# Antipyrinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Antipyrine is known from the poisonous effects it produced in old -school practice. Many 
fatal cases were recorded and there can be little doubt that its injudicious use determined a fatal issue in many 
cases that have remained unrecorded. 
Antipyrines action is very like that of Acetan, in producing collapse, but it has more effect on the skin, causing 
scarlpt rash and edema. It is one of the drugs that induce leucocytosis, similar to ergotine, salicylates and 
tuberculin. 
Antipyrine acts especially on the vasomo tor centers, causing dilation of the capillaries of the skin and 
 
 
circumscribed patches of hyperemia a nd swelling. In large doses, it causes profuse perspiration, dizziness, 
cyanosis, somnolence, albumen and blood in urine. Acute erythema multiform.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Fear of going insane.
- Hallucinations of sight and hearing.
- Nervous anxiety, Ears - Pains and 
buzzing.
- Tinnitus.
- Fear of going insane.
- Hallucinations of sight and hearing.
- Nervous anxiety, Ears - Pains and 
buzzing.
- Tinnitus.

### Head
- Throbbing headache.
- Headache under ears with earache.
- Sensation of constriction.
- Flashes of 
heat.
- Throbbing headache.
- Headache under ears with earache.
- Sensation of constriction.
- Flashes of 
heat.

### Eyes
- Puffiness of lids.
- Conjunctiva red and edematous with lachrymation.
- Red spots (Apis).

### Face
- Edema and puffiness.
- Red and swollen.

### Mouth
- Swelling of lips, tongue Burning of mouth and gums.
- Ulceration of lips and tongue, vesicles and bullae.
- Small lump in cheek.
- Bloody saliva.
- Toothache along lower jaw.
- bierves-Generalprostration.
- Epileptiform seizures.
- Contractures.
- Trembling and cramps.
- Crawling and 
numbness.
- _ 
Nose - Fluent coryza.
- Nasal mucus membrane swollen.
- Dull pains in frontal sinus.

### Throat
- Painful when swallowing.
- Expec toration of fetid pus.
- Abscess , white false membrane.
- Sensation of 
burning.
- COMMENTS - A young female patient who took Antipyrine on her own account whenever she thought she 
might be going to have a headache, developed intense dysmenorrhea (to which she was not subject) with 
depression.
- This was only removed after she had dis continued the drug.
- Later, she took Phenac etin with result that an 
eruption of erythema appeared on both cheeks, which peeled after a few days and recurred persistently.
- It would seem that the drug is ho meopathic to some forms of neuralgia.
- One patient had Cheyne -Stokes 
respiration.
- Erythema appears first on face and arms, last on legs.
- Hansen mentioned its use in bedwetting and nosebleed.
- Better from hot drinks.

### Chest
- Faintness with sensation of stoppage of heart.
- Throbbing throughout the body.
- Rapid, weak, irregular 
pulse.
- Kidneys - Diminished.
- Penis black.
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration.
- Aphonia.
- Oppression and dyspnea.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea and vomiting, burning and pain.

### Urinary & Genital
- Itching and burning in vagina.
- Dysmenorrhea.
- Menses suppressed.
- Wa tery leucorrhea.

### Skin
- Erythema, eczema, pemphigus.
- Intense itching, urticaria, appearing and disappearing suddenly with 
internal coldness.
- Angioneurotic edema.
- Dark blotches on skin of penis, sometimes with edema.