TUBERCULINUM BOVINUM KENT

TUBERCULINUM BOVINUM KENT

(A nucleo-protein, a nosode from tubercular abscess)

Tub.

Tub. is useful in kidney issues, but caution is advised, especially when the skin and intestines don’t function well, as even high potencies can be harmful. It shows excellent and lasting results in chronic cystitis (Dr. Nebel Montreux).

It is highly effective in early-stage tuberculosis, particularly for individuals with fair skin, narrow chests, weak recovery ability, and high sensitivity to weather changes. The patient is constantly tired; movement causes severe fatigue, and there’s a strong dislike for work and a need for constant change. Symptoms often shift, and when well-chosen remedies fail, the patient catches colds easily from minimal exposure. Rapid weight loss may occur. It’s beneficial in cases of epilepsy, neurasthenia, and in nervous children. Diarrhea in children, lasting for weeks, with extreme weight loss, pale bluish skin, and exhaustion. Helps mentally deficient children, those with enlarged tonsils, and skin problems. Effective for acute joint rheumatism, general exhaustion, trembling, and arthritis.

Mind: Tub. patients experience both mania and depression; insomnia and deep sleep. They’re irritable, especially upon waking, often depressed, and fearful of animals. There is also a tendency to use foul language.

Head: Prone to severe headaches and neuralgia. Experiences a sense of unfamiliarity, as if an iron band constricts the head. It helps in meningitis and is useful when symptoms like sweating, excessive urination, or diarrhea appear, with doses repeated during crises. Nocturnal hallucinations and waking in fear are common.

Ears: Persistent, foul-smelling ear discharge, with perforated eardrums.

Nose: Painful boils appear in the nose with green, foul-smelling pus (ozena).

Stomach: Aversion to meat, craving cold milk, with a constant hungry feeling.

Abdomen: Early morning diarrhea with dark, foul-smelling stools expelled forcefully.

Female: Benign breast tumors, early, heavy, and prolonged menstruation with painful cramps that worsen as the flow begins.

Respiratory: Enlarged tonsils, hard dry cough during sleep, and thick, easily expelled mucus. Shortness of breath and a feeling of suffocation, despite fresh air. Helpful in childhood bronchopneumonia and hacking cough with weight loss and chest rales.

Back: Tension in the neck and spine with chills between the shoulders or up the back.

Sleep: Poor quality sleep with early waking and excessive daytime sleepiness. Vivid, disturbing dreams.

Fever: After a fever, repeat doses every two hours if symptoms persist, with profuse sweating and general chills.

Skin: Chronic eczema, especially with intense nighttime itching, acne in tuberculous children, and conditions like psoriasis and measles.

Modalities: Symptoms worsen with movement, music, before storms, while standing, in damp conditions, drafts, early morning, and after sleep. Improvement comes in fresh air.

Relationship:
Compare: Koch’s lymph (acute and chronic parenchymatous nephritis; effective in treating pneumonia, broncho-pneumonia, and lung congestion in tuberculous patients; notably efficacious in lobular pneumonia and broncho-pneumonia); Aviare Tuberculin from birds (targets the apices of the lungs; beneficial for influenzal bronchitis; similar to tuberculosis symptoms; alleviates debility, reduces cough, improves appetite, and revitalizes the body; useful in acute broncho-pulmonary diseases in children; symptoms include itching of palms and ears, acute, inflammatory, irritating, incessant, and tickling cough; loss of strength and appetite); Hydr. (used to fatten patients post-Tub.); Form-ac. (treats tuberculosis, chronic nephritis, and malignant tumors; effective in pulmonary tuberculosis unless it is in the third stage; also treats lupus and carcinoma of the breast and stomach; Dr. Krull administers injections of solutions corresponding to the third centesimal potency, with a six-month interval between doses).
Compare: Bac., Psor., Lach. Kalagua (treats tuberculosis; marked by a garlicky odor in all secretions and breath). Teucrium scorodonia. Compare: Thuj. (vaccinosis may inhibit Tub.’s action until Thuj. is administered, after which Tub. works brilliantly—Burnett).

Complementary: Calc., Chin., Bry.

Dose: Tub. requires more frequent dosing in children’s ailments than most other chronic remedies (H. Fergie Woods). Thirtieth potency and higher, in infrequent doses. When Tub. fails, Syphilinum often follows successfully, triggering a reaction.

The use of Tub. in phthisis pulmonalis requires attention to the following: In apyretic, purely tubercular phthisis, results are significant if the eliminative organs function well. Nothing below the 1000th potency should be used unless absolutely necessary. In cases where strepto-staphylo-pneumococci are present in the bronchi and a pure “T.B.” bacilli mass remains after sputum washing, the same treatment is indicated. In mixed infections, where sputum is teeming with virulent microorganisms along with “T.B.,” other treatments are required. If the heart is strong, a single dose of Tub. 1000-2000 is administered, as long as there are no strong indications for other remedies. Attention is given to temperature and possible excretions, allowing the dose to work for eight days to eight weeks, depending on the response. Usually, a syndrome arises, enabling the precise selection of an antipsoric remedy such as Sil., Lyc., Phos., etc. Eventually, the condition worsens again, at which point a high potency of an isopathic remedy corresponding to the most virulent microorganism in the sputum is given: Staphylo-, Strepto-, or Pneumococcinum. Accurate bacteriological analysis of the sputum is critical. The right isopathic remedy clears the picture, and treatment proceeds both etiologically and symptomatically, using antipsoric remedies to manage the disease.

My experience warns against using Strepto-, Staphylo-, or Pneumococcinum below the 500th potency in mixed infections. I use them only from 1000 to 2000, having observed serious aggravations with the 30, 100, and 200 potencies, where temperature dropped from 104°F to 96°F. Thus, I advise caution, not for skeptics, but for those who want to utilize a potent tool. Toxins like Tub. are prepared from pure, virulent cultures, and seemingly hopeless cases can be brought back with a normalized temperature, though a significant portion of lung tissue is often sacrificed. This outcome is achievable when the patient can maintain their health, their heart withstands the toxin, and their stomach and liver function well. Climatic changes must also be avoided, and proper diet regulation is essential due to the significant mineral metabolism in phthisic patients. Diet should primarily include vegetables, along with physiological salts in low potency, such as Calc. 3x, 5x, Calc-p. 2x, 6x, and organ remedies like Cact. Tr. 30, Chel. Tr. 30, Tarax. Tr., Nast. Tr., Urt-u. Tr., and Tuss-far. Tr., for short periods, intercurrently as indicated.

The first dose of Tub. in any difficult case is the most critical prescription. The remedy should not be given without a thorough cardiac examination. Just as a surgeon assesses the patient before administering anesthesia, the physician must evaluate the heart before giving this drug, especially in children, the elderly, and “young seniors.” Following this rule reduces the likelihood of clinical failures. When Tub. is contraindicated, the nearest antipsoric remedy should be used.

This caution also applies in asthma, pleuritis, and peritonitis in scrofulous (tuberculous) patients (Dr. Nebel Montreux).