Psorinum – Medicine



Short-sightedness; he can see even small objects by holding them close to the eyes, but the more distant the objects is, the more indistinct it appears, and at a great distance he does not see it.

False vision; he sees objects double, or manifold, or only the one-half of them.

Before his eyes there are floating as it were flies, or black points, or dark streaks, or networks, especially when looking into bright daylight.

The eyes seem to look through a veil or a mist; the sight becomes dim at certain times.

Night-blindness, he sees well in daytime, but, in the twilight, he cannot see at all.

Blindness by day, he can only see well during the twilight.

Amaurosis; uninterrupted dimness of vision increased finally even to blindness.

Hearing and Ears

      Singing, cracking, humming, buzzing and ringing in ears with hardness of hearing.

Sensation as if he heard with ears not his own.

Severe pain in ear, confined him to bed for four days; ear swollen, thought pain would drive him crazy.

Discharge of reddish earwax or fetid pus.

Otorrhea: with headache; thin, ichorous and horribly offensive, like rotten meat; very offensive, purulent (watery, stinking, diarrhoea); brown, offensive, from left ear, for almost four years; chronic cases following scarlet fever.

Ulceration of membrana tympani.

Itching in ears; child can hardly be kept from picking or boring in meatus.

Meatus externus scabby.

External ears raw, red, oozing, scabby; sore pain behind ears.

Soreness of whole external ear, with abundant yellow, offensive smelling discharge; severe itching agg. in evening and lasting till midnight, preventing sleep and nearly driving him crazy; loss of appetite; great despondency.

Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks; at times throws off innumerable scales; at others shows painful rhagades with yellow discharge, forming scurfs, fetid humor; itching intolerable.

Right ear a mass of crusts and pus, the crusts extended behind auricle to occiput upwards upon parietal bone nearly to vertex, forward to right ear and over cheeks; upon edge of region involved small vesicles filled with clear fluid, which became yellow, then crusted, and pus flowed from beneath crusts.

Humid soreness behind ear.

Scurfs on ears, and humid scurfs behind ear.

Scabby eczema behind right ear came out, curing child’s old dry deafness.

Pustules: on and behind concha; behind left ear.

The hearing is excessively irritated and sensitive; she cannot bear to hear a bell ring without trembling; he is thrown into convulsions by the beating of the drum, etc.; many sounds cause pains in the ear.

There are stitches in the ear, outwardly.

Crawling sensation and itching in the ear.

Dryness in the ear; dry scabs within, without any ear-wax.

Running from ear of thin, usually ill-smelling pus.

Pulsation in the ear.

Various sounds and noises in the ear.

Deafness of various degrees even up to total deafness, with or without noise in the ear; occasionally worse, according to the weather.

Swelling of the parotid glands.

A brown-colored offensive discharge from the left ear for four years.

Ears: pain in ear so severe as to confine him to bed for five days. External ear much swollen. Thought the pain in his ear would make him insane. Soreness in jaw, right side, around the ear; could not use his mouth, because of the contraction and pain; could scarcely crowd his fingers between his teeth.

Ears: man, aged 40, discharge of reddish cerumen from left ear agg. at night; had troubled him for many years. Sensation of valve opening and shutting in left ear agg. in afternoon. Buzzing in ear which stopped suddenly and was followed by violent itching. Dull, heavy pain in base of brain in afternoon, with sensation as though skin of abdomen was greatly relaxed and drawn down. Face sallow and greasy. Many pustules on skin and neck, which itch intensely and bleed easily when scratched. G. A. Whippy.

Nose & Smell

      Loss of smell; with coryza.

Smell of blood.

Soreness of nose; nose sensitive when inhaling air.

Boring, stinging in right nostril, followed by excessive sneezing.

Burning followed by thin nasal discharge, which relieves.

Dry coryza with stoppage of nose.

Septum nerium inflamed, with white, suppurating pustules.

Tough mucus in nose; feels like a plug there; it nauseates him; amel. when stooping.

Catarrh, with cough and expectoration of yellow-green mucus.

Bloody, purulent discharge from nose.

Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior nares, so as to awaken him at night; hawking quantities of lumpy mucus gave temporary relief from feeling of fullness; mucus in nose would dry like white of an egg, needed to be forcibly removed.

