Generalities
Dr. Hahnemann prepared this nosode from sero-purulent matter of scabies vesicles. The therapeutic field of action is found in the so called Psoric manifestations, when there is a lack of reaction in chronic diseases; when well related remedies fail to relieve or to permanently improve; also when sulphur seems indicated but fails to relieve. Clears up confused cases. It chiefly affects the SKIN; FOLDS OF; sebaceous glands; EARS; BOWELS; respiration and right side. It is adapted to dirty persons, with filthy smelling body even after a bath; pale, sickly, delicate, unhealthy looking children; who have a disagreeable smell around them; nervous; restless persons who are easily startled. Prostration. Feels sick all over. RECURRENCES. FOUL; discharges; odour of the body, stools, eruptions, sweat, stubborn foot sweat. Secretions thick. Weak, tender and thin. Easily-takes cold; chilled. Clothing seems large or he feels pushed down when walking in the sun. HUNGRY or UNUSUALLY WELL BEFORE AN ATTACK. Wants to wash parts. Weakness; remaining after acute diseases or independent of any organic diseases; after loss of fluids. Feels good and bad by turns. Ill effects of infectious diseases lasting for years; emotions; over-lifting; injuries, blows, sprains, dislocations. Looseness; of joints, of teeth etc. Eruptions disappear in summer, appear in winter. Wears warm clothes even in summer. Washes his hands and feet constantly. Sick babies will not sleep day and night but worry, fret and cry; or good and play all day, troublesome screaming all night. Difficulty in breathing when standing in open air, wants to go home and lie down.
Worse
COLD. Open air; washing. Weather, changing; stormy. Heat; of bed; of woollens, of exertion. SUPPRESSIONS. Contact of his own limbs. Periodically; yearly. Full moon.
Better
Lying with head low or quietly. Eating. Washing. Nosebleed. Hard pressure. Profuse sweating.
Mind
ANXIETY. Foreboding. Despair of recovery; great despondency; hopeless. Joyous. Melancholy, religious; gloomy. Horrid thoughts; suicidal tendency. Feels himself poor; his business is going to be a failure; though it is prosperous. Fear of fire; of being alone, of becoming insane etc. Aversion to work. Children very fretful, day and night. Peevish, irritable, noisy; easily startled. Severe ailments from even slight emotions. Dull, beclouded mind. Difficult thinking. Feels restless for days before a thunderstorm.
Head
Aches, as from a heavy blow, with suppressed menses; follows visual disturbances; alternates, with other complaints, better nosebleed. Head feels separated from the body. Sensitive to drafts about head; wants it covered, in hot weather. Twitching in temples. Dull, dry, tangled hair. Humid eruptions on scalp. Migraine. Spots of white skin, with white lock of hair.
Eyes
Gummy. Everted eyelids. Sensation as if something were moving or one were playing with his fingers before eyes. Recurring chronic ophthalmia. Objects tremble, then get dark. Darkness before eyes.
Ears
Raw, red, oozing; scabs around the ears. Humid sores; behind the ears. Putrid otorrhoea. Red wax. Intolerable itching. Otorrhoea, with headache; with offensive watery diarrhoea. Illusory noises; as if he heard with ears not his own.
Nose
Hay fever. Red small pimples on. Recurring colds.
Face
Pale, sickly, dirty, fuzzy or puffy. Red small pimples on. Acne rosacea. Swelling of the upper lip. Down on.
Mouth
Teeth feel loose, then pain worse touch. Tip of tongue feels scalded. Filthy taste. Gums; bleed, spongy, settled away from the teeth. Pyorrhoea. Obstinate, cracks in the corners of lips. Taste bitter better eating or drinking.
Throat
Hawks out foul cheesy masses. Recurring quinsy. As of a plug in throat impeding hawking.
Stomach
Loss of appetite; after illness; with great thirst. Very hungry, always; during headaches, must have something to eat; in the middle of the night. Eructations; sour, rancid, tasting and smelling like rotten eggs. Ravenous appetite yet grows thin. Desires; beer, acids. Aversion to pork. Vomiting of pregnancy when not relieved by other drugs. Waterbrash when lying down.
Abdomen
Flatulent, with disorders of liver. Colic better eating and passing foetid flatus. Flatus like bad eggs. Pain in liver worse sneezing. STOOLS; DARK, BROWN; HORRIBLY PUTRID; GUSHING; of penetrating odour; going through the whole house. Cholera infantum. Constipation of infants. Stools soft, but difficult. Involuntary stools, during sleep. Haemorrhages from rectum in old women. He has to go several times to pass normal stools. Chronic diarrhoea; early morning, urgent. Burning in rectum.
Urinary
Bed wetting, worse full moon; obstinate. Has to pass urine several times; from weakness of bladder.
Male
Offensive genitals. Griping in testes. Chronic gonorrhoea; painless discharge from urethra staining yellow. Aversion to coition. Want; of enjoyment; of emission during coition.
Female
Leucorrhoea; gushing, lumpy, foetid; with violent pain in sacrum and debility. Dysmenorrhoea; near climaxis. Menses; early and profuse. Obstinate vomiting during pregnancy. Foetus moves too violently. When, after an abortion, the woman gets on her feet, the flow starts anew. Breasts swollen; nipples red. Burning and itching pimples around nipples. Eruptions on mammae causing excoriation.
Respiratory
Dyspnoea worse sitting up better lying down and keeping arms spread apart. Feeling of ulceration under sternum. Cough returns every winter. Hay fever regularly returning every year. Bloody expectoration; with hot sensation in chest. Cough worse lying down, drinking. Chest pain extends to shoulder worse cold drinks.
Heart
Gurgling at the heart worse lying down. Cardiac murmurs, mitral regurgitation. Pericarditis. Pulse, weak, irregular.
Back
Lumbar ache worse standing or walking.
Extremities
Joints feel loose, as if they would not hold together. Eruptions around finger nails. Hot itching soles. Foetid foot sweat. Eruptions around joints makes walking difficult.
Skin
Dirty; rough; scabby, greasy; breaks out in folds. Intolerable itching worse heat of bed; he scratches raw or until it bleeds. Urticaria worse exertion. Excrescences disappear in summer, only to occur again in winter. Constantly recurring body lice. Condylomata on edges of skin. Enlarged glands. Oily skin.
Sleep
Dreams vivid, continue after waking.
Fever
Heat, with steaming sweat. Sweat; easy, profuse worse night; cold, on palms.
Related
Graph; Mang; Phos; Sulph.
Complementary
Sep; Sulph; Tuberculinum
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'.