Petroleum petr.

OCCIPUT. SKIN: Folds. Scalp. Face. Genitals. Mucous membranes. Stomach. Bowels.

MOTION: CARS. CARRIAGE. BOAT. Weather: Cold; winter. Changing. Thunder - storms. Eating. Vexation. Cabbage.

Warm air.

Weak and tremulous; feels sick internally. Internal itching. Emaciation, < chest. Dreads open air.

Excitable and quick temper. Death seems near. Irresolute. Sense of duality; loses himself. Worries but don't know why. VERTIGO; in occiput. Occiput; aching; heavy. Inflamed tarsi. Deafness. Moist spots behind ears. Dryness in ears, nose, throat, etc. Foul mucus in throat. Hunger, causing nausea; after stool. Aversion to meat. Gastric symptoms, > eating. Nausea; sea and train sickness. Abdomen inflated; coldness in. Diarrhœa by day only (Phyt.); < cabbage; then miserable emptiness. Involuntary urine on rising. Cough at night only or < then; shatters the head, > pressing temples. Cold air oppresses chest. Coldness at heart. Stiff or cracking joints. Limbs go to sleep. Ragged, chapped hands and fingers; bleeding; in house-maids. SKIN; fragile; cracks deeply, < in angles, nipples, figer-tips or palms. Psoriasis palmaris. DIRTY, HARD, ROUGH, THICKENED SKIN; like parchment; it gets raw, festers or won't heal, < in folds. Brown spots. Eruptions having thick, hard, moist or yellow-green crusts; on occiput or genitals, < cold. Eczema. Herpes. Vesicles. Itching; orifices; with burning. Cold spots. Chilly, with dry mouth. Hot palms and soles. Sweat in spots; foul on feet or in axillæ.

Complementary: Sep. Related: Grap. Sep.

Adapted to persons with light hair and skin; irritable, quarrelsome disposition (Nux); easily offended at trifles (Ign., Med.); vexed at everything. Ailments: from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship (Coc., Sanic.). Ailments which are worse before and during a thunderstorm (Nat. c., Phos., Psor.). Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly (Bell., Mag. p. - reverse of Plat., Stan.). During sleep or delirium: imagines that one leg is double; that another person lies alongside of him in same bed; that there are two babies in the bed (Val.). Vertigo on rising (Bry.); in occiput; as if intoxicated; like seasickness (Coc.). Headache: in occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing, pulsating pain; as if everything in the head were alive; numb, bruised, as if made of wood. Gastralgia: of pregnancy; with pressing, drawing pains; whenever stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating (Anac., Chel., Sep.). Diarrhoea: yellow, watery, gushing; after cabbage, sour krout; during pregnancy, stormy weather; always in the daytime. Painful sensitiveness of skin of whole body; all clothing is painful; slight injury suppurates (Hep.). Skin of hands rough, cracked, tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured, every winter; tenderness of the feet, which are bathed in foul-smelling sweat (Graph., Sanic., Sil.). Herpes: of genital organs extending to perineum and thighs; itching, redness; skin cracked, rough, bleeding; dry or moist. Heat and burning of soles of feet and palms of hands (Sang., Sulph.). Sweat and moisture of external genitals, both sexes. Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands < in cold weather; decubitus. Sensation of coldness about the heart (Carbo an., Kali m., Nat. m.).

One of our best antidotes for lead poisoning. The skin symptoms are worse in winter, better in summer (Alum.); if suppressed, causes diarrhoea.

Carriage riding (Coc., Sanic.); during a thunderstorm; in winter (Alum.).

Affections in general, of any kind, appearing on the right eye, internal or external occiput; behind the ears; inner surface of the thighs; ball or under part of the toes; knee-joint.

When a person complains of eruption or itching at night (affecting the scrotum particularly), the eruption being either dry or moist; chilblains, particularly where they itch a good deal and are moist. Exanthema corroding and spreading; very difficult to heal; sensibility of the skin in general; sores produced by lying in bed.

Strong aversion to fat food, to meat; to the open air; made worse eating cabbage.

Catalepsy; tonic spasms; cracking of the joints; inflexibility of the joints. Sprains; chronic sprains.

Calc. carb., Lycop., Bryon., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Silic., Sulphur.

Nux vom.

Crude Rock-oil

Strumous diathesis, especially the dark type, who suffer from catarrhal conditions of the mucous membranes, gastric acidity and cutaneous eruptions.

Very marked skin symptoms, acting on sweat and oil glands; Ailments are worse during the winter season. Ailments from riding in cars, carriages, or ships; lingering gastric and lung troubles; chronic diarrhœa. Long-lasting complaints follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc. Chlorosis in young girls with or without ulceration of the stomach.

Marked aggravation from mental emotions. Loses his way in streets. Thinks he is double, or some one else lying alongside. Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs. Irritable, easily offended, vexed at everything. Low-spirited, with dimness of sight.

Sensitive, as of a cold breeze blowing on it. Feels numb, as if made of wood; occiput heavy, as of lead (Opium). Vertigo on rising, felt in occiput, as if intoxicated, or like sea-sickness. Moist eruption on scalp; worse, back and ears. Scalp sore to touch, followed by numbness. Headache, must hold temples to relieve; provoked by shaking while coughing. Use thirtieth.

Loss of eyelashes. Dim sight; far-sighted; cannot read fine print without glasses; blenorrhœa of lachrymal sac; marginal blepharitis. Canthi fissured. Skin around eyes dry and scurfy.

Noise unbearable, especially from several people talking together. Eczema, intertrigo, etc, in and behind ears, with intense itching. Parts sore to touch. Fissures in meatus. Dry catarrh, with deafness and noises. Ringing and cracking in ears. Chronic Eustachian catarrh. Diminished hearing.

Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn; tip of nose itches. Epistaxis. Ozæna, with scabs and muco-purulent discharge.

Dry; feels constricted, as if covered with albumin.

Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation. Distention. Feeling of great emptiness. Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating cabbage. Hunger, immediately after stool. Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth. Gastralgia when stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating (Anac; Sep). Ravenous hunger. Must rise at night and eat (Psorin). Odor of garlic.

Diarrhœa only in the daytime; watery, gushing and Itching of anus. After cabbage; with empty feeling of stomach.

Herpetic eruption on perineum. Prostate inflamed and swollen. Itching in urethra.

Before menses, throbbing in head (Kreos). Leucorrhœa, profuse, albuminous (Alum; Bor; Bov; Calc p). Genitals sore and moist. Sensation of moisture (Eup purp). Itching and mealy coating of nipple.

Hoarseness (Carbo; Caust; Phos) dry cough and oppression of chest; worse, cold air. Dry cough at night, coming deep from chest. Croup and laryngeal diphtheria.

Sensation of coldness (Carb an; Nat mur). Fainting, with ebullitions, heat and palpitation.

Pain in nape of neck, stiff and painful. Weakness in small of back. Coccyx painful.

Chronic sprains. Fetid sweat in axillæ. Knees stiff. Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured every winter. Scalding sensation in knee. Cracking in joints.

Itching at night. Chilblains, moist, itch and burn. Bed-sores. Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked, leathery. Herpes. Slightest scratch makes skin suppurate (Hepar). Intertrigo; psoriasis of hands. Thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching; redness, raw; cracks bleed easily. Eczema. Rhagades worse in winter.

Chilliness, followed by sweat. Flushes of heat, particularly of the face and head; worse at night. Perspiration on feet and axillæ.

Worse, dampness, before and during a thunder-storm, from riding in cars, passive motion; in winter, eating, from mental states. Better, warm air; lying with head high; dry weather.

Compare: Carbo; Graph; Sulph; Phos.

Complementary: Sepia.

Antidotes: Nux; Coccul.

Third to thirtieth and higher potencies. Material doses often better.

Eczemas, on scalp, behind ears, scrotum, anus, hands, feet, legs; hands chap and bleed; all < in winter; get better in summer.

Diarrhœa preceded by colic, only in the day-time.

Headache, or heaviness like lead in the occiput; sometimes with nausea on vomiting; < by motion, as in riding in boat or carriage.

One of our best anti-psoric remedies. The eruptions that it causes and cures are very similar in appearance to those of Graphites. They appear on different parts of the body, as scalp, behind ears, on scrotum, female genitals, hands, feet and legs, etc.

