Petroleum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Petroleum rectificatum

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Keynotes

Weak and tremulous; feels sick internally. Internal itching. Emaciation, < chest. Dreads open air. .................... Excitable and quick temper. Death seems near. Irresolute. Sense of duality; loses himself. Worries but don't know why. VERTIGO; in occiput. Occiput; aching; heavy. Inflamed tarsi. Deafness. Moist spots behind ears. Dryness in ears, nose, throat, etc. Foul mucus in throat. Hunger, causing nausea; after stool. Aversion to meat. Gastric symptoms, > eating. Nausea; sea and train sickness. Abdomen inflated; coldness in. Diarrhœa by day only (Phyt.); < cabbage; then miserable emptiness. Involuntary urine on rising. Cough at night only or < then; shatters the head, > pressing temples. Cold air oppresses chest. Coldness at heart. Stiff or cracking joints. Limbs go to sleep. Ragged, chapped hands and fingers; bleeding; in house- maids. SKIN; fragile; cracks deeply, < in angles, nipples, figer-tips or palms. Psoriasis palmaris. DIRTY, HARD, ROUGH, THICKENED SKIN; like parchment; it gets raw, festers or won't heal, < in folds. Brown spots. Eruptions having thick, hard, moist or yellow-green crusts; on occiput or genitals, < cold. Eczema. Herpes. Vesicles. Itching; orifices; with burning. Cold spots. Chilly, with dry mouth. Hot palms and soles. Sweat in spots; foul on feet or in axillæ.

Worse

MOTION: CARS. CARRIAGE. BOAT. Weather: Cold; winter. Changing. Thunder-storms. Eating. Vexation. Cabbage.

Better

Warm air.

Region

OCCIPUT. SKIN: Folds. Scalp. Face. Genitals. Mucous membranes. Stomach. Bowels.

Relationships

Complementary: Sep. Related: Grap. Sep.

What the other books say about Petroleum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Petroleum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Petroleum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Petroleum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Petroleum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Petroleum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/petroleum. 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.