Kreosotum kreos.

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: DIGESTIVE TRACT. Gums. Stomach. Abdomen. Female genitals. Uterus. BLOOD. Teeth.

DENTITION. Pregnancy. Rest. Cold. Eating. Lying. Summer. During menses. 6 P.M. to 6 A.M.

Warmth. Hot food. Motion.

Miserable and weak. Profuse, FOUL, HOT, ACRID discharges; sputum, eructations, etc.; redden the part. Rawness. Burning like fire. Pulsation; general. Hæmorrhage; passive; brown, dark. Lumpy discharges, menses, etc. Ulceration. Heaviness. Fulness. Tumefaction. Scurvy. Marasmus. Black, teeth, leucorrhœa, lochia, etc.

Dissatisfied with every thing; wants things, then throws them away and wants something else. Screams at night. Cross, wilful and obstinate. Longs for death. Stupid. Buzzing in head. Yellow pallor, with red blotches (Iod.); during chill or heat. TEETH SOON DECAY; black spots on; intolerable ache, < pregnancy; painful dentition. Puffy, bluish, bleeding, painful gums. Aphthæ or salivation, of pregnancy. Taste bitter, low down in throat. Icy cold epigastrium. Frothy eructations. Nausea. Vomiting; long after meals (Æth. Fer. Plat.); undigested food; sweetish; of pregnancy; of uterine ulcer. As of a lump pressing down on bladder. Brown, watery, lienteric stools. Urination hurried; involuntary when lying. Diuresis. Profuse, lumpy, intermittent menses, < lying. Leucorrhœa; gushing; like bloody water; with itching. Tormenting cough, with little expectoration; with sore larynx and chest. Senile bronchitis. Neglected phthisis. Hectic. Chest; deep pains, take her breath; anxious heaviness. Dragging from back to genitals; as if to come out. Violently itching, moist or scurfy eczema on eyelids, face, joints, back of hands. Ulcers break out and heal repeatedly; bleed after coitus. Cold sweat.

Complementary: Sul. Related: Aru-t. Ars. Carb-ac. Grap. Nit-ac. Psor.

Dark complexion, slight, lean, ill-developed, poorly nourished, overgrown; very tall for her age (Phos.). Children: old looking, wrinkled (Abrot.); scrofulous or psoric affections; rapid emaciation (Iod.); post climacteric diseases of women (Lach.). Haemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed freely (Crot., Lach., Phos.); flow passive, in epistaxis, haemoptysis, haematuria; in typhoid, followed by great prostration; dark, oozing, after the extraction of a tooth (Ham.). Roaring and humming in ears, with deafness, before and during menses. Corrosive, fetid, ichorous discharges from mucous membranes; vitality greatly depressed. Itching, so violent toward evening as to drive one almost wild (itching, without eruption, Dolichos). Painful dentition; teeth begin to decay as soon as they appear; gums bluish-red, soft, spongy, bleeding, inflamed, scorbutic, ulcerated. Vomiting: of pregnancy, sweetish water with ptyalism; of cholera, during painful dentition; incessant with cadaverous stool; in malignant affections of stomach. Severe headache before and during menses (Sep.). Menses: too early, profuse, protracted; pain during, but < after it; flow on lying down, cease on sitting or walking about; cold drinks relieve menstrual pains; flow intermits; at times almost ceasing, then commencing again (Sulph.). Incontinence of urine; can only urinate when lying; copious, pale; urging, cannot get out of bed quick enough (Apis, Petros.); during first sleep (Sep.), from which child is roused with difficulty. Smarting and burning during and after micturition (Sulph.). Leucorrhoea: acrid, corrosive, offensive; worse between periods (Bov., Bor.); has the odor of green corn; stiffens like starch, stains the linen yellow. Lochia: dark, brown, lumpy, offensive, acrid; almost ceases then freshens up again (Con., Sulph.). Violent corrosive itching of pudenda and vagina.

Kreosote is followed well by Ars., Phos., Sulph., in cancer and disease of a malignant tendency. Carbo veg. and Kreosote are inimical.

In the open air; cold weather; when growing cold; from washing or bathing with cold water; rest, especially when lying.

Generally better from warmth.

Acts especially on the inner temples, external ears, lobe of the ear. Torpid, leucophlegmatic temperament.

Female: Leucorrhœa putrid, with accompanying complaints; leucorrhœa in general, especially if very fetid and exhausting. Female genitals in general. Complaints after menstruation; of females at change of life.

Very severe old neuralgic affections, with tearing pains; sensations in the upper jaw; upper teeth; in inner navel region; in the shoulder-blades.

Putrid ulcers of any kind; putrid diarrhœa. Glossitis. Exanthema on the face; on cheeks; around the mouth: on upper lip; on forehead; burning urine; erethism of blood; yawning in general; complaints accompanying yawning. Pulse changed in general.

After menstruation; during leucorrhœa; when yawning. Child suffering from very painful dentition--won't sleep at night unless caressed and fondled all the time; may have constipation or diarrhœa.

Arsen., Bellad., Calc. carb., Kali carb., Lycop., Nitr. ac., Nux vom., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur.

Nux vom.

All secretions from mucous surfaces excessively acrid and corrosive in their character. Yellow leucorrhoea, staining the linen, causing great soreness and irritation of the parts.

Beechwood Kreosote

Kreosotum is a mixture of phenols obtained from this distillation.

Pulsations all over the body, and profuse bleeding from small wounds. Very severe, old neuralgic affections; pains rather aggravated by rest. Excoriating, burning, and offensive discharges. Hæmorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections. Rapid decomposition of fluids and secretions, and burning pains. Overgrown, poorly developed children. Post-climacteric diseases. Tumefaction, puffiness, gangrene. Ailings of teething children.

Music causes weeping and palpitation. Vanishing of thought; stupid, forgetful, peevish, irritable. Child wants everything but throws it away when given.

Dull pain, as from a board pressing against forehead. Menstrual headache. Occipital pain (Gels; Zinc pic).

Salty lachrymation. Lids red and swollen.

Eruption around and pimples within. Difficult hearing and buzzing.

Sick, suffering expression; hot, cheeks red.

Lips red, bleeding. Very painful dentition; child will not sleep. Very rapid decay of teeth, with spongy, bleeding gums; teeth dark and crumbly (Staph; Ant c). Putrid odor and bitter taste.

Offensive smell and discharge. Chronic catarrh of old people. Acrid rawness. Lupus (Ars).

Burning, choking sensation. Putrid odor.

Nausea; vomiting of food several hours after eating; of sweetish water in the morning. Feeling of coldness, as of ice water in stomach. Soreness; better eating. Painful hard spot. Hæmatemesis. Bitter taste after a swallow of water.

Distended. Burning hæmorrhoids. Diarrhœa; very offensive; dark brown. Bloody, fetid stools. Cholera infantum in connection with painful dentition, green stools, nausea, dry skin, exhaustion, etc.

Offensive. Violent itching of vulva and vagina, worse when urinating. Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of bed quick enough during first sleep. Dreams of urinating. Enuresis in the first part of night. Must hurry when desire comes to urinate.

Corrosive itching within vulva, burning and swelling of labia; violent itching between labia and thighs. During menses, difficult hearing; buzzing and roaring; eruption after. Burning and soreness in external and internal parts. Leucorrhœa, yellow, acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods. Hæmorrhage after coition. Menses too early, prolonged. Vomiting of pregnancy, with ptyalism. Menstrual flow intermits (Puls); ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down. Pain worse after menses. Lochia offensive; intermits.

Hoarse, with pain in larynx. Cough; worse evening, with efforts to vomit, with pain in chest. Raw burning in chest; pains and oppression. Cough after influenza (Eriodyction). Winter coughs of old people, with heavy pressure on sternum. Gangrene of lungs. After every cough, copious, purulent expectoration. Hæmoptysis; periodic attacks. Sternum feels pressed in.

