CINCHONA – QUININ

POISONING
 CINCHONA – QUININ POISONING
• Allopathic Uses:
1.Appetizer
2.Bitter tonic during convalescence,general debility and taking along with
mercury, lead etc
3.Against all febrile diseases. It has a mild antipyretic effect.
4.Splenic Leukemia.
5.Along with Urea hydrochloride,as an anesthetics. Quinine has local
anesthetic action but also is an irritant.
6. Quinine, termed a "general protoplasmic poison“. So it is used as
Rectal enema against Amoebic dysentery.
7.Acting as a cardiac and central nervous system depressant.
8.Menstural stimulant and abortive.
9.Immune suppressor.
ACCIDENTAL POISONING:
a. Malarial preventative
b. Patent Tonic
c. Hair Tonic
 SYMPTOMS-CINCHONISM
• Auditory symptoms like Ringing in ears.
• Gastrointestinal disturbances along with hemoglobinuria.
• Vasodilatation and sweating occurs.
• Sensation of fullness. Congested frontal headaches.
• Mild nausea may be the only symptom, but with large overdoses
profuse vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea may occur.
• Itchy skin eruption
• Restless, unfreshing sleep, dizziness, drowsiness and debility.
• Nervousness, Neurasthenia and insanity.
ELIMINATION OF DRUGS IN HEALING CRISIS:
1.Itchy eruptions like measles or scarlatina.
2.Through kidneys as amorphous alkaloid which irritates kidney and cause
hematuria.
3.Taste of the drug in the mouth.
4.Through acute catarrhal elimination, purging and Hemorrhoidal discharges.
 Signs in Iris:
Yellow pigments present in the brain region.
According to their chemical admixtures the pigment colour
ranging from whitish to reddish tints.
Sometimes especially in chronic malaria ,the yellow
discolouration present in stomach, intestine, liver and spleen area in the
iris.