{"id":1059,"remedy_name":"Naphthalinum","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Naphthalene is a hydrocarbon obtained by distillation from coal tar. It consists of colorless, \ntransparent, lustrous scales or, when crystallized, of rhombic tables or prisms. \nNaphtin. is an unproved remedy, though it has been used in old-school practice as an intestinal antiseptic and \nvermifuge, as an expectorant, as a remedy for eczema and psoriasis, and as an antiseptic application to \nwounds. \nNaphtin. is for the expulsion of thread worms after the bowels have been freely opened by a cathartic, given \nin doses of grains 1\/4 to grains 1\/2 four times a day for two days. The dose should not be given after a meal \nand all fats and oils should be abstained from during the treatment, which may be repeated once or twice after \nleaving a week\u2019s interval. \nAffinity for the eyes. Detachment of the retina, deposits an exudation in the retina. Opacity of cornea, cataract, \namblyopia. Long and continued attacks of coughing, unable to get a breath, sometimes so violent as to cause \nperspiration. Whooping cough.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":{"Head":"Saliva flows from the mouth. \nKidneys - Sudden, violent desire to urinate, urethra meatus red and swollen, prepuce edematous. Urine is \ndark brown, becoming black after standing, albuminous. Incontinence of urine. Gonorrhea. Gleet. Saliva flows from the mouth. \nKidneys - Sudden, violent desire to urinate, urethra meatus red and swollen, prepuce edematous. Urine is \ndark brown, becoming black after standing, albuminous. Incontinence of urine. Gonorrhea. Gleet.","Eyes":"Eyes inflamed, painful, bloodshot, in hay fever. Cataract. Amblyopia. Detached retina. Shiny bodies in \nvitreous. White patches on retina of oxalate, sulphate and carbonate of calcium.","Face":"Lips and face cyanotic. Face pale, yellow. Twitching of facial muscles.","Chest":"Breathing is labored and irregular, asthmatic. Cough in violent, incessant paroxysms almost arresting \nbreath, compelling the patient to hold his head for the pain. Cough with blue or purple face. Expectoration free, \nthick, tenacious, almost \nabsent. Night cough preventing sleep. Male - Edema of prepuce. \nNose - Coryza, thin, excoriating discharge, much sneezing. Hay fever. Attacks of sneezing. Irritation of nose. \nRubs his nose to remove the irritation.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Incarcerated flatus in the transverse colon causing cardiac distress. Loss of appetite.","Sleep":"Very great drowsiness lasting some days. \nTemperature - Sudden onset of a fever, with headache and loss of appetite. Temperature reduced in typhoid. \nCOMMENTS - Some cases of Naphtin. poisoning have been reported. Evers recorded chronic illness, loss of \nappetite, headache and eczema over both legs as due to Naphtin. which was used as a moth powder and \nsprinkled on bedding. \nIn another case, a boy, 12, came home one evening apparently drunk, semi -conscious, staggering, unable to \nanswer questions. He had eaten two candies which were really moth destroyers, each tablet containing two \ngrams of pure naphthalin. An emetic was promptly administered and the next day the boy was still drowsy but \nquite conscious. The drowsiness lasted four days. \nAttacks of sneezing from nasal irrita tion, frequently attempting to remove the irritation by rubbing his nose. In \ntwo hours incoordination had increased. Twitching of facial muscles. Saliva flowed freely from the mo uth. \nLippincott was the first to use Naphtin. in cases of hay fever, having heard that hay fever sufferers who went \ninto factories where Naphtha was much used were always cured. His experience of its value was speedily \nconfirmed by other observers. Naphtin. lx and 2x were used in the first trials. \nW. Louis Hartmann of Syracuse is the chief homeopathic authority for this remedy. His leading indications for \nit are acute coryza with fluent excoriating discharge and much sneezing. Paroxysms of coughing, follow ing \neach other in rapid succession so that the patient is unable to take his breath (as in asthma and whooping \ncough). He found it more often indicated than any other drug in whooping cough. \nThe spasmodic action and the cyanosis of the drug are good indica tions here, though it is not necessary to \nwait until the child is blue before prescribing Naphtin. Followed well by Dros.  \nIn a case of tuberculosis of the left lung, Naphtin. removed an inability to sleep for cough. Exhausting night -\nsweats and offensive, thin diarrhea during the day. \nIn three cases in which Naphtin. had been applied to wounds there was sudden onset of fever, headache, loss \nof appetite. In one of them, there was temporary mania with incontinence of urine and feces. In two of them, \nalbuminuria. All symptoms rapidly disappeared when Naphtin. was discontinued.  \nJ. Meredith cured with the Naphtin. 6x incarcerated flatus in transverse colon caus ing cardiac distress. \nHartmann used the lx trituration, having been disappointed with higher potencies."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}