Diphtherinum

by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

A nosode. Trituration of diphtheric membrane. Dilutions of diphtheria toxin.

Clinical

Croup / Diphtheria / Diphtheritic paralysis / Myelitis

Characteristics

The well-known features of the disease of which this nosode is a product must be the guide to its use. It should be more efficacious in the potencies against diphtheria, both as prophylactic and cure, than the serum injections. In all probability it will be found useful in the paralysis of diphtheria and other like kinds of spinal affection. It needs clinical development and a proving in the potencies.

Diphtherinum across the other classic books

Diphtherinum appears in 6 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.
“Homeopathic Antitoxin. (A Nosode.) Especially adapted to the strumous diathesis; scrofulous, psoric or tuberculous persons, prone to catarrhal affections of throat and respiratory mucus membranes. Patients with weak or exhausted vitality hence are extremely susceptible to the diphtheritic virus; when the attack from…”
Allen (Nosodes) — The specialized source record — nosode provings gathered beyond the brief entries in general materia medicas.
“DIPHTHERINUM : AN INVOLUNTARY PROVING.By J. E. FRASH, M. D., METAMORE, OHIO. Description : A girl nine years of age having been exposed, Nov. 13, to malignant diphtheria received Diphtherinum 1m. (Skinner) three times daily for eleven days, as a prophylactic, developing chilliness, high temperature, red face. She…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Potentized Diphtheritic Virus Adapted to patients prone to catarrhal affections of respiratory organs, scrofulous individuals. Diphtheria, laryngeal diphtheria, post-diphtheritic paralysis . Malignancy from the start. Glands swollen; tongue red, swollen; breath and discharge very offensive. Diphtheritic; membrane…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Blood. THROAT. Lying. Cold. Milk. Weak and restless, but without pain, or aching, breaking joint pains, > lying. Wants to be held. Drawing in muscles, then sudden snap. Jerking of single parts. Internal trembling. .................... Sees visions. Carphology. Moisture at edge of hair. Fanning of alæ nasi, with…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: diphtheritic virus (or the toxin produced by the klebs-loeffler bacillus). The attack from the onset tends to malignancy (Lac-C., Merc-Cy.) (A.). Weak and restless, but without pain (B.). Yellow, thick, nasal discharge (B.). Talks in sleep with open eyes (B.). Jerking of single parts (B.). Dark-red…”

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