Materia Medica de A a Z

TEREBINTHINIAE OLEUM (ter)

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 papillae (Arg-n; Bell; Kali-bi; Nux-m). Breath cold, foul. Choking sensation in throat. Stomatitis. Dentition.

Stomach

Nausea and vomiting; heat in epigastric region.

Abdomen

ENORMOUS DISTENTION. Diarrhoea; 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 haemorrhage and ulceration of bowels.

Urinary

STRANGURY, WITH BLOODY URINE. Scanty, suppressed, ODOR OF VIOLETS. Urethritis, with painful erections (Canth). 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 (Alumn); Secale (Sec); Canth; Nit-ac. Terebene (Terebe) 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 (Onon) - Rest Harrow — (Diuretic, Lithontriptic. Chronic nephritis; diuretic effects like Juniper (Juni); calculus nosebleed, worse washing face).

Antidote: Phos.

Dose

First to sixth potency.