# Variolinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
The Vario, nosode is prepared from lymph from a smallpox pus tule. It has proved as an 
efficient preventive against smallpox and vaccinial infection. Vario, is used for bad effects of vaccinations. 
Seems to be efficacious in protecting against, modifying and aiding in the cure of smallpox.  
Vario, was Burnett’s chief remedy in shingles, it generally, as he expressed it, wiped out the disease, eruption 
and pain as well. It will also cure neuralgia left by herpes. Vario, has aborted many cases of smallpox and has 
proved an efficient preventive against smallpox contagion and vaccinosis infection.  
The keynote symptoms of Vario, are the defining symptoms of smallpox. Severe cold, chill, chilly creepings as 
if cold water were trickling down the back, violent fever with extremely hot skin, with or without high pulse. 
Violent headache. 
General aching in the muscles worse in back, occiput and legs. Nausea. Pain in epigastrium. Pain in limbs as 
if in bones. Severe backache. There may be rash or there may not. Calcareous deposits in the blood vessels, 
spinal cord. etc.
COMMENTS - Nonspecific shingles (Rhus- t.). Neuralgic pains without defining char- 
 
 
acteristics. Tendency to herpes, or acutely for herpes zoster or simplex. Acne, with yellow pus, leaving scars 
and large pock marks (Calc-s.). 
G. M. H. recorded the experience he had concerning Vario. 6c given to the mother and children of a family, 
one of whose members was taken with smallpox and removed to an isolation hospital with his mother to nurse 
him. 
The patient (who did not receive Vario.) was dangerously ill for a month. Neither the mother who n ursed him 
nor any of the other children caught smallpox. 
Vaccines were sent by the government, and all the family were vaccinated, but it did not take with any of those 
who had taken V ario., although the vaccination was repeated. 
Moreover, G. M. H. himsel f, who had taken a dose of Vario., submitted to vaccina tion, but “although four 
thorough inoculations were given, they healed up immediately and did not even itch or smart.”  
A school of two hundred children were “in ternally variolated” with Vario. (100, 000c, Swan) on the evening of 
February 18th and the morning of February 19th. Of two school mistresses, one was not at all affected, the 
other was ill for two days in bed. 
On February 21st many of the children were ill, by the 23rd, all except forty were. The symptoms were the usual 
preliminary symptoms of smallpox, and later, Swan found pustules on many.  
After the varioloid had passed off, but before the patients had recovered their vital ity, twenty-three children 
were vaccinated without Swan’s knowledge.  All but one took and had terrible ulcers on the arms and had to 
be remedied by Vac. (100,000c, Swan).
Temperature - As of cold water trickling down the back. Violent chill. Hot fever with intense, burning, radiating 
heat. Tympanites, pouting upwards, looks pregnant.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from motion. Worse after vaccinations.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Delirium with fever.
- Morbid fear of smallpox.
- Fear of death.
- Wild excitement and begging to know if he 
was to die.
- Variolinum Delirium with fever.
- Morbid fear of smallpox.
- Fear of death.
- Wild excitement and begging to know if he 
was to die.
- Variolinum

### Head
- Crazy feeling in the brain.
- Headache with icy coldness of feet and hands.
- Pain in occiput.
- Crazy feeling in the brain.
- Headache with icy coldness of feet and hands.
- Pain in occiput.

### Eyes
- Inflamed eyelids.
- Green vision, on rising.

### Ears
- Deafness.

### Mouth
- Tongue protrudes during sleep.
- Foul, metallic taste.
- Breath horribly offensive.

### Throat
- Throat very sore, painful swal lowing.
- Deep purplish crimson pharynx and fauces, with gangrenous 
appearance.
- Sensation as if throat were closed.
- Sen sation of a lump in right side of throat.
- Diphtheria with 
horrible fetor oris.

### Chest
- Oppressed breathing.
- Asthma.
- Troublesome cough, with serous and sometimes bloody sputa.
- Cough 
with thick viscid, slimy, bloody mucus, smelling bad.
- Feeling of a lump in right side of throat.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Odor nauseates.
- Wants to regurgitate food.
- Vomiting of milk immediately after drinking it.

### Urinary & Genital
- Enlargement of testicle.
- Hard swelling of left testicle from a contusion.

### Extremities
- Aching in legs.
- Muscular rheumatism, worse on motion.
- Tired all over with restlessness.
- Wrist pain.

### Neck & Back
- Excruciating backache.
- Pain as if back were broken, worse by motion.
- Terrible pains in back on right 
side of spine.
- Pains from back, shift to abdomen.

### Skin
- Hot, dry.
- Eczema of palms.
- Herpes zoster.
- Shingles and pains that follow.
- Eruption of foul pustules.
- Ulcers look scooped out.
- Profuse, bad-smelling sweat.
- As of bugs crawling under the skin.

### Generalities
- As if a band tightly encircled head.
- Crazy feeling through brain.
- As if throat were closed.
- As of a 
lump in right side of throat.
- Like streams of ice-water running down back.