PSORINUM uses [Psor uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Lack of vitality
Frequent acute illness
Dirty and offensive
Poverty consciousness. Despair of recovery
Feels unexplicably well the day before is about to get ill
Chilly remedy, wants warm clothing even in summer
COMMON NAME
Scabies Vesicle
FAMILY
Nosode
A/F
| - | Suppressed emotions |
| - | Mental labour |
| - | Suppressed skin disease |
| - | Overlifting |
| - | Thunderstorm |
| - | Injuries, blows, sprains, dislocations |
| - | Loss of vital fluids |
MODALITIES
| < | Cold |
| < | Open air |
| < | Change of weather |
| > | Eating |
| < | Winter |
| > | Profuse perspiration |
| < | Warmth at bed |
| < | Before and during thunder storm |
| < | Night |
| < | Fasting |
| < | Frequent acute illness |
| > | Lying down |
| > | Bringing arms away from body |
MIND
| - | Hopeless. Despair of recovery when
sick. Pessimism |
| - | Makes own life and others also miserable |
| - | Deep anxiety states with restlessness and anguish |
| - | Suicidal thoughts. Great despondency |
| - | Anxiety, especially when riding in a carriage |
| - | Fears |
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he will die |
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his business will fail |
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of fire |
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of being alone |
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of going mad |
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of future |
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of poverty |
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of health, cancer |
| - | Delusion that he is poor |
| - | Sadness dejected. Has no joy for anything |
| - | Religious melancholy |
| - | Peevish, sick babies, will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret, cry, especially
at night [Jal, Lac-c, Nux-v, Rheum] |
| - | Dreams of robbers [Nat-m] |
| - | Feels restless on day before thunder storm |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Great weakness, debility from loss of
animal fluids; remaining after acute diseases [Calc-p] |
| - | Offensive discharges, carrion like odour [Pyrog; Anthr] |
| - | Sensitiveness of patient to cold air, chilly. Wears woolens even in summer |
| - | Hereditary tendency to alcohol (Asar, Sulph, Syph, Tub) |
| - | Cases where well chosen remedies fail to act, or act shortly |
| - | Feels unusually well a day before the attack begins |
| - | Head
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| - | Eczema of scalp, dry scales; suppurating, oozing a sticky offensive fluid
(Graph, Mez) |
| - | Hair tangled, cannot be combed (Bor, Fl-ac, Lyc, Tub) |
| - | Face - Has a dirty look even when well washed |
| - | Eyes - Blepharitis with inflamed lids |
| - | Ears - Otorrhoea with horribly offensive discharge like rotten meat, after
measles or scarlet fever |
| - | Soreness behind ear with discharge of grey viscid fluid (Graph, Sanic) |
| - | Mouth - Aphthae |
| - | Throat - Quinsy. Tonsils swollen with pain radiating to ear |
| - | Hawks cheesy balls of disgusting taste and odour |
| - | Throat affection after checked foot sweat [Bar-c, Graph, Sanic, Sil] |
| - | Recurrent tonsillitis, eradicates tendency |
| - | G.I.T. - Hungry in the middle of night (Cina, Lyc), especially with
headache |
| - | Thirst for beer |
| - | Desires acids [Cic, Alum], indigestible things |
| - | Ravenous hunger immediately after eating (Cina, Lyc, Med, Meny) |
| - | Vomiting of sweet mucus daily at 10 a.m. |
| - | Vomiting of pregnancy (Lac-d, Lac-c, Lac-ac, Thuj, Symph) |
| - | Eructations tasting like rotten eggs |
| - | Diarrhoea putrid, foul < 1 to 4 a.m. ; after acute disease and when
weather changes (Aloe, Sulph, Rumx) |
| - | Obstinate constipation in small black balls when sulphur fails |
| - | Respiratory system - Asthma with dyspnoea > Lying down > Stretching
arms away from body < Sitting up (Laur) |
| - | Cough every winter and summer diarrhoea, chronic, of years' duration |
| - | Expectoration of green mucus |
| - | Hay fever appearing regularly every year, same month |
| - | Feeling of ulceration under sternum |
| - | Threatening phthisis |
| - | C.N.S. - Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions (Agar, Sulph) |
| - | Female genitalia - Leucorrhoea unbearable in odour with pains in sacrum and
right loin |
| - | Foetus moves too violently in pregnancy |
| - | Skin - Dirty, rough, greasy; breaks out in folds, especially, in winter |
| - | Intolerable itching of skin especially at night |
| - | Unhealthy skin |
| - | Profuse sweat after acute disease with relief of all complaints |
| - | Abnormal tendency to skin disease < spring |
| - | As if skin is never washed |
| - | Offensive discharges of eruptions |
| - | Itching < night < open air |
| - | Eruptions around nails of fingers |
| - | Sleep - Sleeplessness from intolerable itching, or dreams of robbers |
KEYNOTES
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | It is adapted to patients subjected to glandular
and skin affections, where the well chosen remedy fails to act or acts
shortly |
| - | Cases with history of suppressed skin eruptions, and who have filthy body
odour |
| - | Extremely sensitive to cold |
| - | Hungry in middle of night |
| - | Anxious, fearful and full of despair |
| - | Remedy should not be given for psora or psoric diathesis, but only on totality |
CLINICAL
| - | Abscess, Acne, Anxiety, Asthma, Boils, Bronchitis, Colds, Depression, Dermatitis, Eczema, Headaches, Insomnia, Otitis media, Pharyngitis, Phobic disorder, Psoriasis, Scabies, Sciatica, Ulcers |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Complements: Arn, Bac, Lact-ac, Sulph
Followed Well By: Alum, Bor, Hep
Follows Well: Carb-v, Chin, Sulph
Inimical: Lach
Compare: Aloe, Ambr, Anac, Ars, Bac, Bapt, Bar-c, Bry, Calad, Caps,
Carb-v, Chin, Chin-s, Dig, Elaps, Gels, Hep, Ign, Jug-c, Jug-r, Kali-bi, Kali-c,
Kali-i, Kali-m, Kali-p, Lac-d, Lauro, Lyc, Meli, Melit, Nat-m, Op, Ped, Phos,
Puls, Sang, Sars, Sulph, Valer
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