Tellurium tell.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Spine. Nerves. Ears. Eyes. Skin. Right to left.

Worse

Touch. Lying on part. Cold. Empty swallowing. Spinal injuries. Weekly.

General

Offensive; like putrid fish brine or garlic. Salty; taste; mucus from throat; pus, etc. Acrid discharges; excite itching, vesicles, etc. Periostitis. Numbness. Sharp, quick pains, then soreness. Sense of retention.

Particulars

Vertigo; < falling to sleep. Linear head pains. Thick tarsi. Inflamed, bluish, puffy ears. Otitis. Fluent coryza, hoarseness and watery eyes. Twitching face; pains jerk angle (l) of mouth up. Rancid belching. Retching, ends in yawning. Stomach feels hollow. Sprained pain in chest muscles, over heart, < raising arms. Very sensitive or sore spine. Deep sciatic pain, < coughing, sneezing, straining or lying. Itching, pricking, as from bugs. Circular eruptions. Ringworm. Burning in an old scar. Chills down spine, < lying on back.

Related

Related: Cep. Sele.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

The Metal Tellurium (TELLURIUM)

General

Marked skin (herpes circinatus), spinal, eye and ear symptoms. Very sensitive back. Pains all over body. Offensive discharges. Slow development of symptoms (Radium) Sacral and sciatic pains.

Head

Neglectful and forgetful. Pain in left side of head and in forehead above left eye. Distortion and twitching of left facial muscles; when speaking left angle of mouth drawn upwards and to left. Fear of being touched in sensitive places. Congestion to head and nape of neck, followed by weakness and faintness in stomach. Itching of scalp; red spots.

Eyes

Lids thickened, inflamed, itching. Pterygium; pustular conjunctivitis. Cataract, following ocular lesions; aids the absorption of infiltrations in iris and choroid.

Ears

Eczema behind ear. Catarrh of middle ear, discharge acrid, smells like fish-pickle. Itching, swelling, throbbing in meatus. Deafness.

Nose

Coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness; better in open air (Cepa). Obstructed; hawks salty phlegm from posterior nares.

Stomach

Craving for apples. Empty and weak feeling. Heartburn.

Rectum

Pruritus ani et perinei after every stool.

Back

Pain in sacrum.--Pain from last cervical to fifth dorsal vertebra, very sensitive; worse touch (Chin s; Phosph) Sciatica; worse right side, coughing, straining, and at night, with sensitive vertebral column. Contraction of tendons in bends of knees.

Skin

Itching of hands and feet. Herpetic spots; ringworm (Tuberc). Ring-shape lesions, offensive odors from affected parts. Barber's itch. Stinging in skin. Fetid exhalations (Sulph). Offensive foot-sweat. Eczema, back of ears and occiput. Circular patches of eczema.

Modalities

Worse, while at rest at night, cold weather, from friction, coughing, laughing, lying on painful side, touch.

Relationship

Compare: Radium; Selenium; Tetradymite-crystals from Georgia and North Carolina containing Bismuth, Tellurium and Sulphur--(coccygodynia, ulceration of nails; pains in hands, in small spots, ankles, heels, and tendo-Achilles); Sep; Ars; Rhus.

Dose

Sixth potency and higher. Takes long time to develop its action, which is very prolonged.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

With this remedy I have had the pleasure of curing several cases of otorrhœa of long standing, generally following scarlatina in childhood. I used the 6th in these cases. The high failed.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Quiet disposition.

Head

Vertigo, in the morning, after rising from the bed ; worse when walking, when sitting up, when turning the head ; with accelerated pulse, nausea and vomiting of food ; better when lying perfectly quiet. Vertigo while going to sleep. Heaviness and fulness in the head in the morning. Violent (linear) pain in a small spot over the left eye.

Eyes

Deposit of a chalky, white mass on the anterior surface of the lens. (Cataract).

Ears

Itching and swelling (left ear with painful throbbing in the external meatus ; after three or four days, a discharge of a watery fluid, smelling like fish pickle, which causes a vesicular eruption upon the external ear and the neck wherever it touches the skin ; the ear bluish-red, as if infiltrated with water ; hearing impaired.

Nose

Coryza with hoarseness, while walking in the open air.

Face

Sudden flushes of redness over the face.

Mouth and Throat

Profuse bleeding of the gums. Sore throat and sensation of dryness of the fauces, always removed by eating and drinking. Sensation of weakness (like faintness) in the stomach after local congestion of blood in the head and nape. Passage of very offensive flatus.

Stool and Anus

Stools colored black through and through.

Urinary Organs

Urine highly colored, acid.