There is one very marked characteristic symptom that guides to this remedy out of a large list having similar eruptions, and that is that the eruption is worse during the winter season (Aloe, Alumina, Psorinum). There is no other remedy that has this so prominently. The hands chap, crack and bleed, and are all covered with eczema during the winter and get well in summer. I hake cured a case of eczema of the lower legs of twenty years' standing, always worse in winter, with one prescription of the 200th. I have cured chapped hands the same way. I once had a very obstinate case of chronic diarrhœa, but as soon as the fact that he had eczema of the hands in winter came to light I cured him quickly of the whole trouble with Petroleum 200th. Chilblains (Agaricus), which are moist, and itch and burn much in cold weather, are also cured by it. Petroleum; also has a symptom similar to Hepar sulphuris, viz., the slightest scratch of abrasion of the skin suppurates. You remember that Hepar sulphuris is also worse in cold weather or cold air. Petroleum has headache in the occiput, which is as heavy as lead, also vertigo in the occiput.

Again, Petroleum is one of our best remedies for seasickness. In this it resembles Cocculus. Another curious symptom is cracking of the joints. This is like Causticum. Both of these remedies are valuable in chronic rheumatism, especially where this symptom is present. Petroleum has, with Chelidonium and Anacardium, a symptom, pain in stomach, relieved by eating. Again it is valuable in diarrhœa and dysentery, which is worse during the day. Petroleum deserves to be classed with the leading anti-psorics, such as Sulphur, Graphites, Causticum and Lycopodium.

Excited, irritable, with inclination to anger and to scold ; anxious and irresolute. Sadness and despondency, inclination to weep. Weakness of memory. Delirium ; imagination ; thinks another person is lying with him in bed ; or always and continuously delirious talk of the same distressing and unpleasant subject.

Headache when stooping or rising from bed. Pulsation in the cerebellum. Pressing stinging in the cerebellum. Sensation as if every thing in the head were alive. Headache in the forehead ; every mental exertion causes him to become quite stupid. Headache from anger. Sensitiveness of the scalp on both sides, very sore to the touch, followed by numbness, and very sore on scratching, worse in the morning and on becoming heated.

Inflammation, with itching of the eye. Fistula lachrymalis. Like a veil before the eye.

Dryness and disagreeable sensation of dryness in the ear. Hardness of hearing. Discharge of pus and blood from the ear. Humid soreness behind the ear.

Dryness and sensation of dryness in the nose. Fluent coryza, with hoarseness. Swelling of the nose, with discharge of pus, and pain at the root of it.

Yellow complexion. Heat in the face after eating (sometimes with thirst). Scurfs around the mouth. Easily dislocated jaw, in the morning in bed, with much pain. Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Toothache from contact with the fresh open air, at night, and with swelling of the cheek. Numbness of the teeth, they pain when biting on them. Swelling of the gums, with stinging-burning pain when touching it. Fistula dentalis. Smell from the mouth like garlic. Great dryness of the mouth and throat in the morning, with much thirst (for beer). Stinging pain in the throat when swallowing. Ulcers on the inner cheek, painful when closing the teeth. Hawking of mucus in the morning. When swallowing, the food enters into the posterior nares. The tongue is coated white.

Taste, putrid, flat, mucous. Violent thirst (for beer). Ravenous hunger. Aversion to meat and fat as well as all warm, cooked food. Sour or bitter eructations and gulping up of. Waterbrash. After eating vertigo and giddiness. Nausea, from riding in a carriage. Nausea and vomiting of pregnant women. Vomiting of bitter, green substances. Pressure on the stomach ; colic (at night). Sensation of emptiness in the stomach. Sensation of fulness or swelling of the pit of the stomach, with soreness when touched. Pain in the pit of the stomach as if something were tearing off. Cutting in the abdomen soon after eating. Weakness of digestion. Sensation of coldness in the abdomen.

Stool insufficient, difficult, hard, in lumps. Diarrhœa preceded by colic only during the day. Stools of bloody mucus. Itching herpes on the perineum.

Constant dripping of urine. Frequent micturition, with scanty emission of brown, fetid urine. Contraction of the urethra. Burning in the urethra. Involuntary micturition, at night in bed.

Men. Red, sore, moist scrotum and adjacent parts. Itching and humid herpes on the scrotum and between the scrotum and thigh. Women. Soreness and moisture on the sexual organs. Aversion to an embrace. Menses too early, the discharge causes itching. During pregnancy diarrhœa and vomiting. Itching and mealy covering of the nipples.

Cold air causes an oppressed feeling on the chest. Oppression of the chest, at night. At night, dry cough coming deep from the chest, caused by a scratching in the throat. Cough with stitches under the sternum. Herpes on the chest.

Pain in the small of the back, preventing one from standing. Weakness and stiffness in the back and small of the back. Pain in the back, which does not allow him to move. Herpes in the neck.

Upper. Brown or yellow spots on the arms. Burning in the palms of the hands. During the winter, chapped hands and fingers, full of deep, bloody rhagades. Arthritic stiffness of the finger-joints. Pain in the wrist joint as if sprained. Lower. Stitches in the knee. Hot swelling of the soles of the feet with burning. Painful swelling and redness of the heel (chilblains). Ulcers on the toes, originating in blisters on the toes. Herpes on the knees and ankles. Feet swollen ; cold.

Twitching in the limbs ; epileptic attacks. The limbs go to sleep and become stiff. Cracking and arthritic stiffness in the joints. Great debility with trembling. Aversion to the open air ; and from it chilliness. Fainting, with ebullitions, heat, pressing on the heart and palpitation of the heart.

Sleep with distressing dreams, as if somebody were lying alongside of him in bed.

Pulse full and accelerated from every exertion ; as soon as reposing, the pulse becomes again slow. Chill, especially toward evening, often with heat at the same time. Chilliness through the whole body followed by itching. Chilliness in the open air. Chill with headache and excessive coldness of the face and hands. Heat in the evening after the chill, with cold feet. Heat after midnight and in the morning, in bed. Sensation of heat over the whole body, with violent burning of the skin. Flushes of heat. Night-sweats. The forearms and lower legs perspire easily. Perspiration after the chill, no heat intervening. Intermittent fever. Violent chilliness and coldness of the hands and face at 10 A.M. ; half an hour later, heat in the face, especially in the eyes, with thirst. Shaking fits, 7 P.M., followed by perspiration, first in the face, later all over, except in the legs, which are quite cold.

Swelling and indurations of the glands ; also after contusions. Itching herpes. Itching, sore, moist surfaces. Brown or yellow spots on the skin. The skin is hard to heal. Ulcers with stinging pain or with proud flesh.

Many ailments originate or are aggravated during a thunder-storm. After a walk in the open air, or after a slight fit of anger, flushes of heat, ebullitions and perspiration. Complaints from riding in a carriage, or in a ship. Bad effects from sprains and bruises (glands). Amelioration from warmth, warm air.

Oleum petræ. Rock-oil. Coal Oil. Trituration and tincture of the rectified oil. (Preparations of the non-rectified oil should also be made.)

Addison's disease. Albuminuria. Anæmia . Angina pectoris. Anus, fissure of. Bed-sores. Breath, offensive . Burns. Chilblains . Chlorosis. Constipation. Cracks in skin . Deafness. Diarrhœa . Dysmenia. Dyspepsia. Ear, affections of. Eczema. Face, rough . Facial paralysis. Feet, soles painful. Fester, tendency to . Fistulæ. Frost-bite. Gastric ulcer. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhoids. Hands, chapped . Headache; occipital. Herpes. Herpes preputialis. Irritation. Jaw, easily dislocated . Myopia. Nose, sore . Otorrhœa. Perspiration, offensive. Pregnancy, sickness of . Presbyopia. Prostatitis. Psoriasis . Rheumatism. Sea-sickness. Skin, affections of . Sprains. Syphilis. Tabes mesenterica. Toothache. Urethra, stricture of; chronic inflammation of. Varices. Vomiting . Warts.

