# Bacillinum Testium

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

## Keynote Indications
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 give n 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 less 
become less purulent. Tubercular meningitis. It has a disposition to catch colds and sore throats.  
Respiratory and lung weakness. Chronic reoccurring 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 chro nic 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 mountains areas and in the pine forests. Sunlight 
helps to prevent tuberculosis, also there has 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.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse night and early morning. Worse from cold air.  
Nose - Nasal congestion. Coryza. 
Perspiration - Night-sweats.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Taciturn, sulky, snappish, and irri table.
- 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.
- Taciturn, sulky, snappish, and irri table.
- 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.

### 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.
- 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.

### Eyes
- Eczema of the eyelids.

### Ears
- Otitis after sore throats.

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

### 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 inter -current 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 ex treme 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, par ticularly 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.).

### 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 ten dencies with syphilitic taints in the blood stream, general 
muscular soreness.
- 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 night, easy expe ctoration.
- Expectoration of non -vis- cid easily detached, thick 
phlegm from air passages.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- 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 tee th in sleep.
- Imperfectly developed teeth.
- Favors falling off of tartar of teeth.
- Temperature - Flush of heat, some perspira tion, severe headache.
- Fever, with ema ciation, abdominal pains 
and discomfort.
- Restless at night, glands of both groins enlarged and indurated, cries out in sleep, strawberry 
tongue.
- Abdominal pains, enlarged glands in groin.
- Tabes mesenterica, grinds teeth, indurat ed and 
swollen glands.
- Spleen region bulging out.
- Inguinal glands indurated and visible, excessive sweats, chronic 
diarrhea.
- Poor appetite.

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

### Neck & 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.

### Skin
- Ringworm.
- Pityriasis.
- Eczema.
- Glands enlarged and tender.

### Sleep
- Absolute sleeplessness.
- Talks in sleep.
- Drowsy during day, restless at night.
- Many dreams.