Anilinum

Coal Tar Product-Amidobenzene

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

Marked giddiness and pain in head; face has a purple hue . Pain in penis and scrotum with swelling. Tumors of the urinary passages . Profound anæmia with discoloration of skin, blue lips, anorexia, gastric disturbances. Swelling of skin.

Relationship

Compare: Arsenic; Antipyrin .

Anilinum across the other classic books

Anilinum appears in 4 of the 21 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.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“(Amidobenzene.) C6H5 Lailler (Gaz. Heb., 1873) (M. H. Rev., Jl., 1873). Local application of 10 per cent. solution of the hypochlorate to psoriasis caused, in a hour and a half, vomiting; repeated fifteen or twenty times during the night; incontinence of urine, with a little tenesmus; night restless; the next morning…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Amidobenzene. C 6 H 5 NH 2 . Anæmia / Cancer / Cholera / Eczema rubrum The symptoms of Anilinum have been observed on workpeople poisoned by inhalation of the fumes, and on persons who have worn aniline-dyed articles next the skin. The symptoms are in many respects like those of Arsenic. There are vomiting, purging…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“ANILINUM. Mcondaiy product ot coal tar, obtained by treating benzin with strong nitric acid and ammonia. CgHjNH,. II. Peison'mgs. — i, A boy, cleaning an aniline vat, inhaled the nes^ and was suddenly seized with giddiness and became insensible % :e and body grew cold, pulse slow and almost imperceptible, action…”

Anilinum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Anilinum in 3 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - eczema
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Lower Limbs - eczema
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Knee - eczema rubrum

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