Nosode
Psorinum
Scabies Vesicle
Repertory abbreviation: Psor.
The therapeutic field of this remedy is found in so- called psoric manifestations. Psorinum ·is a cold med- cin; wants the head kept warm, wants warm clothing even in summer. Extreme sensitiveness to cold. De- 613 bility, independent of any organic disease, especially the weakness remaining after acute disease. Lack of _re-+ action, i. e., phagocytes defective; when v well-chosen! remedies fail to act. Scrofulous patients. 'Secretions have a filthy smell. Profuse sweating. Cardiac weak- ness. Skin symptoms very prominent. Often gives immunity from cold-catching. Easy perspiration when walking.
Mind
Hopeless; despairs of recovery. Melancholy, deep and persistent; religious. Suicidal tendency.
Head
Awakens at night with pair as from blow on head. Chronic headaches; hungry during attacks; with vertigo. Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change of weather. Dull, pressive pain in occi- put. Humid eruption on scalp; hair matted. Hair dry.
Eyes
Agglutinated. Blepharitis.( Chronic oph- thalmia, that constantly recurs. Edges of lids red. Se- cretion acrid.
Ears
Raw, red, oozing scabs around cars. Sore pain behind ears. Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks. Offensive discharge from eczema around ears. Chronic otorrhoea. Most fetid pus Intolerable itching. ( from ears [Tellur.], brownish, offensive. Deafness.
Nose
Dry, c coryza, with stoppage of Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior nares. Acne rosacea.
Face
Swelling of upper lip. Pale, delicate. Humid eruption on face. Sickly.
Mouth
Obstinate rhagades at corners. Tongue, gums ulcerated; tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate.
Throat
Tonsils greatly swollen; painful swallow- ing, with pain in ears. Profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat. Recurring quinsy. Eradicates tend- cncy to quinsy. Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste. [Agar.]
Stomach
Eructations like bad eggs. Very hungry aluays; must hiavc somcthiny )to cat in the middle of the night. Nausea; vomiting of pregnancy. Pain in abdomen after eating.
Stool
Mucous, bloody, excessively fetid, dark fluid. Hard, difficult stool, with blood from rectum and burn- ing piles. Constipation of infants, especially in pale, sickly scrofulous children. [Collinson.]
Female
Lcucorrhaa fetid, lumpy, with much back- ache and debility. Mamme swollen and painful. Pim- ples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands.
Respiratory
Asthma, with dyspnoea; worse, sit- ting up; better, lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart. Dry, hard cough, with great weakness in
Chest
Feeling of ulcerution under stcrnun. Pain in chest; better, lying duwi. Cough returns every winter. from suppressed eruption. Hay-fever returning irregu- larly every year.
Extremities
Weakness of joints, ds if they would not hold together. Eruption around finger-nails. Fetid foot-sweats.
Skin
Dirty, dingy look. Dry, lustreless, rough hair. Intolerable itching. Herpetic eruptions, espe- cially on scalp and bends of joints with itching; worse, from warmth of bed. Enlarged glands. Sebaceous glands secrete excessively; oily skin. Indolent ulcers, slow to heal. Eczema behind ears. Crusty eruptions all over. Urticaria after every exertion. Pustules near finger-nails.
Sleep
Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily startled. Frightful dreams. 615
Fever
Profuse perspiration; night-sweats.
Modalities
Il'ors, coffee; Psorinum patient does not improve while using coffee. W'ors, changes of weather, in hot sunshine, from cold; in winter. Better, heat, warm clothing, even in summer.
Relationships
Complementary : Sulphur. Compare : Pediculus — Head-louse - (psoric Imani- festations in children. Eruption on dorsum of hands, feet, neck. Prurigo; pellagra. Unusual aptitude for study and work). Pcdiculus (Cooties) transmit typhus and trench fever. Tuber.. Hcpar. Sil.; Iod. In lack of reaction compare (al:urea and Natrum ars.
Dose
Two hundredth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too often.