Tuberculinum by William Boericke M.D. =
Nucleo-protein/a Nosode from as Tubercular Abscess
Vergleich: Siehe: Tuberkulinumgruppe + Nosoden allgemein + Tuberculinums allgemein + Tuberculinum Kind
Kind: Tuberculinum Kind
Tuberculinum 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
(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.
Diarrhœa in children running for weeks, extreme wasting, bluish pallor,
exhaustion. Mentally deficient children. Enlarged tonsils. Skin affections,
acute articular rheuma.
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 (awakening).
Depressed, melancholy. Animals (dogs).
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, diarrhœa,
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 otorrhœa. Perforation
in membrana tympani, with ragged edges.
Stomach: Averse to meat. All-gone, hungry sensation
(Sulph). Desire for cold milk.
Abdomen: Early-morning, sudden diarrhœa (Sulph).
Stools dark-brown, offensive, discharged with much force. Tabes mesenterica.
Female organs: Benign mammary tumors. Menses too early, too
profuse, long-lasting. Dysmenorrhœa. Pains increase with the establishment of
the flow.
Respiratory Organs: Enlarged tonsils. Hard, dry cough during
sleep. Expectoration thick, easy; profuse bronchorrhœa. Shortness of breath.
“As if suffocated” 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 (Repeat 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: <: early morning/motion/music/before a
storm/standing/dampness/from draught/after sleep; >: open air;
Relationship.--Compare: Koch's lymph (acute and chronic parenchymatous
nephritis; produces pneumonia, broncho-pneumonia, and congestion of the lungs
in tuberculous patients, and is a remarkably efficacious remedy in lobular
pneumonia-broncho-pneumonia); Aviare-Tuberculin from birds--(acts on the apices
of the lungs; has proved an excellent remedy in influenzal bronchitis; symptoms
similar to tuberculosis; relieves the debility, diminishes the cough, improves
the appetite, and braces up the whole organism; acute broncho-pulmonary
diseases of children; itching of palms and ears; cough, acute, inflammatory,
irritating, incessant, and tickling; loss of strength and appetite); Hydrast
(to fatten patients after Tuberc); Formic acid (tuberculosis, chronic
nephritis, malignant tumors; pulmonary tuberculosis, not in third stage,
however; lupus; carcinoma of breast and stomach; Dr. Krull uses injections of
solutions corresponding to the third centesimal potency; these must not be
repeated before six months). Compare: Bacil; Psor; Lach. Kalagua (tuberculosis;
garlicky odor of all secretions and breath). Teucrium scoradonia. Compare:
Thuja [Vaccinosis may block the way of action of Tuberculin-until Thuja has
been given and then acts brilliantly (Burnett)].
Complementary: Calc. Chin. Bry.
Dose.--Tuberculin needs more frequent repetition in children's
complaints than nearly every other chronic remedy (H. Fergie Woods). Thirtieth
and much higher, in infrequent doses. When Tuberculinum fails Syphilinum often
follows advantageously, producing a reaction.
"The use of Tuberculinum in phthisis pulmonalis demands attention
to the following points:
In apyretic purely tubercular phthisis results are marked, provided the
eliminative organs are in good order, but nothing below the 1000th
should be used, unless absolutely necessary. With patients where
streptostaphylo-pneumococci are in the bronchi; where also after washing the
sputum, a pure "Tb." bacilli-mass remains, the same treatment is
indicated. With mixed infection-found in the majority of cases-where the sputum
swarms with virulent micro-organisms in addition to the "Tb.", other
procedure is necessary. If the heart is in good shape, a single dose of
Tuberculinum 1000-2000 is given, provided there are no marked indications for
other remedies. With due attention to temperature and possible excretions, the
dose is allowed to work until effects are no longer observed, eight days to
eight weeks. Usually a syndrome then presents, permitting the accurate choice
of an antipsoric Silica, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, etc. After a while the picture
again darkens and now a high potency of the isopathic remedy corresponding to
the most virulent and prominent micro-organism found in the sputum is given:
Staphylo-Strepto-, or Pneumococcin. The accurate bacteriological analysis of
the sputum is absolutely essential; the choice of the ison again clears the
picture, and so, proceeding on the one side etiologically (where these
isopathica have not yet been proved); on the other side symptomatically with
antipsoric remedies, the disease is dominated.
My own experience warns, in the case of mixed infection, against the use
of Strepto-, Staphylo-, or Pneumococcin below the 500th. I use them only from
2000 to 1000, having seen terrible aggravations from the 30, 100, 200, with a
lowering temperature from 104 to 96. Hence the admonition, which need not
concern scoffers, but those alone who wish to avail themselves of a potent
weapon. The toxins used as remedies are, like Tuberculinum, prepared from pure
and virulent cultures.
And cases, seemingly condemned to speedy death, are brought in a year or
two back to normal temperature, though, of course, sacrificing a large portion
of lung tissue. This result is sure when the patient can and will take care of
himself, where the heart has withstood the toxin and the stomach and liver are
in good function. Further, climatic variations must be avoided. With the great
mineral metabolism of the phthisic, diet regulation is imperative, and should
be preponderately vegetable, together with the addition of physiological salts
in low potency, Calc. 3x, 5x, Calc-p. 2x, 6x, and intercurrently according to
indications organ-remedies as Cactus Tr. 30, Chelidonium Tr. 30, Taraxacum Tr,
Nasturtium Tr, Urtica urens Tr, Tussilago farfara Tr, Lysimachia numularia Tr,
for short periods.
The first dose of Tuberculinum in any difficult case is, however, the
most weighty prescription. The remedy should not be given without a most
careful cardiac examination. As the surgeon before the anæsthetic, so must the
physician know the heart before administering this drug, especially to
children, and seniles-and to young seniles. He who observes this rule will have
fewer clinical reproaches on his conscience. When Tuberculinum is
contraindicated, recourse must be had to the nearest antipsoric.
The above caution applies also to asthma, pleuritis, peritonitis in
scrofulous (tuberculous) subjects. " (Dr. Nebel Montreux)
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