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Burning on vertex. Humid, itching eruption on hairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor. Cataleptic condition.
Compare
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Puls.; Calc.; Sep.; Sulph.; Fluor, ac. Antidote: Nux.; Aeon.; Ars.
Dose
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High single potencies classically for constitutional skin states; avoid frequent repetition early.
William Boericke 1922
Sixth to thirtieth potency. Locally, as a cerate, in sore nipples. 362 GRATIOLA — GRIN DELIA
Ears
William Boericke 1922
Hears better in noise. Hardness of hearing. Hissing in the
William Boericke 1922
Dryness of inner ear. Cracking in ears when eating. Moisture and eruptions behind the
William Boericke 1922
Detonation in ear like report of a gun. Thin, white, scaly membrane covering membrana tympani, like exfoliated epithelium. Fissures in and behind the ear.
Extremities
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Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and back and
Eyes
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Ophthalmia, with intolerance of artificial light. Eyelids red and swollen. Blepharitis. Dryness of the lids. Eccema of lids; fissured.
Face
William Boericke 1922
burning and stinging pain. Swelling of feet. IVens. Chronic Poison oak.
William Boericke 1922
Feels as if cobwebs were on it. Itching pimples. Moist eczema around mouth and chin. Erysipelas, burning and stinging.
William Boericke 1922
Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals. Gushing leucorrhoea. Aids absorptioti of cicatricial tissue.
Female
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Nipples cracked and sore; menses too late, pale and scanty; obesity with delayed periods in chilly women.
Generalities
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Chilly yet worse during and after sleep; obesity with metabolic slowness; taking cold easily between seasons.
Guiding symptoms
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scraping and soreness. Chronic hoarseness with skin affections. Inability to control the vocal chords ; hoarseness on beginning to sing and for breaking voice (Cartier).
William Boericke 1922
with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily. Children impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Anaemia with redness of
Head
William Boericke 1922
Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side, with inclination to vomit. Sensation of cobweb on forehead. Feels numb and pithy. Rheumatic pains on one side of head, extending to teeth and
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Eruptions behind ears forming crusts; moist scalp eruptions matting the hair; cracking of skin at corners of mouth.
Introduction
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The stout, chilly, sluggish constitution whose skin and mucocutaneous junctions crack and ooze honey-like fluid.
Limbs
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Spinal pains. Pain in small of back with great weakness. Excoriation between thighs. Left hand numb; arms feel asleep; finger-nails tfiick, black, and rough, matrix inflamed. [Psor.; Fluor, ac,] Q£dema of lower
William Boericke 1922
Toe-nails crippled. Stiffness and contraction of toes. Nails brittle and crumbling. Nails deformed, painful, sore, thick, and crippled. Cracks or fissures in ends of fingers.
Mind
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Great tendency to start. Timid. Unable to decide. Want of disposition to work. Fidgety while sitting at work. Music makes her weep. Apprehensive, despondency, indecision.
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Miserable yet tearful over music; indecisive, fretful; weeps at glad events. Apprehension before menses; inability to decide between alternatives.
Modalities
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Worse: during and after menstruation, warmth of bed, light, cold. Better: wrapping up, dark room, eating.
William Boericke 1922
Worse, warmth, at night, during and after menstruation. Better, in the dark, from wrapping up.
Mouth
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Rotten color from
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Breath smells like urine. 360
Nose
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Sore on blowing it; is painful internally. Smell abnormally acute; cannot tolerate flowers. Scabs and fissures in nostrils.
Rectum
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Constipation with knotty stools united by mucous threads; fissure ani with terrible pain after stool; itching at the anus.
Relationships
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Compare Hepar sulph (further along toward suppuration), Petroleum (worse winter, cracks), Sepia (hormonal overlap without the stickiness).
William Boericke 1922
Complementary: Argent, nit, (follows well in gastric derangements) ; Caustic,; Hep.; Lycop.; Ars.; Tuberc.
Skin
William Boericke 1922
every little injury suppurates. Ulcers discharging a glutinous fluid, thin and sticky. Swelling and induration of glands. Gouty nodosities. Cracks in nipples, mouth, between toes, anus. Phlegmonous erysipelas of
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Sticky, glutinous, honey-like discharge from eruptions in folds (groin, knees, behind ears); nails thickened, crippled, brittle.
William Boericke 1922
Rough, hard, persistent dryness of portions of skin unaffected by eczema. Early stage of keloid and fibroma. Pimples and acne. Eruptions, oozing out a sticky exudation. Rawness in bends of limbs, groins, neck, behind
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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