Scarlatininum

Nosode

Clarke

Scarlatininum is a nosode prepared from Scarlet Fever, indicated in conditions with affinity for the skin, throat, and kidneys. It is used both preventively and curatively for scarlatina and related organ affections. Belladonna is its nearest analogue and antidote.

Key symptoms

  • Used for prevention and cure of scarlet fever
  • Affinity for the skin, throat, and kidneys
  • Nephritis and albuminuria
  • Sore throat
  • Skin affections
John Henry Clarke
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900

The nosode of Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.

Clinical

Albuminuria. Nephritis. Scarlet fever. Skin affections. Throat, sore.

Characteristics

Scarlatinin has been used, like other nosodes, for the prevention and for cure of the disease from which it takes origin. But its well-known affinity for the skin, throat and kidneys suggests its applicability for affections of those organs.

Relations

Bell. is the nearest analogue and should be its antidote, and the various Mercuries come next. Compare also: Apis, Arsen., Rhus, Morbillin, Diphtherinum.

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