Remedy
Terebinthina ter.
Relationships
Relationship of Remedies
Terebinthina has no row of its own in this book.
Polar generals
Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915
Region
Mucous membranes: KIDNEYS. Bladder. Bronchial. Respiration. Heart. Blood.
Worse
Dampness. Cold. Night. Lying. Pressure.
Better
Motion.
General
Kidneys affected, with rheumatism. Sudden, grippy aching. Stiff, sore muscles. Pain; excites urination; along larger nerves. Burning; tip of tongue, epigastrium; small of back; kidney; uterus, etc. Congestion. HÆMORRHAGE; passive; oozing mucous surfaces.
Particulars
Exhausted and sensitive. Smooth, sore, glossy tongue. Bruised, sore abdomen and bladder. Flatulence. Tympanites. Ascites. Profuse mucous stools. Burning or pains along ureters. Strangury. Urine; smoky; with coffee grounds or thick, yellow, slimy, muddy sediment; odor of violets; bloody. Nephritis; early; scarlatinal; with violent bronchitis. Cystitis. Bleeding bladder. Pains alternate between bladder and navel. Metritis. Bronchial asthma. Hands feel swelled. Cramp in knees. Advancing purpuric spots. Drowsiness. Rapid pulse. Heat under skin. Cold sweat on legs.
Related
Antidote: Canth. Related: Canth. Erig. Pho.
Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica
H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · 1898
Keynote
The urine has the odor or violets . Tongue: smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of papillae, or as if glazed (Pyr.); elevated papillae; coating peels off in patches leaving bright red spots, or entire coating cleans off suddenly (in exanthemata); dry and red; burning in tip (compare, Mur. ac.). Abdomen: extremely sensitive to touch; distention, flatulence, excessive tympanitis; meteorism (Colch.). Diarrhoea: stool, watery, greenish, mucous; frequent, profuse, fetid, bloody; burning in anus and rectum, fainting and exhaustion, after (Ars.). Worms: with foul breath, choking (Cina, Spig.); dry, hacking cough; tickling at anus; ascarides, lumbrici, tapeworm segments passed. Haematuria: blood thoroughly mixed with the urine; sediment, like coffee-grounds; cloudy, smoky, albuminous; profuse, dark or black, painless. Congestion and inflammation of viscera; kidneys, bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus; with haemorrhage, and malignant tendency. Purpurea haemorrhagica; fresh ecchymosis in great numbers from day to day (Sulph. ac.). Ascites with anasarca, in organic lesions of kidneys; dropsy after scarlatina (Apis, Hell., Lach.). Haemorrhages; from bowels, with ulceration; passive, dark, with ulceration or epithelial degeneration. Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, bladder and urethra (Berb., Can., Canth.). Violent burning and cutting in bladder; tenesmus; sensitive hypogastrium; cystitis and retention from atony of fundus. Albuminuria; acute, in early stages, when blood and albumin abound more than casts and epithelium; after diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid. Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts; < from living in damp dwellings. Strangury; spasmodic retention of urine.
Relations
Compare: Alumen, Arn., Ars., Canth., Lach., Nit. ac. Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.
Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · 1887
General
Hæmorrhage from the urethra. Worms, particularly lumbrical. Some forms of gonorrhœa. Urine smells very strongly of violets.
Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica
J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · 1905
Red line symptom
Nephritis with burning, drawing pains in region of kidneys; heaviness and pressure; strangury; scanty, bloody urine.
Homœopathic Materia Medica
William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition
Common name
Turpentine (TEREBINTHINA)
General
Has a selective affinity for bleeding mucous surfaces. Tympanites and urinary symptoms very marked. Inflammation of kidneys, with hæmorrhages-dark, passive, fetid. Bright's disease preceded by dropsy (Goullon). Drowsiness and strangury. Coma. Unbroken chilblains.
Head
Dull pain like from a band around the head (Carb ac). Vertigo, with vanishing of vision. Disturbed sense of equilibrium. Tired and difficult concentration of thoughts. Cold in head with sore nostrils with disposition to bleed.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia over right eye. Intense pain in eye and side of head. Amblyopia from alcohol.
Ears
Own voice sounds unnatural; humming as of a seashell, talking loudly is painful. Otalgia.
Mouth
Tongue dry, red sore, shining; burning in tip, with prominent papillæ (Arg n; Bell; Kali b; Nux m). Breath cold, foul. Choking sensation in throat. Stomatitis. Dentition.
Stomach
Nausea and vomiting; heat in epigastric region.
Abdomen
Enormous distention. Diarrhœa; stools watery, greenish, fetid, bloody. Pain before flatus with and relief after stool. Hæmorrhage from bowels. Worms; lumbrici. Abdominal dropsy; pelvic peritonitis. Fainting after every stool Entero-colitis, with hæmorrhage and ulceration of bowels.
Urinary
Strangury, with bloody urine. Scanty, suppressed, odor of violets. Urethritis, with painful erections (Canthar). Inflamed kidneys following any acute disease. Constant tenesmus.
Female
Intense burning in uterine region. Metritis; puerperal peritonitis. Metrorrhagia with burning in uterus.
Respiratory
Difficult breathing; lungs feel distended; hæmoptysis. Bloody expectoration.
Heart
Pulse rapid, small, thready, intermittent.
Back
Burning pain in region of kidneys. Drawing in right kidney extending to hip.
Skin
Acne. Erythema; itching pustular, vesicular eruption; urticaria. Purpura, ecchymosis, dropsies. Scarlatina. Chilblains; with excessive itching and pulsative pains. Aching soreness of the muscles.
Fever
Heat, with violent thirst, dry tongue, profuse cold, clammy sweat. Typhoid with tympanites, hæmorrhages, stupor, delirium. Prostration.
Relationship
Compare: Alumen; Secale; Canth; Nit ac. Terebene 1x; (chronic bronchitis and winter coughs; subacute stages of inflammation of respiratory tract. Loosens secretion, relieves tightened feeling, makes expectoration easy). Neurotic coughs. Huskiness of public speakers, and singers. Cystitis when urine is alkaline and offensive.
Ononis spinosa-Rest Harrow--(Diuretic, Lithontriptic. Chronic nephritis; diuretic effects like Juniper; calculus nosebleed, worse washing face).
Antidote: Phos.
Dose
First to sixth potency.
Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics
E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · 1899
Leaders
Burning and smarting on passing urine; urine red, brown, black or smoky in appearance.
Tongue smooth, glossy, red, with excessive tympanites (typhoid).
Hæmorrhages from all outlets, especially in connection with urinary or kidney troubles.
Terebinthina ought to come in here, because it, like Berberis, has much pain in the back with kidney and bladder troubles. Painters working under the smell of Turpentine are often seriously affected by it. Some are unable to work in it. In the Turpentine kidney troubles there is apt to be more strangury than with Berberis and more blood in the urine. The urine becomes brown, black, or smoky in appearance from more or less admixture of blood. For burning and smarting on passing urine, Turpentine stands nearer to Cantharis or Cannabis sativa than it does to Berberis. All four may be found useful in the first stage of albuminuria, Turpentine taking the lead, and it may sometimes require considerable study to choose between them. Mercurius corrosivus generally comes in a little later. Terebinth. is one of our best anti-hæmorrhagic remedies. Hæmaturia, hæmoptysis, and hæmorrhage from the bowels, especially in typhoid, and even in purpura hæmorrhagica it may do splendid work. One of the chief characteristics for its use is the smooth, glossy, red tongue (Crotalus, Pyrogen); another is excessive tympanites. These two symptoms are often found in typhoids, and then Terebinth. is the remedy. Dropsy after scarlatina, with smoky urine, may find its remedy here, but Lachesis, Apis, Helleborus niger, or Colchicum will often dispute claims with it. The old school make great use of it in many other affections as a local application. I have seen some bad effects from its use in that way for the chest in pneumonia in their hands. I would not recommend it.
Text Book of Materia Medica
Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · 1866
Head
Sudden vertigo with obscuration of sight. Dun headache, with colic.
Ears
Sensation in the ears as of the striking of a clock.
Face
Face pale and sunken.
Nose
Violent bleeding at the nose.
Abdomen
Distended abdomen ; frequent colic ; constipation. Burning in the right hypochondrium.
Stool and Anus
Stools consisting of mucus and water. Violent burning in the rectum and at the anus after water. Burning and tingling at the anus, with the sensation as if ascarides would crawl out.
Urinary Organs
Pressure in the kidneys when sitting, going of during motion. Sensation of heaviness and pain in the region of the kidneys. Violent burning, drawing pains in the region of the kidneys. Burning in the bladder and in the urethra. Difficult micturition, the urine smells of violets ; deposit of mucus, or thick muddy deposit. Suppression of urine. Strangury. Hæmaturia. Respiratory organs. Dryness of the mucous membranes of the air-passages. Burning in the chest ; along the sternum.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902
General
Oleum terebinthinæ. Oil of Turpentine. C 10 H 16 . The oil distilled from the oleo-resin (turpentine) obtained from various species of Pinus, purified by repeated rectification with water. Solution in rectified spirit. Ozonised Oil of Turpentine (prepared by exposure of the common oil to sun and air in a half-filled bottle and shaking from time to time).
Clinical
Albuminuria. Amblyopia potatorum. Asthma. Backache. Bladder, irritable . Brachial neuralgia. Bronchitis. Chordee. Chorea. Ciliary neuralgia. Cystitis. Dentition. Dropsy . Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa. Enteric fever . Epilepsy. Erysipelas bullosa. Erythema. Fibroma. Gall-stone colic. Glands, inguinal; swelling of. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Hæmaturia . Hæmorrhoids. Hernia; strangulated. Herpes labialis pudendi. Hydrophobia. Hypochondriasis. Insanity. Intestines, ulceration of. Iritis. Jaundice. Kidneys, congestion of ; neuralgia of. Lumbago. Neuralgia; supraorbital. Ovaries, pains in; dropsy of. Pityriasis. Purpura hæmorrhagica. Scabies. Scarlatina. Sciatica . Spermatorrhœa. Strangury . Stricture. Tetanus. Tympanites . Uræmia. Urine, suppression of ; retention of. Worms.
