Teplitz
Mineral
Teplitz suits patients of gouty and rheumatic constitution, especially those with atonic gout and a tendency to hemorrhage, paralytic states, and bone pains. The patient tends toward tearfulness, low spirits, and irritability with giddiness of much intensity. There is marked sensitivity to cold with cold feelings in extremities and increased sensitivity to draughts.
Key symptoms
- Intense giddiness: all houses seem to move when walking
- Sensation as if something fell from one side to other on moving head
- Burning in stomach relieved by drinking cold water
- Relief of symptoms from hemorrhoidal bleeding
- Paralysis of tongue and limbs; difficult speech
- Profuse epistaxis, metrorrhagia, and hemorrhoidal bleeding
- Vesicles in mouth, on tongue, and vesicular erysipelas
- Bone pains worse at night; increased sensitivity to cold
- Tearfulness, low spirits, irritability with weak memory
- Gouty nodes on fingers; swollen stiff joints
Worse (aggravation)
- At night (bone pains)
- From motion
Better (amelioration)
- From friction
- Drinking cold water
- From hemorrhoidal bleeding
The mineral water of Teplitz in Bohemia. [Contains in 16 oz. Nat. c. gr. 2.28, Nat. m. .43, Nat. fl. sil. .13, K. sul. .43, K. mur. .1, Calc. c. .32, Sil. .31, &c.] Dilution.
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Bones, affections of. Breast, tumours in. Epistaxis. Eruptions. Erysipelas. Flatulence. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Leucorrhœa. Metrorrhagia. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scurvy. Speech, difficult. Spine, pains in. Tongue, paralysis of. Toothache. Ulcers. Vertigo.
Characteristics
The waters of Teplitz are chiefly in repute for the treatment of gouty patients, especially those suffering from atonic gout. The springs are alkaline and hot, and the temperature forms a leading feature in their action. The symptoms of the Schemaare Perutz', who experimented on himself and several healthy individuals, together with symptoms by Hromada. Symptoms of Nat. c. and Nat. m. appear throughout. Tearfulness, low spirits, and irritability were noted, and giddiness of much intensity. This symptom has been cured: "Giddiness, when she …
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