Terebinthina

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

Terebinthina

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Keynotes

Terebinthina

Oil of Turpentine. A Volatile Oil.

The urine has the odor of violets.

Tongue: smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of papillae, or as if glazed (Pyr.) ; elevated papillae; coating peels off in patches leaving bright red spots, or entire coating cleans off suddenly (in exanthemata) ; dry and red; burning in tip (compare, Mur. ac.).

Abdomen : extremely sensitive to touch ; distension, flatulence, excessive tympanitis; meteorism (Colch.).

Diarrhoea : stool, watery, greenish, mucous ; frequent, profuse, fetid, bloody; burning in anus and rectum, fainting and exhaustion, after (Ars.).

Worms: with foul breath, choking (Cina, Spig.) ; dry, hacking cough; tickling at anus; ascarides, lumbrici, tapeworm segments passed.

H?ematuria : blood thoroughly mixed with the urine; sediment, like coffee-grounds; cloudy, smoky, albuminous; profuse, dark or black, painless.

Congestion and inflammation of viscera; kidneys, bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus; with haemorrhage, and malignant tendency.

Purpura haemof rhagica ; fresh ecchymoses in great numbers from day to day (Sulph. ac.).

Ascites with anasarca, ip organic lesions of kidneys ; dropsy after scarlatina (Apis, Hell., Lach.).

Haemorrhages; from bowels, with ulceration; passive, dark with ulceration or epithelial degeneration.

Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, bladder and urethra (Berb., Can., Canth.).

Violent burning and cutting in bladder; tenesmus; sensitive hypogastrium ; cystitis and retention from atony of fundus.

Albuminuria ; acute, in early stages, when blood and albumin abound more than casts and epithelium; after diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid.

Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts; < from living in damp dwellings.

Strangury; spasmodic retention of urine.

Lach., Nit. ac.

Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.

What the other books say about Terebinthina

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Terebinthina in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Terebinthina in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Terebinthina in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Terebinthina — Keynotes, pp. 288–289. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/terebinthina. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.