Pure metallic Tellurium is triturated.
General Action
See symptoms of spine and skin.
Allies – Arsenicum, Rhus-t., Cepa.
Generalities
Pains over whole body, (<) limbs and scapulae, (<) r. side, (<) waking; fugitive and indistinct P., “first r., then l.” Restless (Arsenicum, Rhus-t.). Weakness, then sharp, quick pains in elbows, ankles and various parts. Heaviness in morning after deep sleep and bad dreams, with Dullness.
Mind
Forgets and neglects much, it is too much trouble to observe and write down the symptoms, when thinking of any business he forgets everything else. Quiet.
Head
Aching; in afternoon, (<) l. side, and at 6 P.M., (<) forepart; towards evening; (<) vertex. Brain felt bruised on every movement. Dullness. Heavy, full and sleepy. Sudden rush of blood when sitting quietly working, with head bent forward, almost twice daily, now in morning, now in afternoon, with reddening of face. Every evening on getting to sleep, vertigo, as if he were wafted and drawn forth quickly in the direction of his legs, always waking him.
Forehead. – Stitches anteriorly, pressure above eyes as after lack of sleep. Linear pain behind l. brow. Congestive pain in F. and temples in morning on waking, (<) stooping, when there was weight, (>) lying. Pressure outward deep in a long line above eyes, (<) r. side. Pain in a spot in l. sinciput, pressing like hazelnut, at night and through next morning.
Tensive pain externally in l. half in morning when lying on l. side. Pressure upon a spot behind vertex. Occiput, pain in r. side; confusion at sides and (<) towards back part; numbness, and in nape.
Eyes
Red, dropsical, biting, itching swelling of l. upper lid towards inner angle, secreting some fluid, then a scab, globe reddened. Itching of l. upper lid towards inner canthus towards evening, with pressure as if a hair had grown in the wrong direction.
Clinical Eczema impetiginoides of the lids and conjunctiva. Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Ears
Sudden obstruction in forenoon and at 10 P.M., (<) l. Air catches itself in l. Eustachian tube; on taking a pinch of snuff and on eructation of wind. Itching within, with thin wax. Itching of l., with burning and swelling and with aching and throbbing in external meatus, then discharge from ear, copious, watery, smelling like fish-pickle, acrid, causing vesicles wherever it touched ear or neck, the inflammation of ear generally was not vesicular, ear was bluish-red and appeared infiltrated with water.
Clinical Eczema of the external ear, with itching and swelling and painful throbbing, discharge smelling like old fish-brine, vesicular eruption externally. Numerous cases of otorrhoea have been cured. Deafness.
Nose
Obstruction of r. nostril; of l. in forenoon, slime running off posteriorly. Sudden dryness (as from sudden stoppage of fluent coryza or as from an abortive attempt to sneeze) in r. side of N. and fauces between 4 and 5 P.M., then painful heat in r. eye, with lachrymation. Fluent coryza when walking in clear air (from 11 A.M. till noon), (>) stay in open air, with hoarseness and lachrymation (Allium-cep.), short cough and pressure under sternum; C., with thick mucus. Thick slime on waking, he had breathed through the mouth at night, nose sometimes stopped. Dry coryza, worse at irregular intervals.
Face and Mouth
Distortion of l. facial muscles when speaking, l. angle of mouth drawn to the left and upward. Burning in lips in afternoon after being in cold air in forenoon; in middle of upper in afternoon. Pain in l. teeth, which had been filled with lead. Garlicky breath. Mouth and pharynx cool as after peppermint, (<) drawing in air. Taste metallic, earthy.
Throat
In morning much slime from posterior nares tasting salt, like smoked herring. The slime in posterior nares has been deposited as a yellow-reddish resin, which is hawked out in morning. Suffocative feeling in upper part. Scratching; (<) towards evening. Soreness in evening on empty swallowing; (<) l. side; prickly, in fauces on swallowing, (<) r. side. Pressure in tonsils. Dryness at 5 P.M.; in fauces towards evening; in fauces, (<) r. side; in fauces, (>) eating or drinking, with pain; in fauces in morning, (<) l. side, (>) walking in open air from 11 A.M. till noon, then pain in r. side extending into ear, (<) empty swallowing, stoppage of fluent coryza or as from an abortive attempt to sneeze, in morning. Itching in fauces above larynx, with burning, as if he had scalded himself. Feels fauces and pharynx, and at times had a sensation as if round waves pushed against pharynx below. Swallowing painful.
