Category: Materia Medica Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg

The attenuations are prepared from Cholesterol, (Cholest-5-en-3ß-ol) C₂₇H₄₆O, MW: 386.7.

The indications for an experimental use of this remedy are:

Liver cancer. Chronic swelling of the liver. Prevents recurrence of gall-stones. Plethora. May be tried in hypercholesterolaemia.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Cholesterinum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for cholesterinum: liver disorders and elevated cholesterol levels in blood.

The attenuations are prepared from a solution of Chlorine gas, Cl₂, MW: 70.9, in water.

The main indications are:

Severe catarrhal conditions of the upper respiratory tract. Vasomotor rhinitis.

Typical of Chlorum is the sudden air-hunger resulting from spasms of the vocal cords, with episodes of suffocation and cramps of the glottis. This is accompanied by great dryness of the tongue, and also coryza with headache.

Sooty, scarred nostrils, such as are found in typhus, point to this remedy. The patient is usually emotionally altered, is afraid of going crazy and forgets names and people. In typhus, when the nasal symptoms mentioned above occur, Chlorum should be used.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Chlorum, published the follow- ing indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for chlo- rum: acute laryngitis.

The attenuations are prepared from the antibiotic Chloramphenicol C₁₁H₁₂Cl₂N₂O₅, MW: 323.1.

The main indications are:

Vitamin depletion following damage to the intestinal flora by antibiotics and chemotherapy. Other iatrogenic damage. Agranulocytosis.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh outer layer of the root of the plant, Chionanthus virginicus L., a native of North America and Europe. N.O. Oleaceae.

The main indications are:

Liver remedy. Cholangitis. Diabetes mellitus.

A characteristic of Chionanthus is the apathy and a dull frontal headache above the root of the nose, above the eyes and in the temples, aggravated by climbing stairs and changes of mood. There are frequently symptoms of icterus, such as yel- low sclera, and frequent passing of urine containing sugar and of high specific grav- ity. There are also enlargement of the liver and pains in the area of the gall-bladder;

likewise constipation. The stools are clay-coloured and contain undigested food. Chionanthus is also recommended for swollen liver following malaria, and in gall- stones.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Chionanthus virginicus, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for chionanthus virginicus: migraine and other forms of headache; disor- ders of the hepatobiliary system and of the pancreas; general depressive emotional discord or upset.

The attenuations are prepared from Quinine sulphate C₄₀H₅₀N₄O₈S · 2 H₂O, MW: 783.

The main indications are:

Papular eruptions. Neuralgias. Cachexia. Tinnitus. Menière’s syndrome.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Chininum sulphuricum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for chininum sulphuricum: intermittent episodes of fever; inflammation of the optical and auditory nerves; facial neuralgia, in the vicinity of the neck or cer- vical spine; anaemia; rashes.

The attenuations are prepared from Arsenic trioxide As₂O₃, MW: 179.8 and anhy- drous Quinine C₂₀H₂₄N₂O₂, MW: 324.4.

The main indications are:

Sepsis. Chronic fever. Neuralgias. Lack of appetite. Unsteadiness, as in Arsenicum Album. Asthma.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Chininum arsenicosum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for chininum arsenicosum: general weakness and debilitation; anaemia; neuralgia.

The attenuations are prepared from Quinhydrone C₆ H₄ O₂ · C₆ H₆O₂ , MW: 218.2.

As a quinone preparation it is able to act as a catalyst on the respiratory chain; acts as an intermediary catalyst and is indicated in all cellular phases, including neo- plasm phases and viral diseases. (Only infrequent doses, let it work on for months!). In practice it has proved necessary in almost every case to couple Quinhydrone with a homoeopathic metal e.g. Aurum, Argentum, Ferrum, the Mercury group and others, and we find that Quinhydrone does its best work when combined with Hy- droquinone and para-Benzoquinone (the latter from 10X upwards) at the same time. Quinhydrone is particularly indicated in retoxic phases i.e. after infections have been suppressed by chemotherapeutic and allopathic drugs. That also applies to

other iatrogenic damage, i.e. the whole range of cellular phases in chronic disease.

