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PETROLEUMDr. Roni Dudhwala
Introduction Common name
Oleum petrae Rock-Oil Coal Oil
Prover: Dr. Hahnemann Preparation:
Trituration and tincture of the rectified oil. Preparations of the non-rectified oil should also be made.
Sphere Of Action
Eczema
Vesicular Inflammation
Pustules
Fissures& cracks
Skin Lymphatic
Secretions
Foul and Fetid
Glands
Gastro-Enteritis
GITCatarrhal Inflammation
Esp. of lung
Mucus
Membrane
Constitutiono Physical make up:
o Adopted to persons of light hair and light skin who suffers from cutaneous eruptions and gastro intestinal disorder.
o Temperament:o Irritable, quarrelsome, easily offended by
trifles and vaxed on everything.o Thermal:
o very chillyo Miasm:
o psorao Diathesis:
o scrofulous
Guiding symptoms Ailments from: riding in carriage, car or ship(Coc., Sanic.); fright,
vexation, eatin cabbage. Ailments are worse before and during a thunderstorm (Nat. c.,
Phos., Psor., Gels., Rhodo.) Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly Aversion to meat and fat food Long lasting complaints follow mental state, fright, vexation. During sleep or delirium : imagines that one leg is double; that
another person lies alongside of him in same bed; that there are two babies in the bed
Delirium : imagines that one leg is double; that another person lies alongside of him in same bed; that there are two babies in the bed.
Irritable, offended at trifles, very quarrelsome; vexed about everything. Irritable, offended at trifles, very quarrelsome; vexed about everything. Marked aggravation from mental emotions. Loses his way in streets. Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs. Low-spirited, with dimness of sight. Sensation as if there were a cold stone in heart.
MIND
HEAD Sensitive, as of a cold breeze blowing on it.
Feels numb, as if made of wood; occiput heavy, as of lead. Vertigo on rising, felt in occiput, as if intoxicated, or like sea-sickness.
Moist eruption on scalp; worse, back and ears.
Scalp sore to touch, followed by numbness.
Headache, must hold temples to relieve; provoked by shaking while coughing.
Dry; feels constricted, as if covered with albumin.
FACE
Loss of eyelashes.
Dim sight; far-sighted; cannot read fine print without glasses; blenorrhoea of lachrymal sac; marginal blepharitis.
Canthi fissured.
Skin around eyes dry and scurfy.
Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn; tip of nose itches.
Epistaxis.
Ozaena, with scabs and muco-purulent discharge.
EYES
NOSE
Noise unbearable, especially from several people talking together.
Eczema, intertrigo, etc., in and behind ears, with intense itching.
Parts sore to touch.
Fissures in meatus.
Dry catarrh, with deafness and noises.
Ringing and cracking in ears.
Chronic Eustachian catarrh.
Diminished hearing.
EARS
Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation.
Distention.
Feeling of great emptiness.
Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating cabbage.
Hunger, immediately after stool.
Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth.
Gastralgia when stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating. [Anac.; Sep.]
Ravenous hunger.
Must rise at night and eat. [Psorin.]
Odor of garlic.
Diarrhoea only in the daytime; watery, gushing and Itching of anus.< after cabbage
G.I.T.
Male Herpetic eruption on perineum. Prostate inflamed and swollen. Itching in urethra.
Female Before menses, throbbing in head. [Kreos.] Leucorrhoea, profuse, albuminous. [Alum.; Bor.; Bov.; Calc. p.] Genitals sore and moist. Sensation of moisture. [Eup. purp.] Itching and mealy coating of nipple.
GENITALIA
Hoarseness. [Carbo; Caust.; Phos.]
dry cough and oppression of chest; worse, cold air.
Dry cough at night, coming deep from chest.
Croup and laryngeal diphtheria.
Sensation of coldness. [Carb. an.; Nat. mur.]
Fainting, with ebullitions, heat and palpitation.
Respiratory
HEART
Pain in nape of neck, stiff and painful.
Weakness in small of back.
Coccyx painful.
Chronic sprains.
Fetid sweat in axillae.
Knees stiff.
Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured every winter.
Scalding sensation in knee.
Cracking in joints.
BACK
EXTREMITIES
Itching at night.
Chilblains, moist, itch and burn.
Bed-sores.
Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked, leathery.
Herpes.
Slightest scratch makes skin suppurate. [Hepar.]
Intertrigo; psoriasis of hands.
Thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching; redness, raw; cracks bleed easily.
Eczema.
Rhagades worse in winter.
SKIN
Chilliness, followed by sweat.
Flushes of heat, particularly of the face and head; worse at night.
Perspiration on feet and axillae.
Worse dampness, before and during a thunder-storm, from riding in cars, passive motion; in
winter, eating, from mental states.
Better warm air; lying with head high; dry weather.
FEVER
MODALITIES
Compare : Carbo; Graph.; Sulph.; Phos. Complementary : Sepia. Antidotes : Nux; Coccul.
Third to thirtieth and higher potencies. Material doses often better.
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