Tellurium Metallicum

General

TELLURIUM. [Tellur.] Precipitated Metal. Hering. The Element.

Mind

► Forgetful. ► Quiet disposition. ► Rough, angular disposition.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : morning, after rising from bed ; worse when walking, sitting up, or turning head ; pulse accelerated, nausea, vomiting of food ; better lying perfectly quiet ; when going to sleep.

Inner Head

► Brain feels as if beaten, on slightest movement. ► Heaviness and fulness in head in morning. ► Violent (linear) pain in a small spot over left eye ; pain short, sharp and defined.

Eyes

► Deposit of a chalky-looking white mass on anterior surface of lens. ► Pterygium. ► Purulent discharge ; eczema impetigenoides on lids. ► Left upper lid worse ; lachrymation, itching and pressure ; scrofulous ophthalmia. ► Herpes conjunctiva bulbi ; veins enlarged, running horizontally towards the cornea, ending in little blisters near edge of cornea ; worse from crying.

Ears

► Dull, throbbing pain day and night ; thin, watery, excoriating discharge. ► Vesicular eruption on membrana, then suppuration and perforation. ► Membrana tympani permanently injured and hearing greatly diminished. ► Itching and swelling, with painful throbbing in external meatus ; in three or four days, discharge of a watery fluid, smelling like fish-pickle, which causes vesicles wherever it touches ; ear is bluish-red, as if oedematous ; hearing impaired. ► Sensation : as if something suddenly closed up in the ear ; as if air whistled through left eustachian tube, when snuffing or belching, air passes through it.

Nose

► Fluent coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness when walking in open air.

Face

► Sudden flashes of redness over the face. ► Twitching and distortion of facial muscles, worse when talking. ► Ringworm.

Teeth

► Salivation ; gums bleed easily and profusely.

Mouth

► Breath has a garlic-like odor.

Throat

► Sore throat, dry sensation in fauces, better when eating and drinking.

Eating And Drinking

► See 13.

Stomach

► Weak feeling, like faintness in the stomach, after congestion of blood in head and nape.

Abdomen

► Pinching in abdomen.

Stool, Etc

► Flatus peculiar and stinking.

Urine

► Increased urination. ► High-colored, acid urine. ► Drop sticking at mouth of urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

► Increased sexual desire. ► Herpes on scrotum and perineum.

Heart And Pulse

► Dull pain in region of heart, when lying on left side ; better when lying on back. ► Palpitation of heart, with throbbing through whole body and full pulse, followed by sweat.

Neck And Back

► Painful sensitiveness of spine, from last cervical to fifth dorsal vertebra ; sensitive to pressure and touch. ► Pain in sacrum. See sciatica.

Lower Limbs

► Pain in sacrum, passing into right thigh down sciatic nerve, worse when pressing at stool, coughing, laughing, also when lying on the affected side. θ Sciatica.

Position, Etc

► Lying quietly : 2 ; on left side : 29 ; on back : 29 ; on affected side : 33. Sitting : 2. Rising : 2. Walking : 2, 7.

Motion

3. Turning head : 2.

Time

► Morning : 2, 3. Day and night : 6.

Temperature And Weather

► Open air : 7.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chilly, with the pains. ► Sweat on face. ► Sweat on spots, with increased itchings of these places.

Sides

► Right : 33. Left : 3, 5, 6, 29. Above downward : 33.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 31. Pressure : 31.

Skin

► Ringworms : cover the whole body, more distinct on lower limbs ; on single parts.