If catalysts of the Citric Acid cycle appear not to act, then they can be reactivated again by Quinhydrone in the same potency. In many cases it can be combined with

Natrum Pyruvicum in injection. Quinhydrone can also be used to slow down over- reactions to para-Benzoquinone. Sensitivity to weather can also be beneficially af- fected after frequent doses.

This remedy is complemented by Sulphur, and by all homoeopathic remedies which have aggravation from wet weather, such as Kalmia, Dulcamara, Rhus Tox., Rhododendron, Medorrhinum, Bryonia, etc.

Good combinations result from Phosphoricum Acidum and Quinhydrone from 6X upwards, in such conditions as sclerosis of the brain with tinnitus, labyrinthine ver- tigo, mental deterioration, school headache, and after mental exertion with sleep- lessness.

Even the chronic forms of bronchitis which have been treated with antibiotics re- spond to Quinhydrone, as do dry catarrhs of the nasal mucosa with burning, watery, fluent coryza, chronic laryngitis, pharyngitis with clearing of the throat and dry tick- ling cough. It should also be tried in cancer of the larynx, and in emphysema, espe- cially combined with Tuberculinum. If Quinhydrone is prescribed after antibiotic treatment of pneumonias, then the accumulation of homotoxins may be released in one mighty elimination. Likewise, Quinhydrone can be effective when unpleasant complaints persist in the throat area after tonsillectomy.

Quinhydrone should always be used when well-selected remedies fail to act, e.g. in disorders of accommodation, in cataract, in otosclerosis and tinnitus, diminution of sense of smell, disturbances of coordination, in hyperactive children (in combina- tion with Stramonium and Hyoscyamus), and in vaccination damage to small chil- dren, affecting the sensory organs.

Good results have also been obtained from a combination of Vitamin B12, 12X, with Quinhydrone 12X or 6X, e.g. in anxiety states in darkness, the striking pallor always being typical in critical stages of disease. Coupled with Hydroquinone and Fumaricum Acidum 12X, Quinhydrone is indicated in vascular diseases such as pol- yarteritis nodosa, arteriosclerotic dementia, intermittent claudication (“smoker’s leg”), thromboses, and thrombophlebitis where the affected parts are snowy-white and ice-cold (not purple), and also in shock following myocardial infarction.

Quinhydrone also facilitates rapid resorption of haemorrhages following injuries and contusions. In migraines, frequent doses are needed, whilst para-Benzoquinone and Hydroquinone require frequent doses initially and should then later on be in- jected at longer intervals.

Intestinal illnesses with the danger of malignant degeneration require very fre- quent prescriptions of quinones, along with sarcodes, Arsenicum Album, insecticide preparations, para-Benzoquinone, Hydroquinone, and especially also Anthraquinone and Quinhydrone in alternation.

Cradle-cap has its origins in an allergy arising in the alimentary canal, an allergy to the albumen in the Mother’s milk, which the infant was not able to digest proper- ly, having been put to the breast before adequate enzymes were present. In this con- dition a single dose of Quinhydrone, Ubiquinone, Anthraquinone and para-Benzo- quinone may possibly achieve a fundamental change. Likewise, infectious diseases of the gastro intestinal tract need quinones, especially Anthraquinone in combination

with Quinhydrone, as do hepatoses and conditions following infectious hepatitis, and liver damage, chronic cholecystitis, cholangitis, pylorospasm of infants and re- curring gastric and duodenal ulcers.

Quinhydrone should be given in combination with Apis and Apisin in kidney-dis- eases, when too little urine is excreted during heavy sweating and no hypertension exists in spite of renal insufficiency; also in eclampsia and uraemia. In these condi- tions a combined injection of Hydroquinone, para-Benzoquinone and Quinhydrone is recommended.

Quinhydrone is also helpful in complaints of pregnancy with kidney conditions, and in all consequences of prior gonorrhoea or trichomonas infections following an- tibiotic or antifungal therapy.