The Petrol . proved by Hahnemann is made by agitating the liquid commercial Petroleum with Sulphuric Acid and then rectifying the portion which this acid does not act upon. It is "a light oily fluid, colourless or of a pale straw colour, and strong characteristic naphthalic smell. Dropped on white paper it evaporates completely, leaving no greasy stain." Under PARAFFIN I have described the relation between Petrol., Naph ., and Paraff . Commercial "Petroleum" and commercial "Paraffin oil" are one and the same. The Petrol . of homœopathy is this substance purified and rectified. But in the pathogenesis are included effects observed on those engaged in petroleum works, and those who use "Paraffin oil" in various trades; it would therefore be well to have also a preparation of the crude, non-rectified liquid. Petrolatum (Vaseline) consists of hydrocarbons of the Paraffin series, obtained from residues after distillation of lighter oils from crude petroleum; or deposited from crude petroleum on standing. The affections met with in petroleum extractors and refiners are — ( 1 ) Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue; depressed nutrition, anæmia, dyspepsia, nerve troubles, irritability, insomnia, respiratory affections. In addition to these is a species of intoxication. A man, a patient of mine who suffered from inveterate eczema, and who had formerly been employed in a factory where much petroleum was used, noticed that his eczema was much better whilst working with petroleum. He told me that the vapour had the singular effect of making some of the workmen insane, causing: Desire to kill; hallucinations, they will see things not actually visible; for instance, "they will see the rails in a station when a train is on them." Boys (who are much affected) will jump at a straight wall and try to scramble up it. A rickety boy, æt. 2 1/2, who had an unconquerable desire to drink anything liquid within his reach I took one day e good draught of paraffin oil. An Ipecacuanha emetic and a Castor Oil purge got rid of a good deal of it, and a month after he was brought to me with these symptoms: Appetite had. Pale, dark rings round eyes. Every now and then seems to collapse; goes into a corner and will not play; after tea quite bright. Cold sweat in bed; complains of burning heat; then goes cold and clammy. I prescribed Phos . 2. In three weeks he was brought back much better. He had lost the pallor and dark rings round the eyes, and had ceased to mope; but he had come out, all over small boils which discharged, the discharge having the odour of paraffin. There was A slight recurrence of the old symptoms a fortnight later, and after that I did not see the boy again till a year later, when he was brought to me for diphtheritic paralysis. Two years after this he was brought to me again. He was now well grown and had no sign of rickets, but some of the old symptoms came back: Languid; inclined to be quiet; averse to play. At times clammy all over body. This time Petrol . 30 soon put him right. In the case of a woman who drank paraffin oil when intoxicated, there was epigastric pain so severe that she thought she would go out of her mind, > lying with knees drawn up; tenderness of ileo-cæcal region and of epigastrium; swollen feeling of abdomen, without actual swelling; blood and albumen in urine; pain in back and slight return of menses, which had ceased a week before. These cases show the profound action of Petrol . on the organism. It is one of Hahnemann's leading antipsorics, and is especially closely related to Graph . It is suited to long-lasting, deep-seated, wasting diseases; lingering gastric and intestinal troubles with or without ulceration. In my experience no remedy corresponds to more cases of chlorosis in young girls, with or without ulceration of the stomach. Petrol . (says Kent) corresponds to low conditions in which there is inability to throw out eruptions on the skin; or conditions in which an eruption has disappeared without improvement in health: to reflexions of disease on mucous membranes setting up catarrh. Ozæna; intestinal catarrh. Soreness and cracks about muco-cutaneous orifices. Irritability of skin and irritability of mind are both found in Petrol ., as in many other remedies: Excitable; angry at trifles. Anxiety with fear. Mental weakness and forgetfulness are also very characteristic, and are generally met with in connection with deep-seated disease. An illusion that there is another person, or another baby in bed, is very characteristic of the remedy, and has led to cures with Petrol . of cases of typhoid and puerperal fever. "Falling out of the hair" is a characteristic symptom of Petrol ., and accounts for the popularity of Petroleum hair-restorers. [ Petrol . "probably acts on the sebaceous rather than the sudoriferous secretions of the skin, and its local action is on parts where the sebum is abundant." — R. T. C.]. The use of these hair-restorers has caused many violent headaches. So has the use of "Coal Oil" (a tablespoonful to a bucketful of water) by washerwomen to improve the colour of linen. M. T. Bleim (quoted H. W ., xxvi. 318) thus describes the result in one case: Severe occipital headache, loss of strength, emaciation, diarrhœa, dyspepsia with fulness on eating very little; accumulation of gas; very severe attacks of suffocation, > by eructations of gas. The headaches of Petrol . may be in any part, but they are most marked in occiput. Heaviness like lead; pressure, sticking; pulsating; < on shaking head or any jar. Pain travels from occiput to eyes, and is associated with temporary loss of sight and fainting. The vertigo and heaviness of Petrol . are often associated with nausea and bilious vomiting. This (nausea with or without vomiting) is one of the grand characteristics of the remedy. It is < by motion in a carriage or on the sea; hence Petrol . is one of the first remedies in train-sickness or sea-sickness. The other side of this nausea is another grand characteristic: Awful ravenous hunger, the "sinking" of the chief antipsorics. It is particularly noticed immediately after a stool, in diarrhœa, nervous affections, spinal disease, &c. (Kent). In pulmonary affections Petrol . has gained much repute of late in the form of an emulsion. A leading indication for it is "Oppression of the chest; < in cold air." Petrol . has a peculiar cough, not infrequently met with in young girls and boys, coming from deep down in the chest, and frequently waking the patient up at night. A student who had a deep, hollow-sounding, hacking cough, excited by laughing, waking him up in the middle of the night, I cured with Petrol . 30 after Arg. n . and Arg. met . had failed to do anything. The cough had persisted some time and caused his family no little anxiety. The discharges of Petrol . are thick, purulent, and yellowish green. For the cracked nostrils accompanying and following cold in the head I find the application of vaseline more often useful than other forms of unguent. The localities of Petrol . are very like those of Graph .: Scalp, behind ears, scrotum, genitals. The modality " < in winter" has given Nash the key to several cases of eczema, chapped hands, chilblains, and one case of chronic diarrhœa, as soon as he discovered that the patient had eczema of the hands in winter. Petrol . 200 was given. The skin is extremely sensitive; all clothing is painful; slight injuries suppurate. Allen's Appendix quotes an important case reported by O. Lassar in Virchow's Archiv . A man used for four days extensive inunctions with Petrol . to relieve himself from scabies. A week later his feet began to swell, and the dropsy, increasing rapidly, spread over abdomen and thorax. In a fortnight it disappeared, but eight days later returned and persisted till death, four months after the inunction. The urine was highly albuminous, and contained hyaline and granular cylinders; but the necropsy revealed no lesion of any organ to account for the dropsy. The, body was extremely œdematous; there was œdema of the lungs and dropsy of the cavities, and whilst in hospital the wrist pulse was small, empty, and of low tension; the blood corpuscles were few, but their relative proportions were normal. Temperature normal, and the skin showed localised areas of inflammation. Along the veins and lymphatics a small-celled growth existed, and in all the layers of the cutis there was a widely distributed nuclear proliferation. Peculiar symptoms are: Brain as if wrapped in a fog. As if everything in head were alive. As if head made of wood, or as if bruised. As if a cold breeze were blowing on head. As if head would burst. Veil before eyes. Sand in eyes. As if skin over bridge of nose drawn stiff and tight. As if something were tearing off from pit of stomach. As if a cold stone at heart. Splinter in heel. Upper and lower limbs as if stiff without joints. Jaw as if distended. There is great weakness; fainting; tremor; twitching of limbs; catalepsy; tonic spasms; left-sided paralysis. The notes of the skin affections are: Itching; burning; rawness; bleeding. Burning sensations are very marked; and as Petrol . is accountable for so many burning accidents it is fitting that it should make a very good application for burns in the form of vaseline, cosmoline, or Petrol . mixed with equal parts of olive oil. Petrol . is suited to: Persons with light hair and skin. Especially for lean, slender persons. The symptoms are < by touch; by contact of clothing; by scratching; by riding in carriage or ship. Pinching the parts > hæmorrhoids. < From mental exertion. Headache < on shaking head; > by epistaxis; < from light and noise. After stool: hunger immediately. Ravenous hunger; frequently awakened by it at night; easily satisfied, with aversion to meat, fats, cooked or hot food; desire only for dainties, which are eaten with avidity. Eating > gastralgia. Gastralgia comes on whenever the stomach is empty. Empty, weak sensation in stomach. < After eating or drinking. After eating: giddiness; heat in face; cutting in abdomen; eructations; drowsiness; uneasiness. Cabbages, saurkraut = diarrhœa. Colic > by bending double. Exertion, motion, riding, sitting < . Lying down < cough, and distension of abdomen. Vertigo when head lies low. < Cold air. < Winter. < Open air. < Before and during thunderstorm. < Bathing. > Warmth and warm air. < Warmth of bed (itching). Cough is < at night and 2, 4, and 6 a.m. Smoking befogs him; = cough. < After coitus (nervous irritability). Cough < by laughing (cured). < During day (diarrhœa and dysentery). Throat affections go right to left. Headache back to front.

