Kreosotum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
This is one author on one remedy. A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative. Read Kreosotum in every book at once →
Keynotes
Miserable and weak. Profuse, FOUL, HOT, ACRID discharges; sputum, eructations, etc.; redden the part. Rawness. Burning like fire. Pulsation; general. Hæmorrhage; passive; brown, dark. Lumpy discharges, menses, etc. Ulceration. Heaviness. Fulness. Tumefaction. Scurvy. Marasmus. Black, teeth, leucorrhœa, lochia, etc. .................... Dissatisfied with every thing; wants things, then throws them away and wants something else. Screams at night. Cross, wilful and obstinate. Longs for death. Stupid. Buzzing in head. Yellow pallor, with red blotches (Iod.); during chill or heat. TEETH SOON DECAY; black spots on; intolerable ache, < pregnancy; painful dentition. Puffy, bluish, bleeding, painful gums. Aphthæ or salivation, of pregnancy. Taste bitter, low down in throat. Icy cold epigastrium. Frothy eructations. Nausea. Vomiting; long after meals (Æth. Fer. Plat.); undigested food; sweetish; of pregnancy; of uterine ulcer. As of a lump pressing down on bladder. Brown, watery, lienteric stools. Urination hurried; involuntary when lying. Diuresis. Profuse, lumpy, intermittent menses, < lying. Leucorrhœa; gushing; like bloody water; with itching. Tormenting cough, with little expectoration; with sore larynx and chest. Senile bronchitis. Neglected phthisis. Hectic. Chest; deep pains, take her breath; anxious heaviness. Dragging from back to genitals; as if to come out. Violently itching, moist or scurfy eczema on eyelids, face, joints, back of hands. Ulcers break out and heal repeatedly; bleed after coitus. Cold sweat.
Worse
DENTITION. Pregnancy. Rest. Cold. Eating. Lying. Summer. During menses. 6 P.M. to 6 A.M.
Better
Warmth. Hot food. Motion.
Region
MUCOUS MEMBRANES: DIGESTIVE TRACT. Gums. Stomach. Abdomen. Female genitals. Uterus. BLOOD. Teeth.
Relationships
Complementary: Sul. Related: Aru-t. Ars. Carb-ac. Grap. Nit-ac. Psor.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Kreosotum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Kreosotum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/kreosotum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.