====== TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Marum Verum. {{anchor:s2}}(Teucrium.) {{anchor:s3}}Cat Thyme. {{anchor:s4}}Labiatae. {{anchor:s5}}Introduced by Stapf, proved by himself, von Gersdorf, Caspari, Bethmann and Hartmann (Beitrge zur Reinen Arzneimittellehre, p. 346). ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s7}}- Fibrous tumor on lower eyelid, Eggert, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 214; Hom. Clin., vol. 4, p. 43; Stoppage of nose, Traeger, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 166; Nasal catarrh, Williamson, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 21; Rhinitis, Van Artsdalen, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1884, p. 261; Affection of nose, Teller, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 174; Nasal polypus, Mayer, N. A. J. H., vol. 2, p. 38; Gilchrist, p. 333; Epps, Hom. Rev., vol. 16, p. 110; Oehme, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 65, Hom. Clin., vol. 3, p. 81; McGeorge, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 21; Gallupe, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 95; N. A. J. H., vol. 21, p. 116; Gross, Goullon, Genzke, Sturm, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 404; Ascarides, Rummel, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 810; Polypi of urethral orifice, Gross, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 241; Polypus of vagina, Roth, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 645; Rheumatism, B. F., Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 204; Hom. Clin., vol. 4, p. 62; Psoriasis dorsalis, Richards, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 349; Affections of children, Pearson, Hom. Clin., vol. 3, p. 53. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s9}}Great mental excitement and loquacity.\\ {{anchor:s10}}Irresistible desire to sing.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Indolence, mental and physical.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Great sensitiveness and excitability.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Irritable mood at and after dinner, with pressure in forehead. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s15}}Dullness and dizziness. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s17}}Pressing pain over eyes, agg. on stooping.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Very painful pressure in right temple, frequently alternating with same sensation in right frontal eminence and in left temple. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s20}}Skin of forehead sensitive to touch. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s22}}Look as after weeping; smarting in canthi and redness of conjunctivae.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Profuse smarting tears in open air.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Upper lids red and puffy.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Fibrous tumor inside of lower eyelid, one-third of an inch in diameter, preventing closing of lids; blurred sight; no pain. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s27}}Hissing sound when passing hand over ear, when talking, or forcibly inspiring through nose.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Fine ringing in right ear when blowing nose, squeaking as if air was forced through mucus.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Otalgia, with lancinating pain.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Dry herpes, with white scales, on and behind ears.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Tetter-like roughness of ears; behind or below ears. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s33}}Crawling in nose.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Violent crawling in right nostril, with lachrymation of right eye.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Sensation in right nostril as if it was partly stopped; is obliged to blow nose and sneeze, but could not thereby remove obstruction.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Both sides of nose very much obstructed on reading aloud, several times during day, and especially in evening.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Stinging, lancinating pain in upper part of nasal cavity.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Tingling in nose, frequent sneezing with or without coryza.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Coryza, with stoppage of nostrils.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Repeated attacks of pain in forehead, with stuffing up of nose, amel. by a thick, dirty yellow, offensive smelling discharge.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Large, irregular pieces, green scabs, clinkers, etc., discharged from nose, leaving it sore; foul breath. {{anchor:s42}}~ Ozaena.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Nasal catarrh of both nostrils, discharge in green masses.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Continued stoppage of nose after removal of polypi.\\ {{anchor:s45}}After erysipelas of face, which extended to inner surface of nose, mucous membrane remained swollen, completely occluding nostrils; after fever, headache, etc., had been removed by various remedies, there remained a painless, protruding swelling of mucous membrane of left nostril.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Nasal polypus.\\ {{anchor:s47}}When blowing nose, squeaking as if air was forced through mucus. {{anchor:s48}}~ Nasal polypus.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Polypus, with stoppage of nose on side he lies; large red pimples under right nostril, near septum, sore and smarting to touch.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Nasal polypus of one year's duration.\\ {{anchor:s51}}After repeated attacks of coryza, mucous polypus of nose, greenish white in color, not sensitive, attached to upper turbinated bone, and completely filling nasal cavity and causing occlusion.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Large polypus of nose after a severe, badly treated cold.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Mucous polypus of pale red color, on left side and of large size; mostly in anterior nares and in plain sight.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Polypus occupying entire right nostril, projecting slightly.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Painful formication and shooting at root of nose, in left frontal sinus. {{anchor:s56}}~ Polypus.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Mucus flowed copiously from left nostril. {{anchor:s58}}~ Polypus.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Could not blow her nose without acute pain and some bleeding. {{anchor:s60}}~ Polypus.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Polypus enlarges in wet weather.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Loss of smell of twenty years' standing.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Both nares filled with polypi, apparently attached to spongy bones, of three years' standing; breathing difficult, cannot close his mouth during exercise; snores and chokes in sleep; attacks of nose bleed during past few years from slight causes; constant secretion of watery mucus from nose.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Fleshy polypi hanging from both nares, agg. during damp weather; entire obstruction of nose at times; much discharge of water and mucus from nose.\\ {{anchor:s65}}For thirty years, nasal polypi removed every two or three years by operative means; nasal bones on left side pressed asunder; judging from sensations complained of by patient, polypus extended up to ethmoid bone, into choanae and into antrum of Highmore; after two months' treatment could breathe freely through nose, and the sense of smell which had been impaired for last twenty years was restored, a small portion of polypus, however, remained high up in nasal cavity. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s67}}Pale face.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Frequent sensation of flushes of heat, but with paleness.