ANTI-PSORICS IN THE TREATMENT OF ATROPHY OF INFANTS



CALC.PHOS… sallow, sunken, blue around the eyes (Hydrocephaloid).

SILICEA… earthy, waxen, sweaty.

PHOS…. hippocratic ( Hydrocephaloid). blue around the eyes, red cheeks, circumscribed, emaciated, with soft hair, delicate lashes, changing color.

IODIUM…. yellow, brownish or sunken.

LYC…. earthy, blue around eyes, wrinkles, one cheek red, after eating sweet.

PSORINUM… sickly, pale, emaciated.

BORAX… pale flabby skin, sallow.

SEPIA… pale or sallow, sunken, yellow about mouth, yellow saddle across nose.

SARS…. yellow, wrinkled, old-looking.

CARBO VEG…. anxious look, pale earthy hue, green covered with cold sweat.

ARSENIC…. hippocratic, waxen, sallow, skin drawn tightly over bones, green, cold sweat.

ARG.NIT…. old, wrinkled, yellow or brown.

NATRUM MUR…. pale, shining, greasy.

CAUSTICUM… yellow, especially about the temples distorted. BARYTA CARB…. stupid, silly look. PHOS.ACID… pale, blue around eyes, hippocratic.

MAG.CARB…. red after meals.

CONIUM… pale, yellow.

STAPH…. pale, sunken, sickly, dark around the eyes.

NITRIC ACID… pale, eyes sunken, dark-yellow about the eyes, checks sometimes red, bloated around the eyes on awaking early.

MURIATIC ACID… suddenly red, pale, sunken with the exhaustion.

HYPOPHOSPHITE OF LIME… wan, pale.

ZINCUM… pale, now and then red.

MERCURIUS… pale, yellow, at times red.

3. Eyes, Ears, Nose, Tarsi Thickened: Graphites (and raw and cracked), Staphysagria, Borax, Ant. Cr. (canthi raw).

14. Styes: Sul., Lycopodium, Hepar, Silicea., Staphysagria (hardened), Graphites

(Pul.) Mercurius

15. Ophthalmia Scrofulosa

: Sul. Calcarea C., Hepar, Nitric Acid, Silicea (Phosphorus), Borax, Graphites, Arsenic, Psorinum, Mercurius

ARG. NIT… much pus, granular lids.

NAT.MUR…. pus, spasm of lids.

CONIUM…. disproportionate photophobia.

LYC…. bland pus.

16. Otorrhoea: Sul. Calcarea Carb., Calcarea Iodium, CalcareaPhosphorus, Graphites, Lycopodium

(Kali Carb., thin yellow cerumen)., Arsenic., Arsenicum Iodium, Cistus C., Carbo Veg., Psorin., Nitric Acid., Silicea, Borax, Hepar, Baryta C Mercurius

17. Scrofulous Catarrh: Sul., CalcareaC., CalcareaPh., Graphites, Phosphorus BarytaC. Hydras. Psorin.

ARSENICUM… every winter, thick yellow.

ARS.IOD…. glands swollen.

HEPAR…. worse at every exposure.

LYC…. thick, purulent, nose stuffed up.

NIT.AC., sILICEA… ulcers bloody.

MURIATIC AC…. thin, excoriating, nosebleed.

IODIUM… hot, watery, at every cold; glands swollen. KAOLIN… scabs in the nose, bleeding, nose sensitive.

MERC…. recurs at every damp change of weather.

STILLINGIA… excoriating, syphilitic, similar to Kali Hyd.

18. Eruption like Milk Crust: CalcareaPh. Carbo. Veg. Causticum, Baryta C. Phosphorus, Sepia, Conium, Cistus C.

VIOLA TRI…. thick, pours out yellow pus mats hair.

SUL…. head and face bleeds easily: thick pus.

CALC.CARB…. spreads to face; thick mild pus; at times in isolated spots and white.

HEPAR… after salves; itches mornings.

SILICEA… more back of head; pustules.

