Bacillinum
The classical nosode prepared from the tubercle bacillus — the twin of Tuberculinum of the consumptive era, and the classical remedy of the ringworm-and-adenoid child.
The whole picture, in one breath
Think of the child marked by the family disease: ringworm that comes and goes with the chest, adenoids and tonsils that never settle, the dry night cough of the consumptive tendency, the history of the family complaint — the books' second great tubercular nosode. The family-marked child: that is Bacillinum.
The substance, in plain words
Bacillinum is prepared from the tubercle bacillus itself — a nosode twin of Tuberculinum, made in the era when tuberculosis marked whole families across generations. Its preparation belongs to the consumptive century; the remedy is the family-history portrait of the books' great white plague.
The traditional picture Classical sources
The inner state
- Anxiety and irritability. Cross, worried, worse at night; the books paint the nervous, marked child.
- Restlessness. The tossing restlessness of the night cough.
- Despondency. The family's shadow in the chronic states.
The body
- Ringworm with the chest. The keynote: ringworm of the scalp that appears and vanishes with the chest complaints — the books' celebrated association.
- Adenoids and tonsils. The swollen adenoids and recurrent tonsillitis of the tubercular diathesis.
- Dry night cough. The harassing, dry cough of the night hours of the consumptive tendency.
- Family history. The books take the family history of the great white plague as the ground of the case.
- Worse cold damp and night. Wet weather and the night own the cough and the glands.
- Better for open air and the sea. Fresh air, mountain air and the sea ease the marked constitution.
Modalities (worse and better factors)
| Worse from ⬇ | Better from ⬇ |
|---|---|
| cold damp weather; night; overheating then chilling. | open air; mountain air; sea air. |
Where it acts (organ affinities)
Chest and lungs, glands (adenoids, tonsils), skin (ringworm), general vitality.
Where the classical picture comes from
The consumptive century's second nosode; Bacillinum became the classical remedy of the family-marked child — ringworm riding with the chest, adenoids that never settle, the dry night cough — the tubercular diathesis read from the family tree.
The substance in real medicine Pharmacology
What this section is: the pharmacology and toxicology of the source substance. It is not clinical evidence that a homeopathic preparation of it treats any condition. What controlled trials do and do not show is set out on the Evidence page.
Tuberculosis is the real story: the great white plague that marked families for centuries was met by BCG vaccine in 1921, antibiotics from 1943, and public-health measures that drove it from the leading killer of young adults to a curable, preventable disease. The ringworm and adenoids it accompanied are now dermatology's antifungals and the ENT clinic — the family mark has a modern answer.
Look-alikes (how the classical authors told it apart)
| Remedy | Looks similar because… | Tells it apart because… |
|---|---|---|
| Tuberculinum bovinum | The tubercular pair | Tuberculinum is the repeatedly-infected, air-craving child; Bacillinum is the ringworm-and-adenoid family-marked one. |
| Psorinum | Nosodes of the chronic dispositions | Psorinum is the freezing, filthy scabies nosode; Bacillinum the family-marked chest. |
| Calcarea carbonica | Sweaty, glandular child | Calc-carb is the sour-sweating, egg-craving child; Bacillinum the ringworm-marked one. |
| Thuja occidentalis | Skin and constitution | Thuja is the oily figwarts and the oily skin; Bacillinum the ringworm riding with the chest. |