Dragging backache, extending to genitals and down thighs. Great debility.

Pain in joints, hip and knee. Boring pain in hip-joints. Scapulæ sore.

Itching, worse towards evening. Burning in soles. Senile gangrene. Small wounds bleed freely (Crot; Lach; Phos). Pustules and herpes. Ecchymosis; dorsal surface of fingers and hands eczematous.

Disturbed with tossing. Paralytic sensation in limbs on waking. Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc.

Worse, in open air, cold rest, when lying; after menstruation. Better, from warmth, motion, warm diet.

Antidote: Nux. Inimical: Carbo.

Complementary in malignant diseases: Ars; Phos; Sulph.

Guaiacol (is the principal constituent of Kreosote, and similar in action. Used in pulmonary tuberculosis. Dose 1 to 5 m).

Matico-Artanthe or Piper augustifolia, (Gonorrhœa, hæmorrhage from lungs; catarrhal conditions of genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract. Topically a hæmostatic. Difficult, dry, deep, winter cough. Use tincture).

Compare also: Fuligo ligni; Carbol ac; Iod; Laches.

Third to thirtieth potency. The 200th in sensitive patients.

Cholera infantum; profuse vomiting; cadaverous smelling stools.

Hæmorrhagic diathesis; small wound bleeds profusely (Phos.).

Acrid, fœtid, decomposed, mucous secretions; sometimes ulcerating, bleeding, malignant.

Gums painful, dark red or blue; teeth decay as soon as they come.

Sudden urging to urinate or during first sleep, which is very profound.

This curious substance seems to act chiefly upon the mucous membranes, producing profuse and offensive secretions and ulcerations, with greatly depressed vitality. This is especially true of the genital organs of the female. Leucorrhœa is putrid, acrid, corrosive, staining the linen yellow. The parts with which the discharge comes in contact itch and burn, while scratching does not relieve but inflames the parts. This remedy has a tendency to hæmorrhages, which are often very obstinate. The hæmorrhages occur with leucorrhœal trouble; they are intermittent, will almost stop, then freshen up again and again. This is often the case with the lochia after confinement, when the choice may lie between these three remedies, Kreosote, Rhus tox. and Sulphur. The other symptoms must decide between them. This ulceration may be found in cancer of the uterus, and then Kreosote will often be of great value. I have no doubt that many cases which degenerate into cancer might be prevented by its timely use. In some cases there is awful burning in the pelvis, as of red-hot coals, with discharge of clots in foul smelling blood. I see that Guernsey recommends it in cancer of the mammæ, saying it is hard, bluish-red and covered with scurvy protuberances. I have never so used it, but in corrosive leucorrhœas and ulcerations I have with great satisfaction. I generally used it in the 200th, with simply tepid water injections for cleanliness.

There is perhaps no remedy that has a more decided action upon the gums (not even Mercury) than this one. It is not used often enough in painful dentition. The gums are very painful, swell, look dark-red or blue, and the teeth decay almost as soon as they are born. A child that has a mouth full of decayed teeth, with spongy, painful gums, will find its best friend in Kreosote. Cholera infantum in such children is of common occurrence, and is of a very severe type, for the vomiting is incessant and the stools cadaverous smelling. Never forget Kreosote in cholera infantum, which seems to arise from painful dentition. or in connection with it, for I have seen some of the finest effects ever witnessed from any remedy from this one.

I have used it here also in the 200th. Kreosote is also one of our best remedies in other kinds of vomiting; in the vomiting of pregnancy and in that other intractable disease of the stomach, known as gastromalacia. I do not know any characteristic indication for it here; but should I find the troubles before mentioned, in part or whole such as corrosive leucorrhœa, or the hæmorrhages, or a general hæmorrhagic tendency, small wounds inclined to bleed profusely (like Lachesis and Phosphorus), I would feel confident of Kreosote.

Kreosote has strong characteristics in regard to urination.

First, it has copious pale urine.

Second, they can't go quick enough, the urging is so great or sudden. (Petroselinum.)

Third, the child wets the bed during first sleep, which is very profound, can hardly wake it. (Sepia).

Can only urinate when lying. (Zinc. met., only when sitting bent back).

To recapitulate. Bad teeth and gums "from way back," fœtid corrosive discharges; great debility and hæmorrhagic tendency, should always call to mind this remedy.

Low-spirited, inclined to weep, longing for death ; music and other subduing emotions cause him to weep. Ill-humor (in the morning), with disposition to weep.

Weakness of memory. Painful dulness of the head, as ; after intoxication. Heaviness in the forehead and sensation as if the brain would fall out. Pulsation in the forehead, vertex (when awaking in the morning), with heat in the face. Painfulness of the scalp when combing the hair (the hair falls off).

Itching and biting in the eyes, on the edges of the eyelids ; when rubbing them they become red and feel worm. Burning and heat in the eyes, with tears, especially when looking into a bright light. Discharge of hot, acrid, smarting tears, like salt water ; worse when rubbing the eyes, or early in the morning, on waking. Twitching of the lids (uncontrollable). Dim-sightedness, as if looking through gauze. Sensation as if something were floating before the eyes, obliging one to wipe them constantly.

Stitches in the ears. Itching in the ears (and soles of the feet). Humid herpes on the ears, with swelling of the cervical glands and livid, gray complexion. Inflammation of the (left) outer ear, red, hot, swollen, burning, proceeding from a pimple in the concha, with stiffness and pain as the left side of the neck, shoulder and arm.

Bad smell before the nose (on waking). Bleeding of the nose (in the morning).

Livid complexion, with swelling of the cervical glands. Great heat and brown redness of the face (during the siesta), with throbbing in the cheeks ; and forehead, and frequent micturition. Scaly herpes on the eyelids, cheeks and around the mouth. Dry lips, with peeling off.

Toothache, extending to the temples, to the left side of the face. The teeth feel as if they were too long. Gums inflamed (left upper side). Scraping in the throat, with roughness and dryness.

Bitter taste of the food when it is swallowed.

Eructations sour or empty, after dinner, followed by expectoration of frothy saliva. Nausea during pregnancy. Vomiturition, straining to vomit, in the morning ; vomiting in the morning of sweetish water, with dryness in the nose and fullness in the forehead ; cold hands and feet, with thirst. Tightness of the stomach and pit of the stomach ; the tight clothing is insupportable. Painful hard place on the left side of the stomach. Scirrhus or cancer of the stomach. Stitches in the region of the liver. Pressure in the region of the spleen ; the spot is painful to external pressure, especially when sitting down soon after rising from the bed in the morning. Sensation of contraction in the abdomen, as if a hard-twisted ball were lying in the umbilical region. Labor-like pain, with drawing in of the upper part of the abdomen, extending to the small of the back and pressing toward the lumbar vertebræ, with flushes of heat in the face, palpitation of the heart, ineffectual urging to pass urine, which is finally emitted in small quantities and hot ; after the paroxysm, chilliness and milky leucorrhœa. Sensation of soreness in the abdomen (when taking a deep inspiration). Painful sensation of coldness in the abdomen. Distention of the abdomen, as after a copious meal.

Constipation ; stool hard, dry, and only expelled with difficulty. Stitches in the rectum, extending towards the left groin.

Diminished secretion of urine ; also he drinks much, with frequent desire to micturate (at night), passing but little at a time. Frequent and profuse micturition (pale urine). Urine has a bad smell ; of the color of chestnuts, reddish, with red sediment. Before urinating, discharge of mild leucorrhœa. During micturition, burning between the labia.

