TARAXACUM



During pregnancy, nausea and vomiting; ptyalism, vomiting of sweet water.

Lochia: blackish, lumpy, very offensive; excoriating: almost ceasing,freshens up again; persistent, brown and offensive.

Gangrene of LUNGS.

Left THUMB pains as if sprained and stiff. SKIN: itching, towards evening so violent as to drive one almost wild.

HERE ARE SOME CURIOUS OR SUGGESTIVE SYMPTOMS OF Kreosote.

Protruding gums infiltrated with dark, watery fluid.

Absorption of gums and alveolar process.

Black softening and decomposition of mucous membrane of throat, with atony and extension of softening, especially towards oesophagus, in diphtheria.

Keen appetite, especially for meat; craves smoked meats.

Desire for spirituous drinks.

Stomach aches from acid food.

Deep and lasting disgust for food in convalescence.

Seasickness.

Cold feeling, epigastrium; as if cold water or ice was there.

Malignant induration, fungus, and ulcers of stomach: ulcerative pain with haematemesis.

Painful sensation o coldness in abdomen; icy coldness in epigastrium.

Colic, resembling labour pains.

Diarrhoea with vomiting; continued vomiting. Straining to vomit predominates: child resists tightening of anything round abdomen which increases restlessness and pain.

Wets bed at night: during first sleep. “Dreams he is urinating in a decent manner.”.

Mammae; stitches; dwindling away; small, hard, painful lumps in them; hard, bluish-red, covered with little scurfy protuberances, from which blood oozes when scruff is removed.

Shortness of breath: as if sternum crushes in.

Cough, with concussion of abdomen and escape of urine.

Cough, aggravated from exhaling.

Asthma: jarring of abdomen: retching; discharge of urine; chills and head; sleepiness.

Cough of old people: winter cough of old people; spasmodic turn at night; pain or pressure referable to sternum. Better pressure.

Dreadful burning in chest: constriction.

Coughing spells with expectoration of greenish pus: of blood: of black blood.

Fever and inability to lie on one side.

Emaciation: intense hectic fever; night sweats: shortness of breath; dry, teasing cough. Great debility.

Anxiety at heart. Stitches.

Pulsation in all arteries when at rest.

Small of back will break; worse at rest; better motion.

Drawing pain along coccyx to rectum and vagina, where a spasmodic , contractive pain is felt.

Wants to be in motion all the time.

In turning quickly, danger of falling.

Child moans constantly, or dozes with half-open eyes (Dentition).

Perfect depression of trophic nervous system.”.

Tosses all night without apparent cause.

Great drowsiness; frequent yawning.

Starts, when scarcely asleep: laughs in sleep.

Burning, as of red hot coals deep in pelvis.

BURNING PAINS are also a feature of Kreos.: eyes, ears, bowels, genitalia, back and lower abdomen, in chest, in small of back.

Heaviness: stiffness: numbness: tingling: crawling: itching.

As to the use of Kreos. in vomiting. HUGHES considers it is especially useful in sympathetic vomiting, where the irritation starts from some other organ than the stomach i.e., in the vomiting of phthisis, of hepatic and uterine cancer, and of chronic kidney disease.

He says, Kreos, in children and adults is the chief remedy for odontalgia, when caused by carries of the teeth.

Also “when dentition is so badly performed as to become a disease, comprising general irritation and cachexia with degeneration of the teeth themselves, especially when the child is constipated. Kreos is the specific remedy”.

And as to teething, he quotes Dr. Madden in regard to his first case his own baby. “She had been extremely fretful and irritable and sleepless for three or four days, and Chamomilla had done no good. I gave Kreos. 24, and in a quarter of an hour she was asleep, and slept eleven hours right off, and woke cheerful. The nurse was almost frightened, thinking I must have given an opiate.” And HUGHES quotes Teste, “The symptoms are usually worse from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. , so that the child ( and nurse) gets little sleep”.

Guiding Symptoms gives, “great restlessness, wants to be in motion all the time, and screams the whole night (Dentition)”.

HERING gives, under TISSUES–.

Haemorrhages: small wounds bleed much.

Typhoid haemorrhages with fetid stools, followed by much prostration.

Fetid evacuations and excoriation of mucous surfaces generally.

Skin wrinkled: restless and sleepless nights.

Profuse and offensive secretions of mucous membranes, and ulceration of the same; with greatly depressed vitality.

Rheumatic pains . . . with numbness.

Rapid emaciation.

Spongy, burning ulcers: pus acrid, ichorus, fetid, yellow.

