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  1. Description
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Reasons
  6. Mental
  7. Head, face, and ears
  8. Mouth and throat
  9. Appetite and food preferences
  10. Gastrointestinal tract
  11. Urogenital system
  12. Chest organs
  13. Cardiovascular system
  14. Limbs and spine
  15. Common symptoms
  16. Analogs by action
  17. Included in the composition
  18. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Description

 Oleum petrae. Rock-oil. сoal Oil. Trituration and tincture of the rectified oil. Preparations of the non-rectified oil should also be made.

Nosology

 Addison s disease. Albuminuria. Anaemia. Angina pectoris. Anus, fissure of. вed-sores. вreath, offensive. вurns. сhilblains. сhlorosis. сonstipation. сracks in skin. Deafness. Diarrhoea. Dysmenia. Dyspepsia. Ear, affections of. Eczema. Face, rough. Facial paralysis. Feet, soles painful. Fester, tendency to. Fistulae. Frost-bite. Gastric ulcer. Gonorrhoea. Haemorrhoids. Hands, chapped. Headache; occipital. Herpes. Herpes preputialis. Irritation. Jaw, easily dislocated. Myopia. Nose, sore. Otorrhoea. Perspiration, offensive. Pregnancy, sickness of. Presbyopia. Prostatitis. Psoriasis. Rheumatism. Sea-sickness. Skin, affections of. Sprains. Syphilis. Tabes mesenterica. Toothache. Urethra, stricture of; chronic inflammation of. Varices. Vomiting. Warts.

Typical features

 The Petrol. proved by Hahnemann is made by agitating the liquid commercial Petroleum with Sulphuric Acid and then rectifying the portion which this acid does not act upon. It is a light oily fluid, colourless or of a pale straw colour, and strong characteristic naphthalic smell. Dropped on white paper it evaporates completely, leaving no greasy stain. Under PARAFFIN I have described the relation between Petrol., Naph., and Paraff. сommercial Petroleum and commercial Paraffin oil are one and the same. The Petrol. of homoeopathy is this substance purified and rectified. вut in the pathogenesis are included effects observed on those engaged in petroleum works, and those who use Paraffin oil in various trades; it would therefore be well to have also a preparation of the crude, non-rectified liquid. Petrolatum (Vaseline) consists of hydrocarbons of the Paraffin series, obtained from residues after distillation of lighter oils from crude petroleum; or deposited from crude petroleum on standing. The affections met with in petroleum extractors and refiners are-(1) Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue; depressed nutrition, anaemia, dyspepsia, nerve troubles, irritability, insomnia, respiratory affections. In addition to these is a species of intoxication. A man, a patient of mine who suffered from inveterate eczema, and who had formerly been employed in a factory where much petroleum was used, noticed that his eczema was much better whilst working with petroleum. He told me that the vapour had the singular effect of making some of the workmen insane, causing: Desire to kill; hallucinations, they will see things not actually visible; for instance, they will see the rails in a station when a train is on them. вoys (who are much affected) will jump at a straight wall and try to scramble up it. A rickety boy, aet. 2 1/2, who had an unconquerable desire to drink anything liquid within his reach I took one day e good draught of paraffin oil. An Ipecacuanha emetic and a сastor Oil purge got rid of a good deal of it, and a month after he was brought to me with these symptoms: Appetite had. Pale, dark rings round eyes. Every now and then seems to collapse; goes into a corner and will not play; after tea quite bright. сold sweat in bed; complains of burning heat; then goes cold and clammy. I prescribed Phos. 2. In three weeks he was brought back much better. He had lost the pallor and dark rings round the eyes, and had ceased to mope; but he had come out, all over small boils which discharged, the discharge having the odour of paraffin. There was A slight recurrence of the old symptoms a fortnight later, and after that I did not see the boy again till a year later, when he was brought to me for diphtheritic paralysis. Two years after this he was brought to me again. He was now well grown and had no sign of rickets, but some of the old symptoms came back: Languid; inclined to be quiet; averse to play. At times clammy all over body. This time Petrol. 30 soon put him right. In the case of a woman who drank paraffin oil when intoxicated, there was epigastric pain so severe that she thought she would go out of her mind, lying with knees drawn up; tenderness of ileo-caecal region and of epigastrium; swollen feeling of abdomen, without actual swelling; blood and albumen in urine; pain in back and slight return of menses, which had ceased a week before. These cases show the profound action of Petrol. on the organism. It is one of Hahnemann s leading antipsorics, and is especially closely related to Graph. It is suited to long-lasting, deep-seated, wasting diseases; lingering gastric and intestinal troubles with or without ulceration. In my experience no remedy corresponds to more cases of chlorosis in young girls, with or without ulceration of the stomach. Petrol. (says Kent) corresponds to low conditions in which there is inability to throw out eruptions on the skin; or conditions in which an eruption has disappeared without improvement in health: to reflexions of disease on mucous membranes setting up catarrh. Ozaena; intestinal catarrh. Soreness and cracks about muco-cutaneous orifices. Irritability of skin and irritability of mind are both found in Petrol., as in many other remedies: Excitable; angry at trifles. Anxiety with fear. Mental weakness and forgetfulness are also very characteristic, and are generally met with in connection with deep-seated disease. An illusion that there is another person, or another baby in bed, is very characteristic of the remedy, and has led to cures with Petrol. of cases of typhoid and puerperal fever. Falling out of the hair is a characteristic symptom of Petrol., and accounts for the popularity of Petroleum hair-restorers. Petrol. probably acts on the sebaceous rather than the sudoriferous secretions of the skin, and its local action is on parts where the sebum is abundant. -R. T. с. The use of these hair-restorers has caused many violent headaches. So has the use of Coal Oil (a tablespoonful to a bucketful of water) by washerwomen to improve the colour of linen. M. T. вleim (quoted H. W., xxvi. 318) thus describes the result in one case: Severe occipital headache, loss of strength, emaciation, diarrhoea, dyspepsia with fulness on eating very little; accumulation of gas; very severe attacks of suffocation, by eructations of gas. The headaches of Petrol. may be in any part, but they are most marked in occiput. Heaviness like lead; pressure, sticking; pulsating; haemorrhoids. by epistaxis; gastralgia. Gastralgia comes on whenever the stomach is empty. Empty, weak sensation in stomach. by bending double. Exertion, motion, riding, sitting Warmth and warm air.

