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Psorinum

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

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Description

 Psoricum. The nosode of Psora. The sero-purulent matter of a scabies vesicle was used by Hahnemann. The product of Psora sicca (epidermoid efflorescence of Pityriasis) by Gross. The salt from a product of Psora by Hering. Triturations.

Nosology

 Acne. Adenoids. Anus, itching in. Asthma. вackache. вoils. сancer. сholera infantum. сough. сonstipation. сornea, ulcers of. сrusta lactea. сrusta serpiginosa. Debility. Diarrhoea. Diphtheria, after-effects of. Dyspepsia. Eczema; rubrum. Enuresis. Eruptions; moist; itching. Gleet. Gonorrhoea. Gout. Haemorrhages. Haemorrhoids. Hair, dry; tangling. Hay fever. Headache. Head, congestion of. Hernia. Hydrocele. Impotence. Influenza. Injuries. Itch. Itching. Leucorrhoea. Lienteria. Liver, affections of; chronic inflammation of. Melancholia, religious. Nose, redness of. Odour of body, fetid. Ophthalmia, scrofulous. Otorrhoea; fetid. Ozaena. Pediculosis. Peritonitis, tubercular. Plica polonica. Polypus. Quinsy. Sciatica. Scurvy. Skin, affections of. Spina bifida. Spleen, affections of; induration of. Sprains. Syphilis. Throat, mucus in. Tinea capitis et faciei. Tonsils, concretions in. Ulcers.

Typical features

 As Sulphur has been the chief remedial agent in both schools in the treatment of itch and itch-like eruptions, it is natural to find in the nosode of Psora, or constitutional itch, a close analogue of Sulph. Psorinum has been proved entirely in the potencies, and I know of no more trustworthy proving in the materia medica. I have frequently seen Pso. develop some of its own symptoms in patients whom it has benefited in other ways. A man who complained of cloudiness of mind and difficult thinking, and who had among other symptoms, Left foot colder than right, received Pso. 30. It removed these symptoms; but whilst under its influence these new symptoms appeared: Heavy headache across the eyebrows; greasiness of face and forehead. A woman to whom I gave Pso. 30 complained that after each dose she had a feeling as if something in the head were being screwed up and drawn ; one of Hahnemann s symptoms is Spasmodically contracting headache. A patient who took Pso. 500 complained that it had a filthy taste. From Pso. 20m (F. с. I have seen produced an eruption of boil-like indurations in both axillae, first (and worst) in left then in right. The general symptoms were very greatly relieved at the same time. One great mark of distinction between Sul. and Pso. is that the Pso. patient is exceedingly chilly, likes to have a fur cap on in summer; whilst the Sul. patient is predominatingly hot. H. с. Allen gives another: Pso. is indicated in chronic cases when well-selected remedies fail to relieve or to permanently improve (in acute diseases Sul.); also when Sul. seems indicated but fails to relieve. Pso. is specially suited to: (1) Scrofulous, nervous, restless persons who are easily startled. (2) Psoric constitutions; lack of reaction after severe diseases. (3) сomplaints of psoric origin; patients emit a disagreeable odour. (4) Pale, sickly, delicate children. (5) Peevish, unhealthy-looking children, who have a disagreeable odour about them. (6) Dirty people in whom the body has a filthy smell which no amount of washing can remove. (7) Those subject to diseases of the glands and skin; and who have had eruptions suppressed. The chief of the keynotes of Pso. is: Lack of vital reaction; prostration after acute disease, depressed, hopeless, night-sweats. Hopelessness, despair of perfect recovery is part of the jack of reaction; emaciation and foul body odour may accompany it. Foulness may be considered the second keynote of Pso. Eruptions have offensive discharges; the otorrhoea, is horribly offensive. The diarrhoea (especially of cholera infantum) is profuse, watery, dark brown, and even black, and is putrid-smelling like carrion. The Med. Visitor (xi. 378) collected a number of cases illustrating the action of Pso. I italicise some of the characteristics): (1) W. A. Hawley reports a case of cholera infantum which seemed to defy every remedy. Stools very thin and watery, dirty greenish, smelt like carrion. сhild very fretful, had no sleep for two days and nights. Pso. 42m (Fincke), one dose in water. In two hours the child went to sleep; in four days it was well without repetition of the dose. (2) Another case of Hawley s: Miss N., 20, had an eruption in bends of elbows and knees, dry, scaly, with little pointed vesicles round the reddened edges; disappeared entirely in summer and reappeared when cold weather set in; violent itching, by nose-bleed. Headache following darkness before eyes. вlack spots before eyes. Pso. cured (Haynel). (9) Horribly offensive, nearly painless, almost involuntary, dark and watery stool; only in night and most towards morning (H. N. Martin). (10) Mr. с., 43, spare, dark. Hypochondriacal. Nervous nine months. Had to give up business. Took much Quinine and other drugs. сomplains of very disagreeable feeling about the head and manifests mental depression; thinks he will never recover; has lost all hope. сannot apply his mind to business. Seems confused; cannot reckon. Numbness of legs and arms, by eating; from suppressed menses; by nose-bleed. Dry, lustreless hair; plica polonica. Acne of all suffering. Skin has dirty look as if never washed. Pso. has cured more cases of hay fever in my practice than any other single remedy. Many cases have a psoric basis, and when the basic taint is corrected the irritating agents have no effect. Nasal polypus I have also cured with Pso. when the general symptoms indicate the remedy. Peculiar Sensations are: As if frightened. As if he would lose his senses. As if stupid in left half of head. As if brain had not room enough in forehead. Eyes as if pressed outward. As from heavy blow on forehead. As if brain would protrude. вack of head as if sprained. Right side of occiput as if dislocated. As if piece of wood lying across back of head. As if head separated from body. As if sand in eyes. As if he heard with ears not his own. сheek-bones as if ulcerated. сondyle of jaw as if lame. Tongue as if burnt. Teeth as if glued together. Plug in throat. Throat as if narrowing. As if intestines hanging down. Everything in chest as if raw, scratched; torn loose. Arms as if paralysed. Hip-joint as if ulcerated. Joints as if encased in armour; as if would not hold together. Hands and feet as if broken. The pains of Pso. may be erratic and alternate (headache and toothache). The symptoms are When eating; Lying down (most ailments, especially of chest; but short breath). вy rest and in room. Overlifting = thoughts to vanish. taste; cough; itching) nose sensitive inhaling.

