Salicinum
Salicin · Human-made/chemical
Salicinum suits individuals with marked ear symptoms — tinnitus, deafness, and tingling — combined with head confusion, giddiness, and visual disturbances with flickering before the eyes. The remedy is indicated in influenza and rheumatism where these ear and head characteristics are present. Great instability of temperature and a dull, heavy mental state complete the picture.
Key symptoms
- Giddiness and confusion of the head
- Headache
- Flickering, fog, and sparks before the eyes
- Persistent ringing in the ears; deafness
- Tingling in the right ear
- Nausea and vomiting with disordered stomach
- Great instability of temperature; chilliness and high or low fever alternating
- Dullness and heaviness; does not seem to understand questions
Salicin. C13H18O7. Trituration and Solution.
Clinical
Deafness. Influenza. Ménière's disease. Tinnitus.
Characteristics
Saln. is an active principle (glucoside?) obtained from different species of Willow. It has been used largely in the treatment of rheumatism in ordinary practice. It has had some fragmentary provings, and Ringer experimented with it on three boys. The characteristics of the Salicylic acid compounds were prominent─giddiness, confusion of the head, flickering before the eyes, and tinnitus. The stomach was disordered, vomiting occurred. There was also great instability of temperature. Chilliness, high temperature, and low temperature were induced. Saln. has been commended in influenza by Stephen Mackenzie as less irritating than the Salicylates and more effective.
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