DIPHTHERINUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Catarrhal affections of respiratory organs
  • Scrofulous individuals
  • Diphtheria
  • Laryngeal diphtheria
  • Post-diphtheritic paralysis
  • Malignancy from the start
  • Glands swollen
  • Tongue red
  • Tongue swollen
  • Offensive breath
  • Offensive discharge
  • Diphtheritic membrane thick
  • Diphtheritic membrane dark
  • Epistaxis
  • Profound prostration
  • Swallows without pain
  • Fluids are vomited
  • Fluids returned by the nose

Allen's Keynotes

  • especially adapted to the strumous diathesis
  • scrofulous, psoric or tuberculous persons, prone to catarrhal affections of throat and respiratory mucus membranes
  • patients with weak or exhausted vitality hence are extremely susceptible to the diphtheritic virus
  • when the attack from the onset tends to malignancy
  • painless diphtheria
  • symptoms almost or entirely objective
  • patient too weak, apathetic or too prostrated to complain
  • sopor or stupor, but easily aroused when spoken to
  • dark red swelling of tonsils and palatine arches
  • parotid and cervical glands greatly swollen
  • breath and discharges from throat, nose and mouth very offensive
  • tongue swollen, very red, little coating
  • diphtheritic membrane, thick, dark gray or brownish black
  • temperature low or subnormal
  • pulse weak and rapid
  • extremities cold and marked debility
  • patient lies in a semi-stupid condition
  • eyes dull, besotted
  • epistaxis or profound prostration from very onset of attack
  • collapse almost at very beginning
  • pulse weak, rapid and vital reaction very low
  • swallows without pain, but fluids are vomited or returned by the nose
  • breath horribly offensive
  • laryngeal diphtheria
  • post diphtheritic paralysis
  • when the patient from the first seems doomed, and the most carefully selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve

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