Thymol thymol
General
- A remedy having a wide field in genito-urinary diseases. It is indicated in pathological emissions, priapism and prostatorrhoea. The provings show an action limited to the sexual organs, producing a typical sexual neurasthenia. Specific for hookworm disease (Chenopodium).
Mind
- Irritable, arbitrary, must have his own way. Craves company. Energy gone.
Male
- Profuse, nightly, seminal emissions with lascivious dreams of a perverted character. Priapism. Urinary burning and subsequent dribbling of urine. Polyuria. Urates increased. Phosphates decreased.
Back
- Tired, aching throughout lumbar region. Worse: mental and physical labor.
Sleep
- Awakes tired and unrefreshed. Lascivious and fantastic dreams.
Modalities
- Thymol. Worse: mental and physical labor.
Relationship
- Compare: Carbon tetrachloride as a remedy for hookworms, according to Dr. Lambert, Suva, Fiji, who employed it in 50,000 cases. 1. Carbon tetrachloride is a vermifuge and vermicide of great potency, and has shown itself to be the best vermifuge for the treatment of hookworm in a country where the disease predominates. 2. It gives little discomfort to the patient, is palatable, requires no preparation of the patient, and when pure is apparently not toxic — all of which features are of advantage in a popular campaign. W. G. Smillie and S. B. Pessoa, of São Paulo, Brazil, also have found carbon tetrachloride to be extremely efficient in removing hookworms. A single dose of 3 cc given to adults has been proved to remove 95 per cent of all the hookworms harboured.
Dose
- Sixth attenuation.