Syphilinum

Introduction of Syphilinum

Common name: 

Lueticum [1]

Synonyms:

Syphilitic virus

Family / Group / Class / Order:

A nosode

Name of prover:

Dr Swan, Dr Skinner, Dr Thomas Wildes, Dr J.T. Kent [2]

Introduction and history:

It is called the ‘queen of antisyphilitic remedies. [2]

Doctrine of signature:

Bone Degeneration:

Signature:

Tertiary syphilis attacks the bones, causing caries (decay), necrosis (death of bone tissue), and severe, deep-seated bone pains.

Homeopathic Use:

It is a primary remedy for intense bone pains, especially in the skull, tibia, and other long bones, which are characteristically worse at night. [2]

Parts used:

The source is the potentized lysate containing pus and serous fluid collected from a primary syphilitic sore. 

Preparation:

Trituration is prepared from the syphilitic virus and higher
potencies are prepared from 3c. [2]

Constitution of Syphilinum

Physical make up:

Suites patients who have had chancre treated by local means and as a result have suffered from throat and skin troubles
for years. [2]

Temperament:

Phlegmatic 2, Nervous 2, Melancholic 1 [3]

Diathesis:

Rhematic Diathesis 

Relation with heat & cold

Hot [4]

Miasm

Syphilis as a background [2]

Clinical conditions of Syphilinum

Abscess, succession of abscesses. Alcoholism, hereditary craving for alcohol. Anus, fissure of. Aphasia. Asthma. Breasts, sensitive. Bubo. Constipation. Crying of infants. Deafness. Deltoid rheumatism. Dentition. Diplopia. Dysmenorrhoea. Epilepsy. Headache, syphilitic. Hoarseness, before menses. Iritis. Leucorrhoea, infantile. Mouth, ulcerated. Myopia. Neuralgia. Night-sweats. [5]

Sites of action / Pharmacodynamics:

It mainly acts upon the mucous
membranes, nerves and bones. [2]

Causation (Causes / Ailments from):

Sun, damp weather, thunderstorms. [2]

Physiological action:

Useful in chronic cases with poor reactivity and no amelioration with the indicated remedy. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism or history of syphilis.

Suited to persons with pale, fine textured skin, who are slender, having graceful movements.

Craving for ALCOHOL in any form acutely.

Constant ERUPTIONS, pustular boils and abscesses in endless succession; foul green pus. Knots in muscles. Stubborn ulceration.

FOETIDITY of all discharges and secretions; stool; urine; sweat and all other secretions. 

Patho-physiological changes / Pathogenesis

Pains from darkness to daylight. Pains increase and decrease
gradually shifting and require frequent change of position.

Eruptions are dull, red, copper coloured spots, becoming blue
when getting cold.

Lancinating pains from base to apex, worse at night.

Profuse, soaking through the napkins and running down to
the heels.

Neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and delirium at
night; commencing at 4 pm; worse from 10 to 11 pm and ceasing at daylight.

Paralysis of superior oblique muscle of eyeball; sleepy look from
drooping lids.

Teeth are decayed at the edge of gums and break off; are
cupped, edges are serrated; dwarfed in size, converge at their tips.

It is useful for rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion
of deltoid; worse from raising arm laterally. 

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (psychology) 

Mood & Social: Profound hopelessness and depression; patient is antisocial, irritable, and averse to company or being soothed.

Cognition & State: Severe memory loss for recent events, apathy, and a feeling of being disconnected from oneself.

Behavior: Emotionally unstable (weeping or laughing without cause) with a compulsive impulse to wash hands.

Severe States: Nocturnal delirium or syphilitic insanity. [2]

Guiding Symptoms 

Generalities:

Utter prostration and debility in the morning.

Shifting rheumatic pains. Chronic eruptions and rheumatism.

Ichthyosis. Syphilitic affections. Pains from darkness to daylight; decrease and increase gradually. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism. ULCERATION OF mouth, nose, genitals, skin. SUCCESSION OF ABSCESSES.