Stomach
Sudden desire for apples at 11.30 P.M., on going to sleep, making him a wide awake. Good appetite, with desire for beer, later both ceased. No desire to smoke in evening. Eructations tasting of the food. Nausea before evening meal, (>) eating, with headache; N., caused by vertigo, and after eating rice vomiting; N. with frequent pulse. Contracting sensation in epigastrium as if it folded together, then pain in l. side, with soreness. Empty and weak feeling, yet no appetite. Discomfort, something comes up to pharynx, as if a wet eructations would occur, but nothing comes up, then difficult retching, then accumulation of water in mouth, then retching, then yawning. Heartburn in epigastrium and on both sides of it, as after spirituous drinks.
Abdomen
Pinching at 8 A.M., and stool, first thick, then diarrhoeic; P. at 10 P.M., (>) emission of flatus. Spasmodic pain as from incarcerated flatus, (<) afternoon, one day at 6 P.M. while eating, with urging to stool, then copious stool, then only feeling of flatulence, the pain returned four days afterwards between 3 and 4 P.M., (>) copious stools. Full after supper, but not bloated. Warmth as after spirituous drinks.
Fulness in region of upper A. and liver. PRessure of incarcerated flatus in l. hypochondrium after breakfast, the in r. Burning in hepatic region as if blistered inside, in forenoon when sitting, then heavy pressure. Gnawing rubbing pain in r. side, (<) low in back. Pain anteriorly on sides and above pubic region; in l. flank, within crest of ilium. Numbness of walls began below umbilicus on each side, extended around and upward to ribs while lying on sofa after supper.
Rectum and Stool
Blind haemorrhoids. Itching in anus; in rectum after stool. Diarrhoea, then urging, with burning in rectum, then stronger retraction of abdomen. Constipation with much wind. Stool only every other day and difficult. Stool omitted for two days, then one not hard, composed of crumbs enveloped in brown-reddish slime, next day the first part was similar, but the last part softer.
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Urine dark; deep red, scanty, acid, sp. gr. 1030, abundant coloring matter, hydrochloric acid caused striking change of color. Erections all night. Sexual desire and power increased; desire powerful, then extinct.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness in morning after rising. In larynx a sensation between roughness and pressure, generally provoking cough, gradually passing into tickling. Cough, with pressure under sternum. Easy expectoration of white mucus.
Chest
Stitches, (<) l. side; above l. rib. Drawing cutting in l. nipple and around it, extending towards scapula. Pain in clavicle; in middle of sternum; above first l. rib. Oppression. Feeling in middle lobe of r. lung as if a fluid wanted to discharge itself (pressing downward) in afternoon. Bubbling in middle lobe of r. lungs, (<) afternoon. Undulatory throbbing as from wind-balls under r. ribs, somewhat towards epigastrium, when lying on l. side, flatus does not pass off as freely in the morning as usual, and the hitherto rather diarrhoeic stool intermits, flatus becomes stinking.
Heart
Palpitation, with throbbing through whole body and fulness of pulse, then sweat.
Neck
Sharp pain extending into ear when lying on l. ear.
Back
Spine sensitive from last cervical to about fifth dorsal vertebra, with dread of having the part touched or approached (compare Chin-s.), the dread was greater than the actual sensibility, from these vertebrae a peculiar irritation radiated into neck and shoulders and to sternum, this sensation (<) fatigue, but only partially (>) repose.
Drawing and pressure in r., then l. scapula. Pain between scapulae; in region of kidneys, extending downward and towards abdomen, (<) night, with soreness and weight, the pains (<) next morning, especially the soreness; P. in sacrum, (<) stooping or rising from sitting or lying, it passes down r. thigh in direction of sciatic nerve, it is almost impossible for him to press at stool, sometimes on moving the pain in sacrum and sacral ligaments is like a stab; P. in os sacrum as if beaten in morning, (<) stooping, not (>) rising again, extending after a time into renal region, (>) walking in open air, returning when sitting, returning next day when standing into a stooping posture, (>) walking, (<) lying on back, but when lying on l. side it is worse towards the right, on third day the pain in sacrum and leg (>) motion in open air, (<) pressing at stool, and when coughing and laughing the pain extends from sacral plexus through large foramen ischiaticum along great sciatic nerve into thigh, (<) r. side.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.