A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Terebinthina ter.

Allen (1892)In every bookSave

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.