Tellurium



Nose

Fluent coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness when walking in open air, with short cough and pressure in middle of chest under sternum, better after being in open air some time. Nose dry, then becomes fluent with relief of headache, right eye becomes hot with profuse lachrymation. Nose obstructed, must breathe through mouth. Hawks from posterior nares dried yellowish-red phlegm tasting salty, mornings.

Face

Sudden flushes of redness over face. While sitting, face red. Twitching in left facial muscles, left corner of mouth drawn up when talking. Burning in lips. Ringworms on face, barber’s itch. Pimples on face.

Mouth

Gums bleed easily and profusely. Tongue somewhat swollen, furred white, shows print of teeth. Breath has odour of garlic. Coldness of mouth and pharynx on drawing in air. Copious saliva. Tenacious mucus runs from mouth (dog). Taste earthy, metallic.

Throat

Painful dryness of fauces. In morning hawks from back of nose pieces of yellowish-reddish phlegm tasting salt. Rough, scratching sensation in throat, worse towards evening. Throat feels sore with a prickly, rough sensation evening and morning, throat sore on simply swallowing, better after eating or drinking. Pain in throat extends into ear.

Stomach

Hungry at night, wants an apple in middle of night. Longs for beer. After meals, great drowsiness. After eating rice obliged to vomit. Belching with taste of food eaten. Heartburn with warmth in stomach as from alcohol. Sensation of weakness like faintness in stomach after local congestion of blood to head and nape, also with chest symptoms. Fulness in pit of stomach, must lie down after dinner. Constrictive feeling in stomach as if strapped together.

Abdomen

Fulness and oppression in hypogastrium, her dress must be loosened. Pressing first left then right side as from wind. When lying on left side, throbbing under right ribs and vice versa. Pinching in abdomen. Frequent spasmodic pains in bowels as from incarcerated wind, mostly from 5 to 9 p.m.

Stool & Anus

Passes very offensive wind. Passes a large quantity of threadworms. Spasmodic pains with urging to stool, copious stool with feeling of flatulence in bowels. Costive. Tetter on perinaeum, itching. Itching in rectum after stool. Itching at anus.

Urinary Organs

Pain and soreness in kidneys. Increased urination. High- coloured, acid urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Erections all night. Increased desire, followed by long-lasting indifference. A drop of viscid fluid glues meatus. Secondary gonorrhoea. Herpes on scrotum and perineum.

Female Sexual Organs

Painful soreness in region of kidneys, extending downward like a weight, mostly to right and in sacrum, worse morning, making her irritable. Shooting deep in pelvis across to left Menses too early in climacteric years.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness in morning with fluent coryza, a rough, pressing, tickling sensation in larynx. Coughing on laughing worse aching in small of back. Cough towards morning, after a few days looser.

Chest

Pain in region of clavicle. Pain in middle of chest, going through to back, from dorsal vertebrae through to sternum, in or behind sternum. Shooting in left chest, fifth rib. Feeling as if some fluid wanted to discharge, pressing downward in middle lobe of right lung. Cutting around and in left nipple, through to scapula. Eruption about nipple.

Heart

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

Back and neck

With the pain above the eye, sensation along left side of neck as if the blood there had suddenly been retained in one of the large veins, or had streamed backwards. Numbness in nape and occiput. When lying on left ear sharp pressing pain from neck into ear. Pressing ache in right scapula, later in left Painful sensitiveness of spine from last cervical to sixth dorsal vertebrae, sensitive to pressure and touch. Weak feeling in back. Pain in sacrum, passing into right thigh, worse pressing at stool, coughing, and laughing.

Limbs

Sharp, quick pains in elbows, ankles, and other parts. Aching all over, mostly in limbs, worse right side and in walking.

Upper Limbs

Offensive sweat of armpits, smelling of garlic. Lump in anterior wall of left axilla, painful from pressure or motion. near thumb- joint. Finger-tips feel dead on stretching hand. Rheumatism of right little finger, worse moving it.

Lower Limbs

Sciatica, right side, worse lying on affected side. Sciatica with sensitiveness of vertebral column. Tonic muscular contraction of long standing. Contraction of tendons of bends of knees. Bruised pain in hip-joints after walking. Feet sweaty, mostly on toes. Fetid sweat of feet.

Generalities

Persistent fetid body odour. Restlessness. Lassitude.

Skin

Ringworm: on face, barber’s itch, whole body, worse lower limbs, on single parts. Stinging in skin. Small red pimples, very bright red and very sharply defined, with minute vesicles upon them, first on lower limbs, then also on upper, most on left side, they began first on calves, then on inside of forearms above wrist and spread from that part, caused very severe itching day and night, worse night after going to bed. Little stinging prickings in various parts, compelling him to rest, circular vesicular spots appeared. Body thickly covered with elevated rings of herpes circinatus. Psoriasis. Skin dry, hot. Scrofulous eczematous eruption. Itching worse in cool air.

Sleep

Yawning and belching. Drowsy after a meal. Sleepless, restless turning from weariness and bruised feeling. At night pains all over. On going to sleep feels as if in air, quick drawing towards feet awakens him.

Fever

Chilly, with pains. Skin hot and dry, sensation as if overstrained, as if bruised, as if he had taken cold after severe exertion. Heat: in sinciput, in face. Sweat: on face, on spots with increased itching of these places, often throbbing through whole body, generally warm, while sitting in a cool breeze.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica