Teucrium marum verum
Teucrium marum · Marum verum, Cat thyme. · Plant · Lamiaceae
People for whom Teucrium marum is considered most effective tend to be oversensitive and feel worse for hearing or talking about unpleasant things, including their symptoms. They are easily overexcited and exhausted.
The primary affinity of this remedy is with polyps, which may affect the nose, ears, vagina, and rectum. Nasal polyps may be accompanied by chronic catarrh, dried-up, foul-smelling crusts of catarrh, and loss of smell. Fibrous tumors on the eyelids and fibroids in the uterus may be helped by the remedy, as may lumps in the urethra caused by gonorrhea.
Teucrium marum may also be given for intestinal worms, involving itching and tingling in the anus and rectum.
Key symptoms
- Mucous polypi of nose and rectum
- Chronic nasal catarrh with atrophy and large offensive crusts
- Ozena; loss of sense of smell
- Crawling in nostrils with lachrymation and sneezing
- Discharge of large irregular clinkers from nose
- Constant hiccough with pain in back
- Oversensitiveness; desire to stretch
- Itching and crawling in rectum from thread-worms
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Cat-thyme (TEUCRIUM MARUM)
Nasal and rectal symptoms marked. Polypi. Affections of children. Suitable after too much medicine has been taken. Oversensitiveness. Desire to stretch. A remedy of first importance in chronic nasal catarrh with atrophy; large, offensive crusts and clinkers. Ozæna. Loss of sense of smell.
Head
Excited, tremulous feeling. Frontal pain; worse, stooping. Strengthens brain after delirium tremens.
Eyes
Smarting in canthi; lids red and puffy; tarsal tumor (Staph).
Ears
Hissing and ringing otalgia.
Nose
Catarrhal condition of both anterior and posterior nostrils. Mucous polypus. Chronic catarrh; discharge of large, irregular clinkers. Foul breath. Crawling in nostrils, with lachrymation and sneezing. Coryza, with stoppage of nostrils.
Stomach
Vomiting of large quantities of dark-green masses. Constant hiccough, attended with pain in back. Unnatural appetite. Hiccough on eating, after nursing.
Respiratory
Dry cough, tickling in trachea; moldy taste in throat when hawking up mucus, expectoration profuse.
Extremities
Affection of finger-tips and joints of toes. Tearing pains in arms and legs. Pain in toe-nails, as if they had grown into flesh.
Rectum
Itching of anus, and constant irritation in the evening in bed. Ascarides, with nightly restlessness. Crawling in rectum after stool.
Sleep
Restless, with twitching, choking, and starting up frightened.
Skin
Itching causes tossing about all night. Very dry skin. Suppurating grooves in the nails.
Relationship
Compare: Teucrium scorodonia-Wood-sage (in tuberculosis with muco-purulent expectoration; dropsy; orchitis and tuberculous epidymitis; especially in young, thin individuals with tuberculosis of lungs, glands; bones and urogenitals, 3x). Cina; Ignat; Sang; Sil.
Dose
First to sixth potency. Locally for polypi, dry powder.
Marum verum. Cat Thyme. N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Clinical
Anus, itching of. Eyelids, tumour of. Fibroma. Hiccough. Ingrowing toenail. Nose, catarrh of. Polypus. Psoriasis. Rheumatism. Urethra, excrescences in. Worms.
Characteristics
The Germander group of the Labiatæ, to which the Teucriums belong, had an important place in old herbal medicine, and homœopathy has placed Teuc. m. on a firm foundation. Stapf and others proved it. Marked symptoms of helminthiasis, irritation of anus and nose, were elicited, and Teuc. has well justified the labour of the provers in this respect. No remedy meets more cases of threadworms than Teucr. The nasal symptoms have led to the use of Teuc. in nasal polypus. Guernsey gives this as guiding: "Polypus with stoppage of nose on side lain on; large red pimples under right nostril near septum, sore and smarting to touch." A snuff of Teuc. has been used in some cases in addition to the internal use of the remedy. But Teuc. has a relation to new growth …
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