Terebinthiniae Oleum

T. scorodonia is an extremely bitter plant with the smell and taste of hops, for

which it has been substituted. Some have observed an alliaceous smell, and Cazin says that it

gives a garlicky taste to the milk of cows, goats, and sheep which eat it. Dr. Criquelion, of Mons

• ▸(Rev.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸Belge, June, 1895, quoted R.
• ▸H.
• ▸Francaise, Feb.
• ▸, 1896), tells how Dr.
• ▸Martiny one

day, in the Ardennes, had occasion to examine a man of thirty who was apparently in the last

stage of consumption and had a cavity in one apex. Martiny gave his opinion that he had not long

to live. A year later, being in the same district, he called at the house and inquired of a man

whom he saw there, apparently in perfect health, what had become of the invalid. "J am he," was

the reply. It was the fact, though it took some time to convince Martiny of it. An old woman had

recommended him to make a tisane of the Wood Germander which grew abundantly about there.

He had taken it daily, and got well. ["A similar case," says Cooper, "was told me by a

• ▸distinguished scientist.
• ▸Teuc.
• ▸s.
• ▸is allied to Marrubium vulgare (Common or White Horehound),

a well-known cough remedy; and to Nepeta glechoma (Ground Ivy), which was formerly much

• ▸used with snail-jelly for chest affections.
• ▸"] Martiny introduced Teuc.
• ▸s.
• ▸into his practice and used

a tisane of it with much success in bronchorrhcea and consumptive affections with tuberculous

elements and muco-purulent expectoration. I have, myself, confirmed this, using the @ tincture

in five or ten-drop doses two or three times a day. Criquelion points out that Teucrine has been

used as a subcutaneous injection in tubercular cases as a substitute for Koch's Tuberculin.

Criquelion had a patient, a farmer of scrofulous habit, high colour thick neck, who had had for

ten years an enlarged testicle the size of a quince, which he diagnosed to be tuberculous. Teuc. s.

6 was given, one drop in four spoonfuls of water; a spoonful three-quarters of an hour before

each meal. After three months the testicle was softer; in six months it had almost returned to its

proper size.

State of irritability, and irascibility, with sensitiveness so great that fatigue is produced

by merely hearing the conversation of others.—Irritability < after eating (with pressure in

forehead).—Moroseness.—Indolence, and great aversion to exertion, either mental or

physical——Excessive moral excitement and loquacity.—Irresistible inclination to sing.

Great irritability and nervous excitement, with trembling (sensation in whole

body), and dizziness.—Staggering when walking; when walking, placing one foot over

• ▸another.
• ▸—Numbness and tingling in limbs.
• ▸—Great desire for exercise in open air.
• ▸—Itching

shootings in different parts ——[One of the strongest characteristics of this remedy is, patients can't

sleep at night on account of an intense itching at the anus (which may be produced by ascarides),

causing him to toss and roll about all night, the itching lasts all night —Hiccough; flatus in

general.—Very dry skin; entire absence of perspiration.—Affections in general of the finger-tips;

• ▸joints of the toes.
• ▸—H.
• ▸N.
• ▸G.
• ▸]

• ▸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.

Headache, with dull, spasmodic pain.—Pressive pains in head, principally in eyes,

forehead, and temples, < on stooping.—Skin of forehead feels sensitive to touch.—Tearing by

paroxysms, in r. side of head (alternating with the same sensation in r. frontal eminence, and in 1.

temple).

Ciliary neuralgia over right eye. Intense pain in eye and side of head. Amblyopia from alcohol.

Pains in eyes with pressure, as if sand were in them.—Biting sensations.—Smarting in

• ▸eyes, esp.
• ▸in internal canthi, with redness of conjunctiva.
• ▸—Eyes red and inflamed.
• ▸—Fibrous

tumour inside lower lid, one-third inch in diameter; preventing closing lids; bedimmed, sight; no

• ▸pain.
• ▸—Redness and puffiness of upper lids.
• ▸—Profuse smarting tears in open air.
• ▸—Eyes watery,

with an appearance as after weeping.

Own voice sounds unnatural; humming as of a seashell, talking loudly is painful. Otalgia.

Otalgia—Shootings and tearings in ears.—Whistling in ears, when speaking, or when

producing any sound whatever.—A hissing sound in ear when passing hand over it, when talking,

or when inhaling air through nose with force.—Eruption of scaly tetters on the lobe of ear.

Sensation of obstruction in nose.—Tingling in nose.—Frequent sneezing, with tingling

in nose; with crawling in nose without coryza.—Stinging, lancinating pain in upper part of the

• ▸nasal cavity.
• ▸—Violent crawling in r.
• ▸nostril, with lachrymation of r.
• ▸eye.
• ▸—Sensation as if nostrils

were stopped; blowing nose or sneezing does not remove the obstruction; nasal

polypus.—Obstruction of nose.—Polypus, with stoppage of the nose on the side he lies on; large

red pimple under r. nostril, near septum, sore and smarting to touch.—Fluent coryza in open air.

Sickly, pale complexion, with hollow eyes.—Flushes of heat on face, without

redness.—On both sides of under lip, two deep furrows with elevated edges.—Pressive tearing in

zygomatic process, extending to teeth.

• ▸Tongue dry, red sore, shining; burning in tip, with prominent papillae (Arg n; Bell; Kali b; Nux m).
• ▸Breath cold, foul.
• ▸Choking sensation in throat.
• ▸Stomatitis.
• ▸Dentition.

Mouth clammy.—Much mucus in mouth.—Smarting as from pepper, first on L, later

• ▸also on r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Smarting and scraping in bottom of gullet, and in root of the tongue (esp.
• ▸1.
• ▸side).

