Tuberculinum bovinum Kent
di E. B. Nash — Leaders in Respiratory Organs
Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.
CATARRH.
CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH.
Tuberculinum must not be forgotten when the patient is continually “taking cold,” says the least exposure brings on a new cold. This is especially to be regarded if the patient has a tuberculous history. It is often the beginning of consumption, and may be checked by this remedy, if given high and at not too frequent intervals.
PNEUMONIA.
Tuberculinum is useful in patients of tubercular history, when the patient complains of feeling as if he had taken a new cold on the least exposure, and it has erratic pains like Pulsatilla, appearing now here, now there, in different parts of the body.
PLEURITIS.
When the disease action spreads and involves the lungs and bronchi, as it sometimes does, constituting a case of pleuro-pneumonia, which it sometimes does, though it is oftener the other way in my experience, i. e., beginning in the lung first; the pneumonic remedies must come into the case, viz., Phosphorus, bronchitis with severe cough, which is worse in the evening, and when lying on the left side, dyspnœa with a sense of heaviness in the chest. It generally comes in the later stages of the disease with purulent infiltration, and in flat chested people of a consumptive build. It must be used in those cases which “hang fire” in the process of convalescence, after improvement sets in and consumption threatens, or in those cases which show decided tubercular signs, and just here is where Tuberculinum may do good work in cases having a decided tubercular family history. I have seen such cases do well on a dose of this remedy once a week, interpolated with the other indicated remedies, just as we give Psorinum in psoric cases, and now we mention Psorinum in this connection, it must also be used if the symptoms are present and may be preferred before Tuberculinum.
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
Tuberculinum or Bacillinum is indicated if there is a family history of tuberculosis. The patient complains that he takes afresh cold ever little while, and he don’t know how. Loses flesh even while eating well. Short dry hacking cough, < mornings when he may raise little. Menses do not appear when they should in young girls. The deposit or pain is like Sulphur often located in the apex of the left lung. There are ever changing symptoms, affecting first one organ, then another, travelling around like Pulsatilla, to lungs, skin, brain, kidneys, stomach, etc., and the pains like those of Belladonna come and go suddenly. Burnett in his little book on cure of consumption with the Bacilli virus is very convincing, and my own use of it is in several cases very gratifying. He used in his cases the “C,” which I suppose means the 100th potency. I have used the 30th, 200th, 1 m. and C. M. with good effect; but the preparation that has given me the best results in several instances is the D. M., made on my own fluxion machine. I almost hesitate to make such a statement because of the prejudice in the minds of many, but believe it to be better to tell the truth whether it is accepted or not. The next remedy is
COUGH.
Character—All kinds of cough. In the first stage dry. Later loose, very loose, with profuse expectoration.
Modalities not well marked.
Concomitants—Takes cold after cold, don’t know how, but in every breath of fresh air. Emaciation rapid and pronounced. Symptoms changeable, especially pains changing, now here, now there. Tubercular deposit in apex of lungs; oftenest left.
Notwithstanding the prejudice against nosodes, we are forced to admit that they are wonderful remedies in certain cases. Clinical results not only with Tuberculin and Psorinum, as well as the others, cannot be ignored. Von Behring suspects that Antitoxine as well as Variolin acts along homœopathic lines, and is man enough to say so, and declares that if honest investigation takes him along homœopathic lines he goes that way. When this spirit takes possession of the old school in general the medical millennium is not far away. More honest investigation of this remedy will define its exact place as clearly as that of Psorinum.