Chinhydron – Quinhydrone

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.