A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy
Terebinthina ter.
General action
Inflammation of the kidneys and urinary tract, with hæmorrhages and strangury.
Bronchitis, enteritis, with marked tympanitis.
Hæmorrhages 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
Diarrhœa, with distended abdomen; stools watery, greenish, fetid.
Hæmorrhage 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, hæmorrhages from the bowels.
Respiratory organs
Hæmoptysis, 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, hæmorrhages, stupor, delirium.