Pain in liver, agg. from sneezing.

Acne rosacea.

Epistaxis, more or less profusely, more or less frequently.

The nostrils as it were stopped up.

Sensation of dryness in the nose, troublesome even when the air passes freely.

Polypi of the nose (usually with the loss of the power of smelling); these may extend also through the nasal passages into the fauces.

Sense of smell, weak, lost.

Sense of smell perverted.

Too violent sensation of smell, higher and highest sensitiveness for even imperceptible odors.

Scabs in the nose; discharge of pus or hardened clots of mucus.

Fetid smell in the nose.

Nostrils frequently ulcerated, surrounded with pimples and scabs.

Swelling and redness of the nose or the tip of the nose, frequent or continual.

Coryza at once, whenever she comes into the open air, then usually a stuffed coryza while in her room.

Dry coryza and a stuffed nose often, or almost constantly, also sometimes with intermissions.

Fluent coryza at the least taking of cold, therefore mostly in the inclement season and when it is wet.

Fluent coryza, very often, or almost constantly, also in some cases uninterruptedly.

He cannot take cold, even though there have been strong premonitory symptoms of it, simultaneously with other great ailments from the itch malady.

Chronic catarrh: constant dropping from posterior nares awakens patient at night, hawking quantities of lumpy mucus with temporary amel. from sensation of fullness, mucus in nose would dry like white of an egg, needing to be forcibly removed. Psorinum 200th cured.

Face

      Face: pale, yellow, sickly; broad blue rings around eyes; bluish appearance; burning heat and redness; swollen, with eruption.

Painful tension and pressure in right zygoma, towards ear.

Cheeks bones pain as if ulcerated.

Pain as if lame in condyle of jaw.

Sweat of face with general heat.

Much roughness of skin of face, eruption on forehead between eyes; stools very offensive. Eczema. Scrofulous ophthalmia.

Scabby face; especially cheeks from ears, lips and eyelids swollen, sore about eyes.

Crusta lactea on face and scalp, especially over either ear and cheek, exfoliating numerous scabs, or it cracks and discharges a yellow, fetid humor.

Moist scab behind ears with dry tetter on back of head, on both cheeks extending upward to eyes and downward to corners of mouth, reddish, very closely packed, millet-seed-like, itching, dry pimples, with frequent loose stools; a child one and a half years old.

An offensive-smelling, crusty eruption extending over whole face for three months, had completely closed eyes.

Eruption on face of a child, whole face covered with a crust, lips and eyelids swollen, aversion to light, large moistening spots on head and behind ears.

Humid eruptions on face, whole face covered with humid scurfs or crusts, with swelling of lips and eyelids and humid soreness behind ears.

Pimples on forehead.

Red, small pimples on face, especially on nose, chin and middle of cheeks.

Closely packed, itching pimples on both cheeks from eyes to corners of mouth.

Ulcers in face.

Coppery eruption on face.

Tinea faciei.

Lips: painful; swollen, particularly upper; dry; burning; brown and black, dry; ulcerated; swollen and covered with scurfs.

Corners of mouth sore, often ulcerated; sycotic condylomata.

Soreness of jaw, right side, around ear; could not open wide enough to admit fingers.

Submaxillary and lingual glands swollen, sore to touch; at same time suppurating pustules on same place.

Paleness of the face during the first sleep, with blue rings around the eyes.

Erysipelas on the face.

Frequent redness of the face, and heat.

Yellowish, yellow color of the face.

Sallow yellowish complexion.

Gray, yellow color of the face.

Painfulness of various spots on the face, the cheeks, the cheekbones, the lower jaw, etc., when touched, while chewing, as if festering inwardly; also like stitches and jerks; especially in chewing there are jerks, stitches and a tension so that he cannot eat.

Under the nose or on the upper lip, long-lasting scales or itching pimples.

The red of the lips is quite pale.

The red of the lips is dry, scabby, peeling off; it chaps.

Swelling of the lips, especially of the upper lip.

The inside of the lips is lined with little sores or blisters.

Cutaneous eruptions of the beard and of the roots of the hairs of the beard, with itching.

Eruptions of the face of innumerable kinds.

Glands of the lower jaw swollen, sometimes passing over into chronic suppuration.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.