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Burning, itching rash on forehead and upper part of face, agg. in evening and from warmth. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s71}}Deep furrow on either side of under lip, with elevated edges. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s73}}Violent tearing in roots and gums of right lower incisors. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Biting as from pepper on left, afterwards on right side of root of tongue. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s77}}Much mucus and saliva.\\ {{anchor:s78}}After hawking up mucus, mouldy taste in mouth. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s80}}Tearing and scraping in fauces, agg. left side.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Stinging or pressure, hindering swallowing. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s84}}A feeling of hunger, prevents falling asleep. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s86}}After nursing, jerking hiccough and empty belching.\\ {{anchor:s87}}After drinking, cutting colic. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s89}}Frequent, very violent hiccough.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Little children, emaciated, jerking hiccough after nursing, and belching without bringing anything up.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Gulping of bitter tasting food.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Vomits dark green masses; hiccough, with a stitch through stomach to back. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s94}}Anxious oppression or empty feeling and rumbling in stomach. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s96}}Colic, cutting pain, after drinking.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Dull pressing, as from incarcerated flatulence. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s99}}Very frequent emission of noiseless, but very warm flatus, often of a "hepatic" odor.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Diarrhea, with crying and emaciation in children.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Crawling in rectum after stool.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Crawling and at times violent fine sticking in anus in evening in bed.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Swelling, itching and creeping at anus as from ascarides.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Ascarides, with creeping and itching and nightly restlessness; agg. from warmth of bed.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Irritation produced by thread worms comes on at regular periods every day, and is followed by nightly restlessness and sleeplessness. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s107}}Increased discharge of watery urine. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s109}}Sexual desire decreased.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Pressing, drawing sensation from abdomen into cords and testicles.\\ {{anchor:s111}}After gonorrhea eight years ago chronic inflammation of urethra; two years ago four small, fleshy excrescences of bright red color, and with a moderately broad base, showed themselves on inferior wall; with increase of granulations and continual narrowing of channel, urinary tenesmus, urine passed with difficulty, with a sensation of heat and pain, also after coitus; the largest was excised, the smaller ones twisted, producing some hemorrhage; injections with Teucrium, once a day for a week, reached those in urethra, after which every vestige of excrescence was gone. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s113}}Smooth, pedunculated, pear-shaped polypus of vagina, protruding three inches beyond hymen. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s116}}Dryness, causing hawking; hissing sound when inhaling.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Dryness in trachea. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Stitches in right chest when inhaling; catarrhal asthma, especially in the aged.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Sensation of oppression (without affecting breathing). ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s122}}Dry, short cough, from tickling in upper part of trachea. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s124}}Pulse accelerated towards evening. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s126}}Rheumatic lameness of right upper arm as far as elbow, it sinks down on lifting it; drawing and tearing pain in whole arm.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Rheumatic pain in arms, especially in bones and joints.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Sudden dull, cutting pain transversely through muscle of right forearm, at a distance of a span from wrist.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Finger joints bend over easily.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Burning in finger tips; panaritium.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Eruption on index finger of right hand, covering a surface about two inches long and one inch wide, hard, hypertrophied and covered with thick, whitish scales. {{anchor:s132}}~ Psoriasis dorsalis. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s134}}Pain as if nail had grown into flesh of right great toe.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Ingrowing toe nails (r. great toe), with ulceration; amel. moving. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s137}}Rheumatic pains mostly in bones and joints, agg. evenings, amel. moving.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Limbs go to sleep, with tingling, when sitting. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s142}}On side he lies: stoppage of nose.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Sitting: limbs go to sleep, with tingling.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Stooping: pressing pain over eyes agg.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Moving: rheumatic pain amel.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Passing hand over ear: hissing sound.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Lifting arm: it sinks down.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Disinclined to physical exertion. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s150}}Nervous, irritable, trembling.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Great sensitiveness and excitability; pale face; frequent feeling of flushes of heat, without redness; nervous excitability; trembling sensation in whole body. {{anchor:s152}}~ Nervous affections.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Very indolent; inclined to neither physical nor mental exertion.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Slight nervous asthenia of skin and prima viae. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s156}}Restless sleep; also from ascarides.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Restless at night on account of great excitement, with very vivid and in part anxious dreams, with starting up till after midnight.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Sleepless on account of intense itching at anus, causing one to toss and roll about all night.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Very vivid, mostly agreeable dreams. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s161}}Morning: not refreshed.\\ {{anchor:s162}}At midday: sensation of general debility.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Evening: nose obstructed; rash on forehead agg.; sticking in anus, in bed; towards, pulse accelerated; rheumatic pains agg.; increased heat and exaltation.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Night: restless, with starting up; till after midnight, tossing and rolling from intense itching at anus. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s166}}Desire to exercise in open air, which does not fatigue.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Warmth: burning rash on forehead agg.; ascarides agg.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Open air: profuse smarting tears.