Thyroidinum

Splitting sensation; chest; ensiform appendix; spine. Clutchings. Chokings. Wants to lie down. Nervousness. Faintness. Rapid emaciation. .................... Tired and irritable. Heavy ache over eyes. Falling hair. Nose dry, indoors, moist in open air (Nux-v.). Dry, red lips. Metallic taste, at tip of tongue. Dry throat and larynx. As of a splinter stuck across throat. Cutting in liver, < deep breathing. Rolling flatulence with gurgling, then a loose, gassy stool. Bearing or aching down thro' pelvis, into anterior thighs. Gnawing in uterus. Cough on entering a warm room from cool air. Heart; palpitation, hammering; beat felt in ears; pains, radiating into axillæ; clutching, causing short breath. As if blood were rushing downward through body. Hypertrophy; after hard labor. Numb l. finger, then r. leg. Large veins on arms and hands. Very dry skin. As of a cold wind blowing on body. Icy cold l. hand. Cold clammy hands. Hot flushes, then chills, or drenching sweats (Amy-n.). Oily, musty sweat.

Least: Cold. Exertion.

Lying on abdomen.

HEART. Central nervous system. Right side. Skin.

Related: Calc-c. Glo.

Stupor, alternating with restless melancholy. Irritable, worse least opposition; goes into a rage over trifles.

Dried Thyroid Gland of the Sheep Thyroid produces anæmia, emaciation, muscular weakness, sweating, headache, nervous tremor of face and limbs, tingling sensations, paralysis. Heart rate increased, exophthalmus and dilation of pupils. In myxœdema and cretinism its effects are striking. Rheumatoid arthritis. Infantile wasting. Rickets. Delayed union of fractures. In half grain doses twice a day over a considerable period said to be effective in undescended testicle in boys. Thyroid exercises a general regulating influence over the mechanism of the organs of nutrition, growth and development. Thyroid weakness causes decided craving for large amount of sweets. Of use in psoriasis; and tachycardia. Arrested development in children. Improves the memory. Goitre. Excessive obesity. Acts better with pale patients, rather than those of high color. Amblyopia. Mammary tumor. Uterine fibroid. Great weakness and hunger, yet loses flesh. Nocturnal enuresis. Agalactea. Begin treatment early in pregnancy. Dose 1 1/2 gr. 2 to 3 times daily. Vomiting of pregnancy (give early in morning before patient gets up). Fibroid tumors of the breast, 2x trit. Dilates arterioles (Adrenaline contacts them). Sensation of faintness and nausea. Marked sensitiveness to cold Hypothyroidism after acute diseases, i.e, weakness. Easy fatigue, weak pulse, tendency to fainting, palpitation, cold hands and feet, low blood pressure, chilliness and sensitive to cold (Thyroid 1x3 times daily). Has a powerful diuretic action in myxodema and various types of œdema.

Feeling of lightness in brain. Persistent frontal headache. Eyeballs

prominent. Face flushed; lips burn. Tongue thickly coated. Fullness and heat. Face flushed. Bad taste in mouth.

Progressive diminution of sight with central scotoma (Carbon sulf).

Dry, congested, raw, burning; worse left side.

Desire for sweets and thirst for cold water. Nausea worse riding in car. Flatulence, much flatus in abdomen.

Increased flow; polyuria; some albumen and sugar. Enuresis in weakly children who are nervous and irritable (1/2 gr night and morning). Urine smells of violets, burning along urethra, increase of uric acid.

Dry, painful cough with scanty, difficult expectoration and burning in pharynx.

Weak, frequent pulse, with inability to lie down. Tachycardia (Naja). Anxiety about chest, as if constricted. Palpitation from least exertion. Severe heart pain; Ready excitability of heart. Heart's action weak, with numbness of fingers.

Rheumative arthritis with tendency to obesity, coldness and cramps of extremities. Peeling of skin of lower limbs. Cold extremities. Aching pains. Œdema of legs. Trembling of limbs and entire body.

Psoriasis associated with adiposity (not in developing stage). Skin dry, impoverished. Cold hands and feet. Eczema. Uterine fibroids. Browny swelling. Swelling of glands of stony hardness. Sluggish cases. Jaundice with pruritus. Ichtyosis, lupus. Itching without eruption, worse night.

Compare: Spongia; Calc; Fucus; Lycopus; Iodothyrine, (the active principle isolated from thyroid gland, a substance rich in Iodine and nitrogen, affects metabolism, reducing weight, may produce glycosuria. Use cautiously in obesity, for a fatty heart may not be able to maintain the accelerated rhythm. Milk contains the internal secretion of the thyroid). Thymus gland extract (arthritis deformans; metabolic osteoarthritis, 5-grain tablets 3 times daily). High potencies very efficient in exophthalmic goitre.

Crude Thyroid at times; better sixth to thirtieth potency. If the crude Thyroid is taken (two to three grains or more daily); the pulse should be watched. Must not be given in physiological doses where with feeble heart there is high blood pressure and not in tubercular patients.