Sleep is liable to be disturbed by the foregoing or by dreams or robbers and dangers, or the patient dreams of going to stool and awaking with the impression of having soiled his clothing.
Generalities.- There is little re-active power, little response to apparently suitable remedies. The patient recovers slowly after an illness or after child-bearing; she is easily tired, is worse on standing and in the open air.
The psorinum patient is extremely sensitive to cold air and wears heavy clothing, even in warm weather; he feels stormy weather and is uncomfortable and restless before a thunder-storm. He is liable to giddiness in the open air.
Mind.- The mental condition suggestive of this remedy is one of sadness and hopelessness, both as to this life and its prospects and the next. He has an ” all is lost ” feeling, has no pleasure in his family or in his life, even if prosperous; he may even dream that he is a failure. He is fearful and nervous-afraid of riding in a carriage, be is restless and trembling. In extreme cases such patients long for death and dwell upon suicide to end it all.
Aetiology.- As exciting causes of a so-called psoric condition, the following are worthy of remembrance : (a) Acute illness of various kinds; (b) especially those accompanied by loss of fluids; loss of fluids even if not acute; (c) suppression of rashes of discharges; (d) emotions; (e) storms-felt even before.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Irritable rashes, eczematous or suppurating, always with strikingly offensive discharges.
(2) Itching, apart from definite eruptions, worse at night and from warmth of bed and wraps.
(3) Great sensitiveness to cold air-except as regards the above; heaps on the clothing.
(4) Foetor of all discharges and secretions.
(5) Lack of reaction and power of recovery after illness; absence of response to medicines.
(6) Sadness, even to melancholia, religious or other; the patient desires death and dwells on suicide; has no enjoyment, even of prosperity.
(7) Great hunger, especially at night. Hunger before and during a headache (phos.).
(8) Profuse sweats on the least exertion.
(9) Feels unusually well the day before an attack of illness.
(10) Many menopausic symptoms-flushes, palpitation, sleep disturbed by perspiration and dreams.
(11) Pale, delicate children, who sleep all day, and scream all night.
(12) Named diseases or conditions : Psorinum has been successfully prescribed for the following : (a) skin diseases : eczema, acne, boils; (b) diarrhoea, leucorrhoea; (c) melancholia; (d) epistaxis; (e) headaches; (f) otorrhoea; (g) dyspepsia;(h) gonorrhoea (old)’ (i) vomiting of pregnancy; (j) hypertrophied tonsils; (k) asthma and hay fever; (i) insomnia.
AGGRAVATION :
(a) From change of weather and before storms; (b) form open air and cold; (c) between 1 and 4 a.m. (diarrhoea); (d) effort, even sitting up (dyspnoea); (e) morning (diarrhoea, &c.); (f) at menstrual period; (d) warmth of bed and clothing (itching); (h) from coffee, fat, sugar and meat.
AMELIORATION :
(a) Free perspirations (after acute illnesses); (b) in summer (scaly eruptions); (c) epistaxis (headaches); (d) lying on back with arms out from body (asthma), warmth (except itching).
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,