Teucrium marum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Teucrium marum
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General
Cat-thyme Nasal and rectal symptoms marked. Polypi. Affections of children. Suitable after too much medicine has been taken. Oversensitiveness. Desire to stretch. A remedy of first importance in chronic nasal catarrh with atrophy; large, offensive crusts and clinkers. Ozæna. Loss of sense of smell.
Head
Excited, tremulous feeling. Frontal pain; worse, stooping. Strengthens brain after delirium tremens.
Eyes
Smarting in canthi; lids red and puffy; tarsal tumor (Staph).
Ears
Hissing and ringing otalgia.
Nose
Catarrhal condition of both anterior and posterior nostrils. Mucous polypus. Chronic catarrh; discharge of large, irregular clinkers. Foul breath. Crawling in nostrils, with lachrymation and sneezing. Coryza, with stoppage of nostrils.
Stomach
Vomiting of large quantities of dark-green masses. Constant hiccough, attended with pain in back. Unnatural appetite. Hiccough on eating, after nursing.
Rectum
Itching of anus, and constant irritation in the evening in bed. Ascarides, with nightly restlessness. Crawling in rectum after stool.
Respiratory
Dry cough, tickling in trachea; moldy taste in throat when hawking up mucus, expectoration profuse.
Extremities
Affection of finger-tips and joints of toes. Tearing pains in arms and legs. Pain in toe-nails, as if they had grown into flesh.
Skin
Itching causes tossing about all night. Very dry skin. Suppurating grooves in the nails.
Sleep
Restless, with twitching, choking, and starting up frightened.
Relationships
Compare: Teucrium scorodonia-Wood-sage (in tuberculosis with muco-purulent expectoration; dropsy; orchitis and tuberculous epidymitis; especially in young, thin individuals with tuberculosis of lungs, glands; bones and urogenitals, 3x). Cina; Ignat; Sang; Sil.
Dose
First to sixth potency. Locally for polypi, dry powder.
What the other books say about Teucrium marum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Teucrium marum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Teucrium marum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/teucrium-marum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.