Respiratory Organs

Breath smells of garlic. Dull pain in the region of the heart when sleeping on the left side ; relieved when lying on the back. Palpitation of the heart, with throbbing through the whole body and full pulse, followed by perspiration.

Back

Painful sensitiveness of the spine, from the last cervical to the fifth dorsal vertebra ; sensitive to pressure and touching. Pain in the sacrum, passing into the right thigh ; worse when pressing at stool, when coughing and laughing ; it extends from the sacral plexus through the great sciatic foramen, along the sciatic nerve, down in the thigh (especially on the right side). Sciatica.

Fever

Chilliness with the pains. Perspiration at the face. The spots which perspire itch more.

Skin

Ringworms cover the whole body ; red, elevated rings, very distinctly marked, especially on the lower extremities. Ringworms on the abdomen, head, above the wrist on the forearm.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Tellurium. An element; (generally considered non-metallic). Te. (A. W. 125). Trituration of the precipitated element.

Clinical

Axilla, offensive sweat of; tumour of. Barber's itch. Cataract. Conjunctivitis. Coryza. Eczema. Entropion. Eyes, inflammation of. Foot-sweat, fetid. Gleet. Herpes. Hoarseness. Levitation. Pityriasis versicolor . Post-nasal catarrh. Ringworm. Sacrum, pain in . Sciatica. Spinal irritation . Worms. Yawning.

Characteristics

Tellurium occurs in the native state and in combination with gold, silver, lead, and antimony. It resembles Sulphur and Selenium in its chemical reactions. It was proved and introduced into homœopathy by Hering in 1850. The most notable feature of the proving was the irritation of the skin, including skin of eyelids and ears, of spinal column and of some nerves. The most characteristic form of the skin irritation of Tell . is herpes circinatus, and it has probably cured more cases of ringworm, especially of the face and body, than any other remedy. (I cured with Tell . an Indian officer home on furlough whose body was covered over with a ringworm-like eruption.) The odour of the body and of the sweat is offensive and garlic-like. The prover had to sit apart from the rest of the class during a whole session on account of this. In parts where the skin forms openings, as the ear, the effect of Tell . is intensified. The characteristic odour of the ear discharge is that of fish brine. The discharge is so acrid it vesicates any part of the skin it touches. Tell . is one of the most important remedies in otorrhœa. Nash cured several cases of post-scarlatinal otorrhœa, using the 6th, higher attenuations having failed. Eyelids are inflamed, and the vesicating property extends to the eye itself, setting up phlyctenular conjunctivitis. Other parts of the skin affected by Tell . are the hair-roots, the breasts, the perinæum, and the anus. There is itching in the rectum after stool. Tell . has caused expulsion of threadworms. The offensiveness of Tell . appears in the breath and in the flatus; and it is a leading remedy in offensive foot-sweat. In addition to the inflammation of the eyes caused by Tell ., it has pains over the eyes. Skin and nerves are closely allied, and Tell . is a remedy in many neuralgic conditions, notably sciatica. The right side is most affected, and these are characteristic Conditions: the pain is < coughing, sneezing, or straining at stool; < lying on painful side. Many of the pains and symptoms of Tell . come and go suddenly. The ears are suddenly stopped. There are sudden rushes of blood to the head. Tell . has great sensitiveness to touch. This is shown in the neuralgic hyperæsthetic state of the spine. It has also a vulnerary action as shown in a case of Kent's (quoted A. H ., xxiii. 439). A boy, 4, slid down banisters and struck his head on a tiled floor. He became unconscious and a surgeon was summoned, who found him in that state and with a clear, watery discharge from the ear, which the surgeon pronounced to be cerebro-spinal fluid. This condition lasted three days, and the case had been pronounced hopeless when Kent first saw the boy. Kent noticed that the discharge was acrid, and reddened whatever part it came in contact with. One dose of Tell . was given. In two hours the child vomited, a sign of reaction, and in two weeks was well. Shelton ( H. R ., vii. 103) relates three cases: ( 1 ) Widow, 50, had pain and soreness upper part of back for a long time. She shrank from the slightest touch on the part. The sensitiveness was so acute that when touched the pain extended into the occiput and all over the upper region of the back . Tell . 6 cured in eighteen days. ( 2 ) Miss X., 45, had a fall, striking a severe blow on the sacrum. She suffered for some weeks from concussion, with one point of great soreness in the sacral region, just above the spot where the blow was received. She was kept in bed for some weeks and improved generally, but the painful spot remained and sensitiveness appeared over the back, especially its upper third. Tell . 6 cured all completely. ( 3 ) Miss Y., 29, who had had severe spinal meningitis ten years before, consulted Shelton for a burning, pressing pain at base of brain. He diagnosed the condition as pachy-meningitis. The patient grew worse, and gradually ptosis, and then right and then left hemiplegia set in. Finally hyperæsthesia of the back became so distressing that it was a question of finding any support that did not intensity the pain. She could not bear the slightest touch, complaining that it not only hurt her at the point of contact, but she felt it in the head and in remote parts of the body . Tell. cleared up the case. Skinner ( H. W ., xviii. 535) cured two sporting dogs of ringworm with Tell . 1m F. C. The irritating property of Tell . is shown again in the coryza, post-nasal catarrh, tickling in larynx, hoarseness, and cough. There is a good deal of drowsiness with Tell .; yawning after retching; drowsy after eating. I once gave Tell . to a child for an eruption, and cured it incidentally of constant yawning, with which it had been troubled. The eruption improved at the same time. Peculiar Sensations are: Fear of being touched on sensitive places. As if in air on going to sleep. Brain as if beaten. As if lashes were turned in. As if air whistled through left Eustachian tube. As if strapped together in epigastric region. As if fluid wanted to discharge in lobe of right lung. There is periodicity about some of the symptoms. One prover has a return of them every Tuesday for several weeks. More symptoms appear on the left than on the right side. The symptoms are: < By touch; touch = bleeding from ear; spine sensitive to touch. Pressure lump in axilla to be painful. Rest < . Lying: > vertigo; on left side = throbbing over right ribs and vice versâ ; on left side = pain in heart. > Lying on back. Lying on affected side < sciatica. While sitting up: vertigo; face red. Stooping, coughing, laughing, straining at stool < . Many symptoms are < in morning, on being wakened, and at night; eating = drowsiness. Eating rice = vomiting. Eating and drinking > sore throat.

