Bacillinum
Tuberculous lung tissue nosode · Nosode
The Bacillinum patient exhibits the tubercular diathesis: taciturn, sulky, irritable, morose, and prone to melancholy even approaching insanity. Physically there is a consumptive tendency with defective growth, imperfectly developed teeth, and a constant disposition to take cold. Children may present with ringworm, pityriasis, or scrofulous glands as leading indicators.
Key symptoms
- Severe deep headache worse from motion compelling quiet fixedness
- Tight iron hoop sensation around the head
- Ringworm of scalp and pityriasis versicolor
- Eczematous condition of eyelid margins
- Slight tedious hacking cough with easy expectoration
- Taciturn, sulky, snappish, morose, and melancholic
- Scrofulous glands; cervical glands enlarged and tender
- Worse at night and early morning; worse in cold air
Worse (aggravation)
- Night and early morning
- Cold air
- Motion (headache)
- Shaking the head
Better (amelioration)
- Warmth (pain in left scapula)
A nosode of tuberculosis named and first described by Dr. Burnett, for whom it was prepared from tuberculous sputum by Dr. Heath. As this preparation has been experimented with separately, I think it, on the whole, advisable to give its symptoms apart from the other nosodes of phthisis.
Clinical
Addison's disease. Alopecia. Consumptiveness Growth, defective. Hydrocephalus. Idiocy. Insanity. Joints, affections of. Phthiriasis. Pityriasis Ringworm. Scrofulous glands. Teeth, defective; pitted. Tuberculosis.
Characteristics
This remedy has been used largely in infrequent doses (at intervals of a week or more) of the 30th and upwards chiefly on diathetic indications in the affections named above. In acute affections it has been found useful to dissolve a few globules in a wineglassful of water and administer a teaspoonful every four hours. In the provings, a severe headache, deep in, < by motion, was a constant symptom; also a slight cough with easy expectoration of phlegm. In cases of acute tuberculosis it …
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