Naphthalinum


Naphthalinum symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Naphthalinum? Keynote indications and uses of Naphthalinum…


COMMON NAME:

      A CHEMICAL COMPOUND FROM COAL TAR; NAPHTHALIN.

Symptoms

      The secretions are highly acrid (All-C., Arsenicum, Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur) (Bl.).

Hay-fever (All-C., Arsenicum, Sabad., Squil.) (Br.)(.

Constant sneezing (All-C., Arsenicum, Sabad., Squil.) (Br.).

WHOOPING COUGH: LONG AND CONTINUED PAROXYSMS OF COUGHING; UNABLE TO GET A RESPIRATION (Ipecac.) (Br.).

During the paroxysms the face becomes purple, the perspiration starts and there is expectorated a quantity of thick, tenacious mucus (Bl.).

Spasmodic asthma (Arsenicum, Cuprum, Ipecac., Lobelia, nux vomica, Phosphorus, Sambucus) (Br.).

Soreness in the chest and stomach (Nux vomica, Rhus toxicodendron) (Bl.).

Emphysema (Carbo vegetabilis) (Br).

Great dyspnoea, with a sighing respiration (Bl).

Gonorrhoea, with a violent desire to urinate; the meatus urinarius is reddened and tumefied (Bl.).

Cutting pain down the penis (Cantharis) (Br).

Oedema of the prepuce (Mercurius, Rhus toxicodendron, Sulphur) (Bl.).

Black urine (Arsenicum, lach.) (Br.).

Terribly offensive odour of the decomposing (ammoniacal) urine (Br.).

AGGRAVATION:

      During night, while urinating.

AMELIORATION:

      In the open air; and from loosening clothing.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: All-C., Arsenicum Bryonia, Cocc-C., Cuprum, Drosera, Ipecac., Kali carb., Lachesis, Nux vomica, Opium, Phosphorus, Rhus toxicodendron, Sambucus, Sulphur, and Thuja

Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)