- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Oil of Turpentine (A Volatile Oil.) The urine has the odor or violets Relations . - Compare: Alumen, Arn., Ars., Canth., Lach., Nit. ac. Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Oil of Turpentine. Obtained from various species of conifers. The various oils of Turpentine differ in physical and chemical properties according to their different sources. French Turpentine is obtained from Pinus maritima, Venetian from Pinus larix, American from Pinus tæda. Preparation , Dilutions with pure alcohol.”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Turpentine (TEREBINTHINA) Has a selective affinity for bleeding mucous surfaces . Tympanites and urinary symptoms very marked. Inflammation of kidneys, with hæmorrhages-dark, passive, fetid. Bright's disease preceded by dropsy (Goullon). Drowsiness and strangury. Coma. Unbroken chilblains . Dull pain like from a band…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“GLISTENING HEMORRHAGE, bloody discharges URINARY ORGANS”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Oleum terebinthinæ. Oil of Turpentine. C 10 H 16 . The oil distilled from the oleo-resin (turpentine) obtained from various species of Pinus, purified by repeated rectification with water. Solution in rectified spirit. Ozonised Oil of Turpentine (prepared by exposure of the common oil to sun and air in a half-filled…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Terebinthina, or turpentine, is a drug that has been much abused by old-school physicians; therefore, it has been greatly neglected by homoeopaths. In the revulsion from the misconception of the old-school physicians, we often avoid a drug altogether. All that I have time to say concerning Terebinthina is, that its…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Hæmorrhage from the urethra. Worms, particularly lumbrical. Some forms of gonorrhœa. Urine smells very strongly of violets.”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Oil of Turpentine. A Volatile Oil. Obtained by distilling the oleoresinous exudation of various species of pine. The dilutions are prepared from the alcoholic solution. Ozonized oil of turpentine, recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers, is prepared by exposing a quantity of common oil of…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“TEREBINTHINA. Olnun tertbtnlhinir, the dtstillrd oil (purified) from the oieo-resin (turpeatinr) obtained from several species of Pintit. 1. Pmings. — I. PuRKivjE swallowed 5J for 3 m. in succession. besides a general rise of the animal temperature he became very «Towjjr, and found it very difficult to keep awake…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Sudden vertigo with obscuration of sight. Dun headache, with colic. Sensation in the ears as of the striking of a clock. Face pale and sunken. Violent bleeding at the nose. Distended abdomen; frequent colic; constipation. Burning in the right hypochondrium. Stools consisting of mucus and water. Violent burning in the…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: turpentine. Fresh ecchymoses in great numbers occur from day to day (Sulph-Ac.) (A.). Great languor and loss of strength (Ars., Bapt., Gels., Kali-P.) (Ho.). Hæmorrhages from all outlets, especially in connection with urinary or kidney troubles (N.). Purpura hæmorrhagica (Arn., Crot-H., Lach., Phos.) (N.).”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Burning and smarting on passing urine; urine red, brown, black or smoky in appearance. Tongue smooth, glossy, red, with excessive tympanites (typhoid).; Hemorrhages from all outlets, especially in connection with urinary or kidney troubles. Terebinthina ought to come in here, because it, like Berberis, has much pain…”
