- Naphthalene is a hydrocarbon obtained by distillation from coal tar.🌿 Tar.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- 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 eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches. and psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., 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 exudationDischarge of fluid or pus from tissueThe process of fluid, cells, or other cellular substances slowly discharging from blood vessels or inflamed tissues. in the retina.
- Opacity of cornea, cataract🩺 CataractClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., amblyopia🩺 AmblyopiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Long and continued attacks of coughing, unable to get a breath, sometimes so violent as to cause perspiration.
- Whooping cough.
- 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🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. 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 coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. with fluent excoriating discharge and much sneezing.
- Paroxysms of coughing, following each other in rapid succession so that the patient is unable to take his breath (as in asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and whooping cough).
- He found it more often indicated than any other drug in whooping cough.
- The spasmodic action and the cyanosisBluish discoloration of the skinA bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to low oxygen levels in the blood. of the drug are good indica tions here, though it is not necessary to wait until the child is blue🌿 BlueMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. before prescribing Naphtin.
- Followed well by Dros.🌿 Dros.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- In a case of tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. of the left lung, Naphtin removed an inability to sleep for cough.
- Exhausting night-sweats and offensive, thin diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. 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 triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy., having been disappointed with higher potencies
