# Tuberculinum Bovinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Clarke found no appreciable difference between the action of Tub. and that of Bac. His own 
impression was that they are practically identical and that one will answer to the indications of the other. The 
first provers were tuberculosis patients and only pathogenetic symptoms are recorded. Tub. 30c was used.  
Tub. affects the mind, lungs, head, oc ciput, glands and larynx. When symptoms are constantly changing and 
well-selected remedies fail to improve. Relapsing states. Patient always tired, motion causes intense fatigue, 
aversion to work, wants constant changes. 
Tubercular miasm. In tuberculosis  where the symptoms are constantly changing and begin suddenly, 
ceasing suddenly or of obscure nature. Early stage tuberculosis. 
Always tired, motion causes intense fatigue. Increasing exhaustion and lowered vitality. Weakness, emaciation 
with good appetite. Rapid breakdown of health. General exhaustion. Nervous weakness.  Neurasthenia. 
Fainting. Trembling, quivering. Epilepsy. Nervous children. Mentally deficient children. 
Tendency tocatch cold easily, on slightest exposure, which ends in diarrhea. Diarrhea in children running 
for weeks, extreme wasting, bluish pallor, exhaustion. Chronic, enlargement of the glands, adenoids. Enlarged 
tonsils. Kidney disorders, chronic cystitis. 
Bruised pain throughout the body. Bones painful. Formication. Skin affections, acute rh eumatism. Arthritis. 
Clothes feel very damp. Very susceptible to changes of weather. Very sensitive mentally and physically. 
Sensitive to music.
COMMENTS - Generally a history of tuber culosis in the family. Suppressed acute infec tions. Tendency for 
sore throats, colds, and upper respiratory infections or bronchitis. Swollen glands and big tonsils. Sore throats, 
swollen glands, start losing weight. Recurring tonsillitis in children. Similar to Bac., but more chronic and more 
severe. 
Colds that go into the chest (Phos.). Asthma, associated with frequent colds. Intercurrent for severe, chronic 
lung disease. Lingering coughs, pneumonias. Coughs where well-indicated remedies don’t work. 
Rapid emac iation with a good appetite (lod., Cina.). Emaciation associated with lung diseases. Rickets. 
Fatigue, faintness, and profuse debility. Great weakness in the limbs, after dinner. Paralysis.  
Disturbed circulation, chills and flushes alternating. Extreme exh austion with sweat. Night sweats and weight 
loss (Med.). Night terrors. Insomniafrom overexcited state and 
overactive mind. Children grind their teeth during sleep. “Shivering when beginning to sleep.” “Cold feet in 
bed.” Low vital heat. 
Fontanelles that fail to close. Hydrocephalus. Meningitis. Characteristic desire to hit their head against the wall. 
Pressure in the head. Insanity. Hair growth in unusual and new places (Syph., Thuj.). Ringworm, particularly 
in children (Bac.). 
Voracious craving for ice-cold milk. Desires sweets, chocolate, fats, smoked meat, pork, bacon, exotic foods 
and spicy foods. Craves variety in food. Diarrhea. 
Better in the mountains, in pine forests. Desire for open air, particularly with respi ratory conditions. Better 
motion, activity, exercise (Rhus-t.). Worse cold, damp with cold hands and feet. 
Hyperactive children. Children seem to have two personalities, one very sweet, nice and apologetic, the other 
destructive, obstinate, and argumentative. Tantrums, behavioral problems. Can be snappy, irritable, peevish, 
over-reactive (Cham., when due to pain). Very intelligent, but learning disabilities. Too much energy, can’t slow 
down to learn anything (Med., because they can’t focus). 
Easily bored. Very excitable. Active and very res tless. Always needs something new. Strong desire to travel. 
Sense that there is something missing (Calc-p.), but they don’t know what it is. Discontent. Passionate, driven 
and dissatisfied. Deep feeling of unfulfillment, emptiness. Very romantic, yearning and longing, pining. Falls in 
love easily and deeply, can be easily grieved (Nat-m.). 
Easily upset. Hard to please, capricious. Malicious, conscious intent to do harm or to disrupt their environment 
(Med. is unconscious, more confused). Characteristic desire to break things. Can bite or mutilate themselves. 
Insanity. Fear of wasting their life, their time, of not accomplishing something significant before they die. Fear 
of dying or despair over their recovery. Dislike of dogs and cats, severe allergies to cats. 
Nebel used Tub. in exactly the same way as Burnett; others have used Bac., on the indications Burnett laid 
down and with Burnett’s results. 
In 1892, Arnuphy began giving Tub. 6x and 8x trituration in acute and chronic tuber culosis cases, with 
encouraging success, but with undesired aggravations at times. These were avoided with 12x and 30x.  
In one case, originating in influenza, both apices were affected, the right one breaking down and abundant 
pleuritic effusion on the left side. Six weeks’ t reatment with Tub. brought about recovery. When seen a year 
later, the patient was quite well except for retraction of the left side. 
Arnuphy frequently used Tub. for bron chitis, catarrhal pneumonia, lobular pneu monia, tubercular pleurisy, 
parenchymatous nephritis and influenza. He gave two cases of acute lobular pneumonia with characteristic 
 
