Homeopathy LibraryOrigin Mineral · Simple
Habitat The finest specimens contain traces of iron, 0.04 to 0.6 per cent.; poor qualities as much as 4 per cent
ClarkePreparation Trituration of prepared Black Lead from finest English drawing-pencils.
Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
6X–30X
Sixth to thirtieth potency. Locally as a cerate, in sore nipples
Reason for useCowperthwaite
Acts especially upon the skin, the lymphatics, the digestive system, and the sexual organs. Its characteristic action being upon the skin, where it produces a moist, scabby eruption. (Dry and scaly, Lyc . ; thick hard scab, Mez . ; scab easily torn off, leaving raw, bleeding surface, Hep .). It also acts upon the sexual system, more especially upon the ovaries and testes. Characteristic symptoms.
▲ Worse At night; in mornings; from becoming cold; during and after menses; from suppressed menses; on beginning to walk
▼ Better From eructations; from walking in the open air
By regionCowperthwaite
Mind (Graphites) Sad and despondent (Ign., Phos., Natr. mur.) ; thinks of nothing but death. (Acon., Ars.) Much inclined to grief ; sad and weeping. …
Head (Graphites) Feeling of intoxication in the morning on rising. (Cinch., Nux v .) Vertigo during and after stooping. …
Eyes (Graphites) Intolerance of light ; with redness of the eyes and lachrymation. …
Stomach (Graphites) Aversion to animal food (Alum., Arn., Carb. v., Ptel., Puls.) ; to salt things ; sweet things are disgusting and nauseous. …
Limbs (Graphites) Weakness ; paralyzed sensation of all the limbs. …
Skin (Graphites) Itching blotches, from which oozes a corrosive, watery, sticky fluid, in many parts of the body. …
Fever (Graphites) Chilliness in the morning, in bed. Sweats from slightest motion ; very sour, offensive perspiration. Offensive foot sweat. (Sil.)
Sleep (Graphites) Great agitation at night, with anxious, frightful dreams. (Ars.) Sleepiness during the day.
Books*
Antidoted by Arsenicum Album 4, Aconitum Napellus 3, Nux Vomica 3 +2
Complementary Causticum, Lycopodium Clavatum, Arsenicum Album +5
Follows well Lycopodium Clavatum, Arsenicum Album, Calcarea Carbonica +6
Compare Lycopodium Clavatum, Petroleum, Sulphur +27
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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