Psorinum
Scabies vesicle nosode · Scabies · Nosode
There is characteristically an anxious, rather unambitious air to those for whom Psorinum is best suited. They are prone to feeling somewhat abandoned, forsaken, and pessimistic.
Lack of stamina is a typical trait. These people generally possess weak constitutions, proving easy prey to infections and viruses. Recovery from any illness is slow. Often worse in wintry weather, they tend to feel the cold sharply, even in summer, wrapping up to avoid a chill since it aggravates their symptoms, but they can also feel worse for strong heat. Despite a huge appetite, they are usually thin. They have an increased sense of well-being just before the onset of illness, but when ill are prey to morbid fears that they will not recover.
Skin, bowel, or respiratory tract disorders are the primary conditions for which Psorinum is prescribed, generally when the underlying vitality is poor.
Key symptoms
- despair and pessimism
- sense of being forsaken
- chilliness
- offensive-smelling discharges
- constant hunger
Worse (aggravation)
- coffee
- Psorinum patient does not improve while using coffee
- changes of weather
- in hot sunshine
- from cold. Dread of least cold air or draft
Better (amelioration)
- heat
- warm clothing
- even in summer
Scabies Vesicle
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.
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. Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change of weather. Dull, pressive pain in occiput. Humid eruption on scalp; hair matted. Hair dry.
Eyes
Agglutinated. Blepharitis. Chronic ophthalmia, that constantly recurs. Edges of lids red. Secretion acrid.
Mouth
Obstinate rhagades at corners. Tongue, gums ulcerated; tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate.
Nose
Dry, coryza, with stoppage of nose. Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior nares. Acne rosacea.
Ears
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. Chronic otorrhœa. Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive.
Face
Swelling of upper lip. Pale, delicate. Humid eruption on face. Sickly.
Throat
Tonsils greatly swollen; painful swallowing, with pain in ears. Profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat. Recurring quinsy. Eradicates tendency to quinsy. Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste (Agar).
Stomach
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.
Stool
Mucous, bloody, excessively fetid, dark fluid. Hard, difficult stool, with blood from rectum and burning piles. Constipation of infants, in pale, sickly scrofulous children.
Female
Leucorrhœa fetid, lumpy, with much backache and debility. Mammæ swollen and painful. Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands.
Respiratory
Asthma, with dyspnœa; worse, sitting up; better, lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart. Dry, hard cough, with great weakness in chest. Feeling of ulceration under sternum. Pain in chest; better, lying down. Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption. Hay-fever returning irregularly every year.
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. Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints with 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.
Fever
Profuse, offensive perspiration; night-sweats.
Sleep
Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily startled.
Modalities
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.
Relationship
Complementary: Sulphur.
Compare: Pediculus-Head-louse--(psoric manifestations in children. Eruption on dorsum of hands, feet neck. Prurigo; pellagra. Unusual aptitude for study and work). Pediculus (Cooties) transmit typhus and trench fever). In lack of reaction compare Calcarea and Natrum ars. Gaertner (Pessimistic, lack of confidence, subjective troublesome eye symptoms, fear of heights. Urticaria. Use 30th and 200th (Wheeler).
Dose
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).
Psorinum is closed allied to Sulphur.
Skin
The patient dreads to be washed. The skin over the body, especially of the face, looks filthy, though it has been well washed. A dingy, dirty, foul look, as if covered with dirt.
Skin rough and uneven, cracks easily, bleeding fissures; it becomes rough and scaly. He cannot wash it clean. The skin of the hands is rough, chaps easily, becomes thick and scaly, easily cracks; breaks out in little scaly, eruptions; looks unwashed; he always appears to have dirty hands.
Many of the complaints of the skin are worse from bathing and from the warmth of the bed. The skin itches when warm; itches when wearing woolens. Itching when warm in bed; he scratches until the part becomes raw, and then it becomes scabby. When healing takes place there is itching and then it becomes scabby. When healing takes place there is itching and then he has to scratch. Legs and arms raw and scabby from scratching. Violent itching from the warmth of the bed, even, without any eruption.
Psoricum. The nosode of Psora. [The sero-purulent matter of a scabies vesicle was used by Hahnemann. The product of "Psora sicca" (epidermoid efflorescence of Pityriasis) by Gross. The salt from a product of Psora by Hering.] Triturations.
Clinical
Acne. Adenoids. Anus, itching in. Asthma. Backache. Boils. Cancer. Cholera infantum. Cough. Constipation. Cornea, ulcers of. Crusta lactea. Crusta serpiginosa. Debility. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria, after-effects of. Dyspepsia. Eczema; rubrum. Enuresis. Eruptions; moist; itching. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, dry; tangling. Hay fever. Headache. Head, congestion of. Hernia. Hydrocele. Impotence. Influenza. Injuries. Itch. Itching. Leucorrhœa. Lienteria. Liver, affections of; chronic inflammation of. Melancholia, religious. Nose, redness of. Odour of body, fetid. Ophthalmia, scrofulous. Otorrhœa; fetid. Ozæna. Pediculosis. Peritonitis, tubercular. Plica polonica. Polypus. Quinsy. Sciatica. Scurvy. Skin, affections of. Spina bifida. Spleen, affections of; induration of. Sprains. Syphilis. Throat, mucus in. Tinea capitis et faciei. Tonsils, concretions in. Ulcers.
A Product of Psora. (A Nosode.)
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 (Jalap.); 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 (Phos.); dry scaly eruptions *disappear in …
Mind
Hopeless, and despairing of recovery, gives up all hope, thinks he will die.
Head
Hungry during the headache; eating relieves.
Hearing and Ears
Discharge of fetid pus from ears; psoric people.
Anus and Stool
Stools dark brown, thin, fluid, very offensive, like rotten eggs.
Anus and Stool
Stools very offensive, like rotten eggs or carrion, similar to Lachesis.
Respiratory Organs
Dyspnoea > in a recumbent posture, and < when sitting, or when arms are brought near the body.
Chill, Fever, and Sweat
Profuse sweat on least exertion, especially when convalescing from acute diseases.
Skin
Evil consequences of suppressed itch, especially after large doses of sulphur, if the patient is hopeless, despairing of recovery.
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