Psorinum

Chronic abdominal affections with disturbances of stool. He will strain to pass a soft stool (Nux moshata., Alumina). Chronic diarrhea; horribly offensive; frequent stool day and night (unlike Sulphur, the remedy it most resembles). He must go several times to pass a normal stool. Chronic vomiting; ulcer of the stomach, distension of stomach are commonly associated. Always sour belching, sour stomach. Vomiting of blood and bloody stools. This is not strange, because Psorinum has a tendency to hemorrhages, especially from the uterus. Women: All sorts of menstrual disorders, especially a prolonged menstruation. When a woman has passed through an abortion and the placenta has come away, but every few days a little gush of fresh, bright red blood and clots, or going days and weeks with a little oozing of bright red blood; every time she gets on her feet there is a new start of the flow; no tendency to permanent recovery. Two remedies that fit this state are Sulphur and Psorinum. A marked state of relaxation, sub- involution. The uterus does not go back to its normal size and there is this tendency to bleed; a state of inertia. Soft stool, passed with difficult do not forget this. Obstinate constipation. Haemorrhage from the rectum. Cholera infantum; often in the early days the stool is horribly offensive, slimy, undigested; there is vomiting and prolonged weakness and the whole child has an offensive odor; child dirty; nose sunken in (Ant. t.), sunken, countenance. Psorinum causes reaction and cures, or brings the child into such a condition that a simple remedy completes the cure. It is not the sourness of Hepar; in spite of washing, the child smells so sour; like sour milk; the diaper, urine, and faeces and perspiration are sour. This is a strong general feature of Hepar. The stool smells like spoiled eggs, so also the eructations and flatus. The offensiveness of the stool is horrible, but not so permeating as Bapt., which is thick and clay-like, while the Psorinum stool is watery, brown, gushing and may be bloody. Chronic diarrhea, early morning, urgent. Hot flatus, burning the anus; smells of spoiled eggs, Arn. and Staph. Involuntary stool at night (China has a black, profuse, watery stool at night and after meals.) In Psorinum, we find the haste of sulphur, the flatulence of Olean. and Aloe, and difficulty of expelling a soft stool like Alumina, China and Nux mosch. Men: There is prostration in some Psorinum cases; prostration of the genitals. It is not such an unusual thing in the female to have aversion to sexual intercourse, but man is not often subject to the complaints that cause aversion to coition. Yet we have in man as well as in the woman actual aversion or a state of no enjoyment. He can perform the act and he has no difficulty in obtaining an erection, so it is not impotence, but there is no enjoyment. Impotence comes later. "Absence of erections; parts flabby, torpid." "Aversion to coition; impotence; want of emission during coitus." "Prostatic fluid discharged before urinating." Old gleet, painless discharge; the "last drop;" relaxed and cold genitals; a drop of white or yellow pus after a well selected remedy. (Sepia, Sulphur, Alumina, Psorinum.) Psorinum is indicated above all others if there is an unusually offensive state of the genitals, Thuya, if the odor is of a nauseating, sweet character; warts exposed by rolling back the foreskin; sweet odor in spite of washing.

A nxious : full of fear : melancholic. Very depressed, sad, suicidal thoughts. Driven to despair by excessive itching. Moist, suppurating, fetid, also dry eruptions on scalp. Tinea capitis et faciei. Discharge of fetid pus from ear. Otorrhcea ; with headache ; thin, ichorus and horribly offensive, like rotten meat. Very offensive, purulent, with watery, stinking diarrhoea. Brown, offensive, from left ear, for almost four years. 6 7 6 Chronic cases following scarlet fever. Humid soreness behind ears : scurfs on ears, and humid scurfs behind ear. Swelled upper lip. Tongue very dry. Sensation of plug or lump in throat impeding hawking. Great hunger. Eructations tasting like rotten eggs. Stool, dark-brown : very fluid, and foul-smelling. Cough, with expectoration of green mucus, nearly like matter. He perspires freely when walking :—profuse sweat with consequent debility. Skin has a dirty, dingy look, as if patient never washed : in some places looks coarse, as if bathed in oil. Sebaceous glands secrete in excess. Eczema behind ears, on scalp, in bends of elbows and armpits, accompanied by abscesses affecting bones. Itch ; dry on arms and chest, most severe on finger joints ; followed by boils : inveterate cases with symptoms of tuberculosis, repeated outbreak of single pustules after main eruption gone. Suppressed eruptions. Important, Characteristic Italic, or Peculiar Symptoms Very irritable, easily angered ; always thinks of dying. Great fear of death. Sad and joyless. Greatest despondency, making his own life and those about him intolerable. Religious melancholy. Despair of recovery. Attacks of fear ; fear of fire, of being alone, of apoplexy, of becoming insane, etc. Frontal headache, with sensation of weakness in forehead : not space enough in skull, as if everything were pushed out—on rising. Better : for nose-bleed ; after washing and breakfast. \ Fiery sparks before eyes : objects appear as if they were trembling, vibrating. PSORINUM677 Discharge : from ears of reddish earwax, or fetid pus. Herpes from temple, over ears to cheeks. Right ear a mass of crusts and pus. Looseness of teeth : so loose, feels they may fall out. Thirst for beer : desire for acids ; loathing of pork. Vomiting of sweet mucus every morning at ten and in evening. Horribly offensive, nearly painless, almost involuntary, dark and watery stool : at night, and most towards morning. Leucorrhoea, large lumps, unbearable in odour : violent pains in sacrum and right loin. Suffocation and crawling in larynx : tickling ; throat seems narrowing, must cough. Out for a walk, must return home in order to get breath, or