Psorinum

▲   GENERAL

Dose

Two hundredth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too often. Psorinum requires something like 9 days before it manifests its action, and even a single dose may elicit other symptoms lasting for weeks ( Aegedi.)

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, Coffea Cruda ^Coffee; Psorinum patient does not improve while using coffee. WORSE, changes of weather, in hot sunshine, from cold. Dread of least cold air or draft.

Better

BETTER, heat, warm clothing, even in summer.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Pediculus - Head-louse - (psoric manifestations in children. Eruption on dorsum of hands, feet, neck. Prurigo; pellagra. Unusual aptitude for study and work). Pediculus (Cooties) transmit typhus and trench fever.) In lack of reaction compare Calc Carb ^Calcarea and Natrum Ars. Gaertner ( Pessimistic, lack of confidence, subjective troublesome eye symptoms, fear of heights. Urticaria. Use 30th and 200th ( Wheeler.)

Complementary

Complementary: Sulphur.

▲   MIND

Mind

Hopeless; despairs of recovery

Melancholy, deep and persistent; religious

Suicidal tendency.

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

forsaken feeling

unhappy; despair

from itching of the skin

unhappy; wants to injure self; suicidal disposition; from thoughts

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

from itching

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; of conscience (as if guilty of a crime)

anxiety; with fear

fear

of evil

of misfortune

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Chronic headaches; hungry during attacks; with vertigo

▲   HEAD

Head

Brain; pulsating in brain; like little hammers beating brain

Congestion (see pulsation); night

Sense of separation; as if head were separated from body

Headache

Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head

Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change of weather

Dull, pressive pain in occiput

Pain, headache

on coughing

pulsating

pressing (see bursting, pulling)

stunning

Scalp

Humid eruption on scalp; hair matted

Hair dry.

Skin and scalp

out-break on skin; crusts, scabs

out-break on skin; crusts, scabs; moist

out-break on skin; crusts, scabs; ulcerated

out-break on skin; dry

out-break on skin; eczema

out-break on skin; moist

▲   EYES

Eyes

Agglutinated

Blepharitis

Chronic ophthalmia, that constantly recurs

Edges of lids red

Secretion acrid.

Lids; out-breaks on skin; scaly herpes

Inflammation

of catarrh from cold

glandular swellings

wounds; conjunctiva (external lining of eye); oozing pus (including cornea)

▲   EARS

Ear

Raw, red, Oozing scabs around ears

Sore pain behind ears

Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks

Offensive discharge from eczema around ears

intolerable itching

Chronic otorrhoea

Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive.

Discharges from ear

bloody

offensive smelling

greenish pus

offensive smelling

like putrid meat

pus

after scarlet fever

following disease

Noises in ear

ringing

Skin

out-breaks on skin

out-breaks on skin; containing pus

out-breaks on skin; powdery flaking skin

out-breaks on skin; behind ears

eczema

wearing away skin

moist

powdery flaking skin

sore

▲   FACE

Face

Swelling of upper lip

Pale, delicate

Humid eruption on face

Sickly.

Pain; jaw; top end of bone

Skin

discoloration; dirty looking

out-breaks on skin

acne; chronic, especially nose and cheeks

acne; forehead

eczema

powdery flaking skin

blisters

▲   NOSE

Nose

Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior nares

Acne rosacea.

Catarrh

post nasal (see discharge)

Discharge from nose

blood

offensive smelling

putrid

containing pus

Discharge

Dry, coryza, with stoppage of nose

Running or blocked nose (coryza); annual (hay fever)

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Obstinate rhagades at corners

Gums and teeth

Growths, blisters, swellings; ulcers; gums

Tongue

Dryness; tongue

Growths, blisters, swellings; ulcers; tongue

Taste

Tongue, gums ulcerated; tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate.

Taste; putrid

▲   THROAT

Throat

Tonsils greatly swollen; painful swallowing, with pain in ears

Profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat

Recurring quinsy

Eradicates tendency to quinsy

Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste ( Agaricus Muscarius ^Agar.)

