Turpentine (TEREBINTHINA)
- Has a selective affinity for bleeding mucous surfaces.
- Tympanites and urinary symptoms very marked.
- Inflammation of kidneys, with hemorrhages-dark, passive, fetid.
- Bright's disease preceded by dropsy (Goullon).
- Drowsiness and strangury.
- Coma.
- Unbroken chilblains.
Head
- Dull pain like from a band around the head (Carb ac).
- Vertigo, with vanishing of vision.
- Disturbed sense of equilibrium.
- Tired and difficult concentration of thoughts.
- Cold in head with sore nostrils with disposition to bleed.
Eyes
- Ciliary neuralgia over right eye.
- Intense pain in eye and side of head.
- Amblyopia from alcohol.
Ears
- Own voice sounds unnatural; humming as of a seashell, talking loudly is painful.
- Otalgia.
Mouth
- Tongue dry, red sore, shining; burning in tip, with prominent papillae (Arg n; Bell; Kali b; Nux m).
- Breath cold, foul.
- Choking sensation in throat.
- Stomatitis.
- Dentition.
Stomach
- Nausea and vomiting; heat in epigastric region.
Abdomen
- Enormous distention.
- Diarrhea; stools watery, greenish, fetid, bloody.
- Pain before flatus with and relief after stool.
- Hemorrhage from bowels.
- Worms; lumbrici.
- Abdominal dropsy; pelvic peritonitis.
- Fainting after every stool.
- Entero-colitis, with hemorrhage and ulceration of bowels.
Urinary
- Strangury, with bloody urine.
- Scanty, suppressed, odor of violets.
- Urethritis, with painful erections (Canthar).
- Inflamed kidneys following any acute disease.
- Constant tenesmus.
Female
- Intense burning in uterine region.
- Metritis; puerperal peritonitis.
- Metrorrhagia with burning in uterus.
Respiratory
- Difficult breathing; lungs feel distended; hemoptysis.
- Bloody expectoration.
Heart
- Pulse rapid, small, thready, intermittent.
Back
- Burning pain in region of kidneys.
- Drawing in right kidney extending to hip.
Skin
- Acne.
- Erythema; itching pustular, vesicular eruption; urticaria.
- Purpura, ecchymosis, dropsies.
- Scarlatina.
- Chilblains; with excessive itching and pulsative pains.
- Aching soreness of the muscles.
Fever
- Heat, with violent thirst, dry tongue, profuse cold, clammy sweat.
- Typhoid with tympanites, hemorrhages, stupor, delirium.
- Prostration.
Relationship
- Compare:
- Alumen; Secale; Canth; Nit ac.
- Terebene 1x; (chronic bronchitis and winter coughs; subacute stages of inflammation of respiratory tract. Loosens secretion, relieves tightened feeling, makes expectoration easy). Neurotic coughs. Huskiness of public speakers, and singers. Cystitis when urine is alkaline and offensive.
- Ononis spinosa-Rest Harrow--(Diuretic, Lithontriptic. Chronic nephritis; diuretic effects like Juniper; calculus nosebleed, worse washing face).
- Antidote: Phos.
Dose
- First to sixth potency.
