Terebinth
by H. C. Allen
Oil of Turpentine (A Volatile Oil.)
Terebinth urine has the odor or violets.
Terebinth Tongue: smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of papillae, or as if glazed ( Pyrogen ); elevated papillae; coating peels off in patches leaving bright red spots, or entire coating cleans off suddenly (in exanthemata); dry and red; burning in tip (compare, Acid Muriaticum ).
Terebinth Abdomen: extremely sensitive to touch; distention, flatulence, excessive tympanitis; meteorism ( Colchicum ).
Diarrhoea: stool, watery, greenish, mucous; frequent, profuse, fetid, bloody; burning in anus and rectum, fainting and exhaustion, after ( Arsenicum ).
Worms: with foul breath, choking ( Cina, Spigelia ); dry, hacking cough; tickling at anus; ascarides, lumbrici, tapeworm segments passed.
Terebinth Haematuria: blood thoroughly mixed with the urine; sediment, like coffee-grounds; cloudy, smoky, albuminous; profuse, dark or black, painless.
Congestion and inflammation of viscera; kidneys, bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus; with haemorrhage, and malignant tendency.
Purpurea haemorrhagica; fresh ecchymosis in great numbers from day to day ( Acid Sulphuricum ).
Ascites with anasarca, in organic lesions of kidneys; dropsy after scarlatina ( Apis, Helleborus, Lachesis ).
Haemorrhages; from bowels, with ulceration; passive, dark, with ulceration or epithelial degeneration.
Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, bladder and urethra ( Berberis, Can., Cantharis ).
Violent burning and cutting in bladder; tenesmus; sensitive hypogastrium; cystitis and retention from atony of fundus.
Albuminuria; acute, in early stages, when blood and albumin abound more than casts and epithelium; after diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid.
Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts; < from living in damp dwellings.
Strangury; spasmodic retention of urine.
Relations. – Compare: [Alumen], Arnica, Arsenicum, Cantharis, Lachesis, Acid nitricum
Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.