Materia Medica de A a Z

PETROLEUM (petr)

Region

OCCIPUT. SKIN (Folds. Scalp. Face. Genitals). Mucous membranes. Stomach. Bowels.

Worse

MOTION (CARS. CARRIAGE. BOAT). Weather (Cold; winter. Changing. Thunderstorms). Eating. Vexation. Cabbage.

Better

Warm air.

General

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

Complementary: Sep.

Related: Grap. (Graph), Sep.