Characteristics
Ter . was introduced to homœopathy by Hartlaub. A proving of it appeared in Hartlaub and Trinks' Annalen . Many symptoms have been added from poisonings and overdosings in old-school practice. According to Taylor, children are particularly sensitive to its action. Illness caused by sleeping in newly painted rooms is due in great part to the turpentine. "A stimulant and tonic to the mucous membranes, especially of the bladder and urethra: it proves useful in gleet, leucorrhœa, and cystorrhœa." This is Milnes' account of the old-school use of Ter . as an internal remedy. Brunton gives these points: ( 1 ) Applied to the skin Ter . acts as an irritant and rubefacient, causing a sensation of burning, and vesicles if applied for any length of time. ( 2 ) Inhaled it causes sneezing, tightness across eyes, and dyspnœa. ( 3 ) Given internally it causes burning in mouth and salivation; in stomach, sensation of heat or cold; gastro-enteritis, with vomiting and diarrhœa; ulceration of intestines. The pulse is sometimes slowed, sometimes quickened. Respiration is quickened and spasmodic; the drug is partly excreted by the lungs and acts on the mucous membrane, lessening its secretion. The temperature sometimes rises, sometimes falls. Voluntary movement is diminished; reflex action lowered; blood-pressure lowered, and vessels dilated. Diminishes the quantity of urine; gives the urine an odour of violets; causes lumbar pain, burning in urethra, painful micturition, hæmaturia. Among the uses of Ter ., Brunton mentions the treatment of biliary colic. For this it is given in ether in the proportion of one part of the Oil of Turpentine to three of Ether. Homœopaths have confirmed the value of this. Throughout this list of effects burning is a constant note, and gives the key to many cases calling for Ter . — burning in gums, tongue, tip of tongue, mouth, throat, stomach, rectum, and anus, kidneys, bladder, and urethra, uterus, air passages, chest, and sternum. The last was particularly noticed after warm drinks, the pain running along the sternum with the drink and spreading in the chest. Burning extends from kidneys along ureters. Ter . is an irritative, sensitive remedy. Cooper has found it indicated in children (especially teething children) when they fly into passions. There is irritation of the meninges and often ascarides or other intestinal worms. In one case of maniacal fury in a man it did good. This irritability manifests itself in some cases of spasms and convulsions, and Lippe observed a case in point ( H. P ., x. 480). A woman had made her feet sore by walking, and applied turpentine to them. This was followed by a state like hydrophobia; she had spasms whenever she saw water or heard it poured, or saw a bright object; and also whenever she attempted to urinate. Ter . is a great hæmorrhagic and its hæmaturia is particularly characteristic: Smoky, turbid urine depositing a sediment like coffee-grounds. Dull pain, or burning pain in region of kidneys, burning during micturition are leading indications. Ter . corresponds to many cases of albuminuria and hæmaturia after scarlatina; and also to the consequent dropsy. This last may indicate Ter . in many affections of the genito-urinary sphere. "Burning in uterus" is very characteristic. Peritonitis, metritis, metrorrhagia will probably need Ter . if the burning is present. The hæmorrhages of Ter . are generally passive; dark, and fetid. Purpura hæmorrhagica calls for it if there are fresh ecchymoses in great numbers from day to day. The hæmorrhages may occur from any orifice. Additional keynotes of Ter ., which will be decisive if combined with others, are: ( 1 ) Smooth, glossy, red tongue, as if deprived of papillæ. ( 2 ) Excessive tympanites. ( 3 ) Drowsiness. In capillary bronchitis, the child is drowsy. Stupor and great weakness are found in many Ter . conditions, rendering it appropriate in cases of typhus, typhoid, and uræmic poisoning. "Drowsy with retention of urine." With the tympanites there is generally extreme sensitiveness to touch. With cystitis and uro-genital and rectal troubles there is sensitiveness of hypogastrium and pains in symphysis pubis. Pains go from left to right across bowels and then shoot upward. From being exposed to turpentine odour, a lady, 35, got pain as from pinchings in the throat, with lifeless feeling in the tongue and dryness of the mouth, followed by pains in r. eyeball, which extended back to same side of occiput (Cooper). S. H. Roberts ( B. M. J ., Dec. 25, 1875) maintains Ter . has a specific effect in tonsillitis when applied externally. Marc Jousset gave Ter . 1x with marked benefit in two cases of bronchial asthma. He was led to give it in the first case by coincident hæmaturia; but this was not present in the second ( L'Art Méd ., April, 1901). A remedy may be known by its antidotes and antidotal properties. Ter . antidotes and is antidoted by Phos . A young man who was badly poisoned by a low attenuation of Phos . got more relief from Ter . 3x than from any other remedy. Brunton says it is only Ozonised Ter . that is effective here. The preparation I used was the ordinary one. Hering says the ozonised oil is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers, a few drops being given daily on a lump of sugar. George Royal ( Med. Cent ., ix. 70) gives three cases illustrating the action of Ter .: ( 1 ) Typhoid, third week, in man 24. Extreme distension, rapid, small, compressible pulse, cold sweat in lower limbs. Ter . 6x two drops in water every half-hour. Oil of Ter . was applied locally to the abdomen mixed with lard, and later in the evening, when there was already slight improvement, an injection containing turpentine was administered. This relieved the patient of a large quantity of flatus, and next morning he was on the high-road to recovery. ( 2 ) Pyæmia after abortion at third month, brought on by patient herself. Enormous distension; lower limbs covered with cold sweat; lochia thin, scanty, offensive. Ter . given in another case brought about slow improvement for three days, when Chi . 30 was indicated and finished the cure. ( 3 ) Teamster, 36, had severe nephritis after being out in cold rain. Constant desire to urinate, severe pain in back, down ureter, to bladder; urine scanty, very high-coloured. Temperature 102°. Pulse weak, 130. Ter . 6x every half-hour; and hot fomentations on kidneys greatly relieved. After three days he was able to leave his bed. Royal considers cold sweat of lower limbs, and rapid pulse with the distension, as leading indications. A keynote of Burnett's for Ter . is: "Pains in the bowels which = frequent micturition." Peculiar Sensations are: As if he would pitch forward on walking As of a band round head. As if sand thrown violently in eye. As of a seashell sounding in l. ear. In ear as of striking of a clock. As from hasty swallowing in epigastrium. As if he had swallowed a bullet, which had lodged in pit of stomach. Sense of anxiety and utter prostration about epigastrium. Umbilical region as if covered with a round, cold plate. As if intestines were being drawn towards spine. As if abdomen distended with flatus. As if diarrhœa would set in. As if inguinal hernia would appear. As if symphysis pubis were suddenly forced asunder. As if foreign body had entered windpipe. As from electric shocks. Twitching of limbs. Crawling tingling as if parts were asleep. As if hot water running through a tube in nerve. Sprained pains, contusive pains, and rheumatic pains appear in the pathogenesis, and notably pressure and drawing pains. These show the suitability of Ter . to the effects of injury and rheumatic conditions. It is on this property that certain popular embrocations containing turpentine owe their reputation. Ter . is specially Suited to: Children (dentition, nose-bleed, worms). Bleeders. Nervous women (amenorrhœa; dysmenorrhœa; headache). Complaints of old people; of people of sedentary habits. Chronic rheumatism and gouty complaints. The symptoms are: < By touch. < By pressure (in region of bladder it = convulsions). Effects of falls and injuries. < Lying on left side, > turning to right. Sitting < . Stooping > . Motion > . (Pain in crest of ilium < from motion and least jar.) Walking in open air < . < Night; 1-3 a.m. Damp dwellings < . Damp cellar = diarrhœa. Damp weather = neuralgia in legs. ( Ter . is hydrogenoid.) Cold water > burning in anus. > Belching and passing flatus. Loose stool > nausea.
