PETROLEUM uses [Petr uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Sense of duality. Dirty, hard, rough, thickened skin. Motion sickness. Diarrhoea only in daytime
COMMON NAME
Crude Rock oil
A/F
| - | Vexation |
| - | Riding in a carriage or ship |
| - | Nitric acid |
| - | Cabbage |
| - | Suppressed eruption |
| - | Sprains |
| - | Lingering gastric and intestinal troubles, lung troubles |
MODALITIES
| < | Motion of cars |
| < | Cold |
| < | Riding in carriage |
| < | Vexation |
| < | Travelling by boat |
| < | Cabbage |
| < | Coition |
| < | Eating high |
| < | Weather change |
| < | Dampness |
| < | Winter |
| < | Mental states |
| < | Touch, even of clothes |
| < | Before or during thunderstorm |
| > | Warm air |
| > | Dry weather |
| > | Lying with head |
| > | Open air |
| > | At noon |
MIND
| - | During sleep or delirium, imagines that one leg is
double, that another person lies alongside of him in same bed, that there are
two babies in the bed |
| - | Feels that death is near and must hurry to settle affairs |
| - | Mental weakness and forgetfulness |
| - | Confusion of mind < while walking in the open air, < smoking,
spirituous liquors. Loses way in well known streets |
| - | Worries, but don't know why |
| - | Quarrelsome < when intoxicated. Easily offended, vexed at everything.
Excitable and quick temper |
| - | Sadness during menses |
| - | Low spirited with dimness of sight |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Acts mainly on skin especially in folds, scalp,
face and genitals |
| - | Produces catarrhal condition of the mucous membranes of stomach and bowels;
gastric acidity and cutaneous eruption |
| - | There is tendency for every little injury to suppurate |
| - | Tendency to cracks and fissures |
| - | Discharges oozing are thin and watery |
| - | Symptoms are worse in winter, especially skin diseases |
| - | Coldness in spots, in abdomen, in heart and even after scratching. Burning
sensations are very marked |
| - | Ravenous appetite after stool in diarrhoea |
| - | Nervous affections, spinal diseases etc |
| - | Remedy of single parts - sweating single parts, coldness in parts, eruption
in patches |
| - | Head - Pain in occiput which is as heavy as lead. Pressing, pulsating pain,
as if everything in the head were alive. Numb, bruised, as if made of wood |
| - | Sensitive, as if a cold breeze was blowing on it |
| - | Must hold temples to relieve |
| - | Headache with temporary loss of sight and fainting |
| - | Vertigo - On rising, in occiput, as if intoxicated, like seasickness |
| - | Vertigo and heaviness, associated with nausea and bilious vomiting |
| - | Gastralgia of pregnancy, with pressing drawing pain whenever stomach is
empty > by constant eating (Anac, Chel, Sep) |
| - | Hunger immediately after stool. Ravenous hunger, must rise at night and eat |
| - | Diarrhoea yellow, watery, gushing, after cabbage, sauerkraut, during
pregnancy, stormy weather, always in the daytime, with itching of anus, with
empty feeling of stomach |
| - | Skin - Dry, cracked, constricted, very sensitive, rough, fissured, leathery |
| - | Thick greenish crusts, burning and itching, redness raw, cracks bleed
easily. All eruptions itch violently. He cannot rest until he scratches the
skin off and the parts become moist, bloody, raw and inflamed |
| - | Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured, every winter. Deep cracks in the
palms |
| - | Dry eczema of hands in labourers, carpenters, or hair dressers who work with
petroleum chemical |
| - | < winter > summer |
| - | Skin symptoms, if suppressed cause diarrhoea |
| - | Falling out of hair |
| - | Herpes of genital organs extending to perineum and thighs. Itching redness,
skin cracked rough, bleeding dry or moist. Foul smelling sweat all over the
skin |
| - | Before menses, throbbing in head |
| - | Dry cough at night coming deep from chest. Oppression of chest < in cold
air |
| - | Profuse, foul smelling foot sweat, intense heat and burning on soles of feet
and palms of hands. Painful itching chilblains and great sensitiveness of
skin |
| - | Stitches in the heel, as if splincter were lodged in it |
KEYNOTES
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Suited to patients of chilly disposition, who are
disposed to skin diseases in winter |
| - | They have an irritable, quarrelsome nature. Easily offended at trifles,
vexed at everything |
| - | Emaciation, skin eruptions, unhealthy rugged fingers which never look clean,
he can't wash them as this causes them to chap. Scratches until it bleeds |
| - | Coldness in spots in abdomen, heart and after scratching |
| - | Suppression of skin eruption causes diarrhoea |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
CLINICAL
Sea sickness with occipital headache - Dr.Borland
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Complements: Sep
Follows Well: Bry, Calc, Lyc, Nit- ac, Nux-v, Puls, Sep, Sil, Sulph
Compare: Alum, Anac, Apis, Arn, Ars, Bapt, Bell, Bry, Calc, Caust,
Chel, Cina, Cocc, Croto-t, Dulc, Eup-per, Glon, Graph, Hep, Iod, Kali-c,
Kali-chl, Kali-n, Kreos, Lach, Lyc, Mag-p, Merc, Naphthin, Nat-m, Nit-ac,
Nux-m, Ox-ac, Paraf, Phos, Plat, Pso, Puls, Rhod, Ruta, Sang, Sanic, Sep,
Sil, Spig, Stann, Staph, Stram, Sulph, Tab, Thuj, Urt-u, Valer, Verat
Antidoted By: Cocc, Nux-v, Phos
It Antidotes: Nit-ac
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