Origin Nosode · Nosode
Habitat epidermoid efflorescence of Pityriasis
ClarkePreparation Triturations.
Sources 19 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose
200X
Two hundredth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too often. Psorinum requires something like 9 days before it manifests its action, and even a single dose may elicit other symptoms lasting for weeks (Aegedi).
Reason for useBoericke
The therapeutic field of this remedy is found in so-called psoric manifestations. Psorinum is a cold medicine; wants the head kept warm, wants warm clothing even in summer. Extreme sensitiveness to cold. Debility, independent of any organic disease, especially the weakness remaining after acute disease. Lack of reaction, i.e, phagocytes defective; when well-chosen remedies fail to act. Scrofulous patients. Secretions have a filthy smell. Profuse sweating. Cardiac weakness. Skin symptoms very prominent. Often gives immunity from cold-catching. Easy perspiration when walking. Syphilis, inherited and tertiary. Offensive discharges.
▲ Worse coffee; Psorinum patient does not improve while using coffee. Worse, changes of weather, in hot sunshine, from cold. Dread of least cold air or draft
▼ Better heat, warm clothing, even in summer
By regionBoericke
Mind Hopeless; despairs of recovery. Melancholy, deep and persistent; religious. Suicidal tendency.
Head Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head. Chronic headaches; hungry during attacks; with vertigo. …
Eyes Agglutinated. Blepharitis. Chronic ophthalmia, that constantly recurs. Edges of lids red. Secretion acrid.
Stomach Eructations like bad eggs. Very hungry always; must have something to eat in the middle of the night. Nausea; vomiting of pregnancy. …
Female Leucorrhoea fetid, lumpy, with much backache and debility. Mammae swollen and painful. …
Respiratory Asthma, with dyspnoea; worse, sitting up; better, lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart. Dry, hard cough, with great weakness in chest. …
Extremities Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold together. Eruption around finger-nails. Fetid foot-sweats.
Skin Dirty, dingy look. Dry, lusterless, rough hair. Intolerable itching. …
Fever Profuse, offensive perspiration; night-sweats.
Sleep Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily startled.
Books*
Antidoted by Coffea Cruda 5, Nux Vomica 2
Complementary Sulphur, Arnica Montana, Lactuca Virosa +5
Follows well Borax Veneta, Hepar Sulphur, Alumina +3
Compare Anacardium Orientale, Arsenicum Album, Baryta Carbonica +35
* 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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