COMMON NAME:
VACCINE (COW-POX LYMPH).
Symptoms
This remedy is employed as a prophylactic against, and to modify the course of an attack of small pox (Bl.).
Vaccine poison is capable of setting up a morbid state of extreme chronicity, named by Dr. Burnett “Vaccinosis,” the symptoms of which are like those of Hahnemann’s “Sycosis” (Br.).
Irritable, impatient, ill-humoured, and nervous (Chamomilla, Cina, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Sulphur) (Br.).
Frontal headache; forehead and eyes feel as if split (Bryonia) (Br.).
Inflamed and red lids (Euphr., Graphites, Pulsatilla, Sulphur) (Br.).
Indigestion with great flatulent distension (Carbo vegetabilis, Lycopodium, Natrum sulphuricum) (C.).
Chilliness (Arsenicum, Gelsemium, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Silicea) (Cla.).
Hot and dry skin (Aconite, Bryonia, Sulphur) (Br.).
Inveterate skin eruptions (Graphites, Mercurius, Sulphur) (Cla.).
Eruption like variola (Ant-T., Mercurius, Rhus toxicodendron, Silicea, Sulphur) (Br.).
Pimples and blotches on the skin (Calcarea, Graphites, Sepia) (Br.).
Neuralgias (Arsenicum, Belladonna, China) (Cla.).
Whooping cough (Ant-T., Drosera, Indg., Kali carb., Phosphorus, Silicea) (Br.).
RELATIONSHIP:
Compare: Ant-T., Maland., Mercurius, Sarrac., Silicea, Thuja, and Variol.
For diseases caused by vaccination think of after vaccination Ant-T. (for bronchial catarrh), Mezer. (itching eruptions after vaccination), Silicea (the principal remedy for almost all kinds of diseases, such as diarrhoea, cough, fever, etc.) and Thuja. (diarrhoea after vaccination.).