Thyroidinum


Thyroidinum signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica By J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Thyroidinum is used….


      Thyroidin. Thyroid Extract. A Sarcode. Trituration of the fresh thyroid gland of sheep or calf. Attenuation of a liquid extract of the gland.

Clinical

Abscess. Acromegaly. Albuminuria, of pregnancy. Amblyopia. Amenorrhoea. *Anaemia, acute pernicious. Angina pectoris. Backache. *Chilblains. Constipation. Convulsions, puerperal. Diarrhoea. Diuresis. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhoea. Ear, middle, affections of. Eczema. Fainting. Fibroma. Fractures, ununited. Goitre, exophthalmic. Hair, new growth of, falling off. Heart, failure of, valvular disease of. Hysteria. Hysteroepilepsy. Ichthyosis. Idiocy. *Leprosy Mania. Milk, deficiency of. *Myxedema. Neurasthenia. Obesity. Oedema. Optic neuritis. Paralysis, of hands and arms. Paraplegia. Phthisis. Pityriasis rubra. *Psoriasis. Puerperal fever. Rupia. Scleroderma. Syphilis. Tetanus.

Characteristics

When the treatment of myxedema and allied diseases by “Thyroid feeding” was introduced by Murray in 1892, many accidents occurred from overdosing. A large number of the pathogenetic effects I collected (*H. W., xxix. and subsequent volumes) and arranged in Schema form (*H. W., xxix. 251) along with cured symptoms, giving the authority and reference for each. In my sub- jointed Schema I have omitted the references. Cured symptoms I have bracketed, unless otherwise indicated. Marc Joussett collected other symptoms in *L’Art Medical, and I have added some of these, together with others from later observers. The first published case treated with an attenuation was one of my own (*H. W., xxix. 111): Eleanor N., 17, suffered from fits of “hysteroepilepsy” for ten months, following a chill. At first the fits had been frequent, latterly only before the menstrual period. The fits sometimes lasted half an hour, were preceded by swelling of limbs and face, which sometimes occurred without the subsequent fit. She bit her tongue in the fits. Other symptoms were: pains in legs, back, and head (occiput and vertex), swelling of throat compelling her to loosen her clothes. Menses after an absence of four months returned excessively. Much left ovarian pain and tenderness Despondent, feeble heart sounds, pulse 120, could not lie down for palpitation and headache. Legs so weak she could not stand. Thyroid very slightly enlarged. Constipation. Sleepless, has had to take hypnotics regularly of late. A brother of the patient was epileptic. *Lachesis did some good, especially improving the sleep, but no solid progress was made till Thyr. 3x, gr. ii. thrice daily, was given on November Ist. On November 4th she could lie down flat, on the 15th she could walk with assistance, on the 29th the headache had ceased, on December 6th she could walk alone quite well and the bowels acted without enema for the first time. The mental condition improved, the prominence of the eyeballs disappeared, and she left the hospital perfectly well before Christmas. With *Thyr. 1M F. C. Skinner cured a case of dysmenorrhoea in a goitrous subject. In a case of valvular heart disease following rheumatism in a man, 24, *Thyr. 3x, gr. ii. thrice daily, quickly relieved a squeezing pain at the heart with inability to lie down and materially hastened the patient’s recovery. The action of *Thyr. on the heart is most profound. Fatal syncope has occurred in a number of cases under “Thyroid feeding.” Cyanosis was produced in many cases. Severe angina pectoris was produced by it in a patient to whom Burnett gave the 3x. The connection between the heart and the thyroid gland is very close, as seen in cases of exophthalmic goitre. Many cases of the latter affection have been cured with *Thyr. In myxedema, cachexia strumipriva, cretinism and similar conditions the thyroid gland is absent or defective, and the idea of the Thyroid feeding is to supply a physiological want. A state of puffiness and obesity may therefore be regarded as a keynote indication for Thyr. As drugs act sometimes in opposite ways, I gave Thyr. 3x gr. ii. to a living skeleton of a child aged five, and looking not more than two, who had been kept in a box in a cellar all his life till brought into hospital, when he weighted 14.25 pounds. Under *Bac. 200 and careful feeding he gained.25 pound a week. When I commenced *Thyr. he put on weekly.75 pound, and gained the use of his legs, being able to stand by holding on to a chair. In a case of universal and very aggravated psoriasis in a schoolboy, fair, very chilly, cold, clammy hands and feet, *Thyr. 3x and later 30 (which seemed to act better than the lower attenuation) completely cured after a prolonged course. An obese lady, age 60, developed diabetes. I cured her completely of the diabetes with *Thyr. 3x and 30. She has now for many years been able to take any kind of food. (On her husband, a *spare man, who also was diabetic *Thyr. had no effect.) Skin cases in great variety have been cured with *Thyr. in substantial doses: Pityriasis rubra, intense redness, and scaliness of legs, and also with intense itching, ichthyosis, syphilitic eruptions, scleroderma. The nutrition of the bones in affected, and acromegaly has been relieved and united fractures made to unite. *Thyr. has increased the flow of milk in nursing women when the flow has been deficient. It has cured cases of tetany both operative and idiopathic. The keynote in these cases appears to have been “worse from spasms by cold.” Many cases of insanity have been cured with it, including a case of puerperal insanity with fever. H. O. Nicholson (*B. M. F., June 21, 1901) relates a case of eclampsia of pregnancy: A woman, 32, in her third pregnancy, had a fit on October 3rd. Thyroid feeding was begun next day. Marked improvement followed. Oedema of face and body diminished. On October 23rd patient was about her usual duties. On November 6th she was delivered of a healthy boy without any untoward symptoms. *Thyr., according to Nicholson, is diuretic, like *Urea, and Nicholson explains its action in eclampsia as being effected through its enabling the kidneys to carry off the toxins resulting from foetal metabolism. *Thyr. is antagonistic to *Adrenalin in that the latter contracts, while the former dilates the arterioles. Among the pathogenetic effects of *Thyr., optic neuritis and accommodative asthenopia have been observed. Some curiosities have been noted in the action of *Thyr. on the growth of hair. Myxedema patients lose their hair as a rule, and *Thyr. when successful restores the growth. But in some cases the opposite effect has been noted. In one case of myxedema the hair had fallen off the head and face and a thick growth appeared on arms and chest. Under *hydr. the latter disappeared, and the hair on the head and face grew again (*L’Art Medorrhinum, 1xxxii. 44). The pains of *Thyr. are stitching, aching, or heavy pains, and tingling sensations. At the point of injection when administered subcutaneously brawny swelling occurred in one case (which may suggest scleroderma) followed by abscess of slow development. Persons suffering from skin diseases were found tolerant of much larger doses than myxoedemics. In a number of cases latent phthisis has been lighted up into activity. Syphilis, both secondary and tertiary, has been vastly relieved by *Thyr. Hansen mentions fibroma uteri as having been cured by Thyr., and Burford supports this. “Brawny swelling” is a keynote of *Thyr. pointed out by Burnett. With *Thyr. 3x gr. vi. thrice daily he cured a case of dropsy and albuminuria which had been given up by several doctors. Burnett noticed that the swelling

