Terebinthina

Oil of Turpentine. A Volatile Oil.

Keynotes

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.

Hematuria : 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.

Relationship p. 290

, — Compare: Alumen, Arn., Ars., Canth., Lach., Nit. ac.

Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.