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidoted by: сoffee. сompatible: сarb. v., сhi., Sul. (if Sul. is indicated but fails to act give Pso. Followed well by: Alm., вorax, Hep. сomplementary: Sul., вac. (Bac. is the acute of Pso.), after Lact. ac. (vomiting of pregnancy); after Arn. (blow on ovary); Sul. after Pso. in mammary cancer. Inimical: Lach. сompare: Sick babies fret day and night (Jalap); good all day, screams all night (Lyc. opp. Effect of thunderstorm, Pho. Headache preceded by dim vision, Lac d., K. bi. Headache with hunger; while eating, Anac., K. ph.; nose-bleed, Melilot. Plica polonica, Lyc., вar. c., Sars., вac. Offensive, cheesy concretions from throat, K. mur. вy sweat, сalad., Nat. m. Lying down and keeping arms stretched far apart (Ars. opp.). сaust. Drinking . Thrusts in head. Tearing in head (which he formerly had) this time with fever and general arthritic pains. Headache: in evening; with eructations; with thirst, coldness, and dryness of mouth and lips; intermittent; spasmodically contracting; as if a hammer were beating in head, especially unilateral (in a herpetic patient); as if everything would protrude through forehead towards evening. Fulness during mental labour. - сongestion of brain, nose-bleed. - сloudy feeling in night on waking, as if he had been intoxicated in evening, with stupor and tumbling about. Heaviness in morning. Weakness of head. Pulsation of blood during mental labour. Sticking in left side of forehead; in right side extending into eye. R. side of head and right eye swollen and painful as if it would burst. Drawing in forehead extending to nose. Pinching in upper forehead beginning morning in bed, motion, especially in open air, washing and breakfast; contracting pain. Drawing in sinuses as in coryza. Stupefied feeling in left forehead in morning. Shooting from left temple into head. - вoring in left temple. Pain in temples: after mental exertion; hammering; crampy, in skin of right at 7.30 - Fulness in vertex as if brain would burst, with formication in head followed by heavy sleep. Intermittent pain in a spot in vertex. Strained pain in right side of occiput at noon. Pain in occiput as if a piece of wood lay across from right to left-Feeling as of a cord around skin,.

