Irritant,
anaesthetic.
Foul, putrid destruction of tissues.
Increased olfactory sensibility. Very offensive breath.
Burning in mouth to stomach. Fermentative dyspepsia.
Cramps in forepart of leg, close to tibia, during walking.
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COMMON NAME
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Phenol
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SOURCE
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Solution
in rectified spirit.
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FAMILY
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Organic
acid.
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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< | Combing hair [Bry, Chin, Ign, Sel]
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MIND
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- | Prostration
of mind. Mental exhaustion, brain fag (Pic-ac).
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- | Mental exertion aggravates.
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- | Loss of memory for what he was about to do.
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- | Dreams usually unremembered or amorous, of fire, of journey, of body part
embalmed.
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- | Delusion as if he had taken opium in the morning. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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- | Irritant,
antiseptic, anesthetic.
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- | OFFENSIVENESS. Discharges foul, burning, putrid.
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- | Languid, PAINLESS, foul, destructive remedy.
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- | Pains come suddenly, last for a short time and disappear suddenly [Bell,
Mag-p, Fl-ac, Eup-per].
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- | Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere in the body especially right
ear.
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- | Anaphylaxis to bee stings. Swelling of face and tongue [Apis].
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- | Malignant and septic conditions.
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- | Burns lead to ulceration with ichorous discharge.
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- | Prostration of mind but desire for mental work.
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- | Profound prostration, collapse, surface pale and bathed in cold sweat
[Camph, Carb-v, Verat].
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- | Head - Dull, heavy headache as if rubber band were stretched tightly around
the forehead [Gels, Cact, Merc, Plat, Sulph, Nit-ac, Spig].
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- | Headache < bending head forward > green tea > while smoking >
tight band > cold hand.
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- | Migraine just before or after menses.
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- | Vertigo shutting the eyes. < sitting down > walking fast in open air.
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- | Nose - Smell very acute. Pressing pain above root of nose.
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- | PALE ABOUT NOSE AND MOUTH.
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- | Ozaena with foetor and ulceration.
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- | G.I.T. - Diphtheria; foetid breath, regurgitation through nose on swallowing
liquids but little pain [Bapt].
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- | Desire for stimulants and tobacco [Staph], whisky [Syph].
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- | Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy < morning, with headache, heartburn and
eructation.
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- | Vomiting; of drunkards, cancer of stomach, sea sickness.
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- | Constipation with very offensive breath [Op, Psor].
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- | Bloody stools like scrapings of intestines [Canth, Colch] with tenesmus.
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- | Passes mucus from anus when urinating.
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- | Urinary system - Urine black or olive green.
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- | Female genitalia - Leucorrhoea in children [Cann-s, Merc, Puls, Sep].
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- | Irritating leucorrhoea; itching and burning [Kreos].
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- | Uterine displacement with or without discharge. If discharge present, it is
offensive [Nit-ac, Nux-v, Sep].
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- | Back - Backache across loins with a dragging down sensation from buttocks to
thighs.
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- | Extremities - Bones bare, crushed, much sloughing of soft parts.
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- | Skin - Vesicular eruptions all over the body which itches excessively >
after rubbing but leaving a burning pain.
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- | Malignant scarlatina and variola [Am-c].
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- | Lacerated wounds from blunt instruments. |
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KEYNOTES
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PAINLESSNESS
- Pains come suddenly, last a short time, and disappear suddenly.
- PALE, ABOUT NOSE AND MOUTH.
- Dreams of fire.
- Great tenderness over transverse colon.
- Physical exertion brings on an abcess somewhere in the body.
- Anaphylaxis to bee stings.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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Prostration of mind, mental exhaustion, brain fag.
- Offensiveness and painlessness with destruction.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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- | A
remedy to be thought of in malignant conditions with tendency to destruction
of tissues and putrid discharges, collapse and cold sweat.
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- | Mental and physical prostration. |
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CLINICAL
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- | Constipation,
Diabetes, Diarrhoea, Diphtheria, Influenza, Leucorrhoea, Lumbago, Ovarian
neuralgia (left), Ozaena, Vomiting.
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- | Carbolic acid 12 has proved of use in cases of migraine in children - Dr.
Dewey.
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- | In pertussis, this helps to stop the paroxysm in 1x or 2x potency. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Compare:
Ant-t, Ars, Gels, Kreos, Merc, Pic-ac, Vario
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