Men. Burning in the genitals and impotence. Women. Itching in the vagina, inducing rubbing in the evening, succeeded by smarting, swelling, heat and induration of the external parts, with soreness in the vagina when urinating. On the neck of the uterus a hard lump, and ulcerative pain during an embrace ; the pain worse in the morning than in the evening. Prolapsus uteri. During an embrace burning in the parts, followed next day by menstrual discharge of dark blood. Menstruation too early and too profuse. Before and during menstruation, hardness of bearing. Leucorrhœa, mild, corrosive, debilitating. Appearance of the menses in the third mouth of pregnancy (blood black, flows in a stream).

Scraping and roughness in the throat, with hoarseness, relieved by sneezing, in the morning. Cough (in the evening, in bed), caused by crawling below the larynx, with involuntary micturition. Dry, wheezing, hollow cough, caused by scraping and roughness and crawling in the chest, without expectoration. Cough, with expectoration of thick, yellow or white mucus. Aggravation of the cough morning and evening, while exhaling, from motion, from music, when awaking, when lying on the side, or when turning in bed. Cough, with pain in the chest and sternum, compelling to press the hand on it ; stitches and soreness in the chest. Pain in the back ; great sleepiness and profound sleep. Frequent desire to take a deep breath on account of a sensation of heaviness on the chest. Shortness of breath, with sensation of heaviness on the chest. The chest feels bruised, especially the sternum. Stitches in the chest above the heart, with oppression of breathing ; in the right side, extending under the shoulder-blade, arresting the breathing. Stitches in the heart.

Pain, as if the small of the back would break ; worse at rest ; better from motion. Pain in the small of the back like labor-pains ; strong pressure to urinate, and ineffectual desire to go to stool. Pain in the back at night ; worse when lying. The scapulæ feel as if bruised.

Upper. Pain in the shoulders as if they had ham uncovered all night. Stitches in the arm from the shoulder-joint through the fingers ; they feel as if gone to sleep, insensible. Deadness of the fingers, which grow pale and insensible (early in the morning, when rising), (with tingling and going to sleep). Pain in the left thumb, as if sprained or stiff. Lower. Humming and buzzing sensation in the lower limbs. Pain of the sales of the feet, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Œdematous, white swelling of both feet (feel cold and heavy). Burning itching of the soles.

Great drowsiness, with frequent yawning. Sleeplessness (before midnight) ; tosses about all night without any apparent cause.

Faintness (in the morning, when rising too early). Sensation of soreness, as if bruised. Restlessness in the body while reposing. Stitches in the joints.

Pulse small and weak ; when at rest, pulsation in all the arteries. Chilliness predominating while at rest. Chill, with flushes of the face ; red cheeks and icy cold feet. Chill, with great bodily restlessness. Heat, mostly in the face. Flushes of heat, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks. Perspiration only during the morning, with heat and redness of the cheeks.

Blotches like nettle-rash. Large, greasy-looking, pox-shaped pustules over the whole body. Herpes, furfuraceous and pustulous, dry, humid (on the backs of the hands and fingers, in the palms of the hands, on the ears, elbows, knuckles, and malleoli). Itching, very violent towards evening.

Aggravation, in the open air ; on moving ; from eating cold food. Amelioration, from warmth.

Kreasote or Creasote. A product of distillation of Wood Tar. C 8 H 10 O 2 . Solution in Rectified Spirit. [J. Meredith makes dilutions of "the first heavy distillate of hard green wood," which he has named Carbo Pyroligneus .]

Acne. Amenorrhœa. Cancer . Carbuncle. Change of life. Cholera infantum. Coccygodynia. Congenital syphilis. Constipation. Consumption. Dentition . Diarrhœa. Ear, affections of. Enuresis. Epithelioma. Eructations. Eruptions. Flushings. Gastromalachia. Glossitis. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhagic diathesis. Herpes. Hysterical vomiting. Irritation. Leucorrhœa . Lip, epithelioma of. Lupus. Menstruation, disorders of . Neuralgia. Ovary, affections of. Prostate, irritation of. Pregnancy, vomiting of . Pustules. Rheumatism. Seasickness. Stomach, affections of . Syphilis. Syphilitic deafness. Teeth, caries of. Toothache . Ulcers. Urine, incontinence of . Uterus, affections of. Vomiting. Whooping-cough. Yawning.