Continue in Clarke 29 more passages →

Loss of consciousness.
Very forgetful and disinclined to think.
Did not know where she was in the street.
Delirium ; thinks another person lies alongside of him, or that one limb is double.
Since confinement two weeks ago when in bed, in dark room, at night, delusion that there is another baby in bed, which requires attention, also that she has a third leg which would not remain quiet.
Excitable, irritable, with inclination to be angry and to scold ; anxious and irresolute.
Violent, irritable, offended at trifles.
Irritable, vexed, always quiet, sad thoughts, turned to himself, no ambition to work ; heaviness, heat and pain in head in morning ; backache ; spasmodic eructation ; thin, slimy stool, with cutting in abdomen ; pale and emaciated ; profuse night and
morning sweats.
Ailments from vexation, with fright.
Sadness and despondency, inclination to weep.
Melancholy mood, imagines but little time is left him to make his will. θ Cough.
Sensation as if there were a cold stone in heart.
Towards evening anxiety and apprehension about his family, which he left behind while going on a short journey ; the anxiety increases until he becomes inconsolable.
Great fearfulness.

Vertigo : on stooping ; on rising, in occiput ; as if intoxicated ; like seasickness ; with bilious vomiting ; frequent, when walking ; commencing at dinner ; as if she would fall forward, especially when raising
eyeballs ; with nausea in evening in bed, especially when head lies low ; obliging him to stoop, with pale face and nausea ; more violent when standing than when sitting, going off when lying, attended with eructations, yawning, want of appetite, pressure in abdomen, and slow
pulse ; when rising from recumbent position, with heat in face when lying ; in back of head and in left side of occiput like a whirling in head ; it seems to go all over him, making him feel numb and stiff.
Brain feels as if wrapped in a fog ; cannot bear noise of people ; sad and discouraged.
After eating a little, head seems befogged, dizzy and confused.

Headache in forehead ; every mental exertion makes him quite stupid.
Frontal headache, at times quite severe, but < while nausea remains.
Sensation as if everything in head were alive.
Head feels numb, as if made of wood, or as if bruised.
Heaviness of head in morning, with headache.
Pinching headache.
Headache when stooping or rising from bed.
Headache from anger.
Pressing stinging in cerebellum.
Heaviness like lead in occiput.
Pressure and sticking pressure in occiput in morning.
Pinching or dull pulsating pain in occiput.
Circumscribed pain in occiput, < on shaking head.
Occipital headache with general spasms and screaming ; loss of appetite ; constipation ; slightest touch aggravates pain which usually lasts ten days.
Migraine since girlhood, at first every four weeks, afterwards every fortnight, and in last years almost every day ; after any great exertion or mental excitement must go to bed for several days ; retching and vomiting of bile ; aching, throbbing pain chiefly in
forehead ; attack commences in occiput then spreads to front of head and as it reaches its climax occiput is free.
Pain from occiput over head to forehead and eyes, with transitory blindness ; he gets stiff ; loses consciousness.

Continue in Hering 44 more passages →

It is one of the abused remedies.

It is used externally in rheumatism, bruises and all sorts of troubles, and the amelioration that comes is the result of establishing a disease on the surface, by counter-irritation, and not by homoeopathic action. Crude Petroleum is extensively used in the oil regions on both man and beast as a "cure all."

It is a counter-irritant and, on the skin, produces irritation, eruptions and disturbances, like Turpentine.

Among the early things that Petroleum does to a prover is that it puts him in a state of confusion of mind and dizziness; he is dazed so that he loses his way in the street. She has strange imaginations that there are people near her who are not present; that the atmosphere is full of strange forms; that her limbs are double; that another person is in the bed with her.

Such things are found in the fevers. A woman after childbirth imagines there is another child in bed with her, and she wonders how she will take care of the two. These ideas are found in many diseases, have been often verified. In typhoids and low forms of sickness; in diarrheas; when just awakening he is in confusion; in his dreams he had the idea of being two or more and the impression remains with him while he is in a semi-conscious state. He cannot reconcile the state, but when aroused to consciousness he is able to reason it away, and when semi-conscious again it returns. This annoys him day and night.

Skin symptoms. The surface symptoms are striking. The tendency is to throw out vesicles, herpetic vesicles which are isolated, and the tendency of the vesicles is to form thick yellow crusts, with considerable moisture. The vesicles break early.

At times the vesicles do not form crusts, but break early and ulcerate underneath, and this changes into a phagedenic ulcer; this condition occurs about the fingers, scrotum, face and scalp. There is a special tendency to produce vesicular eruptions about the back of the neck.

Papular, pustular, vesicular, dry, mealy eruptions, but most commonly moist; eruptions which extend deeply. It builds up eruptions on the site of old eruptions, with an increasing hardness in the base of the old eruption.

When the crust dries down it indurates, and this induration takes place at the margin and builds up little rings about the margin. The induration cracks, bleeds, looks purple. Apply this to salt rheum, and eruptions about the hands. It is suitable when there are cracks about the ends of the fingers and on the backs of the hands.

The skin is rough, ragged, exfoliates, cracks, bleeds; the tissues are hardened; this occurs sometimes about the palms of the hands and nails. This tissue ulcerates, and the ulcers eat and spread. All eruptions itch violently. He can not rest until he scratches the skin off, when the part becomes moist, bloody, raw and inflamed.

There is also itching with no visible eruption. He scratches the skin until moisture oozes forth, and keeps on scratching until the skin bleeds and the part becomes cold.

(This word makes me remark here that coldness in spots is quite a feature of this remedy. Coldness in spots; coldness in the stomach, in the abdomen, in the uterus; coldness in a spot between the scapula; coldness in the heart - sensation as if the heart were cold.).

Various forms of eczema. Eczema of the scalp, especially of the occiput. Herpetic eruptions about the mouth ( Nat. m.), about the genitals, lips, face, and the patches become crusty and ooze much.

The mucous membrane, or internal skin, has little patches of ulcers, with induration about the patch, and hence Petr. is useful in syphilitic ulcers. Ulcerous patches in the throat; aphthous patches in the mouth. There is inflammation of the mucous membranes everywhere, producing watery and finally thick yellow discharges.

The nose is filled by tumefaction of the Schneiderian membrane. Old catarrhal complaints of the nose, crusts, thick yellow discharge, foetid odor from the nose.

The nose, posterior nares and pharynx become thickened and there is an accumulation of thick mucus, especially in the morning.

The larynx is involved and there is loss of voice, and the trouble extends to the chest, causing a catarrhal condition with cough. He coughs especially at night, and there is emaciation of the body with pain and soreness of the chest. Dry, hacking cough, alternating with copious expectoration; emaciation about the chest. A striking feature of this drug is that the cough is worse at night, and the diarrhea is worse during the day.

Catarrh of the stomach and bowels. Catarrh of the rectum, much mucus with the stools. Diarrhœa during the day time, ameliorated at night, while the patient is quiet and at rest.

He cannot eat without pain, but he has a gnawing hunger which drives him to eat. ( Lach., Graph.) There is an "all-gone," hungry feeling after stool, which drives him to eat. With the diarrhea there is constant hunger, yet he cannot eat without pain; emaciation, skin eruptions, unhealthy ragged fingers which never look clean; he cannot wash them, as this causes them to chap.

Catarrh of the bladder and urethra; chronic catarrhal discharge chronic gonorrhea. Itching is common to the internal skin, and a striking feature in gonorrhea is the itching in the posterior half of the urethra with the discharge. It almost drives him wild, keeps him awake at night. He rubs and manipulates the perineum to relieve this itching. The gonorrheal discharge is white or yellow. It is useful in that "last drop."

Also in the early stages of gonorrhea when the itching is troublesome.

Sore bruised feeling all over the body, especially in the joint Rheumatic pain in the joints on motion; sore to touch; sensation as if bruised. It is analogous to Arnica in relation to bruises.

Petroleum is suitable in old stubborn occipital headaches. Silicea is the routine remedy for offensive foot sweat and periodic occipital headaches. Petroleum has also offensive foot sweat; offensive sweats all over, and especially so in the axilla, where it is so pungent that it can be observed on the patient entering the room.