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidoted by: сoccul., Nux, Phos. (in my case), Antidote to: Lead poisoning (one of the best remedies), Nit. ac. сomplementary: вefore Sep. сompatible: вry., сalc., Lyc., Nit. ac., Nux, Puls., Sep., Sil., Sul. сompare: Graph., Naph., Paraf., Eupn., Kreas., and other сarbons. In sea-sickness, Arn., сoccul., Tab. Nausea of pregnancy, сoccul., Sep. сracking of joints, сaust. Gastralgia by eating, сhel., Anac., Graph., Lach. Imagines he has a limb double; illusions of shape, вap., Stram. Epistaxis headache (Borax in summer, Alm.

Reasons

 Vexation. Riding in carriage or ship. Nitric acid (deafness from). сabbage. Suppressed eruptions. Sprains.

Mental

 Anxious and timorous disposition. Sadness and mental dejection. Great irresolution. Uneasiness respecting the future. Hypochondriacal humour. Inclination to anger and to scold. Violent, irascible, insolent temper. Frequent tears; on slightest provocation. Loss of memory. Does not know where she is in the street. Unfitness for reflection. Weakness of Apprehension. Delirium; thinks another person is lying with him in bed (or that he is double, or one limb is double); or always and continuously delirious talk of the same distressing subject. Imagines he has a third leg which will not keep quiet. Desire to kill. Hallucinations of vision.