Kreosote , a product of the distillation of pyroligneous acid and of tar, the preservative principle of the smoke, used for smoking meats and fish, was discovered by Reichenbach, a Moravian chemist, early in the nineteenth century. The second edition of his work, published in 1835, supplies many of our data, but independently Kre , has been well proved. Its name, derived from the Greek, means "flesh-preserver"; and Teste includes it with Arsen., Merc. cor., Plumb., Stan., Nit. ac., Sul. ac., Crocus , and Arg. met ., in his Merc. Sol . group. He remarks that several members of this group, whilst preserving dead organic matter from decomposition, have just the opposite effect on living tissues. The entire group have these characters: Suppressed or more frequently increased secretions with putridity. Foul breath . Bloating. Caries of teeth and bones. Cadaverous coldness. Predominant left-sidedness . Deep, nervous and mental derangement. Violent oscillation of symptoms-ravenous hunger to anorexia, &c. All favour the production of intestinal parasites and all are therefore anthelmintic. Excessive indulgence in smoked meats and fish is very injurious to the health. The principal observed effects are: Scorbutic condition of gums, falling out and decay of teeth, foul breath, costiveness, malaise. ( Salt , another great preservative, also produces scurvy.) Kermes, of Weinsberg, has collected 135 cases in which death has occurred apparently from eating smoked foods. The leading symptoms in all were: Burning pain at epigastrium, bloody vomiting, meteorism, violent colic with constipation, slow breathing, sinking of pulse and dilatation of pupils. (Teste.) Reichenbach not only discovered Kre ., he also introduced it into medical practice, and there was, as usual, a rush for the new remedy, which for a short time was a panacea; and then, except among homœopaths, fell into neglect. Teste observed that it acted particularly well on infants in the cradle, and congenital syphilis was a very strong indication for it. The marked action of Kre . on the teeth and dentition confirms this. [Cooper cured with Kre . 30 a case of auditory vertigo in a patient with pegged teeth. No other medicine would touch the case.] But it is also frequently called for in acquired syphilis, especially in the skin manifestations. Nash confirms the action on children and especially during dentition. The teeth decay almost as soon as they appear. Gums dark red or blue and very painful; incessant vomiting; cadaverous-smelling stools. The urinary symptoms are also marked, and Kre . is one of the most important remedies in enuresis. The chief urinary features are: ( 1 ) Copious pale urine. ( 2 ) Sudden; great urging; the patient cannot go quick enough. ( 3 ) The child wets the bed during the first sleep which is very profound. J. Meredith ("Agricola") proved on himself ( H. W ., xxviii. 84) "the first heavy distillate from hard green wood," obtained at charcoal works, in the 4x attenuation. The symptoms observed were so like those of pure Kre . that I do not think they need be separated. Among them were: Great thirst in evening. Enormous appetite. Stabbings here and there. Eyes feel as if in a woody smoke. Sneezing. Spleen pain. Nasal pus. [Teste emphasises a discharge "of fetid pus from nostrils."] At 7 a.m. sitting up in bed, pain and stiffness across hips and sacrum, which continued during the day. Prostate and bladder irritation , during night frequently rises to pass a very little urine, coming away like spray. It cured at the same time constipation of ten to twelve days' duration. Meredith cured with it a girl, æt. 17, of intense urethral scalding after urination ( H. W ., xxx. 83). Kre . is no less suited to women than it is to children; and especially to the leucophlegmatic temperament. Grauvogl cured with Kre . 3x a girl of 20 of suppression of menses, with a concomitant state of imbecility. (In another woman who had suppressed menses with tertian intermittent fever, the intermittent was cured with Chi. sul ., one grain four times a day, and then Grauvogl, hearing for the first time of the suppression of the menses, gave Kre . 3x, with the result that the fever returned in full force. Quinine was again given, and the fever again disappeared. Before the next period, as the patient was of the Nux type, that remedy was given and the period was re-established. According to Grauvogl Kre . has a short period of action, one or two days, Chi. sul . having two or three weeks; and he quotes the case to illustrate the law of incompatibility; in intermittents Chi . may be given after Kre ., but not Kre . after Chi .) Guernsey summarises the action of Kre . on women thus: " Lencorrhœa putrid , with accompanying complaints., leucorrhœa in general, especially if very fetid and exhausting. Female genitals in general. Complaints after menstruation; of females at change of life." According to the same authority Kre . affects especially the inner temples, external ears and lobe of the ear. It is suited to very severe old neuralgias with tearing pains sensations affecting upper jaw; upper teeth; inner navel region shoulder-blades. Dry-peeling lips are a characteristic: and Kre . has cured a tumour of lower lip, supposed to be epithelioma, with dry, cracked skin. In my own experience Kre . (3 and 30) meets a very large proportion of toothache cases where the teeth are decayed, especially if the gums are scorbutic. Its nearest rivals are Staphisagria with blackened teeth, and Mercurius with suppurating gumboil. The scapular pain is illustrated by a case of Lutze's. A lady had a pain under left scapula, < by motion, excruciatingly < by riding in a carriage; > by pressure, by lying with that shoulder on something hard, and by warmth. A long succession of homœopathic remedies was given in vain. Then the old school had a trial with Antipyrine and Morphia , with no better success. Long after, Lutze met the patient casually, and she mentioned that she had pains in the left thumb . This led him to Kre ., under which he found the other symptoms of the case. He asked the patient to let him give her one other dose. She consented. Kre . 200 was given and completely cured the patient, who had become nervous and worn out by the suffering she had endured ( J. of Homœopathics , May, 1890). In the same number of the same journal a case is recorded by Jean. I. Mackay in which Kre . 45m., twice repeated at long intervals, wrought a cure: Mrs. L., 28, fair, nervous. Has one child, æt. 9. Six years before Mackay saw her had an abortion and since then health had been failing. Her chief complaint was of hæmorrhage from the uterus, brought on by lifting, over-exertion, and always followed coitus . No pain during coitus. Menses regular but profuse and clotted. Constant dull aching pain in back. The day after the flow has a terrible left-sided headache > by hot water applied to head. Annoying itching in genitals at times. Os eroded, speculum soon filling with clotted blood. "Coitus followed by flow of blood the next day" is a keynote for Kre . W. P. Wesselhœft ( Hahn. Ad ., xxxviii. 23) confirms these symptoms: Coarse, red elevated acne pimples, especially in blonde women . Nocturnal enuresis from too profound sleep; child cannot be awakened when taken up. Giving out of knee-joint with annoying cracking (in a large, fat blonde woman ). Large purulent blisters on concha of both ears, with a red base, like small-pox pustules. Chronic headache accompanied with great drowsiness, during which the patient would sleep most of the time, and groan in his sleep. Relief was followed by the appearance of a great number of small warts on scalp. [Hering mentions these constitutions as suited to Kre : Dark complexion, slight, lean. Complexion livid, disposition sad, irritable. Old women. Torpid, leuco-phlegmatic temperament. Old-looking children, hard to awaken. Blondes.] The following case of coccygodynia was reported in Amer. Hom . Miss A. complains of unbearable burning pains in sacrum extending down to coccyx, with feeling there when sitting as if an electric battery were attached with needles which were pricking through the skin. > Rising from seat. Attended with milky leucorrhœa. Kre . cured in three days. James H. Freer ( N. A. J. H ., xliv. 489) cured a lady over 80 who suffered from incontinence of urine on the occurrence of a bronchial attack which compelled her to keep her bed. Villers has reported a case of incontinence < when lying down cured by Kre ., and this led Freer to the remedy, which rapidly cleared up the case, bronchitis and all. (In Villers' case Kre . 30 was given for "incontinence of urine when lying down" because he had cured with it many cases of uterine hæmorrhage occurring only in, or < by, the horizontal position. — H. R ., x. 24.) Freer also cured incontinence in a case of locomotor ataxy (man, 74) with Kre . 6. An allopathic authority, Vladimir de Holstein, of Paris ( Amer. Hom ., xxiv. 93), accidentally cured with 6-drop doses of Kre ., given in beer or milk, aggravated constipation in a chlorotic girl. He gave it with the sole idea of "disinfecting" the intestines. The vomiting of Kre . is noteworthy. The most characteristic form is that due to weakness of stomach, which cannot digest, and which rejects a meal undigested some hours after it was eaten. Vomiting of pregnancy, sweetish water with ptyalism; of cholera infantum; incessant vomiting with cadaverous stools; in malignant disease of stomach. Gentry has recorded the following: Lady, 45, on visiting a friend ill with dysentery, was struck with the odour, went home, commenced to vomit, and vomited all food or drink and continued, without ceasing, vomiting or retching for three weeks, being fed by the rectum all the time. She had to be held up by the nurse. She was greatly emaciated. Kre . 200, one dose given. In twenty minutes the retching ceased. The patient fell asleep, had no more vomiting, and rapidly recovered. Up to this time she had been under allopaths, who advised that homœopathy should be tried, as they could do no more. Harmar Smith ( H. W ., xxiii. 496) cured a girl of 10 of very frequent and violent eructation; she was apparently healthy in other respects. Bell . and Puls . did no good. Arg. n. aggravated. Kre . 2x at once did good and cured in a few days. A fatal case of poisoning with eighteen drops of Kre . has been recorded ( H. W ., xxix. 344) and brings out many of the symptoms in the cases above quoted. A woman, 52, was given for a pulmonary affection Kre . six drops in milk three times a day. After the third day she had: Dysphagia, gastric pain, vomiting, diarrhœa, and a distressing tendency to cough. On admission to hospital twenty-four hours later the breath smelt of Kre . Skin and mucous membranes pale; lips blue; dysphagia marked. Mucous membrane of mouth of a dull white colour in parts. Paralysis and anæsthesia of palate, paralysis of larynx, analgesia of left arm and part of left leg. Later, albumen and casts in urine. After four days, some stupor, and weakness more marked. Next day collapse and death. After death two large erosions were found on upper part of œsophagus and others about pylorus. Stomach red and congested. Kidneys acutely inflamed. Cloudy swelling of liver. — Burning pains are a marked feature of Kre . (lupus of nose with burning pains. Chronic pneumonia with pain like red-hot coals in chest); and stitches are even more characteristic. Itching is intense. Among the peculiar sensations are: As if a board was across forehead. As if brain would force through forehead. As if something floating before eyes. As if a hard twisted ball was lying in umbilical region. During defecation children struggle and scream and seem as if they would go into fits. Burning as of hot coals deep in pelvis. As if something coming out of vagina. As if a load was resting on pelvis. As if sternum being crushed in. As of a heavy burden on crest of ilium. As if small of back would break. As if scapulæ and other parts bruised. As if tendon of elbow-joint too short. As if small of back would break. As if hip dislocated. As if leg too long when standing. There is general sensitiveness to touch and contact. Marked periodicity is apparent. Intermittent fevers. Prostration and restlessness. Fretful, irritable, apprehensive. Music makes him weep. Weak-minded with suppressed menses. Sufferings from the non-appearance of menses — hence at change of life. The symptoms are < after menstruation; during leucorrhœa; when yawning. < In open air; cold weather; when growing cold; from cold washing or bathing. < At rest and especially when lying. Leucorrhœa is > sitting, < standing and walking. Cough compels sitting up all night. Touch < . Pressure > . General > from warmth. < By coitus and after coitus. Hoarseness is > by sneezing. Coughing = involuntary micturition. Drawing in limbs alternates with sufferings in the eyes.