The pain often remains in the occiput, but when very severe it extends up over the top of the head to the eyes and forehead ( Silicea has that condition). Petroleum is not so closely related to Silicea as it is to Graphites and Carbo veg., which are carbonaceous substances; and all carbonaceous products affect the back of the head.

"Pain from occiput over head to forehead and eyes, with transitory blindness; he gets stiff; loses consciousness."

"Circumscribed pain in the occiput, aggravated on shaking the head."

This remedy, unlike Carbo veg., has oversensitiveness of the senses, bearing, touch and smell.

The Petroleum constitution produces a peculiar vertigo which comes on under regular circumstances, when on ship-board, or riding in a carriage, or on the ears.

It suits occipital headache from riding on the ears, or from such motions, with nausea like seasickness. Seasickness is a trouble we cannot always meet, yet most people, when constitutionally treated, can be directed into a better state, so that they will not be troubled under ordinary conditions, such as riding on the cars or in a carriage.

To a great extent the above condition is due to a lack of accommodation, a visual trouble; coming on, for example, from focusing the eyes on the waves as they retreat from the rear end of the ship, or on passing objects, the patient being relieved while in a dark state-room. Occipital headache, with the vertigo above mentioned, and an all gone hungry feeling or pain in the stomach, driving him to eat, will be mitigated by Petroleum.

The most common form of seasickness I have found to be the following:

Awful deathly nausea pallor, cold body, profuse sweat and exhaustion, ameliorated by fanning, by the open air, by closing the eyes, by quiet and darkness, and aggravated by warmth. Tabacum is generally the remedy of such cases.

In Petroleum there is much disturbance of vision, but the catarrhal the eyes is striking. Vesicular formations, ulcerations, inflammation, redness and copious discharge; granular lids, thickening mucous membranes, cracks in the lids, fissures in the corners eyes with great itching.

This itching is present in all congestions of the mucous membrane. Eustachian tubes. The mucous membrane is thickened, and deafness results. It is a catarrhal state, attended by great itching in the tube, which be cannot reach method; itching deep in the ear. He rubs the ear and tries to it, but he cannot reach it. Itching in the pharynx; also in the I canal of the ear. Ear discharges.

Induration and inflammation of the glands of the body. In ear troubles, the parotids enlarge; in troubles about the jaw, the sub-maxillary and sub-lingual glands are involved; they become hard and tend to remain so.

Face pale or yellow; sickly.

"Nausea and qualmishness all day".

Stiffness in the back. Pain in the back on rising from a seat.

Heat and burning. Skin hot in places; with sensation of coldness. Burning and itching of palms and soles; face and scalp. The itching and burning often go together; parts that burn much. Feet burn and have a sensation as if frozen. Chilblains itch, burn and become purple. Parts frozen will, years after, itch, burn, sting and become red and hot. The patient can tell when it will thaw because of the itching in the chilblains.

Petroleum cures the itching and burning in frozen parts, but not as prominently as Agaricus leads all other remedies, especially when the condition affects parts where the tissues are thin over the bones, as over the back of the toes.

Paretic conditions, especially left-sided., Weakness of muscles, weakness of the lower extremities, especially left-sided.

The eruptions on the surface and the state of induration are like Graphites, but the oozing in Petroleum is thin and watery, and in Graphites it is gluey, honey like, sticky, viscid. You have indurations and cracks of the fingers, and rhagades in both remedies, but the horn-like warty growths, lifting up the quick of the nails, you will find only in Graphites.

It is of wonderful use and competes with Rhus in eczema of the genitals of either male or female. Eruption on the scrotum, penis, vulva.

Rhus produces violent inflammation of the skin of the genitals in male and female; erysipelatous inflammation; nodules vesicles and large blebs. Petroleum produces small vesicles which itch, sting and burn.

Herpetic eruptions which tend to become erysipelatous. Petroleum and Rhus are the most common remedies for eruptions on the scrotum and genitals.

"Herpetic itching, redness and moisture on scrotum; skin cracked, rough and bleeding; extending to perineum, and thighs."

"Obstinate dry eruptions on genitals and perineum."

"Sweat and moisture of external genitals of both sexes."

Scurfy nipples; white, bran-like scurf; itching; always peeling off. If the woman is in run-down health, then the nipples inflame and become oversensitive to the touch of clothing.

Very sensitive to change of weather, like Phos. and Rhod. ; aggravated before a thunder storm. Often sensitive to air and cold. Lean, emaciated subjects; threatening consumption. Eruptions disappear of themselves or are suppressed. Hands and feet burn; wants the palms and soles out of bed.

Do not be too sure Sulphur because the soles burn, or too sure of Silicea because the feet sweat. Sweating of single parts. Eruptions in patches. Itching in patches. Coldness in parts. Complaints come in single parts.

The most striking offensiveness is about the feet and in the axillae. There are many strange sensations which are peculiar and striking. Study closely the skin symptoms and compare with Graphites and Sulphur.

Adapted to persons of light hair and skin; irritable, quarrelsome disposition (Nux v.); offended at trifles; vexed at everything.

Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly (Bell., Mag. p.).

During sleep or delirium: imagines that one leg is double; that another person lies alongside of him in the same bed; that there are two babies in the bed (Bry., Val.).

Vertigo: on rising; in occiput; as if intoxicated; like sea- sickness.

Headache: in occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing, pulsating pain; as if everything in the head were alive; numb, bruised; as if made of wood.

Gastralgia: of pregnancy; with pressing, drawing pains; whenever the stomach is empty; $>$ by constant eating (Chel., Sep.).

Diarrhœa: yellow, watery, gushing; after cabbage, sour krout; during pregnancy, stormy weather; always in the daytime.

Complaints: from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship (Coc., San.); $<$ before and during a thunderstorm.

Sweat and moisture of external genitals, of both sexes; fetid, of axillæ (Graph., San.).

Tips of fingers rough, cracked; fissured, every winter; skin of hands rough and cracked; of whole body, sore and painful.

Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands $<$ in cold weather; decubitus.

Sensation of coldness about the heart (Ars., Carbo an., Helod., Kali m., Nat. m.).

The skin symptoms are worse in winter, better in summer (Alum., Psor.); if suppressed, cause diarrhœa.

Carriage riding; during a thunderstorm; in winter (skin symptoms).

Warmth; warm air.

Quotidian. Cold stage predominates.

10 A. M., 3, 4, 6, 7 and 10 P. M. Evening paroxysm predominant.

Fever without chill, 5 to 6 P. M.

Without thirst at 10 A. M. for half an hour, with coldness of the hands and face. Chilliness lasting two hours, every afternoon, at 3 or 4 o'clock, with cold hands and dryness of the mouth. Shaking chill at 7 P. M., with sweat over whole body, except lower extremities, which were quite cold. Violent internal shaking chill at 10 P. M. Shaking chill every evening. Chilliness with trembling, face cold, cheeks, fingers and nails blue. Chilliness at 6 P. M., with blue nails. Chilliness in the open air. Chilliness in evening, with flushes of heat in the face. Frequent chilliness through the whole body, followed by violent itching of the skin (pricking of the skin, Nit. ac.).

And chill at same time, at 10 P. M. Heat at night, bedclothes were intolerable, and was obliged to uncover (external warmth is intolerable, Puls.). Flushes of heat over whole body. Heat of head; redness of face; burning pain in the mouth, and dryness of the trachea. Heat in the evening after the chill.

Of single parts at different times, as hands, palms, head, back, chest, axilla, arms, legs, feet (Thuja). Profuse perspiration of the forearms, lower legs, feet; on the soles. Sweat; with partial chills; or immediately after the chill. Offensive, of axilla and soles. No heat intervening.

Coated white in the centre, with a dark streak along the sides (white, with red edges, or red and white in alternate streaks, Ant. t.); offensive saliva. Taste, slimy, pappy, putrid; aversion to fat meat, and all warm cooked food. Ravenous hunger, or loss of appetite.

Full, rapid; accelerated by every motion; becomes slow again during rest. Cold feeling about the heart (Nat.).

Chill; of single parts, < in open air; followed by violent itching of the skin

Heat; of head; red face; flushes over whole body.

Sweat; of single parts at different times; after chill, no intervening heat Chronic cases maltreated by drugging and quinine.

Did not know where she was in the street.
Delirium; thinks another person lies alongside of him, or that one limb is double.
Sadness and despondency, inclination to weep.
Excited irritable, with inclination to be angry and to scold; anxious and irresolute.
Ailments from vexation, with fright.

