Santoninum

Santonin

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

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 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.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“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…”

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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