Santoninum

Santonin

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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

Is the active principle of Santonica, the unexpanded flower heads of Artemisia Maritima -Cina, which see.

The eye symptoms and those of the urinary tract are most prominent. It is of unquestioned value in the treatment of worm diseases, as gastro-intestinal irritation, itching of nose , restless sleep, twitching of muscles. Ascaris lumbricoides, and thread worms, but not tapeworms. Night cough of children. Chronic cystitis . Laryngeal crises and lightning pains of tabes.

Head

Occipital headache, with chromatic hallucinations . Itching of nose . Bores into nostrils.

Eyes

Sudden dimness of sight. Color blindness ; Xanthopsia. Strabismus due to worms. Dark rings about eyes.

Mouth

Fetid breath, depraved appetite; thirsty. Tongue deep-red. Grinding of teeth . Nausea; better after eating. Choking feeling.

Urinary

Urine greenish if acid and reddish purple if alkaline. Incontinence and dysuria. Enuresis . Feeling of fullness of bladder. Nephritis.

Relationship

Compare: Cina; Teucr; Napth; Nat phos; Spigel .

Dose

Second to third trituration. Lower preparations are often toxic. Do not give to a child with fever or constipation.

Santoninum across the other classic books

Santoninum appears in 5 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.
“A crystallizable acid, C15H18O3 . Santoninic acid. Obtained from different species of Russian and Levantine Artemisia, especially from "Semen cinæ". See Cina. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Santonine. A neutral active principle obtained from Cina (so-called "Semen Cinæ"). C 15 H 18 O 3 . (Colourless, lustrous, right rhombic prisms, odourless, and of a bitter taste. Become yellow by exposure to sunlight. Almost insoluble in cold, somewhat soluble in boiling water; fairly soluble in chloroform, boiling…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(The active principle of Wormsced.) Botanical Description. — Santoninum. Santonin, or Santoninic acid, is a crystalline principle, obtained from Levant Wormseed, or Artemisia contra, which is the same as the "Cina" of our Materia Medica. It occurs in colorless, pearly, four-sided orthorhombic tables, soluble in from…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“Santoninum.-A crystallised neutral principle (C15H1803) obtained from worm-seed . I. Provings.-1 . Dr. EDMUND ROSE one e. took 3 gr., and repeated dose in 3 h. At this time the blue halo of a wax taper appeared yellow. His sleep was disturbed by colic. On awaking his skin seemed to him to have a corpse-like hue, the…”

Santoninum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Santoninum in 57 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in VISION (10), EXTREMITIES (8), EYE (8), URINE (6), FACE (5).

VISION - COLORS before the eyes - green
URINE - COLOR, - greenish - dark
RESPIRATION - ARRESTED - convulsions,during
EXTREMITIES - MOTION - convulsive
TEETH - GRINDING - sleep,during
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - gnawing - Fingers - convulsions,during
VISION - COLORS before the eyes - green - yellow-green
EAR - DISCOLORATION - blue
FACE - CONVULSIONS,spasms - extending to limbs
VISION - COLORS before the eyes - yellow - flames
HEAD - WATER,sensation as of - warm water,in
URINE - COLOR, - yellow,light - saffron
GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS - night - midnight
URINE - SEDIMENT - sand - yellow
VISION - COLORS before the eyes - blindness,color
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - gnawing - Fingers
FACE - CONVULSIONS,spasms - beginning in face
VISION - DANCING
VISION - WAVERING
GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS - begin in the - face

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