The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91
Mind
After easier thinking, and a clear mind, becomes unconscious.
Inability to concentrate mind.
Inability to think or to work. θ Nervous headache.
Stupefaction and deep sleep. θ Uræmia. θ Fainting.
Slight delirium, stupor and diarrhœa. θ Typhus.
Unconscious, followed by inability to concentrate mind.
Dull, languid ; > by free micturition.
Maniacal state lasting several days.
Despondency. θ Nervous headache.
Hypochondriasis.
Worse from being engaged in mental work, dull pressing above left eye.
Weary of life. θ Nervous headache.
Suicide by hanging, in two cases followed washing of laces in oil of turpentine and alcohol.
Anxiety on going to bed.
Fears apoplexy ; fulness and pressure in head.
Sensorium
Slightly drunk for several hours.
Vertigo : sudden, with obscuration of sight ; he falls down ; latter stage of typhus ; and dulness with lassitude ; slight, with general chilliness ; with nausea and diminished appetite.
Dulness in head.
Tendency to syncope. θ Nervous headache.
Comatose ; can be roused only by shaking out of apparent stupor, but falls immediately into it again.
Inner head
Slight neuralgic headache coming and going all day.
Headache with thirst. θ Puerperal peritonitis.
Dull headache with colic.
Headache. θ Urethral catarrh.
Pain in head continuous and fixed ; chronic, with rare intermissions.
Stitch in forehead as from a knife.
Neuralgic pains going to right side of head.
Pain dull or shooting, throbbing in top of head or in whole cranium.
Great fulness and pressure in head ; she cried, "My head, my head ;" apoplexy was feared.
Dull pressing above left eye ; evening while engaged in mental work.
Pressing headache in whole head, coming and going, with vomituritio.
Intense pressure and great fulness of head ; dull headache with violent nosebleed. θ Septic fever. θ Scarlatina.
Sensation as of a band around head.
Contusive headache.
Painful drawing extending from neck to occiput, whence it spread to forehead.
Drawing pain in forehead, extending to hips. θ Hæmaturia.
Neuralgic and nervous headaches, > by free micturition.
Inaction of kidneys, with scanty smoky urine ; brain poisoned with unexcreted urea.
(OBS :) Hydrocephalus, acute and chronic.
Outer head
Rending tickling pain in left temporal region, coming and going, while in bed in evening ; rubbing removes it.
(OBS :) Erysipelas capitis.
Sight and eyes
Ciliary neuralgia, with acute conjunctivitis ; injection of conjunctiva variable, sometimes excessive, again very moderate, amounting to hardly more than a simple hyperemia, at no time commensurate with severity of pain ; redness, usually
dark, especially in later stages, though during height of inflammation may be bright ; chemosis ; infiltration into cellular tissue of orbit ; deep ciliary injection, swelling of lids, photophobia and lachrymation ; pupil contracted, dilates regularly, but slowly, under
Atropine ; tension changeable even within a short time, though more frequently diminished than otherwise ; eyeball sensitive to touch ; pain excessive and always present ; varies from a dull, grumbling, aching, beating, sore pain to a severe sharp darting, almost driving
patient crazy, especially severe over and around eye, extending through to occiput on corresponding side, often following course of supraorbital nerve ; always < at night and frequently accompanied by severe paroxysms, particularly in early morning, 1 to 3 A. M. ; corresponding
side of face flushed ; scanty high-colored urine ; pain in back.
Amblyopia potatorum ; for eight weeks sight began to grow dim ; almost constant dull aching pain in region of kidneys ; urine dark-colored and loaded with acid phosphates, sp. gr. 1028 ; vision 5/40 in both eyes ; fundus normal in appearance.
While walking in open air muscæ volitantes and transient dizziness.
Obscuration of sight.
(OBS :) Photophobia. θ Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Pain above left eye.
Episcleritis in left eye for over three weeks ; eye very red, especially at inner side of cornea, where there was a hard bluish-red elevation ; intense pain day and night in eye and corresponding side of head ; pupil reacted well ; urine very
dark.
Rheumatic iritis ; frequent desire to urinate, pain in kidneys, burning in urethra, dark urine ; suppression of habitual foot sweat.
Recent adhesion of iris to lens. θ Posterior synechiæ.
(OBS :) Chronic iritis of traumatic or rheumatic origin.
In outer corner of each eye ecchymosis of conjunctiva. θ Purpura hæmorrhagica.
Chemosis of left eye ; urine dark-red, like blood, becoming thick after standing, and leaving red adherent sediment ; pain across kidneys.
Redness of left conjunctiva, iris sluggish, much pain in and above eye, always < at night, tongue coated yellow at base ; on eighth day woke at 1 A. M. with much beating pain in eye, especially at internal canthus, for one hour ; now some pain on
left side of head, lachrymation on looking down, eyeball sensitive to touch and very red, especially inner half ; sharp darting pains from above right eye down through eye, and feeling as if sand were thrown violently into eye ; urine dark and scanty, with dark sediment ; pain
in back.
Very severe pain over left eye and in left temple day and night (had chancre a year ago) ; for one year no perspiration on left side of head, while profuse on right ; conjunctiva very red with deep ciliary injection, much lachrymation ; some photophobia, aqueous apparently
hazy.
Sore pain in left eye, occasionally shooting with much redness of conjunctiva, adhesion of lids in morning, lachrymation in evening ; blur before vision, severe pain in back, dark urine.
Eye dark-red, face red on affected side.
Inflamed eyes and eyelids.
Half-open, upward turned, or rolling eyes.
Opened his eyes only when swallowing, closed them again at once during sopor.
The Therapeutics of Fevers
H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1879
Characteristic
For the hemorrhagic diathesis; "bleeders."
Complaints of old people; sedentary habit; from living in basements and damp dwellings.
Abdomen: extremely sensitive to touch; distension, flatulence, excessive tympanitis; meteorism (Colch.).
Diarrhœa: stool, watery, greenish, mucous; lungs, intestines, uterus; with hemorrhage, and malignant tendency.