Vertigo on rising; often with bilious vomiting.

Headache in forehead; every mental exertion causes him to become stupid.
Headache from anger.
Frontal headache, at times quite severe, but worse while the nausea remained.
Occipital headache, with general spasms and screaming; loss of appetite, constipation.
Pain from the occiput over the head to the forehead and eyes, with transitory blindness; he gets stiff; loses consciousness.
Pressing-stinging in the cerebellum.
Dull, pulsating pain in occiput.
Sensation as if everything in the head were alive.
Head feels numb, as it made of wood or as if bruised.

Sensation as of a cold breeze blowing on head.
Scalp very sore to the touch, followed by numbness worse morning; and on becoming heated.
Moist eczema, acute and chronic, worse on the occiput.
Falling off of the hair.

Cannot open the eyes mornings; sight misty.
Aching in the eyes, worse in the evening and from light.
Ciliary blepharitis from conjunctivitis granulosa or from small-pox, with sticking and smarting in inner canthus.
Pannus in scrofulous patients; discharge from the eye white; cheeks rough.
Pains at the root of the nose, lids swollen, purulent discharge from eyes and nose.
Iritis, with dull pulsating in the occiput. θ Syphilis.
Fistula lachrymalis (of recent origin).

Sounds as of bells ringing.
Hardness of hearing; in old people.
Dryness and disagreeable sensation of dryness in the ear.
Eustachian tubes affected, causing whizzing, roaring, cracking, with hardness of hearing.
Polypus; wax increased, thick or thin.
Discharge of blood and pus from the ear.
Humid soreness behind the ear.

Slight epistaxis, relieving the headache.
Dry feeling in nose, frequent sneezing; adherent phlegm, blown out in small lumps; thick phlegm in posterior nares, worse mornings.
Swelling of the nose, with pain at its root; purulent discharge.
Fluent coryza, with hoarseness.

Yellow complexion.

Easily dislocated jaw, in morning in bed, with much pain.
External swelling on left lower jaw, painful to touch and on stooping.
Swelling of submaxillary glands.
Scurfs around mouth.

Sensation of coldness in teeth.
Toothache from contact with fresh, open air, at night, and with swelling of cheek.
Numbness of teeth, they pain when biting on them.
Swelling of the gums, with stinging, burning pain when touching them.
Fistula dentalis.

Taste: slimy, pappy, bitter; putrid; sour.
The tongue coated white in centre, with dark streak along edges.

Fetid smell from mouth.
Saliva, offensive smelling.
Great dryness of mouth and throat in morning, with much thirst.
Ulcers on the inner cheek, painful when closing the teeth.

When swallowing, food enters into posterior nares.
Throat feels swollen and raw.
Stinging from throat into ear, when swallowing.
Throat dry, sore; pain in nape of neck when swallowing.
Hawking of a tough, disagreeably tasting phlegm, in mornings.

Hunger immediately after stool.
Ravenous hunger.
Aversion to meat and fat, as well as all warm, cooked food.
Loss of appetite.
Drinking all the time; passed water often.
Violent thirst (for beer).

After eating; giddiness; heat in the face; cutting in the abdomen; gastralgia better.

Sour, or bitter eructations.
Nausea and vomiting of bitter, green substances; worse from riding in a carriage, during pregnancy, and in the morning.

Pain in pit of stomach, as if something were tearing off.
Sensation of fulness or swelling of pit of stomach, with soreness when touched.
Violent pain in stomach, extending up into chest, with sweat and nausea.
Gastralgia, with pressing, drawing pains, better from eating.
Sensation of emptiness and weakness in stomach.
Weakness of digestion.

Awake toward morning, with pinching colic, better from bending double.
Cold feeling in the abdomen.

Awakened early morning by urgent desire for stool, which is gushing, watery; sharp, cutting, colicky pains below the navel; rumbling.
Stools: slimy, preceded by colic; chronic diarrhœa; worse during the day; of bloody mucus; often profuse; yellowish, watery; weak feeling in bowels and rectum.
Diarrhœa: from cabbage, sour-krout; after riding in a carriage.
Stool insufficient, difficult, hard, in lumps.
Piles and fissures of the anus; great itching; scurf on borders of anus.
Excrescences on and in the anus, moist, irregular.

Constant dripping of urine.
Frequent micturition, with scanty, brown, fetid urine.
Involuntary micturition, at night in bed.
Itching in the meatus urinarius (female) during micturition, preceded by an urgent desire to urinate.
Chronic blenorrhœa.
Contraction of the urethra.
Burning in the urethra.
Chronic inflammation of pars prostatia urethræ, with frequent emissions and imperfect erection, chronic urethritis accompany stricture.

Sexual desire decreased in morning.
Gonorrhœa; chronic cases, with urethral itching.
Itching and humid herpes: on the scrotum; between scrotum and thigh; on the perineum.

Aversion to an embrace.
Menses: too late and scanty; early and profuse; menstrual blood causes itching.
Before the menses, throbbing in head; during menses, singing and roaring in the ears; lassitude.
Prolapsus uteri in patients reduced by chronic diarrhœa, occurring during the day.
Leucorrhœa, like albumen, profuse every day, or with nightly lascivious dreams.
Soreness and moisture on genitals, with violent itching.

During pregnancy, diarrhœa and vomiting, worse riding.
After confinement imagines there is another baby in bed which requires attention.
Itching and mealy covering of the nipples.

Dryness and scraping sensation in larynx.
Bronchial catarrhs.
Hoarseness.

Cold air causes an oppressed feeling on chest.
Oppression of the chest, at night.

Dry at night, coming deep from the chest, caused by a scratching in the throat; with stitches under the sternum.

Cold feeling about the heart.
Fainting, with ebullitions, heat, pressing on the heart and palpitation.
Pulse accelerated by every motion; slow during rest.

Herpes on the chest.

Stiff neck; it cracks when moved.
Herpes on the neck.
Furuncles.
Pain in spine and pain all over body, with sciatica.
Pain in back, which does not allow him to move.
Great uneasiness and stiffness in small of back and coccyx in the evening.
Pain in the coccyx while sitting.

Fetid sweat in the axillæ.
Salt rheum on arms, red, raw, burning; moist or covered with thick crusts.
Deep, bloody rhagades on hands, thick crusts; worse during winter.
Brown or yellow spots on the arms.
Wrist feels sprained.
Burning in palms of hands.

Legs swollen from knee to ankle, purplish, oozing, or covered with scales or scabs, which are easily detached; itching and burning like fire.
Spreading, sloughing ulceration of the leg.
Herpes on knees and ankles.
Ulcers on toes, originating in blisters.
Hot swelling of the soles, with burning.
Heel painfully swollen and red; chilblains.
Feet swollen; cold.
Feet tender and bathed in a foul moisture.

The limbs go to sleep and become stiff.
Rheumatic stiffness of the joints, with cracking when moved.
Rheumatic stiffness of shoulders and ankles; syphilis.

Motion: 29, 31, 34. Rising: 2. Stooping: 9. Bending double: 19. Sitting: 31. Rest: 29.

Twitching in the limbs; epileptic attacks.
Violent trembling of the limbs; weak unto faintness.

With distressing dreams, as if somebody were lying alongside of him in bed.

Morning: 4, 7, 9, 12, 13, 16, 19, 20, 22, 40. Evening: 31, 40. Night: 1, 21, 23, 26, 27, 40, 44. After midnight: 40. Toward morning: 19, 20. Day: 20, 23, 40, 44.

Many ailments are worse before or during a thunder storm.
Aversion to the open air and from it chilliness.
Warmth: 4, 17; of bed: 40. Open air: 10, 40. Cold air: 26. Winter: 32.

Chilliness through the body, followed by violent itching of the skin.
Chilliness in the open air.
Chill, with headache, and excessively cold face and hands.
Shaking chill, 7 P.M., then sweat in the face, and later all over except the legs, which are cold.
Chill, especially toward evening, often with heat at the same time.
Heat in the evening after chill, with cold feet.
Heat after 12 P.M., and in morning in bed.
Flushes of heat all over, in frequent attacks during day.
Profuse sweat every night, or immediately after chill.

Hemorrhages, blood light red.
Swelling and indurations of glands; also after contusions.
Increased secretion of the mucous membranes.
Emaciation, with diarrhœa by day, none at night; in children.

Touch: 4, 9, 10. Pressure: 10, 12.
Riding in carriage: 16, 20, 24.
Sprains and bruises.
After burns or scalds (cosmoline dressing).

