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Terebinthina

6XTer

Terebinthina · Oil of Turpentine · "The Smoky Urine Kidney Remedy"

PlantCommonPsoric✨ Clarke only

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Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 It acts as a powerful irritant and stimulant to the mucous membranes, particularly those of the urinary and digestive tracts, often causing burning sensations and passive hemorrhages.

📖 Clarke writes:

Oleum terebinthinae. Oil of Turpentine. C10 H16. The oil distilled from the oleo-resin (turpentine) obtained from various species of Pinus, purified by repeated rectification with water. Solution in rectified spirit. Ozonised Oil of Turpentine (prepared by exposure of the common oil to sun and air in a half-filled bottle and shaking from time to time).

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Stimulant and tonic to mucous membranes, especially bladder and urethra

•Irritant and rubefacient to skin

•Acts on mucous membranes, lessening secretion

•Great haemorrhagic; haemorrhages are generally passive, dark, and fetid

•Irritative, sensitive remedy

•Hydrogenoid (aggravated by dampness)

•Causes burning sensations throughout the body

•Causes gastro-enteritis, ulceration of intestines, and excessive tympanites

•Diminishes voluntary movement and reflex action

•Lowers blood-pressure and dilates vessels

•Affects temperature (sometimes rises, sometimes falls)

•Affects pulse (sometimes slowed, sometimes quickened)

Temperament & Physical Profile

•Children (especially teething children) are particularly sensitive

•Bleeders

•Nervous women (amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, headache)

•Complaints of old people

•People of sedentary habits

•Patients with chronic rheumatism and gouty complaints

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Children fly into passions

•Maniacal fury

•Irritability manifesting in spasms and convulsions

•State like hydrophobia (spasms at sight of water, hearing water poured, or bright objects)

•Drowsiness (especially in capillary bronchitis and typhus/typhoid)

•Stupor and great weakness

•Sense of anxiety and utter prostration about epigastrium

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Burning is a constant note: gums, tongue, mouth, throat, stomach, rectum, anus, kidneys, bladder, urethra, uterus, air passages, chest, and sternum

•Smooth, glossy, red tongue, as if deprived of papillae

•Urine has an odour of violets

•Haematuria: Smoky, turbid urine depositing a sediment like coffee-grounds

•Extreme tympanites with extreme sensitiveness to touch

•Pains in bowels which equal frequent micturition

•Burning in uterus

•Drowsy with retention of urine

•Sensitiveness of hypogastrium and pains in symphysis pubis

•Pains go from left to right across bowels and then shoot upward

•Cold sweat of lower limbs

•Rapid, small, compressible pulse

Peculiar Sensations

•As if he would pitch forward on walking

•As of a band round head

•As if sand thrown violently in eye

•As of a seashell sounding in left ear

•In ear as of striking of a clock

•As from hasty swallowing in epigastrium

•As if he had swallowed a bullet, which had lodged in pit of stomach

•Umbilical region as if covered with a round, cold plate

•As if intestines were being drawn towards spine

•As if abdomen distended with flatus

•As if diarrhoea would set in

•As if inguinal hernia would appear

•As if symphysis pubis were suddenly forced asunder

•As if foreign body had entered windpipe

•As from electric shocks

•Twitching of limbs

•Crawling tingling as if parts were asleep

•As if hot water running through a tube in nerve

Modalities

•Aggravation: Touch, pressure, lying on left side, sitting, walking in open air, night (1-3 a.m.), damp dwellings, damp cellar, damp weather

•Amelioration: Turning to right, stooping, motion, cold water (for burning in anus), belching, passing flatus, loose stool

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Intense burning sensations in almost all mucous membranes, especially the mouth, stomach, rectum, and urinary tract.

Clarke

Urine that is smoky, turbid, and deposits a sediment resembling coffee-grounds, often with an odor of violets.

Clarke

Tongue is red, smooth, and glossy, as if the papillae have been stripped away.

Clarke

Passive, dark, and fetid hemorrhages from any orifice of the body.

Clarke

Extreme irritability and nervous excitement, particularly in teething children who fly into passions.

Clarke

Burning in the chest along the sternum, specifically triggered or aggravated by warm drinks.

Clarke

Spasmodic symptoms triggered by the sight or sound of water, or by the attempt to urinate.

Clarke

Abdomen is highly sensitive to touch, often with distension and colic.

Clarke

Presence of intestinal worms, particularly lumbrici, associated with abdominal distress.

Clarke

General prostration and weakness following inflammatory or hemorrhagic episodes.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

✨ Clarke Exclusive

🧠Mind

Use for intense nervous excitement, mania, or extreme irritability in teething children.

Stupefaction

inability to fix attention (uraemia).

Mania.

Intense nervous excitement.

Children fly into tempers.

Intense irritability, with irritation of membranes of brain (esp. in teething children).

Anxiety on going to bed.

Facility of thought.

Fears apoplexy

fulness and pressure in head.

Weary of life.

Suicide by hanging in two cases following washing of laces in turpentine and alcohol.

(Frightful maniacal temper, wanders about at night meaninglessly.

R. T. C.).

Intoxication.

Coma.

🔑 Modalities

✨ Clarke Exclusive

↓Worse from

Morning

diarrhea

gum pain

↑Better from

Moving about

kidney pain

hypochondriac pain

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Rhododendron Ferrugineum →Lachesis Mutus →Berberis Vulgaris →Kalmia Latifolia →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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