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Wet weather: polypus enlarged; fleshy polypus agg. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s171}}Chill, after eating, which spreads as if from abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Chilliness from want of animal heat, after eating or talking about unpleasant things.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Increased heat and exaltation in evening with, great loquacity. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s175}}Several times during day: both sides of nose very much obstructed.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Every day at regular periods: irritation produced by thread worms.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Nightly restlessness.\\ {{anchor:s178}}At and after dinner: irritable mood.\\ {{anchor:s179}}One year's duration: nasal polypus.\\ {{anchor:s180}}During past few years: attacks of nosebleed.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Three years' standing: nares filled with polypi.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Twenty years' standing: loss of smell.\\ {{anchor:s183}}For thirty years: nasal polypi removed every two or three years by operative means. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s185}}Right: very painful pressure in temple and frontal eminence; fine ringing in ear; violent crawling in nostril; lachrymation of eye; as if nostril was partly stopped; large red pimples under nostril; polypus occupying entire nostril; tearing in roots and gums of lower incisors; biting as from pepper on side of tongue; stitches in chest; rheumatic lameness; cutting pain through forearm; eruption on index finger; pain as if nail had grown into flesh of big toe.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Left: painful pressure in temple; painless, protruding swelling of mucous membrane of nostril; mucous polypus on side of nose; painful formication and shooting in frontal sinus; mucus flowed copiously from nostril; nasal bones pressed asunder; biting as from pepper on side of tongue; tearing and scraping on side of fauces agg. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s188}}As if air was forced through mucus in ear; as if right nostril was partly stopped; as if nail had grown into flesh of right great toe; chill as if from abdomen; sensation as from fleabites.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Acute pain: in nose.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Violent tearing: in roots and gums of right lower incisors.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Stinging, lancinating: in upper part of nasal cavity.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Lancinating: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Tearing and scraping: in fauces.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Drawing and tearing: in whole arm; in bones.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Stitches: in right chest; through stomach to back.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Cutting colic: after meals.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Violent fine sticking: in anus.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Stinging: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Biting: on tongue.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Smarting: in canthi.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Burning itching: rash on forehead and upper part of face.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Painful formication and shooting: at root of nose, in left frontal sinus.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Tingling: in nose; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Sudden dull, cutting pain: transversely through muscle of right forearm.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Very painful pressure: in right temple; in right frontal eminence and in left temple.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Pressing pain: over eyes.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Rheumatic pain: in arms, especially in bones and joints.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Rheumatic lameness: of right upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Sensation of heat and pain: after coitus.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Burning: in finger tips.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Flushes of heat: in face.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Tickling: in upper part of trachea.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Dryness: in larynx; in trachea.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Anxious oppression or empty feeling in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Oppression: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Pressing, drawing sensation: from abdomen into cords and testicles.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Dull pressing: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Pressure: in forehead; in throat.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Trembling sensation: in whole body.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Crawling: in nose; in right nostril; in rectum; in anus.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Intense itching: at anus.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Itching and creeping: at anus. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s225}}Polypi of all kinds, particularly nasal fibroids.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Polypi in ear and nose, especially among old and middle aged women. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s230}}Touch: skin of forehead sensitive; pimples under nostril smarting.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Injuries to head, concussion of brain.\\ {{anchor:s232}}After lesions where tetanus might be expected. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s234}}Sensation as from fleabites.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Rash, burning, itching. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s237}}Old persons and children.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Suitable when too much medicine had produced an oversensitiveness condition and remedies fail to act.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Boy, aet. 11, after erysipelas; nasal polypus.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Boy, aet. 11, for three years; nasal polypi.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Girl, aet. 14, nervous temperament, quickened growth, slender, pale face, light hair, blue eyes; tumor on left lower lid.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Boy, aet. 15, nasal polypi.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Woman, aet. 19, mother of a scrofulous child, affection of nose.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Man, barber, thin, sandy complexion; rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Man, aet. 30, strong constitution, gonorrhea eight years ago; urethral polypi.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Woman, aet. 25; polypus of vagina.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Man, aet. 56, music teacher, suffering two years; psoriasis dorsalis.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Man, aet. 59, for thirty-one years; polypus.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Man, aet. 60, strong, suffering thirty years; nasal polypus. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s251}}Compatible: Cinchon., Pulsat., Silica.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Compare: Cina (ascarides); Ignat. (hiccough, ascarides); Nux vom. (nervous phenomena); Kali bich. (nasal catarrh); Phosphor., Sanguin. {{anchor:s253}}Silica (nasal polypi); Valer. (nervous phenomena). ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 10, 1891 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r187|Teucrium marum verum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r187|Teucrium marum verum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ year: | 1891 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}