Generalities
A sarcode prepared from dried Thyroid gland of the sheep or calf. Thyroid has close connection with the HEART; moreover it exercises a general regulating influence on the mechanism of the organs of nutrition: growth and development. It affects the central Nervous System, skin and left side. A state of puffiness and obesity. Feels tired and sick, easy fatigue, wants to lie down. Fainting fits, tremors, nervous; of face and limbs. Stabbing, splitting, clutching sensation. Choking. Rapid emaciation. Goitre. Tingling. Myxoedema, with loss of hair; and cretinism. Arrested development of children. Infantile wasting. Undescended testicle in boys. Thyroid weakness causes decided craving for large quantities of sugar. Acromegaly; delayed union of fractures. TETANY, worse cold. Instantly. Hystero-epilepsy. As of a cold wind blowing on the body. Rheumatoid arthritis. Oedema. Mammary tumours. Low blood pressure.
Worse
Least exertion or cold. Stooping.
Better
Lying on abdomen or reclining position.
Mind
Stupor alternating with restless melancholy. Weeps, undresses. Homicidal tendency. Suspicious. Idea of persecution. Ill tempered worse opposition; goes into a rage over trifles. Grumbling; continuously. Laughing in a way peculiar to herself.
Head
Feeling of lightness in brain. Persistent frontal headache; heaviness over eyes. Falling of hair.
Eyes
Exophthalmic goitre. Progressive loss of sight with central scotoma.
Ears
Sclerosis of ossicles.
Nose
Dry, indoors; runs outdoors.
Face
Flushed. Lips; dry, red, burn; with free desquamation.
Mouth
Tongue thickly coated; metallic taste at tip.
Throat
Dry, burning. As of a splinter struck across the throat.
Stomach
Desire for sweets and thirst for cold water. Vomiting of pregnancy.
Abdomen
Cutting in liver worse deep breathing. Rolling flatulence with gurgling, then loose gassy stool. Bearing and aching down through pelvis into anterior thigh.
Urinary
Increased flow of urine. Diabetes mellitus. Urine smells of violets. Enuresis of weakly children.
Female
Amenorrhoea. Gnawing in uterus. Agalactea. Vomiting of pregnancy. Uterine fibroids. Mammary tumours. Puerperal; convulsions; insanity.
Respiratory
Larynx dry. Dry painful cough on entering a warm room, from cool air. Breathlessness better lying in recumbent position.
Heart
Palpitation worse least exertion; hammering; beats felt in ear. Tachycardia. Heart pains radiate into axilla; clutching, constricting, worse lying down; causing short breath. Hypertrophy after hard labour. As if blood were rushing downwards, through the body. Jumping sensation at heart. Large veins on arms and hands. Valvular diseases of heart.
Extremities
Quivering of limbs; tremors. Numb left fingers then right leg. Left hand icy cold. Cold clammy hands. Abnormal growth of limbs due to excessive exertion.
Fever
Hot flushes; then chills, or drenching sweats. Oily musty sweat.
Skin
Very dry. Itching without eruptions. Psoriasis with adiposity. Ichthyosis. Itching with jaundice. Peeling of lower limbs. Brawny swelling. Symmetrical serpigenous eruptions.
Related
Calc; Gloninum
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.