Kreosotum
Beechwood Kreosote
Abdomen
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Distended. Burning haemorrhoids. Diarrhoea ; very offensive ; dark brown. Bloody, fetid stools. Cholera infantum in connection with painful dentition, green stools, nausea, dry skin, exhaustion, etc. Urine. — Offensive. Violent itching of vulva and vagina, worse when urinating. Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of bed quick enough during first
Back
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Dragging backache, extending to genitals and do\v^n thighs. Great debility.
Chest
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Raw burning in
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pains and oppression. Cough after influenza. [Eriodyetion.] Winter coughs of old people, unth heavy pressure on sternum. Gangrene of lungs. After every cough, copious, purulent expectoration. Hajmoptysis ; periodic attacks. Sternum feels pressed in.
Dose
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Third to thirtieth potency. The 200th in sensitive patients.
Ears
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Eruption around and pimples within. Difficult hearing and buzzing.
Extremities
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Pain in joints, hip and knee. Boring pain in hipjoints. Scapulae sore.
Eyes
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Salty lachrymation. Lids red and swollen.
Face
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Sick, suffering expression ; hot, cheeks red.
Female
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Corrosive itching within vulva, burning and swelling of labia ; violent itching between labia and thighs. During menses, difficult hearing; buzzing and roaring; eruption after. Burning and soreness in ex-
Guiding symptoms
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Mental. — Music causes weeping and palpitation. Vanishing of thought; stupid, forgetful, peevish.
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ternal and internal parts. Leucorrhoea, yellow, acrid ; odor of green corn ; worse between periods. Hcemorrliage after coition. Menses too early, proloiif^ed. ^ V^omiting of pregnancy, with ptyalism. Menstrual floiv intermits [Puls.]; ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down. Pain worse after menses. Lfxhia offensive; intermits.
Head
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Dull pain, as from a board pressing against forehead. Menstrual headache. Occipital pain. [Gels.; Zinc, pic.]
Larynx
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Cough; worse evening, with efforts to vomit, with pain in
Modalities
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JVorse, in open air, cold, rest, when lying; after menstruation. Better, from warmth, motion, warm diet.
Mouth
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Lips red, bleeding. Very painful dentition: child will not
Nose
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Offensive smell and discharge. Chronic catarrh of old people. Acrid rawness. Lupus. [Ars.; X-ray.]
Relationships
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Antidote: Nux. Inimical: Carbo. Complementary in malignant diseases: Ars.; Phos.; Sulph. In leucorrhoea compare Matico. Lippia Mexicana (difficult, dry, deep, winter cough). Guaiacol is the principal constituent of Kreosote, and similar in action. Used in pulmonary tuberculosis. 442 KREOSOTUM — LABURNUM — LAC CANINUM Compare also: Fuligo ligni; Carbol. ac.; lod.; Laches.
Respiratory
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Hoarse, mitli pain in
Skin
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Itching, worse towards evening. Burning in soles. Senile gangrene. Small wounds bleed freely. [Crot.; Lack.; Phos.] Pustules and herpes. Ecchy mosis ; dorsal surface of fingers and hands eczematous.
Sleep
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Very rapid decay of teeth, ivith spongy, bleeding gums; teeth dark and crumbly. [Staph.; Ant. c.] Putrid odor and bitter taste.
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Dreams of urinating. Enuresis in the first part of night. Must hun-y vehen desire comes to urinate.
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Disturbed with tossing. Paralytic sensation in limbs on waking. Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc.
Stomach
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Nausea; vomiting of food several hours after eating; of sweetish water in the morning. Feeling of coldness, as of ice water in
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Soreness; better eating. Painful hard spot. Hsematemesis. Bitter taste after a swallow of water.
Text
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Kreosotum is a mixture of phenols obtained from this distillation. Pulsations all over the body, and profu.se bleeding from small wounds. Very severe, old neuralgic affections; pains rather aggravated by rest. Excoriating, burning, and offensive discharges. Haemorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections. Rapid decomposition of fluids and secretions, and burning pains.. Overgrown, poorly developed children. Post-climacteric diseases. Tumefaction, pufiiness, gangrene. Ailings of teething children. 440
Throat
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Hurning, choking sensation. Putrid odor.
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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