PETROLEUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Strumous diathesis, catarrhal conditions of mucous membranes, gastric acidity, cutaneous eruptions
- Skin symptoms, ailments worse during winter, ailments from riding in cars, carriages, or ships, lingering gastric and lung troubles, chronic diarrhea, complaints follow mental states-fright, vexation
- Chlorosis in young girls with or without ulceration of the stomach
- Aggravation from mental emotions, loses his way in streets, thinks he is double, feels that death is near, irritable, easily offended, vexed at everything, low-spirited, with dimness of sight
- Sensitive head, as of a cold breeze blowing on it, feels numb, as if made of wood, occiput heavy, vertigo on rising, felt in occiput, as if intoxicated, sea-sickness, moist eruption on scalp, scalp sore to touch, followed by numbness, headache, must hold temples to relieve, provoked by shaking while coughing
- Loss of eyelashes, dim sight, far-sighted, cannot read fine print without glasses, blenorrhea of lacrimal sac, marginal blepharitis, canthi fissured, skin around eyes dry and scurfy
- Noise unbearable, especially from several people talking together, eczema in and behind ears, intense itching, parts sore to touch, fissures in meatus, dry catarrh, with deafness and noises, ringing and cracking in ears, chronic Eustachian catarrh, diminished hearing
- Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn, tip of nose itches, epistaxis, ozena, with scabs and muco-purulent discharge
- Dry face, feels constricted, as if covered with albumin
- Heartburn, hot, sharp, sour eructation, distention, feeling of great emptiness, strong aversion to fat food, meat, worse eating cabbage, hunger immediately after stool, nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth, gastralgia when stomach is empty, ravenous hunger, must rise at night and eat, odor of garlic
- Diarrhea only in the daytime, watery, gushing, itching of anus, after cabbage, with empty feeling of stomach
- Herpetic eruption on perineum, prostate inflamed and swollen, itching in urethra
- Before menses, throbbing in head, leucorrhea, profuse, albuminous, genitals sore and moist, sensation of moisture, itching and mealy coating of nipple
- Hoarseness, dry cough and oppression of chest, worse cold air, dry cough at night, coming deep from chest, croup and laryngeal diphtheria
- Sensation of coldness in heart, fainting, with ebullitions, heat and palpitation
- Pain in nape of neck, stiff and painful, weakness in small of back, coccyx painful
- Chronic sprains, fetid sweat in axillae, knees stiff, tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured every winter, scalding sensation in knee, cracking in joints
- Itching skin at night, chilblains, moist, itch and burn, bed-sores, skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked, leathery, herpes, slightest scratch makes skin suppurate, intertrigo, psoriasis of hands, thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching, redness, raw, cracks bleed easily, eczema, rhagades worse in winter
- Chilliness, followed by sweat, flushes of heat, particularly of the face and head, worse at night, perspiration on feet and axillae