Materia Medica
Teucrium Marum
Cat-thyme
Nasal and rectal symptoms marked. Polypi. Affec- tions of children. Suitable after too much medicine has been taken, Oversensitiveness. Desire to stretch. A remedy of first importance in chronic nasal catarrh with atrophy; large, offensive crusts and clinkers. Osena. Loss of sense of smell.
Head
Excited, tremulous .feeling. Frontal pain; worse, stooping. Strengthens brain after delirium tremens.
Eyes
Smarting in canthi; lids red and puffy; tar- sal tumor. [Staph.]
Ears
Hissing and ringing otalgia.
Nose
Catarrhal condition of both anterior and posterior nostrils. Mucous polypus. Chronic catarrh; discharge of large, irregular clinkcrs. Foul breath. Crawling in nostrils, with lachrymation and sneezing. Coryza, with stoppage of nostrils.
Stomach
Vomiting of large quantities of dark- green masses.( Constant hiccough, attended with pain in back. Unnatural appetite. Hiccough on eating, after nursing.
Rectum
Itching of anus, and constant irritation in the evening in bed. Ascarides, with nightly restlessness. Crawling in rectum after stool.
Extremities
Affection of finger-tips and joints of toes. Tearing pains in arms and legs. Pains in toe- nails, as if they had grow into flesh.
Skin
Itching causes tossing about all night. Very dry skin. Suppurating grooves in the nails.
Sleep
Restless, with twitching, choking, and start- ing up frightened.
Relationships
Compare: Teucrium scorodonia (in tuberculosis with muco-purulent expectoration; dropsy ; orchitis and tuberculous cpidicymitis; especially in young, thin individuals with tuberculosis of lungs, glands; bones and urogcnitals, 3x). Cina; Ignat.; Sun.; Sil.
Dose
First to sixth potency. Locally for polypi, dry powder.