual
- Chest seems hollow and distended; breathing feels especially easy
- Sweat between shoulder-blades at night followed by itching
- Profuse falling out of hair; tension in scalp with soreness at roots
- General weariness, sleepiness, and aching especially in eyes, ears, and genitals
Worse (aggravation)
- After eating
- By motion
Sulphate of Cinchonine. (C19H22N2O) H2SO4.
Clinical
Amblyopia. Constipation. Diarrhœa. Epistaxis. Fever. Hair falling off. Headache. Heartburn. Sexual excitement. Spinal irritation. Urinary disorders. Veins distended.
Characteristics
Cinchon. sul. has been extensively proved, but it appears to have been little used in practice, from having been overshadowed by the better known alkaloid, Chinin. sul. The general outline of symptoms is the same in both. Some of the most peculiar symptoms of Cinch. s. are the following: Bursting headache on waking. Pain in anterior lobe of cerebrum, as though a net were drawn through the whole substance of the brain. Darkness before the eyes on exerting them. Sensation as if the throat were burnt with hot drink. Cold feeling at pit of stomach. Pasty taste; and pasty stools. The sexual organs are excited: voluptuous dreams and painful erections at night. Menses a week too soon and more copious than usual. The chest seems hollow and distended so that breathing seems especially …
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Intense throbbing headache after excessive hemorrhage.
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Periodical prosopalgia, pains excessive, skin sensitive to touch, mostly Infra-orbital and maxilary branches.
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Uncomfortable distension of the abdomen with a wish to belch, or a sensation in the abdomen as if it were packed full, not in the least relieved by eructation.
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After eating fruit undigested stools pass involuntarily.
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Diarrhoea with undigested stools.
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Black stools, thin and watery; great prostration; no pain.
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Cough with granular expectoration during the day or in the evening, not at night or in the morning.
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Profuse debilitating night sweats.
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Debility or other complaints after loss of blood and other fluids, particularly from nursing, salivation, hemorrhoids, etc., or leucorrhea, night sweats, seminal emissions, onanism, etc.
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