PSORINUM


PSORINUM homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine PSORINUM …


Symptoms

      1. Psoric subjects; coarse, dry or greasy skin, nervous, restless temperament; pale, delicate, sickly children.

2. Great mental depression; anxiety with evil forebodings; fears will die; religious melancholy; frightful dreams; children good all day, cry all night.

3. In chronic cases when well selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve (in acute-Sulph.): great debility remaining after acute diseases.

4. Body and all exertions have a horrible odour.

5. Feels unusually well the day before an attack.

6. Dry, scaly eruptions disappear in summer return in winter; itching (<) warmth of bed and when body gets warm; repeated outbreaks; ailments from suppressed skin diseases; skin dry, inactive, rarely sweats except after acute diseases when sweat profuse (>) all sufferings.

7. Marked tendency to quinsy, hay fever and to sprains.

8. Always hungry; esp. middle of night, must eat; during headache (>) while eating.

9. Asthmas, etc. (>) lying down and keeping arms stretched far apart.

10. Patient very sensitive to cold air, change of weather, esp. (<) stormy weather; restless for days before thunder-storm.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.