Marum verum. Cat Thyme. *N.O. Labiatae. Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Clinical
*Anus, itching of. Eyelids, tumour of. Fibroma. Hiccough. Ingrowing toenail. Nose, catarrh of. Polypus. Psoriasis. Rheumatism. Urethra, excrescences in. Worms.
Characteristics
The Germander group of the Labiatae, to which the Teucriums belong, had an important place in old herbal medicine, and homoeopathy has placed *Teuc. *m. on a firm foundation. Stapf and others proved it. Marked symptoms of helminthiasis, irritation of anus and nose, were elicited, and *Teuc. has well justified the labour of the provers in this respect. No remedy meets more cases of threadworms than *Teucrium The nasal symptoms have led to the use of *Teuc. in nasal polypus. Guernsey gives this as guiding: “Polypus with stoppage of nose on side lain on, large red pimples under right nostril near septum, sore and smarting to touch.” A snuff of *Teuc. has been used in some cases in addition to the internal use of the remedy But *Teuc. has a relation to new growth in general as well as of the nose. It has removed a fibrous tumour of the eyelid, urethral granulations following gonorrhoea, and also uterine fibroids. Worms and polypi suggest a tubercular taint, and I have used both *Teuc. *m. and *Teuc. *scorod. in phthisical cases I was led to think of the remedies by reading an article on the latter, and not being able to obtain it I gave *Teuc. *m. O, in five-drop doses three times a day, to a man of 44 who had phthisis affecting the right lung with severe recurrent haemorrhages *Teuc. helped him much, and with other remedies he got quite well, and has now been at his work for some years. But while taking *Teuc. he noticed that he passed a *large quantity of threadworms, to which he was not at all subject ***C. M. Boger (*Hahn. Ad., xxxviii. 40) relates this case of cough: Patient had with the cough a *mouldy taste in the throat when hawking up mucus. Expectoration profuse. Rapid loss of weight and strength. Anorexia. A brother had died of phthisis four years before with very similar symptoms. *Teuc. *m. 3x helped, and 20X finished the cure. The italicized symptom is a keynote *Teuc. has the craving hunger of the antipsorics and worm remedies, it prevents sleep at night. Nervous, irritable, sensitive. There are many rheumatic and gouty symptoms and scapular pains, both in the bones and joints. Limbs go to sleep with tingling when sitting. *Peculiar Sensations are: As if air forced through mucus in ear. As if right nostril were partly stopped. As if nail had grown into flesh of right great toe. Chill as from abdomen. Sensation as from fleabites. *Teuc. is Suited to: Old persons and children. When too much medicine has produced an over-sensitive condition and remedies fail to act. The symptoms are: worse By touch. Worse sitting. Worse stooping. Worse on side lain on. Moving improves. Disinclined for exertion. Worse evening and at night. Desires exercise in open air, which does not fatigue. Warmth aggravates. Worse warmth of bed. Wet weather aggravates.
Relations
*Antidoted by: Camph. *Compatible: Chi., Pulsatilla, Silicea *Compare: Botan. Teuc. scorod. Sinking immediately after meals, Arsenicum, Cin. Lycopodium, Silicea, Staphysagria Hiccough, Ignatia (Ignatia, worse eating, smoking, emotions, *Teuc. after nursing, in infants). Loquacity, Lachesis Hyoscyamus Singing, Bell, Croc., Hyoscyamus, Spo., Stramonium Worms, Scirrh., Cina., Spi. Phthisis, Bac. Polypus worse damp weather, Lemn. Nervous phenomena, Nux-v., Val. Nasal catarrh, Kali-bi. Nasal polypus, Phosphorus, Sanguinaria, Silicea Nails growing in, Mag-aust., nitricum acidum
Causation
Concussion (brain). Injuries likely to set up tetanus.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
State of irritability, and irascibility, with sensitiveness so great that fatigue is produced by merely hearing the conversation of others. Irritability worse after eating (with pressure in forehead). Moroseness. Indolence, and great aversion of exertion, either mental or physical. Excessive moral excitement and loquacity. Irresistible inclination to sing.
Head
Headache, with dull, spasmodic pain. Pressive pains in head, principally in eyes, forehead, and temples, worse on stooping. Skin of forehead feels sensitive to touch. Tearing by paroxysms, in right side of head (alternating with the same sensation in right frontal eminence, and in left temple).
