TEREBINTHINIAE OLEUM

Other names: Turpentine turps Terebinthina laricina

Made From
Oleum terebinthinæ. Oil of Turpentine. C10 H16. The oil distilled from the oleo-resin
(turpentine) obtained from various species of Pinus, purified by repeated rectification
with water. Solution in rectified spirit. Ozonised Oil of Turpentine (prepared by
exposure of the common oil to sun and air in a half-filled bottle and shaking from time
to time).

Background
This viscous resin is used in the manufacture of paints. In the past it was used as a
treatment for gonorrhea in traditional Western medicine.

Origin
Resin tapped from the trunks of the Larix decidua ‘Mill’ species of larch, which is
native to Europe.

Preparation
The resin is macerated in alcohol, before being filtered, diluted, and succussed.

Profile
Terebinthum is best suited to people who are tired, delirious, and unable to
concentrate. Classic symptoms associated with the remedy include burning pain and
bleeding of the mucous membranes, with dark, fetid-smelling blood. The remedy has
an affinity with inflammation of the urinary tract or kidneys, accompanied by
hemorrhaging, water retention,  and edema in the hands and feet.  These ailments are
often associated with smoky-colored urine that has a strange smell of violets.
Clinical Symptoms
Albuminuria. Amblyopia potatorum. Asthma. Backache. Bladder, irritable. Brachial
neuralgia. Bronchitis. Chordee. Chorea. Ciliary neuralgia. Cystitis. Dentition. Dropsy.
Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa. Enteric fever. Epilepsy. Erysipelas bullosa. Erythema.
Fibroma. Gall-stone colic. Glands, inguinal; swelling of. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Hæmaturia.
Hæmorrhoids. Hernia; strangulated. Herpes labialis pudendi. Hydrophobia.
Hypochondriasis. Insanity. Intestines, ulceration of. Iritis. Jaundice. Kidneys,
congestion of; neuralgia of. Lumbago. Neuralgia; supraorbital. Ovaries, pains in;
dropsy of. Pityriasis. Purpura hæmorrhagica. Scabies. Scarlatina. Sciatica.
Spermatorrhœa. Strangury. Stricture. Tetanus. Tympanites. Uræmia. Urine,
suppression of; retention of. Worms.
Author:William BOERICKE, M.D.

TEREBINTHINIAE OLEUM
  Turpentine (TEREBINTHINA)

Has a selective affinity for bleeding mucous surfaces. Tympanites and

urinary symptoms very marked. Inflammation of kidneys, with
hæmorrhages-dark, passive, fetid. Bright's disease preceded by
dropsy (Goullon). Drowsiness and strangury. Coma. Unbroken
chilblains.

Head

Dull pain like from a band around the head (Carb ac). Vertigo, with
vanishing of vision. Disturbed sense of equilibrium. Tired and difficult
concentration of thoughts. Cold in head with sore nostrils with
disposition to bleed.

Eyes

Ciliary neuralgia over right eye. Intense pain in eye and side of head.
Amblyopia from alcohol.

Ears

Own voice sounds unnatural; humming as of a seashell, talking loudly

is painful. Otalgia.

Mouth

Tongue dry, red sore, shining; burning in tip, with prominent papillæ
(Arg n; Bell; Kali b; Nux m). Breath cold, foul. Choking sensation in
throat. Stomatitis. Dentition.

Stomach
Nausea and vomiting; heat in epigastric region.

Abdomen

Enormous distention. Diarrhœa; stools watery, greenish, fetid, bloody.

Pain before flatus with and relief after stool. Hæmorrhage from
bowels. Worms; lumbrici. Abdominal dropsy; pelvic peritonitis.
Fainting after every stool Entero-colitis, with hæmorrhage and
ulceration of bowels.

Urinary

Strangury, with bloody urine. Scanty, suppressed, odor of violets.

Urethritis, with painful erections (Canthar). Inflamed kidneys following
any acute disease. Constant tenesmus.

Female

Intense burning in uterine region. Metritis; puerperal peritonitis.

Metrorrhagia with burning in uterus.

Respiratory

Difficult breathing; lungs feel distended; hæmoptysis. Bloody

expectoration.

Heart

Pulse rapid, small, thready, intermittent.

Back

Burning pain in region of kidneys. Drawing in right kidney extending to

hip.

Skin
Acne. Erythema; itching pustular, vesicular eruption; urticaria. Purpura,
ecchymosis, dropsies. Scarlatina. Chilblains; with excessive itching
and pulsative pains. Aching soreness of the muscles.

