Teucrium scorodonia
Plant · Lamiaceae
Teucrium scorodonia is suited to patients of scrofulous or tuberculous constitution with chest affections featuring muco-purulent bronchorrhea. The most dramatic indication is in consumptive states—even apparently terminal phthisis—where it has been used with success. It has also resolved tuberculous testicular enlargement in scrofulous individuals.
Key symptoms
- Bronchorrhea with muco-purulent expectoration
- Tubercular phthisis with consumptive affections
- Enlarged tuberculous testicle; scrofulous constitution
- Cavity in lung apex with consumptive picture
Teucrium scorodonia. Wood Germander. Wood Sage. N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Clinical
Bronchorrhœa. Phthisis. Testicle, tuberculosis of. Tuberculosis.
Characteristics
T. scorodonia is an extremely bitter plant with the smell and taste of hops, for which it has been substituted. Some have observed an alliaceous smell, and Cazin says that it gives a garlicky taste to the milk of cows, goats, and sheep which eat it. Dr. Criquelion, of Mons (Rev. Hom. Belge, June, 1895, quoted R. H. Française, Feb., 1896), tells how Dr. Martiny one day, in the Ardennes, had occasion to examine a man of thirty who was apparently in the last stage of consumption and had a cavity in one apex. Martiny gave his opinion that he had not long to live. A year later, being in the same district, he called at the house and inquired of a man whom he saw there, apparently in perfect health, what had become of the invalid. "I am he," was the reply. It was the fact, though it took some time to convince Martiny of it. An old …
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