SPHERE OF ACTION
This remedy especially affects the great vegetative nervous system, through this the lymphatics and skin.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.
When well chosen remedies do not act, and the patient shows a psoric taint, give Psorin.-.
Great weakness; debility from loss of fluids, or remaining after severe acute diseases.-.
Its great field is debility, independent of any organic disease.–J.B. BELL.
Diseases where Sulphur is indicated, but fails to act.
Head.–Chronic headache, aggravated at every change in the night while sleeping; she is awakened with the pain.–W.P.
WESSELHOEFT, M.D.
Vertigo with headache.-.
Headache, as if from a heavy blow on the forehead, waking him at night.-.
The patient is hopeless, and despairing of recovery.-.
Dry, or moist, fetid, loathsome eruptions on the head.-.
Pimples and ulcers on the face.
Corners of the mouth sore.
Digestive Organs.–Stools liquid, mucous, or bloody, and excessively fetid.
Very offensive, dark brown, thin fluid stools.–P.P. WELLS.
Skin.–Urticaria, after suppressed itch, comes after every exertion.–RAUE.
Inveterate cases of itch; repeated outbreaks of single pustules, after the main eruption seems gone.-.
Dry, tetter-like eruptions in the hollow of the knees.– RAUE.
Moist, itching, condylomata.
Profuse colliquative sweats.-.
Profuse perspiration from the least exertion, and at night, with great debility.–J.B. BELL.
Lungs.–Dry coughs, with shortness of breath.
Sitting aggravates the dyspnoea (asthma) and pain in the heart.-.
Used in cutaneous affections, diarrhoea, and complications of typhoid fever.–F.
And night sweat of Phthisis.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881