Fever

Heat, with violent thirst, dry tongue, profuse cold, clammy sweat.
Typhoid with tympanites, hæmorrhages, stupor, delirium. Prostration.

Relationship

Compare: Alumen; Secale; Canth; Nit ac. Terebene 1x; (chronic

bronchitis and winter coughs; subacute stages of inflammation of
respiratory tract. Loosens secretion, relieves tightened feeling, makes
expectoration easy). Neurotic coughs. Huskiness of public speakers,
and singers. Cystitis when urine is alkaline and offensive.

Ononis spinosa-Rest Harrow--(Diuretic, Lithontriptic. Chronic nephritis;

diuretic effects like Juniper; calculus nosebleed, worse washing face).

Antidote: Phos.

Dose

First to sixth potency.

Author:Dr. S.R. Phatak.

TEREBINTHINAE OLEUM
Terebinthinae oleum

Generalities

• Oil of turpentine has a selective affinity for mucous membranes of

Kidneys; bladder; respiration; bronchi; heart and blood.

• Haemorrhages; passive; black, offensive, oozing from mucous

membranes.

• Affection of kidneys, with rheumatism.

• Aching, soreness and stiffness of muscles.

• Purpura haemorrhagica.

• Pain; excites urination; along large nerves, with sensation of

coldness in the nerves; or occasionally like hot water running through
a tube.

• Burning; in various parts, tip of tongue; epigastrium, small of back;

kidney, uterus etc.

• Exhausted; sensitive and tired.

• Disturbed sense of equilibrium.

• Ill effects of alcohol, falls, strains, tooth extraction.

• Every trifle bruises him.

Worse
• Dampness.

• Cold.

• Night.

• Lying.

• Pressure.

Better

• Motion.

• Stooping.

Mind

• Difficult concentration.

• Intense irritability; children fly into temper; during dentition.

• Coma.

Head

• As of a band around the head.

• Dull headache with colic.

Eyes

• Blindness from alcohol.

• Opens eyes when swallowing; in coma.

• Eyes dark red; face red on affected side.

Ears
• Own voice sounds unnatural.

• Sensation in ears as of striking of a clock.

• Loud talking is very painful.

Nose

• Passive epistaxis, in children.

• Discharge of serum without coryza.

Face

• Pale; earthy; sunken.

• Hot flushes followed by sweat.

Mouth

• Tongue; smooth; glossy; sore, red; burning in tip.

• Aphthae from mouth to anus.

• Breath, cold, foul.

Stomach

• Nausea and vomiting; with intense burning.

• Burning in epigastric region.

• Nausea amel. loose stool.

• Aversion to meat.

Abdomen

• Bruised soreness.
• Flatulence.

• Tympanites.

- ascites.

• Profuse mucus stools; watery, green, foetid.

• Bloody stools.

• Worms.

• Bleeding from ulcers in the intestine.

• Bowels were drawn towards spine.

• Diarrhoea, with tetanic spasms.

Urinary

• Burning, drawing pain, in region of kidney.

• Burning or pain along ureters.

• Strangury, with bloody urine.

• Urine; smoky; with coffee grounds; or thick, yellow, slimy, muddy

sediment; odour or violets.

• Nephritis; after exanthemata; with violent bronchitis.

- Cystitis.

• Bleeding bladder.

• Pains alternate between navel and bladder, amel. walking.

• Urine scanty; suppressed; during dentition.

Female

• Intense burning in uterine region; with metrorrhagia.

• Metritis.

• Uterine diseases after wearing pessaries.

Respiratory

• Burning and tightness across chest.

• Bronchial asthma or catarrh; with profuse expectoration.

• Haemoptysis.

• Bloody expectoration.

• Bronchitis of children with drowsiness and retention of urine.

• Dyspnoea.

Heart

• Pule; rapid, small, thready; intermittent.

Back

• Backache and soreness in kidney affections.

Extremities

• Hands feel swollen.

• Cramps in knees.

• Intense pain along the larger nerves; agg. damp weather.

• Stands with feet apart; has no power of balancing the body.

• Muscles, stiff.

• Walks bent like an old man.

• Brachial or sub-scapular neuralgia.

• As if pitch forward while walking.

Skin

• Purpura haemorrhagica; advancing.

• General sensibility increased.

• Unbroken chilblains; with excessive itching and pulsations.

Sleep

• Drowsiness; with retaining of urine etc.

Fever

• Heat under the skin.

• Cold sweat on legs.

Related

• Canth; Erig; Phos.

Thallium (old name; prefer thal-met. or tha-act.)

Generalities

• This rare metal is useful for most horrible, neuralgic, spasmodic

shooting pains.

• Pains like electric shocks.

• Numbness or formication starting in the fingers and toes, extending
up to lower limbs and down to feet and involving lower abdomen and
perineum.

• Paralysis of lower limbs.

• Locomotor ataxia.

• Tremors.

• Falling of hair with great rapidity; after acute or exhausting diseases.

• Muscular atrophy.
Author:John W. Hutchison, M. D.

TEREBINTHINA
1. Nephritis with burning, drawing pains in region of kidneys;
heaviness and pressure; strangury; scanty, bloody urine.
Author:Eugene Beauharis Nash

TEREBINTHINA
Mouth and Throat:

Tongue red, smooth and glossy, as if deprived of its papillae.

Urinary Organs:

Violent burning; drawing pain in region of kidneys; urine scanty and

bloody, smoky, albuminous.
Author:John Henry CLARKE, M.D.

TEREBINTHINA.
Oleum terebinthinæ. Oil of Turpentine. C10 H16. The oil distilled from the oleo-resin
(turpentine) obtained from various species of Pinus, purified by repeated rectification
with water. Solution in rectified spirit. Ozonised Oil of Turpentine (prepared by
exposure of the common oil to sun and air in a half-filled bottle and shaking from
time to time).
Clinical

Albuminuria. Amblyopia potatorum. Asthma. Backache. Bladder,

irritable. Brachial neuralgia. Bronchitis. Chordee. Chorea. Ciliary
neuralgia. Cystitis. Dentition. Dropsy. Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa.
Enteric fever. Epilepsy. Erysipelas bullosa. Erythema. Fibroma. Gall-
stone colic. Glands, inguinal; swelling of. Gleet. Gonorrhœa.
Hæmaturia. Hæmorrhoids. Hernia; strangulated. Herpes labialis
pudendi. Hydrophobia. Hypochondriasis. Insanity. Intestines,
ulceration of. Iritis. Jaundice. Kidneys, congestion of; neuralgia of.
Lumbago. Neuralgia; supraorbital. Ovaries, pains in; dropsy of.
Pityriasis. Purpura hæmorrhagica. Scabies. Scarlatina. Sciatica.
Spermatorrhœa. Strangury. Stricture. Tetanus. Tympanites. Uræmia.
Urine, suppression of; retention of. Worms.

