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Homeopathic Treatment of Skin Diseases
Sulphur, Psorinum, Graphites,
Petroleum and Urtica urens
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Sulphur
The character in symbols.
The skin.
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The VolcanoExplosive, fiery temper which suddenly eruptsin explosive wrath.
The anger usually quickly subsides, but can sulk
The action of the remedy is to throw things out, especially onto the skin.
(Can reverse suppression: emotional or drug suppression)
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Fire
Passion and ego. An ego the size and power of a volcano.
No one knows better than Sulphur ! They are right, and they take things and people for granted.
Selfish: everything is seen from their point of view.
Passionate about their own interests, but also a curious and adventurous spirit.
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TheorizingThere is a burning desire to investigate and analyze all things:
especially taking things to bits and putting them back together again – a toy, or a car engine on the kitchen table!
– or the universe, the philosopher, the inventor, the visionary,
the religious zealot – hellfire and brimstone evangelists.
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The Sleeping Volcano
Lazy and delay starting, unless stimulated by an interest.
Scruffy children covered in mud,
Men spread engine oil throughout the home
– Aversion to bathing.
Ailments from embarrassment in front of peers.
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Burning, Heat and Redness.
Warm blooded, usually < heat: sun, weather, room, bed.
Burning heat of soles of feet, stick them out the bed covers.
Burning, offensive, acrid discharges from any part of the body:
Burning itching in eruptions
RED: face, lips, ears, palms, orifices, skin eruptions.
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Aversion to Bathing
ODOURS:
His faeces stink the house out, yet he is very sensitive to other’s odours!
AVERSION TO + < BATHING: especially eruptions,
and eruptions seem better when covered in engine oil !
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GeneralsDesires: alcohol, beer and whisky, sweets, ice cream, chocolate, fats, junk food.
Aversion: eggs
<: 11a.m., an empty, hungry sinking feeling inside
<: standing still, suppression of eruptions or discharges, < 5 a.m., woken by need for stool.
>: open air, motion, being busy, sweating, lying down.
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Skin
Any eruption in a patient who needs Sulphur.
Recurrent boils;
a succession of boils:
as soon as one boil is healed
another forms on a different site.
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Eczema
Red, moist, and tremendously itchy.
The itch can be voluptuous or burning.
Itch <: heat: bed, sun, room; bathing; wool.
Must scratch, can scratch until skin raw and bleeding
Itch changes place on scratching
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Psorinum
The sero-purulent matter from a scabies vesicle
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Despair
• from severe, prolonged itching
• of recovery
• from prolonged suffering
• from inability to recover
• from anxiety and foreboding
• whenever feels well, knows that it is soon followed by a prolonged illness
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The Hopeless Struggle
• Helpless
• Victim
• Forsaken
• Pessimistic
• Poverty: no energy, no reactive power.
• Powerless to resist, yet still struggle
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Generals
• Very chilly and < cold yet skin < heat• ailments from suppressed eruptions• prolonged debility and sweats after acute illness• attacks preceded by extreme hunger, eating > • foul discharges: sweat, stool, urine, menses e.t.c.• <<: cold, drafts, open air, change of weather, sun,
thunderstorm, coffee, fingers touching• >>: lying on back with arms out from sides
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Skin• Dirty, dingy, dry, greasy
• looks unwashed even when washed
• aversion to bathing and bathing <<
• emanates a foul odour even when washed
• unhealthy, every tiny injury suppurates
• foul perspiration
• eczema, vesicles, boils, warts, ulcers ……
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Eczema
• Intense prolonged itching: << heat of : bed, room, sun, night, bathing
• Despair from severe prolonged itching
• Scratches till skin raw and bleeding
• Itch only briefly relieved by scratching
• Dry, flaky, crusty, vesicular, cracking, easily infected then suppurates.
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Graphites
Carbon
The lead of a fine English pencil
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Irresolution
• hard to make the simplest choice
• full of doubts
• timidity and lack of self confidence
• hard to analyze, plan, think in abstracts
• > simple, straightforward life
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Excitability• Due to irresolution
• Upset over tiny details
• Anticipates difficulties
• Anxiety, sadness weeping and despair from little details of life, > unburdening it all to husband or doctor
• Fidgety, fussy fastidiousness over details
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Generals• Obese
• hungry, are > eating, stomach > warm milk, love to nibble + >
• chilly yet < heat
• burning, numbness and deadness sensations
• aversion to coition
• photophobia
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Food• Hunger, wake hungry in night
• love to nibble
• > eating, > warm milk
• Averse: meat, fish, salt, sweets
• <<: cold drinks, cold food
• Desire: warm milk, beer, chicken
• >>: warm food, warm milk, warm drinks
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Skin• Thick, hard and lumpy
• cracks and fissures
• oozing moisture which dries to a yellow crust of crystals like honey
• keloid scars
• every injury suppurates
• scratch till skin bleeds
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Petroleum
Crude Oil
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Anger, Fear and Confusion
• Irritable, offended by the slightest thing, suddenly flies into a rage, violent and destructive
• fierce and uncontrollable anger << by alcohol• yet easily frightened and afraid on slight
provocation• confusion, loses his way in familiar places• confusion < walking in open air
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Generals• Chilly and dreads open air• motion sickness from boat, car, train• offensive perspiration, axillae and feet• <: thunderstorms, wet and changing weather• gnawing hunger > eating, nausea and diarrhoea are
> eating• desires beer, brandy• flatulence from beans, peas, cabbage
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Skin• Skin problems provoked or << by crude oil or any
of its derivatives: e.g. cosmetics
• Furuncles and boils and blackheads• DRYNESS, no > emollients• CRACKING: deep bleeding cracks, worse
on hands and fingertips, folds of skin, nipples
• <<< winter, and > summer
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Urtica urens
The Stinging Nettle
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Allergic Eruptions• Stinging, burning, itching as from nettles• Urticaria with weal and large red flare
<: shellfish, after bathing, violent exercise; > lying down, rubbing.
• Urticaria alternating with rheumatism/gout• Burns from hot water, stinging itch and pain• Stings of insects• Absence of milk after childbirth