Toothache, with tearing pain in roots of teeth and gums (of the r. lower

incisors).—Pain in teeth and gums during mastication.

Sore throat, with shooting pain, and impeded deglutition.—Pressure or drawing and

tearing in throat.—Frequent necessity to hawk, and hawking up of much mucus of a mouldy taste.

10. Appetite-—Hunger in morning and evening.—Bitter taste in gullet after dinner—Appetite

increased.—Sensation of hunger, as if the food were unsatisfying, and which hinders

sleep.—Cuttings or nausea, with inclination to vomit after drinking water.

Nausea and vomiting; heat in epigastric region.

Hunger and thirst with debility—Loss of appetite, great thirst Desire to eat

more; after a satisfying meal.—Diminished appetite —Aversion to animal food.—After eating:

sick at stomach; loud rumbling in bowels, while pain in hypochondrium disappears; pressure in

scrobiculus and distension of abdomen.—Warm drinks = burning in chest.

Regurgitation of food, with bitter taste —Troublesome hiccough when eating,

with violent blows in scrobiculus.—Little children, emaciated, jerking hiccough after nursing,

and belching without bringing anything up.—Vomiting dark green mucus; hiccough with a stitch

through stomach to back.—Pain in stomach, as from emptiness, with gurgling.—Faintness in pit

of stomach.—Pressure, and anxious oppression in scrobiculus.

• ▸Enormous distention.
• ▸Diarrhoea; stools watery, greenish, fetid, bloody.
• ▸Pain before flatus with and relief after stool.
• ▸Haemorrhage from bowels.
• ▸Worms; lumbrici.
• ▸Abdominal dropsy; pelvic peritonitis.
• ▸Fainting after every stool Entero-colitis, with haemorrhage and ulceration of bowels.

Colic (cutting pain) after drinking beer or water.—Colic, with tearing drawings,

under hypochondria.—Incarceration of flatus, with drawing, pinching, and gurgling in

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Pressure in abdomen.
• ▸—Pressure towards inguinal ring.
• ▸—Frequent emission of silent,

hot, hepatic-smelling flatulence.—Expulsion of much flatus, having the smell of rotten eggs.

Copious fetid evacuations of the consistence of pap.—Crawling in the

rectum after stool.—Expulsion of ascarides (with creeping and itching, and nightly restlessness; <

from warmth of bed).—Frequent itching and tingling in anus, often after the

evacuations.—Crawling and violent sticking in anus in evening, in bed.—Swelling, itching, and

creeping at anus as from ascarides.

Increased secretion of watery (pale) urine.—Distressing sensation, as from

excoriation, and smarting in the upper part of the urethra.—Burning sensation, during and after

the emission of urine.—Diminished sexual desire.

• ▸Strangury, with bloody urine.
• ▸Scanty, suppressed, odor of violets.
• ▸Urethritis, with painful erections (Canthar).
• ▸Inflamed kidneys following any acute disease.
• ▸Constant tenesmus.

Intense burning in uterine region. Metritis; puerperal peritonitis. Metrorrhagia with burning in uterus.

Smooth pedunculate, pear-shaped polypus of vagina, protruding

three inches beyond hymen.

Difficult breathing; lungs feel distended; haemoptysis. Bloody expectoration.

Pulse rapid, small, thready, intermittent.

Suddenly in evening pulse begins to be felt, beats rapidly, with gout-like pains in

fingers.

Burning pain in region of kidneys. Drawing in right kidney extending to hip.

Pain in nape.—Pain in small of back on rising.—Severe pain in coccyx and

lower extremity of r. ischium, esp. when sitting (an old symptom revived).

Painful heaviness in arms and forearms.—Jerking of muscles of

arms.—Drawing tearing (rheumatic pains) in bones and joints of arms, hands, and

fingers.—Burning in the tips of fingers—The finger-joints bend over

easily.—Panaritium.—Painful pulsations and drawing in the forefinger.

Jerking of muscles of legs.—Tearings in joints and bones of legs, feet and

toes.—Pain in great toe, as if the nail were entering the flesh—Nail of r. great toe grows in and

ulcerates.—Ingrowing of toe-nails with ulceration.

• ▸Acne.
• ▸Erythema; itching pustular, vesicular eruption; urticaria.
• ▸Purpura, ecchymosis, dropsies.
• ▸Scarlatina.
• ▸Chilblains; with excessive itching and pulsative pains.
• ▸Aching soreness of the muscles.

Sleep retarded in evening.—Unrefreshing sleep, and difficulty in waking in

morning.—Agitated sleep at night, from excessive excitement (sleeplessness, esp. before

midnight; goes to sleep late), with vivid dreams and frequent starts—Very vivid, most agreeable

dreams.

Heat, with violent thirst, dry tongue, profuse cold, clammy sweat. Typhoid with tympanites, haemorrhages, stupor, delirium. Prostration.

Shivering and shaking, often with icy coldness in hands, and frequent

yawning.—Chilliness after eating, and when talking about unpleasant things.—Heat < in evening,

with exaltation and great loquacity.—Frequent feeling of flushing in face, without external

redness.

Teucrium Scorodonia.

• ▸Teucrium scorodonia.
• ▸Wood Germander.
• ▸Wood Sage.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Labiatz.
• ▸Tincture of whole

fresh plant.

• ▸Compare: Alumen; Secale; Canth; Nit ac. Terebene 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-Rest Harrow--(Diuretic, Lithontriptic. Chronic nephritis; diuretic effects like Juniper; calculus nosebleed, worse washing face).

Antidote: Phos.

First to sixth potency.

Rheumatism in the limbs, esp. in bones and joints —Tearing in the limbs, esp. in the

joints.—Jerking of the muscles.—The limbs go to sleep.