Streptomycinum

Streptomycin (potentized antibiotic); sold also as Streptomycinum sulphuricum / Streptomycin sulphate. IUPAC: 2-[(1R,2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-3-(diaminomethylideneamino)-4-[(2R,3R,4R,5S)-3-[(2S,3S,4S,5R,6S)-4,5-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-(methylamino)oxan-2-yl]oxy-4-formyl-4-hydroxy-5-methyloxolan-2-yl]oxy-2,5,6-trihydroxycyclohexyl]guanidine · Streptomycin; Streptomycinum; Streptomyces griseus (source organism)

Modern MM

Sphere of action centres on the toxicological footprint of the antibiotic: the eighth cranial nerve (vestibular and cochlear) — vertigo, tinnitus, deafness, ataxia — together with the kidney, and a tubercular/respiratory affinity reflecting the drug's clinical use against tuberculosis. There is no documented classical proving; the remedy is essentially toxicologically and clinically (isopathically) derived.

Key symptoms

Indications are inferred from streptomycin's known toxicology and clinical use, not from a formal proving. Toxicological keynote sphere: vestibulo-cochlear (eighth-nerve) disturbance — vertigo, disturbed balance and gait ataxia, tinnitus, and progressive high-frequency sensorineural deafness; nephrotoxic tendency. Clinical/commercial positioning mirrors the antibiotic's use: tubercular and suppurative respiratory states (bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis) and bacterial infections with fever, chills and pus formation. No characteristic mind or generals symptoms are documented; none should be invented.

Worse (aggravation)

No proving-derived modalities are reliably documented. None should be assumed.

Better (amelioration)

No proving-derived modalities are reliably documented. None should be assumed.

Manohar V Nagaiah

Materia Medica of Modern Homeopathic Medicine · 2026

Streptomycin; Streptomycinum; Streptomyces griseus (source organism)

Source & Nature

Streptomycinum is the homeopathically potentized form of streptomycin, an aminoglycoside antibiotic and natural product of the soil actinobacterium Streptomyces griseus. The free base is C21H39N7O12 (MW approx. 581.6 g/mol, CAS 57-92-1, PubChem CID 19649); the mother substance is usually the sulphate salt. Streptomycin was isolated in 1943 by Albert Schatz in Selman Waksman's laboratory at Rutgers University and was the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis, for which Waksman received the 1952 Nobel Prize.

Preparation

Prepared by serial dilution and succussion from streptomycin (commonly streptomycin sulphate). Remedia lists decimal (D9-D30), centesimal (C9-C200), Korsakovian (1MK-100MK) and LM (LM3-LM30) potencies as saccharose globules or ethanol-water liquid dilutions; Indian pharmacies (Lords) supply potencies such as 6CH, 30CH and 200CH.

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