Condensed Materia Medica

Psorinum psor.

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Mind

Thoughts vanish, after overlifting.
Memory so weak, cannot remember, does not even know his room.
Thoughts which he cannot get rid of; they constantly reappear in his dreams.
As if stupid in left half of head, morning.
Dull, stupid, foggy, as after a debauch, on awaking in night; dizziness he falls down.
Dull all forenoon disinclined to work.
Sad depressed; even suicidal thoughts.
Despairs of recovery; thinks he will die, hopeless; especially after typhus, better from nosebleed.
Religious melancholy.
Anxiety, full of fears, of evil forebodings.
Sentimental.
Cheerful, takes pleasure in his work.
Irritable, peevish, passionate, noisy; nervous, easily started; restless, hands tremble.
Mental labor causes: fulness in head; intense headache; throbbing in brain; pain in left temple.
Every moral emotion causes trembling.
Severe ailments from even slight emotions.

Sensorium

Vertigo: mornings; objects seem to go around with him; with headache; eyes feel pressed outward.
Fulness in vertex, as if brain would burst out.
Congestion to head, heat; awakened at night stupefied; could not recollect; after sitting still awhile had to rise to collect his senses.

Inner Head

Morning headache, with pressing in forehead, stupefaction, staggering, eyes feel sore.
Sensation as from a heavy blow received on forehead, awakens him; 1 A.M.
Pain in if brain had not enough room in forehead when rising in morning, forcing outward; better after washing and eating.
Pain in back of head, as if sprained; pressure in right side of occiput as if luxated.
Cramp-like, contractive headache.
Like hammers striking the head from within outward.
Pressing headache on small spots in forehead and temples, worse left side; feels intoxicated, stupid.
Congestion to head, cheeks red and hot, eruption on face reddens; great anxiety every afternoon after dinner. θ Fifth month of pregnancy.

Outer Head

Hair: dry, lustreless; tangles easily.
Viscid sweat about the head.
Whole head burns.
Pustules, boils on head, mostly on scalp, which looks dirty and emits an offensive odor.
Moist, suppurating, fetid eruption. Also dry eruption.
Averse to having head uncovered; wears a fur cap even in hottest weather.

Eyes

Fiery sparks before eyes.
Objects seem to tremble for a few moments, get dark.
Aversion to light.
Confusedness before eyes, after anxiety.
Eyes feel tired in evening.
Photophobia when walking in open air.
Eyes water, inflamed; hurt so she can scarcely open them; pains over eyebrows, down nose, also back of head; complained mostly of her head.
Right eye inflamed, pressure as from foreign body when lids closed.
Ciliary blepharitis right to left, worse morning and during day; chronic cases.
Blepharitis, photophobia, child cannot open its eyes, lies on its face.

Ears

Humming or buzzing in left ear; afterward stinging; hard of hearing.
Discharge of reddish ear-wax.
External ears; raw, red, oozing; scabs form; sore pain behind ears.
Otorrhœa very offensive, purulent (watery, stinking diarrhœa).
Severe pain in ear, confined him to bed for four days; ear swollen; thought pain in would drive him crazy.
Pustules on and behind concha.
Scabby eczema behind right ear came out, curing the child's old, dry deafness.
Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks; at times throws off innumerable scales; at others shows painful rhagades, with yellow discharge, forming scurfs; fetid humor; itching intolerable.

Nose

Loss of smell.
Smell of blood.
Nose sensitive when inhaling air.
Boring, stinging in right nostril, followed by excessive sneezing.
Burning, followed by thin nasal discharge, which relieves.
Tough mucus in nose; feels like a plug there; it nauseates him; better when stooping.
Catarrh, with cough and expectoration of yellow-green mucus.
Septum inflamed, large pustules.

Face

Pale, yellow, sickly; broad blue rings around eyes.
Burning heat and redness of face.
Pimples on forehead.
Cheek-bones pain in as if ulcerated.
Ulcers in face.
Scabby face; especially cheeks from ears; lips and eyelids swollen, sore about eyes.
Red, small pimples on face, especially on nose, chin and middle of cheeks.

Lower Face

Upper lip swollen.
Lips dry, brown, black; ulcers on lips.
Lips painful, swollen.
Soreness of jaw, right side, around the ear; could not open in his mouth, even wide enough to admit his fingers.
Corners of mouth ulcerated; sycotic condylomata.
Submaxillary and lingual glands swollen, sore to touch; at the same time suppurating pustules on same place.

Teeth

Stitching in teeth from one side to other, radiating to head, with burning in right cheek, which is swollen.
Teeth feel so loose, they may fall out; worse from touch.

Tongue, etc

Loss of taste, with coryza.
Taste: bitter, goes off when eating or drinking; foul, much mucus in mouth; less in fresh air.
Tongue: dry; tip dry, feels scalded; coated white; yellow; thickly covered with whitish-yellow slime.

Mouth

Mouth dry, burning.
Tickling, burning; mouth inflamed, sore, worse from warm food; not annoyed by cold food.
Blisters inside lower lips; burning painful.

Throat

Tough mucus in throat, hawking.
Throat burns, feels scalded.
Like a lump or plug in throat, impending hawking of mucus.
Pain when swallowing saliva.
Difficult swallowing, throat feels swollen.
Ulcers on right side, with deep seated pains and burning in fauces.
Tonsillitis; submaxillary glands swollen; fetid otorrhœa.

Desires and Aversions

Great appetite after walk.
Must eat bread in middle of night, so hungry.
No appetite after typhus.
No appetite, but great thirst.
Loathing of pork.

Eating and Drinking

After eating: 2, 3. While eating: 11. Warm food: 12. Cold food: 12. Drinking: 11.

Nausea and Vomiting

Eructations: tasting like rotten eggs; sour, rancid.
Nausea: morning, with pain in small of back; all day, with vomiting; vomiturition, followed by vomiting, first of blood, then of a sour, slimy fluid.

Stomach

Cramps in stomach.
Sharp stinging in pit of stomach.
Weakness of stomach.

Hypochondria

Chronic hepatitis.
Deep, heavy pain in region of liver, worse from pressure or lying on right side, walking, coughing, laughing, or talking a long breath.
Stinging, sharp pain in region of liver and spleen.
Stitches in spleen, better when standing; worse when moving, and continuing if again at rest.

Abdomen

Colicky pains, better passing fetid flatus.
Pain in abdomen while riding.
Abdomen distended.
Painful bearing down, with painful, burning micturition.
Stinging, sharp pains in inguinal glands.
Pain through right groin when walking.
Inguinal hernia.

Stool, etc

Stools: fluid, fetid, smell like rotten eggs or carrion; worse at night; of green mucus, mixed with blood; frequent, liquid.
Griping and desire for stool while riding.
Chronic diarrhœa.
Costive; pain in small of back; blood from rectum.
Large quantities of blood from rectum, with hard, difficult stool.
Burning, hemorrhoidal tumors.
Soreness in rectum and anus when riding.

Urine

Involuntary urine, cannot hold it. θ Typhus.
Frequent, scanty urine; burning and cutting in urethra.
Urine thick, whitish, turbid, red deposit, cuticle forms on surface.

Male Sexual Organs

Impotence, want of emissions during coitus.
Aversion to coition.
Drawing in testicles and cords.
Male parts flabby, torpid.
Inflamed ulcer on glands, with swelling and heaviness of testicles.
Prostatic fluid discharge before urinating.
Sycotic excrescences on edges of prepuce, with itching and burning.
Painless, chronic blenorrhœa, stains linen yellow.

Female Sexual Organs

Pinching in pubic region, in women.
Cutting in left loin; cannot walk without assistance.
Left ovary indurated after a violent knock; followed by itching eruption on body and face.
Knotty lump above right groin; even a bandage hurts.
Amenorrhœa: in psoric subjects, when tetter in covered by thick scurfs; with phthisis.
Dysmenorrhœa near climaxis.
Leucorrhœa large lumps, unbearable in odor; violent pains in sacrum and right loin.

Pregnancy

During pregnancy: congestions; fœtus moves too violently, abdomen tympanitic; nausea, vomiting.
Mammæ swollen, painful; redness of nipples, burning around them.
Pimples, itching violently, about nipples; oozing a fluid. θ Second month of pregnancy.
Mammary cancer.

Larynx

Hoarse when talking, phlegm sticks in larynx.
Tickling, throat as if narrowing, must cough to relieve it.
Talking very fatiguing.

Breathing

Short-breathed.
Chest expands with great difficulty.
Cannot get breath.
Anxious dyspnœa, sitting up to write, better lying down; worse the nearer the arms are brought to the body.
Asthmatic attacks, with hydrothorax.
Stitches from behind forward, in chest and back, when breathing.

Cough

Dry, hacking, from titillation in trachea; dry, with weakness, heaviness, or soreness in chest; evenings, pains in throat and chest, caused by speaking, better from quiet; with green mucous sputa, worse mornings when awaking and evenings on lying down; coughs a long time before expectorating.
Chronic blenorrhœa of the lungs, threatening phthisis.

Lungs

Phthisis pulmonalis.
Burning-pressing in chest.
Pain in chest, great anxiety, by spells.
Hydrothorax.
Feeling, especially under sternum, as of ulceration of the chest.
Chest symptoms better when lying down.
Sharp pain, right side, opposite tenth rib.
Pains in right side, worse from motion, laughing, coughing; with sweat.

Heart and Pulse

Pericarditis, psoric origin; better lying quietly.
Rheumatic carditis; effusion, cannot lie down.
Pulse week, feeble.

Neck and Back

Painful stiffness of neck, soreness and tearing on bending backward.
Glands of neck swollen, pain thence to head.
Tearing and stitches between scapulæ.
Severe backache, as if bruised, cannot straighten out.
Pain in small of back, like weakness.
Small of back pains, worse motion.

Upper Limbs

Attacks of lameness and soreness in right shoulder, extending to hand.
Arms as if paralyzed and lame, from shoulder to hands.
Eruption in bends of elbows and around wrists.
Tearing in arms.
Copper-colored, red blisters on backs of hands.
Pustules on hands, near finger-ends, suppurating.
Itching between fingers; vesicles.
Sweaty palms, especially at night.
Small warts, size of pin's head, on left hand.

Lower limbs

Pain in hip-joints as if dislocated, worse when walking, with weak arms.
Pain in legs, especially on tibia and soles, as from overexertion in walking; legs restless, better on rising.
Sciatic pains; tension down to knee while walking.
Oozing blister on legs, from small pustules, increasing in size, with tearing pains.
Dry herpes in bend of knees.
Chronic gonitis.
Ulcers on lower legs, with intolerable itching over whole body.
Feet go to sleep.
Heat and itching of the soles.
Eruption on insteps, soon becoming thick, dirty, scaly; suppurating; painful and itching at times, keeping him awake.

Limbs in General

Arthritic; rheumatism, especially in chronic form.
Tearing in left knees and left axilla.
Hands and feet tremble.

Position, etc

Rest: 18, 27, 33. Lying down: 26, 27, 28, 29; on right side: 18. Lies on face: 5. Cannot lie down: 29. Sitting up: 26. Standing: 18. Motion: 18, 28, 31. Exertion: 36, 46. Walking: 5, 14, 18, 19, 23, 33. Stooping: 7. Rising: 3, 33. Must rise: 2. Bending backward: 31. Cannot straighten out: 31. Overlifting: 1.

Nerves

Weakness, especially without structural diseased changes.
Debility after acute diseases; after typhus with despair of recovery; thinks he is very ill, when he is not; appetite will not return; sweats from least exertion.
Nervous, easily startled.
Subsultus tendinum.

Sleep

Sleepy by day; sleepless at night, from intolerable itching; dyspnœa; congestion to head.
Sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry fret, cry.
Dreams vivid, continue after awaking.
Dreams of robbers, danger, travelling, etc.
Sleepless after 12 P.M., from congestion to head.
On awaking, cannot get rid of the one persistent idea.

Time

Morning: 1, 2, 3, 5, 16, 27. Afternoon: 2. Evening: 5, 27, 40. Night: 1, 2, 3, 14, 20, 32, 37. After midnight: 37. At 1 A.M.: 3. Day: 5, 16, 37.

Temperature and Weather

Feels a restlessness in his blood days before and during a thunder-storm.
Cough returns every winter.
Hot weather: 4. Warmth: 46. In bed: 46. Air: 7, 11. Uncovering: 4. Washing: 3.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilly, evening, upper arms, thighs, with thirst; drinking causes cough.
Evening heat, delirium, great thirst, followed by profuse sweat.
Heat when riding in a carriage.
Profuse sweats.
Sweats easily, weak.
Typhus: picks bedclothes, reaches for objects in air.

Attacks

Every day same hour.
Every other day: headache, thirst, cold.

Sides

Right: 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 18, 19, 23, 28, 32. Left: 1, 2, 3, 6, 18, 23, 32, 34. Right to left: 5. Side to side: 10. Within outward: 3, 4. Behind forward: 26. Above downward: 32, 33.

Tissues

Body always has a filthy smell, even after a bath.
Thinner than usual; pale, exhausted.
Deeply penetrating ichorous ulcers.
Carries.
Dropsy.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 9, 10, 33. Pressure: 18, 30; of bandage: 23. Violent knock: 23. Scratching: 46. Riding: 19, 20, 40.

Skin

Body itches intolerably; worse in bed and from warmth; scratches until it bleeds.
Skin dirty, greasy-looking, with yellow blotches here and there.
Fine red eruption, forming small white scales.
Whole surface scaly, dirty-looking, tawny; at times itching; desires scratching, which gives temporary relief.
Copper-colored pustules, no itching.
Itch: boils after itch.
Crusty eruptions all over.
After suppressed itch; urticaria, in attacks, after every exertion; tuberculosis; single pustules often appear.

Stages and States

Scrofulous, nervous, restless, easily startled.
Psoric constitutions; especially when other remedies fail to permanently improve; lack of reaction after severe diseases.
Pale, sickly, delicate children.

Relationship

Burning remaining (about nipples), yielded to Carb. veg.
Vomiting in pregnancy only relieved by Lac. ac., was cured by Psorin.
Arnic. for a blow on ovary, followed by Psorin.
Follow Psorin., with Sulphur, mammary cancer.
Antidote: coffee.