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Stupid feeling in head ; vacant gaze ; neither seeing nor hearing.
Frequent vanishing or failure of thought.
Weakness of memory ; forgetfulness. θ After nosebleed.
Thinks herself well. θ Metritis.
Sorrowful mood, inclined to weep, or longing for death ; music and similar emotional causes impel him to weep.
Anxious, apprehensive mood.
Ill humor ; moroseness : peevishness, ill temper, obstinacy.
Fretful, irritable, agitated, screams nights. θ Bronchitis during dentition.
Excited condition ; ailments from emotions.
Confounding ideas ; also in puerperal fever with putridity.
Seeks for unpleasant things and broods over them.

Stupefaction, dizziness and vacancy in head, with complete loss of thought, sight and hearing.
Painful dulness of head, as after a carouse.
Vertigo : mornings, in open air, with staggering like from drunkenness, must hold on to something ; passes off in room ; danger of falling on turning round quickly.
Roaring in head.

Throbbing and beating in forehead from left side of head.
Dull feeling in head as from a board across forehead.
Pulsation in forehead and vertex, when awaking in morning, with heat in face.
Chronic periodic headache in forehead, piercing pain ; wheals or swellings on scalp.
Heaviness or pressure in various parts of head, with sensation as if brain would force through forehead.
Occipital headache ; much pain and soreness.
Headache : after a carouse ; with sleepiness ; tearing, drawing and jerking pains ; jerking, tearing, sticking, burning pains in anterior part of head ; semilateral and extending to cheeks, jaws, teeth and neck ; induced by talking, moving, sitting up or
lying on side not affected, with great excitability and nervous irritability.

Eruptions on forehead, as with drunkards.
Falling off of hair.
Sensibility of scalp to touch, and when hair is combed.
Scales in large, indurated masses fall off freely.
Scald head.

Dim-sighted : as if looking through gauze ; as if something was floating before eyes, obliging to wipe them constantly.
Staring, dull, lifeless and stupid look.
Itching and smarting sensation in eyes, on edges of lids ; < rubbing.
Suggilation on conjunctiva of right eye.
Burning and redness of conjunctiva.
Acute aggravations of chronic keratitis ; hot, smarting lachrymation.
Blenorrhœa of conjunctiva, with moderately profuse discharge and much smarting in eyes.
Heat in eyes, with ulceration.
Burning heat in eyes, with tears, < by bright light.
Hot, acrid, smarting tears, like salt water ; < in a bright light, on rubbing eyes and early morning.
Slight inflammation of Meibomian glands.
Eyes sunken, with blue rings around, or protruding.
Chronic swelling of eyelids and their margins ; agglutination of lids.
Uncontrollable twitching of lids.

Hardness of hearing with buzzing.
Roaring in head ; also humming and difficulty of hearing before and during menses.
Girl, æt. 9, syphilitic deafness ; teeth wedge shaped ; old looking ; had snuffles when a baby ; attacks of vomiting.
Stitches in ears ; otitis.
Heat, burning, swelling and redness of left outer ear, proceeding from a pimple in concha, stiffness and pain in l. side of neck, shoulder and arm.
Itching in ears.
Humid tetter on ears, with swelling of cervical glands and livid grey complexion.
Affections of external ear.

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There are three things that stand out most prominently in Kreosotum, and when they appear together the symptoms in minor degree will be likely to be associated.

These three characteristics are:

When these three things arc associated in a high degree Kreosote should be examined. A prick of a pin will cause the oozing of bright red- blood, and mucous membranes bleed easily. Any pressure upon the mucous membranes will cause oozing.

Bleeding here and there about the body. The lachrymation is excoriating. It excoriates the margins of the lids and checks, and they become red and raw, and smart. If there is a purulent discharge it is acrid. The corners of the lips and mouth are red and raw, and' the saliva burns and smarts. The moisture about the mouth, whatever it may be, excoriates and the mouth is raw. The eyes smart and burn as if raw.

The leucorrhoea causes smarting and burning about the vulva, so that the mucous surfaces of the labia are red and raw, sometimes inflamed, but always burning. The vagina burns during coition, and there is bleeding after coition; granulations of the vagina and os uteri, so that the pressure of the act of coition brings on bleeding and burning, smarting and excoriation. And the male organ will smart and burn after coming in contact with the secretion of the vagina during coition.

The urine burns and smarts. This tendency to excoriation from the excretions and secretions applies to all the tissues of the body.

Every emotion and exciting circumstance is attended with throbbing all over the body, pulsations to the ends of the fingers. Every emotion is attended with tearfulness, Music that will in the slightest way excite the emotion, minor strains and music that strikes home to the heart, pathetic music, will bring out tears that are acrid, and palpitation and pulsations that are felt to the extremities.

When the Kreosote sore throat is present the least pressure of the tongue depressor will establish oozing, little drops of blood will appear. During the coryza there is nosebleed. When the eyes are red and raw and inflamed, they will bleed easily. If an individual pricks the finger the blood will not merely be a single drop, but a good many will flow. Prolonged haemorrhage from the passages; hemorrhage from the kidneys, from the eyes, the nose, the uterus. Haemorrhage after coition. Tumors bleed easily.

These are the most marked features of Kreosote. If these are fixed in your mind, we have what may be known, as a Kreosote constitution out of which may come all the rest of the symptoms in all their minutiae, and little symptoms and fragments in every organ. You have in this one group the strong features of Kreosote. No matter how many particulars you may have in a case, if you do not have something of these general features you need not expect to find your patient constitutionally cured or relieved by Kreosote. These may be considered essentials.

Mentally the patient is so irritable that there is nothing that will suit him. The wants are so numerous that nothing satisfies. The patient wants everything and is satisfied with nothing, that is, he wants something and when he has it he does not want it. That is the state of irritability and lack of satisfaction in a chronic condition.

You see the child in the mother's arms. It wants a toy, and when given it throws it in the face of somebody; it wants this and that and is never satisfied, always wanting something new, a new toy which it throws away the moment it gets it and then calls for something else.

The lips are red and bleeding, the corners of the month are raw, the eyelids red and the skin excoriated. If it has, in connection with all this, loose passages from the bowels and you examine the fissure between the nates, you will find it is red and raw. If the child be old enough to make such motions he will put the hands upon the sore genitals and fissures and cry out in a most irritable way, because of the smarting.

Such is the Kreosote baby. It may be suffering from cholera infantum; it may be subject to wetting the bed; it may have spells of vomiting, in which it vomits all its food; it is a Kreosote baby.

Kreosote has attacks of diarrhoea and vomiting; all sorts of disturbances of the urine; great distension and trouble with the bowels; abdomen distended from flatus. You look over the whole case at once as a Kreosote case, because of these general features that can be summed up in the aspect of the child.

The Kreosote face has a yellowish pallor; it is a sickly countenance, semi-cachectic, intermingled with blotches that are reddish looking, as if erysipelas were going to set in. In olden times this countenance was called a scorbutic countenance.

Take a woman with this kind of countenance; at every menstrual flow she complains of much swelling and rawness of the genitals; the flow is copious, clotted, stops and then starts again, comes too soon and lasts too long; at times it is black, very foetid, produces rawness upon the thighs and the genitals, with much swelling; at every menstrual period there is rawness of the lips and fissures in the corners of the mouth; the tears become acrid; at the menstrual period all the fluids of the body seem to be acid and they burn wherever they touch.

Very often there is a loose stool, which is also acrid and smarts the anus at the menstrual period. All the symptoms are worse at the menstrual period, sometimes in the early part, sometimes at the middle, sometimes all through, and sometimes at the close. Something more about the scorbutic constitution is brought out in relation to the gums; the gums become puffed and red and tumid and settle away from the teeth.

They become spongy and bleed easily. In the mouth there is much ulceration and little ulcers spread from aphthous patches, smarting and burning; the tongue has ulcers upon it, which bleed easily upon touch.

At the close of a typhoid fever haemorrhage from the bowels, bleeding from the mucous membranes. The mouth becomes raw, and wherever there is a mucous membrane there is a rawness, and the fluids that ooze continue to, eat and cause ulceration. If at the close of a typhoid fever, when the time comes for convalescence, vomiting comes.

Vomiting, bleedings, diarrheas. The fluids vomited from, the stomach are so acrid that they seem to take the skin off from the mouth, set the teeth on edge, make the lips raw. So excoriation from acrid fluids, as well as throbbing all over the body, are features that you must bear in mind with Kreosote.

The discharges from the body are offensive; offensive, bloody, acrid discharges from the nose; offensive, watery discharges from any part of the body; sometimes even putrid; the leucorrhea is very offensive. Rapid emaciation, with spongy, burning ulceration, pus acrid, ichorous, foetid and yellow. Sometimes the inflammatory condition will run so high in an ulcer, only a small ulceration, that gangrene will set in, and hence we have a gangrenous ulceration; gangrene of parts that are inflamed.

Very low formations occur upon the margins of mucous membranes; crusts form. Indurations under the crusts and the crusts continue to form.

The circulation is so poor, so feeble in the parts all about the margin of the lips and the corners of the mouth, and corners of the eyes, and eyelids, and upon the genitals, and there is so much venous engorgement that crusts form and ulcerate and bleed and pile up, and this continues until a phagedenic spot comes. This condition is so much like epithelioma that Kreosote has cured epithelioma.

The next striking thing in Kreosote is its stomach symptoms, Soon after eating there comes a burning pain in the stomach, and then a sense of fullness and an increasing nausea, ending in vomiting of the food, which looks as it did when taken; it looks undigested, but it is sour and acrid, coming up an hour or two after eating. Vomiting, the stomach seems unable to digest, and after the patient empties it there is constant nausea. After a swallow of water a prolonged bitter taste remains in the mouth.

There is aggravation from eating cold things and relief from warm diet. In malignant diseases of the stomach when this symptom is present, Kreosote becomes a great palliative; it relieves the burning and improves the digestion for a while, but the trouble comes again. Many times our remedies furnish us the greatest known palliation in cancerous affections. Homoeopathy should at all times furnish a degree of palliation in cancerous and other incurable malignant diseases of the stomach.

This palliation will bring more comfort to the stomach than can possibly be brought about by Mor phine . I have watched patients under Morphine and under homeopathic medicine, and as a mere matter of comfort I will take the homoeopathic medicines.

This has been the experience of many. When you hear a homoeopath say that he prefers anodynes in cancerous affections of the stomach and in other painful affections, it is pretty sure evidence that he is not able to find the medicines that are suitable for the patient. These cases test the ability of the physician.

Kreosote is a great remedy for diarrheas in the summer, especially for infants. The infant that I described as to his temper may be the infant suffering from the worst form of summer complaint, or having a light attack of cholera infantum. Or he may be "teething," and suffering from the troubles that are sometimes associated with teething. Infants have troubles at the time of teething only because they are sick, and if the child were not in disorder he would not have trouble when teething. Teething is a crisis, and the things that are within will come out at the time, just as there are troubles that are likely to come out at the time of puberty and at the climacteric period.

A marked feature of the Kreosote constitution is that when the desire to urinate comes, he must hurry or the urine will escape. The urine is passed during sleep. Bloody urine; clots in the urine; acrid and excoriating urine; weakness of the bladder; inability to hold the urine.

Smarting and burning in the pudenda, during and after micturition.

"Sugar in the urine."

It has cured diabetes. Generalize the symptoms given and you will see what kind of a diabetic patient will need Kreosote.

Stupid feeling in the head, with vacant gaze; neither seeing not hearing.
Frequent vanishing of thought.
Frequent failure of thought.
Weakness of memory.
Forgetfulness.
Confounding ideas.
Also in puerperal metritis, with putridity.
Thinks herself well.
Sorrowful mood, inclined to week, or longing for death music and similar emotional cases impel him to weep.
Anxious, apprehensive mood.
Ill-humor.
Moroseness.
Peevishness, ill-temper.
Obstinacy.
Excited condition.
Ailments from emotions.

Vertigo, morning, in the open air, with staggering like from drunkenness must hold on to something; passes off in the room.
Roaring in the head.
Painful dulness of the head, as after a carouse.

Headache after a carouse.
Pain pressing outward in forehead.
Heaviness or pressure in various parts of the head, with sensation as if the brain would force through forehead.
Throbbing and beating in forehead from left side of head.
Tearing, drawing and jerking pains.
Occipital headache; much pain and soreness.
Chronic periodic headache in forehead, piercing pain; wheals or swellings on the scalp.

Eruption on forehead, as with drunkards.
Scales accumulate in large indurated masses and fall off freely.
Falling off of the hair.
Sensibility of scalp to touch, and when the hair is combed.

Dimsighted: as if looking through gauze; as if something was floating before the eyes, obliging to wipe them constantly.
Starting, dull, lifeless and stupid look.
Itching and smarting sensation in eyes, on edges of lids; worse rubbing them.
Suggillation on the conjunctiva of right eye.
Heat in the eyes with ulceration.
Burning heat, with tears, worse by bright light.
Discharge of hot, acrid, smarting tears.
Slight inflammation of the meibomian glands.
Eyes protruding.
Chronic swelling of eyelids and their margins.
Agglutination of eyelids.

Hard hearing.
Roaring in the head; also humming and difficulty of hearing before and during menses.
Stitches in ears.
Heat, burning, swelling and redness of left outer ear, proceeding from a pimple in the concha, with stiffness and pain in left side of neck, shoulder and arm.
Itching in the ears.
Humid tetter on the ears, with swelling of cervical glands and lived grey complexion.

Offensive smell before the nose, with loss of appetite; stinking, in the morning, when awaking.
Nosebleed, with heaviness and throbbing in forehead.
Thin, bright red blood from both nostrils.
Catarrh, fluent or dry, with much sneezing.
Chronic catarrh with old people.
Epithelial cancer on right ala nasi.
Lupus on the nose, left side.
Frequent sneezing, with dry, nasal catarrh.

Sick, suffering expression.
Old looking children.
Complexion: earthy; pale, green, with swelling of cervical glands; pale, bloated; coppery appearance.
Face cold, of pale, bluish tinge, especially on temples and around the nose and mouth.
Flushes of heat, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks.
Face hot, cheeks red, feet cold.
Acne in the face.
Burning pains; worse talking or exertion, better lying on the unaffected side; nervous, excitable.

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One part of beechwood-tar creosote is dissolved in 99 parts of alcohol for the 1st dilution.

An irritant poison, affecting particularly the gastro-intestinal canal, the genito-urinary organs, and the skin.

The Carbons in general, especially Graph., Carbo v., Carbol. ac., Petrol., Secale c.

Loss of flesh. ▶ Twitching in muscles of all parts. ▶ Pinching here and there. ▶ Drawing in whole body. ▶ Excitement of whole body. ▶ Feeling during rest as if all parts were in motion. ▶ Pulsation in all parts when quiet; with sensation as if whole body wavered. ▶ Uneasiness; when sitting and walking, with shivering through all limbs and necessity to breathe deeply, which was impossible. ▶ Felt myself going very low. ▶ Weakness; after leucorrhœa; as if she had not slept enough, with warmth in eyes. ▶ Faintness if obliged to rise earlier than usual. ▶ General numbness. ▶ Insensibility; so that she did not know that a tooth was taken out. ▶ Most symptoms amel. open air.

