# Thyroidinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Sycotic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Evening

## Keynote Indications
Thyroidinum, also known as Thyroidea, is an organopathic. The sarcode is prepared from 
the dried thyroid gland taken from a sheep, ox or calf. The thyroid is closely connected with the heart and it 
exercises a general regulating influence on growth and development. 
The homeopathic proving was established by M. Panos, R. Rogers, and J. Stephenson in 1963 -64, using a 
double-blind method. The potencies 12x, 30x, 200c and 1000c were used. The symptomatology completes 
the work of Ghosh of Calcutta, which dates from 1963. Thyr. symptoms are made up  of the toxicological and 
clinical sources as well as the proving symptoms. 
Thyr. affects the central nervous system, skin and left side. Metabolic disorders. Goiter. Myxedema with hair 
loss and cretinism. Diuretic action in myxedema and various types of edema.  
Anemia, emaciation. Infantile wasting. Rickets. Arrested development of children. Acromegaly, delayed union 
of fractures. A state of puffiness and obesity. Excessive obesity. Great weakness and hunger, yet loses flesh. 
Craving for large quantities of sugar. 
Rheumatoid arthritis. Nervous tremor of face and limbs. Tin gling sensations. Paralysis. Hystero -epilepsy. 
Tetany, worse cold. Muscular weakness. Sensation of faintness after acute diseases, weakness. Easy fatigue, 
weak pulse with a tendency to fainting, palpitations. 
Increased heart rate. Dilates arterioles. Tachycardia. Low blood pressure. Cold hands and feet, chilliness and 
sensitive to cold. As of a cold wind blowing on the body. Sweating, headache. Exophthalmus and dilatation of 
pupils. Amblyopia. Weak memory. Cretinism. Psoriasis. Nocturnal bedwetting. 
Breast tumors. Cystic tumors of the breast (2x trituration). Lack of breastmilk. Vomit ing of pregnancy. 
Uterine fibroids. Saidto be effective in undescended testicles in boys when given in half-grain doses twice 
a day over a considerable period. 
Feels tired and sick, easy fatigue, wants to lie down. Fainting fits, tremors, nervous of face and limbs. Stabbing, 
splitting, clutching sensation. Choking. Convulsion in the nursing children, related to a febrile cutting of teeth.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better after or during menses. Better evening, rest, lying on abdomen or reclining position. Worse 
in women, before and during menses. Worse least exertion, stooping. Worse cold. Heart worse lying down.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Stupor, alternating with restless  melancholy.
- Marked irritability of temper.
- Irritable, worse least 
opposition, goes into a rage over trifles.
- Grumbling, all the time.
- Irritable before menses.
- Difficult concentration.
- Absent -minded.
- Nervous and apprehensive.
- Depression on waking.
- Depresse d, 
inclined to cry.
- Weeps when undressing.
- Morose and sulky, wants 
Thyroidinum to be left alone.
- Euphoria.
- Laughing in a way peculiar to herself.
- Argues with family.
- Suspicious.
- Paranoia that they are being 
pursued or persecuted.
- Psychosis from anguish.
- H omicidal tendency.
- Insanity, puerperal insanity with fever.
- Nightmares.
- Stupor, alternating with restless  melancholy.
- Marked irritability of temper.
- Irritable, worse least 
opposition, goes into a rage over trifles.
- Grumbling, all the time.
- Irritable before menses.
- Difficult concentration.
- Absent -minded.
- Nervous and apprehensive.
- Depression on waking.
- Depresse d, 
inclined to cry.
- Weeps when undressing.
- Morose and sulky, wants 
Thyroidinum to be left alone.
- Euphoria.
- Laughing in a way peculiar to herself.
- Argues with family.
- Suspicious.
- Paranoia that they are being 
pursued or persecuted.
- Psychosis from anguish.
- H omicidal tendency.
- Insanity, puerperal insanity with fever.
- Nightmares.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, in the morning on rising, on leaning forwards.
- COMMENTS - Thyr.
- has a profound action on the heart.
- Fatal syncope occurred in a number of cases under 
“thyroid feeding.” Cyanosis was produced in many cases.
- Burnett gave a patient 3x, producing severe angina 
pectoris.
- The connection between the heart and the thyroid gland is very close, as seen in cases of 
exophthalmic goiter, of which many cases have been cured.
- In a case of valvular heart disease following rheumatism in a man, 24, Thyr.
- 3x, thrice daily, quickly relieved a 
squeezing pain at the heart with inability to lie down, and hastened the patient’s recovery.
- Dr.
- F.C.
- Skinner cured a case of dysmenorrhea in a goiter subject with Thyr.
- 1,000c.
- In myxedema, cachexia, cretinism and similar conditions, the thyroid gland is absent or defective and the idea 
is to supply a physiological want.
- As such, a state of puffiness and obesity may be regarded as a keynote 
indication for Thyr.
- Clarke gave Thyr.
- 3x to a living skeleton of a child, 5, who looked not older than 2.
- He  had been kept in a box 
in a cellar all his life until brought into the hospital, when he weighted only 14.25 pounds.
- Under Bac.
- 200c and 
careful feeding he gained .25 pounds per week.
- When Clarke com menced Thyr.
- he put on weekly .75 pound 
and gained the use of his legs, being able to stand by holding on to a chair.
- In a case of universal and very aggravated psoriasis in a schoolboy, fair, very chilly, cold, clammy hands and 
feet, Thyr.
- 3x and later 30c completely cured after a prolonged course.
- An obese l ady, age 60, developed diabetes.
- Clarke cured her completely with Thyr.
- 3x and 30c.
- She then 
could take any kind of food.
- H.
- O.
- Nicholson related a case of toxemia of pregnancy in a woman, 32, during her third pregnancy.
- She had 
a fit on October 
3.
- Thyroid  feeding was begun the next day.
- Marked improvement followed.
- Edema of face and body 
diminished.
- On October 23, the patient was about her usual duties.
- On November 6, she was delivered of a 
healthy boy without any untoward symptoms.
- Pityriasis rubra, inten se redness and scales of legs, and also with intense itch ing.
- Ichthyosis, syphilitic 
eruptions and scleroderma.
- Acromegaly.
- Myxedema with hair loss.
- Increases the flow of milk in nursing women when the flow has been deficient.
- Insanity, puerperal insanity with 
fever.
- Paranoia that they are being pursued or persecuted.
- Nightmares.
- Optic neuritis and accommodative as thenopia.
- Exophthalmic goiter, with bulg ing eyes.
- Weak heart, valvular 
problems, shortness of breath.
- Tachycardia.
- Operative and idiopathic te tany, worse from spasms by cold.
- Stitching, aching or heavy pains.
- Tingling sensations.
- Thyr.
- has poor nutritional development in children.
- Low thyroid function, with skin problems.
- It can stimulate 
function of thyroid gland, or decrease the need for thyroid medications.
- Thyroid treatment nearly always raises 
the body heat.

