Trimethylaminum

      Propylaminum. N(CH3)3. (Found in many plants, Chen. v., Crateg. ox., Phal. imp., Pyrogen com., Arnica, Cotyl. u., Fag. syl., &c., and in herring-brine.) Solution.

Clinical

Ankles, pains in. Rheumatic fever. Wrists, pains in.

Characteristics

*Trimethyl., which is prepared from herring-brine among other sources, has a very unpleasant and penetrating fish-like odor. At one time it was regarded as a panacea in cases of acute rheumatism. Experiments on patients and others show that it diminishes the amount of urea excreted. Hansen gives these as characteristics: great pains in wrist-joints, also great restlessness, pains in ankle-joints from standing worse slight movement. C. Carleton Smith (*H. P., vi. 432) gives these: “Rheumatism, when the needle held in the fingers gets so heavy she cannot sew.” “Copious diarrhoea with pains in ankle-joints but not in wrists, thirst for large quantities of cold water (like *Bryonia).”.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica