The Metal Tellurium
- Marked skin (herpes circinatus), spinal, eye and ear symptoms.
- Very sensitive back.
- Pains all over body.
- Offensive discharges.
- Slow development of symptoms (Radium) Sacral and sciatic pains.
Head
- Neglectful and forgetful.
- Pain in left side of head and in forehead above left eye.
- Distortion and twitching of left facial muscles; when speaking left angle of mouth drawn upwards and to left.
- Fear of being touched in sensitive places.
- Congestion to head and nape of neck, followed by weakness and faintness in stomach.
- Itching of scalp; red spots.
Eyes
- Lids thickened, inflamed, itching.
- Pterygium; pustular conjunctivitis.
- Cataract, following ocular lesions; aids the absorption of infiltrations in iris and choroid.
Ears
- Eczema behind ear.
- Catarrh of middle ear, discharge acrid, smells like fish-pickle.
- Itching, swelling, throbbing in meatus.
- Deafness.
Nose
- Coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness; better in open air (Cepa).
- Obstructed; hawks salty phlegm from posterior nares.
Stomach
- Craving for apples.
- Empty and weak feeling.
- Heartburn.
Rectum
- Pruritus ani et perinei after every stool.
Back
- Pain in sacrum.
- Pain from last cervical to fifth dorsal vertebra, very sensitive; worse touch (Chin s; Phosph).
- Sciatica; worse right side, coughing, straining, and at night, with sensitive vertebral column.
- Contraction of tendons in bends of knees.
Skin
- Itching of hands and feet.
- Herpetic spots; ringworm (Tuberc).
- Ring-shape lesions, offensive odors from affected parts.
- Barber's itch.
- Stinging in skin.
- Fetid exhalations (Sulph).
- Offensive foot-sweat.
- Eczema, back of ears and occiput.
- Circular patches of eczema.
Modalities
- Worse, while at rest at night, cold weather, from friction, coughing, laughing, lying on painful side, touch.
Relationship
- Compare:
- Radium; Selenium;
- Tetradymite-crystals from Georgia and North Carolina containing Bismuth, Tellurium and Sulphur--(coccygodynia, ulceration of nails; pains in hands, in small spots, ankles, heels, and tendo-Achilles);
- Sep; Ars; Rhus.
Dose
- Sixth potency and higher.
- Takes long time to develop its action, which is very prolonged.
