GRAPHITES [Graph]

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Black lead, Amorphous Carbon

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Grief and vexation

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Supression of skin eruptions

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Extremes of heat and cold

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Overlifting

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Fear

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Moist, sticky eruptions

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Fissures, corns

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Eczema

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Enlarged

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Secretions acrid

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Excited

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Prostrated

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Anaemic

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Atony

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Constipation

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Simple, basic, earthy and unrefined patients.

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Slow thinking, irresolution, poor concentration. Dullness. SLOWNESS.

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Sad, tearsome, irresolute, hesitates at trifles. Timid, dread of work.

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Fidgety while sitting at work.

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Feels miserable and unhappy.

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Weeps, without cause, from MUSIC. Sensitive to music. Weeping from music (Aur), especially organ.

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Forgetful, makes mistakes in speaking and writing.

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Child impudent, teasing, laughing of reprimands.

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Remembers all the events of youth; recent events are forgotten.

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So sad that death is thought of.

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Thinks of nothing but salvation.

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There is a changeable mood.

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Memory weak for recent events, > for long past events.

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Anxiety and dullness in the morning on waking. Anxiety about trifles.

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Restless, agitated anxiety. restlessness and anxiety at night.

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Timid, reserved.

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IRRESOLUTION. Insecurity. Anxiety about the consequences of the decision.

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Obstinate. Censorious.

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Discontented. Easily offended.

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Irritability about trifles.

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TRIFLES SEEM IMPORTANT.

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Fear something will happen, of misfortune.

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Anxiety and fear < morning. Irritation, excitement, sleeplessness in evening.

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Aversion to mental work.

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Difficult concentration, mental exertion gives restlessness (Kali-p).

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Absence of thoughts. Impressions don't penetrate. Hard to get information from them.

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Confusion with weeping and awkwardness < before and during menses.

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Especially adapted to women of climacteric age. Generally inclined to obesity, who suffer from habitual constipation and delayed menstruation. Tendency to put on unhealthy fat; plump, anemic, fair.

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Sensitive to cold; Chilly.

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Cracks and FISSURES on end of fingers of toes, nipples, labia, commissures, anus, etc.

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Left sided complaints.

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OBESITY. Rapid emaciation in stomach diseases.

Emaciation of affected parts (Plb).

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AILMENTS FROM SUPPRESSED ERUPTIONS, DISCHARGE.

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Discharges: thick, sticky, offensive, honey like, foul, scanty and acrid.

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Sudden weakness. Cataleptic.

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Sourness - of taste, eructations, stools, urine, teeth, etc.

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Sensation of burning, NUMBNESS and deadness.

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General sense of uneasiness, tremulousness, sudden sinking of strength.

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Skin symptoms <-> digestive symptoms.

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Cancerous diathesis in old cicatrices. Tendency to grow cystic tumours. Dropsy.

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Desire: CHICKEN, beer, sweets, bland food.

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Aversion: SALT, SWEETS, MEAT, fish, soup, warm food, cooked food.

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Vertigo - < Morning on waking; looking upward; rising from stooping.

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Head - NUMBNESS OR EMPTY FEELING (Cocc, Plat).

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Headache < left side, sunlight, while eating.

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ERUPTIONS < occiput. Psoriasis.

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Alopecia. Falling of hair at temples.

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Eyes

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Ear

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Nose

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Face

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Circulation is affected causing, irregular distribution of blood, producing especially rush of blood to head with flushed face.

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Phlegmonous erysipelas, of face, with burning, stinging pain, commencing on right side, going to left.

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Mouth

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Throat - Constant inclination to swallow.

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Stomach - Stomach complaints after suppressed eruptions.

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Ulcers. Cancer. Stomach disorders with rapid emaciation.

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Gastric complaints > eating, (WARM) MILK (Chel).

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Abdomen - Ascites.

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Eruptions, especially in inguinal region.

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Rectum

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Eruptions.

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Male genitalia - HIGH DESIRE OR LACK OF INTEREST, ENJOYMENT.

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Impotency. Ungovernable desire with poor results (Con, Gels, Lyc).

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Erections failing during coition (Lyc). Premature ejaculation.

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Hydrocele.

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Eruptions, herpes; spreading to thigh.

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Cracks.

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Female genitalia - HIGH DESIRE, nymphomania, OR LACK OF INTEREST.

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Enlargement and induration of ovaries.

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Uterine fibroids, cancer.

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Menarche late. Menses scanty, late, not appearing.

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Eruptions. Cracks.

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Menses late, scanty, pale, irregular, painful, delayed by getting feet wet.

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Morning sickness during menstruation, prostrated.

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Leucorrhoea - acrid, excoriating, occurs in gushes day and night, before and after menses.

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Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess, retarding the flow of milk.

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Cancer of breast, from old scars, and repeated abscess.

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Respiratory system - Hoarseness during menses.

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Dyspnoea, from suppressed eruptions > eating.

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Suffocative, wakes from sleep.

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Chest - Cancer of breasts, esp. old scar tissue.

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Sore, cracked nipples.

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Eruptions in axilla, under breasts.

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Extremities - Swelling feet and toes during menses.

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CALLOSITIES of palms and soles (Ant-c, Ran-b).

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Cracks of fingertips.

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Eruptions < bend of elbows and knees.

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Numbness of forearms.

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NAILS DISTORTED, BRITTLE, thick, hard, crumbling, deformed, painful, sore as if ulcerated.

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Ingrowing toe nails (Sil).

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Burning heat of foot soles, uncovers them.

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Rheumatic pains.

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Skin - Affects the folds skin, at flexures, mucocutaneous junctions, behind the ears.

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FISSURES, where skin and mucus membrane joins.

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THICK, hard, dry, rough (Ant-c, Fl-ac). Thickening and induration of skin.

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ERUPTIONS. Eczema. Herpes. Psoriasis.

Thick CRUSTS AND SCALES, OOZING HONEY-LIKE, THICK, YELLOW, STICKY FLUID, sometimes offensive.

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Itching < heat, during menses.

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KELOID (Fl-ac, Sil) or cicatrices.

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Unhealthy.

 

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Tendency to produce excoriation.

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Watery, transparent sticky honey like fluid discharge.

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Morning sickness during menses.

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Hears better when in a noise, when riding a carriage.

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Sensation of cobweb on face; tries hard to brush it off.

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Cracks, fissures, dryness, bleeding- Cracks or fissures in the ends of fingers, nipples, labial commissures. Eczema of lids, eruptions moist and fissured.

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Affections of skin folds, flexures, behind the ear. Skin becomes thick and indurated. Obstinate dryness of skin and absence of sweat.

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Crustiness- Eyelids red and margins covered with scabs and crusts, milk crusts. Crusty and scabby ulcers, moist crusty eruptions.

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Dry, rough skin that breaks easily and exudes a "gluey moisture".

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Discharge, always sticky, transparent, thin, watery, may be thick honey like.

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Menses late, scanty, pale, delayed due to getting feet wet, irregular.

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Suited to women inclined to be fat, who suffer from constant chilliness, habitual constipation and herpetic eruptions which crack and ooze a gelatinous fluid.

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Constipation, Eczema, Fissures, Flushes, Gastritis, Impetigo, Keloids, Malignancy, Obesity, Otitis media and externa, Peptic ulcer, Psoriasis, Styes.

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Almost a specific for women's disease due to a diminished hormonal activity - Dr Karo.

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For singers, who cannot control their vocal cords or who develop hoarseness or cracked voice as soon as they sing - Dr. Farrington.