Relations

Antidoted by: Nux (epigastric oppression). Compare: Tetradymite, which contains Tellur. Restlessness; garlicky odour, Ars. Coryza, Cepa. Otitis, Puls., Bell., Ter. Ringworm, Bac., Sep., Nat. m. Ringworm in clusters Sep., Calc. Threadworms, Teucr. Pains come and go suddenly, Bell., Lyc. < Laughing, Pho. < Straining at stool, Indm. Cough and skin, Osm.

Causation

Falls. Rice (vomiting).

Mind

Forgetful. ─ Fear of being touched, in sensitive places. ─ Excitable, disposed to fly into a passion. ─ Rough, angular disposition. ─ Mind depressed.

Head

Vertigo; when going to sleep; morning after rising; < walking, sitting up, or turning head; > lying perfectly quiet. ─ Brain feels as if beaten on slightest movement. ─ Heaviness and fulness of head in morning. ─ Violent linear pain in small spot over l. eye; pain, short, sharp, and defined. ─ Congestion to temples and forehead on waking in morning. ─ Sudden rush of blood to head. ─ About 10 a.m. pain above l. eye, came and went suddenly. ─ Sensation of numbness in occiput and nape. ─ Red spots and fine blisters on occiput, neck, and behind ears, and on posterior surface of ears.

Eyes

Deposit of chalky-looking white mass on anterior surface of lens (cataract). ─ Pterygium. ─ Herpes conjunctivæ bulbi; phlyctenules near edge of cornea; < from crying. ─ Pustular conjunctivitis with eczema impetiginodes on lids and much purulent discharge from eyes; offensive discharge from ears. ─ Scrofulous inflammation; < l. upper lid; lachrymation, itching, and pressure in lid. ─ Eyelids: thickened, inflamed, covered with pustules; pale red, œdematous, oozing. ─ Feeling as if lashes of lower lid were turned in. ─ Palpebral swelling of l. upper lid; ulceration on outer surface of lid, near outer canthus; pain < at night.

Ears

L. ear began to itch, burn, and swell; aching and throbbing pain in meatus, followed by a copious, watery, acrid discharge. ─ Dull, throbbing pain in ears, day and night; thin, watery, excoriating discharge. ─ Ears suddenly stopped in forenoon; < l. ─ Sometimes, for an instant, sensation as if air catches itself in, or whistled through l. Eustachian tube; when snuffing or belching air passes through. ─ Vesicular eruption on membrana tympani; suppurating and perforating. ─ Itching and swelling, with painful throbbing in external meatus; in three or four days discharge of watery fluid smelling like fish-pickle, which = vesicles wherever it touches; ear bluish red, œdematous; hearing impaired. ─ Waked during night with dull aching deep in r. ear, continued three days with depression of spirits. ─ Eczema behind ears, with formation of thick crusts; scrofulous conjunctivitis, blepharitis, and catarrh of middle ear.