Purpura hemorrhagica; fresh ecchymoses in great numbers from day to day (Sulph. ac.).
Hemorrhages; from bowels, with ulceration; passive, dark with epithelial degeneration.
Ascites anasarca, in organic lesions of kidneys; dropsy after scarlatina (Apis, Hell., Lach.).
The urine has the odor of violets.
Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, bladder and urethra (Berb., Can., Canth.).
Violent burning and cutting in bladder; tenesmus; sensi- tive hypogastrium; cystitis and retention from atony of fundus.
Albuminuria: acute, in early stages, when blood and al- bumin abound more than casts and epithelium; after diph- theria, scarlatina, typhoid.
Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts; $<$ from living in damp dwellings.
Strangury; spasmodic retention of urine.
Relations
Compare: Alumen, Arn., Ars., Canth., Lach.,
Nit. ac.
Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.
Type
Malarial; tropical; African fevers; toxæmic; septic; typhoid; typhus; yellow; tend to a low malignant type, with hemorrhage.
Chill
Violent, cold limbs, body hot; great coldness with rest- less tossing about; rigors, followed by heat through whole body.
Coldness and chill in abdomen.
Irregular chills and flushes of heat.
Heat
With great thirst; red face; skin and mucous membranes hot and dry; pulse hard and frequent.
Stupor, muttering delirium; subsultus tendinum; pupils contracted; meteorisms and excessive tympanitis; copious hemorrhage, black, fluid, from nose, stomach, kidneys, lungs, bowels, with ulceration of Peyer's patches; great prostration and emaciation.
Sweat
Profuse, with great prostration; cold, clammy, over whole body.
Tongue
Smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of papillæ, or as if glazed (Pyr.); elevated papillæ; coating peels off in patches, leaving bright red spots, or entire coating cleans off suddenly (in exanthemata); dry and red; burning in tip (compare, Mur. ac.).
Pulse
Irregular, intermitting, with great weakness; small, wiry, thready, scarcely perceptible; feeble and slow in diarrhœa.
Condensed Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · Condensed Materia Medica · 1877
Mind
Stupefaction; deep sleep; uræmia; fainting.
Mind clear, then unconscious, followed by inability to concentrate his mind.
Dull languid; relieved by free micturition.
Sensorium
Sudden vertigo, with obscuration of sight.
Inner Head
Dull headache, with colic.
Intense pressure and great fullness of head.
Eyes
Iritis; urinary symptoms present.
Pains in and over eye, worse at night or 1 to 3 A.M.
Eye dark red, face red and affected side.
Ears
Sensation in ears as of the striking of a clock.
Nose
Violent nosebleed.
Face
Earthy color of face, sunken features.
Teeth
Scorbutic affections with hæmaturia.
Tongue, etc
Tongue smooth, glossy, as if deprived of papillæ. θ Typhoid.
Eating and Drinking
After eating: 16.
Nausea and Vomiting
Sickness at stomach after eating.
Stomach
Dull pain in epigastrium.
Pressure as if he had swallowed a bullet, which had lodged in pit of stomach.
Hypochondria
Burning in right hypochondrium.
Abdomen
Distended abdomen: tympany in typhoid, puerperal fever, etc., tongue agreeing; frequent colic; constipation.
Worms: with foul breath, choking sensation, dry, hacking cough; burning and tingling at the anus, with sensation as if ascarides were crawling about; sometimes.
Stool, etc
Intestinal catarrh and diarrhœa, with nephritis.
Hemorrhages from bowels, with ulceration; epithelial degeneration.
Stools watery, greenish, and mucous; worse in morning.
Violent burning in rectum and at anus after stool.
Urine
Affections of kidneys, worse from living in damp dwellings.
Burning and drawing from right kidney to hip.
Pressure in kidneys when sitting, better from motion.
Frequent urination at night, with intense burning.
Urine: black, with coffee-ground sediment; great emaciation and weakness; clear, watery, profuse; incontinence at night; scanty, turbid, dark, epithelial sediment; albuminous; bloody, the blood thoroughly mixed with the urine; containing sugar.
Sensitiveness of hypogastrium, tenesmus of bladder, strangury; burning in region of kidneys; urine deposits a slimy, thick, muddy sediment; urine smells of violets.
Male Sexual Organs
Gonorrhœa, with strangury, tenesmus of bladder, smarting in urethra, chordee.
Pregnancy
Burning and bearing down in uterus; burning urination. θ Puerperal metritis.
Breathing
Difficult respiration, as if from congestion of lungs.
Asthma, worse from motion.
Cough
Bronchial catarrh, with spitting of much phlegm.
Dry cough, no expectoration, or blood-streaked sputa.
Lungs
Hemorrhage from lungs.
Unbearable burning and tightness across chest, with great dryness of mucous membranes, or profuse expectoration.
Heart and Pulse
Pulse: increased in force and frequency; feeble, rapid.
Limbs in General
Intense pains along larger nerves.
Sciatica in rheumatic patients; the urinary symptoms agreeing.
Position, etc
Motion: lessens pains; increases asthma.
Sitting: 31. Motion: 21, 26. Climbing: 36.
Nerves
Weakness, languor.
Time
Morning: 20. Night: 21.
Temperature and Weather
Damp dwelling: 21.
Chill, Fever and Sweat
Rigors, followed by feverish heat through whole body; headache, red face. θ Bright's disease.
Fever, with violent thirst.
Profuse sweat.
Sides
Right: 18, 21.
Tissues
Dryness, burning of mucous membrane of air-passages.
Dropsy, with kidney affections.
Emaciation.
Relationship
Tereb. in antidoted by Phosphor.
Compare: Canthar., Copaiva.
Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889
General
One part of oil of turpentine is dissolved in 99 parts of alcohol.
General Action
It inflames the kidneys and urinary tract, causing profuse hæmorrhage from the kidneys as well as strangury; it irritates the bronchial and intestinal mucous membrane, causing cough and loose, bloody evacuations, with marked tympanitis. ▶ It has caused hæmorrhages from the lungs and uterus (as well as from the kidneys and bowels).
