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Petroleum

PETR · 19 entries across 19 books
HabitatPreparations of the non-rectified oil should also be made. PreparationTrituration and tincture of the rectified oil. Clarke
30X, ↑
Third to thirtieth and higher potencies. Material doses often betterDose · Boericke

Reason for use

Adapted to persons with light hair and skin; irritable, quarrelsome disposition (Nux); easily offended at trifles (Ign., Med.); vexed at everything. Ailments: from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship (Coc., Sanic.). Ailments which are worse before and during a thunderstorm (Nat. c., Phos., Psor.). Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly (Bell., Mag. p. - reverse of Plat., Stan.). During sleep or delirium: imagines that one leg is double; that another person lies alongside of him in same bed; that there are two babies in the bed (Val.). Vertigo on rising (Bry.); in occiput; as if intoxicated; like seasickness (Coc.). Headache: in occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing, pulsating pain; as if everything in the head were alive; numb, bruised, as if made of wood. Gastralgia: of pregnancy; with pressing, drawing pains; whenever stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating (Anac., Chel., Sep.). Diarrhoea: yellow, watery, gushing; after cabbage, sour krout; during pregnancy, stormy weather; always in the daytime. Painful sensitiveness of skin of whole body; all clothing is painful; slight injury suppurates (Hep.). Skin of hands rough, cracked, tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured, every winter; tenderness of the feet, which are bathed in foul-smelling sweat (Graph., Sanic., Sil.). Herpes: of genital organs extending to perineum and thighs; itching, redness; skin cracked, rough, bleeding; dry or moist. Heat and burning of soles of feet and palms of hands (Sang., Sulph.). Sweat and moisture of external genitals, both sexes. Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands < in cold weather; decubitus. Sensation of coldness about the heart (Carbo an., Kali m., Nat. m.).

▲ Worse

Carriage riding (Coc., Sanic.); during a thunderstorm; in winter (Alum.)

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Relations

One of our best antidotes for lead poisoning. The skin symptoms are worse in winter, better in summer (Alum.); if suppressed, causes diarrhoea.

Complete text of the Petroleum 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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19 entries across 19 books · abbreviations: PETR

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3 Clarke

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6 Nash

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9 Farrington

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10 Lippe

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13 Hahnemann

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14 T. F. Allen

PETROLEUM · Timothy Field Allen · 440 chars

16 Guernsey

PETROLEUM · Henry Newell Guernsey · 820 chars

17 Cowperthwaite

PETROLEUM · Allen Corson Cowperthwaite · 4,995 chars

18 Dewey

Petroleum · Willis Alonzo Dewey · 1,306 chars

19 Gross

Petroleum · Gustav Wilhelm Gross · 20,129 chars

20 Hempel

Petroleum · Charles Julius Hempel · 25,703 chars

22 Roberts

Petroleum · Herbert Alfred Roberts · 1,668 chars

23 T. F. Allen

PETROLEUM · Timothy Field Allen · 4,050 chars

33 Gladstone Clarke

Petroleum · A. Gladstone Clarke · 1,180 chars

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Research (7)

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  1. Palmoplantar Keratoderma Treated with Individualized Homoeopathic Medicine: A Case ReportLamba P · Alternative therapies in health and medicine · 2024 · Case Reports
  2. Individualized Homeopathic Medicines in the Treatment of Psoriasis Vulgaris: Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled TrialBalamurugan D, Nayak C, Chattopadhyay A et al. · Complementary medicine research · 2023 · Randomized Controlled Trial · doi
  3. Vertigoheel induced psychosis: A patient case reportO'Connell M, Hunt E, VandenBerg A · The mental health clinician · 2021 · Case Reports · doi
  4. Evaluation of anxiolytic effect of Medicago sativa in miceSingh Bora K, Sharma A · Pharmaceutical biology · 2012 · doi
  5. [Procedure for Latrodectus reproduction in the laboratory setting and the preparation of the first Russian matrix from its venom to manufacture homeopathic remedies with antiparasitic activity]Streliaeva AV, Gasparian ER, Polzikov VV et al. · Meditsinskaia parazitologiia i parazitarnye bolezni · 2012
  6. [The agent Latrodectus and canine paecilomycotic eclampsia as a laboratory model in the survey of treatment for mycoses and parasitic diseases]Gasparian ER, Streliaeva AV, Chebyshev NV et al. · Meditsinskaia parazitologiia i parazitarnye bolezni · 2012
  7. Petroleum: a series of 25 casesGnaiger-Rathmanner J, Schneider A, Loader B et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2008 · Case Reports, Review · doi

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