Cinnabaris – Cinnabar

The attenuations are prepared from red Mercury(II)-sulphide, HgS, MW: 232.7.

The main indications are:

Sinusitis with offensive discharge. Otitis externa. Old cases of syphilis with skin eruptions, (pustules, reddish scurf). Pains shooting through the eyeball and around the eyeball.

Typical of Cinnabaris is a general painfulness of the skull and scalp, and even of the hair on being touched.

The suddenly occuring pains in various areas of the body in the form of stabbing and tearing pains to the sides of the spine, in the back and loins and also in the nerves of the arms, and painful twitching in the lower leg, waking the patient from sleep, with sensations of numbness and pressure in the foot, all point to involvement of the vertebrae.

Formerly Cinnabaris was frequently used in problems of syphilitic origin.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of

Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Hydrargyrum sulfuratum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for cinnabaris: purulent inflammations of the conjunctiva and paranasal sinus cavities; warts.