# Naphthalinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **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, 
transparent, lustrous scales or, when crystallized, of rhombic tables or prisms. 
Naphtin. is an unproved remedy, though it has been used in old-school practice as an intestinal antiseptic and 
vermifuge, as an expectorant, as a remedy for eczema and psoriasis, and as an antiseptic application to 
wounds. 
Naphtin. is for the expulsion of thread worms after the bowels have been freely opened by a cathartic, given 
in 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 
and all fats and oils should be abstained from during the treatment, which may be repeated once or twice after 
leaving a week’s interval. 
Affinity for the eyes. Detachment of the retina, deposits an exudation in the retina. Opacity of cornea, cataract, 
amblyopia. Long and continued attacks of coughing, unable to get a breath, sometimes so violent as to cause 
perspiration. Whooping cough.

## Symptoms by System

### Head
- Saliva flows from the mouth.
- Kidneys - Sudden, violent desire to urinate, urethra meatus red and swollen, prepuce edematous.
- Urine is 
dark brown, becoming black after standing, albuminous.
- Incontinence of urine.
- Gonorrhea.
- Gleet.
- Saliva flows from the mouth.
- Kidneys - Sudden, violent desire to urinate, urethra meatus red and swollen, prepuce edematous.
- Urine is 
dark 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 
vitreous.
- 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 
breath, compelling the patient to hold his head for the pain.
- Cough with blue or purple face.
- Expectoration free, 
thick, tenacious, almost 
absent.
- Night cough preventing sleep.
- Male - Edema of prepuce.
- Nose - Coryza, thin, excoriating discharge, much sneezing.
- Hay fever.
- Attacks of sneezing.
- Irritation of nose.
- Rubs 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.
- Temperature - Sudden onset of a fever, with headache and loss of appetite.
- Temperature reduced in typhoid.
- COMMENTS - Some cases of Naphtin.
- poisoning have been reported.
- Evers recorded chronic illness, loss of 
appetite, headache and eczema over both legs as due to Naphtin.
- which was used as a moth powder and 
sprinkled on bedding.
- In another case, a boy, 12, came home one evening apparently drunk, semi -conscious, staggering, unable to 
answer questions.
- He had eaten two candies which were really moth destroyers, each tablet containing two 
grams of pure naphthalin.
- An emetic was promptly administered and the next day the boy was still drowsy but 
quite conscious.
- The drowsiness lasted four days.
- Attacks of sneezing from nasal irrita tion, frequently attempting to remove the irritation by rubbing his nose.
- In 
two hours incoordination had increased.
- Twitching of facial muscles.
- Saliva flowed freely from the mo uth.
- Lippincott was the first to use Naphtin.
- in cases of hay fever, having heard that hay fever sufferers who went 
into factories where Naphtha was much used were always cured.
- His experience of its value was speedily 
confirmed by other observers.
- Naphtin.
- lx and 2x were used in the first trials.
- W.
- Louis Hartmann of Syracuse is the chief homeopathic authority for this remedy.
- His leading indications for 
it are acute coryza with fluent excoriating discharge and much sneezing.
- Paroxysms of coughing, follow ing 
each other in rapid succession so that the patient is unable to take his breath (as in asthma and whooping 
cough).
- He found it more often indicated than any other drug in whooping cough.
- The spasmodic action and the cyanosis of the drug are good indica tions here, though it is not necessary to 
wait until the child is blue before prescribing Naphtin.
- Followed well by Dros.
- In a case of tuberculosis of the left lung, Naphtin.
- removed an inability to sleep for cough.
- Exhausting night -
sweats and offensive, thin diarrhea during the day.
- In three cases in which Naphtin.
- had been applied to wounds there was sudden onset of fever, headache, loss 
of appetite.
- In one of them, there was temporary mania with incontinence of urine and feces.
- In two of them, 
albuminuria.
- All symptoms rapidly disappeared when Naphtin.
- was discontinued.
- J.
- Meredith cured with the Naphtin.
- 6x incarcerated flatus in transverse colon caus ing cardiac distress.
- Hartmann used the lx trituration, having been disappointed with higher potencies.