EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS

HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

Compare: Oil of Eucalyptus .--(Produces remarkable bodily exhaustion, no desire for any motion, unable to do any real mental work, study, etc. The volatile oil possesses, in common with other terpenes, the property of converting water, in presence of air and sunlight, into hydrogen peroxide, or to convert oxygen into ozone, which is the explanation usually given of its deodorizing and antiseptic properties (Merrel). Locally, in catarrhal affections, especially when of a suppurating or putrid nature). Eucalyptus tereticoris (menstrual cough and prostration). Eucalyptol (depresses temperature of healthy body more than Quinine ; acts on kidneys like Terebinth ); Anacard; Hydrast; Kali sulph. Eucalyptus neutralizes ill effects of Strychnin . Angophora -Red Gum--(dysentery, pains, tenesmus; better lying flat on face; obstinate constipation). Eucalyptus rostrata; Kino .

Key Symptoms & Indications

  • Eucalyptus is a powerful antiseptic and destructive to low forms of life, a stimulating expectorant and an efficient diaphoretic. Atonic dyspepsia, gastric and intestinal catarrh. A remedy with marked effects on catarrhal processes, malaria, and intestinal disturbance. Influenza. Fevers of a relapsing character. Produces diuresis and great increase of urea. Hæmorrhages internally and locally (Hamam). Typhoid. Symptoms of exhaustion and toxæmia. Conditions of the mucous surfaces of the air passages, genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract. A gastro-intestinal irritant with pain in stomach and upper intestines several hours after eating.

Physical Symptoms

Head

Exhilaration. Desire for exercise. Dull congestive headache. Coryza ; sore throat. Eyes smart and burn.

Nose

Stuffed-up sensation ; thin, watery coryza; nose does not stop running; tightness across bridge. Chronic catarrhal, purulent and fetid discharge . Ethmoid and frontal sinus involved.

Throat

Relaxed, aphthous condition of mouth and throat. Excessive secretion of saliva. Burns, feels full. Constant sensation of phlegm in throat. Enlarged, ulcerated tonsils and inflamed throat (Use tincture locally).

Stomach

Slow digestion . Much fetid gas. Beating and goneness with pulsation in epigastric arteries. Spleen hard and contracted. Pain in epigastrium and upper abdomen ameliorated by food. Malignant disease of stomach with vomiting of blood and sour fluid.

Abdomen

Acute diarrhœa . Aching pains in bowels with feeling of impending diarrhœa. Dysentery , with rectal heat; tenesmus; hæmorrhage. Diarrhœa; stools thin, watery, preceded by sharp pains. Typhoid diarrhœa.

Urinary

Acute nephritis complicating influenza . Hæmaturia. Suppurative inflammation of kidneys. Urine contains pus and is deficient in urea. Bladder feels loss of expulsive force. Burning and tenesmus; catarrh of bladder ; diuresis; urethral caruncle . Spasmodic stricture; gonorrhœa.

Respiratory

Asthma , with great dyspnœa and palpitation. Moist asthma. Expectoration white, thick mucus. Bronchitis in the aged. Bronchorrhœa ( Bals. Peru ). Profuse expectoration of offensive muco-pus. Irritative cough. Whooping-cough in rachitic children. Fetid form of bronchitis, bronchial dilatation and emphysema.

Female

Leucorrhœa, acrid, fetid. Ulcer around orifice of urethra.

Extremities

Rheumatic pains; worse at night, walking or carrying anything. Stiff, weary sensation. Pricking sensation, followed by painful aching . Nodular swellings over metacarpal and metatarsal joints.

Skin

Glandular enlargements and nodular swelling over joints. Foul and indolent ulcers. Herpetic eruptions.

Fever

Elevation of temperature. Continued and typhoid fevers. Scarlet fever (protective and curative). Discharges show a tendency to foulness, high temperature, accelerated but not strong pulse. Use the tincture.

Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas

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EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS

Blue Gum-tree

Eucalyptus is a powerful antiseptic and destructive to low forms of life, a stimulating expectorant and an efficient diaphoretic. Atonic dyspepsia, gastric and intestinal catarrh. A remedy with marked effects on catarrhal processes, malaria, and intestinal disturbance. Influenza. Fevers of a relapsing character. Produces diuresis and great increase of urea. Hæmorrhages internally and locally (Hamam). Typhoid. Symptoms of exhaustion and toxæmia. Conditions of the mucous surfaces of the air passages, genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract. A gastro-intestinal irritant with pain in stomach and upper intestines several hours after eating.

Head

Exhilaration. Desire for exercise. Dull congestive headache. Coryza; sore throat. Eyes smart and burn.

Nose

Stuffed-up sensation; thin, watery coryza; nose does not stop running; tightness across bridge. Chronic catarrhal, purulent and fetid discharge. Ethmoid and frontal sinus involved.

Throat

Relaxed, aphthous condition of mouth and throat. Excessive secretion of saliva. Burns, feels full. Constant sensation of phlegm in throat. Enlarged, ulcerated tonsils and inflamed throat (Use tincture locally).

Stomach

Slow digestion. Much fetid gas. Beating and goneness with pulsation in epigastric arteries. Spleen hard and contracted. Pain in epigastrium and upper abdomen ameliorated by food. Malignant disease of stomach with vomiting of blood and sour fluid.

Abdomen

Acute diarrhœa. Aching pains in bowels with feeling of impending diarrhœa. Dysentery, with rectal heat; tenesmus; hæmorrhage. Diarrhœa; stools thin, watery, preceded by sharp pains. Typhoid diarrhœa.

Urinary

Acute nephritis complicating influenza. Hæmaturia. Suppurative inflammation of kidneys. Urine contains pus and is deficient in urea. Bladder feels loss of expulsive force. Burning and tenesmus; catarrh of bladder; diuresis; urethral caruncle. Spasmodic stricture; gonorrhœa.

Respiratory

Asthma, with great dyspnœa and palpitation. Moist asthma. Expectoration white, thick mucus. Bronchitis in the aged. Bronchorrhœa (Bals. Peru). Profuse expectoration of offensive muco-pus. Irritative cough. Whooping-cough in rachitic children. Fetid form of bronchitis, bronchial dilatation and emphysema.

Female

Leucorrhœa, acrid, fetid. Ulcer around orifice of urethra.

Extremities

Rheumatic pains; worse at night, walking or carrying anything. Stiff, weary sensation. Pricking sensation, followed by painful aching. Nodular swellings over metacarpal and metatarsal joints.

Skin

Glandular enlargements and nodular swelling over joints. Foul and indolent ulcers. Herpetic eruptions.

Fever

Elevation of temperature. Continued and typhoid fevers. Scarlet fever (protective and curative). Discharges show a tendency to foulness, high temperature, accelerated but not strong pulse. Use the tincture.

Relationship

Compare: Oil of Eucalyptus.--(Produces remarkable bodily exhaustion, no desire for any motion, unable to do any real mental work, study, etc. The volatile oil possesses, in common with other terpenes, the property of converting water, in presence of air and sunlight, into hydrogen peroxide, or to convert oxygen into ozone, which is the explanation usually given of its deodorizing and antiseptic properties (Merrel). Locally, in catarrhal affections, especially when of a suppurating or putrid nature). Eucalyptus tereticoris (menstrual cough and prostration). Eucalyptol (depresses temperature of healthy body more than Quinine; acts on kidneys like Terebinth); Anacard; Hydrast; Kali sulph. Eucalyptus neutralizes ill effects of Strychnin. Angophora-Red Gum--(dysentery, pains, tenesmus; better lying flat on face; obstinate constipation). Eucalyptus rostrata; Kino.

Dose

Tincture in one to 20 drop doses, and lower potencies. Also Oil of Eucalyptus in five-drop doses.

Eucalyptus.

Eucalyptus globulus. Blue Gum. Fever-tree. N. O. Myrtaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves. Essential oil, Eucalyptol.
Clinical

Aneurism. Aortitis. Asthma. Bladder, affections of. Bronchitis. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Dyspepsia. Dysuria. Fistulæ. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Intermittent fever. Kidney, diseases of. Quinine cachexia. Rheumatism. Spleen, affections of. Strychnine poisoning. Syphilis. Tumours. Typhoid. Urethra, stricture of. Urethral caruncle. Varicose ulcers. Worms.