Gangrenous, cancerous and putrefying ulcers.

Epithelioma: carcinoma ventriculi or uteri.

Carbuncle.

Tendency to decomposition: great irritability: worse at rest.

Anthrax.

GUERNSEYS chief indications for Kreosotum:–.

Leucorrhoea putrid, with accompanying complaints. Leucorrhoea especially if very fetid and exhausting.

Putrid ulcers of any kind. Putrid diarrhoea.

Yawning in general, complaints accompanying yawning.

Child suffering from very painful dentition wont sleep at night unless caressed and fondled all the time.

NASH. Cholera infantum: profuse vomiting: cadaverous smelling stools.

Haemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed profusely (Phos.).

Acrid, fetid, decomposed mucous secretions; sometimes ulcerating, bleeding, malignant.

Sudden urging to urinate during first sleep, which is very performed . . . in some cases there is awful burning in the pelvis, as of red-hot coals, with discharge of clots of foul smelling blood. . . . I see that GUERNSEY recommends it in cancer of mammae, saying it is hard, bluish red and covered with scurfy protuberances. I have never so used it, but in corrosive leucorrhoea and ulcerations I have used it with great satisfaction. I generally use it in the 200th, with simply tepid water injections for cleanliness.

There is perhaps no remedy that has more decided action on the gums (not even Mercury), than this one. It is not used often enough in painful dentition. Gums very painful,swell, look dark red or blue, and the teeth decay almost as soon as they are born. A child that has its mouth full of decayed teeth, with spongy, painful gums, will find its best friend in Kreosote. Never forget Kreosote in cholera infantum which seems to arise from painful dentition, or in connection with it: for I have seen some of the finest effects ever witnessed from any remedy from this one. (Here also is the 200th. . .).

He recapitulates: Bad teeth and gums; fetid corrosive discharges; great debility and haemorrhages tendency, should always call to mind this remedy.

H.C. ALLEN (Keynotes) gives a few more hints for the use of Kreosote.

Especially for the dark complexioned, slight, lean, ill- developed, poorly nourished, overgrown:– “very tall for her age.” (Phos.).

Children, old-looking, wrinkled. Rapid emaciation (Iod) . Post- climacteric diseases of women.

Then the haemorrhagic condition. . . . flow passive, in epistaxis, haemoptysis, hematuria . . . dark oozing after extraction of teeth . . . Menses; too early; profuse; protracted; pain during, but worse after it. FLOW ON LYING DOWN, ceases on sitting or walking about . . . Again, “can only urinate when lung”, is a curious symptom. . . (And the rest we have got.).

But, generally, better from warmth. Worse in open air; cold weather; growing cold; washing or bathing in cold water. Worse rest, especially when lying.

KENT, gives as the three characteristics of Kreosotum,.

1. Excoriating discharges.

2. Pulsations all over the body.

3. Profuse bleeding from small wounds.

He says, when these things are associated in a high degree, Kreosote should be examined.

Lachrymation is excoriating: excoriates margins of lids and cheeks: they become red and raw. A purulent discharge is acrid. Saliva burns and smarts. Eyes smart and burn as if raw. Leucorrhoea causes smarting and burning, with mucous membranes sometimes inflamed, but always burning. Urine smarts and burns. This tendency to excoriation from excretions and secretions applies to all the tissues of the body.

Every emotion is attended with throbbing all over the body and with tearfulness. Pathetic music will bring out acrid tears and palpitations and pulsations that are felt to the extremities.

With the Kreosote sore throat, the tongue depressor will establish oozing; little drops of blood will appear. Nosebleed. Inflamed eyes bleed easily. Pricked finger bleeds many drops.

KENT gives the typical Kreosote face: yellowish-pallor; sickly, semi-cachectic, with blotches that are reddish-looking: “It used to be called a scorbutic countenance”.

He also describes the kreosotum infant, for whom most of us would think of Chamomilla i. e., in regard to its trying mentality. “You see the child in its mothers arms. It wants a toy, and when given it slings it into the face of somebody: it wants this and that, and then something else, never satisfied. The lips are red and bleeding” (here we break away from Cham., Cina, etc.) “The corners of the mouth raw, eyelids red and skin excoriated. If it has, with this, loose motions, and you examine the fissure between nates you will find it red and raw. An older child will put his hand upon the sore genitals, and cry and scream in a most irritable way, because of the smarting and burning. Such is the Kreosote baby. It may be suffering from cholera infantum: may have wetting the bed; may have spells of vomiting: it is a Kreosote baby.

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.