Oil of Turpentine- A Volatile Oil
General
The urine has the odor of violets. Tongue: smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of papillae, or as if glazed [Pyr.]; elevated papillae; coating peels off in patches leaving bright red spots, or entire coating cleans off suddenly [in exanthemata]; dry and red; burning in tip [compare, Mur. ac.]. Abdomen: extremely sensitive to touch; distention, flatulence, excessive tympanitis; meteorism [Colch.]. Diarrhoea: stool, watery, greenish, mucous; frequent, profuse, foetid, bloody; burning in anus and rectum fainting and exhaustion, after [Ars.]. Worms: with foul breath, choking [Cina, Spig.]; dry, hacking cough; tickling at anus; ascarides, lumbrici, tapeworm segments passed. Haematuria: blood thoroughly mixed with the urine; sediment, like coffeegrounds; cloudy smoky, albuminous; profuse, dark or black, painless. Congestion and inflammation of viscera; kidneys, bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus; with haemorrhage, and malignant tendency. Purpura haemorrhagica; fresh ecchymoses in great numbers from day to day [Sulph. ac.]. Ascites with anasarca, in organic lesions of kidneys dropsy after scarlatina [Apis, Hell., Lach.]. Hemorrhages: from bowels, with ulceration; passive, dark with ulceration or epithelial degeneration. Violent burning and drawing pains in the kidney, bladder and urethra [Berb., Can., Canth.]. Violent burning and cutting in bladder; tenesmus; sensitive hypogastrium; cystitis and retention from atony of fundus. Albuminuria: acute, in early stages, when blood and albumin abound more than casts and epithelium; after diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid. Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts; (<). from living in damp dwellings. Strangury; spasmodic retention of urine.
Relations
Compare: Alumen, Arn., Ars., Canth., Lach., Nit. ac.
Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.