Eyes
Pains in eyes with pressure, as if sand were in them. Biting sensations. Smarting in eyes, especially in internal canthi, with redness of conjunctiva. Eyes red and inflamed. Fibrous tumour inside lower lid, one-third inch in diameter, preventing closing lids, be dimmed sight, no pain. Redness and puffiness of upper lids. Profuse smarting tears in open air. Eyes watery, with an appearance as after weeping.
Ears
Otalgia. Shootings and tearings in ears. Whistling in ears, when speaking, or when producing any sound whatever. A hissing sound in ear when passing hand over it, when talking, or when inhaling air through nose with force. Eruption of scaly tetters on the lobe of ear.
Nose
Sensation of obstruction in nose. Tingling in nose. Frequent sneezing, with tingling in nose, with crawling in nose without coryza. Stinging, lancinating pain in upper part of the nasal cavity. Violent crawling in right nostril, with lachrymation of right eye. Sensation as if nostrils were stopped, blowing nose or sneezing does not remove the obstruction, nasal polypus. Obstruction of nose. Polypus, with stoppage of the nose on the side he lies on, large red pimple under right nostril, near septum, sore and smarting to touch. Fluent coryza in open air.
Face
Sickly, pale complexion, with hollow eyes. Flushes of heat on face, without redness. On both sides of under lip, two deep furrows with elevated edges. Pressive tearing in zygomatic process, extending to teeth.
Teeth
Toothache, with tearing pain in roots of teeth and gums (of the right lower incisors). Pain in teeth and gums during mastication.
Mouth
Mouth clammy. Much mucus in mouth Smarting as from pepper, first on left, later also on right side. Smarting and scraping in bottom of gullet, and in root of the tongue (especially left side).
Throat
Sore throat, with shooting pain, and impeded deglutition. Pressure or drawing and tearing in throat. Frequent necessity to hawk, and hawking up of much mucus of a mouldy taste.
Appetite
Hunger in morning and evening. Bitter taste in gullet after dinner. Appetite increased. Sensation of hunger, as if the food were unsatisfying, and which hinders sleep. Cuttings or nausea, with inclination to vomit after drinking water.
Stomach
Regurgitation of food, with bitter taste. Troublesome hiccough when eating, with violent blows in scrobiculus. Little children, emaciated, jerking hiccough after nursing, and belching without bringing anything up. Vomiting dark green mucus, hiccough with a stitch through stomach to back. Pain in stomach, as from emptiness, with gurgling. Faintness in pit of stomach. Pressure, and anxious oppression in scrobiculus.
Abdomen
Colic (cutting pain) after drinking beer or water. Colic, with tearing drawings, under hypochondria. Incarceration of flatus, with drawing, pinching, and gurgling in abdomen. Pressure in abdomen. Pressure towards inguinal ring. Frequent emission of silent, hot, hepatic-smelling flatulence. Expulsion of much flatus, having the smell of rotten eggs.
Stool & Anus
Copious fetid evacuations of the consistence of pap. Crawling in the rectum after stool. Expulsion of ascarides (with creeping and itching, and nightly restlessness, worse from warmth of bed). Frequent itching and tingling in anus, often after the evacuations. Crawling and violent sticking in anus in evening, in bed. Swelling, itching, and creeping at anus as from ascarides.
Urinary Organs
Increased secretion of watery (pale) urine. Distressing sensation, as from excoriation, and smarting in the upper part of the urethra. Burning sensation, during and after the emission of urine. Diminished sexual desire.
Male Sexual Organs
Sexual desire decreased. Drawing pain behind left side of root of penis, extending to left side of scrotum, became sore to touch. Pressive, drawing sensation from abdomen into cords and testes. Burning, pressing, biting in fore part of urethra when not urinating. Excrescences in urethra following gonorrhoea removed by injections of Teuc. O for a week.
Female Sexual Organs
Smooth pedunculate, pear-shaped polypus of vagina, protruding three inches beyond hymen.
Respiratory Organs
Dry cough, excited by a tickling in trachea, as if dust had been inspired (which is worse by coughing).
Chest
Chest loaded, with sensation of dryness in trachea. Squeezing pressure in lower part of chest, with anxious uneasiness (without affecting the breathing).
Heart
Suddenly in evening pulse begins to be felt, beats rapidly, with gout-like pains in fingers.
Back
Burning in left scapula. Rheumatic drawing and tension in back.
Limbs
Rheumatism in the limbs, especially in bones and joints. Tearing in the limbs, especially in the joints. Jerking of the muscles. The limbs go to sleep.