Characteristics

The gum-tree is a native of Australia and is transplanted to marshy districts in mild climates on account of its capability of absorbing water and its alleged power of destroying malarial poisons. It has been familiarised to everybody during the influenza epidemic as a prophylactic and disinfectant. The provings show that it causes most of the ordinary influenzal symptoms. It is therefore homœopathic to the disorder. It produces coryza, headache of a dull, congestive character, sore-throat, indigestion, with excessive development of fetid gas, and fever. Slow digestion is the characteristic. The fever may be of the relapsing or intermittent type. It has also proved useful in convalescence from intermittents. It produces odorous sweat. C. E. Fischer has cured with it many cases of dysentery. Certain vascular conditions come within its sphere: a distinct beating in the stomach region, accompanying a sense of goneness; one prover referred this to the abdominal aorta. Vascular tumours of the female urethra have been cured by it; also glandular enlargements and nodular swellings over joints. It has cured a tumour, the size of a filbert, with stabbing pains below left nipple. Eucal. has been largely used for bronchitis and bronchial asthma. Dr. Arthur Dalzell (H. W., xxv. 106) relates two striking cases of bronchial asthma promptly relieved with five-drop doses of Oil of Eucalyptus given in a tablespoonful of water. The dose was given last thing at night. It also relieved the dyspnœa in a case of mitral insufficiency. Burning pains and sensations predominate; pricking, stabbing, sharp aching are common. Periodicity is marked. Most pains occur at night. It has an intoxicating effect and produces desire for exercise.

Relations

It compares with Ant. crud. in action on mucous membranes; Ant. t. in bronchial asthma and bronchorrhœa; Arsen. and Chi. in intermittents. Silica in fistulous ulcers; Tereb. in urinary symptoms. It follows: Ars. in relapsing fevers. A cup of coffee relieves the effects. Phytolacca removed tumour of right breast. Compare also the "Red Gum," Angophora lanceolata. It is said to be an antidote to Strychnine poisoning. (Monfrida Musmecin found a decoction of Eucalyptus leaves formed with a solution of a strychnine salt a flocculent precipitate devoid of bitter taste. Animals dosed with the two drugs together survived when the quantity of strychnine was such that given alone it would have been lethal. Even when the Eucalyptus decoction was given after strychnine convulsions had developed the symptoms became greatly modified.).

1. Mind

Exhilaration, desire to move about, feeling of increased buoyancy and strength.Intoxication followed by depression.

2. Head

Full feeling in head; congestive headache; in plethoric subjects, followed by fever.Headache in anæmic persons; relieves pain and causes sleep.

3. Eyes

Eyes hot, burning, smarting; catarrhal and Gonorrhœal ophthalmia.Lids heavy.

5. Nose

Stiffness of nose; tightness across bridge as if profuse epistaxis would come on.Stuffed-up sensation.Coryza: thin, watery; chronic catarrh, purulent and fetid.

6. Face

Flushed, congested face.

8. Mouth

Relaxed aphthous condition.Excessive secretion of saliva.Slightly burning taste extending into throat and œsophagus with thirst.

9. Throat

Burning in throat; feeling of fulness and soreness on swallowing.Constant sensation of phlegm in throat, with expectoration of slightly thick white frothy mucus, not profuse.

11. Stomach

Increased appetite; tormenting thirst.Burning, strong-smelling eructations.Burning in stomach.Fulness, pressure, and weight, as if he had eaten too much.Faintness and goneness; with a distinct sensation of beating synchronous with the pulse (abdominal aorta).Slow digestion; eructations and bloating.Difficult and painful digestion.Spleen becomes hard, resistent, contracted.

12. Abdomen

Burning in epigastrium and umbilical regions.Uncomfortable, uneasy feeling in umbilical region extending through bowels; skirmishing, aching pains in upper portions of bowels; sensation as if he would have diarrhœa.Sharp aching in hypogastrium after dinner.Gastro-intestinal derangements with sleeplessness and restlessness.Condition of mucous membrane favouring worms.Flatulent distension.

