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GRAPH · 19 entries across 19 books
Graphites
HabitatThe finest specimens contain traces of iron, 0.04 to 0.6 per cent.; poor qualities as much as 4 per cent. PreparationTrituration of prepared Black Lead from finest English drawing-pencils. Clarke
6X–30X
Sixth to thirtieth potency. Locally as a cerate, in sore nipplesDose · Boericke

Reason for use

Suited to women, inclined to obesity, who suffer from habitual constipation; with a history of delayed menstruation. "What Pulsatilla is at puberty, Graphites is at the climacteric.". Excessive cautiousness; timid; hesitates; unable to decide about anything (Puls.). Fidgety while sitting at work (Zinc.). Sad, despondent; music makes her weep; thinks of nothing but death (music is intolerable, Nat. c., Sab.). Eczema of lids; eruption moist and fissured; lids red and margins covered with scales or crusts. Sexual debility from sexual abuse. Menses: too scanty, pale, late with violent colic; irregular; delayed from getting feet wet (Puls.). Morning sickness during menstruation; very weak and prostrated (Alum., Carbo an., Coc.). Leucorrhoea: acrid, excoriating; occurs in gushes day and night; before and after menses (before Sep., after, Kreos.). Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess, retarding the flow of milk; cancer of breast, from old scars and repeated abscesses. Unhealthy skin; every injury suppurates (Hep.); old cicatrices break open again; eruptions upon the ears, between fingers and toes and on various parts of body, from which oozes a watery, transparent sticky fluid. The nails brittle, crumbling, deformed (Ant. c.); painful, sore, as if ulcerated; thick and crippled. Cracks or fissures in ends of fingers, nipples, labial comminssures; of anus; between the toes. Burning round spot on vertex (Cal., Sulph. - cold spot, Sep., Ver.). Cataleptic condition; conscious, but without power to move or speak. Takes cold easily, sensitive to draught of air (Bor., Cal., Hep., Nux). Suffering parts emaciate. Hears better when in a noise; when riding in a carriage or car, when there is a rumbling sound (Nit. ac.). Diarrhoea: stools brown, fluid, mixed with undigested substances, and of an intolerable odor; often caused by suppressed eruptions (Psor.). Chronic constipation; stool difficult, large, hard, knotty, with lumps united by mucous threads; too large (Sulph.); smarting sore pain in anus after stool. Children: impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Sensation of cobwebs on forehead, tries hard to brush it off (Bar., Bor., Brom., Ran. s.). Phlegmonus erysipelas: of face, with burning, stinging pain; commencing on right side, going to left; after application of iodine. Decided aversion to coition (both sexes).

▲ Worse

At night, during and after menstruation

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Relations

Complementary: Caust., Hep., Lyc. Graphites follows well: after Lyc., Puls., after Cal. in obesity of young women with large amount of unhealthy adipose tissue; follows Sulph. well in skin affections; after Sepia in gushing leucorrhoea. Similar: to, Lyc., Puls. in menstrual troubles.

Complete text of the Graphites entry in Allen - Keynotes of Leading Remedies; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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  1. Individualized Homeopathic Management of Chronic Atopic Dermatitis Complicated by Secondary Infection: An Evidence-Based Case ReportKureel SS, Singh G, Wadhwa B · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2026 · doi
  2. Conservative Care and Outcomes for 2 Patients With Ramsay Hunt SyndromeJoubert SV, Alwazan TB · Journal of chiropractic medicine · 2025 · Case Reports · doi
  3. Homeopathic Treatment Outcomes in Tinea Corporis and Tinea Cruris-A Multicentric, Open-Label, Prospective, Observational StudyMittal R, Kaushik S, Prusty AK et al. · Alternative therapies in health and medicine · 2025
  4. Therapeutic evaluation of homeopathic treatment for canine oral papillomatosisRaj PAA, Pavulraj S, Kumar MA et al. · Veterinary world · 2020 · doi
  5. Dielectric dispersion studies of some potentised homeopathic medicines reveal structured vehicleMahata CR · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2013 · doi
  6. Homoeopathy for the treatment of lichen simplex chronicus: a case seriesGupta R, Manchanda RK, Arya BS · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2006 · doi
  7. Prolonged cataleptogenic effects of potentized homoeopathic drugsSukul NC, Bala SK, Bhattacharyya B · Psychopharmacology · 1986 · doi

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