Unlike metal remedies Tellurium (a metalloid) has a deep action, but this deep prolonged action is slow to start. Once it has secured its place in the dynamis it will have a prolonged action (Just like Causticum).
Tellurium has sensitive skin, inviting the most common yet troublesome infections of skin such as fungal. A perfect picture of patient coming to you for fungal infection of skin (such as pityriasis versicolor) or onychomycosis (nail fungus) and especially when the symptoms are presented as part of one-sided disease. It is a good remedy to tackle such situation. A commonly used remedy for ringworm (compare Bacillinum and Tuberculin). Lesions are perfect ring shaped with or without offensive odour from the affected part. What I have observed that if the skin at large is unhealthy it points towards either Psornium or Tuberculinum (in lean thin and slender patients), whereas if the skin is clean and the constitution is nothing specific Bacilinum is usually given on empirical basis.
The sycosis runs in the background. The eruptions are slow to develop, slow to spread (but spread to wide area) and even slower to vanish.
Eczemas with acrid discharges, fish like smell (offensive, rotten) with itching swelling and chronicity. Here we must compare the important remedies such as Graphites, Mezereum and Thuja etc. Where the polychrest remedies do come with discrete symptoms and modalities the targeted remedies are often used on the name of disease, presentation, and specific symptoms. Coming to Sulphur, it is no doubt the centre of all dyscrasia, and should only be used when appended with other prominent features of constitution. For example, open us a case with Sulphur, use Tellurium and close the case with a dose of Sulphur. Sulphur repeated in inappropriate potencies often result in stagnation of cases.
Tellurium like remedies also become important when well selected remedies fail to act.
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