# Thymolum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
The proving was con ducted by Griggs, on eight pro vers, six males and two females, as 
well as one control using a placebo, in 1940 -41. The experiment began by using 3x for two weeks, 2x for the 
next two weeks and lx for about ten days. 
The provings show an action limited to the sexual organs, producing a typical sexual neurasthenia. Thymol’s 
general action is on the stomach, genital organs and to a small extent, on the central nervous system.  
Genito urinary diseases. Pathological emissions, priapism and prostatorrhea. Nightly seminal discharge. 
Blood-streaked leucorrhea. Glairy or membranous diarrhea. Hookworm disease (Chen-a.). 
General weakness with headaches. Constricting headache. Skin blue, cold. Spasmodi c laryngeal cough. 
Excessive salivation with nausea. Frequent urination with compelling urging. Pains in the dorsal and lumbar 
region, spreading to the buttocks.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from eating. Worse mental and physical labor. Worse from tobacco.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Irritable, arbitrary, must have his own way.
- Uneasy feeling and agitation.
- Nervous agitation, loquacity, 
mental confusion.
- Bewildered state.
- Craves company.
- Morose, sad, uneasy.
- Energy gone.
- Irritable, arbitrary, must have his own way.
- Uneasy feeling and agitation.
- Nervous agitation, loquacity, 
mental confusion.
- Bewildered state.
- Craves company.
- Morose, sad, uneasy.
- Energy gone.

### Head
- Headache with sadness.
- Constricting pain in the temples, in women, ameliorated when lying down or 
from external heat.
- Bilateral temporal headache and at the occiput.
- Menstrual migraines.
- Kidneys - Pains in the kidneys, spreading to the buttocks.
- Retention of urine.
- Frequent urination with urging.
- Increased urination at night.
- Urinary burning and subsequent dribbling of urine.
- Urine copious, pro teinuria, 
hematuria.
- Urates increased; phosphates decreased.
- Headache with sadness.
- Constricting pain in the temples, in women, ameliorated when lying down or 
from external heat.
- Bilateral temporal headache and at the occiput.
- Menstrual migraines.
- Kidneys - Pains in the kidneys, spreading to the buttocks.
- Retention of urine.
- Frequent urination with urging.
- Increased urination at night.
- Urinary burning and subsequent dribbling of urine.
- Urine copious, pro teinuria, 
hematuria.
- Urates increased; phosphates decreased.

### Ears
- Noises in the ears.
- Buzzing in the ears.
- Sound like bells.
- Temporary deafness.

### Mouth
- Salivation reduced when eating.
- Watery salivation with nausea.
- Ptyalism.
- Nauseating belchings.
- Pulse - Pulse weak, slow or rapid.

### Throat
- Spasmodic laryngitis.
- Irritation of the larynx and trachea.

### Chest
- Dyspnea.
- Irritating laryngeal and tracheal cough.
- Whooping cough.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Acrid dyspepsia.
- Glairy belching with sensation of burning in the stomach, nausea and gastric 
heaviness.
- Nausea, ameliorated by eating.
- Vomiting.
- Enterocolitis.

### Urinary & Genital
- Increased sexual desire.
- Priapism.
- Seminal discharge when going to stool.
- Nightly seminal discharge.
- Profuse, nightly, seminal emissions with las civious dreams of a perverted character.
- Ejaculation with erotic 
dreams.
- Prostatitis.
- Adenoma of the prostate gland.
- Cancer of the prostate.
- 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.

### Extremities
- Cyanosed limbs.
- Numbness at the limbs.
- Chronic lumbar rheumatism.

### Neck & 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.

### Skin
- Skin blue and cold.
- Scarlet fever-like or pustulous exanthema.

### Sleep
- Awakes tired and unrefreshed.
- Lascivious and fantastic dreams.
- Erotic 
dreams.