 
symptoms and high temperatures quickly resolved by Tub. 
One case concerned a boy, 3, who received the 12x; the other was a man, 78, who suf fered from chronic 
bronchial catarrh. The latter was taken with influenza, pneumonia developed and he was in a very serious 
state. Tub. 30x made an almost immediate change for the better and recovery followed.  
Arnuphy related that, in this case, an abundant perspiration took place (the skin had been dry) during the night 
and he observed this in all cases of pneumonia when Tub. acted favorably. 
Clarke found Tub. 30c, 100c, 200c and 1000c the best general antidote to the chronic effects of influenza 
poisoning. 
A curious use of Tub. was made by Jau- regg of Vienna in a case of insanity. He had observed that cases of 
insanity are always benefited by an attack of an acute infectious disease, especially if it is accompanied with 
high fever. The idea then occurred to him to utilize the fever produced by Koch's Tuberculinic injections. 
He tried it on some patients and though the favorable symptoms soon disappeared after the fever subsided, 
there remained a steady clearing of the confused sensorium. Insanity is very frequently a manifestatio n of the 
tuberculosis miasm and there is something more than a pyrexial power in Tub.
Temperature - Remittent fever. Loquacious during fever. Profuse sweat, easy, cold, clammy. Sweat on upper 
parts, on hands, worse coughing, stains yellow. General chilliness. Chilliness between shoulders or up back. 
Chilly, at beginning of sleep. Chilly, yet wants fresh air. Shuddering like  a chill seems to go from brain down 
spine. Heat on cheek of affected side in spots. Burning in genitals. Flushes of heat, worse eating. Wants covers 
on in all stages of fever. Inguinal glands indurated and visible. Drum belly. Spleen region bulging out, stitching pain in sides 
after running. Stitching pain in sides after running. Tympanites. Tabes mesenterica. Loss of appetite, especially in morn ing. Aversion to all food, particularly meat. Ravenous hunger at 
night, driving out of bed. Craves alcohol, delicacies, sweets, cold milk. Strong craving for smoked meats 
and fats, bacon, ham, pork. Extreme thirst, day and night.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better open air, cool wind. Better dry mountain air, pineforests.  Better dry, warm weather. 
Worse from close room. Worse change of weather,  before a storm, cold, damp, drafts. Worse motion, 
slightest exertion, standing. Worse noise and music. Worse periodically. Worse after dinner, evening, night, 
when beginning to sleep. Worse on waking, early morning, after sleep, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Worse in the 
mornings, much purulent expectoration, sickness and nausea, loss of appetite, thirst, fatigue. Worse or better 
at seashore.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Changing moods.
- Dissatisfied and restless, always wants a change.
- Desire to travel, does not want 
to remain in one place long.
- Deep feeling of being unfulfilled.
- Romantic longing to find inner contentment.
- Wants to do something different or even to find a new doctor.
- Restlessness.
- Needs stimulating experi - .
- enees.
- Constant fight against boredom.
- Compulsiveness.
- Desire 
to break things.
- Impulse to run.
- Reckless.
- Every trifle irritates, worse when waking.
- Anxious.
- Anxiety during 
fever.
- Children awake screaming with restlessness.
- Whimpers when spoken to.
- Whines and com plaints with 
very little ailment.
- Precocious children.
- Contradictory behavior, changing moods.
- Insomnia and sopor.
- Depressed, melancholy.
- Hopeless.
- Weary of 
life.
- Sensitive to music.
- Fear something will happen.
- Fear of animals, particularly averse to dogs and cats.
- Aversion to mental work.
- Confusion, everything in the room seems strange.
- Ritualistic.
- Superstitious.
- Mania and melancholia.
- Maliciousness behavior and destructiveness.
- Abusive.
- Fits of violent temper, wants 
to fight, throws anything at anyone e ven without a cause.
- Destructive fantasies.
- Desire to use foul language, 
curse and swear.
- Changing moods.
- Dissatisfied and restless, always wants a change.
- Desire to travel, does not want 
to remain in one place long.
- Deep feeling of being unfulfilled.
- Romantic longing to find inner contentment.
- Wants to do something different or even to find a new doctor.
- Restlessness.
- Needs stimulating experi - .
- enees.
- Constant fight against boredom.
- Compulsiveness.
- Desire 
to break things.
- Impulse to run.
- Reckless.
- Every trifle irritates, worse when waking.
- Anxious.
- Anxiety during 
fever.
- Children awake screaming with restlessness.
- Whimpers when spoken to.
- Whines and com plaints with 
very little ailment.
- Precocious children.
- Contradictory behavior, changing moods.
- Insomnia and sopor.
- Depressed, melancholy.
- Hopeless.
- Weary of 
life.
- Sensitive to music.
- Fear something will happen.
- Fear of animals, particularly averse to dogs and cats.
- Aversion to mental work.
- Confusion, everything in the room seems strange.
- Ritualistic.
- Superstitious.
- Mania and melancholia.
- Maliciousness behavior and destructiveness.
- Abusive.
- Fits of violent temper, wants 
to fight, throws anything at anyone e ven without a cause.
- Destructive fantasies.
- Desire to use foul language, 
curse and swear.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with obscuration of eyes, is obliged to lean on something.
- Vertigo with palpitations, nausea.
- Vertigo with headache, in morning, after dinner.