Nose

Fluent coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness when walking in open air, with short cough and pressure in middle of chest under sternum; > after being in open air some time. ─ Nose dry, then becomes fluent with relief of headache; r. eye becomes hot with profuse lachrymation. ─ Nose obstructed, must breathe through mouth. ─ Hawks from posterior nares dried yellowish-red phlegm tasting salty, mornings.

Face

Sudden flushes of redness over face. ─ While sitting, face red. ─ Twitching in l. facial muscles, l. corner of mouth drawn up when talking. ─ Burning in lips. ─ Ringworms on face; barber's itch. ─ Pimples on face.

Mouth

Gums bleed easily and profusely. ─ Tongue somewhat swollen, furred white, shows print of teeth. ─ Breath has odour of garlic. ─ Coldness of mouth and pharynx on drawing in air. ─ Copious saliva. ─ Tenacious mucus runs from mouth (dog). ─ Taste earthy, metallic.

Throat

Painful dryness of fauces. ─ In morning hawks from back of nose pieces of yellowish-reddish phlegm tasting salt. ─ Rough, scratching sensation in throat; < towards evening. ─ Throat feels sore with a prickly, rough sensation evening and morning; throat sore on simply swallowing; > after eating or drinking. ─ Pain in throat extends into ear.

Stomach

Hungry at night; wants an apple in middle of night. ─ Longs for beer. ─ After meals, great drowsiness. ─ After eating rice obliged to vomit. ─ Belching with taste of food eaten. ─ Heartburn with warmth in stomach as from alcohol. ─ Sensation of weakness like faintness in stomach after local congestion of blood to head and nape, also with chest symptoms. ─ Fulness in pit of stomach, must lie down after dinner. ─ Constrictive feeling in stomach as if strapped together.

Abdomen

Fulness and oppression in hypogastrium, her dress must be loosened. ─ Pressing first l. then r. side as from wind. ─ When lying on l. side, throbbing under r. ribs and vice versâ . ─ Pinching in abdomen. ─ Frequent spasmodic pains in bowels as from incarcerated wind; mostly from 5 to 9 p.m.

Stool and Anus

Passes very offensive wind. ─ Passes a large quantity of threadworms. ─ Spasmodic pains with urging to stool, copious stool with feeling of flatulence in bowels. ─ Costive. ─ Tetter on perinæum, itching. ─ Itching in rectum after stool. ─ Itching at anus.

Urinary Organs

Pain and soreness in kidneys. ─ Increased urination. ─ High-coloured, acid urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Erections all night. ─ Increased desire, followed by long-lasting indifference. ─ A drop of viscid fluid glues meatus. ─ Secondary gonorrhœa. ─ Herpes on scrotum and perinæum.

Female Sexual Organs

Painful soreness in region of kidneys, extending downward like a weight, mostly to r. and in sacrum; < morning, making her irritable. ─ Shooting deep in pelvis across to l. ─ Menses too early in climacteric years.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness in morning with fluent coryza; a rough, pressing, tickling sensation in larynx. ─ Coughing on laughing < aching in small of back. ─ Cough towards morning; after a few days looser.

Chest

Pain in region of clavicle. ─ Pain in middle of chest; going through to back; from dorsal vertebræ through to sternum; in or behind sternum. ─ Shooting in l. chest, fifth rib. ─ Feeling as if some fluid wanted to discharge, pressing downward in middle lobe of r. lung. ─ Cutting around and in l. nipple, through to scapula. ─ Eruption about nipple.

Heart

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

Neck and Back

With the pain above the eye, sensation along l. side of neck as if the blood there had suddenly been retained in one of the large veins, or had streamed backwards. ─ Numbness in nape and occiput. ─ When lying on l. ear sharp pressing pain from neck into ear. ─ Pressing ache in r. scapula, later in l. ─ Painful sensitiveness of spine from last cervical to sixth dorsal vertebræ; sensitive to pressure and touch. ─ Weak feeling in back. ─ Pain in sacrum, passing into r. thigh; < pressing at stool, coughing, and laughing.

Limbs

Sharp, quick pains in elbows, ankles, and other parts. ─ Aching all over, mostly in limbs, < r. side and in walking.

Upper Limbs

Offensive sweat of armpits, smelling of garlic. ─ Lump in anterior wall of l. axilla, painful from pressure or motion. ─ Near thumb-joint. ─ Finger-tips feel dead on stretching hand. ─ Rheumatism of r. little finger, < moving it.

