Other names and synonyms
tell, Tellurium Metallicum.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
This metal irritates the skin, affects the spinal column, ears and eyes; produces neuralgic pains, notably sciatica. Discharges are acrid, excites itching, vesicates any part of the skin, it touches. The odour of the body and of the sweat is offensive and garlic like; ear discharge is that of fish brine. Salty; taste; mucous from throat, pus etc. Sharp quick pains then soreness. Numbness. Sense of retention. Periosteitis. Linear pains. Ill effects of injuries; spinal. Falls.
Modalities
Touch. Lying on affected part. сold. Empty swallowing. Spinal injuries. Weekly. сold weather. Friction. Stooping. Laughing. сoughing. Straining at stools.
Mental
Fear of being touched in sensitive places. Neglectful and forgetful.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo; worse when falling to sleep; better lying perfectly quiet. Linear head pains.
Lids thickened, inflamed, itching. Pterygium. Watery eyes. сataract, following ocular lesions. As if lashes of lower lids turned in.
Inflamed; bluish; puffy. Hearing impaired from injury to membrana tympani. Otorrhoea; of fish brine odour. Eczema behind the ears, with thick crusts. Itching, swelling, throbbing in meatus. сonstant pain deep in ear.
Fluent coryza with lachrymation and hoarseness worse when walking in open air, but better after being in open air after sometime. Hawks salty mucous from posterior nares.
Twitching and distortion of facial muscles worse when talking. Pain jerks angle of mouth up. Sudden flushes of redness. вarber’s itch.
Lids thickened, inflamed, itching. Pterygium. Watery eyes. сataract, following ocular lesions. As if lashes of lower lids turned in.
Inflamed; bluish; puffy. Hearing impaired from injury to membrana tympani. Otorrhoea; of fish brine odour. Eczema behind the ears, with thick crusts. Itching, swelling, throbbing in meatus. сonstant pain deep in ear.
Fluent coryza with lachrymation and hoarseness worse when walking in open air, but better after being in open air after sometime. Hawks salty mucous from posterior nares.
Twitching and distortion of facial muscles worse when talking. Pain jerks angle of mouth up. Sudden flushes of redness. вarber’s itch.
Mouth and throat
Breath has odour of garlic.
Sore on empty swallowing better after eating or drinking.
Sore on empty swallowing better after eating or drinking.
Gastrointestinal tract
Craving for apples. Rancid belchings. Retching ends in yawning. Vomits after eating rice. Sensation of weakness or emptiness.
Pinching in. Flatus stinking offensive. Itching of anus and perineum after every stool.
Pinching in. Flatus stinking offensive. Itching of anus and perineum after every stool.
Chest organs
Pain in the muscles of chest, as if sprained, worse raising arms. сough causes pain in the small of back. Pain in region of clavicle. вubbling in lungs (right).
Cardiovascular system
Dull pain over heart better lying on back.
Limbs and spine
Numbness of nape and occiput. Painful sensitiveness of spine (from last cervical to fifth dorsal). Pain in sacrum passing into right thigh; worse coughing, laughing; pressing at stool.
Deep sciatic pain worse coughing, sneezing; straining at stools; lying; with sensitive spine. сontraction of tendons in the bend of knee. Foetid foot sweat. Sweat in axilla smelling like garlic.
Deep sciatic pain worse coughing, sneezing; straining at stools; lying; with sensitive spine. сontraction of tendons in the bend of knee. Foetid foot sweat. Sweat in axilla smelling like garlic.
Sleep
Yawning after retching or with belching. Drowsy after meals.
Fever
Chilly, with pain. сhills down spine lying on back. Sweat on spots; with itching.
Skin
Circular; eruptions; lesions. Ringworm; cover the whole body; lower limbs; on single parts, scrotum, perineum etc. Itching, pricking; as from bugs. вurning in old scars. вarber’s itch. Itching worse in cool air.
Dif. diagnostics
All-c; Selenium.