Terebinthina Fever Symptoms


Allen gives the therapeutic indications of the remedy Terebinthina in different kinds of fevers like: Continued, Bilious, Intermittent, Malarial, Remittent, Pernicious, Typhoid, Typhus, Septic fever, etc…


Fever

Characteristic – For the hemorrhagic diathesis, “bleeders.”

Complaints of old people, sedentary habit, from living in basements and damp dwellings.

Abdomen: extremely sensitive to touch, distention, flatulence, excessive tympanitis, meteorism (Colchicum).

Diarrhea: stool, watery, greenish, mucous, frequently, profuse, fetid, bloody, burning in anus and rectum, fainting and exhaustion, after (Arsenicum).

Worms: with foul breath, choking (Cina, Spigelia), dry hacking cough, tickling at anus, ascarides, lumbrici, tapeworm segments passed.

Hematuria: blood, thoroughly mixed with urine, sediment, like coffee – grounds, cloudy, smoky, albuminous, profuse, dark or black, painless.

Congestion and inflammation of viscera, kidneys, bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus, with hemorrhage, and malignant tendency.

Purpura hemorrhagica, fresh ecchymoses in great numbers from day to day (Sulph-ac.).

Hemorrhages: from bowels, with ulceration, passive, dark with epithelial degeneration.

Ascites anasarca, in organic lesions of kidneys, dropsy after scarlatina (Apis, Helleborus, Lachesis).

The urine has the odor of violets.

Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, bladder and urethra (Berberis, Can., Cantharis).

Violent burning and cutting in bladder, tenesmus, sensitive hypogastrium, cystitis and retention from atony of fundus.

Albuminuria: acute, in early stages, when blood and albumin abound more than casts and epithelium, after diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid.

Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts, aggravated from living in damp dwellings.

Strangury, spasmodic retention of urine.

Relationship – Compare: Alumen, Arnica, Arsenicum, Cantharis, Lachesis, Nit.ac.

Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.

Type: Malarial, tropical, African fevers, toxemic, septic, typhoid, typhus, yellow, tend to a low malignant type, with hemorrhage.

Chill: Violent, cold limbs, body hot, great coldness with restless tossing about, rigors, followed by heat through whole body.

Coldness and chill in abdomen.

Irregular chills and flushes of heat.

Heat: With great thirst, red face, skin and mucous membranes hot and dry, pulse hard and frequent.

Stupor, muttering delirium, subsultus tendinum, copious hemorrhage, black, fluid, from nose, stomach, kidneys, lungs, bowels, with ulceration of Peyer’s patches, great prostration and emaciation. Sweat: Profuse, with great prostration, cold, clammy, over whole body.

Tongue: Smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of papillae, or as if glazed (Pyrogen), elevated papillae, coating peels off in patches, leaving bright red spots, or entire coating cleans off suddenly (in exanthemata), dry and red, burning in tip (compare, Murexac.).

Pulse: Irregular, intermitting, with great weakness, small, wiry, thready, scarcely perceptible, feeble and slow in diarrhea.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.