Sensation of something in throat; lump

External throat; out-break on skin; herpes

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart

palpitations; from exertion

palpitations; while lying down; side; left

palpitations; lying down; on right side

palpitations; on movement

Inflammation; heart; pericardium

Lungs

tuberculosis

tuberculosis; early stages

tuberculosis; full of mucus

Pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; heart

Skin

out-breaks on skin

out-breaks on skin; boils

out-breaks on skin; dry

out-breaks on skin; eczema

out-breaks on skin; arm pit; eczema

Respiration

Asthma, with dyspnoea; worse, sitting up; better, lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart

Dry, hard cough, with great weakness in chest

Feeling of ulceration under sternum

Pain in chest; better, lying down

Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption

Hay-fever returning irregularly every year.

Pain; when breathing; breathing normally

Difficult (dyspnea); in open air

lying down

Interrupted; in fresh air

▲   COUGH

Cough

On becoming cold

Drinking

after drinking

cold drinks

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Greenish

Mucous

▲   SKIN

Skin

Dirty, dingy look

Dry, lusterless, rough hair

Intolerable itching

Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints with itching; worse, from warmth of bed

Enlarged glands

Sebaceous glands secrete excessively; oily skin

Indolent ulcers, slow to heal Eczema behind ears

Crusty eruptions all over

Urticaria after every exertion

Pustules near finger-nails.

Discoloration; dirty

Filthy skin

Abnormal growths; ulcers; discharges; offensive; putrid

Itching

from despair

on becoming warm

in bed

Out-breaks on skin

boils

peeling in scales

eczema

offensive smelling

itching

warmth; of bed

rash (see granular); scabies

suppressed; with mercury and sulphur

suppressed

Generally unhealthy

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Pain

aching

while walking

pressing; lumbar (lower half of back)

during movement

Skin; out-breaks on skin

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Very hungry always; must have something to eat in the middle of the night

Pain in abdomen after eating.

Stomach

appetite; increased (hunger in general); night

appetite; increased (hunger in general); with headache

appetite; increased (hunger in general); before headache

Eructation

Eructations like bad eggs

Vomiting

Nausea; vomiting of pregnancy

Stomach; vomiting; sour

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constipation; difficult stool; natural stool

Diarrhoea

night

in children

Haemorrhage from anus

Involuntary stool; during sleep

Stool

Mucous, Bloody, excessively fetid, dark fluid

Hard, difficult stool, with blood from rectum and burning piles

Constipation of infants, in pale, sickly scrofulous children.

Odour

like rotten eggs

offensive

putrid

Watery

▲   GENITALS ETC

Male

Male

wart-like growth; penis

wart-like growth; penis; foreskin

Female

Female

vaginal discharge; offensive smelling

vaginal discharge; offensive smelling; putrid

Genitals

Leucorrhoea fetid, lumpy, with much backache and Debility

Mammae swollen and painful

Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands.

Female

menopause

metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding)

Menses

period; painful; and difficult (dysmenorrhea)

period; painful; at peak

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold together

Eruption around finger-nails

Fetid foot-sweats.

Hands and feet; nails; brittle; finger nails

Pain; joints; gouty

Skin

itching; lower limbs

out-break on skin; joints

out-break on skin; upper limbs; dry

out-break on skin; elbow; bend of elbow; crusts

out-break on skin; elbow; bend of elbow; eczema

out-break on skin; hand; between the fingers; itching

out-break on skin; hand; between the fingers; blisters

out-break on skin; fingers; joints

dry

out-break on skin; lower limbs

ulcers; lower limbs

deep

offensive smelling

ulcers; leg; on shin

Weakness; joints

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Profuse, offensive perspiration; night-sweats.

From environment; malarial influences

Periodic, recurring

irregular

not marked

Dangerously cold

Shaking, shivering, rigors

In spring

In summer

Intermittent, chronic

Comes on suddenly; irregular

Perspiration with heat

Relapsing

Tropical

Aversion to uncovering

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleepless from intolerable itching

Easily started.

Sleeplessness, insomnia; night; from itching

Perspiration

Night; after midnight; 3 a.m.

In the open air

During slight exertion (see walking)

Hot

On movement

Odour

putrid

sour

Profuse

while walking

From suppressed complaints

While walking (see exertion)

Generalities

Night

Dread of bathing

Change of weather

cold to warm

Lack of irritability

Perspiration; after perspiration

Symptoms from suppression of perspiration

Lack of reaction

Sensitive; to pain

At approach of a storm

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold feeling; lack of vital heat

hot feeling

flushes of heat

like warm water; poured over

cold in general

cold air

tendency to catch cold

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

mental exertion

from perspiration

walking

≡ Forum discussions about Psorinum