Petroleum
petroCrude Rock-oil Strumous diathesis, especially the dark type, who suffer from catarrhal conditions of the mucous membranes, gastric acidity and cutaneous eruptions. Very marked skin symptoms, acting on sweat and oil glands; Ailments are worse during the winter season. Ailments from riding in cars, carriages, or ships; lingering gastric and lung troubles; chronic diarrhœa. Long-lasting complaints follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc. Chlorosis in young girls with or without ulceration of the
Petroleum — Materia Medica
Petroleum — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Petroleum — mind · James Tyler Kent
It is a counter-irritant and, on the skin, produces irritation, eruptions and disturbances, like Turpentine. Among the early things that Petroleum does to a prover is that it puts him in a state of confusion of mind and dizziness; he is dazed so that he loses his way in the street. She has strange imaginations that there are people near her who are not present; that the atmosphere is full of strange forms; that her limbs are double; that another person is in the bed with her. Such things are found in the fevers. A woman after childbirth imagines there is another child in bed with her, and she wonders how she will take care of the two. These ideas are found in many diseases, have been often verified. In typhoids and low forms of sickness; in diarrheas; when just awakening he is in confusion; in his dreams he had the idea of being two or more and the impression remains with him while he is in a semi-conscious state. He cannot reconcile the state, but when aroused to consciousness he is able to reason it away, and when semi-conscious again it returns. This annoys him day and night. Skin symptoms. The surface symptoms are striking. The tendency is to throw out vesicles, herpetic vesicles which are isolated, and the tendency of the vesicles is to form thick yellow crusts, with considerable moisture. The vesicles break early. At times the vesicles do not form crusts, but break early and ulcerate underneath, and this changes into a phagedenic ulcer; this condition occurs about the fingers, scrotum, face and scalp. There is a special tendency to produce vesicular eruptions about the back of the neck. Papular, pustular, vesicular, dry, mealy eruptions, but most commonly moist; eruptions which extend deeply.
Petroleum — general · H.C. Allen
Adapted to persons with light hair and skin; irritable, quarrelsome disposition (Nux-v.). Ailments: From riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship (Cocc., Sanic.). Ailments which are worse before and during a thunderstorm (Nat-c., Phos., Psor.). Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly (Bell., Mag-p.—reverse of, Plat., Stann.). Sweat and moisture of external genitals, both sexes.
Petroleum — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Delirium : thinks another person lies alongside of him, or that one limb is double. Out of humour and angry ; becomes vehement easily. Forgetful, and not disposed to think. Heaviness like lead in occiput : pinching in occiput. Great pressure in eyes. Conjunctivitis pustulosa, with acute inflammation of lids. Lids red, inflamed, covered with scabs or scurfs. Surrounding skin rough : blennorrhaea of lachrymal sac : pain in occiput. Inflammation of lachrymal sac, when suppuration has commenced and a fistula has formed. Eustachian tubes affected, causing whizzing, roaring and cracking noises, with hardness of hearing. Redness, soreness and humour behind the ears. Pustule in nose. Bleeding nose. Nausea and qualmishness all day : every a.m. after waking. Could not eat breakfast. In morning accumulation of water in mouth : sudden on walking : from riding in carriage : often so violent that it takes away the breath, without vomiting : violent, with cold sweat., incessant : with vertigo and vomiting. Seasickness. After a slight meal, feels giddy and head swims. Heartburn towards evening. Nausea and qualmish the whole day. Obstinate, itching herpes on perineum : itching, redness and moisture, scrotum. Skin cracked, rough and bleeding. Hoarseness : cough from dryness in throat. Sharp pains, shooting up dorsal spine into occiput. Painful chilblains on hands. Tips of fingers rough, cracked and fissured.
Petroleum — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
He says, Petrol, and Rhus are of wonderful use in eruptions on genitalia, male or female. But Petrol, produces small vesicles, Rhus large blebs. Sweat and moisture of external genitalia. Sensitive to change of weather, like Rhod. and Phos. Worse before thunderstorms. Hands and feet bum : wants palms and soles out of bed. He warns us : " Don’t be too sure of Sulphur, because the soles burn ; or too sure of Silica, because the feet sweat.” He shows Petroleum to be a remedy of single parts :. sweating of single parts :—coldness in parts :—eruptions in patches. * * * Many strange sensations which are peculiar and striking. Did not know where she was in the street. Melancholy mood, imagines but little time is left him to make his will. Great anxiety about his family, when going on a short journey. The anxiety increases till he becomes inconsolable. Sensation as if everything in head were alive. Hair glued together by crusts and exudation—eczematous. Easily dislocated jaw. Sense of coldness, or numbness in teeth. Tongue white : white in centre with dark streak along edges. Hunger immediately after stool. Violent thirst for beer. Note well, the extraordinary accumulation of water in mouth. Canine hunger after stool ; with much urging, as if large quantities were yet to be expelled. Itching in meatus urinarius, during micturition : itching deep in ears : in eustachian tubes. Imagines she has two babies : very concerned as to how she is to take care of them : imagines another baby in bed which requires attention. Coldness : as if a cold stone in heart. Psoriasis of palms : thick scales of epidermis, through which run moist fissures. Hands completely raw from wrists to fingers, with constant watery oozing. Offensive smelling ulcers tips of fingers.
Petroleum — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: Carriage riding (Cocc., Sanic.); during a thunderstorm; in winter (Alum.).
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