PSORINUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Extreme sensitiveness to cold
- Debility
- Lack of reaction
- Scrofulous patients
- Secretions have a filthy smell
- Profuse sweating
- Cardiac weakness
- Skin symptoms very prominent
- Easy perspiration when walking
- Offensive discharges
- Hopelessness
- Despair of recovery
- Melancholy
- Religious
- Suicidal tendency
- Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head
- Chronic headaches
- Hungry during headaches
- Vertigo
- Hammering pain
- Brain feels too large
- Dull, pressive pain in occiput
- Humid eruption on scalp
- Hair matted
- Hair dry
- Eyes agglutinated
- Blepharitis
- Chronic ophthalmia
- Edges of lids red
- Secretion acrid
- Obstinate rhagades at corners of mouth
- Tongue ulcerated
- Gums ulcerated
- Tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate
- Dry coryza
- Stoppage of nose
- Chronic catarrh
- Dropping from posterior nares
- Acne rosacea
- Raw, red, oozing scabs around ears
- Sore pain behind ears
- Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks
- Offensive discharge from eczema around ears
- Intolerable itching of ears
- Chronic otorrha
- Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive
- Swelling of upper lip
- Pale face
- Delicate face
- Humid eruption on face
- Sickly face
- Tonsils greatly swollen
- Painful swallowing
- Pain in ears during swallowing
- Profuse, offensive saliva
- Tough mucus in throat
- Recurring quinsy
- Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste
- Eructations like bad eggs
- Very hungry always
- Must have something to eat in the middle of the night
- Nausea
- Vomiting of pregnancy
- Pain in abdomen after eating
- Mucous stool
- Bloody stool
- Excessively fetid stool
- Dark fluid stool
- Hard, difficult stool
- Blood from rectum
- Burning piles
- Constipation of infants
- Leucorrha fetid
- Lumpy leucorrhea
- Backache with leucorrhea
- Debility with leucorrhea
- Mamm swollen
- Mamm painful
- Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands
- Asthma
- Dyspna
- Dry, hard cough
- Great weakness in chest
- Feeling of ulceration under sternum
- Pain in chest
- Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption
- Hay-fever returning irregularly every year
- Weakness of joints
- Eruption around finger-nails
- Fetid foot-sweats
- Dirty, dingy skin
- Dry, lusterless, rough hair
- Intolerable itching of skin
- Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints
- Itching worse from warmth of bed
- Enlarged glands
- Sebaceous glands secrete excessively
- Oily skin
- Indolent ulcers, slow to heal
- Eczema behind ears
- Crusty eruptions all over
- Urticaria after every exertion
- Pustules near finger-nails
- Profuse, offensive perspiration
- Night-sweats
- Sleepless from intolerable itching
- Easily startled