Thallium metallicum
Thallium · Mineral
Thallium suits patients with serious neurological deterioration—locomotor ataxia, paraplegia, and polyneuritis—accompanied by severe electric-shock-like pains. A striking keynote is sudden and profuse hair loss following acute exhausting diseases. The remedy has an affinity for the endocrine system and trophic nervous disturbances leading to muscular atrophy and dermal trophic lesions.
Key symptoms
- Rapid and profuse falling of the hair (alopecia) following acute exhausting diseases
- Violent lancinating pains like electric shocks in stomach and bowels
- Trembling and paralysis of the lower limbs; paraplegia
- Numbness in fingers and toes extending upward to abdomen and perineum
- Formication beginning in fingers extending through pelvis to feet
- Muscle atrophy with polyneuritis and night sweats
- Anomalies of motion; chorea-like movements; emaciation
- Violent pains of locomotor ataxia and tabes dorsalis
- Influences endocrines, especially thyroid and adrenal
Worse (aggravation)
- At night (sweats)
The Metal Thallium (THALLIUM)
Thallium seems to influence the endocrines, especially the thyroid and adrenaline. Most horrible neuralgic, spasmodic, shooting pains. Muscular atrophy. Tremors. Relieves the violent pains in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs. Pain in stomach and bowels, like electric shocks. Paraplegia. Alopecia following acute, exhausting diseases. Night sweats. Polyneuritis. Dermal trophic lesions.
Extremities
Trembling. Paralytic feeling. Lancinating pains, like electric shocks. Very tired. Chronic myelitis. Numbness in fingers and toes, with extension up lower extremities, involving lower abdomen and perineum. Paralysis of lower limbs. Cyanosis of extremities. Formication, beginning in fingers and extending through pelvis, perineum and inner thighs to feet.
Relationship
Compare: Lathyr; Caust; Arg nit; Plumbum.
Dose
Lower trituration to thirtieth potency.
Thallium. A Rare Metal. Tl. (A. W. 203.7). Trituration. Solution of the Sulphate.
Clinical
Baldness. Conjunctivitis. Locomotor ataxy. Paraplegia.
Characteristics
Thallium is a rare metal discovered by Crookes in the residuum left from the distillation of Selenium and named Thallium (θαλλός, a green shoot) from the green it gives in the spectrum (H. W., xxxiii. 242). It has been experimented with by Lamy and Marme. Some symptoms of Thal. sul., which is an energetic poison, are included (and distinguished) in the Schema. The symptoms observed on animals were from the sulphate, with which Lamy experimented (H. W., xxxiv. 82). Combermale, of Lille, used Thal. with success in the night-sweats of phthisis, but this treatment had the effect of causing profuse falling of the hair, so serious as to contraindicate its use. Huchard had patients become quite bald in several days. Hansen says Thal. relieves the violent pains of tabes dorsalis.
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