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Origin 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 useGladstone Clarke

1 . Scrofulous subjects especially women with tendency to unhealthy corpulence ; sluggish, "pasty" habit. At Climaxis. 2 . Great sadness and despondency with inclination to weep especially at hearing music ; apprehension, mind dwells upon death. Children acute and impudent, laugh at reprimands. 3 . Marked debility with anaemic conditions. Sexual debility from abuse. 4 . Unhealthy skin ; every injury suppurates.(a) Itching eruptions with oozing of corrosive, transparent, honey-like fluid ; especially about the ears, face or entire scalp ; gen. < warmth. (b) Skin dry, nails become hard, thick, brittle ; rhagades ; excoriations ; special affinity for scar tissue. 5 . Glandular swellings and indurations. 6 . Alimentary disorders > eating, > warm milk, < cold drinks ; dislikes sweets, animal food, fat, salt ; tongue gen. clean. 7 . Abdominal distension from flatulence with constipation ; stools too large, lumpy, covered with mucus or containing mucous shreds ; anus sore, even fissured. 8 . Female complaints with delayed menstrual period ; flow gen. scanty but leucorrhoea of profuse, thin, white mucus, in gushes day and night ; sometimes in place of menses. 9 . Ear troubles ; hears better in a noise ( Nit. ac .), or on violent motion. 10 . Patient chilly yet likes open air, < night, motion during and after menstrual period.


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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