TELLURIUM METALLICUM
The Metal Tellurium
(TELLURIUM)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.
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