In all types and stages of abdominal cancer, after Quinhydrone there may occur an elimination of large quantities of serous or purulent discharge. (As this is the body unloading homotoxins, the process must not be impeded in any way).

In breast cancer with hard, thick tumours projecting roughly from the surface, which are no longer operable, a combination of Quinhydrone, Hydroquinone and Asparaginicum Acidum could still bring about a change, provided the cancer has not progressed too far.

In chronic, rheumatic and arthritic diseases of the joints with a tendency to stiffen up (primary polyarthritis), and also in severe forms of arthroses with intolerable nightly pains, Quinhydrone is a good catalyst for Syphilinum (nightly bone-pains with aggravation in wet weather).

Acute episodes of rheumatic polyarthritis with fever and extreme hyperaesthesia of the affected parts, so that not even the bedclothes can be tolerated, may possibly be decisively influenced by an injection of the available quinones plus Malicum Acidum and Quinhydrone, without antibiotics or the danger of a recurrence. At least this possibility should be tried.

Quinhydrone is also indicated, in combination with para-Benzoquinone, in chron- ic lichenified eczemas, possibly of allergic origin, and also in psoriasis with violent itching which gives the patient no rest at night.

Quinhydrone works best where there is pallor, rather than flushing, of the skin. Quinhydrone acts in combination with Benzoquinone in cases of damage to the skin by aniline dyes and eczema of the elbows in metal-workers, whilst acne vulgaris calls for the use of Ubiquinone, Cerumen or Comedones along with Quinhydrone.

Clearly, the catalysts of the Citric Acid cycle and the quinones are activated by Quinhydrone, and the predisposition to cancer is reversed. Damage following X-ray/Radium therapy can also be compensated by Quinhydrone, in alternation with Causticum.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried bark of younger trunks and older branches of the tree, Cinchona succirubra Pav. ex Klotzsch, syn: Cinchona pubes- cens Vahl, which grows wild in the Andes and is cultivated in the East Indies, on Java in particular. N.O. Rubiaceae.

The China-bark tree, Cinchona succirubra, a member of the Rubiaceae family, growing in Peru and Bolivia, in India, and above all on Java, is well-known as the source of one of the most important remedies, from which quinine is obtained, for- merly used as a specific against malaria. Peruvian bark was used as a folk medicine for fever, particularly undulating fever, but also as bitters for the production of vari- eties of gin and for taking in states of exhaustion. In homoeopathy, China is used less as a fever-remedy, and more in states of weakness and anaemia after losses of vital fluids of all kinds. Indications would be substantial loss of blood, loss of vital fluids in breast-feeding, suppurations, chronic diarrhoea, galactorrhoea, excessive salivation, leucorrhoea, spermatorrhoea, etc. Consequences of sudden evacuations of vital fluids may include fainting, ringing in the ears or loss of vision.

China symptoms are characterised by a pale, yellowish face with sunken eyes hav- ing dark rings around them, by pulsating headaches, and by light perspiration on the slightest movement or exertion, also night-sweats. An anaemic headache with air- hunger is characteristic, associated with general lability of the vascular nervous

mechanism, with congestions of the head and chest, with pulsation of the carotid ar- teries, and possibly with oedema. There is also a tendency to profuse haemorrhage of dark blood from various organs. If these have been temporarily treated with some haemostatic, then after a dose of China has been given they may reappear if China is given in too low a dosage. Thus it has generally proved expedient, where haemor- rhage is present, first of all to treat the haemorrhage symptomatically (e.g. with preparations of Cinnamomum), and only to use China later on in order to remove the secondary anaemia.

As a consequence of the humoral dystonia resulting from the loss of vital fluids, the China picture also includes disturbances of liver-function, with loss of appetite, emaciation, sensation of a lump beneath the sternum (as in Pulsatilla), abdominal distension, loss of appetite after a few mouthfuls, and eructations bringing only tem- porary relief. Food is mostly vomited undigested. There is thirst for cold water and craving for spirits and sugar (similar to Argentum Nitricum). Icterus may occur too, and there may be gall-stones and reduced excretion of uric acid, possibly linked with intestinal spasms and offensive flatus. The diarrhoea is painless, occurs after eating and at night, especially after eating fruit, and includes particles of undigested food.

