Bacillinum

Prepared from a pathological specimen of tubercular lung tissue, specifically the sputum of a consumptive patient. The preparation includes the bacillus of Koch in its dynamised form.

None in conventional medicine; originally used experimentally by Dr. Burnett as a prophylactic and curative agent for tubercular conditions.

Introduced clinically by Dr. J. Compton Burnett (late 19th century), later confirmed and expanded by Clarke, Kent, and others through clinical observation rather than formal Hahnemannian provings.

Introduced clinically by Dr. J. Compton Burnett (late 19th century), later confirmed and expanded by Clarke, Kent, and others through clinical observation rather than formal Hahnemannian provings.

• Dry air
• Summer
• Moderate motion
• Being occupied
• Mountain air
• Expectoration (sometimes)

• Cold, damp weather
• Early morning and evening
• Before storms
• Suppressed discharges
• Rest
• Mental exertion
• Physical exertion
• After vaccinations or suppression of eruptions

• Tuberculinum – More intense restlessness, travel desire, hot-bloodedness
• Psorinum – More filthy, despairing, chilly, and offensive
• Silicea – Similar suppurative tendency but more yielding and chilly
• Calcarea carb. – More plump, sweaty, slow child with bone issues
• Phosphorus – More extroverted, sensitive, haemorrhagic and warm-blooded

• Complementary: Psorinum, Silicea, Calcarea phosphorica
• Antidotes: Hepar sulph., Tuberculinum
• Follows well: Tuberculinum, Psorinum
• Precedes well: Sulphur, Phosphorus
• Inimical: None noted

Bacillinum is a nosode of deep constitutional importance in individuals with tubercular inheritance, even in the absence of active disease. The essence is decay beneath vitality—patients may appear lively or well but possess deep miasmatic tendencies to suppuration, glandular degeneration, and nervous exhaustion. It is especially useful when well-selected remedies fail in patients with a history of chest troubles, skin disease, or family tuberculosis. Restlessness coexists with languor, and the battle between inherited decay and a striving for vitality is the core dynamic.

• Useful in chronic bronchitis, asthma, eczema, and ringworm in patients with TB history
• A powerful miasmatic intercurrent remedy
• Best used infrequently, usually in high potencies
• Helpful in emaciated children with large heads, sweaty scalp, and swollen glands
• Consider when acute disease follows suppression (e.g., vaccines, eruptions)

Mind

• Morose, irritable, silent
• Fear of consumption
• Sensitive to contradiction

Chest

• Cough, dry, chronic
• Lungs, phthisical tendency
• Oppression, apical pain

Skin

• Eczema, chronic
• Ringworm
• Suppressed eruptions

Generalities

• Weakness, emaciation
• History of tuberculosis
• Glandular swellings, indurated
• < damp, cold, suppression

Sleep

• Screaming at night
• Night sweats
• Dreams of suffocation

• J. Compton Burnett – Curability of Consumption by Homeopathy: Original introduction of Bacillinum and clinical uses
• James Tyler Kent – Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica: Insights into mental picture and tubercular miasm
• William Boericke – Pocket Manual: Keynotes, clinical tips, and general modalities
• John Henry Clarke – Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica: Expanded indications for lungs, skin, and nervous system
• C. Hering – Guiding Symptoms: Clinical verification of symptoms related to glands and skin