Origin Mineral · Simple
ClarkePreparation Solution.
Sources 20 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
6X
Sixth potency. As the nitric acid patient begins to improve skin symptoms may appear for a time, a favorable indication
By regionHering
Mind ► Weak memory, aversion to mental exertion. ► Taciturn. ► Sadness, despondency. ► Anxious about his diseases, with fear of death ; fear of cholera. ► Vindicative ; attacks of rage, with curses and maledictions. ► Nervous, excitable, especially after abuse of mercury.
Inner Head ► Head sensitive to rattling of wagons over paved streets, or to stepping hard. ► Pressing from without ; tension extending to eyes, with nausea ; worse from noise ; better on lying down or from carriage riding. ► Stitches in head, compelling one to lie down ; disturbing sleep. ► Piercing in temples. ► Violent throbbing, hammering on left side of head, coming gradually, towards morning, and going off about breakfast time.
Eyes ► Black spots before the eyes. ► Very sensitive to light. ► Double vision ; shortsightedness. ► Pupils dilated and dim. ► Eyes inflamed ; after syphilis or abuse of mercury. ► Iritis, which continually relapses ; also old cases spoiled by mercury. ► Pressure and stinging in the eyes. ► Spots on the cornea. ► Staphyloma, as a preventive. ► Eyes dim, sunken. ► Region of eyes painful, sore to the touch. ► Herpetic pannus. ► Eyelids swollen, hard, livid. ► Paralysis of upper lids. ► Fistula lachrymalis. ► Flow of irritating tears, after injury of the eye. ► Dermoid swellings of the eyes.
Stomach ► Stitches in the pit of the stomach. ► Pain in cardiac orifice on swallowing food. ► Burning distress.
Female Sexual Organs ► After coitus, mucous lining of genitals itches voluptuously ; excrescences on uterus. ► Pressing down in hypogastrium and small of back, as though everything would protrude ; pain down thighs ; abdomen feels swollen. ► Uterine hemorrhage from overexertion of body. ► Menses : early, irregular, scanty, and like muddy water ; early and profuse ; aching from the thighs ; urine offensive. ► During menses eructations, cramp-like pain in the abdomen, as if it would burst. ► Profuse, brown, offensive discharge between the irregular menstruations. θ Cancer uteri. ► Leucorrhoea : of ropy mucus ; of green mucus ; of flesh-colored ; acrid, brown, offensive. ► Stitches up the vagina, or from without inward, when walking in the open air. ► Itching, swelling and burning of vulva and vagina. ► Excrescences on cervix uteri.
Lungs ► Uneasiness in chest. ► Congestion to chest, with anxiety, heat and palpitation. ► Cramp-like pains in chest. ► Stitches in chest, right side. ► Chest sore when coughing or breathing. ► Soreness at lower end of sternum. ► Pain suddenly abates, yet pulse becomes smaller and quicker. θ Pneumonia. θ Pleurisy of cold air cachectic people. ► Lungs attacked, rattling breathing, loose cough ; sputum brown, bloody ; pulse irregular. θ Typhus. ► Threatened paralysis of the lungs. θ Typhus.
Neck And Back ► Swelling of cervical and axillary glands. ► Stitches in and between scapulae ; neck stiff. ► Pain in back and small of back ; from cold. ► Neuralgic pains up the back, particularly left side.
Limbs In General ► Limbs restless in evening.
Sleep ► Drowsy all day from debility, with vertigo. ► Difficulty of going to sleep. ► Shocks on dropping to sleep. ► Pains felt during sleep. ► Sleeps badly latter part of night. ► On awaking feels as if he had not slept enough.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill afternoon and evening, and after lying down. ► Continuous chilliness. ► Chilly, with internal heat. ► Chilly morning in bed after previous heat. ► Awakens at midnight chilly ; worse from uncovering or moving ; later hot, prickling all over as from needles. ► No thirst during cold or hot stage. ► Heat on hands and face. ► Heat dry, internal at night, wants to uncover. ► Heat in flushes, with sweaty hands. ► Heat, with sweat and debility after eating. ► Sweat sour, offensive, like urine. ► Sweat on soles of feet makes them sore. ► Copious night-sweats. ► Chill afternoon ; then short heat over whole body ; afterwards profuse sweat over whole body. ► Intermittent fever ; chill afternoon while in open air, followed by dry heat when in bed, accompanied by all sorts of fancies while in a state of half waking, without sleep ; sleep and sweat only come on towards morning. ► Chronic cases, liver diseased, patient anaemic ; general cachectic condition.
Skin ► Skin dry. ► Skin dark, dirty ; brown-red spots. ► Burning hot skin ; fine miliary rash. θ Scarlatina. ► Itching nettle-rash in open air. ► Blood-boils. ► Carbuncles. ► Rhagades, deep, bleeding. ► Frost-bites, itching ; inflamed from slight degree of cold ; skin cracked. ► Ulcers bleed when touched ; stinging pains ; feeling as of a splinter ; edges hard, everted and irregular ; exuberant granulations ; after mercury or in secondary syphilis. ► Condylomata moist, like cauliflower, hard, rhagadic, or in thin pedicles.
Books*
Antidoted by Calcarea Carbonica 2, Conium Maculatum 2, Hepar 2 +15
Complementary Arsenicum Album, Caladium Seguinum, Lac Caninum +1
Follows well Calcarea Carbonica, Kali Carbonicum, Pulsatilla Pratensis +9
Compare Calcarea Carbonica, Mercurius Solubilis, Graphites +39
* 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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