Sulphur terebinthinatum
Human-made/chemical
Clarke
Key symptoms
- Chorea with obstinate, involuntary movements (St. Vitus's dance)
- Pain in chronic rheumatic arthritis
John Henry Clarke
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900
Terebinthinated Sulphur. [One part of purified Sulphur is dissolved by heating in one hundred parts of Turpentine.] Dilutions.
Clinical
Chorea. Chronic rheumatic arthritis.
Characteristics
Sul. tereb. is referred to in the Hon. Robert Boyle's works (Shaw's edition, vol. iii. 584). A 1x dilution cured a most obstinate case of St. Vitus's dance, and has often relieved pain in chronic rheumatic arthritis (Cooper).
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