Trombidium


Trombidium signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Trombidium is used…


      Trombidium muscae domesticae. N.O. Acarudea (Class, Arachnida). Tincture of the animals.

Clinical

Anus, prolapse of. Diarrhoea. Dysentery. Hip-joint, pain in. Liver, pain in. Nose, catarrh of. Sciatica. Tibia, pain in. Toothache.

Characteristics

*Tromb. is “a parasite found singly or in groups upon the common house-fly, of a bright red color, nearly circular in shape. The alcoholic tincture, a brilliant orange in color, was prepared from specimens, about 115 in number, collected in Frankfurt, Philadelphia, in September, 1864. The provings, under the supervision of Hering, were made by Harvey, Head, J.F.R., and Bancroft, the potencies used 3x, 6x, 9, 18. and 30” (Hering, *Guiding Symptoms). The grand keynote of *Tromb. is “worse by eating or drinking.” The symptom may be in the nose, teeth, or tonsils, this modality is characteristic. On this indication I have cured some of the worst cases of diarrhoea, and also intestinal pains coming on when the patient eat or drinks. I have used a 10M preparation of Fincke’s given me by Skinner. A comprehensive keynote in diarrhoea and dysentery is: “Much pain before and after stool, stool only after eating.” *Tromb. has cured dysentery with brown, thin, bloody stools and tenesmus. Congested liver with urgent, loose stools on rising from bed, during stool, sharp pain in left side, shooting downward.” Skin symptoms were prominent, especially itching of scalp and in whiskers. Fainting on rising up. Restlessness, inability to keep quiet. *Peculiar Sensations are: As if there were no weight in ear, lightness. As from incarcerated flatus in abdomen. As if excoriated after tenesmus. As if everything were coming out of anus. As if hot air blowing over lower abdomen and thigh. As if abdomen needed support. As if three toes on left foot would be twisted off. As if her breath were leaving her. The symptoms are: worse By touch (pain in liver). worse By pressure (pain in abdomen). Lying down: worse toothache, prevents fainting. Swallowing, or blowing nose causes shooting in right ear. Worse shaking head. Reading aloud causes toothache. Rising up causes fainting. Walking worse pain in head, causes pain in hip-joint (which is, however, better after a few steps). worse Moving. Warm drink better toothache. Open air better coryza Cold air worse toothache. Cold bath worse pain in abdomen. Worse eating or drinking. Worse after stool.

Relations

*Antidoted by: Staphysagria (toothache), Merc-c. (diarrhoea), *Compare: Rheumatism, Ledum. Diarrhoea, Sulphur Worse blowing nose. Culex, Thuja. Stitches up anus, Ignatia, nitricum acidum, Sul-ac., with prolapse, Podophyllum

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Talkative during day, disposed to be contrary, constant disposition to gape. Inability to collect ideas, absence of ideas, loss of memory.

Head

Oppressive headache. Dullness of head in forenoon. Congestion of head in evening, with red face and ears. Lightness of head. Dizziness, on every attempt to rise from bed, with faintness. Head heavy, sometimes sharp pains in temples, extending over forehead, at 9.30 p.m., worse left side. Pain: in left mastoid process on waking at 7 A.M., in left side of head at 10 p.m., near right parietal eminence at 11. A.M., worse shaking head and walking. Shooting: above right temple at 3 P.M., near right parietal eminence at 11 A.M. Intolerable itching at 7 A.M., worse vertex and occiput.

Eyes

Redness of internal part of conjunctiva, similar to a pterygium. Lachrymation in open air. Itching at right inner canthus at 9 P.M.

Ears

Shooting: in ears in afternoon, worse r., frequently in right during day and evening, in right in forenoon, worse swallowing or blowing nose. Itching in ears after rising. Burning in both pinnae, especially left.

Nose

Nose obstructed on rising. Fluent coryza in open air and on eating. Mucus discharge from nose, worse during dinner. Dryness of nose in evening, with scabs. Nose-bleed in morning, afternoon.

Teeth

Aching in left decayed tooth: on waking at 7 A.M., renewed by breakfast, lasting till noon, in evening, in evening from reading aloud, preventing sleep almost all night, lasting next day, worse lying down, eating, talking, and cold air, better warm drinks, better Staphysagria

Mouth

Tongue coated white.

Throat

Throat sore on right side.

Appetite

Appetite lost.

Stomach

Eructations after meals, tasting of ingesta. (Vomiting after breakfast, thought it was from drinking coffee.) Griping in pit of stomach, worse after dinner.