Characteristics

Ter. was introduced to homœopathy by Hartlaub. A proving of it

appeared in Hartlaub and Trinks' Annalen. Many symptoms have been
added from poisonings and overdosings in old-school practice.
According to Taylor, children are particularly sensitive to its action.
Illness caused by sleeping in newly painted rooms is due in great part
to the turpentine. "A stimulant and tonic to the mucous membranes,
especially of the bladder and urethra: it proves useful in gleet,
leucorrhœa, and cystorrhœa." This is Milnes' account of the old-
school use of Ter. as an internal remedy. Brunton gives these points:
(1) Applied to the skin Ter. acts as an irritant and rubefacient, causing
a sensation of burning, and vesicles if applied for any length of time.
(2) Inhaled it causes sneezing, tightness across eyes, and dyspnœa.
(3) Given internally it causes burning in mouth and salivation; in
stomach, sensation of heat or cold; gastro-enteritis, with vomiting and
diarrhœa; ulceration of intestines. The pulse is sometimes slowed,
sometimes quickened. Respiration is quickened and spasmodic; the
drug is partly excreted by the lungs and acts on the mucous
membrane, lessening its secretion. The temperature sometimes rises,
sometimes falls. Voluntary movement is diminished; reflex action
lowered; blood-pressure lowered, and vessels dilated. Diminishes the
quantity of urine; gives the urine an odour of violets; causes lumbar
pain, burning in urethra, painful micturition, hæmaturia. Among the
uses of Ter., Brunton mentions the treatment of biliary colic. For this it
is given in ether in the proportion of one part of the Oil of Turpentine
to three of Ether. Homœopaths have confirmed the value of this.
Throughout this list of effects burning is a constant note, and gives
the key to many cases calling for Ter.─burning in gums, tongue, tip of
tongue, mouth, throat, stomach, rectum, and anus, kidneys, bladder,
and urethra, uterus, air passages, chest, and sternum. The last was
particularly noticed after warm drinks, the pain running along the
sternum with the drink and spreading in the chest. Burning extends
from kidneys along ureters. Ter. is an irritative, sensitive remedy.
Cooper has found it indicated in children (especially teething children)
when they fly into passions. There is irritation of the meninges and
often ascarides or other intestinal worms. In one case of maniacal
fury in a man it did good. This irritability manifests itself in some
cases of spasms and convulsions, and Lippe observed a case in point
(H. P., x. 480). A woman had made her feet sore by walking, and
applied turpentine to them. This was followed by a state like
hydrophobia; she had spasms whenever she saw water or heard it
poured, or saw a bright object; and also whenever she attempted to
urinate. Ter. is a great hæmorrhagic and its hæmaturia is particularly
characteristic: Smoky, turbid urine depositing a sediment like coffee-
grounds. Dull pain, or burning pain in region of kidneys, burning during
micturition are leading indications. Ter. corresponds to many cases of
albuminuria and hæmaturia after scarlatina; and also to the
consequent dropsy. This last may indicate Ter. in many affections of
the genito-urinary sphere. "Burning in uterus" is very characteristic.
Peritonitis, metritis, metrorrhagia will probably need Ter. if the burning
is present. The hæmorrhages of Ter. are generally passive; dark, and
fetid. Purpura hæmorrhagica calls for it if there are fresh ecchymoses
in great numbers from day to day. The hæmorrhages may occur from
any orifice. Additional keynotes of Ter., which will be decisive if
combined with others, are: (1) Smooth, glossy, red tongue, as if
deprived of papillæ. (2) Excessive tympanites. (3) Drowsiness. In
capillary bronchitis, the child is drowsy. Stupor and great weakness
are found in many Ter. conditions, rendering it appropriate in cases of
typhus, typhoid, and uræmic poisoning. "Drowsy with retention of
urine." With the tympanites there is generally extreme sensitiveness to
touch. With cystitis and uro-genital and rectal troubles there is
sensitiveness of hypogastrium and pains in symphysis pubis. Pains
go from left to right across bowels and then shoot upward. From
being exposed to turpentine odour, a lady, 35, got pain as from
pinchings in the throat, with lifeless feeling in the tongue and dryness
of the mouth, followed by pains in r. eyeball, which extended back to
same side of occiput (Cooper). S. H. Roberts (B. M. J., Dec. 25, 1875)
maintains Ter. has a specific effect in tonsillitis when applied
externally. Marc Jousset gave Ter. 1x with marked benefit in two
cases of bronchial asthma. He was led to give it in the first case by
coincident hæmaturia; but this was not present in the second (L'Art
Méd., April, 1901). A remedy may be known by its antidotes and
antidotal properties. Ter. antidotes and is antidoted by Phos. A young
man who was badly poisoned by a low attenuation of Phos. got more
relief from Ter. 3x than from any other remedy. Brunton says it is only
Ozonised Ter. that is effective here. The preparation I used was the
ordinary one. Hering says the ozonised oil is recommended as a
prophylactic in malarial and African fevers, a few drops being given
daily on a lump of sugar. George Royal (Med. Cent., ix. 70) gives three
cases illustrating the action of Ter.: (1) Typhoid, third week, in man 24.
Extreme distension, rapid, small, compressible pulse, cold sweat in
lower limbs. Ter. 6x two drops in water every half-hour. Oil of Ter. was
applied locally to the abdomen mixed with lard, and later in the
evening, when there was already slight improvement, an injection
containing turpentine was administered. This relieved the patient of a
large quantity of flatus, and next morning he was on the high-road to
recovery. (2) Pyæmia after abortion at third month, brought on by
patient herself. Enormous distension; lower limbs covered with cold
sweat; lochia thin, scanty, offensive. Ter. given in another case
brought about slow improvement for three days, when Chi. 30 was
indicated and finished the cure. (3) Teamster, 36, had severe nephritis
after being out in cold rain. Constant desire to urinate, severe pain in
back, down ureter, to bladder; urine scanty, very high-coloured.
Temperature 102°. Pulse weak, 130. Ter. 6x every half-hour; and hot
fomentations on kidneys greatly relieved. After three days he was able
to leave his bed. Royal considers cold sweat of lower limbs, and rapid
pulse with the distension, as leading indications. A keynote of
Burnett's for Ter. is: "Pains in the bowels which = frequent micturition."
Peculiar Sensations are: As if he would pitch forward on walking As of
a band round head. As if sand thrown violently in eye. As of a seashell
sounding in l. ear. In ear as of striking of a clock. As from hasty
swallowing in epigastrium. As if he had swallowed a bullet, which had
lodged in pit of stomach. Sense of anxiety and utter prostration about
epigastrium. Umbilical region as if covered with a round, cold plate.
As if intestines were being drawn towards spine. As if abdomen
distended with flatus. As if diarrhœa would set in. As if inguinal hernia
would appear. As if symphysis pubis were suddenly forced asunder.
As if foreign body had entered windpipe. As from electric shocks.
Twitching of limbs. Crawling tingling as if parts were asleep. As if hot
water running through a tube in nerve. Sprained pains, contusive
pains, and rheumatic pains appear in the pathogenesis, and notably
pressure and drawing pains. These show the suitability of Ter. to the
effects of injury and rheumatic conditions. It is on this property that
certain popular embrocations containing turpentine owe their
reputation. Ter. is specially Suited to: Children (dentition, nose-bleed,
worms). Bleeders. Nervous women (amenorrhœa; dysmenorrhœa;
headache). Complaints of old people; of people of sedentary habits.
Chronic rheumatism and gouty complaints. The symptoms are: < By
touch. < By pressure (in region of bladder it = convulsions). Effects of
falls and injuries. < Lying on left side, > turning to right. Sitting <.
Stooping >. Motion >. (Pain in crest of ilium < from motion and least
jar.) Walking in open air <. < Night; 1-3 a.m. Damp dwellings <. Damp
cellar = diarrhœa. Damp weather = neuralgia in legs. (Ter. is
hydrogenoid.) Cold water > burning in anus. > Belching and passing
flatus. Loose stool > nausea.

