Sunday, 14 September 2014

Kreosotum

Kreosotum
(beechwood kreosote)
* Kreosotum is a mixture of phenols obtained from this distillation.
Pulsations all over the body, and profuse bleedingfrom small wounds.
Very severe, old neuralgic affections; pains rather aggravated by rest.
Haemorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections.
Rapid decomposition of fluids and secretions, and burning pains.
Overgrown, poorly developed children.
Post-climacteric diseases.
Tumefaction, puffiness, gangrene.
Ailings of teething children.
Mental
- Music causes weeping and palpitation.
- Vanishing of thought; stupid, forgetful, peevish, irritable.
- Child wants everything but throws it away when given.
Head
- Dull pain, as from a board pressing against forehead.
- Menstrual headache.
- Occipital pain. [Gels.; Zinc. pic.]
Eyes
- Salty lachrymation.
- Lids red and swollen.
Ears
- Eruption around and pimples within.
- Difficult hearing and buzzing.
Face
- Sick, suffering expression; hot, cheeks red.
Mouth
- Lips red, bleeding.
- Very painful dentition; child will not sleep.
- Very rapid decay of teeth, with spongy, bleedinggums; teeth dark and crumbly. [Staph.;
Ant.c. ]
- Putrid odor and bitter taste.
Nose
- Offensive smell and discharge.
- Chronic catarrh of old people.
- Acrid rawness.
- Lupus. [Ars.]
Throat
- Burning, choking sensation.
- Putrid odor.
Stomach
- Nausea; vomiting of food several hours after eating; of sweetish water in the morning.
- Feeling of coldness, as of ice water in stomach.
- Soreness; better eating.
- Painful hard spot.
- Haematemesis.
- Bitter taste after a swallow of water.
Abdomen
- Distended.
- Burning haemorrhoids.
- Diarrhoea; very offensive; dark brown.
- Bloody, fetid stools.
- Cholera infantum in connection with painful dentition, green stools, nausea, dry skin,
exhaustion, etc.
Urine
- Offensive.
- Violent itching of vulva and vagina, worse when urinating.
- Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of bed quick enough during first sleep.
- Dreams of urinating.
- Enuresis in the first part of night.
- Must hurry when desire comes to urinate.
Female
- Corrosive itching within vulva, burning and swelling of labia; violent itching between labia
and thighs.
- During menses, difficult hearing; buzzing and roaring; eruption after.
- Burning and soreness in external and internal parts.
- Leucorrhoea, yellow, acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods.
- Haemorrhage after coition.
- Menses too early, prolonged.
- Vomiting of pregnancy, with ptyalism.
- Menstrual flow intermits [Puls.]; ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down.
- Pain worse after menses.
- Lochia offensive; intermits.
Respiratory
- Hoarse, with pain in larynx.
- Cough; worse evening, with efforts to vomit, with pain in chest.
- Raw burning in chest; pains and oppression.
- Cough after influenza. [Eriodyction.]
- Winter coughs of old people, with heavy pressureon sternum.
- Gangrene of lungs.
- After every cough, copious, purulent expectoration.
- Haemoptysis; periodic attacks.
- Sternum feels pressed in.
Back
- Dragging backache, extending to genitals and down thighs.
- Great debility.
Extremities
- Pain in joints, hip and knee.
- Boring pain in hip-joints.
- Scapulae sore.
Skin
- Itching, worse towards evening.
- Burning in soles.
- Senile gangrene.
- Small wounds bleed freely. [Crot.; Lach.; Phos.]
- Pustules and herpes.
- Ecchymosis; dorsal surface of fingers and hands eczematous.
Sleep
- Disturbed with tossing.
- Paralytic sensation in limbs on waking.
- Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc.
Modalities
- Worse, in open air, cold rest, when lying; aftermenstruation.
- Better, from warmth, motion, warm diet.
Relationship
- Antidote : Nux.
- Inimical : Carbo.
- Complementary in malignant diseases : Ars.; Phos.; Sulph.
- Guaiacol (is the principal constituent of Kreosote, and similar in action. Used in pulmonary
tuberculosis. Dose 1 to 5 m.)
- Matico-Artanthe or Piper angustifolia, (Gonorrhoea, hemorrhage from lungs; catarrhal
conditions of genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract. Topically a haemostatic.
Difficult, dry, deep, winter cough. Use tincture.)
- Compare also : Fuligo ligni; Carbol. ac.; Iod.; Laches.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- The 200th in sensitive patients.

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