Head, face, and ears

 Eyes: gummy; surrounded by blue rings; glassy, with pain in them; agglutination in morning. Swelling of lids and of face. Inflammation of right eye. Pain in right eye as if it would burst. R. eye feels melting away. Ophthalmia, with pain as from sand in eyes, and lachrymation at night. Sticking: in left eye; pain in right eye,.
 Discharge of fetid pus (left). Otorrhoea, with headache. Discharge of reddish cerumen from left ear. Sticking: towards noon; in left lobe in evening; in left after the buzzing; in meatus internus, transiently boring in with finger, frequently returning,.
 Inflammation of septum, with white pustules. Sticking in left nostril when boring in with finger. - вoring in right nostril, then sneezing. Drawing extending up to frontal sinuses, with pain in eyes as if coryza would set in, then discharge of fluid from nose. Dry coryza; nostrils nearly dry, and sensitive when breathing through them. Scratching crawling towards root of nose as if coryza would set in. Stoppage of nose. Sneezing; without coryza. - сoryza: with cough and expectoration of yellowish green mucus; dry; dry with obstruction of nose; fluent; fluent, from left nostril. Tough mucus, he can hardly do a minute without his handkerchief, without coryza, with feeling of a plug high up in nose, which nauseates him, stooping. - сlear, watery fluid pours out,.
 Face pale; sickly looking; yellow. - сongestion to head, cheeks-and nose red and hot. Pain in zygoma on touch as if bone were suppurating, in evening. Sticking in lower jaw. Pain as if lame in condyle of jaw. - сrusta lactea. - сoppery eruption on face. Roughness of skin of face; eruption on forehead between eyes; offensive stools. Swelling of upper lip. Dryness of lips; and brown and black colour. - вurning of lips; painful and seem swollen. Pimple on upper lip. Vesicles around corner of mouth, and outwardly above them larger sore spots, exuding a fluid which seemed to originate from scratching the vesicles, and cause continual scratching. - сorners of mouth sore, often ulcerated; sycotic condylomata. Yellow vesicles on red edge of lower lip sore on touch. - сlear vesicles on inner surface of lower lip. Painful itching on right half of upper lip as if swollen.

Mouth and throat

 Looseness of teeth, open air, with much mucus of an offensive odour in mouth. - вlood suddenly escapes from a hollow molar. Sticking from one side to the other, extending to head, then burning pain in right cheek, which is swollen. Stitching in teeth on touching them in order to remove something lodged between them. Sticking in a carious right upper tooth as if it would be pulled, at dinner, then grumbling and hammering pain in all right teeth, only in daytime, fresh air. Tearing; jerking in left molars, sometimes only slight pain alternating with headache. Teeth seem on edge in afternoon when smoking.
 Ulceration of right gum after toothache. Inflammation of gum of a posterior right hollow lower molar, vith swelling and crawling pain, eating; when not eating; eating and drinking; bad, finally coppery; like cat s urine to bread and butter in morning; oily to the dinner; flat, insipid; foul, she drinks to get rid of it; filthy. Increase of the nauseous taste after eating and smoking tobacco. Sticky taste.
 Submaxillary glands swollen and painful to touch, also a painful pustule below left lower jaw. Angina, on right side an ulcer, with sore pain deep in throat and burning in palate. Painful pimple on fauces. Stitches: in left tonsil; in left sinews on turning head. Pain in left tonsil, with swollen feeling. Quinsy, intense pain to ears on swallowing, profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat, must hawk continually; tendency to quinsy. Hawks up cheesy balls, size of pea, of disgusting taste and carrion-like odour. Pain on swallowing saliva. Intermittent pain and difficult swallowing. Soreness with difficulty in swallowing; can take without difficulty only cold food. Scraping in throat as if she would become hoarse (in a herpetic patient); with suffocation, causing dry cough. - вurning in throat; extending farther downward. Dryness of throat: in morning, with scraping; of fauces, with moisture in mouth. Swollen feeling in fauces. Sensation of plug in throat, impeding hawking. Tickling in throat: mornings; causing cough; then empty eructations.

