Syphilinum
Syphilis nosode (Treponema pallidum) · Syphilis · Nosode
Syphilinum is most effective for people with poor memory and concentration. Often highly anxious, possibly with obsessive or compulsive tendencies, they may also have a dependency on alcohol, drugs, or tobacco. Great destructiveness is a key factor, as is a strong fear of disease, possibly culminating in suicidal feelings. Symptoms of physical destruction may be evident, often with ulcers and bone pains and distortions. Generally, symptoms appear and disappear gradually, and are worse at night. Alcohol is often craved.
Physical ailments most often treated with Syphilinum include ulcers, asthma, constipation, menstrual problems, eye inflammation, and headaches.
Key symptoms
- compulsive behavior
- ulcers and destruction of body tissues
- conditions that are worse at night
- craving for alcohol
Worse (aggravation)
- At night; pains from darkness to daylight
- On awakening in morning (exhaustion)
- Eye pain intense at night
- Night causing sleeplessness and delirium
Better (amelioration)
- Daytime; pains decrease at daylight
- Slow onset and decrease of pains
The Syphilitic Virus - A Nosode
Utter prostration and debility in the morning.
Shifting rheumatic pains. Chronic eruptions and rheumatism.
Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from darkness to daylight; decrease and increase gradually. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. Ulceration of mouth, nose, genitals, skin. Succession of abscesses.
Mind
Loss of memory; remembers everything previous to his illness. Apathetic; feels as if going insane or being paralyzed. Fears the night, and the suffering from exhaustion on awakening. Hopeless; despairs of recovery.
Head
Linear pains from temple across, or from eyes backward; cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. Falling of the hair. Pain in bones of head. Top of head feels as if coming off. Stupefying cephalalgia.
Eyes
Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenular inflammation of cornea; successive crops of phlyctenular and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Lids swollen; pain intense at night; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia; one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on eye (Fluor ac).
Ears
Caries of ossicles in ear of syphilitic origin.
Nose
Caries of nasal bones, hard palate and septum, with perforation; ozæna.
Mouth
Teeth decay at gum; edges serrated, dwarfed. Tongue coated, teeth-indented; deep longitudinal cracks. Ulcers smart and burn. Excessive flow of saliva; it runs out of mouth when sleeping.
Stomach
Craves alcohol.
Rectum
Feels tied up with strictures. Enemas very painful. Fissures, prolapse.
Extremities
Sciatica; worse at night; better about day-break. Rheumatism of shoulder-joint, at insertion of deltoid. Run-around. Severe pain in long bones. Redness and rawness between toes (Sil). Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard knot or lumps. Always washing the hands. Indolent ulcers. Muscles contracted in hard knots.
Female
Ulcers on labia. Leucorrhœa profuse, thin, watery, acrid, with sharp, knife-pain in ovaries.
Respiratory
Aphonia; chronic asthma in summer, wheezing and rattling (Tart emet). Cough dry, hard; worse at night; windpipe sensitive to touch (Lach). Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at night.
Skin
Reddish-brown eruption, with a disagreeable odor. Extreme emaciation.
Relationship
Compare: Merc; Kal hyd; Nit ac; Aur; Alum.
Modalities
Worse, at night, sundown to sunrise, seashore, in summer. Better, inland and mountains, during day, moving about slowly.
Dose
The highest potencies only, and in infrequent doses.
Whenever the symptoms that are representative of the patient himself have been suppressed in any case of syphilis, and nothing remains but weakness and a few results of the storm that has long ago or recently passed, this nosode will cause reaction and restore order and sometimes do much curing, and the symptoms that must always be present, that represent the disordered state of the economy will appear to guide to a restoration of health.
When a syphilitic patient has suffered from a course of typhoid he may be very slow in convalescing, but a single dose of Syphilinum high will cause him to eat and feel stronger and gain rapidly.
How does the old school treatment of syphilis differ from barbarism? one might well ask. The strong drugging by Mercuriusand iodides so debilitate that all who pass through are invalids and weak; even then they are not cured of syphilis - if they were cured we could not cause to come back the symptoms that have been removed.
Luesinum. Lueticum. Syphilitic virus. A nosode. Attenuations.
Clinical
Abscess; succession of abscesses. Alcoholism; hereditary craving for alcohol. Anus, fissure of. Aphasia. Asthma. Breasts sensitive. Bubo. Constipation. Crying of infants. Deafness. Deltoid rheumatism. Dentition. Diplopia. Dysmenorrhœa. Epilepsy. Headache; syphilitic. Hoarseness; before menses. Iritis. Leucorrhœa; infantile. Mouth, ulcerated. Myopia. Neuralgia. Night-sweats. Ophthalmia. Otorrhœa. Ovaries, affections of. Ozœna. Pemphigus. Psoas abscess. Ptosis. Rectum, stricture of. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Sleeplessness. Spine, caries of. Strabismus. Stricture. Sunstroke. Syphilis. Teeth, carious. Throat, ulcerated. Tibia, pains in. Tongue, cracked, ulcerated. Ulcers. Whitlow.
Syphilitic Virus. (A Nosode.)
Pains from darkness to daylight; begin with twilight and end with daylight (Merc., Phyt.). Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stan.); shifting and require frequent change of position. All symptoms are worse at night (Merc.); from sundown to sunrise. Eruptions: dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue when getting cold. Extreme emaciation of entire body (Abrot., Iod.). Heart: lancinating pains from base to apex, at night (from apex to base, Med.; from base to clavicle or shoulder, Spig.). Loss of memory; cannot remember names of books, persons or places; arithmetical calculation difficult. Sensation: as if going insane, as if about to be paralyzed; of apathy and indifference. Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on awakening; it is intolerable, death is preferable. Fears the terrific suffering from exhaustion on awakening (Lach.). Leucorrhoea; profuse; soaking through the napkins and running down the heels (Alum.). Headache, …
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