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Petroleum
PETR
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Origin Mineral · Simple
Habitat Preparations of the non-rectified oil should also be made
ClarkePreparation Trituration and tincture of the rectified oil.
Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
30X, ↑
Third to thirtieth and higher potencies. Material doses often better

Reason for useT. F. Allen

General feeling of indolence and heaviness or weakness, even in bed in the morning. Flushes of heat, orgasm of blood and sweat after a little physical effort or any emotional excitement. Symptoms caused by riding in a wagon or on the water. General amelioration from warm air.


By regionT. F. Allen
Mind Illusion of some one lying by his side in the bed.
Head Leaden heaviness in the occiput ; pressure or pinching. Pain in the occiput extends to the vertex, with vertigo, stiff neck. Pulsation in the occiput. …
Eyes Inflammation, with burning, pressure, stitches and itching. Inner canthus swollen and inflamed, with dryness.
Stomach Ravenous hunger and speedy satiety. Great aversion to meat and fat. Great thirst. Sour and bitter eructations. …
Extremities General stiffness and bruised pain. Shooting or burning pains in corns.
Skin Generally unhealthy ; rough and cracked, with cutting and sticking. Moist, denuded spots appear in the folds, with itching. Tendency to proud flesh.
Fever Chilliness, in open air, with headache and cold face and hands. Sweat follows immediately after the chill. …

Books*
Antidoted by Nux Vomica 3, Cocculus Indicus 2, Aconitum Napellus +3
Complementary Sepia Officinalis
Follows well —
Compare Sulphur, Graphites, Tabacum +30

* 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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