LYC…. thick, offensive, angry, oozes pus, worse on occiput.

SARSAPARILLA… worse out of doors; pus spreads the eruption.

GRAPH…. sticky.

ARSENICUM… angry excoriating discharge; bran-like on forehead.

HYDRAS…. forehead.

ARG.NIT…. nape of neck.

NATRUM MUR…. nape of neck, impetiginoid.

SUL.ACID…. with stringy stools.

LITH.CARB…. skin dry, harsh, itching.

STAPH…. humid, fetid, occiput and behind ears.

PSORINUM… down over ears, temples and checks; moist, fetid, or scaly.

PETROLEUM… eczematous, purulent, cracking.

ANT.CR…. hard thick crusts.

ARUM TRI…. corners of mouth sore, cracked, bleeding alae nasi bleeding.

MFRC…. herpes, becoming scaly; pustules; eruption worse in warmth of bed.

STILLINGIA… moist, brown, excoriating, on the scalp.

19. Aphthae, Stomacace:

BORAX… mouth hot, mucous surface of palate shrivelled; child cries when nursing; red blisters on tongue.

NITRIC ACID… offensive ulcers, yellow ulcers, blisters on lips, salivation. gums sore, etc.

MURIATIC ACID…. very weak, deep blue ulcers, etc.

SULPHURIC ACID…. whitish ulcers, ptyalism, easily bleeding gums, ecchymoses.

SULPHUR… sour fetid smell; gums bleed; blisters and vesicles; saliva mixed with blood; excoriated about the anus, etc.

CARBO VEG…. gums recede and bleed easily, oozing of blood, mouth hot bloody saliva, edges of gums yellow, indented.

NATRUM MUR…. blisters in and round the mouth, scorbutic gums.

CALC.CARB…. dry mouth alternating with salivation, constitution agreeing.

BRYONIA…. beginning, mouth dry, so the child cannot nurse until it is moistened.

STAPH…. gums ulcerated, spongy, white, receding, bleed easily; blisters; child weak, sickly; sunken eyes and surrounded by blue rings; cervical glands swollen, etc.

SEPIA, HYDRASTIS… tenacious mucus hangs in shreds from the mouth; tongue, red, raw, blistered; weak children; Eczema on forehead at margin of hair, worse from being washed; bloody purulent mucus from the nose.

ARSENIC… ulcers or blisters turn livid or black ptyalism, restlessness and great exhaustion.

KALI CHLOR…. with extreme fetor, follicular Stomatitis.

CONIUM…. grayish ashy hue to ulcers; gangrene.

ARUM TRI…. great swelling of lining membrane and tongue; will not or cannot open mouth; mouth raw, burning, bleeding; putrid odor; lips as if, scalded; lips and nose chapped and bleeding; picks the nose or lips.

LACHESIS… ulcers bluish, fluids return through the nose can bear no clothing to touch the face or neck, etc.

RAN.SCEL…. tongue looks as if, covered with “Islands.”

AMM.CARB…. tonsils large, bluish; mouth raw; nose stopped up arousing the child at night.

APIS… rosy-red mouth and fauces; mucous surface swollen and studded with small blisters; also in clusters on the tongue or along its border; slight thirst.

BAPTISIA… gums ooze blood and look dark, purplish, foetid odor; tongue brown; great exhaustion; can swallow only fluids.

CAPSICUM… suitable to fat, but flabby, sluggish children; small burning blisters in the mouth, having a carrion-like odor.

MERC…. scorbutic gums; saliva copious, offensive, bloody; ulcers with bases like lard; glands swollen; diarrhoea with tenesmus.

HEPAR…. white aphthous pustules on the inside of lips and cheeks and on the tongue.

SALICYLIC ACID…. mouth dotted with white patches; burning, scalded feeling; ulcers on the tip of the tongue; many cases.

KALI BICH…. aphthous ulcers eating deeply; stringy mucus in mouth and throat; nasal catarrh.