General tendency to hæmorrhage (Arn., Carbo v.), and to decomposition of fluids or rapid decomposition of secretions. ▶ Fetid discharges and secretions. ▶ General restlessness (especially of teething children). ▶ The pains are always burning, like red-hot coals.

Excitement; before menses, with uneasiness; with peevishness and obstinacy. ▶ Fretful in morning; F. and at the point of weeping. ▶ Despondent and wishing to cry; D. and longing for death; D. towards evening and doubtful if she would ever be well again. ▶ Music or anything else that caused excitement she took very much to heart, and she could not refrain from weeping. ▶ Thoughts vanished and she felt dazed. ▶ Memory weak and thoughts vanished. ▶ When she undertakes anything and has gone a few steps she stops and does not know what she intended to do. ▶ Stupor.

Drawing sticking extending through temples and into upper jaw, with vertigo. ▶ Tearing, with drawing in eyes; T., with heat in face and intermittent tearing in left lower teeth, preventing sleep, with general heat, weakness, peevish and lachrymose mood. ▶ Aching; from emotional disturbances; with heat in front of forehead; with sleepiness; in middle, pressing outward; drawing, so that it closes eyes; as after intoxication; as if she had drunk too much the day previous (feeling of a board before forehead), with weak memory; tensive, agg. stooping. ▶ Confusion; with vertigo; intermittent, with vanishing of thoughts. ▶ Dullness, she looks straight ahead and does not know at what, hears and sees nothing and is without thought. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Weariness. ▶ Beating. ▶ Vertigo; in morning in street, so that she reeled backward and forward, amel. in house; so that she could not bear to be lifted from the pillow; and everything looked dark blue; and everything turns around with him; if she turns suddenly she feels as if she would fall; stupefying.

On stooping everything shoots forward into F.; and she is near falling. ▶ Aching; in anterior lobes of brain; above root of nose; above right eminence; above eyes, agg. right; above eyes in evening; extending towards vertex, with tension; ulcerative, on right side of sinciput; drawing, from right sinus to middle of right jaw, in morning, amel. noon, agg. 2 P.M., and lasting till evening; as from a plug above superciliary ridge, extending to occiput. ▶ Pressing-out pain in middle; P. out pain, with pressure on eyes extending to vertex; P. in sinciput in morning as if everything would be pressed out at forehead. ▶ Throbbing pain; on waking at 5.30 A.M., with heat of face, weakness of limbs, crawling through thighs and feet, bitter taste, even food taste bitter. ▶ Throbbing in; T. in sinciput, with intermittent sticking in temple. ▶ Heaviness in sinciput as if something would burst out there.

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Weakness; prostration and faintness from the least effort.
General tendency to hæmorrhages, and to rapid decomposition of fluids and secretions.
Discharges fetid, acrid.
Lachrymation.
Nasal catarrh.
Stool.
Urine.
Acrid and burning.
Pains burning like red-hot coals.
General aggravation from motion, from cold, general amelioration in the open air.
Dentition.

Vertigo, especially on turning around quickly, with staggering, in the morning in the open air.
Dull pain as from a board pressing against the forehead.

Acrid lachrymation, like salt.
Margins of the lids red and swollen.

Clinical:
Small pimples or pustules within the ear, with burning, swelling, and redness of the outer ear.
Moist eruption on or about the ears, with swelling of the glands in the neck.
Difficult hearing, with buzzing and roaring, especially before and during menstruation.

Nasal catarrh, fluent, with acrid rawness in the air passages.
Offensive smell and offensive discharges.

Clinical:
Lupus on the nose and face, with burning.

Complexion pale, puffy.
Upper lip sore and cracked.

Toothache from decayed teeth; jerking or throbbing pain, extending to side of face and temple.
Tongue coated white, sometimes dry.
Putrid odor from the mouth and bitter taste.

Clinical:
Rapid decay of the teeth, with spongy, bleeding gums; teeth become dark and crumbly.

Burning, with inflammation.
A painful, choking sensation and soreness, especially in the left tonsil, on swallowing.

Clinical:
Has been indicated in diphtheritic ulceration, with great fetor, vomiting and burning, dryness in the throat.

Nausea, with efforts to vomit; nothing but saliva ejected.
Vomiting of food several hours after eating; of sweetish water in the morning before eating.
Soreness or burning in the epigastric region, temporarily > eating.
A feeling of coldness as from ice water in the stomach.

Distention.
Sticking pain in the region of the liver; cannot tolerate tight clothing.

Frequent urging.
Painful burning of hæmorrhoids.
Constipation; evacuation very difficult, with burning.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa, very offensive, dark brown, undigested; generally associated with more or less nausea, sometimes with vomiting.
Dysentery, with nausea and vomiting.
Bloody, fetid stools during typhoid fever, with great prostration.
Cholera infantum, offensive brown stools, great restlessness, with painful dentition and complaint of pain in the gums.

Frequent urgency to urinate, with great haste.
Urine sometimes increased and clear, passed very frequently; at other times, scanty offensive, burning.

Burning in the pudenda on urinating.
Soreness between labiæ, with biting pain, also between the thighs.
Itching, biting, burning in labiæ between vagina, with swelling.
Internal genitals swollen, hot and hard, with internal burning and soreness.
Leucorrhœa of peculiar odor, like green corn, yellow, acrid, with biting and burning externally.
Menstruation early, profuse, prolonged, followed by leucorrhœa.

Clinical:
Ulcerations; offensive, excoriating discharges, with burning pain, heat and soreness.
Pruritis of the vulva, with heat and burning.

Hoarseness and scraping in the larynx.
Inflammation of the larynx.
Cough from the larynx, with hoarseness and soreness; bloody, with greenish expectoration; cough worse in the evening in bed, convulsive, with efforts to vomit; in the morning spasmodic, with retching, incontinence of urine; with pain in the chest; must hold it with the hands.
Raw scraping and burning in the chest like red-hot coals.

Pain as if the small of the back would break, > motion, extending up the back so that she could not move the arms, < stooping.
Dragging backache as before menstruation, extending into the genitals, or down thighs.

Pains in the joints like rheumatism.
Pain in the left thumb, which seems sprained and is stiff.
Boring pain in the hip, alternating with numbness.

Itching, < towards evening, almost intolerable; burning on the soles, especially at night in bed.
Eruptions dry, or moist, with much itching.
Herpetic eruptions, > warmth.
Dry, scaly eruptions, like psoriasis.

Clinical:
Senile gangrene, with burning; foul odor.
Gangrenous degeneration of ulcers.
Eruption after menstruation.

Coldness of isolated parts, particularly internal coldness, with alternations of chill and heat.
Heat localized in flushes, mostly in face.

Indicated in diseases of the genito-urinary system and in affections of the skin, with tendency to haemorrhage and decomposition, hence putridity of discharges. There is much restlessness and burning pain as from a red hot coal. Used in lupus of the nose and face, with burning pain; in choleraic conditions with fetid bloody stools, great prostration and gastric irritability; cholera infantum; many diseases of the female genital organs, as inflammations, cervical ulceration, malignant diseases of the uterus, cauliflower excresences, leucorrhoea, pruritus, etc., characterized by burning pain, putridity and tendency to erosion. Also useful in gangrenous conditions.

Cough, with feeling as if the sternum were being crushed in.

Very rapid decay of teeth; they are dark and crumbly, with spongy, bleeding gums.

Diarrhoea; stools undigested, putrid, dark brown; with nausea and vomiting, restlessness and prostration.

Incontinence of urine; dreams he is out of bed, urinating.

