Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Rare crystals from North Carolina and Georgia, containing about 60 parts of Bismuth, 33 of Tellurium, 6 of Sulphur, and traces of Selenium and Iron." Trituration.

Clinical.─Coccygodynia. Nails, ulceration of; ingrowing. Tendo Achillis, pain in. Urticaria.

Characteristics.─Hering proved Tetradymite, taking about five grains of the 1st trituration. The most prominent symptoms were pains occurring in small spots; ulcerative pains about the nails, and a sharp attack of urticaria from eating shell-fish. Pains in ankles, heels, and tendines Achillis were also severe, and these were < rising from a seat.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─After waking in morning, made anxious by street noise.

2. Head.─Pains in r. temple; in occiput.

4. Ears.─Pains in l. ear, afterwards in r., as if bones sore.

5. Nose.─Repeated sneezing on going out; with discharge of thin mucus.

8. Mouth.─Toothache r. lower jaw, afterwards l.─Coated tongue became clean.─Bitter taste.

11. Stomach.─Great hunger in morning.

12. Abdomen.─Disagreeable feeling in abdomen.─Colic and desire for stool.─Burning, pinching-pressive pain in last ribs.

13. Stool and Anus.─Pasty, scanty, lumpy stool, light yellow, with biting burning in anus.─No stool second day; third day, in morning, scanty, soft stool with much pressure and discharge of blood; in evening another soft stool with much black blood.

15. Male Sexual Organs.─Violent erections in morning.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Hoarseness.─Oppression > by sweat.─Difficult respiration in back part of throat and larynx.

18. Chest.─Griping as with pincers, followed by violent sticking in upper chest, beneath l. shoulder, repeated at intervals; afterwards in l. elbow.

20. Neck and Back.─Pain in nape.─Pain in small of back on rising.─Severe pain in coccyx and lower extremity of r. ischium, esp. when sitting (an old symptom revived).

21. Limbs.─Pain in l. leg, and l. elbow.─Frequent pains in margins of nails as if an ulcer would develop, painful on pressure, as if burning and sore in small spots, esp. r. middle finger.

22. Upper Limbs.─Stiffness in l. arm as if lame < about elbow-joint, at part where ulnar nerve is exposed, constant inclination to stretch, twist, or turn arm.─Violent pain in hands as if in bones or nerves.

23. Lower Limbs.─Sharp pain through l. leg.─Tendines Achillis (esp. r.) constantly painful as if sprained; > walking; < rising from seat.─Pain in ankles, violent while sitting, < rising from seat.─Cramp in r. side.

24. Generalities.─Pains in small spots.

25. Skin.─Nettlerash, esp. in face after eating crabs; whole face stiff even while eating.─Burning pains as from hot needles.─Crawling itching in r. palm.

26. Sleep.─Very sleepy, weary and ill-humoured while riding in carriage.─Awoke 3 a.m. from a dream that a steer was following him, and as though he had often had the dream before, which was not so.

27. Fever.─Sweat, esp. on occiput and on nape; at night, though the night was cool and windows open.