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PHARMACY - Thymol. Thymolum. Thyme camphor. Labiatae family or to the Umbellifers. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies, 6x to 30c. Planets: Moon.
HISTORY - Thymol exists in the essences of certain plants belonging to the Labiatae family or to the Umbellifers. It is a phenol made up of para-isopropyl-metacresol. Thymol can be extracted from them by combining with alkaline lye, (soda or potash).
It is used therapeutically as an intestinal anti-septic and as vermifuge against tapeworm.The Homeopathic proving was conducted by Griggs, on eight provers, six of whom were male and two female, as well as one control, using placebo in 1940-41. The experiment began by using 3x for two weeks, 2x for the next two weeks and 1x for about ten days.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Thymol is a remedy having a wide field in genito-urinary diseases. It is indicated in pathological emissions, priapism and prostatorrhea. Specific for hookworm disease. (Chen-a.) The provings show an action limited to the sexual organs, producing a typical sexual neurasthenia. Thymol’s general action on the stomach, genital organs and to a small extent, on the central nervous system.
General weakness with headaches. Constricting headache. Skin blue, cold. Spasmodic laryngeal cough. Glairy or membranous diarrhea. Excessive salivation with nausea. Frequent urination with compelling urging. Nightly seminal discharge. Pains in the dorsal and lumbar region, spreading to the buttocks. Blood-streaked leucorrhea.
CLINICAL - Colitis. Diarrhea. Enterocolitis. Fainting tendency. Hookworms. Laryngitis. Leucorrhea. Migraines. Neurasthenia. Sexual weakness. Whooping-cough.
Modalities - Better from eating. Worse mental and physical labor. Worse from tobacco.
MIND - Irritable, arbitrary, must have his own way. Craves company. Energy gone. Morose, sad, uneasy. Bewildered state. Uneasy feeling and agitation. Nervous agitation, loquacity, mental confusion.
Abdomen - Enterocolitis.
Back - Tired, aching throughout lumbar region. Worse mental and physical labor. Back pain during the headaches. Pain in the lumbar and sacral regions, spreading to the buttocks.
Ears - Buzzing in the ears. Sound like bells. Temporary deafness. Noises in the ears.
Female - Brown, blood-streaked, evil-smelling, watery leucorrhea. Menses thick, scanty, drawn-out. Pains before and during menses in the ovaries and uterus. Pain from hypogastric heaviness. Metritis of the cervix. Cancer of the uterus or cervix.
Head - Headache with sadness. Menstrual migraines. Constricting pain in the temples, in women, ameliorated when lying down or from external heat. Bilateral temporal headache and at the occiput.
Kidneys - Urinary burning and subsequent dribbling of urine. Urates increased. Phosphates decreased. Frequent urination with urging. Increased urination at night. Urine copious, proteinuria, hematuria. Pains in the kidneys, spreading to the buttocks. Retention of urine.
Limbs - Cyanosed Limbs. Numbness at the limbs. Chronic lumbar rheumatism.
Lungs - Irritating laryngeal and tracheal cough. Dyspnea. Whooping-cough.
Male - Profuse, nightly, seminal emissions with lascivious dreams of a perverted character. Priapism. Ejaculation with erotic dreams. Seminal discharge when going to stool. Nightly seminal discharge. Prostatitis. Adenoma of the prostate gland. Cancer of the prostate. Increased sexual desire.
Mouth - Salivation reduced when eating. Watery salivation with nausea. Ptyalism. Nauseating belchings.
Pulse - Pulse weak, slow or rapid.
Rectum - Hookworms. Diarrhea after constipation. Glairy or membranous diarrhea. Anal pain following diarrhea. Mucous, membranous stools, gray in color.
Skin - Skin blue and cold. Scarlet fever-like or pustulous exanthema.
Sleep - Awakes tired and unrefreshed. Lascivious and fantastic dreams. Erotic dreams.
Stomach - Acrid dyspepsia. Glairy belching with sensation of burning in the stomach, nausea and gastric heaviness. Nausea, ameliorated by eating. Vomiting.
Throat - Spasmodic laryngitis. Irritation of the larynx and trachea.
COMPARE - (1) Carbon Tetrachloride. (2) Cantharis - Irritation and inflammation of the digestive, urinary and cutaneous mucous membranes. Intense burning in the digestive passages with frequent, compelling need to urinate. (3) Merc. corrosivus - Burning pains in the pharynx, painful, frequent urination, urine comes drop by drop, diarrhea with tenesmus. (4) Terebinthina - Irritation of the digestive and urinary mucous membranes with tendency to hemorrhage.
SOURCES - Julian.