Generalities
Rock oil, chiefly acts on the skin esp. folds, scalp; face, and genitals. Produces catarrhal condition of the mucous membranes, of stomach and bowels. It is suited to long lasting, deep seated wasting diseases; complaints following mental states, fright, vexations etc.; lingering gastric and intestinal troubles. Tremulous weakness. Feels sick internally. Internal itching. Dread of open air; with shivering when exposed to it. Dryness; in ear, nose, etc. Discharges are thick, purulent and yellowish green. Haemorrhages, blood light red; worse lifting or riding. Burnings. Twitchings, catalepsy. Dropsy. One of the first remedies for car, train or sea sickness. Ill effects of sprains; suppressed eruptions. Wooden feeling. Emaciation esp. of chest. Coldness; in spots; in abdomen, in heart, after scratching. Bruised soreness worse in joints. Glands enlarged. Cracks. Unhealthy granulations after severe burns. FEAR, long lasting.
Worse
MOTION; OF CARS; CARRIAGE; BOAT. Weather-cold; winter, changing; thunderstorms. Eating. Vexation. Cabbage. Coition. Touch, even of clothes.
Better
Warm air. Dry weather. Lying with head high.
Mind
Excited, irritable, after coition; with inclination to be angry and to scold. Irresolute. Sense of duality, thinks he is double or someone else lying alongside or one limb is double. Death seems near and must hurry to settle the affairs. Worries but does not know why. Loses his way in the street; loss of memory. Fearful.
Head
VERTIGO, like that produced by swinging motion; felt in occiput. Occiput; aching, heavy. Headache worse shaking, while coughing, must hold temples for relief. Falling of the hair. Moist eruptions on scalp worse occiput and ears. Head feels numb as if made of wood. Cold air blowing on head as if.
Eyes
Inflamed tarsi. Loss of eyelashes. Fistula lachrymalis (of recent origin). Canthi fissured.
Ears
Deafness; with noises in ears in old people. Noise from several people talking is unbearable. Dryness in ears. Discharge of pus and blood from the ears. Moist spots behind the ears. Itching deep in ears, in eustachian tubes. Painful externally.
Nose
Dry. Nostrils; ulcerated, cracked, burn. Ozaena; purulent discharge. Tip of nose itches.
Face
Dry; as if covered with albumin. Pale, or yellow, hot after eating. Easy dislocation of jaw.
Mouth
Dry. Offensive smell, like garlic. Ulcers on the inner cheek painful when closing the teeth. Soreness, while chewing. Tongue; white, in centre, dark streak along edges.
Throat
Foul mucus in throat. Hawks out in the morning. Dry.
Stomach
Hunger; causing nausea; awakes at night, after stool. Pungent acrid eructations. Thirst for beer. Desire for dainties. Aversion to meat, fats, cooked or hot foods. Vomits bitter green substance. Nausea; train and seasickness; during pregnancy, must stoop.
Abdomen
Inflated; coldness in. Diarrhoea or dysentery by day only; worse cabbage; then miserable empty feeling. Itching of anus, after stools. Pinching colic better bending double. Navel ulcerated in infants. Piles and fissures of anus; with great itching. Herpes on perineum.
Urinary
Involuntary urine on rising. Stricture from chronic urethritis. Enuresis, at night. Acute sudden urging, which if not attended to immediately, will cause severe pain. Cystitis, urethritis. Dribbling of urine after urination.
Male
Itching and burning herpes; on the scrotum; between scrotum and thighs; on the perineum. Genitals sweaty (both sexes).
Female
Aversion to coition. Menstrual flow causes itching. Soreness and moisture on genitals with violent itching. Leucorrhoea; albuminous; profuse; with lascivious dreams. Itching and mealy covering on the nipples. Dry obstinate eruptions. Prolapsus uteri from constant diarrhoea.
Respiratory
Cough, coming deep down from chest; waking the patient, up at night (in young girls and boys). Cough at night only or worse then; shatters the head better pressing. Oppression of chest from cold air.
Heart
Cold feeling about heart. Fainting, with ebullitions, heat and palpitation.
Neck and Back
Neck stiff; cracks when moved. Pain in spine and all over the body with sciatica. Coccyx painful on sitting. Pain in sacrum worse standing erect. Sharp pains shooting up dorsal spine into occiput; confinement.
Extremities
Cracking in joints. Joints stiff. Limbs go to sleep. Ragged, chapped hands and fingers, bleeding; in housemaids. Psoriasis of the palms. Stitches; blisters in heels.
Skin
DIRTY, HARD, ROUGH, THICKENED; like parchment; it gets raw, festers or won’t heal; worse in folds. Deep cracks; in angles, nipples, finger tips. Brown spots. Eruptions having thick, hard, moist or yellow green crusts; on occiput; on genitals worse cold. Eczema. Herpes. Vesicles. Itching, orifices, with burning. Cold spots. All eruptions itch violently and one must scratch until they bleed; part becomes cold after scratching. Chilblains that itch, burn and become purple.
Sleep
Restless, with frightful dreams.
Fever
Chilly with dry mouth. Palms and soles hot. Sweat in spots; foul on feet or axillae. Flushes of heat all over in frequent attacks during day.
Complementary
Sepia
Related
Graph; Sepia
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.