Lower Limbs

Sciatica, r. side; < lying on affected side. ─ Sciatica with sensitiveness of vertebral column. ─ Tonic muscular contraction of long standing. ─ Contraction of tendons of bends of knees. ─ Bruised pain in hip-joints after walking. ─ Feet sweaty, mostly on toes. ─ Fetid sweat of feet.

Generalities

Persistent fetid body odour. ─ Restlessness. ─ Lassitude.

Skin

Ringworm: on face; barber's itch; whole body, < lower limbs; on single parts. ─ Stinging in skin. ─ Small red pimples, very bright red and very sharply defined, with minute vesicles upon them, first on lower limbs, then also on upper, most on l. side; they began first on calves, then on inside of forearms above wrist and spread from that part, caused very severe itching day and night, < night after going to bed. ─ Little stinging prickings in various parts, compelling him to rest; circular vesicular spots appeared. ─ Body thickly covered with elevated rings of herpes circinatus. ─ Psoriasis. ─ Skin dry, hot. ─ Scrofulous eczematous eruption. ─ Itching < in cool air.

Sleep

Yawning and belching. ─ Drowsy after a meal. ─ Sleepless; restless turning from weariness and bruised feeling. ─ At night pains all over. ─ On going to sleep feels as if in air, quick drawing towards feet awakens him.

Fever

Chilly, with pains. ─ Skin hot and dry; sensation as if overstrained, as if bruised, as if he had taken cold after severe exertion. ─ Heat: in sinciput; in face. ─ Sweat: on face; on spots with increased itching of these places; often throbbing through whole body; generally warm, while sitting in a cool breeze.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Tellurium. The Element.
Introduced by Hering in 1850.
The triturations are prepared from the precipitated metal.
Provings by Hering, assisted by Tietze, Kitchen, Gardiner, Whitey, Gosewisch, Dunham and Raue, Am. Hom. Rev., vol. 5, Metcalf, N. Am. Jour. Hom., vol. 2, 1852.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Conjunctivitis , Allen, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 88 ; Norton, Trans. N. Y. S., 1873, p. 432 ; Scrofulous conjunctivitis , Haynes, M. I., vol. 10, p. 184 ; Affection of lids , Berridge, N. Y. J. H., vol. 2, p. 210 ; Hom. Phys., June, 1889 ; Otitis , Houghton, Times Ret., 1876, p. 52 ; Hom. Times, vol. 3, p. 155 ; Hah. Mo., vol. 11, p. 159 ; Otorrhœa , Dunham, Hom. Cl., vol. 1, p. 25 ; Linsley, Hom. Cl., vol. 1, p. 74 ; Offensive axillary sweat , Lippe, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 3 ; Tonic muscular contraction of leg , Kershaw, Org., vol. 1, p. 311 ; Fetid foot sweat , Jones, H. W., vol. 11, p. 233 ; Herpes circinatus , Metcalf, N. A. J. H., vol. 2, p. 408 ; Eczema behind ears , Hah. Mo., 1889, p. 608 ; Scrofulous eruption , Boynton, Hom. Times, vol. 3, p. 203.

Mind

Forgetful ; when engaged in doing one thing, forgets and neglects others.
Fear of being touched in sensitive places.
Excitable and disposed to fly into a passion.
Rough, angular disposition.
Mind depressed.

Sensorium

Vertigo : morning after rising from bed ; < when walking, sitting up, or turning head ; pulse accelerated, nausea, vomiting of food ; > 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 small spot over left eye ; pain short, sharp and defined.
Congestion to temples and forehead on awaking in morning ; < on stooping, when there is a heavy full feeling.
Sudden rush of blood to head.
While sitting, face red.
Headache on being awakened toward morning.
Congestion to head and nape of neck, followed by weakness, faintness in stomach.

Outer head

Tearing in left half of head.
Itching in scalp.
Red spots, with fine blisters on occiput, neck and behind ears, and on posterior surface of ears.

Sight and eyes

Deposit of chalky-looking white mass on anterior surface of lens. θ Cataract.
Pterygium.
Herpes conjunctivæ bulbi ; veins enlarged, running horizontally toward cornea, ending in little blisters near edge of cornea ; < from crying.
Conjunctivitis pustulosa ; with eczema impetiginoides on lids and much purulent discharge from eyes ; offensive discharge from ears.
Scrofulous inflammations ; < left upper lid ; lachrymation ; itching and pressure in lid.
Eyelids : thickened, inflamed, covered with pustules ; itching ; pale, red, œdematous, oozing.
A feeling as if lashes of lower lid were turned in.
Palpebral swelling of upper lid, left side ; ulceration on outer surface of lid near external canthus ; pain < at night.

