Psorinum – Medicine



Painful retention of urine (with children and old people).

When he is chilled (feels cold through and through), he cannot urinate.

At times, owing to flatulence, she cannot urinate.

The urethra is constricted in parts, especially in the morning.

Pressure on the bladder, as if from an urging to urinate, immediately after drinking.

He cannot hold the urine for any length of time, it presses on the bladder, and passes off while he walks, sneezes, coughs or laughs.

Frequent micturition at night; he has to get up frequently at night for that purpose.

Urine passes off in sleep involuntarily.

After urination the urine continues to drip out for a long time.

Whitish urine, with a sweetish smell and taste, passes off in excessive abundance, with prostration, emaciation and inextinguishable thirst (diabetes).

During urination, burning, also lancinating pains in the urethra and the neck of the bladder.

Urine of penetrating, sharp odor.

The urine quickly deposits a sediment.

The urine discharged is at once turbid like whey.

With the urine there is discharged from time to time a red sand (kidney grits).

Dark-yellow urine.

Brown urine.

Blackish urine.

Urine with blood particles, also at times complete hematuria.

Male Sexual Organs

      Excessive, uncontrollable sexual instinct.

Aversion to coition; impotence; want of emission during coitus.

Absence of erections; parts flabby, torpid.

Prostatic fluid discharged before urinating.

Drawing pains in testicles and spermatic cords.

Inflamed ulcer on glans, with swelling and heaviness of testicles.

After suppressed gonorrhea; rheumatism, lameness; conjunctivitis, with granulations; intense photophobia; pain darting around, through head; other eye sensitive to light.

Chronic painless discharge from urethra, leaving yellow stain upon linen.

Gleet of twelve years duration.

Seven large, moist, itching, occasionally burning condylomata on prepuce; every night nocturnal enuresis; during day must urinate nearly every half hour; urination scanty and accompanied by burning in urethra and condylomata; lips ulcerated, particularly at corners of mouth; in several localities, but particularly in popliteal spaces, dry, herpetic eruption, not itching.

Sycotic excrescence on edges of prepuce, with itching and burning.

Boy, age 7, suffering since birth, right sided inguinal hernia, about three inches of intestine descending to testicle through widely opened inguinal canal applying a bandage severe inflammation of tunica vaginalis occurred, which yielded to Pulsat., but returned every time bandage was applied; child gradually grew miserable and thin and lost all appetite; fever set in, and a large amount of water collected in tinea vaginalis; as the case improved a painful, burning, itching excoriation with acrid discharge appeared upon inner surface of prepuce and upon corona glandis.

Hydrocele.

Hydrocele, caused by repeated inflammation, in consequence of pressure from a truss.

Discharge of prostatic fluid after urination, but especially after a difficult stool (also almost constant dripping of the same).

Nocturnal passage of semen, too frequent, one, two or three times a week, or even every night.

Nightly discharge of the genital fluid in women, with voluptuous dreams.

Nocturnal pollutions, even if not frequent, yet immediately attended with evil consequences.

Semen passes off almost involuntarily in daytime, with little excitation, often even without erection.

Erections very frequent, long continuing, very painful, without pollutions.

The semen is not discharged, even during a long continued coition and with a proper erection, but it passes off afterwards in nocturnal pollutions or with the urine.

Accumulation of water in the tunica vaginalis of the testicle (hydrocele).

There is never a complete erection, even with the most voluptuous excitement.

Painful twitches in muscles of the penis.

Itching of the scrotum, which is sometimes beset with pimples and scabs.

One or both of the testicles chronically swollen, or showing a knotty induration (Sarcocele).

Dwindling, diminution, disappearance of one or both testicles.

Induration and enlargement of the prostatic gland.

Drawing pain in the testicle and the spermatic cord.

Pain as from contusion in the testicle.

Lack of the sexual desire in both sexes, either frequent or constant.

Uncontrollable, insatiable lasciviousness, with a cachectic complexion and sickly body.

Sterility, impotence, without any original organic defect in the sexual parts.

Female Sexual Organs

      Left ovary indurated after a violent knock; followed by itching eruption on body and face.

Knotty lump above right groin; even a bandage hurts.

Pinching in public region in women.

Cutting in left loin; cannot walk without assistance.

Metrorrhagia.

