# Syphilinum ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy - **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm - **Temperament:** Chilly - **Aggravation Time:** Morning ## Keynote Indications Source: Derived from a nosode prepared from syphilitic tissue or serous exudate, rendered safe for. homeopathic use through trituration and serial dilution to eliminate infectious material while. enhancing therapeutic action, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Due to. ethical and safety concerns, modern preparations use highly diluted forms to avoid any risk of. infection. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for constitutional, neurological,. dermatological, and psychological disorders , particularly those involving chronic, destructive. processes, night aggravations, and syphilitic miasmatic tendencies. It is noted for symptoms such as. bone pains, ulcerations, and aggravation at night, often worsened by night, dampness, or heat, and. ameliorated by day, cold air, or high altitudes. Modern Context: Indicated for constitutional conditions (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome,. autoimmune disorders), neurological conditions (e.g., neuropathy, multiple sclerosis),. dermatological conditions (e.g., chronic ulcers, psoriasis), psychological conditions (e.g.,. obsessive-compulsive disorder, major depressive disorder), and musculoskeletal conditions (e.g.,. osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia). It suits patients with chronic, debilitating symptoms characterized by. bone pains, ulcerations, mental anguish, night aggravations, or destructive tendencies,. typically exacerbated by night, dampness, heat, or stress, and often seen in individuals with. complex, deep-seated constitutions. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with constitutional. or neurological conditions, often presenting with symptoms like chronic pain or obsessive thoughts,. commonly observed in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, neuropathy, or obsessive-. compulsive disorder triggered by night, stress, or systemic dysfunction. COMMENTS - Syph. is useful for ailments since syphilis, or a history of syphilis in the family. Pains get worse or better gradually, are shifting and require frequent change of position. Unbearable pains (Aur.). Linear pain. Ulcers and bone pains (Merc.). Characteristic aggravated by night, pains from darkness to daylight, begin w ith twilight and end with daylight. All symptoms are worse at night. Terrible dread of night, because of mental and physical exhaustion on waking. Neuralgia and headache, asthma, coughs worse from sunset to sunrise, whether syphilitic or not. Sleeplessness (Sulph.). Epilepsy. Parkinson’s disease. Facial paralysis. Hemiplegia, “persistent pains in any part of the body.” Neurotic behavior, es pecially wringing and washing of the hands. AIDS, dementia, sleeplessness, anxiety, fear of infection, and neurotic behavior. Ulceration, affecting the mouth, nose, genitals or skin. Ulcers have grayish bases. Abscesses with foul secretions. Fetid pus formations. Succession of abscesses. Eruptions with copper-colored spots. Pemphigus. Ozaena with discharge of fetid clinkers. Catarrhal and nerve deafness. Itching of nostrils. Fetid discharges from the ear. Alopecia universalis. Dark purple lines between alae nasi and cheeks. Itching, scabby eruptions on face or breast, singly or in clusters, looking like herpes. Pain and pressure behind sternum. Ophthalmia neonatorum, the lids adhere during sleep, pains worse 2 to 5 a.m., profuse pus, better cold bathing. Iritis, syphilitic or rheumatic. Diplopia, one image seen below the other. Ptosis, sleepy look from drooping lids. Teeth decay at the edge of the gums and break off. Cupped teeth, serrated edges, dwarfed in size and converge at their tips. Deformities of the teeth. The teeth come in rotten and deformed (Calc -f., Kreos.). Paralysis of tongue. Aphasia. Craving for alcoho l in any form. He reditary tendency to alcoholism. Impaired nutrition, emaciation. Burnett recorded many instances of Syph. helping stunted children. Progeria. Babies that never stop crying and screaming ever since they were born (Jal., Aeon.). Leucorrhea, profuse, soaking through napkins and running to heels. Rectal pain. “Obstinate constipation for years, rectum seems tied up with strictures, when enema was used the agony of passage was like labor.” H. C. Allen said “Syphilitics or patients who have had c hancre treated by local means and as a result have suffered from throat and skin troubles for years, are nearly benefited by this remedy at commencement of treatment unless some