Head:

*Deep crushing head pains* across the base of temples. Linear head pains. Beats head against the wall. Feels pulled back. Cerebral softening. Hair fall profusely. Vertex as if bursting. Tubercles all over the scalp. [6]

Eye:

Chronic recurrent phlyctenular keratitis better cool bathing; with intense photophobia and lachrymation. Ophthalmia; neonatorum. Glimmering vision. Vertical *diplopia. *Ptosis. Feeling of cold air blowing on the eye. Squint. Amaurosis; atrophy of optic nerve. Spots on cornea. [6]

Ears:

Deafness, without any obvious cause; nervous with cachexia. Calcareous deposit on tympanum. Abscess of the middle ear. [6]

Nose:

Ozaena; offensive, thick yellow-green discharge. Painful to inhaled air. Sinuses, painful. Green lumps from posterior nares. *Snuffles. Caries of bones. Septum perforated. Saddle across the bridge of the nose to which Sepia saddle is but a shadow. Attacks of fluent coryza. Itching nostrils. [6]

Face:

Pale, wrinkled; old look. Twitching of muscles. Pain over eyes (right) worse protruding tongue. Paralysis of one side, with difficult speech, mastication and twitching of eyes and lids. [6]

Mouth:

*Teeth feel sticky; as of a worm in. Teeth cupped, in children. Feeling as if teeth, had all got out of place. Teeth decay at the edge of gums. Tongue; coated, indented, deep longitudinal cracks along centre, ulcers, smart and burn.  *Excessive flow of saliva; *runs out of mouth during sleep.* Aphasia. Paralysis of tongue. Toothache better pressing them together, worse hot or cold things. [6]

Throat:

Sore, right to left worse cold drinks. Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils, with syphilitic taint. [6]

Stomach:

Capricious appetite. *Craves alcoholic liquors. Aversion to meat. Total loss of appetite for months. No food agrees, or satisfies him. Vomiting for weeks or months. [6]

Abdomen:

Obstinate constipation. Rectum seems tied up with strictures. Fissures in anus and rectum. Water from enema escapes with pain. Diarrhoea; bilious; painless worse seashore, drives her out of bed about 5 a.m. [6]

Urinary Organ:

Urine frothy; scanty, yellow. Nocturnal enuresis. Passes urine better while standing. Urinates only once during 24 hours but profuse. [6]

Sexual Organ:

MALE GENITALIA

Nodular formation in testes, spermatic cord and scrotum. Chancres. Aching of genitals, cannot sit still. [6]

FEMALE GENITALIA

Menses having putrid meat-like odour. Yellow, offensive, *acrid leucorrhoea so profuse,* it soaks through napkins and runs to the heels; with ovarian pain; in sickly nervous women; with itching of the genitals. Habitual abortion. Mammae; sensitive to touch; feel sore, during menses and other times. Ulcers on the vulva with ovarian pain; sensitive to touch. Cutting pain in ovary during coition, at the moment of orgasm. [6]

Respiratory System:

Cough dry worse lying on right side; at night. Aphonia. before menses. Chronic asthma; worse in summer, during thunderstorms, at night, humid weather. Continuous pain in the larynx worse touch. [6]

Heart & Pulse:

Pain from base to apex of heart. Large soft pulse. As if hot water flowing in the veins. [6]

Neck & Back:

Neck feels short. Pain in the back in the region of kidney worse after urinating. Pain at coccyx with sensation as if it is swollen worse sitting. [6]

Extremities:

Pain at the insertion of deltoid worse from raising arm laterally, or in front. Affections of *middle fingers. Osteo- sarcoma; in centre of tibia. Itching eruptions about elbows. *Cold pain in legs. Festination. *Bones pain as if sawed. Bilateral exostoses sore and painful. Shin bones painful better pouring cold water on them. Sciatica worse at night. Muscles knotted; in rheumatism. Soles painful with feeling of contraction worse standing on them. Cannot sit on low chair or squat. [6]

Skin:

Swollen and blotched. Biting as from bugs. Wandering erysipelas. Conical crusts. Bullae. White or pock mark cicatrices. Distorted nails. Coppery spots. [6]

Sleep:

Sleeplessness. [6]

Fever:

Chilly. Sweats at night, with exhaustion. [6]

Important characteristic features of Syphilinum

Keynotes / Redline:

1. Nocturnal aggravation of all complaints.

2. Violent linear pain.

3. Craving for alcohol in any form.

4. Leucorrhoea profuse, soaking through the napkin and running down to the heels.

Guiding:

Aggravation at night (from sunset to sunrise)

Profound despair of recovery

Destructive ulcerations

Severe bone pains

Hereditary craving for alcohol

PQRS:

Pains increase and decrease gradually

Symptoms appear from sunset to sunrise

Leucorrhoea runs down to the heels

Compulsive impulse to wash hands

Hereditary craving for alcohol

Confirmatory:

< Night, sunset to sunrise.

