Bacillinum

(Tuberculosis Nosode)

Pharmacy

Bacillinum. Tuberculosis nosode. A nosode prepared from human tuberculous sputum. Nosodes.

Historical dose: All potencies.

Clinical

• Addison's disease
• Alopecia
• Asthma
• Bronchitis
• Colds
• Coughs
• Dys-pnea
• Eczema
• Growth, defective
• Head-ache
• Hydrocephalus
• Idiocy
• Infections
• Insanity
• Joints, disorders
• Lung, disorders
• Meningitis
• Melancholy
• Night-sweats
• Phlegm
• Pityriasis
• Pyorrhea
• Quinsy
• Ring-worm
• Scrofulous, glands
• Teeth, defective
• Tabes, mesenterica
• T/zroai, sore
• Tonsillitis
• Tuberculosis

Homeopathic

Bacillinum is a nosode of tuberculosis named and first described by Dr. Burnett, for whom it was prepared from tuberculosis sputum by Dr. Heath. As this preparation has been experimented with separately, its symptoms are given apart from the other nosodes of tuberculosis. Useful as an intercurrent remedy.

Bacillinum has been used for the treatment of tuberculosis, generally causing the sputum to decrease and become less purulent. Tubercular meningitis. It has a disposition to catch colds and sore throats. Respiratory and lung weakness. Chronic recurring sore throats and coughs. Glands of the neck are enlarged and tender. Night-sweats.

Bacillinum is indicated for the weak lungs of elderly people and for children with chronic catarrhal conditions and attacks of suffocation at night with difficult cough. Suffocative catarrh. The patient expectorates very little. Chronic catarrhal conditions of the lungs when bronchial mucus and dyspnea are present. Tubercular meningitis. Ringworm.

Dr. Burnett has shown that ringworm of the scalp and pityriasis versicolor on the body are indications of tubercular diathesis and they respond to this remedy. He cured a case of insanity and ringworm.

Tuberculosis patients are better in dry sunny climates in mountainous areas and in the pine forests. Sunlight helps to prevent tuberculosis; also, there have been many cures of tuberculosis via sunbathing and the milk diet, which these patients crave.

Dr. Cartier has found it particularly useful in cases where there was excessive muco-purulent bronchial secretion threatening to occlude the lungs. It should be compared with Bacillinum testium, Tuber. Bovinum, Tuber. Aviaire, and Tuber. Koch.

Mind

Taciturn, sulky, snappish, and irritable. Does not want to be disturbed. Fretful, ailing, whines, and complains. Great weakness. Morose. Depressed and melancholic, even to insanity. Tendency to be frightened, fear of dogs.

Abdomen

Abdominal pains, enlarged glands in groin. Tabes mesenterica, grinds teeth, indurated and swollen glands. Spleen region bulging out. Inguinal glands indurated and visible, excessive sweats, chronic diarrhea.

Back

Glands of neck enlarged and tender. Sensation of damp clothes on spine. Very sharp pain in left scapula, worse lying down in bed at night, better by warmth.

Chest

Sharp pain in precordial region arresting breathing.

Constitutions

Tubercular constitutions. For cases stemming from a tubercular inheritance with extreme soreness of affected parts, patients of rheumatic tendencies with syphilitic taints in the bloodstream, general muscular soreness.

Ears

Otitis after sore throats.

Eyes

Eczema of the eyelids.

Face

Indolent, pimple on left cheek, breaking out from time to time and persisting for many weeks.

Food

Poor appetite.

Head

Severe headache, deep in, recurring from time to time, worse shaking head. Terrible pain in the head as if he had a tight hoop of iron around it. Meningitis. Ringworm. Alopecia areata.

Kidneys

Increased quantity of urine, pale with white sediment. Rises several times in the night to urinate.

Limbs

Trembling of hands. Hands blue. Pain in left knee while walking. Tubercular inflammation of knee.