Relations

Antidoted by: Phos. Antidote to: Phos., Merc. Followed well by: Merc.
cor. Compare: Botan., Thu., and other Coniferæ. Hæmorrhage in
typhus, Alum. Melæna, Arn. Albuminuria, Ars. Smoky urine, dropsy
after scarlatina, dry, glossy tongue, Lach. (Ter. has more tympanites).
Capillary bronchitis, drowsiness, lungs clogged up, urine scanty,
almost dark from blood, Ipec. Dropsy from kidney congestion, Hell.
Renal congestion, smoky urine, Colch. Urticaria after eating shell-fish,
Aps., Urt. ur. Glazed tongue, K. bi., Lach., Pyrog. Hæmaturia, Pul.
Burning tip of tongue, Mur. ac. Burning in anus and rectum, fainting
and exhaustion after stool, Ars. Worms, with foul breath, choking, Cin.,
Spi. Purpura, fresh ecchymoses in great numbers from day to day, Sul.
ac. Burning and drawing in kidneys, bladder, and urethra, Berb., Can.
s., Canth. Passive hæmorrhages, strangury, Camph. Metritis,
peritonitis, bearing down, burning in hypogastrium, cloudy, dark,
muddy urine, tongue dry, red, Bell. Catarrh in children, Pix. Umbilicus
retracted, Pb. Kidney-ache, Santal. Warmth at heart, Kalm., Rhod.,
Lachn. Pains = frequent micturition (Thuj., urging to urinate
accompanies the symptoms). Rheumatism, Sul. ter.

Causation
Alcohol. Falls. Strains. Tooth extraction. Damp cellars.

1. Mind

Stupefaction; inability to fix attention (uræmia).─Mania.─Intense

nervous excitement.─Children fly into tempers.─Intense irritability,
with irritation of membranes of brain (esp. in teething
children).─Anxiety on going to bed.─Facility of thought.─Fears
apoplexy; fulness and pressure in head.─Weary of life.─Suicide by
hanging in two cases following washing of laces in turpentine and
alcohol.─(Frightful maniacal temper, wanders about at night
meaninglessly.─R. T. C.).─Intoxication.─Coma.

2. Head

Dizziness, with nausea.─Attack of vertigo, which nearly occasions

falling, with cloudiness before eyes.─Headache, with pressive pain
and disposition to sleep.─Dull headache, with colic.─Sensation of a
band round head.─Excessive heaviness, and troublesome pressive
fulness in head.─Tearing cephalalgia.─Rending, tickling pain in l.
temporal region, coming and going while in bed in evening; rubbing
removes it.─Erysipelas capitis.

