Psorinum psor.

SKIN: FOLDS OF. Sebaceous glands. EARS. BOWELS. Respiration. Right side.

COLD: Open air. Washing. Weather; stormy; changing. Winter. Heat: Of bed. Exertion. Woolens. SUPPRESSIONS. Yearly. Contact of his own limbs.

Lying with head low, or quietly. Eating. Washing. Nosebleed. Hard pressure. Profuse sweating.

Feels sick all over. Lack of reaction, in chronic diseases. After-effects of infectious diseases, lasting for years. Enfeebled. RECURRENCE. Clears up confused cases. Migraine. Quinsy. FOUL; discharges; stools; eruptions; sweat; stubborn footsweat; odor of body. Thick secretions. Weak, tender and thin, easily chilled; takes cold; clothing seems large or he feels pushed down. Joints seem loose. HUNGRY or unusually well BEFORE AN ATTACK; but debilitated and reacts badly, and chronicity threatens. Wants to wash parts.

ANXIETY. Forebodings. Despair, of recovery. Gloomy. Feels good and bad by turns. Horrid thoughts. Averse to work. Feels himself poor (reverse-Sul.). Mind dull, clouded, difficult thinking. Head feels separated from body. Headache, follows visual disturbances; alternates with other troubles. Twitching in temples. Sensitive to drafts about head; wants it covered, in hot water. Dull, dry, tangled hair. Gummy, everted eyelids. Humid sores behing ears. Putrid otorrhœa. Hay fever. Face pale, sickly, dirty, fuzzy or puffy. Loose teeth. Tip of tongue feels burnt (Ign.). Hawks out foul, cheesy masses. Filthy taste. Anorexia; with great thirst. Flatus like bad eggs. DARK, GUSHING, HORRIBLY PUTRID STOOLS; of penetrating odor, going through whole house (Pod.); < at night. Cholera infantum. Stool soft, but difficult. Bed-wetting; at full moon. Offensive genitals. Griping in testes. Chronic gonorrhœa. Breathes > lying down or spreading arms apart. Breathing; < open air. Cough, < lying. Gurgling at heart. Panaris. Lumbar ache, < standing or walking. Hot, itching soles. Skin breaks out; < flexures; is dirty, rough or scabby, greasy. Condylomata, on edges of skin. Intolerable itching; < heat (of bed); he scratches it raw or until it bleeds. Heat, with steaming sweat. Sweat; profuse; < night; on palms; cold; easy.

Complementary: Sep. Sul. Tub. Related: Grap. Mang. Pho. Sul.

Especially adapted to the psoric constitution. In chronic cases when well selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve (in acute diseases, Sulph.); when Sulphur seems indicated by fails to act. Lack of reaction after severe acute diseases. Appetite will not return. Children are pale, delicate, sickly. Sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret cry (Jalap.); child is good, plays all day; restless, troublesome, screaming all night (rev. of Lyc.). Great weakness and debility; from loss of animal fluids; remaining after acute diseases; independent of or without any organic lesion, or apparent cause. Body has a filthy smell, even after bathing. The whole body painful, easily sprained and injured. Great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather; wears a fur cap, overcoat or shawl even in hottest summer weather. Stormy weather he feels acutely; feels restless for days before or during a thunderstorm (Phos.); dry scaly eruptions disappear in summer, return in winter. Ailments: from suppressed itch or other skin diseases, when Sulphur fails to relieve; sever, from even slight emotions. Feels unusually well day before attack. Extremely psoric patients; nervous, restless, easily startled. All excretions - diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, menses, perspiration - have a carrion-like odor. Anxious, full of fear; evil forebodings. Religious melancholy; very depressed, sad suicidal thoughts; despairs of salvation (Mel.), of recovery. Despondent: fears he will die; that he will fail in business; during climaxis; making his own life and that of those about him intolerable. Driven to despair with excessive itching. Headache: preceded, by flickering before eyes, by dimness of vision or blindness (Lac d., Kali bi.); by spots or rings. Headache: always hungry during; >while eating (Anac., Kali p.); from suppressed eruptions, or suppressed menses; > nosebleed (Mel.). Hair, dry, lustreless, tangles easily, glues together (Lyc.). Plica polonica (Bar., Sars., Tub.). Scalp: dry, scaly or moist, fetid, suppurating eruptions; oozing a sticky, offensive fluid (Graph., Mez.). Intense photophobia, with inflamed lids; cannot open the eyes; lies with face buried in pillow. Ears: humid scurfs and soreness on and behind ears; oozing and offensive viscid fluid (Graph.). Otorrhoea: thin, ichorous, horribly fetid discharge, like decayed meat; chronic, after measles or scarlatina. Acne: all forms, simplex, rosacea; < during menses, from coffee, fats, sugar, meat; when the best selected remedy fails or only palliates. Hungry in the middle of night; must have something to eat (Cina, Sulph.). Eructations tasting of rotten eggs (Arn., Ant. t., Graph.). Quinsy, tonsils greatly swollen; difficult, painful swallowing; burns, feels scalded; cutting, tearing, intense pain to ears on swallowing (painless, Bar. c.); profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat, must hawk continually. To not only > acute attack but eradicate the tendency. Hawks up cheesy balls, size of pea, of disgusting taste and carrion-like odor (Kali m.). Diarrhoea: sudden, imperative (Aloe, Sulph.); stool watery, dark brown, fetid; smells like carrion; involuntary, < at night from 1 to 4 a. m.; after severe acute diseases; teething; in children; when weather changes. Constipation: obstinate, with backache: from inactivity of rectum; when Sulphur fails to relieve. Enuresis: from vesical paresis; during full moon, obstinate cases, with a family history of eczema. Chronic gonorrhoea of year's duration that can neither be suppressed nor cured; the best selected remedy fails. Leucorrhoea: large, clotted lumps of an intolerable odor; violent pains in sacrum; debility; during climaxis. During pregnancy: most obstinate vomiting, foetus moves too violently; when the best selected remedy fails to relieve; to correct the psoric diathesis of the unborn. Profuse perspiration after acute diseases, with relief of all suffering (Calad., Nat. m.). Asthma, dyspnoea: < in open air, sitting up (Laur.); > lying down and keeping arms stretched far apart (rev. of Ars.); despondent, thinks he will die. Cough returns every winter. Hay fever: appearing regularly every year the same day of the month; with an asthmatic, psoric or eczematous history. Patient should be treated the previous winter to eradicate the diathesis and prevent summer attack. Cough: after suppressed itch, or eczema; chronic, of years' duration; < mornings on waking and evenings on lying down (Phos., Tub.); sputa green, yellow or salty mucus; pus-like; coughs a long time before expectorating. Skin: abnormal tendency to receive skin diseases (Sulph.); eruptions easily suppurate (Hep.); dry, inactive, rarely sweats; dirty look, as if never washed; coarse, greasy, as if bathed in oil; bad effects from suppression by sulphur and zinc ointments. Sleepless from intolerable itching, or frightful dreams of robbers, danger, etc (Nat. m.). Psorinum should not be given for psora or the psoric diathesis, but like every other remedy, upon a strict individualization - the totality of the symptoms - and then we realize its wonderful work.

Sulphur and Tuberculinum. Is followed well: by, Alum., Bor., Hep., Sulph., Tub. After: Lactic ac., in vomiting of pregnancy. After: Arn in traumatic affections of ovaries. Sulphur follows Psorinum well in mammary cancer. Whether derived from purest gold or purest filth, our gratitude for its excellent service, forbids us to enquire or care. - J. B. Bell.

The symptoms of this drug are very closely allied to those of Sulphur; if the latter appears to be indicated, but fails to cure, study up Psorin.

Dry, lustreless, rough head of hair. Eructations tasting like rotten eggs; stools (diarrhœic) smelling like rotten eggs. Debility remaining after acute diseases.

Scabies Vesicle

The therapeutic field of this remedy is found in so-called psoric manifestations. Psorinum is a cold medicine; wants the head kept warm, wants warm clothing even in summer. Extreme sensitiveness to cold. Debility, independent of any organic disease, especially the weakness remaining after acute disease. Lack of reaction, i.e, phagocytes defective; when well-chosen remedies fail to act. Scrofulous patients. Secretions have a filthy smell. Profuse sweating. Cardiac weakness. Skin symptoms very prominent. Often gives immunity from cold-catching. Easy perspiration when walking. Syphilis, inherited and tertiary. Offensive discharges.

Hopeless; despairs of recovery. Melancholy, deep and persistent; religious. Suicidal tendency.

Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head. Chronic headaches; hungry during attacks; with vertigo. Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change of weather. Dull, pressive pain in occiput. Humid eruption on scalp; hair matted. Hair dry.

Agglutinated. Blepharitis. Chronic ophthalmia, that constantly recurs. Edges of lids red. Secretion acrid.

Obstinate rhagades at corners. Tongue, gums ulcerated; tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate.

Dry, coryza, with stoppage of nose. Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior nares. Acne rosacea.

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 otorrhœa. Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive.

Swelling of upper lip. Pale, delicate. Humid eruption on face. Sickly.

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 (Agar).

Eructations like bad eggs. Very hungry always; must have something to eat in the middle of the night. Nausea; vomiting of pregnancy. Pain in abdomen after eating.

Mucous, bloody, excessively fetid, dark fluid. Hard, difficult stool, with blood from rectum and burning piles. Constipation of infants, in pale, sickly scrofulous children.

Leucorrhœa fetid, lumpy, with much backache and debility. Mammæ swollen and painful. Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands.

Asthma, with dyspnœa; 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.

Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold together. Eruption around finger-nails. Fetid foot-sweats.

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.

Profuse, offensive perspiration; night-sweats.

Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily startled.

Worse, 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, heat, warm clothing, even in summer.

Complementary: Sulphur.

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 Calcarea and Natrum ars. Gaertner (Pessimistic, lack of confidence, subjective troublesome eye symptoms, fear of heights. Urticaria. Use 30th and 200th (Wheeler).

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).

Very sad, hopeless, despondent; "bluest of the blue."

Great debility; sweats on slightest movement; wants to give up and lie down.

Eruptions on the skin, dry, or moist; or skin scaly and dry as parchment; dirty, the great unwashed, unwashable.

Intense itching of skin < in warmth of bed.

Discharges and exhalations exceedingly offensive.

Very sensitive to cold air; wears a fur cap in summer.

Great weakness and debility; from loss of fluids; remaining after acute diseases; without any organic lesion or apparent cause.

Cough and dry, scaly eruptions return every winter.

Quinsy; to eradicate the tendency.

The disease products are powerful remedies, and when used in the potentized form have made many wonderful cures. It is believed by some that in the potentized form they are so changed that they become homœopathic to the disease which produced them, especially in any other person than the one in whom the original disease existed.

I have experimented more or less with these so-called nosodes, since they were so widely proclaimed by Dr. Swan. I never found them markedly efficacious in such cases, but I have seen remarkable results from them in cases resembling, for instance, gonorrhœal, syphilitic or psoric troubles, without any history of pre-existing trouble of the kind. I have cured eruptions on the skin resembling itch with Psorinum, rheumatic troubles that were very obstinate under our usual remedies with Medorrhinum and a long-standing case of caries of the spine with Syphilinum, but in not one of these cases had the patient, that I could trace, itch, gonorrhœa or syphilis. The experience of many others seems to be different. I give only my own. The each nosode seems capable of producing the same or similar symptoms when given by mouth in proving as when inoculated the usual way seems well proved in the case of Psorinum. I do not see why the constitutional symptoms appearing after inoculations should nor be considered a proving as well as those following a bee sting, Cantharis blistering, or the local external poisoning of the varieties of Rhus. If Rhus, very high, will cure rhus poisoning, why should not Syphilinum, etc., cure syphilis? Who will answer?

All nosodes are as capable of curing as they are of poisoning. If not, why not? We must not let prejudice hinder honest investigation. As if in corroboration of the theory that the potentized disease product will cure the disease producing it, the provings of Psorinum indicate that the chief action and curative power of the poison is upon the skin. And is it not remarkable that Psorinum should so strongly resemble Sulphur, the old-time remedy for itch, and again that they follow or complement each other in curing skin troubles? Notice some of the leading skin symptoms.

"Itching when the body becomes warm."

"Itching, intolerable in warmth of bed." (Merc. sol.)

"Itching scratches until it bleeds."

"Itching between fingers and in bends of joints." (Sepia).

"Dry, scaly eruptions which disappear summers and return winters."

"Repeated outbreaks of eruptions."

"Skin has a dirty dingy look, as if the patient never washed, and the body has a filthy smell even after a bath." These and many other symptoms, too numerous to mention here, show what an invaluable remedy this should be in skin troubles, and abundant experience and observation corroborate the truth of our law of cure in the curative power of disease poisons, as it also does in vegetable, and mineral and insect or animal.

Psorinum is also found useful in the consequences of suppressed eruptions, and in such cases should never be forgotten when other anti-psoric fail. Dr. Wm. A. Hawley, of Syracuse, N. Y., once made a brilliant cure of a very bad case of dropsy in an old woman, being led to prescribe this remedy by the appearance of the skin. One dose of Fincke's 42m. potency, dry on the tongue, cured the whole case in a very short time. It was a case of long standing. Now, if we examine we will also find that this remedy resembles Graphites in many points. A close comparison will pay the earnest student of Materia Medica. Psorinum is very depressed in mind. "Greatest despondency, making his own life and that of those about him almost intolerable." This state of mind, following acute diseases, like typhus, is especially benefited by this remedy. When writing of Graphites we mentioned the resemblance of the two remedies in the "stools, dark-brown, watery, and of intolerably offensive odor." This is found in bad cases of cholera infantum or chronic diarrhœa. There is one valuable diagnostic difference between them, although the remedies are so much alike, and that is that the Graphites moisture from the eruption is glutinous or sticky and not markedly so with Psorinum.

Again, Psorinum is very useful for weakness or debility during convalescence from severe acute diseases. The patient sweats profusely when taking the least exercise. Notwithstanding, as a rule, the skin is generally dry, inactive, and rarely sweats. Here, again, as in the stool symptom, choice may have to be made between Psorinum and China. Loss of fluids, blood, suppuration, etc., would decide in favor of the latter and itching eruptions or tendency thereto, before or during the sickness, the former. One thing I forgot to mention in connection with the offensive stool. "All excretions, diarrhœa, leucorrhœa, menstrual flow and perspiration, have a carrion-like smell, even the body has a filthy smell, notwithstanding frequent bathing." The Psorinum subject is very sensitive to cold air, or change of weather (Hepar), wants to wear a fur cap, overcoat or shawl, even in the hottest weather.

Chronic complaints following or dating back for years to some imperfectly cured or suppressed acute disease. (Carbo veg.) I advise everyone to buy a copy of Allen's "key-notes," which has a very good rendering of the nosodes. So we see in Psorinum when proven a great remedy for very grave conditions. I have no doubt that all nosodes are equally valuable when as well understood.

Modalities: < in cold air, < in warmth of bed (itching); sitting up or motion; > bringing arms down close to the body, > lying down (even the dyspnœa); wrapping up warm; psoric manifestations.

Anxiety about the future. Despair of recovery, thinks to be very ill, and in great danger not to survive the sickness ; hopelessness. Great anxiety, full of fears. Religious melancholy. Impatience ; ill humor.

Vertigo with headache ; it presses the eyes out. Congestions of blood to the head, with red-hot cheeks and nose, redness of the eruption on the face, with great anxiety every afternoon after dinner (during pregnancy fifth month). Fulness in the vertex as if the brain would burst out, with formication in the head ; before the headache flickering before the eyes ; the objects dance before the eyes, or black spots and rings appear before the eyes ; afterwards very heavy sleep. Congestion of blood to the head with heat, wakened him in the night, was stupefied, could not recollect what happened, and after sitting for a while had to rise to collect his senses. Fulness and heaviness in the head. Morning headache with pressing in the forehead, with stupefaction, vertigo and soreness of the eyes. At night (1 A.M.) sensation as if one received a heavy blow on the forehead, awakens him. Dry hair, with loss of lustre. The hair glues together and becomes entangled, has to comb it continually. Dry and humid fetid eruptions on the head. Large humid blotches on the head, with scabby eruptions on the face. Suppurating, fetid, humid eruption on the head with humid soreness behind the ears (in children). Great aversion to have the head uncovered, even in the hottest weather does he persist in wearing a fur cap.

Aversion to light. Every thing gets dark before the eyes. Heat and redness of the eyes, with pressing pains. Eyelids bloated ; swollen ; inflamed.

Singing, humming and ringing in the ears, with hardness of hearing. Discharge of pus from the ear, with headache. Scurfs on the ears ; and humid scurfs behind the ear. Herpes extending from the (left) temple extends over the whole ear down to the cheek, at times throwing off innumerable scales, and again showing painful rhagades with humid yellow discharges, forming scurfs ; fetid, humid, intolerable itching, especially in the evening till midnight.

Loss of smell. Soreness of the nose ; sensitiveness of the mucous membrane when inhaling air.

Pimples on the forehead. Red small pimples on the face, especially on the nose and chin, and in the middle of the cheeks. Burning heat and redness of the face. Ulcers in the face. Humid eruptions on the face. The whole face is covered with humid scurfs or crusts, with swelling of the lips and eyelids, with humid soreness behind the ears. Lips dry, brown, black. Ulcers on the lips.

Sensation of soreness of the teeth. Stinging in the teeth (while eating). Looseness of the teeth. Ulcers on the gums (right side). Tough mucus in the mouth and throat with much hawking. Burning in the throat ; sensation as if it were scalded. Sensation of a lump (plug) in the throat which impedes the hawking up of mucus. Dryness in the throat with thirstlessness. Loss of taste, with coryza. Tongue dry ; dry on the tip, feels as if scalded, coated white, yellow. Taste bitter.

Eructations, smelling like rotten eggs. Nausea in the morning, with pain in the small of the back. Nausea all day, with vomiting of sweetish mucus. Deep-seated, heavy pain in the region of the liver, worse when pressing on it and when lying on the right side, when walking, coughing, laughing, and taking a long breath. Stitches in the region of the spleen. Emission of fetid flatulence. Inguinal hernia.

The soft stool is discharged with great difficulty. Constipation ; with pain in the small of the back ; charge of blood from the rectum. Frequent liquid stools (with tinea capitis). Stools of mucus mixed with blood. Discharge of large quantities of blood from the rectum, with hard, difficult stool. Burning, hæmorrhoidal tumors.

Urinary secretion profuse. Involuntary micturition, cannot hold the urine. Urine thick, whitish, turbid, depositing a red sediment and forming a cuticle swimming on it.

Men. Impotence. Excessive, uncontrollable sexual instinct. Hydrocele. Discharge of painless mucus from the urethra. (Gonorrhœa secundaria). Drawing pains in the testicles and spermatic cords. Sycotic excrescences on the edges of the prepuce, itching and burning.

Shortness of breath. The thorax expands itself with great difficulty when breathing. Anxious dyspnœa, with palpitation of the heart. The dyspnœa is worse when sitting up to write, better lying down. Asthmatic attacks with hydrothorax. Cough from tickling in the larynx. Cough, with stitches in the chest, or with sensation of weakness in the chest. Dry cough, with soreness of the sternum. Burning pressing pain in the chest. Suppuration of the lungs. (Phthisis pulmonalis). Pain in the chest, as if raw, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Cutting as from knives in the chest. Stitches in the chest (left side). Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety. Pain (stitches) in the heart, worse when lying down.

Painful stiffness of the neck. Pain in the small of the back, worse on motion.

Upper. Attacks of lameness and soreness in the right shoulder, extending to the hand. Lower. Pain in the hip-joints as if dislocated, worse when walking, with weakness of the arms. The feet go to sleep often. Pain in the legs, especially on the tibia and in the soles of the feet, as from over-exertion in walking, with great restlessness in the legs, better on rising. Heat and itching in the soles of the feet. Ulcers on the lower legs, with intolerable itching over the whole body. Arthritis.

Very weak from the least exertion. Great debility from loss of fluids or after severe acute diseases (Typhus). Rheumatism and arthritis. Dropsical diseases.

Sleepiness in day-time. Sleeplessness at night, from dyspnœa, from intolerable itching. Wakens from congestions to the head.

Chilliness in the evening on the upper arms and thighs, with thirst ; drinking causes cough. Heat in the afternoon or evening, feels as if he should lose his senses, with thirst. Heat, with perspiration on the face ; heat when riding in a carriage. Heat at night, and dryness in the mouth. Want of perspiration, dry skin. Profuse, colliquative perspiration. Perspiration profuse when taking the slightest exercise ; at night. Perspiration after typhus fever. Perspiration in the palms of the hands.

Itching and stinging in the skin in many parts at the same time. Intolerable itching from getting warm ; in the evening in bed, scratches himself till he bleeds. Urticaria, with eruptions on the head. Itching pustules on the forehead, chin, chest. Dry itch on the arms and chest, but most severe on the finger-joints. Itch on the elbow and wrist. Herpes, with biting-itching, with meal-dust, humid. Old ulcers, with fetid pus. Violently itching ulcers. Suppressed itch, eruptions. Rash on the neck and back.

Psor. is an indispensable remedy if debility remains after violent acute diseases ; if profuse perspirations remain after typhus fever ; in the evil consequences of suppressed itch, especially after large doses of sulphur ; if the patient is hopeless, despairing of his recovery. Many ailments are worse or come on when riding in a carriage, and when exercising in the open air, and relieved by rest and in the room. Aggravation s in the evening and before midnight. Sitting aggravates the dyspnœa (asthma) and pain in the heart ; these and other ailments are relieved while lying clown.

Psoricum. The nosode of Psora. [The sero-purulent matter of a scabies vesicle was used by Hahnemann. The product of "Psora sicca" (epidermoid efflorescence of Pityriasis) by Gross. The salt from a product of Psora by Hering.] Triturations.

Acne. Adenoids . Anus, itching in. Asthma. Backache. Boils. Cancer. Cholera infantum. Cough. Constipation. Cornea, ulcers of. Crusta lactea. Crusta serpiginosa. Debility . Diarrhœa. Diphtheria, after-effects of . Dyspepsia. Eczema; rubrum. Enuresis. Eruptions; moist; itching. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, dry; tangling. Hay fever . Headache. Head, congestion of. Hernia. Hydrocele. Impotence. Influenza . Injuries. Itch . Itching. Leucorrhœa. Lienteria. Liver, affections of; chronic inflammation of. Melancholia, religious. Nose, redness of. Odour of body, fetid . Ophthalmia, scrofulous. Otorrhœa; fetid. Ozæna . Pediculosis. Peritonitis, tubercular . Plica polonica. Polypus . Quinsy. Sciatica. Scurvy. Skin, affections of. Spina bifida. Spleen, affections of; induration of. Sprains. Syphilis. Throat, mucus in . Tinea capitis et faciei. Tonsils, concretions in. Ulcers.

As Sulphur has been the chief remedial agent in both schools in the treatment of itch and itch-like eruptions, it is natural to find in the nosode of Psora, or constitutional itch, a close analogue of Sulph. Psorinum has been proved entirely in the potencies, and I know of no more trustworthy proving in the materia medica. I have frequently seen Pso . develop some of its own symptoms in patients whom it has benefited in other ways. A man who complained of "cloudiness of mind and difficult thinking," and who had among other symptoms, "Left foot colder than right," received Pso . 30. It removed these symptoms; but whilst under its influence these new symptoms appeared: Heavy headache across the eyebrows; greasiness of face and forehead. A woman to whom I gave Pso . 30 complained that after each dose she had a feeling "as if something in the head were being screwed up and drawn"; one of Hahnemann's symptoms is "Spasmodically contracting headache." A patient who took Pso . 500 complained that it had a "filthy taste." From Pso . 20m (F. C.) I have seen produced an eruption of boil-like indurations in both axillæ, first (and worst) in left then in right. The general symptoms were very greatly relieved at the same time. One great mark of distinction between Sul . and Pso . is that the Pso . patient is exceedingly chilly, likes to have a fur cap on in summer; whilst the Sul . patient is predominatingly hot. H. C. Allen gives another: Pso . is indicated in chronic cases when well-selected remedies fail to relieve or to permanently improve (in acute diseases Sul .); also when Sul . seems indicated but fails to relieve. Pso . is specially suited to: ( 1 ) Scrofulous, nervous, restless persons who are easily startled. ( 2 ) Psoric constitutions; lack of reaction after severe diseases. ( 3 ) Complaints of psoric origin; patients emit a disagreeable odour. ( 4 ) Pale, sickly, delicate children. ( 5 ) Peevish, unhealthy-looking children, who have a disagreeable odour about them. ( 6 ) Dirty people in whom the body has a filthy smell which no amount of washing can remove. ( 7 ) Those subject to diseases of the glands and skin; and who have had eruptions suppressed. The chief of the keynotes of Pso . is: Lack of vital reaction; prostration after acute disease, depressed, hopeless, night-sweats. Hopelessness, despair of perfect recovery is part of the jack of reaction; emaciation and foul body odour may accompany it. "Foulness" may be considered the second keynote of Pso . Eruptions have offensive discharges; the otorrhœa, is horribly offensive. The diarrhœa (especially of cholera infantum) is profuse, watery, dark brown, and even black, and is putrid-smelling like carrion. The Med. Visitor (xi. 378) collected a number of cases illustrating the action of Pso . (I italicise some of the characteristics): ( 1 ) W. A. Hawley reports a case of cholera infantum which seemed to defy every remedy. Stools very thin and watery, dirty greenish, smelt like carrion . Child very fretful, had no sleep for two days and nights. Pso . 42m (Fincke), one dose in water. In two hours the child went to sleep; in four days it was well without repetition of the dose. ( 2 ) Another case of Hawley's: Miss N., 20, had an eruption in bends of elbows and knees , dry, scaly, with little pointed vesicles round the reddened edges; disappeared entirely in summer and reappeared when cold weather set in ; violent itching , < by warmth of bed or by scratching. Pso . 42m, two doses at six weeks' interval, cured. No return the following winter. Pso . also cured — ( 3 ) Headache preceded by dimness of sight or spots before eyes (Haynel). ( 4 ) Headache and eruptions, < during changeable weather (W. P. Wesselhœft). ( 5 ) Always very hungry during headaches (W. P. W). ( 6 ) Miss C., convalescing from typhoid fever, reported: l. Stationary, no appetite." Pso . 400 produced immediate change and ravenous appetite (J. B. Bell). ( 7 ) Mr. P., 50, complained of nothing but weakness; no appetite; least exertion puts him into a perspiration. Pso . 40 cured rapidly (J. B. Bell). Mr. X., 21, was obliged one day to run till nearly exhausted. Though strong and well before he now became weak, perspiring easily , severe pains right side , < by coughing, laughing, and motion. Pso . 40 cured rapidly (J. B. Bell). [I have frequently verified the action of Pso . in liver affections with pains as in the last case.] ( 8 ) Extreme dulness; fears inflammation of brain; > by nose-bleed . Headache following darkness before eyes. Black spots before eyes. Pso . cured (Haynel). ( 9 ) Horribly offensive , nearly painless, almost involuntary, dark and watery stool; only in night and most towards morning (H. N. Martin). ( 10 ) Mr. C., 43, spare, dark. Hypochondriacal. "Nervous" nine months. Had to give up business. Took much Quinine and other drugs. Complains of very disagreeable feeling about the head and manifests mental depression; thinks he will never recover ; has lost all hope . Cannot apply his mind to business. Seems confused; cannot reckon. Numbness of legs and arms, < left side; < going to bed , formication and crawling with prickling and smarting on scalp, and same on extremities. Tongue coated white. After three months treatment was stationary. It was then ascertained that he sweated easily on least exertion, and somewhat at night , and had loss of memory. Pso . 400 soon caused improvement, and enabled the patient to return to business (J. B. Bell). G. A. Whippy ( Am. Hom ., xxiii. 391) cured the following case with Pso . 200, a dose every third night: Carpenter, 40, long-standing discharge of reddish cerumen from left ear, < at night. Sensation of valve opening and shutting in left ear, < afternoon. Buzzing in ear, which stopped suddenly and was followed by violent itching. Dull, heavy pain in base of brain in afternoon, with sensation as though skin of abdomen was greatly relaxed and drawn down. Face sallow and greasy; several pustules on chin and neck which itch intensely and bleed when scratched. — Other leading indications of Pso . are: Sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret, cry; or good and play all day, restless, troublesome, screaming all night. Weakness from loss of fluids; after acute disease; with or without organic lesion. Whole body painful, easily sprained and injured. Great sensitiveness to cold air, change, storms; to sun; restless for days before a thunderstorm. A symptom not seldom met with in practice and useful to remember is: "Feels unusually well day before attack." Headache > by eating; from suppressed menses; > by nose-bleed. Dry, lustreless hair; plica polonica. Acne < during menses; from fats, sugar, coffee, meat. Quinsy, throat burns, feels scalded, cutting, tearing, intense pain on swallowing, profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat; must hawk continually; tendency to quinsy. Profuse sweat after acute diseases, with > of all suffering. Skin has dirty look as if never washed. Pso . has cured more cases of hay fever in my practice than any other single remedy. Many cases have a psoric basis, and when the basic taint is corrected the irritating agents have no effect. Nasal polypus I have also cured with Pso . when the general symptoms indicate the remedy. Peculiar Sensations are: As if frightened. As if he would lose his senses. As if stupid in left half of head. As if brain had not room enough in forehead. Eyes as if pressed outward. As from heavy blow on forehead. As if brain would protrude. Back of head as if sprained. Right side of occiput as if dislocated. As if piece of wood lying across back of head. As if head separated from body. As if sand in eyes. As if he heard with ears not his own. Cheek-bones as if ulcerated. Condyle of jaw as if lame. Tongue as if burnt. Teeth as if glued together. Plug in throat. Throat as if narrowing. As if intestines hanging down. Everything in chest as if raw, scratched; torn loose. Arms as if paralysed. Hip-joint as if ulcerated. Joints as if encased in armour; as if would not hold together. Hands and feet as if broken. The pains of Pso . may be erratic and alternate (headache and toothache). The symptoms are < by touch; pressure (of truss); rubbing; scratching; riding; bandage; blow; fall. Slight emotions = severe ailments. ( Pso . cannot bear to have the limbs touch each other at night; or weight of arms on chest.) > When eating; < immediately after (rush of blood to head). < After cold drinks (pain in chest). Drinking = cough. > Lying down (most ailments, especially of chest; but < cough, and = gurgling at heart). < Lying r. side (liver). < Riding in carriage or exercising in open air; (riding > short breath). > By rest and in room. Overlifting = thoughts to vanish. < Walking; moving. < Evening and before midnight night; morning on waking. Open air < ( > taste; cough; itching) nose sensitive inhaling. < Before thunderstorm (restless for days before). Winter = cough. Summer = diarrhœa; itching eruptions. < During full moon (enuresis). < Periodically.

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Thoughts vanish after overlifting.
Memory weak, cannot remember ; does not even know his room.
Thoughts which he cannot get rid of constantly reappear in his dreams.
Dull all forenoon, disinclined to work.
Dull, stupid, foggy, as after a debauch, on awaking in night ; dizziness, he falls down.
As if stupid in left half of head, morning.
Mental labor causes : fulness in head ; intense headache ; throbbing in brain ; pain in left temple.
Very disagreeable mood ; impatient ; extremely ill-humored.
Irritable, peevish, passionate, noisy ; nervous, easily startled ; restless, hands tremble.
Intolerably self-willed, annoys those about him ; a boy, suffering from an eruption.
She is very irritable, easily angered ; always thinks of dying.
Vacillating, fearful ; mania.
Anxiety, with oppression of chest.
Anxious, full of fear, melancholic ; evil forebodings.
Great fear death ; anxiety about heart and dyspnœa, with attacks of pain in chest.
Believes the stitches in heart will kill him if they do not cease.
Restlessness : with eruption, in a child ; with oppression of chest.
Sentimental ; full of spleen, very low-spirited.
Discouragement.
His ideas are sad and joyless.
Very depressed, sad, suicidal thoughts.
Depressed in spirits and hopeless.
Melancholy, sorrowful, despairing.
Despairing mood ; fears he will fail in business.
Much depressed on account of an eruption on dorsum of hand which appeared over night.
Greatest despondency, making his own life and those about him intolerable ; dry cough ; evening fever.
Is so downhearted she could commit suicide, then is full of phantasms.
Great depression of mind during climaxis, with chronic abdominal disorders.
Hypochondriasis, with hemorrhage from rectum.
Religious melancholy.
Despairs of recovery ; thinks he will die ; hopeless ; especially after typhus, > from nosebleed.
Melancholy after suppressed itch ; emaciated, pale, earthy complexion, weakness of limbs ; flushes of heat and palpitation prevent sleep ; sleep comes towards morning ; would like to stay in bed until midday ; aversion to work, indifference, weeping ;
seeks solitude, despairs of recovery ; she is irritable and forgetful.
Feels the greatest anguish in head, with a whirling before eyes every day, from 5 A. M. until 5 P. M., since two years ; walks up and down his room wringing his hands and moaning continually, "Oh, such anguish! oh, such anguish!" only when he takes his meals he ceases
moaning ; appetite is good.
Has been nervous about nine months ; was obliged to abandon all business ; has taken much quinine and other drugs ; a very disagreeable feeling about head ; mental depression ; thinks he will not recover ; has lost all hope ; cannot apply his mind to
business ; confusion of senses, he cannot reckon ; attacks of numbness of leg and arms, left side < ; < on going to bed ; formication and crawling, with pricking and smarting on scalp, and some on extremities ; tongue white.
Driven to despair with excessive itching.
Every moral emotion causes trembling.
Severe ailments from even slight emotions.

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Psorinum is closed allied to Sulphur.

The patient dreads to be washed. The skin over the body, especially of the face, looks filthy, though it has been well washed. A dingy, dirty, foul look, as if covered with dirt.

Skin rough and uneven, cracks easily, bleeding fissures; it becomes rough and scaly. He cannot wash it clean. The skin of the hands is rough, chaps easily, becomes thick and scaly, easily cracks; breaks out in little scaly, eruptions; looks unwashed; he always a ppears to have dirty hands.

Many of the complaints of the skin are worse from bathing and from the warmth of the bed. The skin itches when warm; itches when wearing woolens. Itching when warm in bed; he scratches until the part becomes raw, and then it becomes scabby. When healing takes place there is itching and then it becomes scabby. When healing takes place there is itching and then he has to scratch. Legs and arms raw and scabby from scratching. Violent itching from the warmth of the bed, even, without any eruption.

The skin is unhealthy, looks dirty, dingy, studded with capillary blood vessels and enlarged veins. This is the state before the eruption appears. Scabs form from scratching and then comes the eruption.

Papules, pimples, crusts, boils, vesicles, and eruptions ooze a watery moisture. When the eruption has gone on for some time the crusty formation and vesicles mingle; the skin becomes thickened and indurated, and new crops come out under the old crusts; rawness, itching, tingling, crawling, bleeding eczema of the scalp and face; the crusts cover the scalp; the hair falls out; the oozing lifts up the crusts and exposes new vesicles; it looks like raw beef, and it tingles so that the child cannot keep its fingers off it; worse at night, worse from the warmth of the bed, worse from warm applications, anything that would keep the air away from it; ameliorated by cool air and worse from covering. This is the opposite of the general Psorinum state, which is aggravated from the open air. He has an aversion to open air.

The eruption goes on, spreads, and the true skin becomes elevated, thickened, indurated, with an increased vascularity and redness. The oozing is offensive like carrion or decomposed meat; nauseating odor from the oozing fluid.

Offensiveness runs through Psorinum in such a characteristic way that is worth while mentioning it here; foetid odors, foetid breath discharges and oozing from the skin smelling like carrion; stool so offensive that the odor permeates the whole house, in diarrhea, summer complaint, cholera infantum; perspiration foetid; leucorrhoea abominably offensive; eructations taste as if be had eaten bard boiled eggs and they had spoiled, and they smell so to others; stool flatus, and eructations smell like spoiled eggs; offensive to sight and smell is the subject who needs this medicine.

The skin grows increasingly thick and bleeds, and the eruption spreads to other parts. Eruptions on the lips, on the genitals; very offensive; soreness and rawness about the anus; the vulva ulcerates and is very offensive; ulcers on the legs; on the tibia; on the backs of the hands; on the dorsum of the foot; behind the ears and upon the ears; over the scalp; over the cheek bones; on the wings of the nose and on the nose and eyelids.

Greasy skin. The eruption is accompanied by redness of the mucous membranes of the nose, mouth, lips and eyes. Eyelids thickened and turned out, like ectropion; granulation and induration of mucous membranes, so that they become like gristle; redness and ulceration. Ulceration of the cornea; lachrymation; turning out of the lids with loss of the eyelashes.

He looks frightful with his red eyes, eruption on the face, red skin oozing a thick yellow discharge. In the early stages the oozing is a whitish thin or whitish thick moisture. In old eruptions ulceration takes place beneath the crusts and there is a thick, yellow, purulent discharge. Yellow green discharge from the eyes and nose. Horribly offensive discharge from the nose; gluey discharge from the nose; offensive like Merc., Sil., Calc. p., Hep.

Accumulation of foetid pus in the eyes. Coryza with thick, yellow discharge. Always taking cold. In the coryza, the nose dries up part of the time and runs part of the time; he must use the handkerchief continually; must blow the nose all the time.

In the early stages of the coryza he blows it all the time, but there is no discharge or relief. This state is so marked that some think of it as a continuous hay fever, which runs all the year and rippens up in the Fall.

It is closely related to hay fever; stuffing up of the nose in the Fall; catarrhal state of the eyes and nose. Hay fever is one of the most difficult conditions to fit a remedy to. It belongs to a low constitution which must be built up before the hay fever will cease.

It is an expression of psora which comes once a year, and the psoric miasm must be changed. In a few years most subjects can be changed, but not in one season, so do not be disappointed. In catarrhal states, hay fever often dates back to low fever improperly treated.

The Psorinum patient himself is one of debility. He wants to go home after a short walk. He is worse in the open air. He cannot breathe in the open air; cannot breathe while he is standing up; wants to go home and lie down so that he can breathe.

or cardiac dyspnoea, when the patient wants to go home and lie down so that he can breathe. Usually this condition is relieved by sitting up and from the open air. Not so with Psorinum, he wants a warm place and to he down and to be let alone.

Psorinum is slowed down in all of its functions; a state of paretic weakness. He does not rally after a fever; his digestion is slow; the stool is normal, yet it requires a great effort to expel it; the bladder is full of urine, yet it passes slowly and he feels that some remains; he can never finish stool or urination; he has to go back several times. Although the stool is soft and perfectly normal it cannot be expelled at one sitting.

A psoric patient comes down with typhoid; the typhoid has been arrested or has run its course and it is time for convalescence. The fever has subsided, but the patient has no appetite; he does not convalesce; he wants to lie down and does no desire to, be moved; he is worse when sitting up, lies upon his back; he has troublesome breathing and lies with his arms abducted from his side, thrown across the bed; this relieves his breathing and allows the chest to operate properly; so tired and so weak; one dose of Psorinum will cause a reaction, stop his sweat, increase his appetite, cause better breathing.

The Psorinum complex of symptoms is one in which remedies cause improvement but a short time and then the symptoms change and another remedy must be selected. It is a state of feeble reaction.

The mental symptoms present some strong features. Sadness, hopeless; he sees no light breaking through the clouds above his head; all is dark about him.

He thinks his business is going to be a failure; that he is going to the poor house; that he has sinned away his day of grace. It is a fixed idea during the day and he dreams about it at night. Overwhelming sadness; dejection; he takes no joy in his family; feels that these things are hot for him.

His business is prosperous, yet he feels as if he were going to the poor house. No joy or realization of benefit . Extremely irritable, wants to be alone. Does not want to be washed.

Full of anxiety, even of suicide. Despair of recovery his sick. Though there is no eruption at night he is driven to despair by the continual itching. If he throws the covers off then he becomes chilly; if he covers up, then there is itching.

Sensitive to cold yet the skin is worse from heat. Tingling, itching, formication, crawling like ants running over the surface, as of insects in the skin.

Especially suited to broken down individuals, who have vertigo as soon as they go into the open air; become dizzy and want to go home. and lie down; afraid they will lose their breath.

Old chronic periodical headaches with hunger, and often the hunger lasts during the whole headache; must get up at night for have something to eat.

The headache is sometimes improve by eating. If he goes without a meal he has a headache.

Violent rush of blood to the head, hot face, hair wet with the perspiration, hunger. Every one, two, or three weeks a recurrent headache. Every time the air blows on his head it slacks up the catarrh and a headache comes on.

Either coryza or headache from catching cold. Headache is violent, throbbing, pecking as of little hammer, red face, hot head-congestive at times sweat. Hungry headache in such as have a dry cough in winter. Dry, teasing, racking cough with no expectoration. If the cough ceases he has a periodic headache. So complaints alternate. Head ache goes and cough appears or eruption in winter alternating with headache.

Scalp cold; wears fur cap in summer; worse uncovering the head (Sil.), worse front getting the hair cut ( Bell., Glon., Sep.). Hepar is also worse from cold.

Salt rheum, psoriasis in winter. Dry, cold weather, cold wet weather; washing in cold water; dish washing, aggravate the salt rheum.

"Hair dry, lusterless, tangles easily, glues together; must comb it continually."

Chronic offensive otorrheoa; thick, purulent, offensive, yellow discharge from the ears; smells like stinking meat; continuous discharge; eruptions about and behind ears. Discharge resulting from scarlet fever; abscess in middle ear; otitis media; rupture of drum; prolonged discharge from such all abscess; foetid discharge.

"Otorrheoa with headache; thin, ichorous and horribly offensive like spoiled meat; very offensive, purulent; brown, offensive from left ear, for almost four year."

Otorrheoa associated with watery, offensive diarrhea. Scurfs in ears, and humid scurfs behind cars.

Teeth and mouth: Rigg's disease; the teeth become loose; the gums settle away, spongy, bleed easily, humid, blue, the teeth fall out.

Ulcers about the tongue and mouth; ulcers as found in infancy; aphthae, thrush; ulcerated sore mouth, sore throat, chronic ulcers of throat. Chronic thickening and elongation of the uvula.

Enlargement of tonsils, parotids and submaxillary glands; they become hard and tender to touch; swelling from taking cold. Glands of the neck sore.

Chronic abdominal affections with disturbances of stool.

He will strain to pass a soft stool ( Nux moshata., Alumina).

Chronic diarrhea; horribly offensive; frequent stool day and night (unlike Sulphur, the remedy it most resembles). He must go several times to pass a normal stool.

Chronic vomiting; ulcer of the stomach, distension of stomach are commonly associated. Always sour belching, sour stomach. Vomiting of blood and bloody stools. This is not strange, because Psorinum has a tendency to hemorrhages, especially from the uterus.

All sorts of menstrual disorders, especially a prolonged menstruation. When a woman has passed through an abortion and the placenta has come away, but every few days a little gush of fresh, bright red blood and clots, or going days and weeks with a little oozing of bright red blood; every time she gets on her feet there is a new start of the flow; no tendency to permanent recovery.

Two remedies that fit this state are Sulphur and Psorinum. A marked state of relaxation, sub-involution. The uterus does not go back to its normal size and there is this tendency to bleed; a state of inertia.

Soft stool, passed with difficult do not forget this. Obstinate constipation. Haemorrhage from the rectum.

Cholera infantum; often in the early days the stool is horribly offensive, slimy, undigested; there is vomiting and prolonged weakness and the whole child has an offensive odor; child dirty; nose sunken in ( Ant. t.), sunken, countenance. Psorinum causes reaction and cures, or brings the child into such a condition that a simple remedy completes the cure.

It is not the sourness of Hepar; in spite of washing, the child smells so sour; like sour milk; the diaper, urine, and faeces and perspiration are sour. This is a strong general feature of Hepar. The stool smells like spoiled eggs, so also the eructations and flatus. The offensiveness of the stool is horrible, but not so permeating as Bapt., which is thick and clay-like, while the Psorinum stool is watery, brown, gushing and may be bloody.

Chronic diarrhea, early morning, urgent. Hot flatus, burning the anus; smells of spoiled eggs, Arn. and Staph. Involuntary stool at night ( China has a black, profuse, watery stool at night and after meals.)

In Psorinum, we find the haste of sulphur, the flatulence of Olean. and Aloe, and difficulty of expelling a soft stool like Alumina, China and Nux mosch.

There is prostration in some Psorinum cases; prostration of the genitals.

It is not such an unusual thing in the female to have aversion to sexual intercourse, but man is not often subject to the complaints that cause aversion to coition. Yet we have in man as well as in the woman actual aversion or a state of no enjoyment. He can perform the act and he has no difficulty in obtaining an erection, so it is not impotence, but there is no enjoyment. Impotence comes later.

"Absence of erections; parts flabby, torpid."

"Aversion to coition; impotence; want of emission during coitus."

"Prostatic fluid discharged before urinating."

Old gleet, painless discharge; the "last drop;" relaxed and cold genitals; a drop of white or yellow pus after a well selected remedy. (Sepia, Sulphur, Alumina, Psorinum.) Psorinum is indicated above all others if there is an unusually offensive state of the genitals, Thuya, if the odor is of a nauseating, sweet character; warts exposed by rolling back the foreskin; sweet odor in spite of washing.

Psorinum cures many heart complaints.

Palpitation from the least exertion, better lying. Stitching pain better lying. Cardiac murmurs of either side. Mitral regurgitant murmur. Pericarditis of rheumatic origin. Heart symptoms with general weakness, dusky face, dazed look.

Weak, irregular and rapid pulse. But mark the modalities. Aggravation in the open air, aggravation when sitting up, aggravation when sitting at the writing table; wants to rest the chest and breathing apparatus by lying down. Asthmatic dyspnoea ameliorated by lying down, and worse the nearer the arms are brought to the body. Such symptoms are found in very few remedies and in none so marked as in Psorinum.

Febrile state. Intermittent, bilious fever, fever from a cold. The patient is so hot that the hand under the covers feels as though in a steam bath and the sensation of heat causes one to draw it back.

It is not the dry heat of Belladonna, yet it is as intense. It is a steam. He is covered with a boiling sweat in fevers. Head and body hot and hot air or steam beneath the covers. (Opium has this, but it is in a violent congestion to the head, an apoplectic condition.) In intermit tents he is taken on the street with difficult breathing. He wants to go home; he is weak and exhausted, crawls up stairs on the hands and knees.

The chill is not marked, but the heat is intense and the sweat copious. He is almost in a stupor, befogged, bewildered, cannot answer questions; face red, puffed, mottled.

"Sweat profuse, cold, clammy from least exertion."

This is another form which comes on in the weak, broken down state. After typhoids, he sweats if he turns in bed, after the least exertion, and the sweat is cold. Profuse night sweats. Night sweats of phthisis; when there is that tremendous heat under the covers, a copious hot sweat; mental state as if dazed.

Marasmus; shriveling of the skin; dirty skin; cannot wash it clean. Offensive discharge from the bowels; great emaciation; increased growth of hair on the face; a fuzz (Nat-mur., Psor., Sulph Calc.); horribly offensive in spite of washing; ravenous appetite yet grows thin. Foetid odors would lead one to think of Psorinum.

Especially adapted to psoric constitutions; lack of reaction after severe acute diseases, appetite will not return.

Extremely scrofulous patients; nervous, restless, easily startled, sleepless from intolerable itching and frightful dreams of robbers, danger, etc.

In chronic cases, when well-selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve (in acute diseases, Sul.) ; when Sulphur is indicated but fails to act; in fevers with a personal or family history of eczema, quinsy or hay fever.

Children are pale, delicate, sickly; sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret, cry (Jalapa); child good, plays all day; restless, troublesome, screaming all night (rev. of Lyc.).

Great weakness and debility; from loss of fluids; remaining after acute diseases; without any organic lesion, or apparent cause.

Despairs of recovery; hopeless, thinks he will die, especially after fevers; during climaxia.

Religious melancholy; despairs of salvation (Melil.).

Body has a filthy smell, even after bathing.

Headache: chronic, at every change of weather; awakened from sleep with pain; hungry during headache; > while eating, by washing, by nosebleed; preceded by dim vision or blindness, black spots or rings.

Great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather; wears a fur cap, overcoat or shawl, even in the hottest summer weather.

Stormy weather affects him severely; feels restless for days before, and during a thunder-storm (Phos.).

Cough and dry scaly eruptions return every winter.

All excretions—diarrhœa, leucorrhœa, menstrual flow, perspiration—have a carrion-like odor.

Ailments: from suppressed skin diseases, when Sulphur fails to > ; severe, from even slight emotions; from some eruptive disease of childhood.

Feels unusually well, day before an attack.

Quinsy : to > acute attack and eradicate the constitutional tendency.

Hay fever ; annually, same day of month and often same hour of day ; should be treated in winter to eradicate the diathesis and prevent return.

Hungry in the middle of the night; must have something to eat.

Eructations tasting of rotten eggs (in A. M., Arn.—at night, Ant. t.—in A. M. only, disappearing after rinsing the mouth, Graph.).

Diarrhœa ; stool watery, dark brown, fetid, carrion-like odor.

Leucorrhœa ; clotted, large lumps, of an unbearable odor.

Vomiting of pregnancy, obstinate cases when the best selected remedy fails ; fœtus moves too violently.

Asthma : < sitting up, in open air ; > lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart ; thinks he will die.

Skin: abnormally susceptible to skin diseases ; dry, inactive, rarely sweats ; looks dirty, as if never washed ; coarse, greasy as if oiled ; bad effects of ointments.

Evening, before midnight; in open air; stormy weather, thunder-storm; sitting.

Lying down; in the room; moving; sweating. Always feels better before the paroxysm.

Periodicity of fever paroxysms not marked. Attacks (of other diseases) at same hour every day. Every alternate day; headache, thirst, cold. Typhoid, typhus, continued, yellow, the bubonic plague.

Evening.

With thirst, especially in the evening, on the upper arms and thighs, with horripilations, hot flashes, creeping chills, great weakness, debility, sleepiness. Internal shivering, creeping chills, and icy cold feet. Drinking causes cough (causes cough and gagging, Cimex).

And sweat on the face in the evening; when riding in a carriage (better when riding in a carriage, Nit. ac.). Evening heat with delirium, great thirst, followed by profuse sweat. Heat, sweat, thirst, during both chill and heat (Cal., Sul.).

Profusely and freely when walking, with consequent debility (Bry., Cinch., Carbo a.). Takes cold easily (Cal., Bar.). Copious perspiration on face, palms of hands and perinæum, when moving about (profuse from walking, reading, riding, talking, Sep., Sul.) Profuse at 3 A. M.

After the sweat all the complaints cease (Bry., Calad., Nat.).

Sweat at night > the headache.

Sweat profuse, stinking, at night.

Sour-smelling, viscous sweat.

Coated white or yellowish-white; tip dry and feels burnt as far as the middle (red, triangular tip, Rhus). Taste bitter, goes off after eating or drinking (reverse of Nit. ac., Puls.); foul taste. Great hunger without appetite.

The constitutional symptoms are guiding.

Sweats profusely; takes cold easily.

In all fevers, but, especially typhoid, Psorinum will prevent a protracted case, if there be a history of eczema, suppressed eruption or quinsy. In such cases the symptoms are never clear.

Patient has never been well since typhoid fever.

Psorinum will often clear up a case where there is lack of vital reaction after severe attacks, when other remedies, although well chosen, fail to relieve or permanently improve. The constitutional symptoms are reliable; the chief symptoms do not come to the surface during the paroxysm. It has cleared up many a case for me in psoric constitutions after Sulphur failed. More frequently indicated than used (reverse of Quinine).

See “True Cause of Typhoid,” introduction, page 33.

Thoughts vanish, after overlifting.
Memory so weak, cannot remember, does not even know his room.
Thoughts which he cannot get rid of; they constantly reappear in his dreams.
As if stupid in left half of head, morning.
Dull, stupid, foggy, as after a debauch, on awaking in night; dizziness he falls down.
Dull all forenoon disinclined to work.
Sad depressed; even suicidal thoughts.
Despairs of recovery; thinks he will die, hopeless; especially after typhus, better from nosebleed.
Religious melancholy.
Anxiety, full of fears, of evil forebodings.
Sentimental.
Cheerful, takes pleasure in his work.
Irritable, peevish, passionate, noisy; nervous, easily started; restless, hands tremble.
Mental labor causes: fulness in head; intense headache; throbbing in brain; pain in left temple.
Every moral emotion causes trembling.
Severe ailments from even slight emotions.

Vertigo: mornings; objects seem to go around with him; with headache; eyes feel pressed outward.
Fulness in vertex, as if brain would burst out.
Congestion to head, heat; awakened at night stupefied; could not recollect; after sitting still awhile had to rise to collect his senses.

Morning headache, with pressing in forehead, stupefaction, staggering, eyes feel sore.
Sensation as from a heavy blow received on forehead, awakens him; 1 A.M.
Pain in if brain had not enough room in forehead when rising in morning, forcing outward; better after washing and eating.
Pain in back of head, as if sprained; pressure in right side of occiput as if luxated.
Cramp-like, contractive headache.
Like hammers striking the head from within outward.
Pressing headache on small spots in forehead and temples, worse left side; feels intoxicated, stupid.
Congestion to head, cheeks red and hot, eruption on face reddens; great anxiety every afternoon after dinner. θ Fifth month of pregnancy.

Hair: dry, lustreless; tangles easily.
Viscid sweat about the head.
Whole head burns.
Pustules, boils on head, mostly on scalp, which looks dirty and emits an offensive odor.
Moist, suppurating, fetid eruption. Also dry eruption.
Averse to having head uncovered; wears a fur cap even in hottest weather.

Fiery sparks before eyes.
Objects seem to tremble for a few moments, get dark.
Aversion to light.
Confusedness before eyes, after anxiety.
Eyes feel tired in evening.
Photophobia when walking in open air.
Eyes water, inflamed; hurt so she can scarcely open them; pains over eyebrows, down nose, also back of head; complained mostly of her head.
Right eye inflamed, pressure as from foreign body when lids closed.
Ciliary blepharitis right to left, worse morning and during day; chronic cases.
Blepharitis, photophobia, child cannot open its eyes, lies on its face.

Humming or buzzing in left ear; afterward stinging; hard of hearing.
Discharge of reddish ear-wax.
External ears; raw, red, oozing; scabs form; sore pain behind ears.
Otorrhœa very offensive, purulent (watery, stinking diarrhœa).
Severe pain in ear, confined him to bed for four days; ear swollen; thought pain in would drive him crazy.
Pustules on and behind concha.
Scabby eczema behind right ear came out, curing the child's old, dry deafness.
Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks; at times throws off innumerable scales; at others shows painful rhagades, with yellow discharge, forming scurfs; fetid humor; itching intolerable.

Loss of smell.
Smell of blood.
Nose sensitive when inhaling air.
Boring, stinging in right nostril, followed by excessive sneezing.
Burning, followed by thin nasal discharge, which relieves.
Tough mucus in nose; feels like a plug there; it nauseates him; better when stooping.
Catarrh, with cough and expectoration of yellow-green mucus.
Septum inflamed, large pustules.

Pale, yellow, sickly; broad blue rings around eyes.
Burning heat and redness of face.
Pimples on forehead.
Cheek-bones pain in as if ulcerated.
Ulcers in face.
Scabby face; especially cheeks from ears; lips and eyelids swollen, sore about eyes.
Red, small pimples on face, especially on nose, chin and middle of cheeks.

Upper lip swollen.
Lips dry, brown, black; ulcers on lips.
Lips painful, swollen.
Soreness of jaw, right side, around the ear; could not open in his mouth, even wide enough to admit his fingers.
Corners of mouth ulcerated; sycotic condylomata.
Submaxillary and lingual glands swollen, sore to touch; at the same time suppurating pustules on same place.

Stitching in teeth from one side to other, radiating to head, with burning in right cheek, which is swollen.
Teeth feel so loose, they may fall out; worse from touch.

Loss of taste, with coryza.
Taste: bitter, goes off when eating or drinking; foul, much mucus in mouth; less in fresh air.
Tongue: dry; tip dry, feels scalded; coated white; yellow; thickly covered with whitish-yellow slime.

Mouth dry, burning.
Tickling, burning; mouth inflamed, sore, worse from warm food; not annoyed by cold food.
Blisters inside lower lips; burning painful.

Tough mucus in throat, hawking.
Throat burns, feels scalded.
Like a lump or plug in throat, impending hawking of mucus.
Pain when swallowing saliva.
Difficult swallowing, throat feels swollen.
Ulcers on right side, with deep seated pains and burning in fauces.
Tonsillitis; submaxillary glands swollen; fetid otorrhœa.

Great appetite after walk.
Must eat bread in middle of night, so hungry.
No appetite after typhus.
No appetite, but great thirst.
Loathing of pork.

After eating: 2, 3. While eating: 11. Warm food: 12. Cold food: 12. Drinking: 11.

Eructations: tasting like rotten eggs; sour, rancid.
Nausea: morning, with pain in small of back; all day, with vomiting; vomiturition, followed by vomiting, first of blood, then of a sour, slimy fluid.

Cramps in stomach.
Sharp stinging in pit of stomach.
Weakness of stomach.

Chronic hepatitis.
Deep, heavy pain in region of liver, worse from pressure or lying on right side, walking, coughing, laughing, or talking a long breath.
Stinging, sharp pain in region of liver and spleen.
Stitches in spleen, better when standing; worse when moving, and continuing if again at rest.

Colicky pains, better passing fetid flatus.
Pain in abdomen while riding.
Abdomen distended.
Painful bearing down, with painful, burning micturition.
Stinging, sharp pains in inguinal glands.
Pain through right groin when walking.
Inguinal hernia.

Stools: fluid, fetid, smell like rotten eggs or carrion; worse at night; of green mucus, mixed with blood; frequent, liquid.
Griping and desire for stool while riding.
Chronic diarrhœa.
Costive; pain in small of back; blood from rectum.
Large quantities of blood from rectum, with hard, difficult stool.
Burning, hemorrhoidal tumors.
Soreness in rectum and anus when riding.

Involuntary urine, cannot hold it. θ Typhus.
Frequent, scanty urine; burning and cutting in urethra.
Urine thick, whitish, turbid, red deposit, cuticle forms on surface.

Impotence, want of emissions during coitus.
Aversion to coition.
Drawing in testicles and cords.
Male parts flabby, torpid.
Inflamed ulcer on glands, with swelling and heaviness of testicles.
Prostatic fluid discharge before urinating.
Sycotic excrescences on edges of prepuce, with itching and burning.
Painless, chronic blenorrhœa, stains linen yellow.

Pinching in pubic region, in women.
Cutting in left loin; cannot walk without assistance.
Left ovary indurated after a violent knock; followed by itching eruption on body and face.
Knotty lump above right groin; even a bandage hurts.
Amenorrhœa: in psoric subjects, when tetter in covered by thick scurfs; with phthisis.
Dysmenorrhœa near climaxis.
Leucorrhœa large lumps, unbearable in odor; violent pains in sacrum and right loin.

During pregnancy: congestions; fœtus moves too violently, abdomen tympanitic; nausea, vomiting.
Mammæ swollen, painful; redness of nipples, burning around them.
Pimples, itching violently, about nipples; oozing a fluid. θ Second month of pregnancy.
Mammary cancer.

Hoarse when talking, phlegm sticks in larynx.
Tickling, throat as if narrowing, must cough to relieve it.
Talking very fatiguing.

Short-breathed.
Chest expands with great difficulty.
Cannot get breath.
Anxious dyspnœa, sitting up to write, better lying down; worse the nearer the arms are brought to the body.
Asthmatic attacks, with hydrothorax.
Stitches from behind forward, in chest and back, when breathing.

Dry, hacking, from titillation in trachea; dry, with weakness, heaviness, or soreness in chest; evenings, pains in throat and chest, caused by speaking, better from quiet; with green mucous sputa, worse mornings when awaking and evenings on lying down; coughs a long time before expectorating.
Chronic blenorrhœa of the lungs, threatening phthisis.

Phthisis pulmonalis.
Burning-pressing in chest.
Pain in chest, great anxiety, by spells.
Hydrothorax.
Feeling, especially under sternum, as of ulceration of the chest.
Chest symptoms better when lying down.
Sharp pain, right side, opposite tenth rib.
Pains in right side, worse from motion, laughing, coughing; with sweat.

Pericarditis, psoric origin; better lying quietly.
Rheumatic carditis; effusion, cannot lie down.
Pulse week, feeble.

Painful stiffness of neck, soreness and tearing on bending backward.
Glands of neck swollen, pain thence to head.
Tearing and stitches between scapulæ.
Severe backache, as if bruised, cannot straighten out.
Pain in small of back, like weakness.
Small of back pains, worse motion.

Attacks of lameness and soreness in right shoulder, extending to hand.
Arms as if paralyzed and lame, from shoulder to hands.
Eruption in bends of elbows and around wrists.
Tearing in arms.
Copper-colored, red blisters on backs of hands.
Pustules on hands, near finger-ends, suppurating.
Itching between fingers; vesicles.
Sweaty palms, especially at night.
Small warts, size of pin's head, on left hand.

Pain in hip-joints as if dislocated, worse when walking, with weak arms.
Pain in legs, especially on tibia and soles, as from overexertion in walking; legs restless, better on rising.
Sciatic pains; tension down to knee while walking.
Oozing blister on legs, from small pustules, increasing in size, with tearing pains.
Dry herpes in bend of knees.
Chronic gonitis.
Ulcers on lower legs, with intolerable itching over whole body.
Feet go to sleep.
Heat and itching of the soles.
Eruption on insteps, soon becoming thick, dirty, scaly; suppurating; painful and itching at times, keeping him awake.

Arthritic; rheumatism, especially in chronic form.
Tearing in left knees and left axilla.
Hands and feet tremble.

Rest: 18, 27, 33. Lying down: 26, 27, 28, 29; on right side: 18. Lies on face: 5. Cannot lie down: 29. Sitting up: 26. Standing: 18. Motion: 18, 28, 31. Exertion: 36, 46. Walking: 5, 14, 18, 19, 23, 33. Stooping: 7. Rising: 3, 33. Must rise: 2. Bending backward: 31. Cannot straighten out: 31. Overlifting: 1.

Weakness, especially without structural diseased changes.
Debility after acute diseases; after typhus with despair of recovery; thinks he is very ill, when he is not; appetite will not return; sweats from least exertion.
Nervous, easily startled.
Subsultus tendinum.

Sleepy by day; sleepless at night, from intolerable itching; dyspnœa; congestion to head.
Sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry fret, cry.
Dreams vivid, continue after awaking.
Dreams of robbers, danger, travelling, etc.
Sleepless after 12 P.M., from congestion to head.
On awaking, cannot get rid of the one persistent idea.

Morning: 1, 2, 3, 5, 16, 27. Afternoon: 2. Evening: 5, 27, 40. Night: 1, 2, 3, 14, 20, 32, 37. After midnight: 37. At 1 A.M.: 3. Day: 5, 16, 37.

Feels a restlessness in his blood days before and during a thunder-storm.
Cough returns every winter.
Hot weather: 4. Warmth: 46. In bed: 46. Air: 7, 11. Uncovering: 4. Washing: 3.

Chilly, evening, upper arms, thighs, with thirst; drinking causes cough.
Evening heat, delirium, great thirst, followed by profuse sweat.
Heat when riding in a carriage.
Profuse sweats.
Sweats easily, weak.
Typhus: picks bedclothes, reaches for objects in air.

Every day same hour.
Every other day: headache, thirst, cold.

Right: 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 18, 19, 23, 28, 32. Left: 1, 2, 3, 6, 18, 23, 32, 34. Right to left: 5. Side to side: 10. Within outward: 3, 4. Behind forward: 26. Above downward: 32, 33.

Body always has a filthy smell, even after a bath.
Thinner than usual; pale, exhausted.
Deeply penetrating ichorous ulcers.
Carries.
Dropsy.

Touch: 9, 10, 33. Pressure: 18, 30; of bandage: 23. Violent knock: 23. Scratching: 46. Riding: 19, 20, 40.

Body itches intolerably; worse in bed and from warmth; scratches until it bleeds.
Skin dirty, greasy-looking, with yellow blotches here and there.
Fine red eruption, forming small white scales.
Whole surface scaly, dirty-looking, tawny; at times itching; desires scratching, which gives temporary relief.
Copper-colored pustules, no itching.
Itch: boils after itch.
Crusty eruptions all over.
After suppressed itch; urticaria, in attacks, after every exertion; tuberculosis; single pustules often appear.

Scrofulous, nervous, restless, easily startled.
Psoric constitutions; especially when other remedies fail to permanently improve; lack of reaction after severe diseases.
Pale, sickly, delicate children.

Burning remaining (about nipples), yielded to Carb. veg.
Vomiting in pregnancy only relieved by Lac. ac., was cured by Psorin.
Arnic. for a blow on ovary, followed by Psorin.
Follow Psorin., with Sulphur, mammary cancer.
Antidote: coffee.

A tincture was made of the pus from mature pustules on the hands of a healthy negro who was probably afflicted with the "itch" (C. Hering).

▶ Looks pale, exhausted and thin, this clothing is too large from him. ▶ Hot trembling over whole body in morning during rush of business, with hoarseness, good humor and love for his business. ▶ Soreness. ▶ Gouty pains in left toe, both knees and back. ▶ (Old rheumatic pains in neck, head, shoulders, back, stomach, etc., after putting on too light clothing in spring, with eructations, irregular stools and twitching in left eye.). ▶ Stormy weather affects him, he feels restlessness in his blood a few days beforehand; S. weather makes him sick and causes hæmorrhoidal troubles. ▶ Weakness; towards evening, amel. going to bed; after riding in a wagon; from a little labor. ▶ Sensation when the sun shines upon her as if it pushed her down, she had to rest in the shade in order to walk on. ▶ Heaviness of whole body as before intermittent fever. ▶ Amelioration in morning; A. in fresh air; when lying.

Frequently indicated for persistent weakness after debilitating diseases, depressed in mind and body. ▶ General anæmia, aversion to food, with four taste.

Hypochondriac, thinks he will never recover. ▶ Cannot apply his mind to work. ▶ Melancholia, religious.

Good humor in morning, he works with pleasure. ▶ Great humor, full of fun. ▶ Lively, enjoys everything. ▶ Pictures the future in the brightest colors. ▶ Excitable before sleep; E., vexed with everything. ▶ Fear. ▶ Anxiety; when riding in a carriage; with trembling of hands and restlessness. ▶ Melancholy; so that she could commit suicide, then is full of phantasms, peevishness and lachrymation; alternating suddenly with liveliness; alternating with frolicsomeness. ▶ Despair, fear of failing in business; D., he wishes to die in spite of the best hopes. ▶ Ill humor; in morning; and constant thoughts of dying; if spoken to frequently; could weep about everything. ▶ Quarrelsome; in morning; in evening. ▶ Affected by every moral impression so that she trembles over the whole body. ▶ Disinclination to work; to ride in a carriage, then desire to ride all the time, even in bad weather. ▶ Sentimental.

Inability to rid himself of ideas which first appeared to him in a dream. ▶ Thinking that he understood what he had read he tried to explain it and found that he did not understand it. ▶ Memory lost; so that she does not recognize the room after looking out of the window.

Sticking, with weakness she had to lie down towards 7 P.M., and soon feel asleep, copious sweat at night, which relieved her. ▶ Thrusts. ▶ Tearing; (which he formerly had) this time with fever and general arthritic pains. ▶ Aching in evening; A., with eructations; with thirst, coldness and with dryness of mouth and lips; intermittent; spasmodically contracting; as if a hammer were beating in head; especially unilateral (in a herpetic patient); as if everything would protrude through forehead towards evening. ▶ Fulness during mental labor. ▶ Dullness, so that he fears inflammation of brain, amel. nosebleed. ▶ Cloudy feeling in night on waking, as if he had been intoxicated in evening, with stupor and tumbling about. ▶ Heaviness in morning. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Pulsation of blood during mental labor. ▶ Vertigo; in morning; everything turns around with him.

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Exhaustion and emaciation.
Greatly affected by stormy weather.
General anæmia, with aversion to food.

Melancholy; inclined to suicide.
Despair.
Ill humor.
Constant thoughts of dying.

Pain as from the beating of a hammer in the head.
General dullness, > nose-bleed.
A feeling of heaviness in the forehead in the morning on rising, > washing.
A feeling of a piece of wood, lying across the occiput.

Fetid, purulent discharge; with headache.

Obstruction, with dryness or with discharge of thin mucus.

Pale, sickly look.
Swelling of the upper lip.
Lips dry and burn, painful.

Teeth loose, gums ulcerated.
Tongue coated yellowish-white or ulcerated; at times dry, especially at tip as if burnt.

Sore, with adhesion of tough mucus to the posterior wall of the palate, with constant hawking.
Throat feels dry, especially in the morning, with scraping.

Excessive hunger, though with diminished relish for food.
Eructations tasting like foul eggs.
Nausea and sour vomiting.

Bloated, with flatulent symptoms.
Aggravation from lying on the right side.

Diarrhœa; thin, dark brown, of a horrible odor.

Cough from tickling in the trachea, with soreness under the sternum and heaviness on the chest, at times with expectoration of green mucus.
Sense of suffocation in the larynx, with paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough.
Shortness of breath on walking in the open air.
Ulcerative pain under the sternum or soreness as if everything were torn in the chest.

Swollen glands on the nape, with bruised pain, extending into the head.

Weakness as if the joints would not hold together.
Pain in the legs as from too much walking, with restlessness.

Itching eruption, vesicular, painful.
Skin yellow, dirty, and greasy; unhealthy eruptions.

Sudden outbreaks of sweat on slight effort, which is generally offensive, followed by debility and easy taking cold.

Anxious, full of fear, very depressed, despairing, always thinking of dying. Irritable, easily angered. Every moral impression causes trembling. Persistence of one idea. Memory lost.

Lifting. Aching, spasmodically contractive a. Pain: In center, with weakness of, like a hammer beating, as of a piece of wood lying across occiput, pushing out, as if brain had not space enough, one - sided pressure. Pulsation. Boring or cramp in temples. Drawing in frontal sinuses. Pinching and heaviness in forehead, temples feel pressed in, alternating with pain in teeth. Burning. stitches extending to nose or eyes. Dull pressing in vertex. As of a cord tied about. Hair feels pulled. Worse: Mental labor. Better:Wrapping up: nose bleed, sweat, washing face.

Glassy. Gummy. Agglutinated. Deep broad, blue rings about. Feel swelled, like a foreign body in, tired, burning. Vision, Of fiery sparks, tremulous, suddenly blurred. Pimples like styes on upper lid. Worse: Looking intently.

Ears discharging fetid pus. with headache. Reddish earwax. Feeling as if: Stuffed, something bursting in, when swallowing, breath came from, hearing with another's ears, Pain, ulcerative, stitching, preceded by coldness, better boring in with finger. Burning heat in. extending to vertex. roaring in, with stupefaction. Worse: Evening.

Tough mucus in nose, Sense of a plug high up in, causing nausea, better stooping. Boring in, then sneezing. Pustules on septum. Clear fluid escapes on stooping. Sensitive to inhaled air. Drawing in, then fluent coryza. Burning in, better by a fluent discharge. Scratching crawling at root. Itching on tip.

Greasy. Pale, sickly look. Zygoma painful to touch.

Lips: Swelling of upper. Brown, black and dry. Painful and itching. Burn. Feel swelled. Vesicles around corners of, with humid sore spots. Tough mucus in and in throat, it in glues the teeth together, tastes like old cheese, is offensive and adheres to palate causing hawking. Scratching in back part and asthmatic feeling on leaning backward. Swelled feeling in fauces.

Taste: Foul, bitter or coppery, sticky. Of food is oily, or like cat's urine. Nauseous. Better: Eating.

Gnashing of, at night, feel on edge when smoking, loose, stitches in, hammering in, feel pulled. Toothache, alternating with headache. Worse: touch. Better: Fresh air.

Inflamed, with crawling pain, and tongue ulcerated, with sore throat.

Dry, painful. tip feels burnt.

Pink spots with cheesy tips, which turn black. Sore, everything burns it, with difficult swallowing, can take cold food only. Tough, adherent mucus in, causing hawking. Scratching, with suffocation, causing cough. tickling causing cough, tickling in, the eructations. Burnt feeling in, burning in palate. Dry. Swollen feeling in left tonsil. Submaxillary glands swelled.

Bloated, oppressed. Crampy stitch, cutting or contracting pain in pit.

Appetite: Great hunger, without appetite. Easily satiated. Disgust for pork. Great thirst, with dryness and burning in mouth, for beer after the chill.

Eructations: Tasting like rotten eggs, rancid, with headache. Waterbrash, after drinking water, on lying down, with colic. Better, Eating roasted thighs.

Nausea: Constant. Vomits sweet mucus, or sour, which sets teeth on edge.

Stitches in hypochondria and sides of, motion and lying on r. wide. Swollen feeling below short ribs (sul.). Bloated. gurgling, griping, cutting or twisting in. Twitching or sticking in inguinal region. Worse: Eating frozen things, driving. Better: Stool.

Burning in. Chafed feeling.

Burning nodes at. Itching. Hemorrhoids worse during stormy weather.

Of a dark brown, very foul smelling fluid. Shooting out, preceded by colic. green, bilious, mixed with mucus. Involuntary, with much flatus, Soft, but difficulty. Mushy.

Urination: Prostatic discharge before, burning in tip of penis at start of, burning with cutting during, dribbling after. Inward stitches in urethra. Red sediment in, fatty pellicle on urine.

Male: Relaxed. Impotence, with aversion to coition. Tightness and drawing in. Taste swelled and heavy, with ulcer on glans. Drawing in testes and small of back. Spermatic cords as if full of blood. Painful suppurating vesicles on scrotum.

Cough: Paroxysmal, hacking, excited by suffocation and crawling in larynx, or talking, quiet, with weakness or heaviness in chest, with dizziness, with vomiting acid mucus, with soreness under sternum, in morning on rising and evening on lying down (Phos.). Expectoration, Blood - streaked, of saliva, of green mucus, difficulty, sticking firmly. Hoarseness. Short of breath in fresh air, with whistling in chest. Suffocation in larynx when sitting bent backward, gentle exercise, riding or lying down, sitting.

Pains, cutting, as with knives, as if tearing loose, pressing in small spots, ulcerative under sternum, excoriating, boring. Oppression as of a load, on inclining head forward when stooping. Worse: Coughing. Better: Holding arms away from chest.

Neck: Glands swelled, on touch bruised pain extends to head. Tearing, boring or stiffness in nape. Drawing extending to shoulders. Tensive pain as from lying uncomfortably. Pustules on.

Back: Boil - like indurations in axillae. Sticking extending towards chest on coughing. Pains: Boring, or as if broken in vertebrae, bruised, cutting, stitches, pressure in. tightness in ischii, extending to knees. Weakness. Worse, Straightening out, motion.

Stretching. Weakness, as if joints would not hold together. Tearing, wandering pains. Trembling of hands and feet. Upper: Asleep feeling in left arm and fingers. Crawling in fingers. Spasmodic pain in bones of left arm. Better: Motion.

One leg feels too weak to endure pressure of other when lying. Bruised pains in legs and soles, as after too much walking, with restlessness in them. Stitching as of a strained sinew in ankles. Inclination to turn left foot inward when walking. Gouty pains in left foot. Cramps in single toes when stretching them out. Itching feet and soles. Worse: Rest.

Filthy smell of body. Offensive discharges. Pale. exhausted and thin, his clothing is too large for him. Malaise, easily tired out, riding exhausts him. the sun shining upon her seems to press her down. Great bodily heaviness. Affected by stormy weather. Hot tremblings over body. Worse: Riding. Morning and evening. Better: Lying down: in morning: in fresh air, wrapping up.

Yellow, dirty, and greasy. Roughness of knuckles. Small warts, like pinheads on fingers. Pimples with black points in center (Kali - bi). Eruption: Miliary, vesicular, pustular, itch - like, unhealthy. Itching, after scratching vesicles arise, when touched.

Very sleepy in daytime. Gnashes teeth, which wakes her. Unrefreshing. Dreams of business, anxious.

Chilliness, in the evening, with hot flashes, debility and sleepiness. Creeping chills. Feet cold all night. Heat: Sudden, general, with trickling, sweat over face. As if about to lose sense. With thirst, dryness and burning in mouth, burning in head and face, better fluent coryza. thirst during chill and heat. Sweat: profuse, when walking with consequent debility and taking cold easily. Offensive. On perineum. On palms at night. During night, then feels better.

Allied Remedies: Carb-v., chin., Graph., Kali - bi., sul.

Followed by Sep.

Complementary: Sep., Sul., tab.

In the subsequent list of antisoric remedies no isopathic remedies are mentioned, for the reason that their effects upon the healthy organism have not been sufficiently ascertained. Even the itch miasm (psorinum), in its various degrees of potency, comes under this objection. I call psorin a homeopathic anti-psoric, because if the preparations of psorin did not alter its nature to that of a homeopathic remedy it never could have any effect upon an organism tainted with that same identical virus. The psoric virus, by undergoing the processes of trituration and shaking, becomes just as much altered in its nature as gold does, the homeopathic preparations of which are not inert substances in the animal economy, but powerfully acting agents.
Psorinum is a similimum of the itch virus. There is no intermediate degree between idem and similimum; in other words, the thinking man sees that similimum is the medium between simile and idem. The only definite meaning which the terms "isopathic and æquale" can convey is that of similimum; they are not idem.
Hitherto syphilis alone has been to some extent known as such a chronic miasmatic disease, which when uncured ceases only with the termination of life. Sycosis (the condylomatatous disease), equally ineradicable by the vital force without proper medicinal treatment, was not recognized as a chronic miasmatic disease of a peculiar character, which it nevertheless undoubtedly is, and physicians imagined they had cured it when they had destroyed the growth upon the skin, but the persisting dyscrasia occasioned by it escaped their observation.
Incalculably greater and more important than the two chronic miasm just named, however, is the chronic miasm of psora, which, whilst those two reveal their specific internal dyscrasia, the one by the venereal chancre, the other by the cauliflower-growths, does also, after the completion of the internal infection of the whole organism, announce by a peculiar cutaneous eruption, sometimes consisting of only a few vesicles accompanied by intolerable voluptuous tickling itching (and a peculiar odor), the monstrous internal chronic miasm the psora, the only real fundamental cause and producer of all the other numerous, I may say innumerable, forms of disease, which under the names of nervous debility, hysteria, hypochondriasis, mania, melancholia, imbecility, madness, epilepsy and convulsions of all sorts, softening of the bones (rachitis), scoliosis and cyphosis, caries, cancer, fungus hematodes, neoplasms, gout, hemorrhoids, jaundice, cyanosis, dropsy, amenorrhœa, hemorrhage from the stomach, nose, lungs, bladder and womb, of asthma and ulceration of the lungs, of impotence and barrenness, of megrim, deafness, cataract, amaurosis, urinary calculus, paralysis, defects of the senses and pains of thousands of kinds, etc., figure in systematic works on pathology as peculiar, independent diseases.

Especially adapted to the psoric constitution.
In chronic cases when well selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve (in acute diseases, Sulph.); when Sulphur seems indicated but fails to act.
Lack of reaction after severe acute diseases.
Appetite will not return.
Children are pale, delicate, sickly.
Sick babies will not sleep day or night but worry, fret, cry (Jalap.); child is good, plays all day; restless, troublesome, screaming all night (rev. of, Lyc.).
Great weakness and debility; from loss of animal fluids; remaining after acute diseases; independent of or without any organic lesion, or apparent cause.
Body has a filthy smell, even after bathing.
The whole body painful, easily sprained and injured.
Great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather.
Stormy weather he feels acutely; feels restless for days before or during a thunderstorm (Phos.); dry, scaly eruptions disappear in summer, return in winter.
Ailments: from suppressed itch or other skin diseases when Sulphur fails to relieve; severe, from even slight emotions; never recovered from typhoid.
Feels unusually well day before attack.
Extremely psoric patients; nervous, restless, easily startled.
All excretions diarrhea, leucorrhea, menses, perspiration have a carrion-like odor.
Anxious, full of fear; evil forebodings.
Religious melancholy; very depressed, sad suicidal thoughts; despairs of salvation (Mel.), of recovery.
Despondent: fears he will die; that he will fail in business; during climaxis; making his own life and that of those about him intolerable.
Driven to despair with excessive itching.
Headache: preceded, by flickering before eyes; by dimness of vision or blindness (Lac d., Kali bi.); by black spots or rings.
Headache: always hungry during; > while eating (Anac., Kali p.); from suppressed eruptions, or suppressed menses; > by nosebleed (Mel.).
Hair, dry, lustreless, tangles easily, glues together (Lyc.). Plica polonica (Bar., Sars., Tub.).
Scalp: dry, scaly or moist, fetid, suppurating eruptions; oozing a sticky, offensive fluid (Graph., Mez.).
Intense photophobia, with inflamed lids; cannot open the eyes; lies with face buried in pillow.
Ears: humid scurfs and soreness on and behind ears; oozing and offensive viscid fluid (Graph.).
Otorrhœa: thin, ichorous, horribly fetid discharge, like decayed meat; chronic, after measles or scarlatina.
Acne: all forms, simplex, rosacea; < during menses, from coffee, fats, sugar, meat; when the best selected remedy fails or only palliates.
Hungry in the middle of the night; must have something to eat (Cina, Sulph.).
Eructations tasting of rotten eggs (Arn., Ant. t., Graph.). Quinsy: tonsils greatly swollen; difficult, painful swallowing; burns, feels scalded; cutting, tearing, intense pain to ears on swallowing (painless, Bar. c.); profuse offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat, must hawk continually.
To not only > acute attack but eradicate the tendency.
Hawks up cheesy balls, size of a pea, of disgusting taste and carrion-like odor (kali m.).
Diarrhea: sudden, imperative (Aloe, Sulph.); stool watery, dark brown, fetid; smells like carrion; involuntary, < at night from left to 4 A. M.; after severe acute diseases: teething: in children; when weather changes.
Constipation: obstinate, with backache; from inactivity of rectum; when Sulphur fails to relieve.
Enuresis; from vesical paresis; during full moon obstinate cases, with a family history of eczema.
Chronic gonorrhea of year's duration that can neither be suppressed nor cured; the best selected remedy fails.
Leucorrhea: large, clotted lumps of an intolerable odor; violent pains in sacrum; debility, during climaxis.
During pregnancy: most obstinate vomiting, fetus moves too violently; when the best selected remedy fails to relieve; to correct the psoric diathesis of the unborn.
Profuse perspiration after acute diseases, with relief of all suffering (Calad., Nat. m.).
Asthma, dyspnœa: < in openair, sitting up (Laur.); > lying down and keeping arms stretched far apart (rev. of Ars.); despondent, thinks he will die.
Cough returns every winter.
Hay fever; appearing regularly every year the same day of the month; with an asthmatic, psoric or eczematous history.
Patient should be treated the previous winter to eradicate the diathesis and prevent summer attack.
Cough: after suppressed itch, or eczema; chronic of years' duration, < mornings on waking and evenings on lying down (Phos., Tub.); sputa green, yellow or salty mucus; pus-like; coughs a long time before expectorating.
Skin: abnormal tendency to receive skin diseases (Sulph.); eruptions easily suppurate (Hep.); dry, inactive, rarely sweats; dirty look, as if never washed; coarse, greasy, as if bathed in oil; bad effects from suppression by Sulphur and Zinc ointments.
Sleepless from intolerable itching, or frightful dreams of robbers, danger, etc. (Nat. m.).
Psorinum should not be given for psora or the psoric diathesis, but like every other remedy, upon a strict individualization the totality of the symptoms and then we realize its wonderful work.

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