was *brawny. Soon after commencing *Thyr. the patient passed a quantity of fluid from the feet and got quite well. The symptoms are: better by rest. Worse by least exertion, by stooping. (Heart was worse lying down.) Worse by cold. (*Thyr. treatment nearly always raises the bodily heat.).

Relations

*Compare: Myxedema, psoriasis, &c., Arsenicum (I permanently cured a case of myxedema with Arsenicum high, before the Thyroid method was introduced (*H. W., xxvi. 443), arsenic has been found to be a normal constituent of the healthy thyroid gland). Phthisis, Bac. [I have found Thyr. follow Bac. well. Greenfield (see *H. W., xxix. 7) found tuberculosis very common in myxoedemics, in five out of seven fatal cases it was widespread and advanced, he also found it in one case of sporadic cretinism. Young, of Switzerland, has cured cretinism with Bac.] Syphilis, Mercurius, Kali-i., Syphilinum Goitre, exophthalmic, Spo., Iodium, Spi. Diuresis, Urea. Optic neuritis, Tabacum, Carb-s. Dilated arterioles (Adren., opp.) Ununited fractures, Symphytum Wakes with headache, Lachesis *Follows well: Lachesis, Bac.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Acute stupor alternating with restless melancholia, at times could not be got to speak, but would lie on floor with limbs rigid, at other times would weep and undress herself, at times dangerous and homicidal, would put her arms round the necks of other patients so tightly as almost to strangle them, (in this case the insanity was primary and the myxedema secondary, both conditions were removed). Evinced increased vivacity by quarrelling with another patient about a trifling difference of opinion Depression. Fretfulness and moroseness gave way to cheerfulness and animation. “All progressed cases of myxedema show some mental aberration which tends towards dementia, usually with delusions, the latter taking the form of suspicion and persecution. Occasionally actual insanity is present in the form of mania and insanity.” Delirium of persecution (three cases observed, one fatal, the result of taking Thyr. in tables to reduce obesity). Sudden acute mania occurring in myxedema, perfectly restored mentally and bodily under Thyr. Mental aberration dating three years before onset of myxedema, subject to attacks of great violence, with intervals of depression and moroseness. State of idiocy, fearful nightmares. Excited condition, lasting all the rest of the day, grunting continuously and laughing in a way that was peculiar to herself. Very excited, excited state followed by considerable depression. For several hours in what can only be termed a hysterical condition. Profound depression. Irritable and ill-tempered. Became a grumbler. Angry. Had frights.

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