Tellurium Metallicum

► Forgetful. ► Quiet disposition. ► Rough, angular disposition.

► Vertigo : morning, after rising from bed ; worse when walking, sitting up, or turning head ; pulse accelerated, nausea, vomiting of food ; better lying perfectly quiet ; when going to sleep.

► Brain feels as if beaten, on slightest movement. ► Heaviness and fulness in head in morning. ► Violent (linear) pain in a small spot over left eye ; pain short, sharp and defined.

► Deposit of a chalky-looking white mass on anterior surface of lens. ► Pterygium. ► Purulent discharge ; eczema impetigenoides on lids. ► Left upper lid worse ; lachrymation, itching and pressure ; scrofulous ophthalmia. ► Herpes conjunctiva bulbi ; veins enlarged, running horizontally towards the cornea, ending in little blisters near edge of cornea ; worse from crying.

► Dull, throbbing pain day and night ; thin, watery, excoriating discharge. ► Vesicular eruption on membrana, then suppuration and perforation. ► Membrana tympani permanently injured and hearing greatly diminished. ► Itching and swelling, with painful throbbing in external meatus ; in three or four days, discharge of a watery fluid, smelling like fish-pickle, which causes vesicles wherever it touches ; ear is bluish-red, as if oedematous ; hearing impaired. ► Sensation : as if something suddenly closed up in the ear ; as if air whistled through left eustachian tube, when snuffing or belching, air passes through it.

► Fluent coryza, lachrymation and hoarseness when walking in open air.

► Sudden flashes of redness over the face. ► Twitching and distortion of facial muscles, worse when talking. ► Ringworm.

► Salivation ; gums bleed easily and profusely.

► Breath has a garlic-like odor.

► Sore throat, dry sensation in fauces, better when eating and drinking.

► See 13.

► Weak feeling, like faintness in the stomach, after congestion of blood in head and nape.

► Pinching in abdomen.

► Flatus peculiar and stinking.

► Increased urination. ► High-colored, acid urine. ► Drop sticking at mouth of urethra.

► Increased sexual desire. ► Herpes on scrotum and perineum.

► Dull pain in region of heart, when lying on left side ; better when lying on back. ► Palpitation of heart, with throbbing through whole body and full pulse, followed by sweat.

► Painful sensitiveness of spine, from last cervical to fifth dorsal vertebra ; sensitive to pressure and touch. ► Pain in sacrum. See sciatica.

► Pain in sacrum, passing into right thigh down sciatic nerve, worse when pressing at stool, coughing, laughing, also when lying on the affected side. θ Sciatica.

3. Turning head : 2.

► Morning : 2, 3. Day and night : 6.

► Open air : 7.

► Chilly, with the pains. ► Sweat on face. ► Sweat on spots, with increased itchings of these places.

► Touch : 31. Pressure : 31.

► Ringworms : cover the whole body, more distinct on lower limbs ; on single parts.