Tuberculinum bovinum Kent

Common name: pus from a (pulmonary) tubercular abscess.

Persons with a history of tuberculosis in the family (Calc., Phos., Sulph.) (N.).

SYMPTOMS EVER-CHANGING (Ign., Puls.), BEGINNING SUDDENLY, CEASING SUDDENLY (Bell.) (N.).

LONGS FOR OPEN AIR (Apis, Phos., Puls.); WANTS DOORS AND WINDOWS OPEN (Sulph.), OR TO RIDE IN STRONG WIND (N.).

Wandering pains in the limbs and joints (Bell., Ign., Kali-B., Kali-S., Puls.); stiff when beginning to move (Rhus-T.); worse when standing and better from continued motion (Rhus-T.) (N.).

Tubercular arthritis (Calc., Iod.) (D.).

Takes fresh cold on least expossure, can't get rid of one before another comes (Calc., Phos.) (N.).

Takes cold easily, without knowing when or where (N.).

Constant disposition to catch cold (Hep., Phos., Sil.) (D.).

Emaciation, even while being well, and so hungry must get up in the night to eat (Phos., Psor.) (N.).

Emaciation rapid and pronounced; while he eats well loses flesh rapidly (Iod., Nat-M.) (N.).

Tubercular meningitis (Apis, Calc., Hell., Lyc., Sulph.) (D.).

Think of this remedy, when with a history of tubercular affections the best-selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve (A.).

Ailments first affect one organ, then another-the lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, stomach, nervous system, etc. (A.).

Sensitive, every trifle irritates (Ign., Staph.) (B.).

COSMOPOLITAN; NEVER SATISFIED TO REMAIN IN ONE PLACE LONG; WANTS TO TRAVEL (N.).

Active and precocious mentally, but weak physically (Lyc.) (A.).

Melancholy, despondent (Aur., Ign., Puls., Stann.) (A.).

Morose, irritable, fretful, peevish (Bry., Cham., Nux-V., Sulph.) (A.).

Taciturn, sulky (Bry., Nux-V.) (A.).

Naturally of a sweet disposition, now on the borderland of insanity (A.).

Everything in the room seemed strange, as though in a strange place (A.).

FEAR OF DOGS (Bell., Caust., Chin., Hyos., Stram.) (C.).

Is averse to work (Nux-V., Phos.) (C.).

Nocturnal hallucinations; wakes from sleep frightened, screaming (Stram.) (A.).

Chronic (tubercular) headache; pain intense, sharp, cutting, from above the right eye to the occiput (A.).

Sensation as of an iron hoop around the head (Anac., Sulph.) (A.).

School-girl's headache; aggravated by study, or even slight mental exertion (Calc-P., Nat-M.) (A.).

Persistent, offensive otorrhœa (Calc., Graph., Petr., Tell.) (C.).

RAVENOUS APPETITE, WITH EMACIATION (Abrot., Calc., Iod., Nat-M., Petr., Phos., Psor., Sulph.) (K.).

Aversion to food with hunger (Cocc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos., Sulph.) (K.).

DESIRE FOR MEAT (Ferr-M., Kreos., Lil-T., Mag-C., Meny., Nat-M.), ESPECIALLY SMOKED MEAT (Calc-P., Caust., Kreos.) (K.).

Desire for cold milk (Phel., Phos-Ac., Phos., Rhus-T., Sabad., Staph.) (K.).

All-gone hungry sensation (Aloe, Petr., Sulph.) (C.).

Chilly, yet wants fresh air (Puls.) (B.).

Delayed dentition (Calc., Calc-P., Sil.) (B.).

Hawks mucus after eating (Puls.) (B.).

Menses soon after child-bearing (B.).

Mucus rattles in the chest, without expectoration (Ant-T., Phos.) (B.).

Pain through the left upper lung to the back (Phos.). Tubercular deposit begins there (N.).

Shortness of breath (Ars., Calc., Kali-C., Phos., Sulph.) (C.).

Sore spot in the chest (Puls.) (B.).

Thick, easy expectoration (Puls., Stann.) (C.).

Hard, dry cough during sleep (Cham., Coff., Mag-S., Nit-Ac., Rhus-T., Sep.) (C.).

Tabes mesenterica (Calc., Sulph.) (C.).

Diarrhœa: Early morning, sudden imperative (Sulph.); stool dark, brown, watery and offensive; discharged with great force (Crot-T., Gamb.); with great weakness and profuse night-sweats (A.).

Menses too early, too profuse, and too long-lasting, in patients with a tuberculous history (A.).

Frightful dysmenorrhœa (Coloc.) (A.).

Enlarged glands (Calc., Iod., Merc.) (B.).

Fiery red skin (Bell., Sep., Stram.) (A.).

Escape of immense quantities of white bran-like scales (Ars.) (A.).

Intense itching, worse at night, when undressing (Rumx.) and from bathing (Rhus-T.).

Eczema over the entire body (Graph.) (A.).

Ringworm (Rhus-T., Sep., Sulph.) (A.).

ITCHING, AMELIORATED BY THE HEAT OF THE STOVE (Rumx.) (K.).

Oozing behind the ears (Graph.), in the hairs (Viol-T.) and in the folds of the skin (Petr.), with rawness and soreness (A.).

Plica polonica (Bor., Psor.) (A.).

Crops of small boils, intensely painful (Arn., Hep., Lach., Tarant.), successively appear in the nose; green fœtid pus (Sec.) (A.).

AGGRAVATION: From beginning to move; from music; before a storm; from cold; in cold, damp weather; from standing; from exertion; in a closed room; at night; in the morning; and during sleep.

AMELIORATION: In the open air; from the heat of the stove; and from continued motion.

RELATIONSHIP: Complementary: Calc., Kali-S., Psor., Puls., Sep. and Sulph.

Bell. for acute attacks, congestive or inflammatory, occurring in tubercular diseases.

Hydra. to fatten patients cured with Tub.

Compare: Abrot., Apis, Bell., Calc., Graph., Hep., Iod., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Petr., Phos., Psor., Rhus-T., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Thuj., Ust. and Zinc.