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DIPHTHERINUM
Homoeopathic antitoxin
Clinical Picture:Especially for the ectomorphic diathesis; scrofulous, psoric or tuberculous persons prone to catarrhal affections of throat and mucous membranes.
Patients with weak or exhausted vitality. Easily susceptible to the diphtheria Virus; when the attack from the onset tends to be severe (Lac caninum, Mercurius cyanatus).
Painless diphtheria; symptoms almost or entirely objective; patient is too weak, apathetic or too prostrated to complain; sopor or stupor, but easily .aroused when spoken to (Baptisia tinctoria, Sulphur).
Dark red swellings of tonsils and palatine arches; parotid and cervical glands swollen; breath and discharges from the throat, nose and mouth very offensive; tongue swollen, deep red, scanty coating.
Diphtheritic membrane, thick, dark grey or brownish black; temperature low or sub-normal, pulse weak and rapid, extremities cold, marked debility; patient lies in a semi-stupor; eyes dull, besotted (Apis mellifica, Baptisia tinctoria).
Epistaxis or profound prostration from the onset of the attack (Apis mellifica, Carbolicum acidum); collapse at the onset (Crotalus horridus, Mercurius cyanatus); pulse weak and rapid, vital reactions low. Swallows without pain, fluids vomited or regurgitated via the nose; breath extremely offensive.
Laryngeal diphtheria after Chlorum, Kalium bichromicum or Lac caninum fail; for post-diphtheritic paralysis after Causticum or Gelsemium sempervirens fail. When the patient is very ill and the most carefully selected remedies fail to relieve or to permanently improve.
Like all the nosodes it is practically worthless in potencies below the 30th; its curative value also increases with increase of potency from the 200th to the M and CM. It need not and should not be repeated too frequently.
It will cure every case amenable to crude antitoxin and is not only easy to administer, but safe and entirely free from allergic complications.
Relations:
Diphtherotoxin (Cahis) is useful in chronic bronchitis with rales.
Summary of Indications:
Diptheria and other respiratory disorders.
Antidotes:
Nux vomica