IODIUM… aphthous eruption in the mouth; offensive odor; copious saliva; nasal catarrh, thin, excoriating.

MERC.COR…. mouth terribly swollen; lips swollen and everted; ptyalism; nose sore and stuffed up with a gluey secretion.

20. Tonsils Enlarged: Baryta Carb., CalcareaIodium, Iodium, LycopodiumArsenicumIodium, Calcarea

Carb., Hepar, Nitric Acid Sul., Mercurius, etc.

21. Goitre: Iodium, Spongia, (CalcareaFluor.), CalcareaIodium, CalcareaCarb., Hepar, Conium, (Lapis Alba), (Kali Hyd.), Lycopodium, Natrum Mur., Causticum, (Apis), Sul.

22. Appetite or Hunger: Nat.Ph., Staphysagria, Nat. M. (Zinc).

SUL… weak and hungry 10 to 11 A.M. also at night, grasps at everything and thrusts it into the mouth.

CALC.CARB…. craves eggs.

CALC.PHOS…. craves bacon, etc.

SILICEA… no appetite, or voracious hunger, but on attempting to eat, loses all desire.

PHOS…. even at night craves cold food.

PETROLEUM…. after stool.

IODIUM… very restless if hungry; appetite excessive; better while eating.

HEPAR…. child seems stronger just after eating. LYC…. inordinate, but soon surfeited.

PSORIN…. even at night.

GRAPH, BAR. C…. constant desire to eat, but averse to sweets.

ARG.NIT…. wants sweets, but they disagree.

23. Thirst:

Carbo V., Nitric Acid, Natrum Mur., Silicea, Mercurius, etc.

CALC.C…. especially P.M. and night.

SUL…. much thirst, but no appetite.

ARSENIC… burning, unquenchable, or little and often.

PHOS…. for cold drinks.

PHOS.ACID…. for something refreshing.

24. Vomiting:

Silicea, Arsenic, Phosphorus, (Calcarea Acetica), Ant. Cr., Ant.T.

SUL…. chronic.

CALC.CARB…. curdled, sour milk.

AETHUSA… vomits green curd, exhausted afterwards.

KREOS…. even hours after nursing; stomach so weak it will tolerate no kind of food.

25. Eating, Cries as soon as he Eats: Arsenic, Calcarea phos., Sulphur, Staphisagria, Croton Tig.

Staph, Phosphorus, PhosphorusAcid, Sul., Lycopodium Sul.Ac., Carbo V., (Cinch, Ferrum).

ARSENIC, ARG.NIT…. eating or nursing causes diarrhoea.

26. Fruit provokes Diarrhoea: Arsenic, Lithium carb.Carb., Mag.Carb., Sulphur, Muriatic Acid, Kali.Carb., Cistus Canadensis, (Lachesis).

27. Milk Disagrees: Arsenic, (Kali C.).

SUL…. passed undigested, vomited, causes colic.

CALC.CARB…. vomited in sour lumps, passed in white curds.

MAG.CARB…. colic, indigestion, sour, white and green stools.

ANT.CR…. vomited or passed undigested.

SEPIA…. also if boiled.

CARBO VEG…. abdomen swollen.

NITRIC ACID…. will not digest.

SILICEA…. vomits mother’s milk.

CONIUM…. abdomen inflated.

28. Worse from Bottle-Food-From Artificial Foods: Arsenic, Sul., Lycopodium, CalcareaCarb., CalcareaPhosphorus, Mag.Carb., Natrum phos.

E. A. Farrington
E. A. Farrington (1847-1885) was born in Williamsburg, NY, on January 1, 1847. He began his study of medicine under the preceptorship of his brother, Harvey W. Farrington, MD. In 1866 he graduated from the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. In 1867 he entered the Hahnemann Medical College, graduating in 1868. He entered practice immediately after his graduation, establishing himself on Mount Vernon Street. Books by Ernest Farrington: Clinical Materia Medica, Comparative Materia Medica, Lesser Writings With Therapeutic Hints.