### Head
- Meningitis.
- Periodical headaches.
- Intense pain, as of an iron band around head.
- Deep violent head 
pains, tears hair or beats head with fist.
- Dashes against the 
wall or floor, worse motion.
- Shooting from over eyes (right) through the head to back of ear (left) or from right 
frontal protuberance to right occipital region.
- Headaches students, worse study or even slight mental exertion.
- Brain feels loose.
- Sensitive scalp.
- Plica polonica (Vine.).
- Meningitis.
- Periodical headaches.
- Intense pain, as of an iron band around head.
- Deep violent head 
pains, tears hair or beats head with fist.
- Dashes against the 
wall or floor, worse motion.
- Shooting from over eyes (right) through the head to back of ear (left) or from right 
frontal protuberance to right occipital region.
- Headaches students, worse study or even slight mental exertion.
- Brain feels loose.
- Sensitive scalp.
- Plica polonica (Vine.).

### Eyes
- Sore, bruised eyeballs, worse turning them.
- Eczema of margins of eyelids.
- Meningitis with squint.

### Ears
- Persistent offensive otorrhea.
- Perforation in eardrum with ragged edges.
- Sticking pain from pharynx 
to ears.
- Great aching in ears and teeth.
- Tinnitus.
- Rushing in ears with heavy head.

### Face
- Old looking, edematous, pale.
- Black blisters on lips.
- Slight swelling and itching of lips.
- Aching in malar 
bones.

### Mouth
- Dryness, stickiness.
- Black blisters on lips .
- Grinding of teeth in sleep.
- Teeth sensitive to cold air.
- Sensation as if the teeth were all jammed together and there 
were too many teeth.
- Delayed dentition.
- Nose - Nose and lips somewhat swollen.
- Sweat on nose.
- Crops of small boils, intensely painful, s uccessively appear in the nose.green, fetid pus.
- Watery pimples, which, suppurating, form scabs.
- Dryness of posterior nares.
- Soreness inside of nose.
- Colds 
ending in diarrhea.
- Perspiration - Clammy sweats.
- Sweat stains yellow.
- Offensive, of chest, axillae, palms, nose and feet.
- Profuse 
night sweats.
- Sweats from coughing, from slightest exertion.
- Sweats on hands, on upper parts.

