Mineral
Graphites
Black Lead
Repertory abbreviation: Graph.
Like all the carbons, this remedy is an anti-psoric of great power, but especially active in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexiun, with tendency to skin affections and constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, 359 with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily. Children impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Fradicates tcudcncy to erysipelas. Anaemia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals. Gushing leu- corrhcea. Aids absorptio of cicatricial tissue.
Mind
Great tendency to start. Timid. Unable to decide. Want of disposition to work. Fidgety while sitting at work. Music makes hic eccp. Apprehensive, despondency, indecision.
Head
Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side, with inclination to vomit. Sensation of cob- web on forehead. Feels numb and pithy. Rheumatic pains or one side of head, extending to teeth and neck. Burning on vertex. Humid, itching eruption on hairy scaip, emitting a fetid odor. Cataleptic condition.
Eyes
Opnthalmia, with intolerance of artifcia1 light. Eyelids red and swollen. Blepharitis. Dryness of the lids. Ecsema of lids; fissured.
Ears
Dryness of inner ear. Cracking in ears when eating. Moisture and eruptions behind the ears. Hears better in noise. Hardness of hearing. Hissing in the Detonation in ear like report of a gun. Thin, white, scaly membrane covering membrana tympani, like exfoliated epithelium. Fissures in and behind the ear.
Nose
Sore on blowing it; is painful internally. Smell abnormally acute; cannot tolerate fowers. Scabs and fissures in nostrils.
Face
Feels as if cobwebs were on it. Itching pimples. Moist eczema around mouth and chin. Ery- sipelas, burning and stinging.
Mouth
Rotten color from mouth. Breath smells like urine.
Stomach
Aversion to meat. Sweets s nauseate. Hot drinks disagrcc. Nausea and vomiting after each meal. Morning sickness during menstruation. Pres- sure in stomach. Burning in stomach, causing hun- ger.1 Eructation difficult. Constrictive pain in stomach. Recurrent gastralgia.
Abdomen
Nauseous feeling in abdomen. Full- ness and hardness in abdomen, as from incarcerated Aatulence; must loosen clothmg; presses painfully at abdominal r ring. Croaking in Inguinal region sensitive, swollen. Pain of gas opposite the side on which he lies. Chronic diarrhoea, stools brown- ish, liquid, undigested, offensive. Very fetid gas pre- ceded by colic.
Stool
Constipation; large, difficult, knotty stools united by mucus threads. Burning haemorrhoids. Pro- lapse, diarrhcea; stools of brown fluid, mixed with un- digested substance, very fetid, sour odor. Smarting, sore anus, itching. Lump stool, conjoined with threads of mucus. Varices of the rectum. Urine.-- Turbid, with sediment. Sour smelling.
Male
Sexual debility, aversion to coition; no ejaculation; herpetic eruption on organs.
Female
Menses too late, with constipation ; pale and scanty, with tearing pain in epigastrium, and itching before. Hoarseness, coryza, cough, sweats and morning sickness during menstruation. Leucorrhcea, pale, thin, profuse, white, excoriating, with great weakness in back. Mamme swollen and hard. Nipples sore, cracked, and blistered. Decided aversion to coitus.
Respiratory
Constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, suffocative attacks wakes from sleep; must eat something. Pain in middle of chest, with cough, 361 scraping and soreness. Chronic hoarseness with skin affections. Inability to control the vocal chords; hoarse- ness on beginning to sing and for breaking voice (Cartier).
Extremities
Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and back and limbs. Spinal pains. Pain in small of back with great weakness. Excoriation between thighs. Left hand numb; arms feel asleep; finger-nails thick, black, and rough, r matrix inflamed. [Psor.; Fluor. ac.] Edema of lower limbs. Toe-nails crippled. Stiffness and contraction of toes. Nails brittle and crumbling. Nails deformed, painful, sore, thick, and crippled. Cracks or fissures in ends of fingers.
Skin
Rough, hard, persistent dryness of portions of skir unaffected by eczema. Early stage of keloid and fbroma. Pimples and acne. l Eruptions, oozing out a sticky crudation. Rawness in. bends of limbs, groins, neck, behind ears. Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates. Ulcers discharging a glutinous fluid, thin and sticky. Swelling and induration of glands. Gouty nodosities. Cracks in nipples. mouth, between toes, anus. Phlegmonous erysipelas of face; burning and stinging pain. Swelling of feet. Wens. Chronic Poison oak.
Modalities
Worse, warmth, at night, during and after menstruation. Better, in the dark, from wrapping up.
Relationships
Complementary: Argent. nit. (follows well in gastric derangements) ; Caustic.; Hep.; Lycop.; Ars.; Tuberc. Compare: Puls.; Calc.; Sep.; Sulph.; Fluor. ac. Antidote: Nux.; Acon.; Ars.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency. Locally, as a cerate, in sore nipples.