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TEREBINTHINA – A Primer of Materia Medica for practitioners of Homoeopathy by Timothy Field Allen

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TEREBINTHINA

General action :

Inflammation of the kidneys and urinary tract, with hćmorrhages and
strangury.
Bronchitis, enteritis, with marked tympanitis.
Hćmorrhages from affected parts seem to be a constant characteristic.

Generalities :

Weakness.
Subsultus tendinum.
Convulsions, with rigid spine and opisthotonos.
Stupidity ; complete coma.

Head :

Dull headache, like a band around the head.
Vertigo, often with nausea, and sudden vanishing of vision.

Eyes :


Clinical

 :
Ciliary neuralgia over the right eye.
Episcleritis, with intense pain in the eye and side of the head.
Iritis, with intense pain.
Amblyopia, alcoholic.

Nose :

Epistaxis (with albuminuria).

Mouth :

Tongue dry, with tympanitis.

Stomach :

Nausea and vomiting.
Heat in the stomach.

Abdomen :

Enormous meteorismus.

Stool :

Diarrhśa, with distended abdomen ; stools watery, greenish, fetid.
Hćmorrhage from the bowels.

Urinary organs :

Strangury, with bloody urine.
Inflammation of the kidneys ; bleeding.
Urethritis, with painful erections.
Difficult micturition, with burning, at times, total suppression of urine.
Urine bloody and scanty or suppressed, of the odor of violets.

Sexual organs :


Clinical

 :
Metritis, with puerperal peritonitis, intense burning in uterine region,
enormously distended abdomen, dry tongue.
Small pulse, hćmorrhages from the bowels.

Respiratory organs :

Hćmoptysis, with difficult breathing, a sense of distention of the lungs.

Heart and Pulse :

Pulse rapid, small, compressible, thready ; intermittent.

Back :

Burning pains in the region of the kidneys, with painfulness.
Drawing in the right kidney, extending to the hip.

Skin :

Ecchymoses.

Fever :

Heat, with violent thirst, dry tongue, followed by a profuse, cold, clammy
sweat.

Clinical

 :
Not infrequently indicated in low types of typhoid, with abdominal
distention, hćmorrhages, stupor, delirium.

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