Tellurium metallicum

by E. B. Nash — Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

With this remedy I have had the pleasure of curing several cases of otorrhœa of long standing, generally following scarlatina in childhood. I used the 6th in these cases. The high failed.

Tellurium metallicum across the other classic books

Tellurium metallicum appears in 9 of the 27 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“An element. Preparation , Triturations of the precipitated metal. Authorities.”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“The Metal Tellurium (TELLURIUM) Marked skin (herpes circinatus), spinal, eye and ear symptoms. Very sensitive back . Pains all over body. Offensive discharges. Slow development of symptoms ( Radium ) Sacral and sciatic pains. Neglectful and forgetful. Pain in left side of head and in forehead above left eye…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACRIDITY, excoriations, etc. COUGH, incessant DIRECTION of sensations, Radiating EARS EMPTY, hollow, sinking, internal weakness, sense of, etc. ERUPTIONS, Herpes OFFENSIVENESS, fetor ORIFICES PRESSURE, Agg., lying on painful or affected side, etc., Agg. SALTINESS, taste, smell, fishy odors, etc. SPINE AND CORD”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Spine. Nerves. Ears. Eyes. Skin. Right to left. Touch. Lying on part. Cold. Empty swallowing. Spinal injuries. Weekly. Offensive ; like putrid fish brine or garlic. Salty; taste; mucus from throat; pus, etc. Acrid discharges; excite itching, vesicles, etc. Periostitis. Numbness. Sharp, quick pains, then soreness…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“An element; (generally considered non-metallic). Te. (A. W. 125). Trituration of the precipitated element. Axilla, offensive sweat of; tumour of / Barber's itch / Cataract / Conjunctivitis / Coryza / Eczema / Entropion / Eyes, inflammation of / Foot-sweat, fetid / Gleet / Herpes / Hoarseness / Levitation / Pityriasis…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Tellurium. The Element. Introduced by Hering in 1850. The triturations are prepared from the precipitated metal. Provings by Hering, assisted by Tietze, Kitchen, Gardiner, Whitey, Gosewisch, Dunham and Raue, Am. Hom. Rev., vol. 5, Metcalf, N. Am. Jour. Hom., vol. 2, 1852. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Conjunctivitis , Allen…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“TELLURIUM. The element so called. I, Provings. — i. Hering, after triturating T, on October l6th, 1850, at 7.45 p.m. washed off with some alcohol what adhered to mortar and pestle, mixed with water the blackish-grey fluid thus produced, and swallowed it. Immediately pressure upon a small pUcc behind vertex. Soon…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Quiet disposition. Vertigo, in the morning, after rising from the bed; worse when walking, when sitting up, when turning the head; with accelerated pulse, nausea and vomiting of food; better when lying perfectly quiet. Vertigo while going to sleep. Heaviness and fulness in the head in the morning. Violent (linear)…”

Tellurium metallicum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Tellurium metallicum in 460 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (72), EAR (50), HEAD (44), BACK (42), SKIN (25).

BACK - PAIN - Sacral region - extending - thighs - right agg - by pressing at stool or cough
EAR - ERUPTIONS - lobes,on - vesicles,caused by the discharge
EXTERNAL THROAT - ERUPTION - vesicles - side of - from ear,discharge
EAR - DISCHARGES - offensive - fish-brine,like
EAR - DISCOLORATION - blue
EAR - PAIN - -burning - lobe
EAR - PAIN - -burning - external ear
EAR - PAIN - -burning - left
EYE - ERUPTIONS, - lids,on - pustules
EAR - DISCHARGES - excoriating
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Upper Limbs - bed,in
BACK - PAIN - aching - Spine
EYE - THICKENING of cornea - lids
VERTIGO - MORNING - rising, - after
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Lower Limbs - herpes
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - circinate
EAR - DISCHARGES - fetid
GENERALITIES - SENSITIVENESS - bones
EYE - SWOLLEN - lids - oedematous
EYE - LACHRYMATION - coryza,during

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Tellurium metallicum across the other classic books

Tellurium metallicum appears in 9 of the 27 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.

“An element. Preparation , Triturations of the precipitated metal. Authorities.”

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.

“The Metal Tellurium (TELLURIUM) Marked skin (herpes circinatus), spinal, eye and ear symptoms. Very sensitive back . Pains all over body. Offensive discharges. Slow development of symptoms ( Radium ) Sacral and sciatic pains. Neglectful and forgetful. Pain in left side of head and in forehead above left eye…”

Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.

“ACRIDITY, excoriations, etc. COUGH, incessant DIRECTION of sensations, Radiating EARS EMPTY, hollow, sinking, internal weakness, sense of, etc. ERUPTIONS, Herpes OFFENSIVENESS, fetor ORIFICES PRESSURE, Agg., lying on painful or affected side, etc., Agg. SALTINESS, taste, smell, fishy odors, etc. SPINE AND CORD”

Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.

“Spine. Nerves. Ears. Eyes. Skin. Right to left. Touch. Lying on part. Cold. Empty swallowing. Spinal injuries. Weekly. Offensive ; like putrid fish brine or garlic. Salty; taste; mucus from throat; pus, etc. Acrid discharges; excite itching, vesicles, etc. Periostitis. Numbness. Sharp, quick pains, then soreness…”

Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.

“An element; (generally considered non-metallic). Te. (A. W. 125). Trituration of the precipitated element. Axilla, offensive sweat of; tumour of / Barber's itch / Cataract / Conjunctivitis / Coryza / Eczema / Entropion / Eyes, inflammation of / Foot-sweat, fetid / Gleet / Herpes / Hoarseness / Levitation / Pityriasis…”

Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.

“Tellurium. The Element. Introduced by Hering in 1850. The triturations are prepared from the precipitated metal. Provings by Hering, assisted by Tietze, Kitchen, Gardiner, Whitey, Gosewisch, Dunham and Raue, Am. Hom. Rev., vol. 5, Metcalf, N. Am. Jour. Hom., vol. 2, 1852. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Conjunctivitis , Allen…”

Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.

“TELLURIUM. The element so called. I, Provings. — i. Hering, after triturating T, on October l6th, 1850, at 7.45 p.m. washed off with some alcohol what adhered to mortar and pestle, mixed with water the blackish-grey fluid thus produced, and swallowed it. Immediately pressure upon a small pUcc behind vertex. Soon…”

Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.

“Quiet disposition. Vertigo, in the morning, after rising from the bed; worse when walking, when sitting up, when turning the head; with accelerated pulse, nausea and vomiting of food; better when lying perfectly quiet. Vertigo while going to sleep. Heaviness and fulness in the head in the morning. Violent (linear)…”