Materia Medica de A a Z

KREOSOTUM (kreos)

REGION

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: DIGESTIVE TRACT. Gums. Stomach. Abdomen. Female genitals. Uterus. BLOOD. Teeth.

WORSE

DENTITION. Pregnancy. Rest. Cold. Eating. Lying. Summer. During menses. 6 P.M. to 6 A.M.

BETTER

Warmth. Hot food. Motion.

GENERAL

Miserable and weak. Profuse, FOUL, HOT, ACRID discharges; sputum, eructations, etc.; redden the part. Rawness. Burning like fire. Pulsation; general. Hæmorrhage; passive; brown, dark. Lumpy discharges, menses, etc. Ulceration. Heaviness. Fulness. Tumefaction. Scurvy. Marasmus. Black, teeth, leucorrhoa, lochia, etc..................... Dissatisfied with every thing; wants things, then throws them away and wants something else. Screams at night. Cross, wilful and obstinate. Longs for death. Stupid. Buzzing in head. Yellow pallor, with red blotches (Iod); during chill or heat. TEETH SOON DECAY; black spots on; intolerable ache, agg. pregnancy; painful dentition. Puffy, bluish, bleeding, painful gums. Aphthæ or salivation, of pregnancy. Taste bitter, low down in throat. Icy cold epigastrium. Frothy eructations. Nausea. Vomiting; long after meals (Aeth, Ferr, Plat); undigested food; sweetish; of pregnancy; of uterine ulcer. As of a lump pressing down on bladder. Brown, watery, lienteric stools. Urination hurried; involuntary when lying. Diuresis. Profuse, lumpy, intermittent menses, agg. lying. Leucorrhoa; gushing; like bloody water; with itching. Tormenting cough, with little expectoration; with sore larynx and chest. Senile bronchitis. Neglected phthisis. Hectic. Chest; deep pains, take her breath; anxious heaviness. Dragging from back to genitals; as if to come out. Violently itching, moist or scurfy eczema on eyelids, face, joints, back of hands. Ulcers break out and heal repeatedly; bleed after coitus. Cold sweat.

Complementary: Sulph.

Related: Arum-t, Ars, Carb-ac, Graph, Nit-ac, Psor.