to lie down, so that they can breathe more easily : < instead of > from open air. Chest expands with difficulty : cannot get breath. Anxious dyspnoea. Worse when sitting up: better lying down. Worse the nearer arms are brought to body. Asthma as if he would die. Cough with salty-tasting, green and yellow expectoration. Expectoration of blood, with hot sensation in chest ; yellowish- green. Chronic blennorrhœa of lungs, threatening phthisis. Suppuration of lungs. Chest symptoms better lying down. Pain in heart better lying down : thinks the stitches in heart will kill him if they continue. Gurgling in region of heart, especially noticed when lying down. Dyspnoea with palpitation. Weakness in all joints as if they would not hold together. Joints easily sprained : tends to overlift himself : troubles from tension or stretching of muscles. Herpetic and itching eruptions, especially in bends of joints, in bends of elbows, in popliteal spaces. Better bending forward. Profuse sweat from slightest exercise. Malaise : tired out. Constantly increasing debility, with abdominal affections. 6 7 8 Child at night would twist and turn and fret from bedtime till morning, and next day be as lively as ever. Children : emaciated. Children good all day, restless, trouble­ some, screaming all night. Or will not sleep, but worry, fret and cry day and night. Very sensitive to cold air, or change of weather. Wears a fur cap, overcoat, or shawl even in hottest summer weather. Restlessness before and during thunderstorm. Averse to having head uncovered. While in bed, body itches. Profuse night-sweats of phthisis : or want of perspiration : dry skin. All excretions, diarrhoea, leucorrhcea, menses and sweat have a carrion-like odour. Body has a filthy smell, even after a bath. Abnormal tendency to skin diseases. Itching when body becomes warm. When rubbed small papules and vesicles arise, between fingers, in bends of knees, terrible, of whole body at night, preventing sleep. Eruptions bleed easily and tend to suppurate. Somewhat restricted as to space, in these war days, we will try to give some of the minor, but very useful remedies : less exten­ sively proved, probably not known as to their utmost possibilities, yet recognizable and even more easily prescribed, than some of the polycrests. Ptelia is a great stomach and liver medicine ; and, as seen in the provings, it causes hurry, and a sensation of burning heat of skin, face ; even breath that bums the nostrils. Ptelia's most emphasized symptoms General depression of spirits. Bilious headaches. Repugnance to animal food and rich puddings of which he is ordinarily fond ; to butter and fatty foods, even a small quantify aggravated epigastric pain. Appetite poor, with muddled feeling, or pains in liver. Hepatic and gastric symptoms : worse after meals. Sense of weight and fullness, even after a moderate meal. Burning distress ; oppression, vomiting ; chronic gastric catarrh. Gastralgia. Obstinate chronic dyspepsia. Chronic gastritis : a constant sensation of corrosion, heat, and burning in stomach, with vomiting of ingesta, constipation, and afternoon fever. Weight and aching distress in hepatic region ; dull pain, heavi­ ness ; better lying on right side. Turning to left causes a dragging sensation. Liver swollen, sore on pressure, causing dull and aching pains or stitches ; gfiping in bowels ; clothes feel too tight (Lyc.). Congestion of liver ; chronic hepatitis. Diarrhoea bilious, thin, faecal, dark, offensive ; even cadaverous in smell, or sulphuric : with tenesmus, preceded by griping pains and rumbling. Smarting in anus. Constipation and diarrhoea alternately. Some other Noteworthy Symptoms or Queer Symptoms. When walking, reeling as if intoxicated. Dull aching in forehead, with depression and sour stomach ; racking pain, with hurried manner and red face . . . a great desire to hurry his business. Sensation of a nail driven into brain {Thuja). Sensitive to sounds ; impression of sounds last heard continue for a long time. Headache in bones of skull (I pec.). Breath seems so hot that it burns nostrils. Burning heat of cheeks and face. Yellowish face, with dry, hot skin. Teeth feel as if elongated. Fine pricking sensation over whole surface of tongue. Worse from cheese, meat, puddings. Persistent nausea and vomiting, with giddiness and unsteadi­ ness of legs. Better by walking. Stomach feels empty after eating ; sensation of goneness (Lyc., Sep.). Griping in stomach, with dry mouth, yellow-coated tongue ; bitter taste. Constant weight in both hypochondria when walking ; dragging pain. Jaundice with hyperæmia of liver. Pulsation and severe abdominal pain near umbilicus (comp. Dttlc.). Pressing suffocation when lying on back. Walls of chest feel as if they would sink in ; asthma. Hectic fever with purulent expectoration, and sweetish taste. Tickling, prickling in fingers and hands, like that produced by electricity. Wakes in a profuse perspiration. Chilly : wants to be near fire. Has cured ague, .with profuse vomiting of bilious matter. Of Ptelia Nash says : “ Another liver remedy, for it has one very characteristic symptom, viz. Aching and heaviness in the region of the liver, greatly aggravated by lying on the left side ; turning to the left causes a dragging sensation. (See Bryonia, which is also worse lying on left side and has the dragging sensa­ tion. Remember, Bryonia is generally better lying on the painful side.) Magnesia mur. has all these symptoms, termed ‘ bilious but, like Mercurius, it is worse when lying on the right side . . . Ptelia may have either constipation or diarrhoea, or like Nux vomica, constipation and diarrhoea alternately. " I cured one bad case of liver trouble with Ptelia after oedema of feet and legs' had set in ; she had the symptoms, could not lie comfortably on the left side, her breathing was becoming oppressed, and I thought the case looked as if it would not be very likely to be much better. I used the 30th in this case. The trouble rapidly disappeared and never returned. I considered it a brilliant cure.”