3. Eyes

Eyes sunk.─Ciliary neuralgia with acute conjunctivitis.─Amblyopia

potatorum.─When walking in open air, muscæ volitantes and transient
dizziness.─Photophobia.─Rheumatic iritis.─Contracted pupils.─Half-
opened, up-turned or rolling eyes.─Opened eyes only when
swallowing.─Spots and black points before eyes.

4. Ears
Voice sounds unnatural, < r. ear.─Sensation in ears as of striking of a
clock.─R. ear hot, l. cold.─Otitis.─Otalgia.─(Earache in children < in l.;
and at night.─R. T. C.).─The internal use of Ter. prevents otitis after
syringing Eustachian tube (Eugene Weber).─Deafness after measles
with high vascularity of meatus and membranes (R. T. C.).─Eczema in
front of ear.─Sudden stitch in r. mastoid process.─Tinkling in
ears.─Cannot tell direction of sounds.─Loud talking is very painful.

5. Nose

Discharge of serum from nose, without coryza.─Violent nose-

bleed.─Passive epistaxis in children.

6. Face

Pale, earthy colour of the face.─Herpes on lips.

7. Teeth

Toothache, with drawing pain.─Gums detached, easily bleeding, with

pain as from a burning wound, every morning.─Gumboils form in a
child under Ter. (R. T. C.).─Dentition: suppressed urine and
convulsions.

8. Mouth

Tongue red, smooth, and glossy, as if deprived of papillæ.─Coating of

tongue peels off in patches, leaving bright red spots; or entire coating
peels off suddenly, leaving tongue dry and red; burning on
tip.─Tongue swollen hard and stiff even without fever.─Foul
breath.─Burning in mouth.─Ulcers in mouth.─Mercurial ptyalism;
stomacace.─The child dribbles (R. T. C.).─In mouth and angles of lips
ecchymoses which bleed.─Stomatitis from mouth to anus.
9. Throat

Scraping, scratching in throat, frequently with coughing in

evening.─Burning in throat.─An agreeable coolness in throat.─No
power over deglutition.

10. Appetite

Hunger and thirst with debility.─Loss of appetite, great thirst.─Desire

to eat more; after a satisfying meal.─Diminished appetite.─Aversion
to animal food.─After eating: sick at stomach; loud rumbling in
bowels, while pain in hypochondrium disappears; pressure in
scrobiculus and distension of abdomen.─Warm drinks = burning in
chest.

11. Stomach

Eructations: rancid; flatulent, acrid.─(Continual loud eructations and

belching up of much flatus.─R. T. C.).─Belching and nausea.─Nausea
and vertigo.─Vomiting: of mucus; of yellowish mucus; of food; of
blood.─Retching and vomiting of mucus.─Excessive sensitiveness of
region of stomach to touch.─Pressure at stomach and in scrobiculus;
as from hasty swallowing; as if he had swallowed a bullet, which had
lodged there.─(Severe circumscribed flatulent pain below scrobiculus
cordis.─R. T. C.).─Pressing in stomach: > by belching; when lying on l.
side, > turning on r. and passing wind.─Burning sensation in the
stomach.

12. Abdomen

Burning sensation and pressure in hypochondria.─Pressing below

diaphragm, extending l. to r.─Colic from calculi; chronic liver
complaints.─Pressing and cutting in l. hypochondriac region while
sitting, > moving about.─Pressure, burning sensation and drawing in
renal region.─Abdomen very sensitive to touch.─Heaviness, fulness,
and pressure in abdomen.─Slight pressing pain in small spot in
epigastrium; > stooping, lying down, or taking a deep
breath.─Distended abdomen; frequent colic.─Meteorism.─Cuttings in
epigastrium and hypogastrium, often extending into
thighs.─Sensation of excessive coldness in abdomen, esp. in exterior
of umbilical region, which is retracted.─Pains shooting across bowels
from l. to r. and upward.─Inflammation of intestines.─Noise, gurgling,
and borborygmi in abdomen.─Ulceration of bowels; peritonitis; with
tympanites.─Great but obscure pains in lower abdomen.─Sensation
of pressure outwards in inguina, as if caused by a hernia.─Painful
swelling of inguinal glands.