### Throat
- Hoarseness, better talking.
- Enlarged tonsils.
- Hawks mucus after eat ing.
- Adenoids.
- Dryness of the 
posterior sinuses.

### Chest
- Heat in chest.
- Sore spot, pressure in chest.
- Sticking pain on both sides of chest in back.
- Constitutions - Tubercular constitutions.
- Lax fiber, low recuperative powers, very  susceptible to changes in 
the weather.
- Mentally deficient children.
- Adapted to light complexioned.
- narrow -chested people.
- Coughs - Hard, dry cough during sleep.
- Hard, hacking cough with profuse sweat ing and loss of weight, rales 
all over chest.
- Cough with chill and red face, worse evening.
- Heaviness and pressure over the heart.
- Palpitations on taking a deep breath after e vening meal.
- Breasts - Severe pain in breast at the beginning of menses.
- Breast tumors, benign.
- Retraction of nipples.
- Causations - Tuberculosis.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- All gone hungry sensation (Sulph.), which drives one to eat.
- Cramping pain in stomach.
- Belchings 
and sensation of fullness over stomach.
- Flatulent dyspepsia.
- Nausea with pains in umbilical region with 
diarrhea.
- Nausea before breakfast, with sudden diarrhea.
- Vomiting.

### Urinary & Genital
- Kidneys - Must strain at stool to pass urine.
- Sticky urinary sediment.
- Bedwetting.
- Shortness of breath.
- Sensation of suffocation,  even with plenty of fresh air.
- Longs for cold air.
- Asthma.
- Pneumonia after influenza.
- Tuberculosis.
- Deposits begin in apex of lung.
- Broncho-pneumonia in 
children.
- Profuse bronchorrhea.
- Hard, hacking cough, profuse sweating and loss of weight, rales all over chest.
- Dry, hard cough, more during sleep, worse dyspnea with chil l and red face, worse evenings, worse raising 
arms.
- Thick, easy, profuse expectoration.
- Thick yellow or yellow green sputum.
- Mucus rattle in chest without 
expectoration.
- Burning in genitals.
- Amenorrhea.
- Menses too ear ly, too profuse, long - lasting.
- Menses soon after 
childbirth.
- Dysmenorrhea, pains increase with the flow.
- Severe pain in breast at beginning of menses.
- Benign breast tumors.
- Retraction of nipples.

### Extremities
- Acute articular rheumatism.
- Hands and arms feel lame, unable to write or raise a cup or a glass.
- Fingertips brown.
- Sensa tion of fatigue in limbs.
- Cold feet in bed.
- Limbs feel weak or as if paralyzed worse 
dinner.
- Rheumatism.
- Pains in ulnar nerve.
- Wandering pain in limbs and joints.

### Neck & Back
- Tension in nape of neck and down spine.
- Chilliness between shoulders or up the back.
- Pain in the back 
with palpitations.
- Sensation as if damp clothes on back.

### Skin
- Skin easily tanned.
- Dry, harsh, sensitive.
- Acne in tuberculous children.
- Ringworm.
- Measles.
- Psoriasis 
(Thyr.).
- Bran-like scales.
- Chronic eczema.
- Intense itching, changes places on rubbing, worse at night.
- Itching 
 
 
in cool air, better heat of stove.
- Itching worse undressing, bathing.

### Sleep
- Insomnia and sopor.
- Overpower ing sleepiness in daytime.
- Shuddering sensation on falling to sleep.
- Grinding of teeth during sleep.
- Night, terrors.
- Nocturnal hallucinations, wakes frightened.
- Screaming in sleep.
- Nightmares.
- Child wakes screaming.
- Awakes in horror.
- Night sweats.
- Poor sleep, restless, wakes early.
- Overpowering sleepiness in daytime.
- Distressing, vivid dreams.
- Dreams of shame.
- Dreams frightful.

### Generalities
- As if the brain were squeezed with an iron ring.
- As if the teeth were jammed together and were 
too many for the mouth.
- Mucus in the throat of a tumor in the throat.
- Pressure in stomach going to throat as if 
the clothes were too tight.
- As if the clothes on the back were wet (Bac.).