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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

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.

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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.

A feeling as if the contents of the head were alive.

The scalp is painful as if suppurating or as if it had been bruised.

Eruptions on the scalp, particularly towards the nape.

Eyes

Inflammation, with burning, pressure, stitches and itching.

Inner canthus swollen and inflamed, with dryness.

Clinical

Inflammation of the margins of the lids, with smarting, stinging and dryness.

Threatening lachrymal fistula.

Ears

Obstinate dryness.

The meatus inflamed and painful.

A discharge of blood and pus.

Diminished hearing, with roaring and ringing.

Pain in the occiput and in the Eustachian tubes.

Moist eruption behind the ears.

Nose

Nostrils dry, ulcerated and stopped.

Formation of scabs, covering ulcers ; discharge of purulent matter.

Margins of nostrils cracked and ulcerated.

Mouth

Cracking of the lips and scruffiness around the mouth.

Joints of the jaw easily dislocated, with great pain.

Back teeth painful at night and on inhaling cold air.

Dental fistula.

Mouth pasty and dry.

Tongue white.

Taste sour or slimy.

Throat

Very dry, with shooting pains on swallowing.

Rawness in the pharynx.

Pain on swallowing extends to the ears.

Stomach

Ravenous hunger and speedy satiety.

Great aversion to meat and fat.

Great thirst.

Sour and bitter eructations.

Persistent nausea ; at times with accumulation of water in the mouth.

Nausea incessant, often with sudden heat of the face and vertigo, with pains in the occiput ; cutting in abdomen and diarrhoea ; violent vomiting.

General amelioration by eating.

Clinical

Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.

Seasickness, with occipital pain.

Gastralgia, with coldness and faintness in abdomen.

Abdomen

Distention.

Cutting pains after eating, with nausea and vomiting ; > bending up.

Rectum and Stool :

Burning in anus.

Haemorrhoids and fissures in anus.

Stool generally hard and unsatisfactory.

Diarrhoea preceded by colic ; profuse, bloody mucus, often involuntary, with soreness along the colon.

Urinary Organs

Bladder weak, urine dribbles after urinating.

Micturition involuntary.

Burning in the urethra.

Urine bloody, turbid, depositing a red, slimy, adherent sediment ; albuminous, containing casts, with an iridescent film.

Sexual Organs

Redness, soreness and moisture around the scrotum and perineum, with an itching eruption.

Soreness and moisture about the female organs.

Menses too early, discharge causes itching and soreness.

Respiratory organs :

Dry cough at night, coming from deep in the chest and caused by scratching in the throat.

Hoarseness.

Oppression of the chest, < cold air.

Heart

Coldness in the region of the heart.

Neck and Back :

Stiffness and weakness in the neck and back.

Pain in the coccyx when sitting ; pain in the small of the back so that he could not stand.

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.

Clinical

Moist eruptions, with cracking and rawness.

Fissures in the tips of the fingers, aggravated by cold weather.

Herpes and eczema on the hands or about the ears and nape of the neck.

Fever

Chilliness, in open air, with headache and cold face and hands.

Sweat follows immediately after the chill.

Flushes of heat, particularly of the face and head ; < night.

Perspiration on the feet.

Complete text of the Petroleum entry in T. F. Allen - A Primer of Materia Medica; 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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  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
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  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
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