### Head
- Feeling of lightness in brain.
- Full ness and heat.
- Persistent frontal headache, heaviness over eyes.
- Headaches ame liorated after menses.
- Heavy throbbing headache worse in the frontal region, worse from 
concentrating the mind, bet ter out of doors, worse usin g the eyes.
- Fullness in the head with throbbing of the 
temporal arteries, worse morning and afternoon, from motion, physical or mental, from heat or indoors, better 
 
 
in cool fresh air, often better from external pressure.
- Falling of hair.
- Feeling of lightness in brain.
- Full ness and heat.
- Persistent frontal headache, heaviness over eyes.
- Headaches ame liorated after menses.
- Heavy throbbing headache worse in the frontal region, worse from 
concentrating the mind, bet ter out of doors, worse usin g the eyes.
- Fullness in the head with throbbing of the 
temporal arteries, worse morning and afternoon, from motion, physical or mental, from heat or indoors, better 
 
 
in cool fresh air, often better from external pressure.
- Falling of hair.

### Eyes
- Progressive loss of sight with central scotoma (Carbn -s.).
- Conjunctivitis and chemosis, itching with 
weeping.
- Stinging pain in the right eye.
- Eyeballs prominent.
- Exophthalmic goiter.
- Irritation of the eyelids.

### Ears
- Sclerosis of ossicles.
- Difficult hearing.
- Pain on the right side.
- Pain in the left ear lobe.

### Face
- Flushed.
- Dry, red lips, burn with free desquamation.
- Eruption of acne, worse on the right chee k.
- Sensation of something heavy, which falls from the cheeks.

### Mouth
- Dryness of mouth.
- Bad taste, metallic, bitter and sour.
- To ngue, metallic taste at tip.
- Tongue coated 
grayish white in center with red edges or tip.
- Papillae enlarged and prominent.
- Tongue thickly coated.
- Swelling 
of the upper lip.
- Nose - Dry mucus membrane indoors, fluent coryza, profuse, watery and bland outdoors.
- Dryness and sticking 
pain in posterior nares, worse on swallowing.
- Rhinitis with sneezing and edema of the nasal mucus 
membranes.
- Pain in the sinuses.
- Tickling sensation with headaches and dry throat.
- Perspiration - Drenching sweats.
- Oily, musty sweat.

