(Plumbago)
Like all the carbons, this remedy is an
antipsoric of great power, but especially active in patients who are
rather stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and
constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual
history. Take cold easily. Children impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands.
Has a particular tendency to develop the skin phase of internal disorders.
Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Anemia with redness of face.
Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals. Gushing leucorrhea. Aids absorption
of cicatricial tissue. Induration of tissue. Cancer of pylorus. Duodenal
ulcer. | ||
| Mind. Great
tendency to start. Timid. Unable to decide. Want of disposition to work.
Fidgety while sitting at work. Music makes her weep. Apprehensive,
despondency, indecision. | ||
| Head. Rush of
blood to head with flushed face also with nosebleed and distention and
flatulence. Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side, with
inclination to vomit. Sensation of cobweb on forehead. Feels numb and
pithy. Rheumatic pains on one side of head, extending to teeth and neck.
Burning on vertex. Humid, itching eruption on hairy scalp, emitting
a fetid odor. Cataleptic condition. | ||
| Eyes.
Ophthalmia, with intolerance of artificial light. Eyelids red and
swollen. Blepharitis. Dryness of the lids. Eczema of lids;
fissured. | ||
| Ears.
Dryness of inner ear. Cracking in ears when eating. Moisture and
eruptions behind the ears. Hears better in noise. Hardness of hearing.
Hissing in the ears. Detonation in ear like report of a gun. Thin, white,
scaly membrane covering membrana tympani, like exfoliated epithelium.
Fissures in and behind the ear. | ||
| Nose. Sore on
blowing it; is painful internally. Smell abnormally acute; cannot tolerate
flowers. Scabs and fissures in nostrils. | ||
| Face. Feels as
if cobwebs were on it. Eczema of nose. Itching pimples. Moist eczema around
mouth and chin. Erysipelas, burning and stinging. | ||
| Mouth. Rotten
odor from mouth. Breath smells like urine. Burning blisters on tongue,
salivation. Sour eructations. | ||
| Stomach.
Aversion to meat. Sweets nauseate. Hot drinks disagree. Nausea and
vomiting after each meal. Morning sickness during menstruation. Pressure in
stomach. Burning in stomach, causing hunger. Eructation difficult.
Constrictive pain in stomach. Recurrent gastralgia. Flatulence.
Stomach pain is temporarily relieved by eating, hot drinks especially milk
and lying down. | ||
| Abdomen.
Nauseous feeling in abdomen. Fullness and hardness in abdomen, as from
incarcerated flatulence; must loosen clothing; presses painfully at
abdominal ring. Croaking in abdomen. Inguinal region sensitive, swollen.
Pain of gas opposite the side on which he lies. Chronic diarrhea, stools
brownish, liquid, undigested, offensive. Very fetid gas preceded by
colic. | ||
| Stool.
Constipation; large, difficult, knotty stools united by mucus threads.
Burning hemorrhoids. Prolapse, diarrhea; stools of brown fluid, mixed with
undigested substance, very fetid, sour odor. Smarting, sore anus,
itching. Lump stool, conjoined with threads of mucus. Varices of the
rectum. Fissure of anus. | ||
| Urine. Turbid,
with sediment. Sour smelling. | ||
| Female. Menses
too late, with constipation; pale and scanty, with tearing pain in
epigastrium, and itching before. Hoarseness, coryza, cough, sweats
and morning sickness during menstruation. Leucorrhea, pale, thin,
profuse, white, excoriating, with great weakness in back. Mammae
swollen and hard. Induration of ovaries and uterus and mammae. Nipples
sore, cracked, and blistered. Decided aversion to coitus. | ||
| Male. Sexual
debility, with increased desire; aversion to coition; too early or no
ejaculation; herpetic eruption on organs. | ||
| Respiratory.
Constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, suffocative attacks wakes from
sleep; must eat something. Pain in middle of chest, with cough, scraping
and soreness. Chronic hoarseness with skin affections. Inability to control
the vocal chords; hoarseness on beginning to sing and for breaking
voice. | ||
| Extremities.
Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and back and limbs. Spinal pains. Pain in
small of back with great weakness. Excoriation between thighs. Left hand
numb; arms feel asleep; fingernails thick, black, and rough. Matrix
inflamed. [Psor.] Edema of lower limbs. Toenails
crippled. Stiffness and contraction of toes. Nails brittle and crumbling.
Nails deformed, painful, sore, thick, and crippled. Cracks or fissures in
ends of fingers. Offensive perspiration of feet. | ||
| Skin. Rough,
hard, persistent dryness of portions of skin unaffected by eczema. Early
stage of keloid and fibroma. Pimples and acne. Eruptions, oozing out a
sticky exudation. Rawness in bends of limbs, groins, neck, behind ears.
Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates. Ulcers discharging a
glutinous fluid, thin and sticky. Swelling and induration of glands.
Gouty nodosities. Cracks in nipples, mouth, between toes, anus. Phlegmonous
erysipelas of face; burning and stinging pain. Swelling of feet.
Wens. Chronic Poison Oak. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, warmth, at night, during and after menstruation.
Better, in the dark, from wrapping up. | ||
| Relationship.
The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and exhalations. All act on the
skin, causing intertrigo and excoriations. Glandular enlargements and
catarrhal states, flatulency and asphyxiation. Complementary: Arg-n. (follows well in gastric derangements); Caust.; Hep.; Lyc.; Ars. Compare: Petr.; Sep.; Sulph. The associated constipation with mucus covered stools and gastric flatulency should be taken into consideration and differentiate it from such remedies as Petroleum and Lycopodium. (Raue.) Antidote: Nux-v.; Acon.; Ars. | ||
| Dose. Sixth to
thirtieth potency. Locally as a cerate, in sore nipples. |