PETROLEUM


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


Adapted to persons of light hair and skin; irritable, quarrelsome disposition; offended at trifles; vexed at everything.

Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly.

During sleep or delirium: imagines that one leg is double; that another person lies alongside of him in bed; that there are two babies in the bed.

Vertigo: on rising; in occiput; as if intoxicate: like sea- sickness.

Headache: in occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing, pulsating pain; as if everything in the head were alive, numb, bruised, as if made of wood.

Gastralgia: of pregnancy; with pressing, drawing pains; whenever the stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating.

Complaints: from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship.

Sweat and moisture of external genitals, of both sexes; fetid, of axillae and feet.

Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured; skin of hands rough and cracked; of whole body, sore and painful.

Incessant nausea.

Nausea, in the morning, with accumulation of water in the mouth.

Stools: yellowish, watery; gushing; after sour-kraut; after cabbage.

Menses too early, the discharge causing intense itching.

During menses intense itching of the genitals; much heat in the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet; tearing pains in the thighs.

Leucorrhoea, like albumen.

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.