Allies
Secale c. , Carbo v., Canth. , Erigeron, Phos.
Generalities
Swayed backward and forward when dressing and undressing, though his feet were far apart. ▶ Relaxation of muscles. ▶ Occasional subsultus. ▶ Opisthotonos at intervals of ten or fifteen minutes. ▶ Convulsions (Secale c.); when she heard water poured out or when water was offered to her, or it a looking-glass was presented to her she suddenly jumped to her feet, muscles of body were rigid, spine stiff, but arms, hands and face were convulsed, groaned, and on being approached she attempted to scratch and bite the person coming near her, eyes wide open, look savage, the attacks lasted from two to five minutes, then she gradually relaxed all muscles and lay down, the spasms were preceded by strangury, no urine all day.
Symptoms resembling those of malignant cholera (Secale c.). ▶ Neuralgia in various parts, agg. one or other lower limb. ▶ Mucous membranes dry. ▶ Weakness; through the day; with inability to walk, staggering and falling; so that when limbs were raised they fell heavily back to their own weight. ▶ Faint. ▶ Stiffness of whole body; of muscles, he walks slowly and bent over. ▶ Inability to ride horseback.
Mind
Excitement. ▶ Anxiety; with weakness on going to bed. ▶ Facility of thought. ▶ Dullness, inability to fix attention. ▶ Stupefaction. ▶ Coma. ▶ Insensibility.
Head
Tearing; extending towards right side; intermittent, till evening. ▶ Aching; with colic; intermittent, with nausea. ▶ Dullness. ▶ Fulness in evening; F. and pressure, so that he constantly cried out "My head! my head!" and apoplexy was apprehended. ▶ Intoxication; and sometimes a kind of trance; drenched in sweat all night and stupid, woke next morning weak and with head bewildered, staggering about when undertaking to stand still, amel. produce discharge of urine, which smelled of violets. ▶ Vertigo; with dullness of head and sick feeling in whole body; with nausea and diminished appetite; sudden, even to falling, with blackness before eyes.
Forehead
Sticking. ▶ Tearing extending out towards right ear which is hot, while left ear is cold to touch. ▶ Heavy pain over left eye when sitting and during mental work. ▶ Drawing in bones of F. and right half of face in evening.
Sticking in right mastoid process. ▶ Intermittent smarting tickling pain in left temple in evening in bed, amel. rubbing.
Eyes
Sunken; and surrounded by dark rings. ▶ Pupils contracted. ▶ Vision of black, floating points and spots when walking in open air, amel. looking at a distance, with vertigo.
Clinical
Ciliary neuralgia over right eye (Cedron). ▶ Episcleritis, with intense pain in eye and side of the head. ▶ Rheumatic iritis, with intense pain, especially with burning in the kidneys, dark urine. ▶ Adhesions of the iris. ▶ Amblyopia from alcohol.
Deafness, with discharges from left ear.
Abdominal dropsy. ▶ It has proved valuable in pelvic peritonitis, especially when complicated with bladder troubles and with excessive tympanitis.
Diarrhœa, with red, sore shining tongue.
Inflamed kidneys, with dull pain and burning, pain extends to the bladder, strangury, bloody urine; particularly useful when this condition following any acute disease. ▶ Congestion of the kidneys, with great quantity of blood in the urine. ▶ Acute cystitis, with burning pain in region of kidney. ▶ Dysuria and constant tenesmus.
Hæmoptysis relieving the congestion of the lungs. ▶ Capillary bronchitis, especially with scanty, bloody urine.
Bed-sores in paralytics. ▶ Purpura hæmorrhagica. ▶ Urticaria.
Typhoid fever, with hæmorrhage from the bowels. ▶ Bloody albuminous urine, excessive tympanitis.
Ears and Nose
Ringing and singing before ears, like the striking of a clock. ▶ Coryza, peculiar, watery, at times from one nostril, at times from both, without the usual accompanying symptoms. ▶ Nosebleed.
Face
▶ Pale; and anxious, shrunken. ▶ Red. ▶ Anxious. ▶ Sensation of spasm beginning under chin and extending to cheek-bones, with nervous drawings in cheeks, without visible contraction of face, then supraorbital pain as if bruised. ▶ Herpes of lips. ▶ Lips could scarcely be moved.
Mouth and Throat
Drawing in teeth. ▶ Burning in tip of tongue, with prominent papillæ. ▶ Agreeable coolness in M. ▶ Breath cold (Secale c., Carbo v.). ▶ Scraping in throat; in evening, provoking hacking cough; in pharynx and in stomach, with warmth. ▶ No power over deglutition.
Stomach
Hunger and thirst; sudden H. for rue on bread and butter (of which he had already eaten freely) in evening during enjoyable mental work; H. diminished; lost. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Rancid eructations. ▶ Nausea; in morning; from meat; with eructations and griping beneath stomach-pit; with inability to vomit owing to weakness. ▶ Vomiting; of mucus; of yellowish mucus.
Rumbling in S. and abdomen after dinner, with pain extending into side. ▶ Symptoms of gastro-enteritis. ▶ Inflammation of S. and intestines, so that slight touch of abdomen, especially epigastric region, could not be endured. ▶ Pain; in a spot in pit, amel. stooping, lying and deep breathing; in evening when lying on left side, preventing sleep, amel. emission of flatus while lying on right side; becoming nausea, amel. eructations; in pit after eating; as if food had been swallowed too hastily. ▶ In pit sensation as if he had swallowed a ball. ▶ In pit pressure as from without. ▶ In pit sensation between pain and burning. ▶ Heat; in epigastric region.
Abdomen
▶ Distention (Carbo v.); after food which was relished; with constipation; obliging him to rest. ▶ Meteorismus. ▶ Rumbling; in morning, with gurgling; and gurgling, then colic in evening; and griping and thin stool. ▶ Griping. ▶ Colic; with violent movements in abdomen; with heaviness and emission of flatus; bending the patient up; extending into legs. ▶ Feeling as before violent purging. ▶ Irritation. ▶ Sensation as if intestines were drawn back to spine. ▶ Heaviness after midday nap. ▶ Coldness as if baked, after dinner.