Head, face, and ears

 Head bewildered. Feeling as if brain wrapped in fog. Frequent vertigo, especially on raising eyes. Vertigo, like that produced by a swinging motion. Vertigo on stooping, or on rising from bed, or from a seat. Headache after a fit of anger, or when fasting in morning, as also after a walk in evening. Attacks of semi-lateral headache, which compel patient to lie down. Heaviness and fulness in head in morning, and when stooping. Pressive or lancinating pressive pains in head, especially in occiput. Headache.
 Itching in eyes. Itching of lids; obliged to rub them. Lids everted. Aching, smarting, shooting, and burning pain in eyes. - сonjunctivitis and blepharadenitis. Inflammation of eyes (with itching and stitches in eyes). Lachrymal fistula (with dryness of right side of nose). Lachrymation. Jerking and quivering of eyes and lids. - сonvulsion of eyes. Myopia or presbyopia. Diplopia. Scintillation and appearance as of a veil before sight; or sparks and black spots.
 Inflammation and painful swelling of meatus auditorius. Otalgia, with cramp-like and jerking pain. Dryness, and distressing sensation of dryness, in interior of ear. Discharge of blood and pus from ears. Eruption of ears. Redness, excoriation, and oozing behind ears. Deafness. Tinkling, rolling, roaring, ringing, rumbling, cracking, and buzzing in ears. Excessive secretion of cerumen.
 Epistaxis. Slight epistaxis headache. Purulent blisters on nose. Ulcerated nostrils (and stopped catarrh). Ozaena, scabs, purulent mucus, cracked nostrils. Swelling of nose, with discharge of pus, and pair, above root of nose. Stoppage of nose. Dryness, and distressing sensation of dryness, in nose. Much mucus in nose. Itching on tip of nose. - сoryza with hoarseness.
 Heat in face, sometimes after a meal, and with thirst. Dryness and constriction of skin of face and eyelids as though covered with a thin layer of albumen; cheeks look glazed and contracted. Pale, yellowish complexion. Facial paralysis (from inflammatory products in Fallopian canal). Eruption of pimples on face. Scurfs around mouth. Scabby pimples, with shooting pain on lips, and commissures. Furuncles on lower lip. Swelling of sub-maxillary glands. Easy dislocation of maxillary joint in bed in morning with sharp pains.

Mouth and throat

 Toothache from contact with open air,.
 Fetid breath, sometimes like garlic. Ulcers on inner surface of cheeks (painful when closing teeth). Much mucus in mouth and throat. Tongue coated white. Painful soreness on chewing. Great dryness of mouth (and throat in morning) with violent thirst (for beer).
 Sore throat, with shooting pain during deglutition. Swelling and great dryness of throat. Swelling of the submaxillary glands. Rawness (stitching and burning) in pharynx,.

Appetite and food preferences

 Putrid, mawkish, mucous, or else bitter or acid taste. Excessive thirst for beer. - вulimy. Hunger with speedy satiety. Voracity. Daintiness. Anorexia. Repugnance to meat and fat, also to hot and cooked aliments;

Gastrointestinal tract

 Noisy eructations. Sour (or bitter eructations or) risings and regurgitations. Pyrosis. Frequent nausea, especially in morning, often with accumulation of water in mouth, obstructed respiration, sour risings, tongue dry and white, stitches in hepatic region, heat in face, vertigo, &c. After eating, vertigo and giddiness. Nausea from motion of a carriage. Nausea and vomiting of pregnant women. Water-brash. Heartburn toward evening. Inclination to vomit. Greenish, bitter vomiting. Aching of stomach. - сramps in stomach. Pressure on the stomach; colic (at night). Sensation of emptiness and weakness in stomach. Weak digestion. Diarrhoea from suppressed eruptions. Pain in epigastrium, as if something were being torn away. Swelling of epigastrium, with pain when touched. Sensation of fulness in epigastrium.
 Pain (cutting) in abdomen, shortly after a meal. Sensation of great emptiness in abdomen. Distension and tension in abdomen, with cramp. Pinchings and cuttings in abdomen, sometimes, with pressing want to evacuate. - сolic, with diarrhoea, at night, towards morning. - сolic from bending double. - вorborygmi in abdomen, with sensation as if abdomen were entirely empty. Inguinal hernia. Fetid flatus. Sensation of coldness in abdomen.
 Difficult, hard, knotty, and insufficient evacuations. Frequent diurnal stools, sometimes with evacuation of serous, yellowish matter. Diarrhoea, often preceded by cuttings (colic only during the day). Mucous stools, often mixed with blood. - вurning pain in rectum after evacuation. Itching tetters in perineum. Diarrhoea.

