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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 useGuernsey

This remedy affects the right upper extremity and right lower extremity; left ear; hair of the head (which the patient may be losing); external head behind the ears; external crown of the head; internal nose. Affections of the anus (such as itching haemorrhoids, etc.); sacrum and buttocks; calves; heels; toes; between the fingers, where there is itching exanthema with the exudation. Glittering before the eyes; face covered as if with erysipelas (especially when discharging the mentioned exudation); bad smell from the mouth. Constipation; hunger; flatulence in general; flatus obstructed; haemorrhoids worse after the bowels have been moved. Stool very large and very hard: with tape-worm. Discharge of urine too scanty. Limbs drawn together, crooked, from the bones being bent. Emaciation in general; muscles being shortened; inclination to sit down; soreness from lying in bed; flushes of heat; yellow perspiration. Worse.-- In the night; during menstruation, and after, and from suppressed; from light in general, particularly daylight; from having a tape-worm. Better.-- In the dark; from eructation. This remedy is very applicable for females with a tendency to unhealthy corpulence, with perhaps deformed nails, characteristic exudation, menstrual troubles, etc.


By regionGuernsey
Skin A very characteristic symptom of this remedy, is the exudation of a thin, sticky, glutinous, transparent, watery fluid from any raw or sore place. …
Sleep Waking too late; stupor-like sleep in the morning; anxious dreams; anxious dreams about fatal accidents.

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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