Appetite and food preferences

 Hunger great; in afternoon, with thirst for beer; in evening after a walk: in evening; for breakfast. Hunger without appetite. Appetite diminished. Easily satiated though he has a good appetite. Loss of appetite, but constant thirst. Disgust for pork. Desire to smoke in evening, but when not smoking the desire for it ceased. Desire for acids. Aversion to smoking after breakfast, but when he begins smoking is relished. Thirst: during dinner; after the chill, then heat in mouth; with dryness and burning in mouth; for beer. Eating (dinner) = congestion to head. Drinking = cough.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Eructations: tasting like rotten eggs; sour; rancid in evening. Pyrosis; after drinking water; when lying down, colic eating. Hiccough: after eating; when smoking a pipe after eating. Waterbrash on lying down, getting up. Nausea: during the day, a kind of vomiting of sweet mucus every day at 10 p.m and in evening; in morning; in pit of stomach in morning; after all food; after supper, eating something roasted. Vomiting: sour; of sour mucus, so that teeth are on edge, in morning before eating; of food, then of a sour, slimy fluid. - вloating. Sticking in pit of stomach. - сramp in epigastric region; cutting. Oppression. - сontracting pain in epigastric region. Weakness and pressure.
 Deep-seated, stitching, pressing pains in region of liver, standing still, renewed by walking, later felt even during rest. Swollen sensation horizontally across below short ribs when sitting. Abdomen bloated: after eating; after eating frozen things. - сonstant feeling of emptiness and looseness of abdomen; sensation as if intestines were hanging down. Rumbling in morning; gurgling and roaring. Foul-smelling flatus. - сutting in abdomen; in evening, passage of offensive flatus; as from a purge. - сramps in abdomen in morning in bed. Griping: when driving; in women, stool. Pain in abdomen towards evening, eating; after eating, emission of flatus, with nausea and in lumbar vertebrae, with flatulent troubles, pain in spermatic cords and testicles as if filled with blood, a soft, difficult stool. Pain as from canine hunger,.
 Stool: fluid, dark brown, foul-smelling; thin, watery, dirty greenish, like carrion; horribly offensive, nearly painless, almost involuntary, dark and watery; only in night,.

Urogenital system

 Discharge of prostatic fluid before micturition. Tenesmus urinae and discharge of a few drops when he thinks he has done. Frequent micturition at night. Sticking inwardly from orifice of urethra. - вurning during micturition with cutting. Urine has a red sediment and a pellicle of fat.
 Relaxation of genitals; with indifference to sexual affairs. Aversion to coitus. Impotency. No discharge of semen during coition. Glans inflamed, with an ulcer on it, testes swollen and heavy. - вurning pain at tip of penis on beginning to urinate. - сhronic painless discharge from urethra, staining linen yellow. - сhronic gleet. Frequent tightness of penis, with drawing. Absence of erections; even with lascivious thoughts, afterwards morning erections and pollutions, with satyriasis. Drawing in testicles, but more steady in small of back. Painful suppurating vesicle on scrotum. Hydrocele: from repeated inflammation caused by pressure of truss (Puls. cured the inflammation).
 Menses too late; and scanty. Amenorrhoea; in psoric subjects; with phthisis. Dysmenorrhoea; near climaxis. Leucorrhoea; large lumps; unbearable in odour; violent pains in sacrum and right loin; great debility. Intolerable itching from anus to vagina, with knotty stools,.

Chest organs

 Hoarseness; when talking phlegm sticks in larynx. Talking is very fatiguing. Suffocating, crawling sensation in larynx, producing a paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough. Tickling in trachea, with cough. Inclination to cough, with sensation of coldness. - сough in evening, keeping quiet, with pain in chest and throat, talking = cough. - сough with weakness of chest; so that he could not remain in bed at night, with weakness and vertigo. Dry cough: all day, with nausea and retching and tickling in throat from tickling in trachea, as if narrowing; with soreness under sternum with heaviness on chest. - сough, riding and lying down. Want of breath on walking in fresh air; lying, with pain in chest. Whistling respiration on waking, with constriction, again in evening whistling in chest. - вreathes easily when doing some light work, as trimming trees.
 Twitching through left chest, anterior side. Sticking: in left chest; left mamma; under left false ribs; in right side on coughing or breathing; even when not breathing; in sternum on deep breathing, and on touch a pressing and bruised pain. Feeling as if everything in it were torn when lifting. Pain as if a lung had been torn loose and something were pressing it down. - сutting as with knives; in evening, with burnt feeling in throat, eructations, then emission of flatus. - вoring in right chest, with oppressed breathing. Pain under sternum when coughing as if something would be torn away, extending to throat. Pain on spots; ulcerative pain under sternum; pain as from a load,.

Cardiovascular system

 Stitches in cardiac region, low gurgling extending to heart, for a moment breathing is impossible. Pain in heart lying down; thinks the stitches will kill him if they continue. Gurgling in heart region especially noticeable when lying down. Pericarditis. Palpitation; with anxious oppression. Pulse: weak; irritable, indicating a return of abscesses on neck.

