(Scabies Vesicle)
The therapeutic field of this remedy is found in
so-called psoric manifestations. Psorinum is a cold medicine; wants the
head kept warm, wants warm clothing even in summer. Extreme
sensitiveness to cold. Debility, independent of any organic disease,
especially the weakness remaining after acute disease. Lack of
reaction, i.e. phagocytes defective; when well chosen remedies fail to
act. Scrofulous patients. Secretions have a filthy smell. Profuse
sweating. Cardiac weakness. Skin symptoms very prominent. Often gives
immunity from cold-catching. Easy perspiration when walking. Syphilis,
inherited and tertiary. Offensive discharges. | ||
| Mind. Hopeless;
despairs of recovery. Melancholy, deep and persistent; religious.
Suicidal tendency. | ||
| Head. Awakens
at night with pain as from blow on head. Chronic headaches; hungry during
attacks; with vertigo. Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change
of weather. Dull, pressive pain in occiput. Humid eruption on scalp; hair
matted. Hair dry. | ||
| Eyes.
Agglutinated. Blepharitis. Chronic ophthalmia, that constantly
recurs. Edges of lids red. Secretion acrid. | ||
| Mouth.
Obstinate rhagades at corners. Tongue, gums ulcerated; tough mucus of foul
taste adheres to soft palate. | ||
| Nose. Dry,
coryza, with stoppage of nose. Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior
nares. Acne rosacea. | ||
| Ears. Raw, red,
oozing scabs around ears. Sore pain behind ears. Herpes from temples
over ears to cheeks. Offensive discharge from eczema around ears.
Intolerable itching. Chronic otorrhea. Most fetid pus from ears,
brownish, offensive. | ||
| Face. Swelling
of upper lip. Pale, delicate. Humid eruption on face.
Sickly. | ||
| Throat. Tonsils
greatly swollen; painful swallowing, with pain in ears. Profuse, offensive
saliva; tough mucus in throat. Recurring quinsy. Eradicates tendency to
quinsy. Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and
taste. [Agar.] | ||
| Stomach.
Eructations like bad eggs. Very hungry always; must have something to
eat in the middle of the night. Nausea; vomiting of pregnancy. Pain in
abdomen after eating. | ||
| Stool. Mucous,
bloody, excessively fetid, dark fluid. Hard, difficult stool, with
blood from rectum and burning piles. Constipation of infants, in
pale, sickly scrofulous children. | ||
| Female.
Leucorrhea fetid, lumpy, with much backache and debility.
Mammae swollen and painful. Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and
excoriates the glands. | ||
| Respiratory.
Asthma, with dyspnea; worse, sitting up; better, lying down and keeping
arms spread wide apart. Dry, hard cough, with great weakness in chest.
Feeling of ulceration under sternum. Pain in chest; better, lying
down. Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption. Hay
fever returning irregularly every year. | ||
| Extremities.
Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold together. Eruption around
fingernails. Fetid foot sweats. | ||
| Skin. Dirty,
dingy look. Dry, lusterless, rough hair. Intolerable itching.
Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints with itching;
worse, from warmth of bed. Enlarged glands. Sebaceous glands secrete
excessively; oily skin. Indolent ulcers, slow to heal Eczema behind ears.
Crusty eruptions all over. Urticaria after every exertion. Pustules near
fingernails. | ||
| Fever. Profuse,
offensive perspiration; night sweats. | ||
| Sleep.
Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily started. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, coffee; Psorinum patient does not improve while using
coffee. Changes of weather, in hot sunshine, from cold. Dread of
least cold air or draft. Better, heat, warm clothing, even in
summer. | ||
| Relationship.
Complementary: Sulph. Compare: In lack of reaction compare Calc. | ||
| Dose. Two
hundredth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too often. Psorinum
requires something like 9 days before it manifests its action, and even a
single dose may elicit other symptoms lasting for weeks.
(Aegedi.) |