PSORINUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- especially adapted to the psoric constitution
- in chronic cases when well selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve (in acute diseases, sulph.)
- when sulphur seems indicated by fails to act
- lack of reaction after severe acute diseases
- appetite will not return
- children are pale, delicate, sickly
- sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret cry
- child is good, plays all day
- restless, troublesome, screaming all night (rev. of lyc.)
- great weakness and debility
- from loss of animal fluids
- remaining after acute diseases
- independent of or without any organic lesion, or apparent cause
- body has a filthy smell, even after bathing
- the whole body painful, easily sprained and injured
- great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather
- wears a fur cap, overcoat or shawl even in hottest summer weather
- stormy weather he feels acutely
- feels restless for days before or during a thunderstorm
- dry scaly eruptions disappear in summer, return in winter
- ailments
- from suppressed itch or other skin diseases, when sulphur fails to relieve
- sever, from even slight emotions
- feels unusually well day before attack
- extremely psoric patients
- nervous, restless, easily startled
- all excretions - diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, menses, perspiration - have a carrion-like odor
- anxious, full of fear
- evil forebodings
- religious melancholy
- very depressed, sad suicidal thoughts
- despairs of salvation , of recovery
- despondent
- fears he will die
- that he will fail in business
- during climaxis
- making his own life and that of those about him intolerable
- driven to despair with excessive itching
- headache
- preceded, by flickering before eyes, by dimness of vision or blindness (lac d., kali bi.)
- by spots or rings
- headache
- always hungry during
- >while eating
- from suppressed eruptions, or suppressed menses
- better nosebleed
- hair, dry, lustreless, tangles easily, glues together
- plica polonica
- scalp
- dry, scaly or moist, fetid, suppurating eruptions
- oozing a sticky, offensive fluid
- intense photophobia, with inflamed lids
- cannot open the eyes
- lies with face buried in pillow
- ears
- humid scurfs and soreness on and behind ears
- oozing and offensive viscid fluid
- otorrhoea
- thin, ichorous, horribly fetid discharge, like decayed meat
- chronic, after measles or scarlatina
- acne
- all forms, simplex, rosacea
- acute attack but eradicate the tendency
- hawks up cheesy balls, size of pea, of disgusting taste and carrion-like odor (kali m.)
- diarrhoea
- sudden, imperative (aloe, sulph.)
- stool watery, dark brown, fetid
- smells like carrion
- involuntary, lying down and keeping arms stretched far apart (rev. of ars.)
- despondent, thinks he will die
- cough returns every winter
- hay fever
- appearing regularly every year the same day of the month
- with an asthmatic, psoric or eczematous history
- patient should be treated the previous winter to eradicate the diathesis and prevent summer attack
- cough
- after suppressed itch, or eczema
- chronic, of years' duration