Kreosotum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Kreosotum
Kreosote. A Distillation of Wood Tar.
Dark complexion, slight, lean, ill-developed, poorly nourished, overgrown; very tall for her age (Phos.).
Children: old looking, wrinkled (^Ahroi.) ; scrofulous or psoric affections; rapid emaciation (Iod.) ; post climacteric diseases of women (Lach.).
Hsemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed freely (Grot., 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 betzvcen 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.
Relations. — Kreosote is followed well by Ars., Phos., Sulph., in cancer and diseases of a malignant tendency.
Carbo veg. and Kreosote are inimical.
Aggravation. — In the open air; cold weather; when growing cold; from washing or bathing with cold water ; rest, especially when lying.
Amelioration.' — Generally better from warmth.
What the other books say about Kreosotum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Kreosotum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Kreosotum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Kreosotum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Kreosotum — Keynotes, pp. 154–156. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/kreosotum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.