Vaccininum

Vaccininum

Nosode

BoerickeClarkePhatak

Remedy for chronic morbid states following vaccination (Vaccinosis), which produces sycotic-type symptoms. Used for those experiencing protean vaccine-related constitutional weakness, neuralgic pain, and deep skin eruptions resembling smallpox.

Key symptoms

  • Neuralgias and inveterate skin eruptions
  • Eruption like variola with pustules and pimples
  • Headache with forehead feeling as if split
  • Irritability, impatience, nervousness
  • Chilliness and flatulent distension
  • Whooping-cough following vaccination
  • Pain at vaccination marks and cheloids
  • Weak eyes and inflamed eyelids
  • Legs ached as if bones were breaking
  • Short breath with pressure in heart region

Worse (aggravation)

  • Early morning (Burnett's keynote)
  • Middle of night waking with forehead pain
William Boericke
Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1901

Nosode-From vaccine matter.

Vaccine poison is capable of setting up a morbid state of extreme chronicity, named by Burnett Vaccinosis, symptoms like those of Hahnemann's Sycosis. Neuralgias, inveterate skin eruptions, chilliness, indigestion with great flatulent distension (Clark). Whooping-cough.

Mind

Irritable, impatient ill-humored, nervous.

Head

Frontal headache. Forehead and eyes feel as if split. Inflamed and red lids.

Skin

Hot and dry. Pimples and blotches. Eruption like variola.

Relationship

Compare: anti-vaccinal remedies; Variolin; Malandrinum; Thuja, powerful adjuvants in treatment of malignant disease.

Dose

Sixth to 200th potency.

John Henry Clarke
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900

Vaccininum. A Nosode. Trituration of vaccine matter.

Clinical

Cheloid. Eczema. Leprosy. Nævus. Nephritis. Small-pox. Tumours. Vaccinia. Vaccinosis. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

Vaccinia, Small-pox, and Grease of horses are inter-related diseases, and the nosodes of each are available for the treatment or prevention of manifestations of all three. The vaccine poison is capable of setting up a morbid state of extreme chronicity, named by Burnett Vaccinosis. And it may do this without causing the primary symptoms: when the vaccination apparently does not "take." The symptoms of vaccinosis are protean, and are for the most part identical with the symptoms of the Sycosis of Hahnemann. Vaccinosis is a sycotic disease. Neuralgias, inveterate skin eruptions, chilliness, indigestion with great flatulent distension, are leading features of the vaccinal dyscrasia, and therefore indications for the nosode. There is another disease to which vaccinia is related, and that is whooping-cough. Some years ago an …

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S. R. Phatak
Materia Medica of Homoeopathic Medicines

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