Whereas the episodes of fever, such as periodically occur in malaria, may be cured in rare cases by China tincture, a suppression of the fever can possibly be achieved with Chininum Sulphuricum in allopathic dosage, whilst this preparation is used, from a homoeopathic point of view, in tinnitus, e.g. in Ménière’s syndrome. The fevers which respond to China are extraordinarily characteristic, the fever worsening day by day. This worsening of symptoms progressively from day to day is charac- teristic not only of the fever, but also of headache and other conditions of whatever kind which occur in a daily-changing rhythm. Nash reports having had numerous disappointments with China in the treatment of undulant fever, whereas with other remedies, e.g. Eupatorium Perfoliatum, Natrum Muriaticum or Arsenicum Album, his treatments produced good results.

It might also be mentioned that it was through an experiment with Peruvian bark on himself that Hahnemann discovered the homoeopathic Law of Similars. After taking Peruvian bark he produced symptoms of intermittent fever. He had been en- couraged to carry out his first experiment in the history of medicine by reading a note in Cullen’s Materia Medica, saying that China was capable of causing, as well as healing, fever, reputedly through its influence on gastric function.

The  weakness  which  is   native   to   China   patients   is   also   characterised by susceptibility to draughts and touch, the scalp being particularly sensitive, as    if the hair were sore. Firm pressure, on the other hand, as with Bryonia, usually gives relief. There is a typical weakness between the shoulder-blades, suggestive  of Scheuermann’s disease. China is  also  effective  in  spondylitis,  if  symptoms of weakness predominate. The patient  is  fatigued,  feels  miserable  and  lacking in energy, so that he is incapable of making the necessary corrections to  his posture.

We must also mention a certain sensitivity in the left hypogastrium, corresponding roughly to the position of the spleen, and possibly associated with painless diarrhoea of undigested food, with flatulent distension and eructations which bring only tem- porary relief or none at all, (unlike Carbo Veg. and Argentum Nitricum), and dis- charge of offensive flatus, as already mentioned.

If the main symptoms of China are categorised, we have the following essential picture of the remedy:

1. States of exhaustion and weakness after loss of any kind of vital fluids. Loss of appetite. Secondary anaemia. Weakness between the shoulder-blades, cannot sit without support for the back. Scheuermann’s disease. Exhausted state in spondylitis.
   1. Functional disturbances of the liver and irritation in the biliary system. Cholelithi- asis, cholangitis and cholecystitis. Liver and spleen swollen and sensitive. Icterus. Illnesses of gall and spleen.
   1. Abdominal distension with eructations which do not relieve. Tendency to painless diarrhoea with undigested food and offensive flatulence.
   1. Chronic neuralgias and other complaints which worsen every second or third day. Sensitivity, especially of the scalp, to touch and draught.
   1. 5.   Desire for coffee. Sensitivity to cold. Tendency to profuse haemorrhages.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Cinchona succirubra, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for china: feverish episodes; general blood poisoning; inflammations of the respiratory passages; acute diarrhoea; digestive insufficiency; biliary colic; mucosal bleeding; anaemia; general enervation/exhaustion; rashes; neuralgia.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts of the plant in flower, Chimaphila umbellata [L.] Barton, found in the northern areas of Europe, Asia and North America. N.O. Pyrolaceae.

The main indications are:

Urethritis, cystitis with much mucus. Hypertrophy of the prostate.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Chimaphila umbellata, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for chimaphila umbellata: chronic inflammations of the urinary tract col- lection system, the prostate gland, and of the mammary gland.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts of the plant in flower, Chenopodium ambrosioides, L. var. anthelminticum, N.O. Chenopodiaceae.

The main indications are:

Hypersensitivity to noise. Vertigo. Ménière’s syndrome.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Chenopodium ambrosoides var.

anthelminticum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bunde- sanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for chenopodium anthelminticum: disorders in blood supply to the brain and to the inner ear; liver disorders.