13. Stool and Anus

Constipation, with distension of abdomen.─Ineffectual

urging.─Tenesmus, bloody stools.─Constipation; with abdominal
distension.─Hard, scanty fæces.─Dry, brown evacuations.─Fæces of
the consistency of pap, with pinchings in abdomen, and burning
sensation in rectum and anus (after stool).─Stools consisting of
mucus and water; < in the morning.─Intestinal catarrh and diarrhœa,
with nephritis.─Loose, liquid fæces, of a greenish yellow, with
expulsion of tænia and lumbrici.─With a loose stool, immediate
cessation of nausea.─Stools: frequent; profuse; fetid;
bloody.─Hæmorrhages: from bowels; with ulceration; epithelial
degeneration; passive.─Diarrhœa with tetanic spasms.─Piles,
internal, bleeding.─Burning and tingling in anus > applying cold
water.─Worms: with foul breath and choking sensation; dry, hacking
cough; spasms.─Threadworms.─Burning sensation and tingling in
anus (with the sensation as if ascarides would crawl out), during
evacuations, and at other times.
14. Urinary Organs

Pressure in the kidneys when sitting, going off during

motion.─Sensation of heaviness and pain in region of
kidneys.─Violent burning drawing pain in region of
kidneys.─(Nephritis that follows an irritation of the skin.─R. T.
C.).─Frequent desire to urinate.─Transient movement in region of
bladder during a stool as if bladder were suddenly distended and bent
forward.─Spasms from any attempt to urinate.─Suppressed
secretion of urine.─Strangury, followed by soreness.─Diminished
secretion of urine.─Secretion of urine considerably augmented.─Urine
smelling strongly of violets; deposit of mucus, or thick, muddy
deposit.─Thick, slimy, yellowish white sediment in
urine.─Hæmaturia.─Much blood with very little urine and constant
painful dysuria (produced in a child from poisoning.─R. T.
C.).─Burning sensation in urethra, felt also when urinating.─Urethritis,
with painful erections.─Stricture of urethra (Burnett, after
Rademacher).─Urine scanty and bloody.─Burning sensation, incisive
pains, and spasmodic tenesmus of bladder.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Spasmodic and incisive drawings in the testes (esp. l.) and spermatic
cords.─Tearing in mons veneris.─Feels as if symphysis pubis were
suddenly forced asunder.─Spermatorrhœa in man, 25, no bad habits;
urine turbid, and had a yellowish mucous sediment.─Gonorrhœa;
chordee; gleet.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia retarded and scanty.─Drawing in thighs and colic as if

menses would set in, a week after she had had them.─Uterus and
ovaries very painful.─Ovarian dropsy.─Terrible burning in uterus, with
great bearing-down pain; caused great heat all over; craves drink;
inward heat.─Uterine diseases after wearing pessaries.─Fibroids;
bloody leucorrhœa; burning in uterus; menorrhagia, black
blood.─Herpes labialis.─Abortion.─Neuralgia during
pregnancy.─Burning and bearing down in uterus during
urination.─Metritis, lochia checked, burning in uterus.─Peritonitis
after confinement from tight-lacing.

17. Respiratory Organs

Dryness of the mucous membranes of air passages; feel hot and

congested.─Breath short, hurried, and anxious.─Choking sensation
(worms).─Emphysema.─Cough as if a foreign body had entered
larynx, spasmodic inspiration.─Dry, hacking cough.─Voice
gone.─Expectoration streaked with blood.─Respiration impeded by
congestion of lungs.─(Pulmonary hydatids with gangrene.─W.
Begbie.)

18. Chest

Burning in the chest; along the sternum.─After spasmodic cough,

soreness of lower chest.─Pressing behind sternum.─Spastic
contraction of muscles of chest and neck.─Piles and crepitation
through both lungs.─After warm drinks burning in chest along
sternum, gradually spreading through whole chest, disappearing with
stitches at both nipples.

19. Heart

Frightful oppression in præcordial region.─Warmth in heart while

sitting in evening, obliged to yawn a great deal, with collection of
water in mouth.─Palpitation.─Pulse: quick, small, thready, almost
imperceptible; intermitting; irregular.
20. Neck and Back

Drawing in nape, extending to occiput.─Drawing pain in the back and

loins, esp. in evening, when seated.─Pain and increased warmth in
lumbar region.─Backache and soreness in kidney
affections.─Pressive pain in back extended up between shoulders
and there became a throbbing.

21. Limbs

Numbness of limbs.─Heaviness.─Nerves sensitive.─Intense pains

along larger nerves.─Dropsy.─Coldness.─Sudden twitching of limbs
as from electric shocks.─Drawings in limbs.─Heaviness of
limbs.─Sensation of stiffness in all the muscles, with difficult, slow,
stooping gait, as in old age.

