Teucrium Marum Verum - General symptoms

GENERAL

General

On passing the hand through the hair and over the right ear, there followed a hissing sound, extending down the parietal bone and through the whole inner ear.

the experiment could be repeated with a similar result for a quarter of an hour, now disappearing, soon returning and lasting a longer time.

a similar sound was afterwards caused by talking, and even eructations caused slight or loud sounds.

so also forcibly drawing air through the nose in the morning (second day),.

Suddenly in the evening the pulse begins to be felt, and it beats rapidly, in the middle of the phalanx of the left index finger.

every beat of the pulse is accompanied by an acute goutlike drawing pain from behind forward, as if in the middle of the bone, lasting several minutes.

then the pulse gradually beats more slowly, and the pain decreases at the same time,.

A dragging down in the right side of the lower abdomen, towards the inguinal ring, in the spermatic cord, not painful, but accompanied by a sensation as if the spermatic cord were compressed, in the evening in bed.

it returned at short intervals next morning after breakfast while sitting, but without flatus.

at stool nothing was noticed.

it returned about 5 P.M. after eating a little,.

Very acute paralytic pressive pain in the upper part of the right upper arm.

if the arm hangs quietly, or is only moderately moved, he feels nothing, but as soon as it is raised it seems very heavy as if paralyzed.

if raised and drawn backward the pain is worse, for example, on taking off the hat.

it is felt at the insertion of the deltoid into the humerus.

if he attempts to raise it high and move it backward it loses all power and sinks down,.

The right great toe is somewhat inflamed and painful to the left of the nail and the above it, *as if the nail had grown into the flesh (which, however, was not the case).

rather relieved than aggravated by walking.

during the forenoon, recurring for several days, while sitting quietly.

in the afternoon the redness and pain disappeared,.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Longs for motion in the open air, where he is constantly in active motion without the slightest weariness; with very good humor, joy, and contentment (first day),

Existed tremulous sensation over the whole body,

Very indolent; inclined to neither physical nor mental exertion (after two hours),

Feeling of prostration (as after intoxication), and fasting, about dinner-time; especially soon after eating (after eight hours, and third day),

Nasal and rectal symptoms marked. Polypi. Affections 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. Ozaena. loss of sense of smell.

Marum verum. Cat Thyme. N. O. Labiatae. Tincture of whole fresh plant.

The Germander group of the Labiatae, to which the Teucriums belong, had an important place in old herbal medicine, and homoeopathy has placed Teuc. m. on a firm foundation. Stapf and others proved it. Marked symptoms of helminthiasis, irritation of anus and nose, were elicited, and Teuc. has well justified the labour of the provers in this respect. No remedy meets more cases of threadworms than Teucr. The nasal symptoms have led to the use of Teuc. in nasal polypus. Guernsey gives this as guiding "Polypus with stoppage of nose on side lain on.

large red pimples under right nostril near septum, sore and smarting to touch." A snuff of Teuc. has been used in some cases in addition to the internal use of the remedy. But Teuc. has a relation to new growth in general as well as of the nose. It has removed a fibrous tumour of the eyelid.

urethral granulations following gonorrhoea.

and also uterine fibroids. Worms and polypi suggest a tubercular taint, and I have used both Teuc. m. and Teuc. scorod. in phthisical cases. I was led to think of the remedies by reading an article on the latter, and not being able to obtain it I gave Teuc. m. Ø, in five-drop doses three times a day, to a man of 44 who had phthisis affecting the right lung with severe recurrent haemorrhages. Teuc. helped him much, and with other remedies he got quite well, and has now been at his work for some years. But whilst taking Teuc. he noticed that he passed a large quantity of threadworms, to which he was not at all subject. C. M. Boger (Hahn. Ad., xxxviii. 40) relates this case of cough Patient had with the cough a mouldy taste in the throat when hawking up mucus. Expectoration profuse. Rapid loss of weight and strength. Anorexia. A brother had died of phthisis four years before with very similar symptoms. Teuc. m. 3x helped, and 20x finished the cure. The italicised symptom is a keynote. Teuc. has the craving hunger of the antipsorics and worm remedies.

it prevents sleep at night. Nervous, irritable, sensitive. There are many rheumatic and gouty symptoms and scapular pains, both in the bones and joints. Limbs go to sleep with tingling when sitting. Peculiar Sensations are As if air forced through mucus in ear. As if right nostril were partly stopped. As if nail had grown into flesh of right great toe. Chill as from abdomen. Sensation as from fleabites. Teuc. is Suited to Old persons and children. When too much medicine has produced an over-sensitive condition and remedies fail to act. The symptoms are agg. By touch. agg. Sitting. agg. Stooping. agg. On side lain on. Moving amel. Disinclined for exertion. agg. Evening and at night. Desires exercise in open air, which does not fatigue. Warmth agg. agg. Warmth of bed. Wet weather agg.

Teucrium marum verum. E. Stapf. Labiatae.

Dose

First to sixth potency. Locally for polypi, dry powder.

Clinical

Anus, itching of. Eyelids, tumour of. Fibroma. Hiccough. Ingrowing toenail. Nose, catarrh of. Polypus. Psoriasis. Rheumatism. Urethra, excrescences in. Worms.