other remedy is clearly indicated.” ; Thomas Wildes noted that, in his experi ence with Syph., the chancre increases for the first two weeks and then gradually fades away, not being followed by secondaries. Wildes cured a bookkeeper who, for many months, had a piercing, pressing, excruciat ing headache over his right eye extending deep into his brain. It was so severe, he was losing continuity of thought and memory. Under Syph. 1,000c every night, the headache disappeared entirely in ten days and his mental faculties were fully restored. But in six weeks the whole eyebrow on that side broke out into a sickly, yellow, syphilitic eczema with a red, angry and oozing base extending under the arch to the lid, from canthus to canthus, up into forehead and down the side of the nose. The cure of this was tedious; Wildes attributed it to his change of remedy instead of continuing with Syph. This man had syphilis a few years before. In 1879 a woman, 26, extremely bright and intelligent, came to Wildes with a dreadful Syphilinum ozaena. She also had a spinal curvature and congestion of right ov ary. She had always been delicate. Syph. cured the ozaena and improved her health, but it “drove out a saddle to which the Sepia saddle is but a shadow.” A furious inflammatory mass of syphilitic sores, scabs and eczema, red and angry with a fiery base extending from one malar prominence to the other, across nose up to eyes and forehead. This took eighteen months to cure. The ozaena never returned. A boy, age 4, had an obstinate rash, a combination of prurigo and herpes, on his chin, lips, cheekbone, forehead and hairy scalp, on arms, chest, back, bends of joints and on the joints and on fingers and hands, nowhere profuse. In spite of authorities to the contrary, Wildes maintained that syphilitic rashes may itch and that prurigo is infectious and is one of the initial stages of leprosy. This boy had a spot of eruption on the left thigh the size of the top joint of a man’s thumb. This was distinctly a leper spot. Syph. 1,000c caused the rash to come out strongly all over the body in patches, the face was one-third covered with a thick, yellow, scabby eruption. The remedy was continued and the boy got well, wonderfully improved in health, was no longer nervous, grew well, slept well, with good appetite. A girl, 16, had measles a year before which did not come out properly. A year and a half prior she was subject to neuralgic headaches. She had been ailing about two years, very despondent, wanted to die, headaches growing more violent. During the headaches, the temple veins stood out, had pains all over the body, was very irritable, restless, walked about much of the time, did not wish to be soothed, violent on being opposed, had tremors and seemed on the verge of convulsions, dazed, absent minded and almost insane. Always washed her hands. She was formerly constipated, but now subject to “a kind of diarrhea.” Menses never came on properly and for the past year had been very irregular, much delayed, scanty and always extremely painful. Often feverish. Anxious sleep, distressed and often wakeful and violently restle ss. The symptoms indicated Syph. and under this she steadily recovered. A young woman contracted “leprosysyphilis” from vaccination. She had ablood- boil on her arm that would not heal. Face broken out with a fiery rash. With Syph. 1,000c at bedtime she r ecovered rapidly. The arm healed quickly and her face became free from eruption. A boy, 3, had a cluster of yellow blotches on his fingers and roots of nails, distorting the nails. The boy ’ s father was epileptic. The boy was helped with Fl-ac. and cured with Syph., the nails became straight. G. H. Carr related the case of an old man who had been troubled for two or three winters with an intense cold pain in both legs. It came on every night on lying down and lasted all night, the only relief was from getting up and walking. Magnetic leggings had given the most relief. Syph. 1,000c, one dose daily, was given. He lost the pain for six weeks, when it returned in milder form. Syph. 100,000C was given and he had no more pains all the winter. The medicine, he said “made his genitals ache so that he couldn’t sit still.” This lasted over a month. Syph. 100,000c cured a woman of “asth ma” that she had for twenty -five years, the attack coming on only at night after lying down or during a thunderstorm. Swan said he gave crying infants one dose of Syph. 100,000c, when they developed the propensity immediately after birth and did not cease, and it was difficult to make them cry after that. Yingling reported the case of Rev. D., 30, who was dark and free from venereal diseas