Materia Medica de A a Z

GRAPHITES NATURALIS (graph)

Region

NUTRITION. Circulation. SKIN (Folds. Behind ears. Angles. Flexures. Orifices. Nails). Mind. Mucous membranes. Glands. Eyes.

Worse

COLD. Drafts. Light. During menses. Suppressions of eruptions. Empty swallowing. Fats. Hot drinks. Warmth of bed. Scratching. Night. Wet feet.

Better

Open air; after walking in. Eating. Touch.

General

LUMPY, THICK OR HARD (Chin; Thuj); skin, glands, tarsi, nails, scars, callosities, stools, crusts, etc. Infiltrations. EXCORIATIONS, CRACKS OR FISSURES; in angles; at margins of mucous membranes; of eyes, nostrils, mouth, finger-tips, nipples, anus, etc. Emaciation; of affected part. Scanty, foul, thin, sticky, corrosive secretions. Watery hæmorrhages. Sense of burning, numbness or deadness. Pains go to part not lain on. Fat, relaxed, chilly and costive..................... Impulse to groan. Sad, fearsome and irresolute. Music brings tears. Brain feels numb. Burning spot on vertex. Heavy occiput. Wens. Matted, brittle or falling hair; agg. vertex and sides. Milk crust. Sore or cracked outer canthi. Scrophula of eyes. Pale tarsi. Ingrown lashes. Photophobia. Inflamed or dry, scaly tarsi. Scales from ears. Briny otorrhoa. Tinnitus. Hears amel. in a noise. Moist eruption behind ears. Dryness in ears and nose. Nose; stuffed coryza; bleeding, agg. before menses. Acute smell. Sensation as of a cobweb on face. Acne before menses. Barbers'itch. Lumpy goitre. Rotten taste. Dots of thick, white fur on tongue. Choking; on swallowing, from goitre, etc. Sour: taste, eructation, blood about teeth, stool, urine, odor from mouth, sweat, etc. Hunger. Averse to meats and sweets. Alternate digestive and skin symptoms. Gastric pains -burning- necessitate eating. Morning sickness during menses. Can't bear pressure about waist. Foul belching. Flatulence. Stomach amel. heat, hot food, eating and lying. Abdomen distended, as from incarcerated flatus. Intestinal torpor. Large, knotty, difficult, stringy, slimy coated stools; or loose, brown, lienteric and very foul. Constipation; for days (Sep). Fissures of anus bleed and ulcerate. Stool of masses of mucus. Slender stool and urinary stream. Priapism. Sexual exhaustion. Itching of anus and pudendum; before menses. Averse to coition. Swelled (l) ovary. Cramps in various places or burning. Indurations; ovaries, mammæ, etc. Menses irregular; late, scanty, painful, etc.; cold taking, morning sickness or sweats during. Gushes of irritating, white leucorrhoa; instead of menses. Suffocation, after mid-night, amel. eating. Voice lacks control, amel. using it. Circulation irregular. Flushings. Rushes of blood to head. Bunions, agg. fire heat, amel. pressure. Can't stretch enough. Paralysed feeling in limbs. Arms and legs go to sleep. Rawness in folds of skin. Eruptions, cracked, moist and bleed easily; agg. on head and behing ears. Foul, acrid foot-sweat; chafes toes. Crippled, crumbling nails. IRRITABLE, DRY, rough skin, that breaks easily and exudes A GLUEY MOISTURE; agg. in folds - and is slow to heal. MOIST, CRUSTY ERUPTIONS. Eczema; anal, crural, palmar, etc. Wandering or recurrent erysipelas (Hydr; Rhus-t). Eruptions, agg. from heat. Supersensitive to cold; it agg. bone-pains, coryza and stomach. Cold, wet feet. Burning coldness.

Complementary: Sulph.

Related: Ars; Calc-f; Carbons; Ferr; Kali-bi; Puls.