TELLURIUM METALLICUM
The Metal Tellurium (TELLURIUM)
Marked pores and skin (herpes circinatus), spinal, eye and ear symptoms. Very touchy back. Pains all over body. Offensive discharges. Slow improvement of signs Radium. Sacral and sciatic pains.
Head.–Neglectful and forgetful. Pain in left aspect of head and in brow above left eye. Distortion and twitching of left facial muscles; when talking left perspective of mouth drawn upwards and to left. Fear of being touched in touchy places. Congestion to head and nape of neck, accompanied with the aid of weak point and faintness in stomach. Itching of scalp; crimson spots.
Eyes.–Lids thickened, inflamed, itching. Pterygium; pustular conjunctivitis. Cataract, following ocular lesions; aids the absorption of infiltrations in iris and choroid.
Ears.–Eczema at the back of ear. Catarrh of center ear, discharge acrid, smells like fish-pickle. Itching, swelling, throbbing in meatus. Deafness.
Nose.–Coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness; higher in open air (Cepa). Obstructed; hawks salty phlegm from posterior nares.
Stomach.–Craving for apples. Empty and vulnerable feeling. Heartburn.
Rectum.–Pruritus ani et perinei after each and every stool.
Back.–Pain in sacrum.–Pain from closing cervical to fifth dorsal vertebra, very sensitive; worse contact (Chin s; Phosph) Sciatica; worse proper side, coughing, straining, and at night, with touchy vertebral column. Contraction of tendons in bends of knees.
Skin.–Itching of fingers and feet. Herpetic spots; ringworm (Tuberc). Ring-shape lesions, offensive odors from affected parts. Barber’s itch. Stinging in skin. Fetid exhalations (Sulph). Offensive foot-sweat. Eczema, again of ears and occiput. Circular patches of eczema.
Modalities.–Worse, whilst at relaxation at night, bloodless weather, from friction, coughing, laughing, mendacity on painful side, touch.
Relationship.–Compare: Radium; Selenium; Tetradymite-crystals from Georgia and North Carolina containing Bismuth, Tellurium and Sulphur–(coccygodynia, ulceration of nails; pains in hands, in small spots, ankles, heels, and tendo-Achilles); Sep; Ars; Rhus.
Dose.–Sixth efficiency and higher. Takes lengthy time to improve its action, which is very prolonged.
