Paraffinum paraf.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Purified Paraffin (PARAFFINE)

Valuable in uterine affections. Particularly serviceable in constipation. Knife-like pains. Pains extend from one part to another, and alternate. Pain in stomach alternates with pain in throat and spine.

Left side of head and face suffer most; pains stinging and twisting. Pain as if a nail were driven in left side of vertex. Twisting in left ear.

Vision dim; black specks before. Lids red. Sensation as if there were fat on the eyes.

Tearing, twisting pain in teeth down to lower jaw. Full of saliva; feels sticky; bitter taste.

Hungry all the time. Pain across stomach. Pain in stomach alternates with pain in throat and spine, extends to chest with belching. Fixed pain in left hypochondrium, as if parts were being twisted. Palpitation with stomach pains.

Pain in lower abdomen, extending to genitals, rectum and coccyx; better, sitting.

Frequent desire for stool. Obstinate constipation in children (Alumina; Nyctanthes). Chronic constipation, with hæmorrhoids and continual urging to stool, without result.

Menses too late, black, abundant. Milky leucorrhœa. Nipples pain when touched, as if sore inside. Stabbing pain in mons veneris. Very hot urine with burning pains in vulva.

Pain in spine extending to inguinal region and in both loins, when ascending the stairs. Feeling of electric shocks in all joints. Wrenching pain in calves, extending into toes, in joints. Feet swollen with tearing in ankles and soles.

Burns, even of third degree, with sloughing and sepsis. Wash with sterile water and dry and spray with paraffin, and cover with thin layer of cotton. Useful also in frost bites.

Compare: Naphthalin; Petrol; Kreos; Eupion.

Lower triturations and thirtieth potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902

Paraffin. Trituration.

Abdomen, swelling of. Breasts, affections of. Constipation; of children. Diaphragmitis. Indigestion. Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Muscæ volitantes. Spine, pains in. Spleen, pain in. Umbilicus, pain in. Uterus, affections of. Vertebræ, affections of. Vision, disorders of.

"Paraffin" as a generic term includes all those substances which have no affinity for Sulphuric Acid , and cannot be destroyed by it, Petroleum itself coming within this designation. Specifically "Paraffin" is a "tasteless, inodorous, fatty matter, which resists the action of acids and alkalis, obtained by the dry distillation of wood, peat, bituminous coal, petroleum, &c." In the distillation of Petroleum, Naphthalin is the first substance that comes off; Paraffin is the next. This is the substance the attenuation of which I have successfully used on the indications of Wahle's proving (translated by W. F. Robinson from the Italian, H. R ., v., 193), and I conclude this is the substance Wahle proved, though no description of it is given. The symptoms of the proving, which was made on persons of both sexes, are very striking. The pains are: Knife-like stabs; twisting, wrenching pains; stinging and twisting; electric pains. The pains extend from one part to another and alternate. Pain in the stomach alternates with pains in throat and spine. There is sensitiveness to touch about the head. Sensation as if there were fat on the eyes. Sensation as if whole body was swaying to and fro. Sensation of a cord round abdomen. The pains are < bending over. < Standing or walking (these soon bring back the symptoms). > After sleep. > After rest. > By supporting the part. Aversion to tobacco; smoking = pain in stomach. Palpitation accompanies stomach pain. A number of pains were experienced in the groins; stabbing in mons veneris; cutting pain from one iliac crest to the other. With these pains there was leucorrhœa, pruritis vulvæ, and other disturbances of the female generative organs. The homœopaths of Rome (says the H. R .) have found it serviceable in uterine and other troubles, particularly constipation. I have recorded ( H. W ., xxvi. 319) this case: Mrs. W., 37, mother of three children, suffered since last confinement, five years before, with bearing-down pains, excessive menses, leucorrhœa, constant and violent indigestion with morning retching or vomiting. Pain in back, shoulders, and abdomen after any food, however light. The pains, which "double her up," are < on standing. Much thirst. Constipation with piles. Constant desire to pass water. After Murex and Alston . had given some relief, the indigestion returned in full force. A few globules of Paraf . 30 were dissolved in water and a teaspoonful taken every two or three hours. ─ In a few days all symptoms of indigestion were gone and did not return. Other symptoms were markedly ameliorated. The catamenia instead of recurring too soon were delayed much beyond the normal time. Paraf . has a remarkable action in nodous joints. Cooper has seen swollen joints lessen considerably from its use as a liniment.

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