Profuse menstruation, black, acrid; flow stops then returns. Followed by corrosive leucorrhoea, dark brown and thick, later yellow. Stitches from abdomen into vagina, better from walking, worse from lying down. Bleeding after sexual intercourse.

Leucorrhoea, thick, staining the linen yellow and stiffening it like starch; with dragging backache and pressure toward the vulva, better from motion, worse from rest. Odor of green corn.

Skin itching; festers, bleeds easily.

Itching eruptions with violent biting and burning pain after scratching.

Worse in the open air; from rest; after menses.

Better from warmth and motion.

Peevish irritability. Vexed at every trifle. Cross, wilful and obstinate. Excited, before menses. Strong disposition to tears, sometimes with moroseness or melancholy. Weak memory, thoughts vanish.

Outward pressure in forehead and temples. Heaviness and fullness, as if everything would press out at forehead on stooping, or in occiput, as if he would fall backward. Aching, with desire to sleep, contraction of eyelids, a red face, weariness, especially of legs, and a bitter taste. Pains: Throbbing, especially in forehead, obtuse, peg - like, over right eyebrow, pricking. Painful scalp. Pain as if hairs were being pulled. Worse: Emotions. Before and during menses. Better: Bathing in hot water.

Look as if swimming in tears. Projecting. Lids red, swelled, twitching. Heat and constant burning in, with lachrymation on looking at the light. Hot, acrid tears. Greasy mucus in inner canthi. Feel smaller. Blue vision. Worse: Looking at anything. Rubbing. Better: Wiping.

Heat and burning redness of. Inflammatory swelling of, with tensive burning pain and painful stiffness in neck, shoulder and arm of affected side. Cramp - like pain in. Bubbling in. Itching in and in soles of feet. Difficult hearing before and during menses.

Frequent sneezing, with dry coryza, with moisture in. Epistaxis. Fluent coryza, with painful sensitiveness to inspired air.

Earthy. Pale, bloated. Brownish red. Deep red and hot, with throbbing in cheeks and forehead, and frequent desire to urinate. Tearing and burning desire to urinate. Tearing and burning pains. motion, lying on affected part. Lips: Hot, tense, blue, upper cracked l scaling. Right half of lower feels drawn towards corner of mouth.

Fetid breath. Drawing or jerking in hollow teeth, with scorbutic gums. Inflamed gums. Mouth and throat while (Pale). Grayish ulcers on gums and in commissure of lips.

Pale, as if withered, cold feeling on. Taste: Sour on back, of cubes, of straw, bitter, of food just as it goes down.

Feeling of something hanging in left side of. Sloughing, diphtheritic appearance. Constantly hawks up sweetish mucus. Painful choking low down. Extending throw to back. Dysphagia. Burning, scraping in. roughness in.

Violent, acid, frothy. Nausea, with burning in mouth, with spitting of saliva and chill.

During pregnancy, undigested food several hours after eating, Sweetish water in morning fasting. Violent retching.

Sensation of coldness, as from ice - water in, Gnawing, soreness or burning in epigastric region, better temporarily by eating. Worse: Pressure of clothes. Better: Eating warm things.

Pressive pain in spleen and hepatic region. Gnawing, under left short ribs. Worse: Pressure of clothes.

Tense distension of, sometimes with shortness of breath. Drawing from upper to sacrum, with heat of face and ineffectual urging to defecate and urinate. Sensation: Of a hard, twisted lump lying in navicular region, prickling, ulceration, painful coldness in, clawing, burning, stitches, shooting, extending into genitals, shattering in. Worse: Motion. Coughing. Pressure of clothes. Better: Stooping.

Green mucus, with nausea and weakness. Frequent by day. Pasty.

Creeping. Cramps. Dragging in. Stitches in, extending into left flank, during menses.

Profuse, passed in great haste. Stream feeble, spray - like. Strangury. Albuminous, black, offensive, acrid, hot, causing burning between pudendae. Involuntary, when coughing or lying down. Worse: Lying down.

Hot swelled of, with corroding, burning pains and bleeding after coition. Soreness, corrosive itching and burning in labia, vagina, etc. Ulcerative pain in neck of uterus during coition. Hard lump in neck of uterus. Vagina prolapsed. Labour - like pains alternate with eye symptoms (watering of). Better: Walking.

Leucorrhoea: Putrid, corrosive, causing swelling, burning itching and biting externally, exhausting, why - like, milky, yellow, staining yellow, with weakness in legs, staining gray, discharge of, preceded by sacral pains or by contractive pains in vagina, before every urination. Menses profuse, worse lying down, causing itching, followed by a discharge of acrid bloody matter.

Hollow, or whistling spasmodic c., excited by roughness, scratching and tickling in chest and throat, without expectoration. Hoarse, croupy, exhausting. Concussive, with vomiting.

Feeling of a weight in centre of c. with dyspnea, he involuntarily takes a deep breath, anxious dyspnoea. Pains in chest and sternum which necessitates pressure with the hand. Sensation of, Being bruised, sticking, shooting between ribs occurring periodically, burning, a throbbing constriction, stabbing under left mamma. Lungs engorged, excessive bronchial secretion. Emotions excites tightness of heart and weeping. Scratching, creeping and tickling in tracheas. Worse: Expiration. Motion. Awakening. Lying in bed, especially on side. Turning over. Morning and evening. Music. Better: Pressure, with hand.

Shoulders, chilly between, as of a band between, feeling of a weight from s. to elbows, could not raise arms to head. Scapular pains, plug - like or as if beaten. Painfully bruised feeling of cristae ill. Violent drawing and shooting sacral pains going into genitals or thighs. Sensations: Of burrowing, as if broken, of ulceration, as if asleep, as if vertebrae were suppurating. Worse: Stooping. Better: Pressure.

Elbow: Cramp in, tendons feel too short. Hands icy cold. fingers go to sleep, with creeping, they turn while after rising. Left thumb pains as if sprained and is stiff. Desquamating hands. Better: Bathing in hot water.

Pain in hip, from exposure to air. (Edema of legs and feet. Feet: Sweaty, feel as if gathering in soles, burning and itching in soles in evening.

Rawness. Burning. Putrid, acrid discharges. Bleedings, often profuse from slight causes. Weakness, prostration and muscular feebleness. Numbness. Pains: Excoriative, ulcerative, pulling, paralytic, shooting like lightning, as if torn out, bruised, can't find an easy position. Most useful in aged persons and pregnant woman and when the tooth decay rapidly. Worse: Contact. Uncovering. Rubbing or scratching. After menses. During leucorrhoea. Better: After sleep. Warmth.

Feels all affairs. Tettery eruptions. Intense itching. Prurigo. Pustules. Nettlerash in morning. Pimply task on face. Blue spots. Dry. Offensive ulcers which break out and heal up repeatedly. Better: Warmth.

Yawning, with chilliness and watery eyes. Anxious dreams and sweat during. Laughs in her dreams. Great sleepiness and sound sleep.

Pulse: Small and weak with great ebullition of blood. Throbbing in all blood vessels during rest. Chill: Predominating, principally when at rest. Shaking c., with violent flushes of heat in face, red cheeks and icy cold feet. With great bodily restlessness. Alternating with heat. During menses. Skin as if dead during c.; pain in patella during. Heat: Mostly on face. Flying heat with sharply circumscribed redness on cheeks. Bed is too warm, but she is chilled if she puts her foot out. Sweat: Scant and only in morning, accompanied by heat and red cheeks. On chest and back during menses.

Allied Remedies: Arn., Ars., Brom., Carb-ac., Carb - c., Caust., Cham., Chin., Eupion., Merc-c., Nat-m., Nit-ac., NUX-V., Petr., Sec-c., Sep., Sul., Graph.

Complementary: Sul.