Variolinum

Lymph from Small-pox Pustule

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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

Used for "internal vaccination." Seems to be efficacious in protecting against, modifying and aiding in the cure of smallpox.

Head

Morbid fear of small-pox. Deafness. Pain in occiput. Inflamed eyelids.

Respiratory

Oppressed breathing. Throat feels closed. Cough with thick viscid, bloody mucus. Feeling of a lump in right side of throat.

Relationship

Excruciating backache . Aching in legs . Tired all over with restlessness. Wrists pain. Pains shift from back to abdomen.

Fever

Hot fever, with intense radiating heat. Profuse, bad-smelling sweat.

Skin

Hot, dry. Eruption of pustules. Shingles .

Relationship

Compare: Vaccin (same action); Malandrinum --the morbid product of the grease of the horse (a prophylactic of small-pox and a remedy for the ill-effects of vaccination; chronic eczema following vaccination).

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Variolinum across the other classic books

Variolinum appears in 7 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 HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Pus from smallpox pustule. (A Nosode.) Only fragmentary provings. Bears the same relation to smallpox that Antitoxin does to diphtheria. An extended clinical record by competent and reliable observers attest its curative value in variola - simple, confluent and malignant - as well as in varioloid and varicella. It has…”
Allen (Nosodes) — The specialized source record — nosode provings gathered beyond the brief entries in general materia medicas.
“Description : Dr. Fellger gave Variolinum reports, giving Variolinum to hundreds of people, and none of them were ever attacked with small-pox. In one family where the father had confluent small-pox, he gave Variolinum as a prophylactic, and of the others, although not one had been vaccinated, not one of them took the…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“BLOOD. Spine. Muscles. Metabolism. Motion. Vaccination. General aching, < in back, occiput and legs. Calcareous deposists in the blood-vessels, spinal cord, etc. .................... Green vision on rising. Every odor nauseates. Putrid, coppery taste. Tongue protrudes during sleep. Food seems to want to regurgitates…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Nosode of Small-pox. Trituration of matter from small-pox vesicle. Asthma / Backache / Chill / Fever / Headache; occipital / Herpes zoster / Neuralgia / Small-pox / Testicle, swelling of The cardinal symptoms of small-pox are the keynote symptoms for the use of Variolinum. The backache of small-pox is about the worst…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“The nosode, and the lymph from cowpox. Fragmentary provings by Fincke and Swan. Observations by Schuklitsch, A. H. Z., vol. 4, p. 12 ; Kanstatt, A. H. Z., vol. 45, p. 373 ; Power, Phil. Jour. of Hom., vol. 1, p. 493 ; Berridge, Am. J. H. M. M., vol. 8, p. 126 ; Le Normand, Hygea, vol. 10, p. 68 ; Hencke, A. H. Z…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: pus from the small-pox pustule. It bears the same relation to small-pox that Anti-toxin does to diphtheria (A.). This remedy is employed as a prophylactic against, and to modify the course of an attack of small-pox (Bl.). An extended clinical record by competent and reliable observers attests its curative…”

Variolinum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Variolinum in 29 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in MOUTH (8), BACK (7), STOOL (4), SKIN (2), TEETH (2).

BACK - PAIN - Sacral region
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region
TEETH - SORDES - brown
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - zoster,zona
MOUTH - PROTRUDED,Tongue - sleep,during
MOUTH - PROTRUDED,Tongue - difficulty with - can hardly draw it in
MOUTH - TASTE - insipid - water,after drinking
MOUTH - TASTE - sweetish - drinking,after
TEETH - MUCUS on - thick
MOUTH - PUSTULES - Gums - Tongue
BACK - PAIN - drawing - Cervical region - moving - when
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - extending - down back - as if cold water poured down the
BACK - PAIN - break - as though the back would
MOUTH - OPEN - sleep,during
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - small-pox
FACE - DROPPING of jaw
MOUTH - STIFF,Tongue
MOUTH - BLEEDING
THROAT - PAIN - swallowing, - empty,on
BACK - PAIN - aching - Sacrum

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