Trombidium
Trombidium holosericeum · Animal
Remedy for conditions characterized by pain triggered by eating or drinking, especially gastrointestinal and dental symptoms. Suited for those with constitutional weakness, restlessness, and rheumatic tendency.
Key symptoms
- Diarrhea worse by eating or drinking
- Brown, thin, bloody stools with tenesmus
- Pain before and after stool
- Liver congestion with loose stools on rising
- Toothache aggravated by eating
- Prolapse of anus with burning
- Hip-joint pain on rising and walking
- Itching of scalp and whiskers
- Rheumatic pains in joints and limbs
- Fainting on rising up
Worse (aggravation)
- By eating or drinking (grand keynote)
- By touch (pain in liver)
- By pressure (pain in abdomen)
- By moving and shaking head
- By cold air and cold bath
- By walking (head pain)
- After stool
Better (amelioration)
- Lying down (prevents fainting, eases toothache)
- Warm drinks (relieves toothache)
- Open air (coryza)
- After a few steps (hip-joint pain)
Trombidium muscæ domesticæ. N. O. Acaridea (Class, Arachnida). Tincture of the animals.
Clinical
Anus, prolapse of. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Hip-joint, pain in. Liver, pain in. Nose, catarrh of. Sciatica. Tibia, pain in. Toothache.
Characteristics
Tromb. is "a parasite found singly or in groups upon the common house-fly, of a bright red colour, nearly circular in shape. The alcoholic tincture, a brilliant orange in colour, was prepared from specimens, about 115 in number, collected in Frankfort, Philadelphia, in September, 1864. The provings, under the supervision of Hering, were made by Harvey, Head, J. F. R., and Bancroft, the potencies used 3x, 6x, 9, 18, and 30" (Hering, Guiding Symptoms). The grand keynote of Tromb. is "< by eating or drinking." The symptom may be in the nose, teeth, or tonsils, this modality is characteristic. On this indication I have cured some of the worst cases of diarrhœa; and also intestinal pains coming on when the patient eats or drinks. I have used a 10m preparation of Fincke's …
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