Cutting in upper. ▶ Pressure beneath diaphragm, extending from left to right side, after eating. ▶ Sticking in right side after stool, with griping. ▶ Tearing cutting in left side in evening when lying on right side, then also on right side. ▶ Umbilical region retracted, cold, as if a cold round plate were pressed against it, when lying after dinner.
Hypochondria
Jerking sticking in left in evening when urinating. ▶ Cutting in left when sitting, amel. motion, with pain. ▶ Griping; Pressure in left, with drawing; burning P. ▶ Burning in right.
Hypogastrium
Swelling of inguinal glands when sitting in evening, with pain. ▶ Movement as if a hernia would protrude in groin, agg. sitting with legs outstretched. ▶ Cramp, now in right, now in left groin, amel. walking, with dragging and pressure outward. ▶ Tearing in symphysis pubis. ▶ Cutting; with distention of some parts as if a hernia would protrude. ▶ Feeling as if pubes were suddenly forced asunder. ▶ Drawing in groins and thighs. ▶ Cutting drawing in right groin; from ring into right testicle, amel. stooping. ▶ Dragging in right groin, with cutting.
Anus
Burning; when standing; after stool; and tickling; and crawling and sensation as if worms crept out; itching, after stool, as from blind hæmorrhoids. ▶ Urging; ineffectual.
Stool
Diarrhœa; yellow, with discharge of tape-worm, also round worms; greenish-yellow, frequent, with discharge of tape-worm. ▶ Pasty, with colic and burning in anus. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Hard, scanty; H. and dark chestnut-brown. ▶ Diminished (two instead of one). ▶ Two in evening.
Urinary Organs
Bladder. ▶ Movement in region during stool as if B. were suddenly distended and bent forward. ▶ Inflammation. ▶ Twinging and cutting alternating with a similar pain above navel, amel. walking in open air, agg. rest. ▶ Spasmodic pain when sitting. ▶ Burning, and when urinating, also in urethra. ▶ Frequent desire, with scanty urine each time.
▶ Strangury, bloody urine, then soreness of bladder (Canth.); S. bloody urine and total suppression of urine. ▶ Dysuria. ▶ Incontinence of urine. ▶ Difficult micturition. ▶ Urethritis, with painful erections (Canth.). ▶ Burning in urethra; when urinating.
Urine
▶ Bloody (Canth., Phos., Erigeron); and scanty. ▶ Scanty; and red, sometimes bloody, or else copious and light-colored. ▶ Copious. ▶ Suppressed (effects from use for stone). ▶ Smelling of violets; has a wine color and deposits a thick, slimy, whitish-yellow sediment. ▶ Contains sugar. ▶ Clear, but on standing becomes turbid, with reddish-white sediment. ▶ Slimy sediment.
Sexual Organs
Drawing in left testicle when sitting; spasmodic, in left extending along left spermatic cord. ▶ Burning posteriorly in right testicle. ▶ Emission at night. ▶ Tearing in mons veneris. ▶ Menstruation delayed and scanty.
Respiratory Organs
Dryness. ▶ Prickling in trachea as in commencing bronchitis. ▶ Voice gone. ▶ Cough as from a foreign substance in trachea, with cramp in seven catches, the cramp became so violent that he could scarcely inspire, then scraping in throat (aggravation of short, dry cough, especially when lying after eating.). ▶ Expectoration streaked with blood. ▶ Breathing difficult; and lungs seem over distended. ▶ Breathing stertorous. ▶ B. short; and hurried, anxious. ▶ Increase of respiratory movements.
Chest
Spastic contraction of muscles of C. and neck in evening. ▶ Mucous râles in lungs, with minute crepitation. ▶ Pain behind sternum; itching, in left pectoralis major. ▶ Soreness in lower part. ▶ Burning along sternum, gradually extending over C. and disappearing, with stitches at nipples (after warm drinks).
Heart
Oppression of præcordial region. ▶ Warmth in evening when sitting; forcing her to yawn much, with collection of water in mouth. ▶ Palpitation; in evening.
Pulse
▶ Rapid; and respiration; and full; and hard; and hard, small; small, compressible, and almost imperceptible; and small, irregular; and small, weak; and weak. ▶ Scarcely perceptible; and thready (Carbo v., Secale c.). ▶ Weak, irregular and intermittent in evening.
Neck
Gradual painful drawing up nape into occiput and then to forehead.
Back
Pain; extending up to between shoulders and there becoming a throbbing; drawing, when sitting, agg. evening. ▶ Drawing in dorsal and lumbar muscles, with heaviness and indolence on moving in open air. ▶ Pain in lumbar and hypogastric regions, with warmth, then sensitiveness to pressure. ▶ Kidney region painful in morning when sitting; P. and heavy; and diabetes, and died dropsical; left. ▶ Burning drawing pain in kidney region. ▶ Drawing in right kidney extending into right hip. ▶ Drawing pain in small of back.
Extremities
Acute pain in all joints. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Partial loss of use of right arm and left leg. ▶ But little use of right arm, she could advance it from the body but a short distance, she could raise shoulder-blade and bend elbow, but the hand fell with a jerk into the position in which she wished to place it. ▶ Sprained pain in muscles of left upper arm. ▶ Drawing in humeri in morning. ▶ Trembling of hands. ▶ Fingers insensible and asleep in evening.
Lower Extremities
Tottering. ▶ She limped with left foot and dragged the leg in walking, ankle was stiff. ▶ Drawing along thighs; in outer side of right, as if in facia lata; along course of large vessels; with colic as if menses, would appear, though she had them eight days previously; in right hip-joint, with tearing. ▶ Drawing paralytic pain in left thigh. ▶ Feet were placed far apart when standing or walking. ▶ Pain in feet.