e. Haggard look. He had a constant dull, heavy ache above inner angle of right eye, very distressing with an occasional thrust as of an iron rod from the same spot through to lower part of occiput. This thrust was excruciating. He was due to preach the nex t day, but the pain quite incapacitated him, which led him to appeal for help. Syph. 100,000c, one dose, was given. He was free from pain before he reached home, and was perfectly well the next morning. Temperature - Chilly. Nervous chills preceded by pains in head. Fever dry, hot, shortly after going to bed, parted lips, great thirst. Sweats at night with exhaustion. Pain or distress deep in abdomen as if in omentum. Feeling of heat internally in hypogastric region. Pain in right groin followed by swelling of glands. Larg e, painless bubo in right groin, opened and discharged freely. Capricious appetite. No food agrees or satisfies him. Total loss of appetite for months. Craves alcoholic drinks. Aversion to meat. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Worse from: Night, dampness, heat (weather, rooms), emotional stress, rest, motion. (musculoskeletal symptoms), scratching, confinement, alcohol, overexertion, cold (some. symptoms). ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Loss of memory, but remembers everything previous to his disease. - Difficulty in making arithmetical calculations. - Apathetic. - Severe insomnia and suicidal depression (Aur.), especially during extreme attacks of pain. - Sad and lamenting. - Antisocial, aversion to company. - Cross, irritable, peevish. - Does not want to be soothed. - Anxiety about health. - Great restlessness and paces the floor at night. - Hopelessness. - Despair of recovery. - Fear of suffering and pains. - Desperate, can’t take the pain or suffering anymore. - Fear of dying. - Fears the night. - Fears from exhaustion. - Very nervous. - Fastidious. - Fear of germs, of catching an infection. - Always washing or wringing the hands. - Causeless weeping. - Laughs or weeps without cause. - Nightly delirium. - Senil e dementia. - Feels as if go ing insane or being paralyzed. - Insanity, syphilitic insanity. - Loss of memory, but remembers everything previous to his disease. - Difficulty in making arithmetical calculations. - Apathetic. - Severe insomnia and suicidal depression (Aur.), especially during extreme attacks of pain. - Sad and lamenting. - Antisocial, aversion to company. - Cross, irritable, peevish. - Does not want to be soothed. - Anxiety about health. - Great restlessness and paces the floor at night. - Hopelessness. - Despair of recovery. - Fear of suffering and pains. - Desperate, can’t take the pain or suffering anymore. - Fear of dying. - Fears the night. - Fears from exhaustion. - Very nervous. - Fastidious. - Fear of germs, of catching an infection. - Always washing or wringing the hands. - Causeless weeping. - Laughs or weeps without cause. - Nightly delirium. - Senil e dementia. - Feels as if go ing insane or being paralyzed. - Insanity, syphilitic insanity. ### Vertigo - Vertigo on looking up, seems to be caused by heat. ### Head - Stupefying headaches. - Pain in bones of head. - Deep, crushing headpains across the base of temples. - Linear pains from temples across, or from eyes backward, cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. - Beats head against the wall. - Feels pulled back. - Top of head feels as if coming off. - Cerebral softening. - Falling of the hair. - Tubercles all over the scalp. - Stupefying headaches. - Pain in bones of head. - Deep, crushing headpains across the base of temples. - Linear pains from temples across, or from eyes backward, cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. - Beats head against the wall. - Feels pulled back. - Top of head feels as if coming off. - Cerebral softening. - Falling of the hair. - Tubercles all over the scalp. ### Eyes - Ophthalmia, neonatorum. - Tubercular iritis. - Amaurosis, atrophy of optic nerve. - Spots on cornea. - Chronic, recurrent, inflammation of cornea. - Successive crops ofphyctenules and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea. - Intense pain at night. - Feeling of cold ai r blowing on eye (Fl -ac.). - Photophobia and profuse lachrymation. - Glimmering vision. - Diplopia. - Vertical diplopia. - Squints. - Ptosis. - Lids swollen, especially upper eyelids. - Eyelids glued together. ### Ears - Deafness without any obvious cause, nervous with cachexia. - Abscess of the middle ear. - Calcareous deposit on tympanum. - Decay of ossicles in ear, of syphilitic origin. ### Face - Pale, wrinkled, old looking. - Pain over eyes (right) worse protruding tongue. - Paralysis of one