Compare Lycopodium here.
Lycopodium has distension with great accumulation of flatus, but this flatus is not rancid or putrid as under Graphites.
Give the constipation of Graphites.
The stool is covered with mucus or contains shreds of mucus; hemorrhoids burn and sting, and there are fissures in the anus; there is no urging to stool, and the patient sometimes goes for days without a stool, and when it does come it is composed of little, round balls knotted together with shreds of mucus.
Mention four drugs having also fissures of the anus.
Ratanhia, Nitric acid, Silicea and Paeonia.
Give indications for Paeonia.
Fissures with a great deal of oozing, the anus is moist sore and smarting all the time.
What are the skin symptoms of Graphites?
Moist, scabby eruptions, especially of the scalp, face, bends of joints, and in the folds of skin, as between the fingers, behind the ears, in the corners of the mouth or eyes; they are cracked, bleeding, or oozing a gluey, honey-like, thick and tenacious discharge. The skin may be dry and horny; there is absence of sweat, the hair is dry and falls out, the nails become loose. Cicatrices are benefited by Graphites
How is Petroleum distinguished from Graphites in its skin symptoms?
Graphites pictures more of a herpes and Petroleum more of an eczema.
What are the female symptoms of Graphites?
Leucorrhoea, profuse, coming in gushes and is excoriating; swelling and induration of left ovary; dysmenorrhoea of fat women with herpetic eruptions; patients are constantly cold.
ALUMINA.
Where are studies of Alumina found?
In Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases.
How is it prepared?
By trituration of the pure clay.
Give the general action of Alumina.
Through the spinal nerves Alumina acts on the colon and rectum, producing great dryness of their secretions; it also produces profound prostration of the cerebro-spinal nervous system.
What is a feature that runs all through Alumina?
Dryness of membranes, the conjunctiva, the nose and the intestinal tract are all very dry.
Give grand characteristics of the drug.
1. Dark complexioned, spare, dry, thin people [Calcarea opposite].
2. Lack of animal heat.
3. Dryness of mucous membranes and catarrhal conditions.
4. Dry, tettery skin.
5. Inactivity of rectum soft stool expelled with difficulty.
6. Exhausting albuminous leucorrhoea.
Give the stomach symptoms and cravings of Alumina.
Constriction on swallowing food, and the patient is always worse after eating potatoes; there is craving for chalk, charcoal slate pencils and other indigestible substances.
Give symptoms which would indicate Alumina in locomotor ataxia.
The patient cannot walk without staggering if his eyes be closed; he feels as if he were walking on cushions; there is creeping as if ants were crawling on his legs and back, the extremities go to sleep, the legs are numb and there is a sensation as if there were a cobweb on the face; there is also much severe pain in the back.
Give female symptoms of Alumina.
Chlorosis with pale and scanty menses and craving for indigestible substances. Leucorrhoea, which is yellowish mucus, very ropy and tenacious, and exhausts very much, as it is rich in albumen.
What is the constipation of Alumina?
From dryness of the intestinal tract, there is complete inertia of the rectum, so that the stool is expelled with great difficulty, no matter what the consistency of it is; there is little or no urging to stool, the stools may be dry, hard, inflamed and bleeding.
Recapitulate its characteristic features.
1. The inactive rectum.
2. The hard stools.
3. Soreness of rectum and anus.
4. Bleeding easily after hard stool.
5. Soft stools require straining.
CARBO VEGETABILIS.
Where are pathogeneses of Carbo found?
Hahnemann’s Materia Medica Pura; Chronic Diseases.
What is Carbo vegetabilis?
It is Vegetable Charcoal made from Beech Wood; it is not a pure Carbon, as it contains some Carbonate of Potash.
How is it prepared?
By trituration to the 6x potency, then dilutions.
Give the general physiological action of Carbo vegetabilis.
It produces debility of mucous surfaces and increase their secretions with excessive acidity, and immense accumulation of gas in the stomach and intestines. The blood is affected by the use of Carbo vegetabilis, becoming septic and foul, It is a torpid Arsenicum.
Give five characteristics of Carbo vegetabilis.
1. Offensive discharges.
2. Putridity and burning.
3. Coldness of legs and knees.
4. Venous sluggishness to stagnation.
5. Flatulence.
What are the indications for Carbo vegetabilis in dyspepsia?