22. Upper Limbs

Sprained pain in muscles of l. upper arm.─Drawing in bones of upper

arms.─No control over hand when attempting to write.─Trembling of
hands.─Fingers insensible.─Neuralgia brachialis or sub-scapularis.

23. Lower Limbs

Insensibility.─Staggering gait.─Infantile paralysis greatly ameliorated

(J. Simon).─Drawing and tearing in hips and thighs.─Pain from hip to
forehead; or from kidneys.─Drawing along thigh.─Pains in groins
extending to thighs.─Erythema in thighs and body resembling scarlet
rash.─Contracting spasms of thigh muscles during remission of
neuralgia.─Swelling and stiffness of r. knee with pain in calf and
swelling of vastus externus.─Profuse sweat on legs, evenings, in
bed.─Intense neuralgia, esp. in damp weather.─Tearing in feet, now
here now there; chiefly in soles and heels.─Dropsy.
24. Generalities

Hæmorrhage from the urethra.─Worms, particularly lumbrical.─Some

forms of gonorrhœa.─Great prostration.─Occasional
subsultus.─Spasms every time she saw water, or heard it poured, or
saw a bright object, or attempted to urinate (from applying turpentine
to feet; Canth. relieved).─Violent convulsive paroxysms producing the
most frightful opisthotonos.─(Chorea.─R. T. C.).─Shooting, lightning-
like pains.─Neuralgia with sensation of coldness in nerve,
occasionally like hot water running through a tube.─Has no power of
balancing body, stands with feet apart.─Dropsy.─Natural heat
increased.

25. Skin

Eruption like scarlatina.─(Scarlatina eruption slow in

appearing.).─Purpura hæmorrhagica.─Skin warm and moist.─Pale-
red elevated blotches becoming vesicles.─Erythema.─Erysipelas
bullosa.─Violently itching vesicles.─Chronic jaundice.─Excessive
itching, stinging burning of skin.─General increased sensibility.

26. Sleep

Lethargy.─Retarded sleep.─Agitated sleep at night, with tossing, and

frequent waking.─Many dreams.─Nightmare.─(Wakes frightened at
night, looks ghastly and shrieks, is nervous.─R. T. C.)

27. Fever

Cold, clammy perspiration all over the body.─Fever, with violent

thirst.─(The child is cross and irritable; temper changeable, has a dry,
short cough and aching in limbs and head with feverishness.─The
little girl is feverish and fretful, and bursts out crying and is very
restless in sleep.─R. T. C.).─Profuse perspiration on the legs in bed in
the evening.
Author:Henry Clay Allen, M. D.

TEREBINTH.
Oil of Turpentine (A Volatile Oil.)

The urine has the odor or violets. Tongue: smooth, glossy, red, as if
deprived of papillae, or as if glazed (Pyr.); elevated papillae; coating
peels off in patches leaving bright red spots, or entire coating cleans
off suddenly (in exanthemata); dry and red; burning in tip (compare,
Mur. ac.). Abdomen: extremely sensitive to touch; distention,
flatulence, excessive tympanitis; meteorism (Colch.). Diarrhoea: stool,
watery, greenish, mucous; frequent, profuse, fetid, bloody; burning in
anus and rectum, fainting and exhaustion, after (Ars.). Worms: with
foul breath, choking (Cina, Spig.); dry, hacking cough; tickling at anus;
ascarides, lumbrici, tapeworm segments passed. Haematuria: blood
thoroughly mixed with the urine; sediment, like coffee-grounds; cloudy,
smoky, albuminous; profuse, dark or black, painless. Congestion and
inflammation of viscera; kidneys, bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus;
with haemorrhage, and malignant tendency. Purpurea haemorrhagica;
fresh ecchymosis in great numbers from day to day (Sulph. ac.).
Ascites with anasarca, in organic lesions of kidneys; dropsy after
scarlatina (Apis, Hell., Lach.). Haemorrhages; from bowels, with
ulceration; passive, dark, with ulceration or epithelial degeneration.
Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, bladder and urethra (Berb.,
Can., Canth.). Violent burning and cutting in bladder; tenesmus;
sensitive hypogastrium; cystitis and retention from atony of fundus.
Albuminuria; acute, in early stages, when blood and albumin abound
more than casts and epithelium; after diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid.
Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts; < from living in
damp dwellings. Strangury; spasmodic retention of urine.

Relations
. - Compare: Alumen, Arn., Ars., Canth., Lach., Nit. ac. Is recommended
as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.