Terebinthiniae Oleum

Turpentine

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(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 .

Head

Dull pain like from a band around the head ( Carb ac ). Vertigo, with vanishing of vision. Disturbed sense of equilibrium. Tired and difficult concentration of thoughts. Cold in head with sore nostrils with disposition to bleed.

Eyes

Ciliary neuralgia over right eye. Intense pain in eye and side of head. Amblyopia from alcohol.

Ears

Own voice sounds unnatural; humming as of a seashell, talking loudly is painful. Otalgia.

Mouth

Tongue dry, red sore, shining ; burning in tip, with prominent papillæ ( Arg n; Bell; Kali b; Nux m ). Breath cold, foul. Choking sensation in throat. Stomatitis. Dentition.

Stomach

Nausea and vomiting; heat in epigastric region.

Abdomen

Enormous distention . Diarrhœa; stools watery, greenish, fetid, bloody. Pain before flatus with and relief after stool. Hæmorrhage from bowels. Worms; lumbrici. Abdominal dropsy; pelvic peritonitis. Fainting after every stool Entero-colitis, with hæmorrhage and ulceration of bowels.

Urinary

Strangury, with bloody urine . Scanty, suppressed, odor of violets . Urethritis, with painful erections ( Canthar ). Inflamed kidneys following any acute disease. Constant tenesmus.

Female

Intense burning in uterine region . Metritis; puerperal peritonitis. Metrorrhagia with burning in uterus.

Respiratory

Difficult breathing; lungs feel distended; hæmoptysis. Bloody expectoration.

Heart

Pulse rapid, small, thready, intermittent.

Back

Burning pain in region of kidneys . Drawing in right kidney extending to hip.

Skin

Acne. Erythema; itching pustular, vesicular eruption; urticaria. Purpura, ecchymosis, dropsies. Scarlatina. Chilblains; with excessive itching and pulsative pains. Aching soreness of the muscles.

Fever

Heat, with violent thirst, dry tongue, profuse cold, clammy sweat. Typhoid with tympanites, hæmorrhages, stupor, delirium. Prostration.

Relationship

Compare: Alumen; Secale; Canth; Nit ac. Terebene 1x; (chronic bronchitis and winter coughs; subacute stages of inflammation of respiratory tract. Loosens secretion, relieves tightened feeling, makes expectoration easy). Neurotic coughs . Huskiness of public speakers, and singers. Cystitis when urine is alkaline and offensive.

Ononis spinosa

-Rest Harrow--(Diuretic, Lithontriptic. Chronic nephritis; diuretic effects like Juniper ; calculus nosebleed, worse washing face).

Antidote: Phos .

Dose

First to sixth potency.

Terebinthiniae Oleum across the other classic books

Terebinthiniae Oleum appears in 10 of the 13 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 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 — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“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.”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“GLISTENING HEMORRHAGE, bloody discharges URINARY ORGANS”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Mucous membranes: KIDNEYS. Bladder. Bronchial. Respiration. Heart. Blood. Dampness. Cold. Night. Lying. Pressure. Motion. Kidneys affected, with rheumatism. Sudden, grippy aching. Stiff, sore muscles. Pain; excites urination; along larger nerves. Burning; tip of tongue, epigastrium; small of back; kidney; uterus, etc…”
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…”
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…”
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…”

Terebinthiniae Oleum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Terebinthiniae Oleum in 700 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (89), ABDOMEN (69), STOMACH (48), URINE (37), HEAD (36).

BLADDER - PAIN - burning - walking in open air amel.
BLADDER - PAIN - cutting - walking - open air,in,amel.,rest agg.
FEMALE GENITALIA - TUMORS - Uterus
URINE - COLOR, - smoke-color
KIDNEYS - PAIN - drawing
KIDNEYS - INFLAMMATION - acute parenchymatous
KIDNEYS - PAIN - drawing - region of
BLADDER - PAIN - cutting
ABDOMEN - ULCERS
URINE - COLOR, - black
KIDNEYS - PAIN - burning
URINE - CLOUDY - passed,when
URETHRA - INFLAMMATION
SKIN - PURPURA - haemorrhagica
BLADDER - PAIN - sore,tender
URETHRA - CHORDEE
FEVER - EXANTHEMATIC fevers - measles - scarlatina
ABDOMEN - PAIN - sore,bruised,tenderness,etc - Hypogastrium
BLADDER - PAIN - burning
RECTUM - WORM - ascarides

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