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Kreosotum

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Generalities

Weakness ; prostration and faintness from the least effort.

General tendency to haemorrhages, and to rapid decomposition of fluids and secretions.

Discharges fetid, acrid.

Lachrymation.

Nasal catarrh.

Urine

Acrid and burning.

Pains burning like red-hot coals.

General aggravation from motion, from cold, general amelioration in the open air.

Dentition.

Head

Vertigo, especially on turning around quickly, with staggering, in the morning in the open air.

Dull pain as from a board pressing against the forehead.

Eyes

Acrid lachrymation, like salt.

Margins of the lids red and swollen.

Clinical

Small pimples or pustules within the ear, with burning, swelling, and redness of the outer ear.

Moist eruption on or about the ears, with swelling of the glands in the neck.

Difficult hearing, with buzzing and roaring, especially before and during menstruation.

Nose

Nasal catarrh, fluent, with acrid rawness in the air passages.

Offensive smell and offensive discharges.

Clinical

Lupus on the nose and face, with burning.

Face

Complexion pale, puffy.

Upper lip sore and cracked.

Mouth

Toothache from decayed teeth ; jerking or throbbing pain, extending to side of face and temple.

Tongue coated white, sometimes dry.

Putrid odor from the mouth and bitter taste.

Clinical

Rapid decay of the teeth, with spongy, bleeding gums ; teeth become dark and crumbly.

Throat

Burning, with inflammation.

A painful, choking sensation and soreness, especially in the left tonsil, on swallowing.

Clinical

Has been indicated in diphtheritic ulceration, with great fetor, vomiting and burning, dryness in the throat.

Stomach

Nausea, with efforts to vomit ; nothing but saliva ejected.

Vomiting of food several hours after eating ; of sweetish water in the morning before eating.

Soreness or burning in the epigastric region, temporarily > eating.

A feeling of coldness as from ice water in the stomach.

Abdomen

Distention.

Sticking pain in the region of the liver ; cannot tolerate tight clothing.

Rectum and Stool :

Frequent urging.

Painful burning of haemorrhoids.

Constipation ; evacuation very difficult, with burning.

Clinical

Diarrhoea, very offensive, dark brown, undigested ; generally associated with more or less nausea, sometimes with vomiting.

Dysentery, with nausea and vomiting.

Bloody, fetid stools during typhoid fever, with great prostration.

Cholera infantum, offensive brown stools, great restlessness, with painful dentition and complaint of pain in the gums.

Urinary Organs

Frequent urgency to urinate, with great haste.

Urine sometimes increased and clear, passed very frequently ; at other times, scanty offensive, burning.

Sexual organs, Female :

Burning in the pudenda on urinating.

Soreness between labiae, with biting pain, also between the thighs.

Itching, biting, burning in labiae between vagina, with swelling.

Internal genitals swollen, hot and hard, with internal burning and soreness.

Leucorrhoea of peculiar odor, like green corn, yellow, acrid, with biting and burning externally.

Menstruation early, profuse, prolonged, followed by leucorrhoea.

Clinical

Ulcerations ; offensive, excoriating discharges, with burning pain, heat and soreness.

Pruritis of the vulva, with heat and burning.

Respiratory organs :

Hoarseness and scraping in the larynx.

Inflammation of the larynx.

Cough from the larynx, with hoarseness and soreness ; bloody, with greenish expectoration ; cough worse in the evening in bed, convulsive, with efforts to vomit ; in the morning spasmodic, with retching, incontinence of urine ; with pain in the chest ; must hold it with the hands.

Raw scraping and burning in the chest like red-hot coals.

Back

Pain as if the small of the back would break, > motion, extending up the back so that she could not move the arms, < stooping.

Dragging backache as before menstruation, extending into the genitals, or down thighs.

Extremities

Pains in the joints like rheumatism.

Pain in the left thumb, which seems sprained and is stiff.

Boring pain in the hip, alternating with numbness.

Skin

Itching, < towards evening, almost intolerable ; burning on the soles, especially at night in bed.

Eruptions dry, or moist, with much itching.

Herpetic eruptions, > warmth.

Dry, scaly eruptions, like psoriasis.

Clinical

Senile gangrene, with burning ; foul odor.

Gangrenous degeneration of ulcers.

Eruption after menstruation.

Fever

Coldness of isolated parts, particularly internal coldness, with alternations of chill and heat.

Heat localized in flushes, mostly in face.