Graphites
graphBlack Lead-Plumbago Like all the carbons, this remedy is an anti-psoric of great power, but especially active in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily. Children impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Has a particular tendency to develop the skin phase of internal disorders. Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Anæmia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity.
Graphites — Materia Medica
Graphites — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
LUMPY, THICK OR HARD (Chin. Thu.); skin, glands, tarsi, nails, scars, callosities, stools, crusts, etc. Infiltrations. EXCORIATIONS, CRACKS OR FISSURES; in angles; at margins of mucous membranes; of eyes, nostrils, mouth, finger-tips, nipples, anus, etc. Emaciation; of affected part. Scanty, foul, thin, sticky, corrosive secretions. Watery hæmorrhages. Sense of burning, numbness or deadness. Pains go to part not lain on. Fat, relaxed, chilly and costive. .................... Impulse to groan. Sad, fearsome and irresolute. Music brings tears. Brain feels numb. Burning spot on vertex. Heavy occiput. Wens. Matted, brittle or falling hair; < vertex and sides. Milk crust. Sore or cracked outer canthi. Scrophula of eyes. Pale tarsi. Ingrown lashes. Photophobia. Inflamed or dry, scaly tarsi. Scales from ears. Briny otorrhœa. Tinnitus. Hears > in a noise. Moist eruption behind ears. Dryness in ears and nose. Nose; stuffed coryza; bleeding, < before menses. Acute smell. Sensation as of a cobweb on face. Acne before menses. Barbers'itch. Lumpy goitre. Rotten taste. Dots of thick, white fur on tongue. Choking; on swallowing, from goitre, etc. Sour: taste, eructation, blood about teeth, stool, urine, odor from mouth, sweat, etc. Hunger. Averse to meats and sweets. Alternate digestive and skin symptoms. Gastric pains -burning- necessitate eating. Morning sickness during menses. Can't bear pressure about waist. Foul belching. Flatulence. Stomach > heat, hot food, eating and lying. Abdomen distended, as from incarcerated flatus. Intestinal torpor. Large, knotty, difficult, stringy, slimy coated stools; or loose, brown, lienteric and very foul. Constipation; for days (Sep.). Fissures of anus bleed and ulcerate. Stool of masses of mucus. Slender stool and urinary stream. Priapism. Sexual exhaustion. Itching of anus and pudendum; before menses. Averse to coition. Swelled (l) ovary. Cramps in various places or burning.
Graphites — mind · James Tyler Kent
The patient becomes very restless when attempting close mental work and there is a marked dread of mental work. The mental depression is extreme, and it is made worse by music; her sadness is so great that she thinks only of death and salvation. Grief and vexation cause of recurrence of all her distressing mental sufferings. Her moods are constantly changing; while she may recall all the events of youth, recent events are forgotten; slow of thought and weakness of mind worse in the morning; often excited, hurried and exhilarated in the evening; extremely fretful and impatient; irritable about trifles and very critical. Irresolution is a marked symptom. She cannot make, up her mind to do or not to do. Extreme activity of mind in the evening and first half of the night, which, prevents sleep until midnight; apprehensive and distressed in the. morning and excited.
Graphites — general · James Tyler Kent
The complaints of Graphites are worse morning, evening and during the NIGHT, especially before midnight. It is useful in people who are morbidly fat, or have been fat and are now emaciating; with constipation more commonly than diarrhoea; in women in these conditions whose menstrual habit is pale, late, short and scanty; catarrhal discharges that are albuminous and viscid represent to the mind some peculiar general states of the sick man not explainable and not common to diseased conditions nor to many remedies; hence, strange, rare and peculiar. Raw surfaces upon the skin are generally marked by such viscid glutinous discharges. It is a very deep acting remedy, like all carbons, and is accompanied with induration and burning in the base of the ulcers, inflamed tissues and old cicatrices; hence, its great usefulness in cancerous growths and ulceration. Cancerous development in old cicatrices is a strong feature of this remedy. Contraction of tendons, especially behind the knee. It has hemorrhagic oozing of pale blood. In the higher sense the patient is anaemic and chlorotic. From eruptions, catarrhal discharges, menstrual flow, ulcers, breath and perspiration there is marked offensiveness (like Carbo v., Psorinum, Kali phos., Kali ars.). When eruptions or discharges have disappeared suddenly from any cause and grave chronic phenomena have followed Graphites is one of the medicines to be studied. Scrofulous conditions and swelling of glands; recurrent herpes upon all parts of the body and especially about the anus and genitals; burning in many parts and especially in old cicatrices; general dropsical tendency; weakness in muscles and tendons after straining them by overlifting.