Skin
Rubefaction and sometimes vesicles. ▶ Livid spots on back and abdomen. ▶ Scarlet eruption. ▶ Nettle-rash. ▶ Eruption, sudden, erythematous, papular, often vesicular, analogous to that caused by certain forms of sea-food. ▶ Exanthema like scarlet rash on affected knee, extending to ankle, then on chest and right foot, gradually extending over largest part of body.
Warmth in bend of elbow (from local applications), with itching, redness and distention of vessels of corium, sticking, sensitiveness to touch, which especially caused sticking, the breath from the mouth was felt more acutely there than elsewhere and caused burning, the reddened cutis was swollen and numb when brushed with a feather or finger, burning stinging extending over inner half of joint to olecranon process, pulsative burning with pressure and tension over the red surface and sometimes deep pulsation, at times stitches over the whole surface, at other times only in spots in the reddened place, smarting soreness, red, spots on the margin of diffused redness, swelling of hair-follicles, burning, agg. inner side of joint, pressure caused pain, then aggravation of the burning, pain in inner half of joint on putting arm down, afterwards appearance similar to extravasation of blood, spots incompletely raised by exudation, sore pain on touch, desquamation.
Sensitiveness of limbs, agg. lower, with at times acute pains following the large nerves. ▶ Burning itching on right groin.
Sleep
Sleepiness; in evening; but the day nap did not interfere with his night's rest. ▶ Sleeplessness and excitement; S. for two hours at nigh, with tossing about. ▶ Restless sleep and frequent, waking. ▶ Awoke alarmed, but unable to cry out. ▶ Nightmare waking him as soon as he feel asleep. ▶ Anxious dreams.
Fever
Coldness; causing tossing about the bed; of skin; of limbs. ▶ Heat; with sweat of lower limbs, agg. the affected one and along the nerve affected; of trunk; of skin; of skin, with sweat. ▶ Sweat; cold and clammy over whole body; on lower limbs in evening in bed.
A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy
Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892
General action
Inflammation of the kidneys and urinary tract, with hæmorrhages and strangury.
Bronchitis, enteritis, with marked tympanitis.
Hæmorrhages from affected parts seem to be a constant characteristic.
Generalities
Weakness.
Subsultus tendinum.
Convulsions, with rigid spine and opisthotonos.
Stupidity; complete coma.
Head
Dull headache, like a band around the head.
Vertigo, often with nausea, and sudden vanishing of vision.
Eyes
Clinical:
Ciliary neuralgia over the right eye.
Episcleritis, with intense pain in the eye and side of the head.
Iritis, with intense pain.
Amblyopia, alcoholic.
Nose
Epistaxis (with albuminuria).
Mouth
Tongue dry, with tympanitis.
Stomach
Nausea and vomiting.
Heat in the stomach.
Abdomen
Enormous meteorismus.
Stool
Diarrhœa, with distended abdomen; stools watery, greenish, fetid.
Hæmorrhage from the bowels.
Urinary organs
Strangury, with bloody urine.
Inflammation of the kidneys; bleeding.
Urethritis, with painful erections.
Difficult micturition, with burning, at times, total suppression of urine.
Urine bloody and scanty or suppressed, of the odor of violets.
Sexual organs
Clinical:
Metritis, with puerperal peritonitis, intense burning in uterine region, enormously distended abdomen, dry tongue.
Small pulse, hæmorrhages from the bowels.
Respiratory organs
Hæmoptysis, with difficult breathing, a sense of distention of the lungs.
Heart and Pulse
Pulse rapid, small, compressible, thready; intermittent.
Back
Burning pains in the region of the kidneys, with painfulness.
Drawing in the right kidney, extending to the hip.
Skin
Ecchymoses.
Fever
Heat, with violent thirst, dry tongue, followed by a profuse, cold, clammy sweat.
Clinical:
Not infrequently indicated in low types of typhoid, with abdominal distention, hæmorrhages, stupor, delirium.
The Mnemonic Similiad
Stacy Jones · The Mnemonic Similiad · 1904
Mnemonic names
Tere. / (2d T.) / Terence.
Verse
Terebinth.,-Assumes the reign
In the kidney region.
Inflammation-Bloody drain-
Indicates the action.
Urine has smoky hue,
Violet the odor;
Albumen pertains there to,
Strangury may torture.
Typhoid may install her bed,
Bleeding bowel attending;
Tongue a smooth and glossy red,
Gas within distending.
Worms, and enuresis, may
Hold in league possession;
Or a bloody sweat hold sway,
With death-like prostration.
Inhalation of the fume,
Stops a pain or spasm-
Asthma-phthisis cough-and doom
Of pulmonic bleeding.
Mnemonic sentences
Terence,-has bloody urine.
Terence McHam, the Imp, is up at the Mill, with Cinnamo, seeking the Spanish lady, Sabal Cani.
This Terence,-Who is subjet to a redness of the tongue,-Is at Rattle box mine, with the lying weaver, De Kalb Knight.
Indications
Bloody Urine: Tere., Merc., Ham., Ipe., Pho., Mill., Cinnamon tinc, Sec., Canth., Pul., Sabal., Can. I.
Red Tongue: Tere., Rhus, Tart. e., Lyc., Bell., Hyo., Mer., Nux v., Lach., Apis, Ars., Verat. a., Kal. b., Arg. n. (Beet red, Arum. Shinning red, Lach., Nux v., Tereb. Red tip, Arg. n., Apis, Ars., Phyt., Rhus, Verat. a. Red Spots, Mer., Tarax.)
First Lessons in the Symptomatology of Leading Homœopathic Remedies
Hugo R. Arndt · First Lessons in the Symptomatology of Leading Homœopathic Remedies · 1904
Symptoms
Indicated in conditions characterized by prominence of urinary symptoms and very great tympanitis; it has with these indications proved valuable in pelvic peritonitis, abdominally dropsy, especially when following some acute disease, renal congestion, cystitis, strangury and typhoid fever.
Tongue glassy, smooth, the papillae not showing.
Abdomen enormously distended.
Burning pain in the region of the kidneys.
Urine scanty; bloody; smoky; has the odor of violets.
Strangury, with bloody urine.