13. Stool and Rectum

Sharp aching in lower bowels; thin, watery yellow diarrhœa on rising in morning.Chronic diarrhœa, mucous and bloody.Dysentery, with heat in rectum, tenesmus, discharge of mucus, great prostration; hæmorrhages.Typhoid diarrhœa.Fetor of stools and flatus.

14. Urinary Organs

(Chronic desquamative nephritis; granular kidney; pyelonephritis; hydronephrosis.).Catarrh of bladder; sensation as if it had lost its expulsive force.Burning and tenesmus on urinating.Spasmodic stricture.Diuresis; incontinence; increased urea.Urine smells of violets.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Increased sexual appetite.Subacute and chronic gonorrhœa.Recent chancres.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Vascular tumours of urethra.Ulcer round orifice of urethra.Leucorrhœa of acrid, fetid mucus.Swellings in different parts of body; one below nipple in r. side, size of filbert, with stabbing, darting pains.

17. Respiratory Organs

Bronchitis in old and feeble persons.Bronchorrhœa.Breathing quickened.Asthma in debilitated, anæmic subjects, with terrible dyspnœa, the heart sympathising strongly.Moist asthma in bronchitic subjects; it relieves cough and aids in expulsion of thick mucus.Expectoration: white, thick, frothy mucus.

19. Heart

Painful palpitation.Palpitation of heart.Sudden flushing of face with much flatulence in women at climacteric.Strong beating of abdominal aorta.Aneurisms pressing on vagus nerve.

21. Limbs

Many nodular swellings over metarcarpal and metatarsal joints.In both upper and lower extremities pricking sensations were first noticed, followed by a painful aching in both arms and legs, together with a sense of fulness in the veins, and a stiff, weary sensation as if too weary to move.

25. Skin

Eruptions of an herpetic character, glandular enlargement, and development of foul and indolent ulcers.

Eucalyptus globulus

Eucalyptus globulus

Generalities

• It is a powerful antiseptic and disinfectant.

• It affects the mucous membranes, producing profuse catarrhal discharges; which are acrid, and foul; with aching, stiffness and weariness as from taking cold.

• Malaria.

• Influenza.

• Sticking jerking pains at night.

• Exhausted with toxaemia and haemorrhage.

• Rheumatism.

• Said to be a preventive of influenza.

Worse

• Periodically.

• Night.

Mind

• Mental exhilaration.

• Desire to move about.

Head

• Congestive headaches.

• Migraine.

• Vertigo during all stages of fever.

Eyes

• Smart and burn.

Ears

• Tinnitus.

Nose

• Watery coryza.

• Stuffed up sensation.

• Chronic purulent foetid discharge.

• Tension across the nose.

Mouth

• Tongue pasty.

• Aphthae; mouth burns, feels full.

Throat

• Aphthae, with burning.

• Constant sensation of mucus in throat.

Stomach

• Digestion slaw, with putrid gas.

• Throbbing in stomach.

• Nausea and vomiting, with chill.

• Vomiting of blood and sour fluid.

• Cancer.

Abdomen

• As of a weight in bowels.

• Acute diarrhoea; stools thin, watery, preceded by sharp pains.

• Dysentery, with heat in rectum.

Urinary

• Acute nephritis, complicating influenza.

• Diuresis.

• Catarrh of the bladder.

• Urethral caruncle.

• Urine has the odour of the violets.

Female

• Small nodule below nipple (right) with stabbing darting pains.

Respiratory

- Bronchial asthma.

• Profuse offensive expectoration of muco-pus.

• Bronchorrhoea; senile.

• Cough of influenza.

Extremities

• Pricking followed by painful aching in the limbs.

Fever

• With aching.

• Chill then nausea and vomiting.

• Continued, typhoid like fevers.

• Vertigo in all stages of malarial fever.

Related

• Chin; Dulc; Echi.

EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS

REGION:
Mucous membranes.
Blood.
Muscles.
Respiration.

WORSE:
Periodically.
Night.

