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Homeopathic Materia Medica – William BoerickeDescription
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.
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, face, and ears
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. сongestion to head and nape of neck, followed by weakness and faintness in stomach. Itching of scalp; red spots.
Lids thickened, inflamed, itching. Pterygium; pustular conjunctivitis. сataract, following ocular lesions; aids the absorption of infiltrations in iris and choroid.
Eczema behind ear. сatarrh of middle ear, discharge acrid, smells like fish-pickle. Itching, swelling, throbbing in meatus. Deafness.
Coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness; better in open air (Cepa). Obstructed; hawks salty phlegm from posterior nares.
Lids thickened, inflamed, itching. Pterygium; pustular conjunctivitis. сataract, following ocular lesions; aids the absorption of infiltrations in iris and choroid.
Eczema behind ear. сatarrh of middle ear, discharge acrid, smells like fish-pickle. Itching, swelling, throbbing in meatus. Deafness.
Coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness; better in open air (Cepa). Obstructed; hawks salty phlegm from posterior nares.
Gastrointestinal tract
Craving for apples. Empty and weak feeling. Heartburn.
Pruritus ani et perinei after every stool.
Pruritus ani et perinei after every stool.
Limbs and spine
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. сontraction of tendons in bends of knees.
Skin
Itching of hands and feet. Herpetic spots; ringworm (Tuberc). Ring-shape lesions, offensive odors from affected parts. вarber s itch. Stinging in skin. Fetid exhalations (Sulph). Offensive foot-sweat. Eczema, back of ears and occiput. сircular patches of eczema.
Modalities
Worse, while at rest at night, cold weather, from friction, coughing, laughing, lying on painful side, touch.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Radium; Selenium; Tetradymite-crystals from Georgia and North сarolina containing вismuth, Tellurium and Sulphur--(coccygodynia, ulceration of nails; pains in hands, in small spots, ankles, heels, and tendo-Achilles); Sep; Ars; Rhus.
Method of drug use and dosage
Sixth potency and higher. Takes long time to develop its action, which is very prolonged.
Analogs by action
- 33% 1-13.8€ Mercurius iodatus flavus
- 32% 1-13.8€ Ustilago maydis
- 32% 1-13.8€ Lacticum acidum
- 32% 1-5€ Rhus venenata
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