Abdomen

Flatulent distension, at 10 P.M., at 11 P.M., causing pain. Shooting beginning in left hypochondrium. Griping on rising, obliging stool, which was brown and diarrhoeic and which better the pain until after breakfast, when it returned with greater violence and induced a second stool, with tenesmus causing prolapsus, then burning about anus, sudden griping at left,3 P.M., worse left side, which induced a stool, the stool passed quickly, then tenesmus and prolapsus, then pain as if excoriated, stool better pain only temporarily, as it returned with such violence as to force sweat from all parts, abated gradually, worse by dinner, causing another stool of soft, brown feces mixed with mucus, then tenesmus, prolapsus, weakness, especially in knees. Pain in morning, with urging to stool. Pain at 3 p.m., better diarrhoea, on eating, with desire for stool, worse pressure. Darting pain, at 10 A.M., worse above right hip. Pain as from incarcerated flatus at 3 p.m., sore, waking about 5 A.M., with urging to stool. Heavy pain in forenoon, worse drinking cold water and eating dinner, the same pain next day, worse by pressure. Pain in hepatic region just under ends of floating ribs, in forenoon, sore to pressure, sore in evening, with sensitiveness to touch. Darting pain in liver at 10 p.m.

Stool and Anus

Constipation after pappy stool. Diarrhoea, with straining and expulsion of flatus. Diarrhoea at 5 A.M., during day several small, loose stools, always preceded by sore pain in intestines, with the stool tenesmus and shivering along the back, on following days several stools daily, mostly small, consisting of mucus with tenesmus, (Better by *Mercurius corr.) Before stool: pain in left side of abdomen, with sweat, griping pains, sore pain in intestines. During stool: pain in abdomen continues, tenesmus, chills on back, much urging. After stool: tenesmus, prolapsus ani, burning in anus, great debility, weakness in knees, colic temporarily better but soon returns. Light-brown diarrhoea at 10 A.M. and 2 p.m., preceded and followed by pain in abdomen, straining with the second stool. Stitches upward along left side of anus.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness. Hacking cough from irritation in throat.

Chest

Cutting to right of lower part of sternum at 7 A.M. Sharp pain in lower part of chest at 7 A.M. Throbbing all over chest from 9 till 11 A.M.

Heart and Pulse

Shooting in region of heart at 7.30 A.M. Pain in region of heart at 4 p.m., worse by a long breath. Darting rheumatic pain in heart region. Pulse 100 and full at 9 A.M. Intermittent pulse.

Limbs

Shooting: in different joints during day, in joints in afternoon and evening, left heel and wrist, in phalangeal joints of third finger and in left knee in forenoon.

Upper Limbs

Heaviness. Shoulder: shooting in right joint at 2 p.m., shocks in left joint in afternoon and next forenoon, pain in left, rheumatic pain in left Forenoon, intermittent pain in left at 11 p.m., then shooting. Shooting: in a spot on inner side of dorsum of wrist at 4 p.m., in right wrist at noon, intermittent at first, in phalangeal joints of second left finger at 8.30 A.M., in palmar surface of ungual phalanx of right thumb, intermittent in finger-joints, elbows, and wrists in forenoon.

Lower Limbs

Pain in left hip-joint on rising from a seat and beginning to walk, causing limping, usually better after taking a few steps. Thighs: tearing in lower part of left at 2.30 p.m., flying, sharp pains in left at 9 a.m. Knee: rheumatic pain in left, intermittent pain in right at 9 a.m. Boring in right tibia in forenoon. Pain in inner part of left ankle at 12 p.m., worse bearing weight on it. Tearing in left tarsus at left p.m. Shooting: in right ankle at 3 p.m., in left tarsus at 6 p.m., in outer side of right metatarsus at 3 p.m., in inner side of left heel.

Generalities

Rheumatic pains in left shoulder, arm, knee, and region of heart. Inability to keep quiet. Weakness. Felt better in evening, better in open air.

Skin

Pimples on nape in evening. Itching: in spots on chin and among whiskers, in evening, and about neck.

Sleep

Constant inclination to gape through day, in afternoon. Sleepiness. Restless sleep. Wakefulness after 4 a.m., with restlessness. Lewd dreams.

Fever

Chilliness at night, worse morning on waking. Fever in afternoon, with pulsation in arteries of head and aching on occiput and small of back. Burning in pinnae of ears in evening, worse r.

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