PSORINUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Extreme sensitiveness to cold
  • Debility
  • Lack of reaction
  • Scrofulous patients
  • Secretions have a filthy smell
  • Profuse sweating
  • Cardiac weakness
  • Skin symptoms very prominent
  • Easy perspiration when walking
  • Offensive discharges
  • Hopelessness
  • Despair of recovery
  • Melancholy
  • Religious
  • Suicidal tendency
  • Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head
  • Chronic headaches
  • Hungry during headaches
  • Vertigo
  • Hammering pain
  • Brain feels too large
  • Dull, pressive pain in occiput
  • Humid eruption on scalp
  • Hair matted
  • Hair dry
  • Eyes agglutinated
  • Blepharitis
  • Chronic ophthalmia
  • Edges of lids red
  • Secretion acrid
  • Obstinate rhagades at corners of mouth
  • Tongue ulcerated
  • Gums ulcerated
  • Tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate
  • Dry coryza
  • Stoppage of nose
  • Chronic catarrh
  • Dropping from posterior nares
  • Acne rosacea
  • 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 of ears
  • Chronic otorrha
  • Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive
  • Swelling of upper lip
  • Pale face
  • Delicate face
  • Humid eruption on face
  • Sickly face
  • Tonsils greatly swollen
  • Painful swallowing
  • Pain in ears during swallowing
  • Profuse, offensive saliva
  • Tough mucus in throat
  • Recurring quinsy
  • Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste
  • 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
  • Mucous stool
  • Bloody stool
  • Excessively fetid stool
  • Dark fluid stool
  • Hard, difficult stool
  • Blood from rectum
  • Burning piles
  • Constipation of infants
  • Leucorrha fetid
  • Lumpy leucorrhea
  • Backache with leucorrhea
  • Debility with leucorrhea
  • Mamm swollen
  • Mamm painful
  • Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands
  • Asthma
  • Dyspna
  • Dry, hard cough
  • Great weakness in chest
  • Feeling of ulceration under sternum
  • Pain in chest
  • Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption
  • Hay-fever returning irregularly every year
  • Weakness of joints
  • Eruption around finger-nails
  • Fetid foot-sweats
  • Dirty, dingy skin
  • Dry, lusterless, rough hair
  • Intolerable itching of skin
  • Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints
  • 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 finger-nails
  • Profuse, offensive perspiration
  • Night-sweats
  • Sleepless from intolerable itching
  • Easily startled

Allen's Keynotes

  • especially adapted to the psoric constitution
  • in chronic cases when well selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve (in acute diseases, sulph.)
  • when sulphur seems indicated by fails to act
  • lack of reaction after severe acute diseases
  • appetite will not return
  • children are pale, delicate, sickly
  • sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret cry
  • child is good, plays all day
  • restless, troublesome, screaming all night (rev. of lyc.)
  • great weakness and debility
  • from loss of animal fluids
  • remaining after acute diseases
  • independent of or without any organic lesion, or apparent cause
  • body has a filthy smell, even after bathing
  • the whole body painful, easily sprained and injured
  • great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather
  • wears a fur cap, overcoat or shawl even in hottest summer weather
  • stormy weather he feels acutely
  • feels restless for days before or during a thunderstorm
  • dry scaly eruptions disappear in summer, return in winter
  • ailments
  • from suppressed itch or other skin diseases, when sulphur fails to relieve
  • sever, from even slight emotions
  • feels unusually well day before attack
  • extremely psoric patients
  • nervous, restless, easily startled
  • all excretions - diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, menses, perspiration - have a carrion-like odor
  • anxious, full of fear
  • evil forebodings
  • religious melancholy
  • very depressed, sad suicidal thoughts
  • despairs of salvation , of recovery
  • despondent
  • fears he will die
  • that he will fail in business
  • during climaxis
  • making his own life and that of those about him intolerable
  • driven to despair with excessive itching
  • headache
  • preceded, by flickering before eyes, by dimness of vision or blindness (lac d., kali bi.)
  • by spots or rings
  • headache
  • always hungry during
  • >while eating
  • from suppressed eruptions, or suppressed menses
  • better nosebleed
  • hair, dry, lustreless, tangles easily, glues together
  • plica polonica
  • scalp
  • dry, scaly or moist, fetid, suppurating eruptions
  • oozing a sticky, offensive fluid
  • intense photophobia, with inflamed lids
  • cannot open the eyes
  • lies with face buried in pillow
  • ears
  • humid scurfs and soreness on and behind ears
  • oozing and offensive viscid fluid
  • otorrhoea
  • thin, ichorous, horribly fetid discharge, like decayed meat
  • chronic, after measles or scarlatina
  • acne
  • all forms, simplex, rosacea
  • acute attack but eradicate the tendency
  • hawks up cheesy balls, size of pea, of disgusting taste and carrion-like odor (kali m.)
  • diarrhoea
  • sudden, imperative (aloe, sulph.)
  • stool watery, dark brown, fetid
  • smells like carrion
  • involuntary, lying down and keeping arms stretched far apart (rev. of ars.)
  • despondent, thinks he will die
  • cough returns every winter
  • hay fever
  • appearing regularly every year the same day of the month
  • with an asthmatic, psoric or eczematous history
  • patient should be treated the previous winter to eradicate the diathesis and prevent summer attack
  • cough
  • after suppressed itch, or eczema
  • chronic, of years' duration

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