Remedy

Psorinum

Scabies vesicle

22 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

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.

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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.
Offensive discharges.

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Mind & mood

Hopeless; despairs of recovery.
Melancholy, deep and persistent; religious.
Suicidal tendency.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

CoffeePsorinum patient does not improve while using coffeeChanges of weatherIn hot sunshineFrom coldDread of least cold air or draft

Better

HeatWarm clothing, even in summer

Symptoms by body part

Head

Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head. Chronic headaches; hungry during attacks; with dizziness. Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change of weather. Dull, pressive pain in occiput. Humid rash on scalp; hair matted. Hair dry.

Eyes

Agglutinated. Blepharitis. Chronic eye inflammation, 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, runny nose (cold), with stoppage of nose. Chronic mucus discharge; 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 ear discharge. Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive.

Face

Swelling of upper lip. Pale, delicate. Humid rash 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.

Stomach

Belching 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. Constipation of infants, in pale, sickly scrofulous children.

Female

White vaginal discharge fetid, lumpy, with much backache and debility. Mammae swollen and painful. Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands.

Respiratory

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 rash. Hay-fever returning irregularly every year.

Extremities

Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold together. Rash around finger-nails. Fetid foot-sweats.

Skin

Dirty, dingy look. Dry, lustreless, rough hair. Intolerable itching. Herpetic rashes, 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 rashes all over. Hives after every exertion. Pustules near finger-nails.

Fever

Profuse, offensive perspiration; night-sweats.

Sleep

Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily startled.

Often compared with

Agaricus muscarius

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