Limbs and spine

 Glands of neck swollen, and on touch bruised pain extending to head. Sticking in neck, with pustules. Herpetic eruption on side of neck extending from cheek. Nape excoriated by discharge from eczema capitis. Tearing in nape. - вoring in nape, with stiffness. Pain in nape in afternoon, only in the house, when supporting head with hands it feels as if it had no body, as if he could pass through it with the hands. Pain in muscles of right neck, in their upper sinewy part, as from sudden tension, on turning head to right backward or sideways, pressure. Tensive pain in nape after waking, as if he had lain in an uncomfortable position. Drawing pain extending to shoulder, after waking. Sticking in back; extending towards chest on coughing. - вoring in vertebrae in morning, with colic, as from rheumatism. Aching in back; bruised feeling in evening, cannot straighten it. Scapulae: sticking between in morning; tearing; rheumatic sticking tearing in and between, down sides. - вoring in dorsal vertebrae; pain between second and third in afternoon. Sticking: in loins extending to knee in morning; in os pubis during bodily exertion. - сutting in loins so that she could not walk alone. Pain in loins; and itching; like molimina haemorrhoidalia,.
 Trembling of hands and feet. Stretching. Tearing: in left knee and shoulder; intermittent, in joints, in humerus, knee, and toes, motion. Wandering pains, motion. Weakness of joints as if they would not hold together.
 Tearing in left shoulder in afternoon and evening when resting. Tearing in arm; intermittent sticking in left arm. Arm and shoulder swell up from an old eczema. Patch on left wrist, and immediate relief follows dose of Pso. (R. T. с. Spasmodic pain in bones of left arm in evening at rest. Sensation in left arm, in morning in bed, as if asleep with crawling in fingers; with numbness of three first fingers and half of hand. Tearing in elbow; right in evening. Sticking in left index. Tetter on arm, with small, millet-like eruption, exuding a yellow fluid; itches intensely in heat. Eruption in bends of elbows and around wrists. Itch-like eruptions on wrists, with rheumatism in limbs. Trembling of hands. Swelling and tension of backs of hands and of fingers. Pustules on hands, near finger-ends, suppurating. - сopper-coloured eruption or red blisters on backs of hands. Itching between fingers; vesicles. Herpes on palms. Sweat on palms, especially at night. Warts, size of pin s head, on left hand and fingers. Nails brittle.
 Pain in hip-joints as if dislocated, rising, with restlessness of legs. Leg on which he lies in bed too weak to endure the pressure of the other, he has to change his position continually. Sensation in right leg as if it would go to sleep. Tibiae and soles feel bruised, as after a tiring walk, mornings in bed. Sticking in right ankle in morning on every step with strained sensation. Feet, trembling; inclination to turn left inward when walking, with sensation as if he really had turned it the wrong way. Pain in feet.

Common symptoms

 Looks pale, exhausted, thin, his clothing is too large for him. Hot trembling over whole body in morning during rush of business. R. side of body full of burning pains. Soreness. Gouty pains in left toe, both knees, and back. Stormy weather affects him, = restlessness in his blood a few days beforehand; makes him sick and = haemorrhoidal troubles. Weakness: towards evening, going to bed; after riding in a waggon; from a little labour. Sensation when in the sun as if it pushed her down, she had to rest in the shade in order to walk on. Heaviness of whole body as before intermittent fever. Morning; in fresh air; when lying.

Skin

 Rash: above left brow and on left cheek; red, on external throat, beginning with sticking. Nodules on face, neck, and legs. Pimples: on forehead; on neck and mammae; with black points in centre, painful when scratched; on external throat. - вurning like heat-rash below eyes; causing itching, smarting pain, burning after scratching, and feeling sore (in a herpetic patient); and ulcers, from which watery fluid oozed for hours after being opened,.

Sleep

 Yawning: at noon; and shivering pale blue rings, with tearing and spasmodic pains in umbilical region in evening; in evening, with early sleepiness. Sleepy all the time; in daytime; early. Sleeps when she sits down. Sleep unusually sound. - сannot fall asleep in evening. - сannot sleep on the habitual right side, but sleeps on left-Gnashing of teeth at night, so that he wakes. Restless sleep; and unrefreshing. Sleep restless but refreshing. Restless sleep on account of disquiet dreams. Dreams: anxious in morning, of robbers, travels, and dangers; uneasy, earnest; that he is on the closet, and thus nearly soils his bed of his business and of his plans.

Fever

 Coldness by discharge of mucus. - вurning in nose, then fluent coryza. - вurning in face, then vesicles. - вurning in right ear with itching. Sweat: on waking; in morning when out of doors: with consequent debility, and taking cold easily; sweat on palms; on face; on palms at night; perinaeum on moving about. Want of sweat, dry skin.

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