Antipyrine
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1995 Jan / Feb Vol IV No 1.
Tarkas P I.
Materia Medica.
` Antipyrine.
Venous system
Nervous; vaso-motors
Mucous membranes
Skin
Right side
Toxemia (Ergot, Aspiring, Paracetamol)
Mushrooms
Coffee, (sweets)
Hot drinks.
Allergic, Spasmodic, Plethoric, Depressed.
Typical Allergic states: Coryza, Asthma, Oedemas, Skins. General depression. Prostration,
Fainting spells, Collapse, with sweat, vertigo, somnolence (Anti-f, Chen-a). Venous
medicines cause weakness.
Congestion-Spasms-Oedema blood
- CONGESTION:
Congestive catarrhs of MM (Fago, Sang). Swellings, Leading to ulceration (Xan). Burning pains (Compare - Apis, Carl, Eucal, Sang, Spiran, Urt, Vesp, Xan). Pricking (Carl, Spiran). Contractures, Cramps, Jerks, Crawling, tingling, numbness (Carl). Orgasms; trembling; nervous shuddering (thrills) without chill; throbbing felt throughout body (Amyl, Fago, Spiran, Urt). Virtually a universal commotion;
- SPASMODIC EFFECTS:
Asthma, Spasm of glottis. Whooping cough. Partial unilateral twitching. paroxysmal : pains; fainting (Thyr); coppery odor; Vomiting. Epileptiform seizures (from lethal doses), chattering of teeth, unilateral twitchings.
- OEDEMA:
Of parts; especially in the skull, conjunctiva, eyelids, nose, face, tongue, above neck, penis, pudenda, skin. Angioneurotic oedemas (Urt), recurring, from allergic vasomotor imbalance (like Thyr).
- BLOOD:
Anaemia. A leucocytosis similar to from mushrooms, ergotin, salicylates or tuberculins (from physiological doses). Measles, Scarlatina, Erythema, Blood from nose, mouth, Thrombosis of legs (Anti-f), (Milk leg), (Venous) Plethora; phlebitis, toxemias, zymosis, Red spots (purpura haemorrhagica).
In large lethal doses produces a collapse (like Ant-t): profuse sweat, dizziness, cyanosis, somnolence, blood and albumin in urine and respiratory failure; also after a term of convulsions with insensibility, paralysis, respiratory failure.
Medium (Physiological doses P) produces a measly eruption; inhabits the formation of glycogen into glucose.
SALIENT PARTICULARS:
Mind: Nervous anxiety (Anxious restlessness). Fear of becoming insane.
Head: Constriction, Throbbing, Headache; behind ears; (occipital); with toothache; in paroxysms.
Eyes: Inflammation: eyes red, puffy, lachrymose, Red conjunctiva; red spots on eyes (AP) Puffy lids, illusions of vision (Carl).
Ears: Pain, Tinnitus: buzzing (Chen-a), Illusions of hearing.
Nose: Acute coryza, fluent, nasal MM swollen, dull pain in frontal sinuses (Eucal). Tingling - burning Sneezing, Epistaxis. Allergic rhinitis. Hay fever - asthma.
Face: Red and swollen. Oedema and puffiness. Swollen or ulcerated lips. Vesicles and bullae. Small lump in cheek.
Mouth: Burning-tingling in mouth, gums, tongue, throat (peppery?). Stomatitis, Vesicles in. Tongue swollen, ulcerated. bloody saliva. Toothache along lower jaw.
Throat: Tight, constricted feeling. Pain on swallowing. Abscess. While pseudo-membrane.
Stomach: Irritation, nausea, vomiting in attacks. Pain and burning. Expanding sensation rising from stomach. Sensitive to coffee. (Peptic ulcer).
Urinary: Urine and urea diminished, Kidneys congested; albuminuria. (uremia). Enuresis (Chen-a, Urt).
Male: Dark or black blotches on penis, sometimes with oedema. Pain in right teste. Pricking in(r) scrotum and teste.
Female: Ovarian neuralgia (P), Severe after-pains (P), Itching and burning in vagina. Coppery smell, Watery leucorrhea. Dysmenorrhea with profuse menses (P), Suppressed menses.
Respiratory: Aphonia, Spasmodic asthma (P), Cheyne-Stokes respiration, Respiratory failure (L). Dyspnoea and oppression. Pain in right chest (Chen-a). Cough paroxysmal; whooping (P), Croup; laryngismus stridulus. Sputa fetid pus.
Heart: Weakened. Pulsations in fainting spells. High blood pressure (Amyl). Pulse rapid, weak, irregular.
Locomotor: Pricking on both sides of neck, extending down. Cramps in right arm; fingers clenched, claw-like.
Skin: Circumscribed patches of hyperaemia (red), with swelling (eye, nose, face, tongue), from dilation of capillaries (a vasomotor centre action). Acute erythema multiform (Fago, urt); from arms to legs, Scarlatina, German measles, vesicles, sudden rash. Prickly heat, amel cold applications (urt; Fago agg). Irregular rounded pimples close together in patches.
Allergic urticaria, sudden, with internal coldness; chronic, of women, with itching and large bullous eruptions (giant U.). Intense pruritus (Agar, Fago, urt) (uric acid? Frost bite?).
Thermic: Coldness, as if stuffed with ice inside; of hands and feet; (in collapse). Heat flushes (Amyl, Carl). High, toxic fever (compare-Mill) worse AM (urticaria night). High and apparently dangerous zymotic fevers. Excessive sweat (Amyl); in collapse.
Relations: A simplified Agar. A venous Fago. An allergic Bell. An oedematous and allergic Carl. (whose congestion is passive). An urt without gout. A milder Ver-v. A version of Apis, Compare Thyr.
Antifebrin: (Phenylacetamide or acetanilide. Anti-p is Phenyldimethyl pyrrolinazolone=Phenazone)
Used allopathically as an antipyretic (against high fevers with pains - antikamnic) and a sedative, in neuralgias like headaches. Sciatica, lumbago, grippe etcetera. Depressed heart respiration, blood-pressure (and temperature). Cyanosis and collapse. Reduced red blood cells; pallor; anaemia of optic disc; narrowed visual field; shrinking of rational vessels. Fainting congestion and torpidity of liver; of kidneys (blood and albumin). Thrombosis of lower extremities from cardiac weakness (thrombo-angitis obliterans). Blue M.M. Moral depravity. Head feels enormously enlarged. Palpitation. Oedema of feet and ankles.
Anti-p belongs to the group of alkaloid like atropine; muscarine, eserine, pilocarpine, physostigmine, thereby defining its sphere of action. Of them all it is more akin to Physo, also to Agar of which it is a simpler version. It also has some features of every alkaloid. Is an antipsoric, and (like Bell) an acute of Graph.
Antidotes: Bell
It antidotes: Aspirin (taken for senile pruritus); Ergot.
