Condensed Materia Medica

Tellurium tell.

Hering (1877)In every bookSave

Mind

Forgetful.
Quiet disposition.
Rough, angular disposition.

Sensorium

Vertigo: morning, after rising from bed; worse when walking, sitting up, or turning head; pulse accelerated, nausea, vomiting of food; better lying perfectly quiet; when going to sleep.

Inner Head

Brain feels as if beaten, on slightest movement.
Heaviness and fulness in head in morning.
Violent (linear) pain in a small spot over left eye; pain short, sharp and defined.

Eyes

Deposit of a chalky-looking white mass on anterior surface of lens.
Pterygium.
Purulent discharge; eczema impetigenoides on lids.
Left upper lid worse; lachrymation, itching and pressure; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Herpes conjunctiva bulbi; veins enlarged, running horizontally towards the cornea, ending in little blisters near edge of cornea; worse from crying.

Ears

Dull, throbbing pain day and night; thin, watery, excoriating discharge.
Vesicular eruption on membrana, then suppuration and perforation.
Membrana tympani permanently injured and hearing greatly diminished.
Itching and swelling, with painful throbbing in external meatus; in three or four days, discharge of a watery fluid, smelling like fish-pickle, which causes vesicles wherever it touches; ear is bluish-red, as if œdematous; hearing impaired.
Sensation: as if something suddenly closed up in the ear; as if air whistled through left eustachian tube, when snuffing or belching, air passes through it.

Nose

Fluent coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness when walking in open air.

Face

Sudden flashes of redness over the face.
Twitching and distortion of facial muscles, worse when talking.
Ringworm.

Teeth

Salivation; gums bleed easily and profusely.

Mouth

Breath has a garlic-like odor.

Throat

Sore throat, dry sensation in fauces, better when eating and drinking.

Eating and Drinking

See 13.

Stomach

Weak feeling, like faintness in the stomach, after congestion of blood in head and nape.

Abdomen

Pinching in abdomen.

Stool, etc

Flatus peculiar and stinking.

Urine

Increased urination.
High-colored, acid urine.
Drop sticking at mouth of urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Increased sexual desire.
Herpes on scrotum and perineum.

Heart and Pulse

Dull pain in region of heart, when lying on left side; better when lying on back.
Palpitation of heart, with throbbing through whole body and full pulse, followed by sweat.

Neck and Back

Painful sensitiveness of spine, from last cervical to fifth dorsal vertebra; sensitive to pressure and touch.
Pain in sacrum. See sciatica.

Lower limbs

Pain in sacrum, passing into right thigh down sciatic nerve, worse when pressing at stool, coughing, laughing, also when lying on the affected side. θ Sciatica.

Position, etc

Lying quietly: 2; on left side: 29; on back: 29; on affected side: 33. Sitting: 2. Rising: 2. Walking: 2, 7. Motion: 3. Turning head: 2.

Time

Morning: 2, 3. Day and night: 6.

Temperature and Weather

Open air: 7.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilly, with the pains.
Sweat on face.
Sweat on spots, with increased itchings of these places.

Sides

Right: 33. Left: 3, 5, 6, 29. Above downward: 33.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 31. Pressure: 31.

Skin

Ringworms: cover the whole body, more distinct on lower limbs; on single parts.