by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
A Coloring Substance Used in Adulteration of Wine
(FUCHSINA - MAGENTA)
Produces redness of ears, deep red discoloration of mouth swollen gums, with burning and tendency to salivation; deep red urine, albuminous, and light red, profuse diarrhœa, with abdominal pains. Cortical substance of kidneys degenerated. Useful in cortical nephritis with albuminuria.
6x to 30th potency.
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Fuchsinum appears in 2 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
“Dr. Charvet, Annals d'Hyg. Pub., 1863, vol. xxii, p. 281, effects on workers. [This long and detailed account, filling some thirty pages in the original cannot be accepted as pure effects of anilin-red, since the admixture of Arsenic in appreciable quantities throws great doubt upon the origin of many symptoms. -T. F…”