side with difficult speech, mastication and twitching of eyes, lids. - Twitching of muscles. ### Mouth - Excessive flow of saliva, it runs out of mouth when sleeping. - Putrid taste, before epileptic fit. - Ulcers, smart and burn. - Tongue, coated, indented, deep longitudinal cracks along center. - Paralysis of tongue. - Aphasia. - Nose - Decay of nasal bones, hard palate and septum with perforation. - Ozaena offensive, thick yellow-green discharge. - Attacks of fluent coryza. - Snuffles. - Green lumps from posterior sinuses. - Sinuses, painful, from inhaled air. - Saddle across the bridge of the nose (Sep.). - Itching nostrils. - Perspiration - Perspires at night, with exhaustion. - Sweats at night, most marked between scapulae and down to waist. - Peculiar disagreeable odor from body. ### Throat - Aphonia before the menses. - Continuous pain in the larynx, worse touch. - Sore, right to left, worse cold drinks. - Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils with syphilitic taint. - Teeth - Teeth feel sticky, as of a worm in. - Feeling as if teeth had all got out of place. - Teeth decay at the edge of gums. - Toothache better pressing them together, worse hot or cold things. - Teeth cupped in children. ### Chest - Soreness of chest. - Rattling in chest and throat. - Oppression of chest to such an extent as almost to arrest breathing. - Sensation of pressure under upper part of sternum. - Constitutions - Syphilitic. - Large, soft pulse. - Valvular disease of heart. - Sharp pains in heart from base to apex (Med. - has reverse), at night. - As if hot water flowing in the veins. - Breasts - Sensitive to touch, feel sore during menses and other times. - Causations - Sun. - Syphilis. - Damp weather, thunderstorms. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Nausea. - Vomiting for weeks or months due to erosion from superficial ulceration of lining of viscous. - Heartburn with pain and rawness from stomach to throat pit, often with cough. ### Urinary & Genital - Kidneys - Urine frothy, scanty, yellow. - Urinates only once a day, but profuse. - Passe s urine better while standing. - Nocturnal bedwetting. - Asthma with wheezing and rattling (Ant-t.). - Chronic asthma, worse in summer, during thunderstorms, at night, humid weather. - Dry cough, worse lying on right side, worse at night, windpipe sensitive to touch (Lach.). - Sharp pains from base of heart to apex at night. - Nodular formation in testes, spermatic cord and scrotum. - Chancres. - Aching of genitals, cannot sit still. - Menses, with putrid meat-like odor. - Leucorrhea profuse, thin, watery, acrid with sharp, knife-like pain in ovaries. - Yellow, offensive, acrid leucorrhea, so profuse it soaks through napkins and runs to the heels, with itching of the genitals. - Ulcers on labia. - Ulcers on the vulva with ovarian pain, sensitive to touch. - Cutting pain in ovary during sex, at the moment of orgasm. - Habitual abortion. ### Extremities - Bone pains or soreness, with a sensation of deep aching or gnawing, resembling. - osteoarthritis, worse at night, dampness, motion, or heat, often with swelling or. - deformity. - Generalized aching or stiffness, with a tendency to fatigue or tenderness, resembling. - fibromyalgia, aggravated by night, dampness, or stress, often with muscle spasms or. - trigger points. - Joint pains or rheumatism, with a sensation of burning or stiffness, resembling. - rheumatoid arthritis, worse at night, dampness, or cold, often with warmth or. - effusion. - Tendency to musculoskeletal hypersensitivity, with aggravation in night or moved. - states. ### Neck & Back - Neck feels short. - Pain at coccyx with sensation as if it is swollen, worse sitting. - Pain in the back in the region of kidney, worse after urinating. ### Skin - Extreme emaciation. - Reddish-brown eruption with a disagreeable odor. - Swollen and blotched. - Biting as from bugs. - Wandering erysipelas. - Conical crusts. - Bullae. - White or pockmark scars. - Coppery spots. - Distorted nails. ### Sleep - Sleeplessness. - Great restlessness at night, impossible to keep leg in one position. - Wakes soon after midnight and cannot sleep again until 6 a.m. ### Generalities - A seething feeling as if hot water or hot oil running through all veins of the body, all night long. - A far-away feeling with apathy. - As if going insane or about to be paralyzed. - As if top of head were coming off. - As if teeth were loose. - Tongue feels as if paralyzed. - Fluttering as of something alive in teeth. - As if throat tearing to pieces. - As of a nervous chill commencing in anus and running down legs. - Palms and soles as if pricked by needles. - As if bitten by bugs.