General
Pus [with bacilli] from tubercular abscess A Nosode Adapted to persons of light complexion; blue eyes, blonde in preference to brunette; tall, slim, flat, narrow chest; active and precocious mentally, weak physically; the tubercular diathesis. The potencies of Fincke and Swan were prepared from a drop of pus obtained from a pulmonary tubercular abscess or sputa. Those of Heath from a tuberculous lung in which the bacillus tuberculosis had been found microscopically; hence the former was called Tuberculinum and latter Bacillinum. Both preparations are reliable and effective. When with a family history of tubercular affections the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, without reference to name of disease. Symptoms ever changing; ailments affecting one organ, then another - the lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, stomach, nervous system - beginning suddenly, ceasing suddenly. Takes cold easily without knowing how or where; seems to take cold "every time he takes a breath of fresh air" [Hep.]. Emaciation rapid and pronounced; losing flesh while eating well [Abrot., Calc., Con., Iod., Nat.]. Melancholy, despondent; morose, irritable, fretful, peevish; taciturn, sulky; naturally of a sweet disposition, now on the borderland of insanity. Everything in the room seemed strange as though in a strange place. Headache: chronic, tubercular; pain intense, sharp cutting, from above r. eye to occiput; as of a n iron hoop around head [Anac., Sulph.]; when the best selected remedy only palliates. School-girl's headache: (<). by study or even slight mental exertion; when using eyes in close work and glasses fail to (>).; with a tubercular history. Acute cerebral or basilar meningitis, with threatened effusion; nocturnal hallucinations; wakes from sleep frightened, screaming; when Apis, Hell., or Sulph., though well selected, fail to improve. Crops of small boils, intensely painful, successively appear in the nose; green, foetid pus [Sec.]. Plica polonica; several bad cases permanently cured after Bor. and Psor. failed. Diarrhoea: early morning, sudden, imperative [Sulph.]; emaciating though eating well [Iod., Nat.]; stool dark, brown, watery, offensive; discharged with great force; great weakness and profuse night sweats. Menses: too early; too profuse; too long lasting; tardy in starting; with frightful dysmenorrhoea; in patients with a tuberculous history. Tubercular deposit begins at apex of lungs, usually the left [Phos., Sulph., Ther.] Eczema: tubercular over entire body; itching intense, ,. at night when undressing, from bathing; immense quantities of white bran-like scales; oozing behind the ears, in the hair, in folds of skin with rawness and soreness; fiery red skin. Ringworm.
Relations
Complementary: Psor., Sulph. When Psor., Sulph., or the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve; follows Psor. as a constitutional remedy in hay fever, asthma. Belladonna, for acute attacks, congestive or inflammatory, occurring in tubercular diseases. Hydrastis to fatten patients cured with Tuber.