### Throat
- Dry larynx, congested, raw, burn ing, worse on left side.
- As of a splinter stuck across the throat.
- Pharynx congested, red and dry, with rawness and burning.

### Chest
- Angina pectoris.
- Anxiety about chest.
- Chest feels as if constricted.
- Constitutions - Suited to the phosphoric or carbonic types, general ly hyperthyroids.
- Nervous temperament.
- Psoric, tubercular and sycotic range of dispositions.
- Ready exci tability of heart.
- Heart’s action weak with numbness of fingers.
- Tachycardia (Naja.).
- Palpitations, worse least exertion, hammering, beats felt in ear.
- Heart pains radiate into axilla.
- Clutching, 
constricting pains, worse lying down, causing short breath.
- Severe heart pains.
- Angina pectoris.
- Hypertrophy 
after hard labor.
- As if blood were rushing downwards, through the body.
- Jumping sensation at heart.
- Large 
veins on arms and hands.
- Valvular diseases of heart (Naja).
- Weak, frequentpulse with inability to lie down.
- Kidneys - Pressing urge to urinate.
- Frequent urination during the day.
- Burning along urethra, increase of uric 
acid.
- Increased flow of urine, polyuria, some albumen and sugar.
- Urine smells of violets.
- Bedwetting in weakly 
children who are nervous and irritable.
- Diabetes mellitus.
- Breathlessness better lying in recumbent position.
- Dry, painful cough with scanty, difficult 
expectoration and burning in pharynx.
- Cough on entering a warm room from cool air.
- Asthma.
- Allergies.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Increased appetite.
- Thirst for cold water.
- Pains, tenderness, aggravated by eating, ameliorated in 
the evening.
- Dyspepsia before menses.
- Flatulence, much flatus in abdomen.
- Nausea, worse riding in a car, 
better in cool air.
- Vomiting of pregnancy.
- Temperature - Hot flushes, then chills or drenching sweats.
- Bearing and aching down through pelvis into anterior thigh.
- Acute cramping pains with cold 
sweating.
- Pain after eating.
- Pain midway between um bilicus and either anterior sup erior iliac spine.
- Sharp, 
cutting, colicky pains with fullness, worse on pressure and walking, better bending forward and after passage 
of flatus.
- Large quantities of flatus passed from bowels often smelling of hydrogen sulphate.
- Rolling flatulence 
with gurgling, then loose, gassy stool.
- Insatiable appetite, always wants something more interesting to eat.
- Desire for sweets and thirst for 
cold water.
- Aversion to greasy foods.

### Urinary & Genital
- Amenorrhea in young girls.
- Pelvic congestion ameliorated by menses.
- Amelioration of premenstrual 
discomforts by the menses.
- Menses often too early.
- Metrorrhagia.
- Endometriosis.
- Gnawing in the uterus.
- Uterine fibroids.
- Vomiting of pregnancy.
- Puerperal, convulsions insan ity.
- Tendency to miscarriage or 
premature birth.
- Puerperal psychosis.
- Uterine atony after giving birth.
- Sterility.

### Extremities
- Rheumatic arthritis with tendency to obesity, coldness and cramps of limbs.
- Aching pains.
- Trembling 
of limbs and entire body.
- Edema of legs.
- Numbness, left fingers then right leg.
- Itching without e ruption, worse 
night.
- Peeling of skin of lower limbs.
- Cold limbs.
- Cold, clammy hands.
- Left hand icy cold.
- Abnormal growth of 
limbs due to excessive exertion.
- Liver - Cutting pain in liver, worse deep breathing.
- Jaundice with itching, in the newborn child,  accompanied 
by vomiting.

### Neck & Back
- Backache.
- Breasts - Breasts tumors and cysts.
- Deficient in breast milk.

### Skin
- Eczema.
- Psoriasis associated with obesity.
- Very dry skin.
- Itching without eruption, worse night.
- Brown 
swellings.
- Swelling of glands of stony hardness.
- Symmetrical serpiginous eruptions.
- Jaundice with itching, in 
the newborn child, accompanied by vomiting.
- Urticaria.
- Ichthyosis.
- Lupus.
- Peeling skin of lower limbs.
- Scleroderma.

### Sleep
- Insomnia.
- Difficulty in falling asleep.
- Nightmares.
- Wakes for no reason.