Phosphorus: Is the head remedy in the treatment of tuberculosis. It has special affinity for lungs and long bones. The patient is hollow chested or chicken-breasted and may spit blood. Hoarse, violent tickling cough, worse when laughing or talking with oppression of chest. Never use this remedy below 30.
Tuberculinum: This is an intercurrent remedy and should be given 200 or higher potencies every week or fortnight accordingly as the strength of the remedy is 200 or 1000. It should only be administered in small globules- four or five globules a dose. It is better if in a one drachm phial. Small globules are saturated with the medicine by putting two or three drops thereof. In drop doses the medicine is likely to aggravate the disease with fatal results at times.
Ars. Iod: Is the best remedy when the exciting cause has been flu or grippe. Weakness and emaciation are the ranking symptoms. There is intense thirst, but cold water causes distress in the stomach, and the patient, therefore, wants to take hot drinks.
Iodum: This remedy is called for when the glands are affected. The patient is usually of dark complexion, has a dry, unhealthy skin and runs high temperature. Emaciation is slow and the cough persistent and annoying.
Calcarea Iod: Is indicated when the mesenteric glands are involved. Great emaciation; nothing but skin and bone; abdomen enormously distended; glands being large and nodular; stools frequent, green or of varying colour accompanied by much flatus. The skin is very dry except during the night sweats. Potency 6 or 30 is generally used.
Tuberculinum Bov: If given in 1000 or CM potency, it is said to be preventive and curative. Only one or two doses are to be given in life at an interval of three to four months.
Carbo Animalis: For the last stage of tuberculosis of lungs. Suffocative hoarseness, cough that shakes the entire brain, green purulent offensive mucus and pus. Offensive sputasweet, fetid and dyspnoea.
Sabla Serr: Specific for laryngeal tuberculosis.
Gallicum Acid: When accompanied with pulmonary haemorrhage. Excessive expectoration and night sweats.
Chin. Sulph: Consumption with (1) loss in weight; (2) cough persisting for years; (3) pain in the face, right side, when cough ceases; (4) worse damp weather; (5) worse every fourth day. In other words, this remedy is good in tuberculosis of hydrogenoid constitutions.
Phosphorus:
Kali Nit:
Fever returns in the evening with chill. Loss of weight, night sweats and slight cough. (At the end of three weeks after the continuous use of these medicines in alternation every two hours fever disappeared, but had a threatening of return after a year or so. Nux V. and Ars. Alb. in alternation stopped this tendency.
Stannum Iod. 3X: Tuberculosis in persons having a clear complexion and long eyelashes. Persistent cough excited by tickling in the throat.
Vaccininum 200: As an intercurrent remedy for cough in tuberculosis.
Osmium 200: When urine smells like violets, eructation like radishes, sweat like garlic. Irritation in respiratory tract.
Lycopus Virg: Incipient phthisis (left apex affected) associated with looseness of bowels.
Cocculus Ind: Laryngeal phthisis following bronchial catarrh.
Helix Tosta: CM. When accompanied with haemoptysis, continuous hoarseness, dry tickling cough, worse at night preventing sleep. Dyspnoea, worse ascending stairs.
Sulphur: In persons who are withered, sallow and debilitated. Cough harsh and dry, rather than moist and relaxed. Burning of feet and hands. Should be given in high potency say 200 and not to be repeated, otherwise it may light up the tubercular state.
Alstonia C: Slow fever with diarrhoea. Potency IX.
Calcarea Phos: May be tried when the patient grows very weak. Give in IM dilution.
Lachnanthes: Consumption with night sweat, dry cough, pain and stiffness in back or neck, circumscribed flushes on the face. Also in typhoid fever or typho-pneumonia.
Pix Liquida: In third stage of phthisis pulmonalis with expectoration of purulent matter, offensive odour and taste, accompanied by pain in left third costal cartilage.
Guaiacum: In advanced stage of T.B. with pleuritic pains in left apex with offensive purulent sputum. Betaine 4 grains mixed with sugar and milk 96 grains. Give four times daily as much as lies on the end of table knife. It is said to be useful for tuberculosis.
Yerba Santa: Bronchial T.B. with night sweats and wasting of the body due to frequent bronchial catarrhs.
Saccharum Lactis: Diarrhoea in last stages of consumption.
Stannum: Debility with copious green expectoration. Sweetish taste of sputum in tuberculosis. Chest feels weak; can hardly talk.
Thuja: This should be given as an intercurrent remedy in patients who have suffered from gonorrhoea. Give in IM dilution.
Syphilinum: An intercurrent remedy for patients who suffered from syphilis. Give in IM dilution. Coto-Bark. Chronic tubercular diarrhoea, very copious and exhausting. To be given in mother tincture in substantial doses.
Drosera: Specific for laryngeal tuberculosis; T.B. of knee joints or of other parts of the body.
Silicea: Shocking cough with horribly smelling phlegm which sinks at the bottom of fluid; the phlegm is lumpy, yellow or green. Worse from cold wet weather and better in cold dry weather. Catarrhal form of phthisis.
Lycopodium: Phthisis of children following measles and whooping cough with ill-developed neck and chest, dyspepsia, distention of abdomen, greenish expectoration and rattling of chest.
Senecio: Phthisis with obstructed menses.