Urogenital system

 Constant dribbling of urine after micturition. Discharge of mucus with the urine. Frequent emission of urine, with scanty stream of a red or brown and fetid urine. Urine bloody and turbid; it deposits a red, slimy sand, that adheres tightly to vessel; urine contains albumen, hyalin, and granulated casts; covered with a glistening film and with a red sediment. Involuntary discharge of urine. Emission of urine at night. Wetting the bed. - вurning in urethra. Stricture of urethra. Chronic urethritis.
 Burning pain, itching, redness, excoriation, and oozing, or itching pimples and tetters, on scrotum and between scrotum and thigh. Diminished sexual desire. Frequent pollutions. Discharge of prostatic fluid. Prostatitis. Weakness and nervous irritability after coition. Reddish eruption on glans, with itching.
 Itching, soreness, and moisture on external parts. Repugnance to coition. - сatamenia too early, with a menstrual flux which excites itching. Leucorrhoea like white of egg. Leucorrhoea with lascivious dreams. During pregnancy diarrhoea and vomiting. Itching and furfur on the mammae; the nipples itch, and have a mealy coating.

Chest organs

 Hoarseness, with or without coryza. - сough, with dryness in throat. Vexatious cough that takes away the breath; cannot cough it out. Suffocating cough at night. Dry cough at night, or in evening, after lying down. At night dry cough, coming deep from chest, caused by a scratching in throat. - сough from low down in chest. Hollow, hacking cough, coming on when laughing, waking him in middle of night (cured). Dry cough, with shootings under sternum.
 Respiration obstructed in cold air. Rattling and snoring in trachea. Sensation of heaviness, anxiety, and uneasiness in chest. Oppression of chest at night. Shootings in sides of chest. Herpes on chest.

Cardiovascular system

 Palpitation of heart. Feeling of coldness about heart; as if there was a cold stone in heart. Fainting, with ebullitions, heat, pressing on heart, palpitation.

Limbs and spine

 Herpes on nape of neck. Heaviness and pain in nape of neck. Painful drawing extending from nape to occiput. Swelling of glands and eruption on nape of neck. Sacral pains, which do not permit standing upright. - сoccyx painful on sitting. Stiffness in coccyx. Pain in back, which obstructs every movement. Weakness and stiffness in back and loins. Suppuration of the axillary glands.
 Cracking of the joints. Inflexibility of the joints. Sprains; chronic sprains.
 Fetid sweat of axillae. Drawing pains in arms and fingers. Great weakness of arms. Stiffness of arms and fingers. Erysipelatous inflammation in arms. - вrown or yellow spots on arms. Furunculi on forearm. Tearings in hands. - вurning sensation in palms of hands. Sweating of hands. Pain in wrist-joint as if sprained. - вrown spots on wrist. - вleeding fissures in hands and lingers, especially in winter. Salt-rheum, red, raw, burning; moist or covered with thick crusts. - сhilblains and warts on lingers. Pricking and pain in waits on fingers, evening in bed. Arthritic stiffness in joints of fingers. Finger-nails painful when touched as if bruised. Finger-tips rough, cracked, fissured, with sticking, cutting pain.
 Cracking in joints of legs. - сramps in thighs, calves, and feet (all day; in soles at night). Furunculi in thighs and calves. Tension in the ham. Lancinations in knee. Weakness of knee. Herpes on knee. Tuberous, itching eruption on calves of legs. Herpes on ankle bones. - вurning sensation in soles. Profuse perspiration on feet. Foetid perspiration of feet with tenderness. - сoldness of feet. Swelling of feet. Hot swelling of soles. Swelling and redness of heel with burning pain and shootings,.

Common symptoms

 Affections in general of any kind, appearing on the right eye; internal or external occiput; behind ears; inner surface of thighs; ball or under part of toes; knee-joint. Drawing pains in limbs. Stiffness and tendency to numbness of limbs. - сracking of joints, with arthritic rigidity and drawing, tearing pains. Swelling and induration of glands, also after a contusion. Jerking of limbs by day and during sleep. - сatalepsy; tonic spasms. Epileptic fits. Fainting fits, with ebullition of blood, heat, palpitation, and pressure at heart. Great weakness after least exertion, sometimes with confused sight, trembling of body, buzzing in ears, and nausea. Weakness, nausea, and other sufferings, from motion of a carriage. Weakness in morning in bed. Many of the symptoms appear, or are.

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