Anthrachinon – Anthraquinone

The attenuations are prepared from Anthraquinone, C₁₄H₈O₂, MW: 208.2.

According to W. F. Koch (U.S.A.), it regenerates blocked cell-respiration by “burning away” accumulated toxins (amines and others), and is therefore indicated in all cellular phases (impregnation, degeneration and neoplasm).

As Anthraquinone is the raw material for numerous chemical products designed to enhance the appearance and shelf-life of food-products, and moreover is the active ingredient of numerous laxatives, together with Hydroquinone it is one of the most- used quinones. It acts on the regulation of the respiratory-chain function.

Everything affects the colon with diarrhoea. There is almost no other remedy to match its effect on hypotension. There is scarcely another remedy in which the irri- tability and feeling of misery in intestinal disturbances, from infancy to old age, is so marked as in Anthraquinone.

In affections of the lungs, pleurisy, pneumonia and respiratory illness arising from chill there is effusion in most cases.

Kidney ailments also react to Anthraquinone, especially when loose stools, a great feeling of misery and raging headache are present together.

In cancer of the prostate, continual erections and painful discharges of purulent matter are an indication for Anthraquinone; also in cancer of the uterus, when there is watery, brown discharge with great tiredness and possibly ascites. On the skin, es- pecially in the creases, red pustules appear, itching severely, and repeatedly giving way to new patches. These get better and worse in conjunction with the sluggishness of the bowels, and there is a tormenting itching, especially at night in bed, as well as pruritus vulvae.

The drug picture of Anthrachinon was composed in July 1996 by David Riley, M.D., Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA.

The most important symptoms from David Riley’s drug proving were:

Essential Characteristics

The essential characteristic of Anthrachinon elicited in this proving had a signifi- cant effect on the female provers. Symptoms focused on the psycho-sexual sphere. There was a feeling of increased self confidence and optimism. Also irritability to- wards family members, and increased sexual desire.

Improvement of the normal symptom of straining, tearing pain, or bleed with the bowl evacuation.

Irritability. Mistakes. Anxiety and fears. Increased energy or fatigue. Desires ice cream. Head pain. Eruptions on the face. Distention, flatulence, and cramping ab- dominal pain. Constipation with straining or sudden diarrhea. Hard stools like balls

or loose water stools. Frequent urination at night. Soreness, achiness, or weariness of the extremities.

Mind

Difficult concentration especially during conversation. FEELING MORE SELF CONFI- DENT or improvement of lack of self confidence. Timid to appear in public. Discon- tented. Starting on waking. Dreams that continue after returning to sleep. IRRITABILI- TY to family or over trifles. Mistakes in speaking or in writing the wrong word. OPTI- MISTIC or improvement of lack of optimism. Sadness with weeping and pitying her- self. Sensitive to sad stories and sadness. Rapid thoughts. Anxiety about the future or when dancing improves. Fear of being injured or looked at.

Generalities

ENERGY INCREASED especially in the morning, or improvement of low energy. Food desires of ice cream, meat. sweets with salt, yogurt. Aversion to sweets. FATIGUE. Weakness or pain in joints and muscles.

Vertigo

Pitching forward on rising with sensation of floating. Better after eating.

Head

Noises in head when falling asleep. HEAD PAIN on waking or improvement of head aches. Throbbing in forehead behind the eyes or in the temples improves. Sharp prickling sensation on the forehead. Decrease in number of headaches.

Ear

Painful pimple behind ear. Sharp ear pain in right ear. Dull ear pain.

Nose

Coryza. Improvement of obstruction. Bland green discharge only when blowing the nose.

Mouth

Aphthae on tip of tongue. Swelling of upper and lower gums that is sensitive.

Face

Eruptions on the chin that is a red rash or pustules on the chin.

Throat

Dryness. Burning pain.

Stomach

Appetite diminished. Pain from flatulence. Shooting pains from gas. Nausea.

Abdomen

DISTENSION before menses, from gas, on waking, and at the umbilical region. Heaviness in abdomen before menses. Cramping pain with diarrhea or from gas. Cutting pain before stool. Flatulence that causes cramping pain. Sore pain in the iliac region.

Rectum

CONSTIPATION that is painful, or from incomplete evacuation, or with ineffectual urging, or with straining or an improvement of straining. DIARRHEA that is sudden, painful, or better lying down. Sense of fullness. PAIN before or during. Long lasting pain after stool improves. Cutting or burning pain. Tearing pain during stool im-

proves. Ineffectual urge. Pressing sensation as if diarrhea would happen. Flatus in evening. Improvement of bleeding hemorrhoids. Improvement of rectal itch.

Stool

Hard formed balls. Loose or watery stool. Hard stool. Frequent. Elimination with- out tearing pain, bleeding, straining. or pain after stool. [Cured.]

Bladder

Frequent urination especially at night.

Genitalia, Female

Many effects on the menses. Menses with bright red blood, copious bleeding and large clots like chunks of liver. Menses either frequent or intermittent or scanty menstrual flow. Vaginal pain that is cutting, stitching, or lancinating pain and that extends backward. SEXUAL DESIRE INCREASED or improvement of low desire. Feeling more feminine and having more sexual feelings. Herpetic eruptions on labia.

Expectoration

Thick, greenish phlegm with a bad taste is decreasing.

Respiration Difficult inspiration. Chest

Chest tightness.

Back

Herpetic eruptions. Back pain from constipation. Soreness of the low back and lumbar region.

Extremities

Cramps in the calf or left hip and left thigh. Heaviness of the right knee, or heavi- ness or the leg before menses. Swelling of right knee. Trembling of arms, hands, and fingers. Weakness of forearm, or left leg. Aching pain in joints or calf. Sore pain in knee, calf, or upper arm. Contraction of leg.

Skin

Dry and itching on neck and upper shoulders.