Hearing and ears

Left ear began to itch, burn and swell ; aching and throbbing pain in meatus, followed by a copious, watery acrid discharge.
Dull throbbing pain in ears day and night ; thin, watery, excoriating discharge.
Vesicular eruption on membrana ; suppurating and perforating.
Membrana tympani permanently injured and hearing greatly diminished.
Itching and swelling, with painful throbbing in external meatus ; in three or four days discharge of watery fluid smelling like fish-pickle, which causes vesicles wherever it touches ; ear is bluish-red, œdematous ; hearing impaired.
Sensation as if something suddenly closed in ear, or as if air whistled through left eustachian tube ; when snuffing or belching, air passes through.
Waked during night with dull aching deep in right ear, continued, with great depression of spirits, for three days.
Constant rather severe pain deep in right ear.
A transparent yellowish watery fluid constantly oozed from meatus, which was obstructed by amberlike crusts ; discharge offensive, sometimes putrid, but generally of a musty smell like fish-brine ; ears itched ; outer ear swollen, inflamed ; some pustules had arisen wherever discharge had touched any abraded surface of ear or face.
A girl, æt. 13 ; for nearly five years discharge of pus and blood from both ears ; frequent attacks of intolerable otalgia ; deafness with thunderous roaring in ears ; frontal headache and frequent epistaxis.
Deaf, with a purulent offensive discharge from ears ; bleeding from ear very profuse, provoked by slightest touch on meatus by finger ; external ear swollen ; bluish-red, shining and studded with vesicles ; it exuded a thin watery fluid ; whole ear looked as if water-soaked. θ After scarlatina.
Ulceration in external auditory meatus.
Eczema behind ears, with formation of thick crusts ; scrofulous conjunctivitis, blepharitis and catarrh of middle ear.

Smell and nose

Fluent coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness when walking in open air, with short cough and pressure in middle of chest under sternum ; after being some time in open air it goes away.
Nose dry, then becomes fluent with relief of headache ; r. eye becomes hot with profuse lachrymation.
Nose obstructed, must breathe through mouth.
Hawks from posterior nares dried yellowish-red phlegm tasting salty, mornings.

Upper face

Sudden flushes of redness over face.
Twitching in left facial muscles, left corner of mouth drawn upward when talking.
Ringworms on face ; barber's itch.

Teeth and gums

Salivation ; gums bleed easily and profusely.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste earthy, metallic.
Tongue : somewhat swollen ; furred white ; shows prints of teeth.

Inner mouth

Breath has a garliclike odor.
Coldness in mouth and pharynx on drawing in air.
Tenacious mucus runs from mouth ; a dog.
Copious saliva.

Palate and throat

Painful dryness of fauces.
In morning hawking from back of nose pieces of yellowishreddish phlegm of a saltish taste.
Rough, scratching sensation in throat ; < toward evening.
Throat feels sore, with a prickly, rough sensation evening and morning ; throat sore on empty swallowing ; > after eating and drinking.
Pain in throat extends into ear.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Hungry at night ; wants an apple in middle of night.
Longs for beer.

Eating and drinking

Eating or drinking : sore throat disappears.
After meals great drowsiness.
After eating rice was obliged to vomit.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Belching, with taste of what has been eaten.
Heartburn, with warmth in stomach as from alcohol.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sensation of weakness, like faintness, in stomach after local congestion of blood to head and nape of neck, also with chest symptoms.
Fulness in pit of stomach, must lie down after dinner.
Constrictive feeling, as if strapped together.

Hypochondria

Fulness and oppression in hypogastrium ; her dress must be loosened.
Pressing, first left then right side, as from wind.
When lying on left side, throbbing under right ribs and vice versa.

Abdomen and loins

Pinching in abdomen.
Frequent spasmodic pains in bowels as from incarcerated wind ; mostly from 5 to 9 P. M.

Stools and rectum

Passes very offensive flatus.
Passes a large quantity of thread worms.
Spasmodic pains with urging to stool, copious stool with feeling of flatulence in bowels.
Costive.
Tetter on perineum, itching.

Urinary organs

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

Male sexual organs

Increased sexual desire, followed by long-lasting indifference.
A drop of viscid fluid glues meatus urinarius.
Secondary gonorrhœa.
Herpes on scrotum and perineum.

Female sexual organs

Painful soreness in region of kidneys, extending downward like a weight, mostly to right, and in sacrum ; < in morning, making her irritable.
Shooting deep in pelvis across to left.
Menses too early, in climacteric years.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness in morning with fluent coryza, a rough, pressing, tickling sensation in larynx.

Respiration

Coughing or laughing increases aching in small of back.

