Ubiquinone

The attenuations are prepared from Ubiquinone, Coenzyme Q₁₀ , C₅₉H₉₀O₄, MW: 863.4.

In pathological situations, Ubiquinone is formed in increased quantity from the body’s own fat-deposits. In general practice it is one of the most frequently needed quinones, since in most people the fat metabolism is disordered.

Quinone-like substances (2,3-dimethoxy-5-methylbenzoquinone with an iso- prenoid side-chain), isolated from numerous animal organs, mitochondria, yeast, etc., are incorported in the phosphorylation of the respiratory chain. Ubiquinone has a powerful regeneratory action on blocked respiratory enzymes, and thus it is indi- cated in all impregnation, degeneration and neoplasm phases, also in viral diseases etc.

It is complemented well by Fumaricum Acidum, since both substances are inter- dependent. The type of person corresponding to the picture of Ubiquinone looks well-nourished, has ruddy cheeks and, although strongly built in any case, has a ten- dency to be over-weight and a predisposition to inflammatory illnesses. There is a sensitivity to colds and similar infections – especially of the respiratory passages – and a tendency towards suppurative, ulcerative processes on the skin and in the in- ternal organs. Ubiquinone acts in all disorders of the digestive area, in hypercholes- terolaemia, and where there is an inability fully to utilize amino-acids from the diet. These illnesses, which manifest themselves as deficiency-symptoms in the albumin metabolism, respond well to Ubiquinone.

Apart from inflammatory skin diseases, from soreness in infants to malignant, oozing skin degeneration in old-age, which call for ubiquinone, it is also indicated in chronic, suppurative processes of the mucosa with changes in the composition of the white blood cells and an increased ESR, likewise septic illnesses of all kinds with high fever and a danger of phlegmonal formation, the respiration being shallow, the urine smelling foetid, or being retained, with an uraemic headache.

Ubiquinone can also completely change the course of vaccinial damage following smallpox vaccination, or in cases of severe reaction to vaccination.

Ubiquinone can also act favourably on acne vulgaris which is leaving scars, or on unclean, greasy, shiny facial skin covered with pustules, often accompanied by a ten- dency to develop violent headaches.

The Ubiquinone patient has a tendency towards strokes. This is often suggested by poor memory and vascular symptoms, which occur where there is a high cholesterol level. In such cases Arnica is a good complementary remedy.

In chronic mucosal inflammations and suppurations with excoriating secretions, in septic cold-infections, descending bronchitis, also for follow-up treatment of tuber- culosis (tuberculostatics), in highly febrile pneumonia and in asthmatic attacks (less threatening than in Fumaricum Acidum or the other quinones), and in tormenting nocturnal cough, particularly when provoked by every movement, Ubiquinone is in- dicated.

Ubiquinone has special affinities for the eyes, e.g. conjunctivitis, but it is also in- dicated in toxoplasmosis infections, corneal erosions, paralysis of the eye muscles following diphtheria and in infantile glaucoma, and may be used successfully in many cases of glaucoma and retinal disease.

Further indications for Ubiquinone are otitis media, mastoiditis, otosclerosis, eczema of the auditory canal with offensive discharge, and Eustachian-tube catarrh with a sensation of internal itching in the ear.

Ubiquinone is related to the vagus nerve, and can compensate for vagotonia by switching to the sympatheticotonal stage, which in many cases manifests as an acti- vation of masked focuses of disease. This can lead to a favourable resolution of neu- ralgia and neuritis with severe pains. A reddening of the skin may develop above the affected site, or even an eruption of herpes zoster or herpes simplex.

Ubiquinone is called for in lumbar back pain and pain in the area of dorsal verte- brae 3 and 4; also in progressing multiple sclerosis. It is also good for nervous symp- toms of drinkers, with moral decay and red or pale yellow facial discolouration, Ubiquinone helping addicts to develop a new, regenerated will-power.

Post-operatively, Ubiquinone can prevent the danger of embolism, since its action on the vascular walls is similar to that of rutin, taking effect within a few minutes when suitably indicated, especially if given by intravenous injection.

An important indication is the very painful mastitis with copious suppuration, oc- curring during the puerperium while breast-feeding. Likewise, Ubiquinone acts favourably on boils (from chronic pork-consumption).

In the alimentary canal Ubiquinone acts on disorders of enzyme-activity, fermen- tative dyspepsia, heartburn following consumption of meat and fatty foods, putrid eructations hours after having eaten, stomach ulcers which are slow to heal, and es- pecially in acute enteritis, whilst degenerative intestinal diseases respond to An- thraquinone. An indication for Ubiquinone in intestinal disease is especially the vic- ariation with skin conditions, e.g. intestinal disorders following suppressed eczema. Ubiquinone should also be interpolated in the treatment of kidney damage follow- ing inoculations, after surgery, in weakness of the sphincter vesicae with dribbling of urine, papilloma of the bladder with sudden haemorrhages, and after every course of antibiotics, likewise after conventional treatment of syphilis and after protracted gonorrhoea, particularly if the skin-discharges have an unpleasant odour and are as- sociated with eczema. It should also be interpolated where there is cancer of the gen- italia, and in breast cancer with ulceration, when degenerative symptoms appear, and also after cancer-surgery when the wounds are reluctant to heal and there is

chronic suppuration.

Ubiquinone effects an improvement in all inflammatory skin diseases. Acne vul- garis. Oozing eczemas with intolerable itching. Pustules. Seborrhoea and falling out of the hair. Stubborn scrotal eczema, skin cancer with discharge of serous fluids, also sore skin of infants and inflammation where a little soap remains on the skin, are also pointers to Ubiquinone.

Generally speaking, Ubiquinone is indicated in severe homotoxic overloading in cellular phases, where the body’s own defences are no longer adequate to compensate

for the homotoxins or the enzyme blockages which account for their existence. Thus Ubiquinone is to be used in all cellular phases, either intercurrently or throughout.