TuberculinumTuberculinum is indicated in renal affections, but caution is necessary, for where skin and intestines do not perform normally even high potencies are dangerous. In chronic cystitis, brilliant and permanent results (Dr. Nebel Montreux).
Of undoubted value in the treatment of incipient tuberculosis. Especially adapted to the light-complexioned, narrow-chested subjects. Lax fiber, low recuperative powers, and very susceptible to changes in the weather. Patient always tired; motion causes intense fatigue; aversion to work; wants constant changes. When symptoms are constantly changing and well-selected remedies fail to improve, and cold is taken from the slightest exposure. Rapid emaciation. Of great value in epilepsy, neurasthenia and in nervous children. Diarrhoea in children running for weeks, extreme wasting, bluish pallor, exhaustion. Mentally deficient children. Enlarged tonsils. Skin affections, acute articular rheumatism. Very sensitive, mentally and physically. General exhaustion. Nervous weakness. Trembling. Epilepsy.
Arthritis.
Mind: Contradictory characteristics of Tuberculinum are mania and melancholia, insomnia and sopor. Irritable, especially when awakening. Depressed, melancholy. Fear of dogs.
Animals especially. Desire to use foul language, curse and swear.
Head: Subject to deep brain headaches and intense neuralgias. Everything seems strange. Intense pain, as of an iron band around head. Meningitis. When critical discharges appear, sweat, polyuria, diarrhoea, exanthema, repeating the dose only when crises come on. Nocturnal hallucinations, awakes frightened. Plica polonica (Vinca). Crops of small boils, intensely painful, successively appear in the nose; green, fetid pus.
Ears: Persistent, offensive otorrhoea. Perforation in membrana tympani, with ragged edges.
Stomach: Averse to meat. All-gone, hungry sensation (Sulph). Desire for cold milk.
Abdomen: Early-morning, sudden diarrhoea (Sulph). Stools dark-brown, offensive, discharged with much force. Tabes mesenterica.
Female: Benign mammary tumors. Menses too early, too profuse, long-lasting. Dysmenorrhoea. Pains increase with the establishment of the flow.
Respiratory: Enlarged tonsils. Hard, dry cough during sleep. Expectoration thick, easy; profuse bronchorrhoea. Shortness of breath. Sensation of suffocation, even with plenty of fresh air. Longs for cold air. Broncho-pneumonia in children. Hard, hacking cough, profuse sweating and loss of weight, rales all over chest. Deposits begin in apex of lung (Repeated doses).
Back: Tension in nape of neck and down spine. Chilliness between shoulders or up the back.
Skin: Chronic eczema; itching intense; worse at night. Acne in tuberculous children. Measles; psoriasis (Thyroid).
Sleep: Poor; wakes early. Overpowering sleepiness in daytime.
Dreams vivid and distressing.
Fever: Post-critical temperature of a remittent type. Here repeat dose every two hours (MacFarlan). Profuse sweat. General chilliness.
Modalities: Worse, motion, music; before a storm; standing; dampness; from draught; early morning, and after sleep. Better, open air.