Aching, stiff and weary, as from taking cold. Grippe. Malaria. Migraine. Sticking, jerking pain at night. Profuse catarrhal discharges; acrid; foul. Rheumatic-hydrogenoid constitution. Exhausted, toxæmic and hæmorrhagic. .................... Mental exhilaration. Burning eyes. Tinnitus. Tension across nose. Watery coryza. Pasty tongue. Throbbing in stomach. Weight in bowels. Slow digestion, with putrid gas. Diarrhœa; dysenteric; typhoid. Diuresis. Cough of influenza. Bronchial asthma. Bronchorrhœa; senile. Limbs prickle, then ache. Chill, then nausea and vomiting. Fever with aching. Vertigo in all stages. Old malarias.

 

REMEDY RELATION

Related: Chin. Dul. Echin.

EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS

Plant Introduction.

In fact this plant is not exactly an Indian plant but found in various states and hilly areas. It is available in plenty in Nilgiri mountain. Besides, it grows abundantly in cold regions like Darjeeling, Mussouri, Nainital etc. It has a property to abate chilliness. Quality of Eucalyptus of Australlia is excellent for which she is known as 'Home of Eucalyptus'. Also available in Malayasia, Spain, South Africa, Algeria and Java. It is a very large and evergreen tree with thick, generally narrow, glandular-punctate leaves and axillary umbels or heads of apetalous flowers with very numerous Stamens. The stem is thick and has racemose or indefinite branching arrangement as the epical bud grows actively and lateral branching developes from axillary bud and grows in acropetal order.

Name:

It is widely known in all languages by the common name 'Eucalyptus'.
 
Family: Myrtaceae.
 
Chemical composition: The leaf contains Fix oil, Tannin and Resin. In the
gums-Chino tannic acid, catechin and pyro catechin are present. In the oil-Cineole or Eucaliptol is present. The oil has been analytically divided into the following parts:
  • 1. Oxide - e.g, Cineole (Eucliptol)
  • 2. Alcohols - Geraniol, Eudesmol, Methyl alcohol, Terpene oil.
  • 3. Aldehydes - Butaldehyde, Valeraldehyde cytral etc.
  • 4. Ketone - Piperitone
  • 5. Phenols - Geranyl acetate, Butyl Butyrate etc.
  • 6. Terpenes - Phellandrene, Limonene etc.
  • 7. Sesorvin Terpene - Aromandrene
  • 8. Benzene Hydrocarbon - Cymene
  • 9. Solid - Paraffin
  • 10. Free acid - Acetic acid, Formic acid.
 
Physio-Chemical action: It is an antiseptic and expectorant. Eucaliptus oil converts water into Hydrogen peroxide or vice versa in presence of sunlight. So, it is a deodorant and blood-purifier (Dr. Merel).
The British Pharmacopoea prescribes that medicinal sample of Eucalyptus should contain not less than 55 percent of Cineole, while U.S. Pharmacopoiea requires Cineole content to be 75 percent.
In 1919 Dr. Ghosh performed experiments on this drug. The government of India earns a considerable amount of foreign exchange by exporting Eucalyptus oil. There is no mention of use of this drug in Ayurvedic system of treatment
 
Pharmaceutical use: Dry leaves, gum and oil (which exudes from leaves).
 
Clinical uses:  It is effective in influenza, fever, cough, typhoid, rheumatism asthma etc. It is perspiring agent and is an expectorant,

Symptomps: 

Fever: Fever owing to sudden attack of cold; headache; running at nose with violent sneezing; sore of the nose. Constipation and bodyache; Continuous or persisting fever with high temperature; typhoid-symptoms of typhoid is not shown by the patient if the drug is administered in the primary stage of fever.
 
Rheumatism: Application of the mix of Eucalyptus oil in Terpene oil is helpful in relieving rheumatic pain.
 
Wound: Application of Eucalyptus oil (mixed with cocoa-nut oil regularly at bed time is helpful in removing wound of hands and legs in a very short time.
 

Dose

5-20 minims twice or thrice daily.

Remedy Profile

  • Type Remedy
  • Common Name HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
  • Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency

Tincture in one to 20 drop doses, and lower potencies. Also Oil of Eucalyptus in five-drop doses.

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