Menses delayed and scanty.

Amenorrhea: in psoric subjects when tetter is covered by thick scurfs; with phthisis.

Dysmenorrhea near climaxis.

Menstrual disorders during climaxis.

Leucorrhea, large lumps, unbearable in odor; violent pains in sacrum and right loin; great debility.

Ulcers of the labia.

Disorders of the menstrual function; the menses do not appear regularly on the twenty-eighth day after their last appearance, they do not come on without other ailments and not at once, and do not continue steadily for three or four days with a moderate quantity of healthy colored, mild blood, until on the fourth day it imperceptibly comes to an end without any disturbance of the general health of body and spirit, nor are the menses continued to the forty-eighth or fiftieth year, nor do they cease gradually and without any troubles.

The menses are slow in setting in after the fifteenth year and later, or after appearing one or more times, they cease for several months and for years.

The menses do not keep their regular periods, they either come several days too early, sometimes every three weeks, or even every fortnight.

The menses flow only one day, only a few hours, or in imperceptibly small quantities.

The menses flow for five, six, eight and more days, but only intermittently, a little flow every six, twelve, twenty-four hours, and then they cease for half or whole days, before more is discharged.

The menses flow too strongly for weeks, or return almost daily (bloody flux).

Menses of watery blood or of brown clots of blood.

Menses of very fetid blood.

Menses accompanied with many ailments, swoons or (mostly stitching) headaches, or contractive, spasmodic, cutting pains in the abdomen and in the small of the back; she is obliged to lie down, vomit, etc.

Polypi in the vagina.

Leucorrhea from the vagina, one or several days before, or soon after, the monthly flow of blood, or during the whole time from the one menstrual discharge to the other, with a diminution of the menses, or continuing solely instead of the menses; the flow is like milk, or like white, or yellow mucus, or like acrid, or sometimes like fetid, water.

Pelvic tumor, pronounced malignant by Dr. Macdonald; after opening abdomen refused to remove it on account of adhesions; urine loaded with pus; stool involuntary and horribly offensive, nurses could not endure it. Psorinum 30 cured. S. S. Moffatt.

Cases

      A lady, 32, had severe fever, temperature from 103 to 105, attended with headache, backache and cramps in muscles of limbs, with severe abdominal and pelvic pains, the result of instrumental abortion. As the acute symptoms passed off, there was a great fear and mental restlessness, which Aconite failed to relieve.

Each evening at 6, would become restless and break out in profuse icy cold sweat, continued all night, very exhausting, not amel. by external heat. As evening approached, great fear of the oncoming cold sweat and icy chilliness. With the cold copious sweat was a foul taste and very offensive odor. Psorinum dmm., one dose dry on tongue amel.

Parturition, Pregnancy Lactation

      During pregnancy: fetus moves too violently; abdomen tympanitic; nausea; vomiting; obstinate cases.

Mammae swollen, painful; redness of nipples, burning around them.

Pimples itching violently, about nipples; oozing a fluid.

Second month of pregnancy.

Mammary cancer.

Dwindling of the breasts, or excessive enlargement of the same, with retroceding nipples.

Erysipelas on one of the breasts (especially while nursing).

A hard, enlarging and indurating gland with lancinating pains in one of the mammae.

Itching, also moist and scaly eruptions around the nipples.

Premature births.

During pregnancies great weariness, nausea, frequent vomiting, swoons, painful varicose veins on the thighs and the legs, and also at times on the labia, hysteric ailments of various kinds, etc.

Cases.

Mrs. H. E. L., aged 56, had an attack of acute peritonitis two years ago, involving especially the right lower abdomen; has never been well since, having persistent attacks of pain in right inguinal region, so severe that her attending physician always resorted to Morphine.

The concomitant symptoms were easily controlled, but on their disappearance the attacks of pain increased in frequency and violence. Physical examination revealed adhesive bands, which contracted the vagina, and involved the right broad ligament and right ovary, which was apparently firmly bound down to the side of the pelvis. The pain was aggravated by moving the limb; walking; standing erect; lying on the painful side. After attempting in vain for months to relieve the localized pain by the careful selection of a remedy, with only temporary relief, certain to be followed by a more severe relapse, in desperation Psorinum was given; the pains disappeared and have never returned, notwithstanding the pathological diagnosis.

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.