Variolinum
Nosode of smallpox. Used for vaccination effects, intense backache, and shingles. Severe bone pains and prostration. Historically used for smallpox prevention and treatment of vaccination sequelae.
Source
Prepared from the contents of a smallpox vesicle, sterilised and potentised.
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Severe aching in back, limbs, and bones — prostrating. Shingles (herpes zoster). Effects of vaccination — ill effects from smallpox vaccination. Intense headache with backache. Eruptions — vesicular, pustular. Used prophylactically for smallpox (historically). Restlessness with bone pains.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Anxious, fearful. Delirium during fever. Restless. Confusion. Frightful dreams.
General Symptoms
Severe prostration with bone and muscle pains. Worse from cold, motion, pressure. Better from warmth.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Intense headache, throbbing. Feels as if head would burst. Worse from motion.
Back
Intense aching in back — the keynote symptom. Lumbar and sacral pain. As if back would break.
Extremities
Severe aching in limbs and bones. Prostration. Heaviness.
Skin
Vesicular, pustular eruptions. Shingles — herpes zoster. Vaccination reactions. Scars from previous eruptions.
Fever / Chill / Perspiration
High fever with intense body ache. Prostration. Chills.
Modalities
Better From
Warmth, rest
Worse From
Cold, motion, pressure, night
Constitutional Type
Not constitutional. Used for acute states matching the picture, ill effects of vaccination, and shingles.
Clinical Indications
Herpes zoster (shingles), vaccination effects, intense backache, bone pains, post-vaccination complications, prophylactic for smallpox (historically)
Comparative Materia Medica
Thuja has vaccination effects but with wart-like growths. Malandrinum (another vaccine nosode) suits chronic effects of vaccination. Ranunculus bulbosus has shingles but with more intercostal involvement.
Safety Information
Thuja, Antimonium tartaricum, Sarracenia.
Nosode — no material substance above 12C. Always used in high potency. Safe in potentised form.
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