Remedy

Graphites

Black lead - plumbago

36 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Like all the carbons, this remedy is an anti-psoric of great power, but especially active in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily.
  • Children impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands.
  • Has a particular tendency to develop the skin phase of internal disorders.
  • Eradicates tendency to erysipelas.
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  • Anaemia with redness of face.
  • Swollen genitals.
  • Gushing white vaginal discharge.
  • Induration of tissue.
  • Duodenal ulcer.

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Mind & mood

  • Great tendency to start.
  • Timid.
  • Unable to decide.
  • Want of disposition to work.
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  • Fidgety while sitting at work.
  • Music makes her weep.
  • Apprehensive, despondency, indecision.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

WarmthAt nightDuring and after menstruation

Better

In the darkFrom wrapping up

Symptoms by body part

Head

Rush of blood to head with flushed face also with nose bleed and distension and gas. Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side, with inclination to vomit. Sensation of cobweb on forehead. Feels numb and pithy. Rheumatic pains on one side of head, extending to teeth and neck. Burning on vertex. Humid, itching rash on hairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor. Cataleptic condition.

Eyes

Eye inflammation, with intolerance of artificial light. Eyelids red and swollen. Blepharitis. Dryness of the lids. Eczema of lids; fissured.

Ears

Dryness of inner ear. Cracking in ears when eating. Moisture and rashes behind the ears. Hears better in noise. Hardness of hearing. Hissing in the ears. Detonation in ear like report of a gun. Thin, white, scaly membrane covering membrane tympani, like exfoliated epithelium. Fissures in and behind the ear.

Nose

Sore on blowing it; is painful internally. Smell abnormally acute; cannot tolerate flowers. Scabs and fissures in nostrils.

Face

Feels as if cobwebs were on it. Eczema of nose. Itching pimples. Moist eczema around mouth and chin. Erysipelas, burning and stinging.

Mouth

Rotten odor from mouth. Breath smells like urine. Burning blisters on tongue, excess saliva. Sour belching.

Stomach

Aversion to meat. Sweets nauseate. Hot drinks disagree. Nausea and vomiting after each meal. Morning sickness during menstruation. Pressure in stomach. Burning in stomach, causing hunger. Belching difficult. Constrictive pain in stomach. Recurrent gastralgia. Gas. Stomach pain is temporarily relieved by eating, hot drinks especially milk and lying down.

Abdomen

Nauseous feeling in abdomen. Fullness and hardness in abdomen, as from incarcerated gas; must loosen clothing; presses painfully at abdominal ring. Croaking in abdomen. Inguinal region sensitive, swollen. Pain of gas opposite the side on which he lies. Chronic diarrhoea, stools brownish, liquid, undigested, offensive. Very fetid gas preceded by colic.

Stool

Constipation; large, difficult, knotty stools united by mucus threads. Prolapse, diarrhoea; stools of brown fluid, mixed with undigested substance, very fetid, sour odor. Smarting, sore anus, itching. Lump stool, conjoined with threads of mucus. Varices of the rectum. Fissure of anus.

Urine

Turbid, with sediment. Sour smelling.

Female

Menses too late, with constipation; pale and scanty, with tearing pain in epigastrium, and itching before. Hoarseness, runny nose (cold), cough, sweats and morning sickness during menstruation. White vaginal discharge, pale, thin, profuse, white, excoriating, with great weakness in back. Mammae swollen and hard. Induration of ovaries and uterus and mammae. Nipples sore, cracked, and blistered. Decided aversion to coitus.

Male

Sexual debility, with increased desire; aversion to coition; too early or no ejaculation; herpetic rash on organs.

Respiratory

Pain in middle of chest, with cough, scraping and soreness. Chronic hoarseness with skin affections. Inability to control the vocal chords; hoarseness on beginning to sing and for breaking voice.

Extremities

Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and back and limbs. Spinal pains. Pain in small of back with great weakness. Excoriation between thighs. Left hand numb; arms feel asleep; finger-nails thick, black, and rough, matrix inflamed. Swelling of lower limbs. Toe-nails crippled. Stiffness and contraction of toes. Nails brittle and crumbling. Nails deformed, painful, sore, thick, and crippled. Cracks or fissures in ends of fingers. Offensive perspiration of feet.

Skin

Rough, hard, persistent dryness of portions of skin unaffected by eczema. Early stage of keloid and fibroma. Pimples and acne. Rashes, oozing out a sticky exudation. Rawness in bends of limbs, groins, neck, behind ears. Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates. Ulcers discharging a glutinous fluid, thin and sticky. Swelling and induration of glands. Gouty nodosities. Cracks in nipples, mouth, between toes, anus. Phlegmonous erysipelas of face; burning and stinging pain. Swelling of feet. Wens. Chronic Poison Oak.

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