Cough

Cough toward morning ; after a few days looser.

Inner chest and lungs

Pain in region of clavicle.
Cutting in left nipple, across and through to scapula.
Pain in middle of chest : going through to back ; from dorsal vertebræ through to sternum ; in or behind sternum.
Shooting in left chest, fifth rib.
Feeling as if some fluid wanted to discharge, pressing downward in middle lobe of right lung.
For five days, bubbling in middle lobe of right lung for a few minutes, chiefly in afternoon.

Heart, pulse and circulation

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

Outer chest

Eruption about nipple.

Neck and back

Painful sensitiveness of spine from last cervical to fifth dorsal vertebra ; sensitive to pressure and touch.
Weak feeling in back.
Pain in sacrum passing into right thigh ; < pressing at stool, coughing and laughing. θ Sciatica.

Upper limbs

Offensive smelling perspiration of armpit, smelling like garlic.
Pressing ache in right scapula, later in left.
Lump in anterior wall of left axilla, painful from pressure or motion.
Tearing near thumb joint.
Finger tips feel dead on stretching hand.
Rheumatism of right little finger, < moving finger.

Lower limbs

Sciatica of right side ; < when lying on affected side.
Sciatica accompanied by sensitiveness of vertebral column, pains radiating from sacrum to right sciatic nerve.
Fetid sweating of feet.
Tonic muscular contraction of long standing.
Contraction of tendons in bends of knees.
Bruised pain in hip joints after walking.
Feet sweaty, mostly on toes.

Limbs in general

Sharp quick pains in elbows, ankles and other parts.
Aching all over, mostly in limbs, < right side and on walking.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : pricking <.
Lying : vertigo > ; on left side, throbbing under right ribs and vice versa ; on left side, pain in region of heart, > on back ; on affected side, sciatica <.
Sitting up : vertigo ; face red.
Stooping : fulness on head <.
Motion : brain feels as if beaten ; lump in axilla painful ; of finger, rheumatism <.
Turning head : vertigo.
Coughing or laughing : < aching in small of back ; < sciatica.
Walking : vertigo, followed by bruised pain in hip joints ; aching in limbs.

Nerves

Restlessness.
Lassitude and weakness.

Sleep

Yawning and belching.
Drowsy after a meal.
Sleepless ; restless turning from weariness and bruised feeling.
At night pains all over.
On going to sleep feels as if in air, quick drawing toward feet awakens him.

Time

Toward morning : cough.
Morning : vertigo ; heaviness and fulness in head ; on being awakened, headache ; hawking from posterior nares ; soreness in region of kidneys < ; hoarseness and coryza.
Toward evening : roughness and scratching in throat <.
At 5 to 9 P. M. : pain as from wind in bowels.
Night : pain in left upper lid < ; waking with dull aching deep in right ear ; hungry ; pains all over ; itching of pimples <.

Temperature and weather

Open air : fluent coryza and hoarseness.
In cold or cool air : itching <.
Cool breeze : warm sweat.

Fever

Chilly, with pains.
Sweat : on face ; on spots, with increased itching of these places ; after throbbing through whole body ; generally warm, while sitting in a cool breeze.

Attacks, periodicity

Day and night : dull throbbing pain in ears.

Locality and direction

Left : sharp pain in small spot over eye ; tearing in head ; scrofulous inflammation of upper lid ; swelling and ulceration of upper lid ; inflammation of ear ; as if air whistled through eustachian tube ; twitching in facial muscles ; cutting from nipple to scapula ; shooting in chest ; lump in axilla ; small, red, itching points on hand ; foot itches more ; herpes between ribs and crest of ilium.
Right : heat in eye with lachrymation ; pressing downward and bubbling in middle lobe of lung ; pain in thigh from sacrum ; rheumatism in left finger ; sciatica ; aching in limbs < ; herpes above eye.
Right to left : shooting in pelvis ; pressing ache in scapulæ.
Left to right : pressure in hypochondria.

