Psorinum

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

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Keynotes

Feels sick all over. Lack of reaction, in chronic diseases. After-effects of infectious diseases, lasting for years. Enfeebled. RECURRENCE. Clears up confused cases. Migraine. Quinsy. FOUL; discharges; stools; eruptions; sweat; stubborn footsweat; odor of body. Thick secretions. Weak, tender and thin, easily chilled; takes cold; clothing seems large or he feels pushed down. Joints seem loose. HUNGRY or unusually well BEFORE AN ATTACK; but debilitated and reacts badly, and chronicity threatens. Wants to wash parts. .................... ANXIETY. Forebodings. Despair, of recovery. Gloomy. Feels good and bad by turns. Horrid thoughts. Averse to work. Feels himself poor (reverse-Sul.). Mind dull, clouded, difficult thinking. Head feels separated from body. Headache, follows visual disturbances; alternates with other troubles. Twitching in temples. Sensitive to drafts about head; wants it covered, in hot water. Dull, dry, tangled hair. Gummy, everted eyelids. Humid sores behing ears. Putrid otorrhœa. Hay fever. Face pale, sickly, dirty, fuzzy or puffy. Loose teeth. Tip of tongue feels burnt (Ign.). Hawks out foul, cheesy masses. Filthy taste. Anorexia; with great thirst. Flatus like bad eggs. DARK, GUSHING, HORRIBLY PUTRID STOOLS; of penetrating odor, going through whole house (Pod.); < at night. Cholera infantum. Stool soft, but difficult. Bed-wetting; at full moon. Offensive genitals. Griping in testes. Chronic gonorrhœa. Breathes > lying down or spreading arms apart. Breathing; < open air. Cough, < lying. Gurgling at heart. Panaris. Lumbar ache, < standing or walking. Hot, itching soles. Skin breaks out; < flexures; is dirty, rough or scabby, greasy. Condylomata, on edges of skin. Intolerable itching; < heat (of bed); he scratches it raw or until it bleeds. Heat, with steaming sweat. Sweat; profuse; < night; on palms; cold; easy.

Worse

COLD: Open air. Washing. Weather; stormy; changing. Winter. Heat: Of bed. Exertion. Woolens. SUPPRESSIONS. Yearly. Contact of his own limbs.

Better

Lying with head low, or quietly. Eating. Washing. Nosebleed. Hard pressure. Profuse sweating.

Region

SKIN: FOLDS OF. Sebaceous glands. EARS. BOWELS. Respiration. Right side.

Relationships

Complementary: Sep. Sul. Tub. Related: Grap. Mang. Pho. Sul.

What the other books say about Psorinum

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

Psorinum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Psorinum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Psorinum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Psorinum 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. Psorinum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/psorinum. 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.