Itching herpes followed by ulcers.
Herpes: 22, 30, 31, 32, 33.
Chronic eczema, parts seem excoriated.
Itching, sore, moist surfaces or deep cracks.
Brown or yellow spots on the skin.
Welts and blisters, with raw feeling.
Unhealthy skin; small wounds ulcerate and spread.
Ulcers, with stinging pain and proud flesh; often deep, ulcers with raised edges.

Light hair.

Petrol. antidotes: lead poisoning.
Antidote to Petrol.; Nux vom.

A tincture is made by dissolving one part of the crude rock-oil in 99 parts of alcohol.

Very complex and not clearly defined. ▶ Its nausea and occipital headache are marked; examine also its skin symptoms, it is generally allied to all the Carbons and the tissue remedies.

Sulph., Graph. , Tab., Colch., Puls.

Emaciation; with good appetite. ▶ Swelling began in feet; spread over abdomen and chest, disappeared, but returned, at the necropsy the body was extremely œdematous and the epidermis in places was raised in little blebs, dissection showed dropsy of the cavities and œdema of lungs, but no lesion to account for the dropsy, there were traces of fatty degeneration of the epithelium. ▶ Trembling in morning on rising. ▶ Convulsions; tetanic, frightful pains, at times followed by general rigidity, with incessant cries, after ten minutes' quite the paroxysms returned with renewed violence, no liquid could be taken and six men could not hold the patient. ▶ Jerking together of body in evening in bed, when awake.

Stitches here and there. ▶ Pain amel. lying; sprained P. in arms, chest and back in forenoon; sharp jerking, in one or another part; weary, in shoulders, spine and loins; drawing, here and there in bones; drawing, in right arm, then in head. ▶ Frequent drawing in trunk. ▶ Indescribable feeling of sickness, with anxiety. ▶ Tremulous tension through whole body, with apprehension, ill humor and cracking in joints. ▶ Affected by a slight vexation, taste bitter, appetite lost, a short walk then affects her, she has frequent diarrhœa, orgasm of blood on falling asleep, eructation, nausea, restless sleep, next morning trembling and waving through whole body, diarrhœa and internal misery, so that tears stood in her eyes. ▶ Takes cold easily, which causes faintness. ▶ Aversion to open air when walking. ▶ Everything seems too hard when sitting and lying. ▶ Restless; at night.

▶ Heaviness of feet and of whole body. ▶ Indolence; with heaviness of limbs. ▶ Weakness; in morning; in morning in bed, with bruised feeling in limbs; in morning or rising; after a walk; during menses; after stool, with vertigo, vanishing of vision and necessity to close eyes in order to recover himself; agg. evening on lying down, with bruised feeling in limbs; amel. eating; with trembling and intolerable sensation as before severe illness; of body, with heaviness of lower limbs; so that limbs wee painful; so that she fell asleep when sitting; nervous, after a short walk. ▶ Faintness in morning on entering in house, he felt sick, heat mounted to face, a veil seemed to come before the eyes, compression in temples. ▶ Amelioration at noon.

General relief from warm air.

Excitement. ▶ Extravagant and exaggerated condition, with internal trembling, then despondency. ▶ Imagined that some one was lying near him. ▶ Arose up and got out of bed. ▶ Violent, offended at trifles. ▶ Irritable; and indolent. ▶ Quarrelsome; in morning on waking; and lachrymose. ▶ The child became fierce and uncontrollable. ▶ Inclined to be angry every morning. ▶ Discontented with everything. ▶ Constant complaints. ▶ Irresolute. ▶ Little ambition. ▶ Ennui. ▶ Fear, violent shock from fright at a trifle; F. and weeping at trifles; F. of death. ▶ Anxiety at the noise of a crowd. ▶ Dejected; in morning, and quite, with dim vision; when walking in open air, and inattentive to intellectual conversation or other diversions; with feverish condition; with sick feeling of weakness of heart.

Continue in Allen 73 more passages →

Emaciation.
Takes cold easily.
Aversion to open air.
General feeling of indolence and heaviness or weakness, even in bed in the morning.
Flushes of heat, orgasm of blood and sweat after a little physical effort or any emotional excitement.
Symptoms caused by riding in a wagon or on the water.
General amelioration from warm air.

Illusion of some one lying by his side in the bed.

Leaden heaviness in the occiput; pressure or pinching.
Pain in the occiput extends to the vertex, with vertigo, stiff neck.
Pulsation in the occiput.
A feeling as if the contents of the head were alive.
The scalp is painful as if suppurating or as if it had been bruised.
Eruptions on the scalp, particularly towards the nape.

Inflammation, with burning, pressure, stitches and itching.
Inner canthus swollen and inflamed, with dryness.

Clinical:
Inflammation of the margins of the lids, with smarting, stinging and dryness.
Threatening lachrymal fistula.

Obstinate dryness.
The meatus inflamed and painful.
A discharge of blood and pus.
Diminished hearing, with roaring and ringing.
Pain in the occiput and in the Eustachian tubes.
Moist eruption behind the ears.

Nostrils dry, ulcerated and stopped.
Formation of scabs, covering ulcers; discharge of purulent matter.
Margins of nostrils cracked and ulcerated.

Cracking of the lips and scruffiness around the mouth.
Joints of the jaw easily dislocated, with great pain.
Back teeth painful at night and on inhaling cold air.
Dental fistula.
Mouth pasty and dry.
Tongue white.
Taste sour or slimy.

Very dry, with shooting pains on swallowing.
Rawness in the pharynx.
Pain on swallowing extends to the ears.

Ravenous hunger and speedy satiety.
Great aversion to meat and fat.
Great thirst.
Sour and bitter eructations.
Persistent nausea; at times with accumulation of water in the mouth.
Nausea incessant, often with sudden heat of the face and vertigo, with pains in the occiput; cutting in abdomen and diarrhœa; violent vomiting.
General amelioration by eating.

Clinical:
Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
Seasickness, with occipital pain.
Gastralgia, with coldness and faintness in abdomen.

Distention.
Cutting pains after eating, with nausea and vomiting; > bending up.

Burning in anus.
Hæmorrhoids and fissures in anus.
Stool generally hard and unsatisfactory.
Diarrhœa preceded by colic; profuse, bloody mucus, often involuntary, with soreness along the colon.

Bladder weak, urine dribbles after urinating.
Micturition involuntary.
Burning in the urethra.
Urine bloody, turbid, depositing a red, slimy, adherent sediment; albuminous, containing casts, with an iridescent film.

Redness, soreness and moisture around the scrotum and perineum, with an itching eruption.
Soreness and moisture about the female organs.
Menses too early, discharge causes itching and soreness.

Dry cough at night, coming from deep in the chest and caused by scratching in the throat.
Hoarseness.
Oppression of the chest, < cold air.

Coldness in the region of the heart.

Stiffness and weakness in the neck and back.
Pain in the coccyx when sitting; pain in the small of the back so that he could not stand.

General stiffness and bruised pain.
Shooting or burning pains in corns.

Generally unhealthy; rough and cracked, with cutting and sticking.
Moist, denuded spots appear in the folds, with itching.
Tendency to proud flesh.

Clinical:
Moist eruptions, with cracking and rawness.
Fissures in the tips of the fingers, aggravated by cold weather.
Herpes and eczema on the hands or about the ears and nape of the neck.

Chilliness, in open air, with headache and cold face and hands.
Sweat follows immediately after the chill.
Flushes of heat, particularly of the face and head; < night.
Perspiration on the feet.

PETROLEUM. OLEUM PETRÆ, COAL OIL, ROCK OIL.

This product of the interior of the earth is extremely strong in smell, taste and medicinal effect. For medicinal use it ought to be very fluid and of light-yellow color. If it is very fluid it is not very likely that it has been adulterated with fat vegetable oils. But in order to be quite sure of this point, in the work : Kennzeichen der Güte und Verfœlschung der Arzeneien (Signs of the genuineness and adulteration of Drugs) (published in Dresden, 1787, p. 221), I have advised testing it by the admixture of strong sulphuric acid, which leaves the petroleum untouched and only changes any foreign oils that may be admixed into a sort f sulphurous substance. Or we may, more simply, merely drop a little of the petroleum on a piece of white writing paper ; when this is laid in the open air or in a very warm place, it soon evaporates and leaves the paper without a transparent or translucid spot, if no fat oil is admixed. In many cases the petroleum may be found adulterated by the admixture of a volatile vegetable oil, e. g., oil of turpentine. To guard against this, it is well to mix petroleum, before it is used medicinally, with double the quantity of alcohol, to shake it a few times and then to separate it again by filtering it through blotting paper which has been moistened with alcohol. Thereby the pure petroleum remains behind in the filter, and is then kept in little vials, the stopper and mouth of which have been covered with melted sealing-wax. The alcohol, which has passed through the filter, will contain the volatile vegetable oil, if the like was present in the petroleum. For the first trituration with one hundred grains of sugar of milk we take one drop instead one grain of petroleum. Petroleum has done excellent service, where the following morbid symptoms were prominent : Anxiety ; timidity ; excitement ; abuse ; lack of memory ; weakness of memory and of the thinking faculty ; obtuseness of the head ; vertigo, like violent tottering to and fro ; headache from vexation ; pressive shooting headache ; beating in the occiput ; eruption on the head and the nape ; scabs on the hairy scalp ; falling out of the hair ; gauze before the eyes ; long-sightedness, cannot read any fine print without spectacles ; short-sightedness ; dryness and troublesome sensation of dryness in the inner ear ; hardness of hearing ; [] ringing before the ears ; noise in the ears ; hissing and rushing before the ears ; yellowness of the face ; swelling of the submaxillary glands ; white-coated tongue ; bad smell from the mouth ; putrid, offensive taste in the mouth ; loathing of warm, cooked food ; ravenous desire for food ; loathing of meat ; ravenous hunger ; loud eructation ; inclination to vomit ; sea sickness ; waterbrash ; lack of appetite ; the scrobiculus cordis thick and painful when touched ; chaotic state in the abdomen ; colic ; inguinal hernia ; lumpy, unusually hard stool ; frequent evacuations by day ; diarrhœa ; involuntary dripping of urine ; wetting of bed [Hg.] ; constriction of the urethra ; burning in the urethra ; itching and moisture of the scrotum* ; frequent pollutions ; weakness and nervous irritation after coitus ; emission of prostatic juice.

Continue in Hahnemann 779 more passages →

Pet. / (Pet.) / Pete.

Petroleum,-Thy claim we see
Catarrh in chronic form to be,
Where'er catarrh may have a place,
There in thy slimy track we trace.
When to the chest thy choice to come,
Consumption may result therefrom.
When in the bowels thou bareth rule,
Then loose and slimy is thy stool.
Or if a dysenteric kind,
With pain and vomiting combined.
Thy stomach shows derangements that
Produce intolerance to fat.
Thy mouth o'erflows with watery slime,
Producing nausea all the time.
There's nausea, too, from taking trip
In car or carriage, boat or ship.
Thou hast a dry and fissured skin,
And itching fetid moisture in
The arm-pits and upon the feet,
And at the privates in retreat.
A tender coccyx marks thy plagues,
And moist eruptions on thy legs.
Thy finger ends are dry and cracked,
And hands with salt-rheum are attacked.
In Typhoid-double, seems some part,
Or like a cold stone seems the heart.
All ailments of whatever form,
Are worse before a thunder storm.

Pete,-Has cracks and fissures in the skin.

Pete Cundu, owes for the logs, he hooked from Sarsa.

This Pete,-Who is subject to nausea when riding,-Is at the Club and Staff Inn, with Arny, the cook from Apomo.

Skin Cracks-Fissures: Pet., Cundu., Alu., Sul., Lyc., Graph., Sil., Hep., Kal. c., Sars. (Cracks in the corners of the mouth, Ant. c., Cundu., Graph.)

Nausea from Riding in Carriage, Car, or Boat-Seasickness: Pet., Lyc., Nux m., Arn., Stap., Coc., Apoma.

Indicated in diseases of the skin, sea-sickness, and occipital headaches with nausea and vertigo.

Imagines that somebody is lying near him in bed.

Occipital headache, extending into the vertex, with stiffness in the neck, relieved by rapid motion of the head, with vertigo and nausea.

The tips of the fingers become very sore and cracked, worse in cold weather.

Eczema, raw, smarting, moist, worse in cold weather.

Eruptions with thick crusts and deep cracks, on the hands.

Herpes (scrotum), fiery red, raw, with burning and oozing of sticky fluid.

Indisposed to think. Weak memory. Irritable, angry disposition, with scolding. Frightened easily. Great irresolution and solicitude concerning the futures.

When stooping. Fainting, with trembling during storms.

Throbbing in occiput. Pressive sticking in occiput. Sensation as though' everything inside were alive.

Sensitive on both sides, with a festered or bruised feeling when touched, followed by numbness. Smarting as if raw when scratched. Eruption on, especially toward nape. Worse: From anger, morning, when heated.

Inflamed, with itching. As of gauze before. Lachrymal fistula. far slight.

Disagreeably dry sensation in. Discharge of blood and pus from. Humid soreness behind. Deafness (after Nit-ac.).

Disagreeably dry feeling in.

Yellowish, pale countenance. Heat of, after eating. Scurfs about mouth. Easy dislocation of maxillary joint, with great pain, early in morning when in bed. Swollen submaxillary glands.

Numb. Toothache, with swelled cheek, at night and when going into open air Dental fistula.

Bad, garlicky odor from. Early in morning, great dryness of, and of throat, with great thirst. Sticking sore throat when swallowing. When swallowing, the food is forced into forced into posterior nares. Tongue coated white.

Appetite: Gluttony and ravenous hunger. Great aversion to meat and a fatty food. Violent thirst (for beer).

Taste: Foul, dirty, slimy. Bitter, in mouth.

Eructations: Sour or bitter a., and regurgitation. Collection of water in mouth.

Nausea. etc. - Much. From driving (riding). Bitter vomiting.

Pressure in. Very weak digestion. Pit sensitive to touch. Pain in pit, as though' something would be torn loose.

Cutting in, soon after eating.

Head, unsatisfactory. Frequent diarrhoeic s., during day, preceded by pale in belly. Of bloody mucus.

Frequent passage of scanty, brown stinking u. Involuntary dribbling of. Narrowing of urethra.

Redness, excoriation and moisture on scrotum and adjacent parts. Itching and moist herpes on scrotum and perineum. excoriation and moisture on female pudendum and in groins. Aversion to coition.

Menses: Too early, the blood excites an itching irritation. Difficult appearance of first menses.

Rattling snoring. Cold air causes an oppressed feeling on chest. Nightly oppression of chest.

Dry, at night or in evening coming from deep in chest and excited by a scratching in throat.

Herpes on.

Weakness and stiffness in, and in lumbar region. Backache preventing the least movement. Lumbar pain preventing standing.

Brown or yellow spots on arms. Burning in palms. In winter, cracked skin of hands and fingers, which are full of deep, bloody cuts. Gouty stiffness finger joints.

Stitches in knee. Hot swelling of soles, with burning. Painful swelling and redness of heel.

Cracking, creaking and gouty stiffness of joints. Asleep sensation in, and stiffness of limbs. Twitching in limbs. Weariness early in morning and in evening. Great emaciation. Aversion to open air. Takes cold easily. Flying heat, orgasm of blood and sweat after a walk r the lead anger. complaints from riding in a carriage or ship. General internal, insufferably sick feeling, with trembling and great weakness.

Affections of, especially after bruises.

Extra ordinary sensitiveness of epidermis. Heals with difficulty. Easy excoriation. Moist, denuded spots. Moist herpes. Ulcers with proud flesh. Boils, corns. Frostbites.

Sleepy during day and in evening when sitting still. At night full of phantasies, with anxious beat and many dreams. Insufficient and unrefreshing in morning.

Pulse: Stronger, full and accelerated from every motion, it immediately become slow during rest. Chill: Mostly toward evening, now earlier, now later. chilliness thro' entire body, followed by saver itching. Internal, in evening, with co - existent heat. chilliness in open air. With headache and remarkable coldness of face and hands. Heat: In evening, after the chill, with cold feet. After midnight and in morning in bed. Flying, over entire body inn repeated attacks (6 to 10) during day. feeling of heat, over entire body, with great burning of skin. Sweat: Profuse every night. Easy, especially on forearms and legs. Immediately after the chill, without previous heat.

Allied Remedies: Agar., Ars., Calc-c., Carc., Cham., Kre, Lyc., Nat - m., Nit-ac., NUX-V., Phos., Puls., Sil., sul., thuj.

Complementary: Sep.