A scurfy state of the scalp. A certain amount of scaling is natural; it is only when it becomes excessive that it constitutes disease.
General Treatment.-When the crust is thick it may be removed by anointing with lard at night and washing with a weak solution of soda in the morning. It must not be removed forcibly.
Medicines.-(To be given night and morning.)
Arsen. 3.-
When dry.
Sepia 6.-
When moist.
Sulph. 6.-
When dark or dirty-looking, with offensive odour, red under the crust; itching. (When Sulphur is given internally a mild sulphur ointment (one part of official Sulphur Ointment to three parts Linguentum cetacci) may be applied at night and washed off in the morning.).
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica