PSORINUM

PSORINUM. [Psorin.] The salt from a product of Psora. Hering. A Nosode.

► 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. ► Otorrhoea very offensive, purulent (watery, stinking diarrhoea). ► 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 otorrhoea.

► 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 diarrhoea. ► 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 blenorrhoea, 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. ► Amenorrhoea : in psoric subjects, when tetter in covered by thick scurfs ; with phthisis. ► Dysmenorrhoea near climaxis. ► Leucorrhoea large lumps, unbearable in odor ; violent pains in sacrum and right loin.

► During pregnancy : congestions ; foetus moves too violently, abdomen tympanitic ; nausea, vomiting. ► Mammae 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 dyspnoea, 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 blenorrhoea 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 scapulae. ► 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.

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 ; dyspnoea ; 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.