Putrid dyspepsia; slow digestion; weight in the stomach, and a gone sensation not relieved by eating; after a few mouthfuls of food there is a sense of repletion. Great burning in the stomach extending to the back; great distension of stomach and bowels, temporarily relieved by belching; this flatulence often gives rise to asthmatic breathing and dyspnoea.
What are some of the causes of dyspepsia that would especially indicate Carbo vegetabilis?
Dyspepsias from overeating or high living, and in the chronic dyspepsias of the aged; or stomach troubles from abuse of Alcohol.
What is the diarrhoea of Carbo vegetabilis?
Thin, watery, morning diarrhoea, accompanied by straining and urging to stool, which is due to flatulence; the discharges are offensive and burn the parts.
Give symptoms indicating Carbo vegetabilis in a state of collapse.
Icy coldness of the body; cold breath; bluish countenance, and a desire for air; coldness of the legs to the knees is very characteristic; the collapse in Carbo vegetabilis is due to the drain on the system from the discharges.
What is the effect of Carbo vegetabilis on the liver?
It causes a sluggish circulation and portal stasis, which produces enlarged veins in the lower extremities; hemorrhoids, etc.; the patient likes to sit with the feet upon the table, because it favors the circulation.
What are the respiratory symptoms of Carbo vegetabilis?
Evening hoarseness, with rawness and scraping in the larynx and trachea; oppression of chest; in old people when there is a loose rattling in the chest on coughing or breathing.
CARBO ANIMALIS.
What is Carbo animalis and how is it prepared?
Animal charcoal prepared by triturations to the 6x and then by dilutions.
Give the general action of Carbo animalis.
This drug hypertrophies the glandular system; especially the mammae, testicles and parotid glands become hypertrophied and indurated. It also produces an atonic condition of mucous membranes; with indigestion, etc.
What are the symptoms of Carbo animalis in the glandular system?
Induration of the glands, inguinal and axillary, particularly of syphilitic origin, when the induration is had as a stone, and when the tissues surrounding them are also hard.
PETROLEUM.
Where are pathogeneses of Petroleum found?
In Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases.
How is it prepared?
One part, by weight, of Crude petroleum is dissolved in 99 parts of alcohol. Drug power, 1/100.
What is the general field action of Petroleum?
It acts prominently on the skin, producing eczema, fissures and pustules, and upon the glandular and digestive systems.
Give the indications for petroleum in dyspepsia.
Ravenous hunger, which may come with many complaints; empty, hungry feeling and nausea, which lasts all day, and is worse from riding in a carriage and worse from motion; there is much pain in the gastric region; which compels him to eat, and eating relieves; there is aversion to fat food to meat indigestion from eating sauer kraut..
When should Petroleum be used in seasickness?
Nausea, which is worse from motion or riding, and accompanied by vertigo; the vertigo comes on especially when the patient raises his eyes; there is also bilious vomiting.
What are the skin symptoms of Petroleum?
Vesiscular eruptions, turning into pustules, which are covered with scabs; the skin is harsh and dry, and there are deep cracks and fissures, with suppuration; the finger tips are cracked and painful and the hands chap. Eczema in or behind the ears, with fetid discharge.
BARYTA CARBONICA.
Where are pathogeneses of Baryta found?
In Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases.
How is it prepared?
Triturations of the pure Carbonate of Barium.
What are chief spheres of action of this drug?
Atony of the lymphatic system, with especially hypertrophy of the parenchyma of the tonsils and chronic ulceration of the glandular system. Also in arterial sclerosis in the aged. Fatty tumors.
Give the symptoms of Baryta carbonica in enlarged tonsils.
In scrofulous children, where every little cold starts up inflammation of the tonsils; the glands of the neck and behind the ear are swollen; it removes the predisposition to tonsillitis and cures chronic enlargement of the tonsils.
To what periods of life does Baryta carbonica correspond?
To the extremes of life infancy and old age.
Give unique use of Strontiana carbonica.
Swelling and caries of the bones, especially the femur, with diarrhoea worse at night which recurs constantly.
Give the principal uses of Lithium carbonicum.
Joint affections, with debility; it causes also an undue dryness of mucous membranes, followed by a thick, mucous secretion.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.