Paraffinum
Paraffin wax (petroleum-derived hydrocarbon) · Mineral
Paraffinum suits individuals with obstinate constipation and wandering alternating pains that shift between the stomach, throat, and spine. Women with uterine affections, delayed black menses, and milky leucorrhoea are also candidates for this remedy.
Key symptoms
- Obstinate constipation in children
- Alternating pains extending from stomach to throat and to spine
- Pain as if a nail driven into left vertex
- Chronic constipation with haemorrhoids and continual urging without result
- Hungry all the time
- Menses too late, black, and abundant
- Feeling of electric shocks in all joints
- Fixed pain in left hypochondrium as if parts being twisted
Better (amelioration)
- Better from sitting (pain in lower abdomen extending to genitals and rectum)
Purified Paraffin (PARAFFINE)
Valuable in uterine affections. Particularly serviceable in constipation. Knife-like pains. Pains extend from one part to another, and alternate. Pain in stomach alternates with pain in throat and spine.
Head
Left side of head and face suffer most; pains stinging and twisting. Pain as if a nail were driven in left side of vertex. Twisting in left ear.
Eyes
Vision dim; black specks before. Lids red. Sensation as if there were fat on the eyes.
Mouth
Tearing, twisting pain in teeth down to lower jaw. Full of saliva; feels sticky; bitter taste.
Stomach
Hungry all the time. Pain across stomach. Pain in stomach alternates with pain in throat and spine, extends to chest with belching. Fixed pain in left hypochondrium, as if parts were being twisted. Palpitation with stomach pains.
Abdomen
Pain in lower abdomen, extending to genitals, rectum and coccyx; better, sitting.
Rectum
Frequent desire for stool. Obstinate constipation in children (Alumina; Nyctanthes). Chronic constipation, with hæmorrhoids and continual urging to stool, without result.
Female
Menses too late, black, abundant. Milky leucorrhœa. Nipples pain when touched, as if sore inside. Stabbing pain in mons veneris. Very hot urine with burning pains in vulva.
Extremities
Pain in spine extending to inguinal region and in both loins, when ascending the stairs. Feeling of electric shocks in all joints. Wrenching pain in calves, extending into toes, in joints. Feet swollen with tearing in ankles and soles.
Skin
Burns, even of third degree, with sloughing and sepsis. Wash with sterile water and dry and spray with paraffin, and cover with thin layer of cotton. Useful also in frost bites.
Relationship
Compare: Naphthalin; Petrol; Kreos; Eupion.
Dose
Lower triturations and thirtieth potency.
Paraffin. Trituration.
Clinical
Abdomen, swelling of. Breasts, affections of. Constipation; of children. Diaphragmitis. Indigestion. Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Muscæ volitantes. Spine, pains in. Spleen, pain in. Umbilicus, pain in. Uterus, affections of. Vertebræ, affections of. Vision, disorders of.
Characteristics
"Paraffin" as a generic term includes all those substances which have no affinity for Sulphuric Acid, and cannot be destroyed by it, Petroleum itself coming within this designation. Specifically "Paraffin" is a "tasteless, inodorous, fatty matter, which resists the action of acids and alkalis, obtained by the dry distillation of wood, peat, bituminous coal, petroleum, &c." In the distillation of Petroleum, Naphthalin is the first substance that comes off; Paraffin is the next. This is the substance the attenuation of which I have successfully used on the indications of Wahle's proving (translated by W. F. Robinson from the Italian, H. R., v., 193), and I conclude this is the substance Wahle …
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