History of Syphilitic taint.

Ulceration and destruction of bones.

Recurrent abscesses.

Pain violent, linear.

Craving for alcoholism in any form.

Nucleus symptoms:

– When there is hereditary tendency to alcoholism or a syphilitic taint.

– Lack of reaction with much prostration and few symptoms or multiphase symptoms.

– Nocturnal aggravations of all complaints.

– Ulcerations, foetidity and syphilitic affections.

Therapeutic Value 

Acute ophthalmia neonatorum, Anal fissures,Caries and
depression of nose, Dental troubles, Hairfall, Hodgkin’s disease, Inflammation of
cornea, Insomnia, Leucorrhoea, Lupus of face, Paralysis of lids, Syphilis. [2]

Modality of Syphilinum

Aggravation:

Night, sunset to sunrise, damp, extreme heat or cold, every
alternate full moon, during thunderstorms, in any position, motion, raising arms
laterally, squatting, winter, summer, seashore, protruding tongue. [2]

Amelioration:

Continued or slow motion, changing positions, high altitudes,
applied heat, during the day.

Remedy Relationship of Syphilinum

Compare:

Abro, Asaf, Asar, Aur, Bac, Caust, Ferr, Graph, Iod, Kali-bi, Kali-i, Kali-iod, Kreos, Lac-c, Lac-d, Lach, Mang, Med, Merc, Nat-m, Nit-ac, Phos, Psor, Rhus-t, Sang, Sep, Spig, Stann, Sul-ac, Sulph, Thuj, Tub, Urt-u. [4]

Dose 

Potency

The highest potencies only, and in infrequent doses. [1]

Repetition

Bears repetition well after a weak in 200 potency. Single dose of
CM in chronic cases.

Duration of action 

Indefinite time

Terminologies 

1. Nosode

Remedies prepared from diseased products or pathological secretions.

Syphilinum is a nosode derived from syphilitic lesions.

2. Syphilitic Miasm

One of Hahnemann’s three fundamental chronic miasms (Psora, Sycosis, Syphilis).

Represents destructive, degenerative, ulcerative and hopeless tendencies in diseases.

Syphilinum is a chief remedy representing this miasm.

3. Anti-Miasmatic Remedy

A medicine that directly acts against a chronic miasm.

Syphilinum works as a deep-acting anti-syphilitic (anti-syphilitic nosode).

4. Hahnemannian Proving

The method of testing substances on healthy individuals to collect symptoms.

Syphilinum proving revealed symptoms like bone pains, ulcerations, nocturnal aggravations.

5. Destructiveness

A key note in syphilitic pathology: destruction of tissues, bones, organs.

Reflected in Syphilinum cases with ulceration, necrosis, discharges.

6. Nocturnal Aggravation

A modality where symptoms worsen at night.

In Syphilinum, pains in bones and ulcers are worse from sunset to sunrise.

7. Ulcerative Diathesis

Constitutional tendency toward ulcer formation and tissue disintegration.

Marked in patients needing Syphilinum.

8. Hereditary Taint

Transmission of miasmatic influence (like syphilis) across generations.

Syphilinum is often indicated in congenital and hereditary syphilitic states.

9. Totality of Symptoms

The complete symptom picture guiding prescription.

Syphilinum is chosen not merely for history of syphilis but on totality: destructive symptoms, bone pains, ulcers, hopelessness.

10. Despair of Recovery

A peculiar mental symptom of Syphilinum.

Patient believes disease is incurable, reflects the destructive miasm.

11. Modalities

Conditions modifying symptoms:

Worse: night, damp weather, hot weather.

Better: during the day, from cold bathing.

12. Chronic Nosode Intercurrent

Remedy given between constitutional treatments to clear miasmatic blocks.

Syphilinum is used as an intercurrent remedy in obstinate chronic cases with syphilitic background.

Reference of Syphilinum

[1] Materia Medica By Boericke W.

[2] GEMS Textbook of Homoeopathic Materia Medica by J.D.Patil

[3] Tempraz Expert System

[4] Zomeo

[5] Dictionary Of Practical Materia Medica (All 3 Vol.) By Clarke J. H.

[6] Concise Materia Medica Of Hom. Remedies By S.R. Phatak

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