Mineral
Petroleum
Crude Rock-oil
Repertory abbreviation: Petr.
Strumous diathesis, especially the dark type, who suffer from catarrhal conditions of the mucous mem- branes, gastric acidity and cutaneous eruptions. Very marked skin symptoms, acting on sweat and oil glands. Ailments are worse during the winter sea- son. Ailments from riding in cars, carriages, or hips ; lingering gastric and lung troubles; chronic diarrhoea. Long-lasting complaints follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc. Chlorosis in young girls with or without ulceration of the stomach.
Mind
Marked aggravation from mental emotions. Loses his way in streets. Thinks he is double, or some one else lying aiongide. Feels that death is near, and must lurry to scttlc affairs. Irritable, easily offended, vexed at everything. Iozo-spirited, weith dimness of sight.
Head
Sensitive, as of a cold brecsc bloing on it. Feels numb, as if made of wood; occiput hcaz'y, as of lead. [Opium.] V'ertigo on yising, felt in occiput, as if intoxicated, or like seasickness. Moist eruption on scalp; worse, back and ears. Scalp sore to touch, followed by numbness. Headache, must hold temples to relieve; provoked by shaking while coughing. Use thirtieth.
Eyes
Loss of cyclashes. Dim sight; far-sighted; cannot read fine print without glasses; blenorrhoa of lachrymal sac; margial blepharitis. Canthi fissured. Skin around eyes 'dry and scurfy.
Ears
Noise unbearable, especially from several people talking together. Eczema, intertrigo, etc., in and behind ears, with intense itching. Parts sore to touch. Fissures in meatus. 7 Dry catarrh, with deafness and noises.
Nose
Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn; tip of nose itches. Epistaxis. Ozaena, with scabs and muco-puru- lent discharge.
Face
Dry; feels constricted, as if covered with albumin.
Stomach
Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating cabbage. Hunger, immediately after stool. Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth. Gastral- gia when stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating. [Anac.; Sep.] Must rise at night and eat. [Psorin.] Odor of garlic.
Abdomen
Diarrhaa only in the daytime; watery, gushing and itching of anus. After cabbage; with empty feeling of stomach.
Male
Herpetic eruption on perineum. Prostate inflamed and swollen. Itching in urethra.
Female
Before menses, throbbing in head. [Kreos.] Leucorrhcea, profuse, aibuminous. [Alum.; Bor.: Bov.; Calc. p.l Genitals sore and moist. Sensa- tion of moisture. [Eup. purp.] Itching and mealy coat- ing of nipple.
Respiratory
Hoarseness. [Carbo; Caust.; Phos.] Dry cough and oppression of chest at night. Cough produces headache. ( Oppression of chest; worse, cold air. Dry cough at night, coming deep from chest. Croup and laryngeal diphtheria (Petrol. oil 10 to 30 minims.).
Heart
Senisation of coldness. [Carb. an.; Nat. mur.] Fainting, with ebullitions, heat, and palpitation.
Extremities
Chronic sprains. Fetid sweat in ax- 577 ill. Knees stiff. Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fs- sure every winter. Scalding sensation in knee. Crack- ing in joints.
Skin
Itching at night. Chilblains, moist, itch and burn. Bed-sores. Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked, leathery. Herpes. Slightest scratch makes skin suppurate. [Hepar.] Intertrigo; psoriasis of hands. Thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching; redness. raw; cracks bleed easily. Rhagades worse in winter.
Fever
Chilliness, followed by sweat. Flushes of heat, particularly of the face and head; worse at night. Perspiration on feet and axillx.
Modalities
Worse, dampness, before and during a thunder-storm, from riding in cars, passive motion; in winter, eating, from mental states. Better, warm air.
Relationships
Compare: Carbo; Graph.; Sulph.; Phos.; Lumbago. (Eczema of hands; vesicular erup- tions.) Complementary : Sepia. Antidotes: Nux; Coccul.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency. Material doses often better.