Vaccininum

Name:  Vaccinium

Synonym: Vaccine matter

Source: Nosodoes

Prover: Burnett

Location of action:

·         Skin

·         Git

·         Lungs

·         Kidneys

·         Nerves

·         Mind

Causation:

·         Vaccine poison

·         Small pox virus

Mental symptom:

·         Weeping disposition.

·         Ill- humour with restless sleep.

·         Irritable and impatient

·         Morbid fear of small pox.

·         Confusion with weak of memory.

Characteristic symptoms:

o   Forehead felt as if it would split in two in median line from root of nose to top of head.

o   Feels as if bones of leg were broken and undergoing process of communication.

o   Walked in middle of night by pain in forehead and eyes as it split and staining in temples.

o   Eruption on skin like variola.

Guiding symptom:

o   Frontal headache with burning sensation in forehead and eyes.

o   Eyelids red and inflamed.

o   Keratitis after vaccination.

o   Bleeding of nose proceeded by feeling of concentration above and between eye-brows.

Peculiar symptoms:

o   Walked in middle of night by pain in forehead and eyes as it split and staining in temples.

o   Forehead felt as if it would split in two in median line from root of nose to top of head.

Modalities:

·         Aggravation:

Early in the morning,

Eating foods,

Irritation

·         Amelioration: Empty stomach, leaving flatus.

Relationship:

o   Compare- Variolinum, Thuja, Apis, Bacillinum.

o   Antidote- Thuja, Sulphur

Source: all leading material medica.