Bacillinum is a homeopathic remedy made from tuberculosis bacteria. It is used to treat various conditions associated with tuberculosis including night sweats, enlarged glands, coughs, sore throats, and ringworm. It can also help insanity when associated with ringworm. Bacillinum is indicated for weak lungs, children with breathing issues at night, and elderly people with chronic respiratory problems. It may help with conditions stemming from a tubercular inheritance or mixed with syphilis. Symptoms include irritability, depression, fear including of dogs, and weakness.

1. Bacillinum
 Bacillinum is a nosode of tuberculosis named
and first described by Dr. Burnett, for whom it
was prepared from tuberculosis sputum by Dr.
Heath.
 Bacillinum and tuberculinum are not same.

2. Bacillinum
 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 with 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.

3. Bacillinum
 Bacillinum has been used for the treatment of
tuberculosis. Its good effects seen in the change of
the sputum, which becomes decreased and less
purulent.
 Tubercular meningitis.
 It has a disposition to catch colds and sore throats.
 Chronic reoccurring sore throats and coughs.

4. Bacillinum
 Glands of the neck are enlarged and tender.
 Night-sweats.
 Bacillinum is indicated for weak lungs of elderly
people and for children with chronic catarrhal
conditions and attacks of suffocation at night
with difficult cough.
 Ringworm.

5. Bacillinum
 Addison’s disease.
 Alopecia.
 Bronchitis.
 Coughs. Colds.
 Growth, defective.
 Hydrocephalus.
 Idiocy.
 Insanity.
 Joints disorders.
 Meningitis.

6. Bacillinum
 Pityriasis.
 Pyorrhea
 Ringworm.
 Scrofulous glands.
 Sore throats.
 Teeth, defective,
pitted.
 Tonsillitis.
 Tuberculosis.

8. Alopesia

9. Pityriasis

10. Pityriasis

11. Ringworm

12. Constitutions
• Tubercular constitutions. For cases stemming
from a tubercular inheritance with extreme
soreness of affected parts,
• Patients of rheumatic tendencies with syphilitic
taints in the bloodstream,
• General muscular soreness.

13. Bacillinum
 Taciturn, sulky, snappish, fretful and irritable.
 Morose, depressed and melancholic even to
insanity.

14. Bacillinum
 Tendency to be frightened.
 Fear of dogs.
 Great weakness, did not want to be disturbed.

15. Bacillinum Rubrics
 Anxiety about business
 Anxiety about money matters
 Biting
 Change desire for, Constantly
 Change desire for, his doctor
 Despair recovery
 Mental development arrested
 Fear of black dog

16. Bacillinum Rubrics
 Fear of diseases, cancer etc
 Impulse to move
 Obstinate children
 Squander money
 Striking his head against wall
 Travel desire
 Well says , when very sick

17. G.I.T.
 Abdominal pains, enlarged glands in groin.
 Tabes mesenterica,
 Indurated and swollen glands
 Spleen region bulging out.
 Inguinal glands indurated and visible,
 chronic diarrhea.

18. 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.

19. Ear, Eye, Face
 Ears - Otitis after sore throats.
 Eyes - Eczema of eyelids.
 Face - Indolent, pimple on left cheek, breaking
out from time to time and persisting for many
weeks.
 Food - Appetite poor.

20. Respiratory
 Weak lungs.
 Humid asthma.
 Colds with sore throats.
 Hacking cough. Hard cough, shaking patient, more
during sleep but it did not waken him.
 Muco-purulent expectoration of bronchitis.
Congestion of the lung.
 Tuberculosis.
 Easy expectoration,Expectoration of non-viscid
easily detached, thick phlegm from air passages.

21. Skin & Sleep
 Skin - Ringworm.
Pityriasis.
Eczema.
Glands enlarged and tender.
 Sleep - Absolute sleeplessness. Talks in sleep.
Drowsy during day, restless at night. Many
dreams.

22. Teeth
 Pyorrhea.
 Favors falling off of tartar of teeth.
 Aching in teeth, especially lower incisors, very
sensitive to air.
 Grinds teeth in sleep.
 Imperfectly developed teeth.

23. Fever
 Fever, with emaciation, abdominal pains and
discomfort, restless at night, glands of both
groins enlarged and indurated, cries out in
sleep, strawberry tongue.
 Night-sweats.

24. Modalities
 Worse at night and early morning
 Worse from cold air.

25. Bacillinum/Tubercullinum
 A chilly patient
 More acute in nature
 Transudative, rather
dryness is more
marked.
 Patients sweat
negligible
 Less expectoration
 A hot patient
 More chronic in
nature
 Exudative in
character.
 Patient is sweaty one
 More expectoration

26. Bacillinum/Tuberculinum
 Good looking &
backward in nature,
 frightened particularly
by dogs (Dr.J.H.Clarke)
 A case of insanity with
pityriasis yielded
rapidly to the remedy
(Dr.J.H.Clarke)
 Patient is blond(Phos,
Puls) intelligent, sharp,
aggressive, irritable
fretful. Malicious,
selfish,
 prefers any artistic
activity like classical
and melodious music
drawing, painting,
drama etc.
 cosmopolitan i.e. wants
to travel (Calc. P,
Merc.S)