Terebinthina
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General
General action :
Inflammation of the kidneys and urinary tract, with haemorrhages and strangury.
Bronchitis, enteritis, with marked tympanitis.
Haemorrhages 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.
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
Diarrhoea, with distended abdomen ; stools watery, greenish, fetid.
Haemorrhage 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.
Clinical
Metritis, with puerperal peritonitis, intense burning in uterine region, enormously distended abdomen, dry tongue.
Small pulse, haemorrhages from the bowels.
Respiratory organs :
Haemoptysis, 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, haemorrhages, stupor, delirium.