Terebinthina
as Ernest Albert Farrington recorded it in Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1908
Terebinthina
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Lecture
Lecture XXX — Coniferae — Abies nigra, Sabina, Terebinthina, Pix liquida and Thuja occidentalis; Euphorbiaceae — Croton tiglium, etc.
Terebinthina.
Terebinthina, or turpentine, is a drug which has been much abused by old-school physicians, and has therefore been greatly neglected by homoeopaths. In the revulsion from the misconceptions of the oldschool physicians, we often avoid a drug altogether. All that I have time to say concerning Terebinthina is that its main action is on the kidneys and bladder. When you find metritis, peritonitis, pneumonia, hydrocephalus, typhoid fever, scarlatina, or, in fact, any serious disease of low type, with the following renal symptoms, Terebinthina comes in as your remedy: dull pains in the region of the kidneys; burning in the kidneys; pains extending from the kidneys down through the ureters; burning during micturition; strangury and albuminous urine. The urine is characteristically dark, cloudy and smokylooking, as though it contained decomposed blood, which in fact it does. It also has the odor of violets like Cantharis, Copaiva, Osmium and Selenium. The real pathological condition of the kidneys in these cases is not one of acute Bright' s disease, nor one of croupous formation in the kidneys, but one of renal congestion, with oozing of blood into the pelvis of the kidney. The condition is not infrequently the result of living in damp dwellings. When the above urinary symptoms are present, you may give Terebinthina with confidence, no matter what the patient's disease may be.
Other symptoms characterizing these low states are feeble heart in pneumonia; intense burning in the uterus in metritis with typhoidal symptoms; burning in peritonitis; and tympany from paresis of the bowels.
Terebinthina often acts powerfully on mucous membranes. It produces burning in the air-passages, with thin expectoration, very difficult of detachment. It also is occasionally of use in humid asthma with the urinary concomitants of the drug.
Worms have been removed by Terebinthina. The child starts and screams out in sleep; picks at its nose; has a choking sensation and a dry, hacking cough; there may even be convulsions.
Alcohol favors the action of Terebinthina.
PlX IylQUIDA.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Terebinthina 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. Ernest Albert Farrington. Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia. 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Terebinthina — Lecture, pp. 305–306. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/farrington/terebinthina. Published 1908: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1885). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.