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Tuberculinum
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Origin Nosode · Nosode
Habitat human
ClarkePreparation extract of a pure cultivation of tubercle bacilli (human). attenuations.
Sources 7 entries across 6 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Nash, Dewey …

Dose Boericke
3X, 5X, 2X, 6X, ↑
Tuberculin needs more frequent repetition in children's complaints than nearly every other chronic remedy (H. Fergie Woods). Thirtieth and much higher, in infrequent doses. When Tuberculinum fails Syphilinum often follows advantageously, producing a reaction. "The use of Tuberculinum in phthisis pulmonalis demands attention to the following points: In apyretic purely tubercular phthisis results ar

Reason for useSeror

IRRITABLE ON WAKING ; NOTHING CAN PLEASE HIM ; NOTHING SATISFIES. Nervous ; weak ; IRRITABLE. II Although naturally of a sweet disposition, became taciturn, sulky, snappish, fretty, irritable, morose, depressed and melancolic, even to insanity.-Burnett. II With every little ailment whines and complains ; easily frightened, particularly by dogs ; screams in terror when approached by a dog. Anxiety, gloomy, melancholic humor. Anxiety, gloomy, melancholy humor. Aversion to all labor, esp. mental work. Coma : profound, lasting three days, with temperature 106. Complete unconsciousness ; stupor and stertorous breathing. Comprehension and concentration almost impossible. Comprehension difficult ; must read a paragraph several times before he can understand it. Dejected, taciturn, sulky ; weeps, but knows not why ; naturally of a sweet disposition, now on the borderland of insanity. Delirium and serious meningeal symptoms, following an injection of Tuberculinum. Despondent, discouraged, feel as if I would rather die than live. Does not like to be disturbed ; trembling of hands and feet. Does not like to be disturbed by people ; trembling of hands. Everything in the room seems strange, as though in a strange place. Extremely sensitive to music. Felt positively ugly ; personal aversions became almost a mania. Forgetful. Fretful, snappish, morose, depressed and melancholic, even to insanity. Great anxiety for future, otherwise marked indifference. Great sleepiness and weariness ; entire muscular system relaxed ; desire to lie down all the time. Has lost melancholy expression she formerly had. Ill-mannered, quarrelsome ; lies in bed and complains ; lachrymose, weeps without any provocation, cannot help it. Indifferent ; forgetful ; averse to all labor, especially mental work. Indifferent. Insanity ; acute or chronic, with a family history of tubercular affections. Intense restlessness ; and inward restlessness. Is disposed to whine and complain ; dejected mind, anxiety. Melancholy with marked hypochondriacal delirium. Melancholy, despondent, morose, irritable, fretful, peevish. Memory weak or lost ; unable to think or comprehend. Nervous irritation ; averse to physical or mental labor. Nervous irritation ; aversion to labor. Periodical anxiety and terror. Sensibilities dulled ; with chill and aching in the head, back and limbs. Sensibility to music. She is very sad, dejected, and complains continually. She is very sad. Somnolence ; loss of vital power ; great physical weakness. Sopor ; somnolence ; with dyspnea. Soporous, dazed condition ; unable to find the right way ; is confused ; surroundings appear strange. Trifles produced intense irritation and I could not shake them off. Very irritable, want to fight ; no hesitancy in throwing anything at any one, even without cause. Memory weak, unable to think. Very restless in the evening when aroused. When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently cure in a marked tubercular diathesis, with a tubercular family history. Head (Tuberculinum) II Basilar meningitis. - Sinker. II Boy, aged 20 months, ill for days with head, high fever, restlessness and constant screaming ; finally no sleep for forty hours, followed by a condition of collapse ; peculiar smell of body ; family history of tuberculosis.-Burnett. II Fretful and ailing, whines and complains, indurated glands can be felt everywhere, child hot, drowsy, urine red and sandy, much given to be frightened, particularly by dogs ; was vaccinated and had a very bad arm for four months thereafter ; would not smile, whimpers when spoken to, skin dingy, skull hydrocephalic.-Burnett. II Headache of forty-five years' standing, pain passing from r. frontal protuberance to r. occipital region.- Swan. II Headache of great intensity preceded by a shuddering chill passing from brain down spine, with attack a feeling as if head above eyes were swollen ; became unconscious with screaming, tearing her hair, beating her head with her fists or trying to dash it against wall or floor.-Swan. II Sullen, taciturn, irritable, screams in his sleep, is very restless at night, constipated ; sister died of tubercular meningitis. - Burnett. II Terrible pain in head, as if he had a tight hoop of iron around it ; trembling of hands ; distressing sensation of damp clothes on his spine ; almost absolute sleeplessness ; profound adynamia ; was thought by his friends to be-on verge of insanity ; most of his brothers and sisters had died of water on brain ; r. lung solid, probably from healed-up cavities, as he at one time suffered from pulmonary phthisis.-Burnett. II Tubercular meningitis, with effusion ; head gradually enlarged ; alternately wakeful and delirious at night, talked nonsense by day, at intervals ; nocturnal hallucinations and fright, delirium ; pyrexia ; had eczema which almost disappeared after two unsuccessful vaccinations, and which were soon followed by above condition ; after administration of remedy there occurred a severe pustular eruption, then patches of a lepra and eczema appeared. –Burnett I Headache, with frequent sharp, cutting pains passing from above r. eye through head to back of left ear.- Rose. (Sensation as if brain were squeezed with iron band. -Bac.) A strange sensation in head on first lying down as if some light substance was rolling from above eyes to vertex. Acute cerebral meningitis, with intense strabismus. Biegler. Brain seems loose and rolling around from side to side. Chilly all day, although room was warm ; muscles of the whole body sore to touch or pressure. Colossal hyperemia of pia mater and brain substance ; extreme engorgement of vessels on the surface, internally dusky red ; tubercles presented no retrogressive changes (arachnitis). Complete physical exhaustion without any apparent cause. Darting pain in occiput, extending down the spine. Dull headache on waking. Frontal headache in morning. Great heat in head ; flushes of heat after dinner ; sensation of heat in head in evening. Great heaviness in head and pain in occiput and neck.


By regionSeror
Headache deep in forehead ; deep in temples ; on vertex, with sensation of heat ; from neck to forehead ; in morning, passing away in afternoon. …

Books*
Antidoted by —
Complementary Bryonia Alba, Calcarea Carbonica, Cinchona Officinalis +1
Follows well —
Compare Bacillinum Burnett, Lachesis, Psorinum +15

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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