Parotidinum – Nosode of Mumps

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from mumps vaccine.

The main indications are:

Mumps is to be distinguished from the parotitis which is seen in scarlet fever,  cholera and other infectious diseases, and also from the secondary parotitis, arising from throat infections and diseases of the oral mucosa.

There is painful swelling of the parotid gland with characteristic displacement of the ear-lobe, fever, otalgia and hearing-difficulty, and sometimes pancreatic involve- ment is also found in mumps. The use of Parotidinum should therefore be borne in mind in affections of the pancreas of various kinds, as well as in various diseases of the oral mucosa such as stomatitis, tonsillitis, Eustachian catarrh and hearing prob- lems of catarrhal origin. It should also be borne in mind in involvement of the testes from viral illnesses of all kinds, and should be tried in cryptorchism and benign tu- mours of the testes (fibroma, myoma, lymphangioma, adenomatoid tumours), and may also be tried in malignant tumours of the testes or seminoma. It might also be tried in teratoma and dermoid cysts. Since iatrogenic damage is not to be reckoned with in the use of nosodes, we have here at our disposal new – and often surprising- ly effective – therapeutic possibilities.