Lungs

Weak lungs. Humid asthma. Colds with sore throats. Hacking cough. Hard cough, shaking patient: coughing, more during sleep, but it did not waken him. Catarrhal dyspnea. Muco-purulent expectoration of bronchitis. Congestion of the lung. Tuberculosis. Bubbling rales and muco-purulent expectoration. Coughing that wakes him in the night, easy expectoration. Expectoration of non-viscid easily detached, thick phlegm from air passages.

Modalities

Worse night and early morning. Worse from cold air.

Nose

Nasal congestion. Coryza.

Perspiration

Night-sweats.

Rectum

Sudden diarrhea before breakfast, with nausea. Obstinate constipation with offensive flatus. Severe hemorrhages from bowels. Stitching pain through hemorrhoids. Passes much ill-smelling flatus.

Skin

Ringworm. Pityriasis. Eczema. Glands enlarged and tender.

Sleep

Absolute sleeplessness. Talks in sleep. Drowsy during the day, restless at night. Many dreams.

Stomach

Windy dyspepsia, with pinching pains under ribs of right side in breast line.

Teeth

Pyorrhea. Aching in teeth, especially lower incisors, very sensitive to air. Grinds teeth in sleep. Imperfectly developed teeth. Favors falling off of tartar of teeth.

Temperature

Flush of heat, some perspiration, severe headache. Fever, with emaciation, abdominal pains, and discomfort. Restless at night, glands of both groins enlarged and indurated. Cries out in sleep, strawberry tongue.

Throat

Tickling in fauces, compelling cough. Pricking in larynx with sudden cough.

Comments

In the provings, a constant symptom was a severe headache, deep in, worse by motion. Also a slight cough with easy expectoration of phlegm. Tends to do better in chronic cases of tuberculosis, as compared to acute cases.

There are leading indications for it when present in combination with other disorders. An intercurrent course of Bacillinum will often make a wonderful change in patients who have a personal or family history of chest disorders. Bacillinum is an acute miasm remedy for Phosphorus and Calcarea constitutions in particular.

Grimmer used it for cases stemming from a tubercular inheritance with extreme soreness of affected parts, patients of rheumatic tendencies with syphilitic taints in the bloodstream, general muscular soreness.

Dr. Young recorded the cure of several cases of cretinism. A case of insanity with pityriasis yielded rapidly to the remedy. Pityriasis has been cured by it when all attempts to kill the body lice by chemicals were useless. Clarke has found an eczematous condition of the margins of the eyelids a strong indication for it.

Bacillinum is made from tuberculosis bacilli, and Tuberculinum is from bovine tuberculosis. Tuberculinum is a deeper and more chronic remedy. Bacillinum tends to be more for acutes, but there's a lot of overlap. If a Bacillinum case keeps relapsing, follow with Tuberculinum. Miasmatic remedy, history of tuberculosis in family.

Good for children or adults with a tendency to get colds and sore throats frequently, particularly if they react well to acute remedies, but keep coming back. For children who get a cold at every change in the weather. Often swollen glands in the throat. Weight on the chest (Phos.). Mucus in the lungs, bronchitis. Good for the elderly with a tendency to colds and bronchitis. Lingering colds. The majority of the symptoms are gone, but a lingering cough or sore throat. Nondescript coughs.

Ringworm (Sep., Thuj., Tell.), and the tendency to ringworm. Diarrhea, especially with a cold, sore throat (Ars.).

Relations

Compare: (1) Phos., Dros., Mercury. Its effects seem to be identical to that of Koch's Tuberculinum. Both are useful in the tubercular diathesis before tuberculosis has developed. In the early stages of tubercular disease of glands, joints, skin, and bones. (2) Psor. (3) Bae-I. (4) Ant-t., Joel, Lach., Ars-i., Myosotis. Complementary: Kali-c., Calc-p., Lach., goes with this remedy very well. Follows well: Levico, 5-10 drops, follows as an intercurrent where much debility is present (Burnett).

References

Boericke. Clarke. Mur-