Materia Medica

Terebinthina

Turpentine

Has a elective affinity for bleeding mucous surfacrs. fammation of kidneys, with hamorrhages — dark, pas- sive, fetid. Drowsiness and strangury. Coma. l Un- broken chilblains.

Head

Dull pain like from a band around the head. [Carb. ac.] Vertigo, with vanishing of vision. Cold in head with sore nostrils with disposition to bleed.

Eyes

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

Ears

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

Mouth

Tongue dry, red, sore, shining; burning in tip. with prominent papilla. [Arg. n.; Bcll.; Kali b.; Nux m.] Breath cold, foul. Choking sensation in

Throat

Stomatitis. Dentition.

Stomach

Nausea and vomiting; heat in epigastric region.

Abdomen

Enormous distention. Diarrhoea; stools watery, greenish, fetid, bloody. Hemorrhage from bowels. Worms; lumbrici. Abdominal dropsy; pelvic peritonitis. Fainting after every stool. Entero-colitis, with hamorrhage and ulceration of bowels.

Urinary

Strangury, with bloody urine. Scanty, suppressed, odor of violets. Urethritis, with painful erections. [Canthar.] Inflamed kidneys following any acute disease. Constant tenesmus.

Female

Intense burning in uterine region. Me- ritis; puerpeial peritonitis. Metrorrhagia with burning in uterus. a - tended ; haemoptysis. 735

Heart

Pulse rapid, small, thread, intermittent.

Back

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

Skin

Purpura. ecchymosis, dropsies. Scarlatina. Chilblains; with excessive itching and pulsative pains.

Fever

Heat, with violent thirst, dry tongue, pro- fuse cold, clammy sweat. Typhoid with tympanites, hamorrhages, stupor, delirium. Prostration.

Relationships

Compare: Alumen: Serule; Canth.; Nit. ac. Terebcne 1x (subacute stages of inflammation of respiratory tract. Loosens secretion, relieves tight- ened feeling, makes expectoration easy). Neurotic coughs. Huskiness of public speakers, and singers. Antidote: Phos. Ononis spinosa —Rest Harrow — (Diuretic, Lithontriptic). (Chronic nephritis; calculus ; nosebleed, worse washing face.)

Dose

First to sixth potency.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 728. Public domain.

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