Graphites — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Sadness, itoith thoughts of nothing hut death. Despondent. Feels miserable, unhappy. Apprehensiveness, with inclination to weep. Music makes her weep. Pain as if head were numb and pithy. Pain as if constricted, esp. occiput. Falling of hair of scalp. Itching on scalp. Much scaliness of head, which causes distressing itching and becomes a scurf, which disappears on washing and then is humid. Eruptions on ^vertex, painful to touch and humid. Eczema capitis of entire scalp, forming massive dirty crusts which m<d the hair. Painful and sore to touch. Falling out of hair of scalp. Eyes : Very inflamed margins of lids. Inflammation of the external canthi. Sore and fissured : bleed easily. Edges of lids much inflamed. Dry mucus on lashes. Deafness : hears better in a noise, or riding in carriage. Moist and sore places behind both ears. Soreness in nose on blowing it. Nose painful internally. Dryness of nose. Nose stopped with badly smelling mucus. Dry scabs in nose, with sore, cracked and ulcerated nostrils. Smell abnormally acute : cannot tolerate flowers. Constant sensation of cobweb on face. Soreness and cracking of lips and nostrils, as from cold. Burning blisters on lower side and tip of to n gu e. Taste of rotten eggs which nauseates. Constrictive pains in stomach ; better eating. Aversion to animal food : to fish : to cooked food. Sweet things are disgusting and nauseous. Burning pains radiate through abdomen .
Graphites — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(Black-lead) Hahnemann gives us this valuable remedy ; in his Chronic Diseases, Vol. III. He says : " Pulverize one grain of the purest black-lead taken from a fine English pencil, and prepare the triturations and dilutions in the usual fashion. One or two pellets of the 30th potency are sufficient for a dose. " Pure Graphites is a sort of mineral carbon with a slight admixture of iron which cannot be regarded as one of the neces sary constituents of that mineral.” He calls it diamond trans formed. He tells us how a German doctor saw workmen in a looking- glass factory using Graphites externally for removing herpetic eruptions . . . “ we go a little farther and employ Graphites as an anti-psoric, whether herpes be or be not one of the symptoms of the (non-venereal) disease.” It was proved, at first, by himself and three other provers. Graphites affects especially the ears, the skin, the nails : and Guernsey says “ it is especially useful for femalès with a tendency to unhealthy corpulence, with perhaps deformed nails, character istic exudation, menstrual troubles, etc.” Nash gives one of his brilliant little pen-pictures of Graph. : “ Eruptions on skin, oozing out a thick, honey-like fluid. “ Mucous outlets : eyelids inflamed, with pustules : ears dis charge : moist sore places behind ears : mouth cracked in corners : anus, eruptions, itching, fissured. “ Nails grow thick, cracked, out of shape. *' Constipation : stools knotty, large lumps united by mucous threads. “ Diarrhoea : stools brown liquid, mixed with undigested sub stances of an intolerably foetid odour. “ Sad, despondent : weeps : thinks of nothing but death. “ Especially adapted to persons inclined to obesity, particularly females who delay menstruation. “ Hears better in a noise. . .
Graphites — modalities · James Tyler Kent
The patient is very sensitive to cold and needs warm clothing; he is sensitive to the cold in winter and to the heat in summer; he is sensitive to a warm room and desires open air which is grateful. Worse in a warm bed; complaints come on from becoming cold or heated; the headaches are worse in a warm room and better in the open air. Graphites has cured deep seated spinal complaints, and in such cases the patient delights to lie heavily covered in a cold draft from an open window. It is easy to see in this, the resemblance to Carbo veg., which often cures when the patient wants to be fanned. Craving for air is strong in the carbons, yet often easily chilled and just as easily overheated and complaints that come from overheating are related to the carbons. This one becomes ill from being overheated; exertion makes all symptoms worse. Motion increases all symptoms except the numbness and general feeling of stagnation which come on during rest. Extreme weakness. Weakness and desire to lie down. Paralysis in any part but especially in the lower limbs; sensation of paralysis or stagnation creeps over the body and limbs. He is made sick by bathing and is sensitive to cold, damp weather. What there is in the general life to cause eruptions to come out in the bends of the joints must be left for others to explain, but such is the case with this wonderful remedy. Convulsions: The same may be said of rawness and excoriation in the same regions. Cataleptic conditions are very marked in which the patient is conscious but without power to move or speak; tremulous sensation throughout the body; sudden sinking of strength; sudden weakness. Constriction in many parts. It has cured many kinds of convulsions.
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