TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM

Cat-thyme


  • Nasal and rectal symptoms marked. 
  • Polypi. 
  • Affections of children. 
  • Suitable after too much medicine has been taken. 
  • Over-sensitiveness. 
  • Desire to stretch. 
  • A remedy of first importance in chronic nasal catarrh with atrophy; large, offensive crusts and clinkers.
  • Ozaena. 
  • Loss of sense of smell.

Head

  • Excited, tremulous feeling. 
  • Frontal pain; worse, stooping. 
  • Strengthens brain after delirium tremens.

Eyes

  • Smarting in canthi; lids red and puffy; tarsal tumor (Staph).

Ears

  • Hissing and ringing otalgia.

Nose

  • Catarrhal condition of both anterior and posterior nostrils. 
  • Mucous polypus. 
  • Chronic catarrh; discharge of large, irregular clinkers. 
  • Foul breath. 
  • Crawling in nostrils, with lachrymation and sneezing. 
  • Coryza, with stoppage of nostrils.

Stomach

  • Vomiting of large quantities of dark-green masses. 
  • Constant hiccough, attended with pain in back. 
  • Unnatural appetite. 
  • Hiccough on eating, after nursing.

Respiratory

  • Dry cough, tickling in trachea; moldy taste in throat when hawking up mucus, expectoration profuse.

Extremities

  • Affection of finger-tips and joints of toes. 
  • Tearing pains in arms and legs. 
  • Pain in toe-nails, as if they had grown into flesh.

Rectum

  • Itching of anus, and constant irritation in the evening in bed. 
  • Ascarides, with nightly restlessness. 
  • Crawling in rectum after stool.

Sleep

  • Restless, with twitching, choking, and starting up frightened.

Skin

  • Itching causes tossing about all night. 
  • Very dry skin. 
  • Suppurating grooves in the nails.

Relationship

  • Compare: 
    • Teucrium scorodonia-Wood-sage (in tuberculosis with muco-purulent expectoration; dropsy; orchitis and tuberculous epidymitis; especially in young, thin individuals with tuberculosis of lungs, glands; bones and urogenitals, 3x). 
    • Cina; Ignat; Sang; Sil.

Dose

  • First to sixth potency. 
  • Locally for polypi, dry powder.