Coal Tar Product-Amidobenzene
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
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.
Compare: Arsenic; Antipyrin .
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Anilinum appears in 3 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.
“(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…”
“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…”
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.