Sensations

Fear of being touched in sensitive places.
As if in air on going to sleep ; brain as if beaten ; as if lashes were turned in ; as if something closed in ear ; as if air whistled through left eustachian tube ; as if strapped together in epigastric region ; as if fluid wanted to discharge in lobe of right lung.
Pain : in region of clavicle ; in middle of chest, through to back ; in or behind sternum ; in sacrum, extending into right thigh.
Spasmodic pains : in bowels ; with urging to stool.
Violent pain : linear, in small spot over left eye.
Sharp, quick pain : in elbows, ankles and other parts.
Cutting : in left nipple through to scapula.
Tearing : in left half of head ; near thumb joints.
Shooting : in pelvis ; in left chest, fifth rib.
Stinging : in skin.
Prickly sensation : in throat ; in skin.
Burning : in left ear.
Aching : in meatus auditorius ; deep in right ear ; in small of back ; in shoulder blades ; of limbs.
Soreness : in region of kidneys.
Bruised pain : in hip joints.
Pinching : in abdomen.
Dull pain : in region of heart.
Constriction : in epigastrium.
Pressure : in left upper lid ; under sternum ; in hypochondria ; in larynx ; in shoulder blades.
Scratching : in throat.
Roughness : in throat.
Bubbling : in middle lobe of right lung.
Throbbing : in ears ; under ribs ; through whole body.
Fulness : in head ; in pit of stomach.
Heaviness : in head.
Weight : in back and sacrum.
Deadness : in finger tips.
Faintness : in stomach.
Weak feeling : in back.
Tickling : in larynx.
Itching : in scalp ; in left upper lid ; in ears ; of sweaty places ; in pimples ; in small, red points ; of feet.
Coldness : in mouth and pharynx on drawing in air.
Dryness : of fauces.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : fear of, in sensitive places ; provokes bleeding from ear ; spine sensitive.
Pressure : lump in axilla painful.

Skin

Ringworms : on face ; barber's itch ; cover whole body, more distinct on lower limbs ; on single parts.
Stinging in skin.
Small red pimples, very bright red, and very sharply defined, with minute vesicles upon them, first on lower extremities, then also on upper, most on left side ; they began first on outside of calves and then on inside of forearms, above wrist, and spread from that point, caused very severe itching day and night, but most at night, after going to bed.
On left hand, small red points shining through skin, which sometimes itch ; feet also itch, especially left, as if there were some heat vesicles there.
Little stinging prickings in various parts of skin of whole body, continuing all afternoon and evening and forcing him to rub spot ; came on like flea-bites here and there, lasting all day ; pricking continued very troublesome at times, principally when at rest, for several weeks, but gradually subsided ; a little spot of herpes circinatus made its appearance a few days since, on forehead, perpendicularly above external canthus of right eye, and about half an inch above brow ; it was at first a little cluster of globular vesicles, on an inflamed base, which dried into thin scales and spread by circumference ; itches and pricks slightly ; the herpetic spot is now circular about half an inch in diameter, and consists of an elevated ring of vesicles, some larger than others, on an inflamed base, enclosing a depressed area of red skin, which desquamates but contains no vesicles, it continues to itch slightly and to furnish successive crops of thin, white scales ; troublesome stinging, very annoying, in evening, when sitting still, wandering all over body ; a herpetic spot similar to one on forehead made its appearance on left side, midway between ribs and crest of ilium, accompanied by very troublesome itching which changed to smarting on being rubbed ; it forms about three-quarters of a circle and is irregular ; there are indications of another spot just above it ; stinging in skin succeeded by constant itching of scalp, which requires continual scratching ; itching is apparently due to eruption of fine vesicles on a slightly inflamed base, which after remaining a few days dry up and fall off in little white scales ; they are most plentiful on occipital scalp, on nape, in borders of hair, and on posterior surface of auricles ; this itching has been constant and annoying for a week, and bids fair to continue ; spot on forehead is breaking up, there being several gaps in ring, which is now three-quarters of an inch in diameter ; just above it another spot has appeared, precisely similar but smaller ; eruption has nearly disappeared from head and itching has almost ceased ; spot on forehead is no longer to be discerned, skin being scarcely reddened where it existed ; new one is slightly increasing and forms about twothirds of a circle, but not as vigorous as its predecessor ; spots on side have disappeared.
Body thickly covered with elevated rings of herpes circinatus ; eruption very marked, especially on lower limbs ; vesicles quite perceptible at a glance ; rings intersect each other and in some places so crowded as to obliterate specific character of affection ; great heat of skin ; restlessness ; rapid pulse ; thirst ; headache.
Psoriasis.
Fetid exhalations from body.
Prickling itching all over skin, with papular eruption.
Skin dry, hot.
Itching more in cold or cool air.
Scrofulous eczematous eruption.

Stage of life, constitution

Boy, æt. 3 ; herpes circinatus.
Girl, æt. 4 ; conjunctivitis.
Boy, æt. 9, had scarlatina in infancy, since then suffering ; otorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 13, suffering five years ; otorrhœa.

Relations

Antidoted by : Nux vom . (epigastric oppression).
Compare : Arsen . (restlessness) ; Cepa (coryza) ; Pulsat . (otitis) ; Rhus tox . (restlessness) ; Sepia (ringworm) ; Sulphur, Selenium .