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William Boericke 1922

Burning on vertex. Humid, itching eruption on hairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor. Cataleptic condition.

Compare

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and back and

Eyes

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Rotten color from

William Boericke 1922

Breath smells like urine. 360

Nose

William Boericke 1922

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

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