KREOSOTUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Kreosotum from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Weakness of memory.

Very painful dentition.

Gums hot, swollen, tender, and look as if infiltrated with a dark, watery fluid.

Teeth show dark specks and begin to decay as soon as they appear.

Craving for smoked meats.

Continuous vomiting and straining to vomit.

Vomiting in the evening of all food eaten during the day.

Stools: greenish or chopped; greenish, watery; dark brown, watery; fetid; cadaverous smelling.

Will only sleep when caressed and fondled.

Urinates copiously, and always in great haste.

Leucorrhoea white, and smells like green corn.

Leucorrhoea of a yellow color, also staining the linen yellow, with great weakness of the limbs; inclined to be intermittent.

Burning between the pudenda when urinating.

Soreness between the pudenda, with smarting pains.

Soreness between the thighs and pudenda, with burning biting pains.

Violent itching of the vagina, so that she is obliged to rub it; posteriorly there is a smarting; the external genitals become swollen, hot, and hard; on urinating, the vagina pains as if sore.

Violent itching and biting between the labial; she could not refrain from rubbing.

Corrosive itching between the pudenda and in the vagina, so that she was obliged to rub them; with a feeling of burning and swelling in the pudenda.

Menses: too early, too copious, and of too long duration; offensive.

Intermittent menstruation.

Before menses: buzzing and humming in the head; distention of the abdomen. During menses: humming and buzzing in the head; hardness of hearing; always chilly; burning and itching of the parts.

After menses: violent abdominal spasms; frequent and violent distress after too copious and long-lasting menses; discharge of foul-smelling, acrid, bloody ichor; swelling. heat, and hardness of the labia.

Offensive lochia with excoriating discharge.

Intermittent lochia; it almost ceases and then commences again.

Violent burning sensation, deep in the pelvis.

Corrosive itching within the vulva, and biting between the labia and thighs.

Burning and swelling of the labia.

The left thumb pains as if sprained and stiff.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.