Materia Medica de A a Z

TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM (teucr)

Nasal and rectal symptoms marked. POLYPI. Affections of children. Suitable after too much medicine has been taken. Oversensitiveness. DESIRE TO STRETCH. A remedy of first importance in chronic nasal catarrh with atrophy; large, offensive crusts and clinkers. OZAENA. LOSS OF SENSE OF SMELL.

Head

Excited, tremulous feeling. Frontal pain; worse, stooping. Strengthens brain after delirium tremens.

Eyes

Smarting in canthi; lids red and puffy; tarsal tumor (Staph).

Ears

Hissing and ringing otalgia.

Nose

Catarrhal condition of both anterior and posterior nostrils. MUCOUS POLYPUS. Chronic catarrh; DISCHARGE OF LARGE, IRREGULAR CLINKERS. Foul breath. CRAWLING IN NOSTRILS, with lachrymation and sneezing. Coryza, with stoppage of nostrils.

Stomach

Vomiting of large quantities of dark-green masses. Constant hiccough, attended with pain in back. Unnatural appetite. Hiccough on eating, after nursing.

Respiratory

Dry cough, tickling in trachea; MOLDY TASTE IN THROAT when hawking up mucus, expectoration profuse.

Extremities

Affection of finger-tips and joints of toes. Tearing pains in arms and legs. PAIN IN TOE-NAILS, as if they had grown into flesh.

Rectum

ITCHING OF ANUS, AND CONSTANT IRRITATION IN THE EVENING IN BED. ASCARIDES, WITH NIGHTLY RESTLESSNESS. Crawling in rectum after stool.

Sleep

Restless, with twitching, choking, and starting up frightened.

Skin

Itching causes tossing about all night. Very dry skin. Suppurating grooves in the nails.

Relationship

Compare: Teucrium scorodonia (Teucr-s) - Wood-sage (in tuberculosis with muco-purulent expectoration; dropsy; orchitis and TUBERCULOUS EPIDYMITIS; ESPECIALLY in young, thin individuals with tuberculosis of lungs, glands; bones and urogenitals, 3x). Cina; Ign; Sang; Sil.

Dose

First to sixth potency. Locally for polypi, dry powder.