Tellurium Metallicum appears in 8 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 TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“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”
- 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…”
- 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)…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“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.”
