Petroleum


Petroleum symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Petroleum? Keynote indications and uses of Petroleum…


COMMON NAMES:

      ROCK OIL; COAL OIL.

Symptoms

      It acts prominently on the skin, producing eczema, fissures and pustules, and upon the glandular and digestive systems (D.).

Particularly indicated ion diseases of the ears, mucous membranes, skin, and joints (MI.).

Symptoms, appear and disappear rapidly (Belladonna, Magnesia phos., reverse of Platina, Stann.) (A.)

Ailments from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship (Cocc.) (A.).

Salt-rheum on hands; red, raw, burning, or moist, or covered with thick crusts (N.).

Ailments which are worse before and during a thunder-storm (Nat- C., Phosphorus, Psorinum) (A.)_.

Heat and burning of soles of feet and palms of hands (Lachesis, Medorrhinum, Sepia, Sulphur) (A.).

THE SKIN SYMPTOMS ARE WORSE IN WINTER BETTER IN SUMMER (Alumina): AND IF SUPPRESSED, CAUSES DIARRHOEA (A.).

Salt-rheum on lower legs from knee to ankles; purplish oozing; or covered with scales or scabs, which are easily detached; itching and burning like fire (N.).

Headache; In the occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing, pulsating pain; as if everything in the head were alive; numb bruised; as if made of wood. (A.).

Vertigo in the occiput, like sea-sickness (Cocc.) (A.).

Vertigo, when rising from a recumbent posture (bry., China, Nux- V., Pulsatilla, Sepia) (Py.).

Vertigo on closing the eyes (Arnica, Chel,. Lachesis, Sepia, Theridion) (K.).

Ozaena, with scabs and muco-purulent discharge ( Aurum, Hepar) (Br.).

The nostrils are cracked and ulcerated (Alumina, Graphites, Natrum muriaticum) (BI.).

Post-nasal catarrh (Hydrastis, Kali bichromicum, Nat-S.) (BI.).

Easily offended at trifles (Ignatia, Medorrhinum, Pulsatilla, Staphysagria) (A.).

Irritable, quarrelsome disposition (Bryonia, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Sulphur) (A.)

Feeling as if intoxicated (Baptisia, Gelsemium, Nux vomica) (A.).

Vexed at everything (Bryonia, Chamomilla, Nux vomica, Sulphur) (A.).

SENSE OF DUALITY (Anacardium, Baptisia) (B.).

IMAGINES THAT ANOTHER PERSON LIES IN THE SAME BED (Baptisia) (Be.).

DELUSION THAT THERE ARE TWO BABIES IN THE BED (A.).

THINKS HE IS DOUBLE, (Anacardium, Baptisia, Cannabis indica, Gloninum, Lachesis, Mosch., Nux-M., Stramonium) (Br.). OR SOME ONE ELSE LYING ALONG-SIDE (Br,)

Imagines that one leg is double (A.).

Irresolute (Pulsatilla) (B.).

Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs. (Arsenicum) (Br.,)

CHRONIC FOETID DISCHARGE FROM THE EAR (Calcarea sulph., Graphites, Hepar, Mercurius, Silicea, Tell.) (MI.).

Chronic Eustachian catarrh (puls.) (Br.).

IMPAIRED HEARING (Calcarea, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla) (Ra.)

A large quantity of thick or thin wax in the ear, which is dry or hard, and of a brown colour (Ra.)

Humid soreness behind the ear (Graphites) (N.)

CHRONIC MOIST ECZEMA; PARTS SEEM EXCORIATED (Arsenicum, Graphites, Nat- M., Rhus toxicodendron) (N.).

CRACKING OF THE JOINTS (Ledum, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Natrum carbonicum, Natrum muriaticum, Natrum sulphuricum, Acid nitricum, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Plb., Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia, Sulphur, Thuja) (G.).

Inflexibility of he joints (Arsenicum, Belladonna, Caust, Ledum, Lycopodium, Rhus-t., Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur) (G.).

Chronic sprains (Rhus toxicodendron) (G.).

COLD FEELING IN THE HEART (Arnica, Carb-An., Graphites, Helo., Kali- B., Kali-Chl., Lit-T., Natrum muriaticum, Pyrog.) (G.).

Fainting, with ebullitions, heat and palpitation (Br.).

FETID SWEAT FROM THE AXILLAE (Mercurius) (G.).

Brown or yellow spots on the skin (G.).

Painful sensitiveness of the skin of the whole body (Hepar, Lachesis);l all clothing is painful (A.).

SLIGHT INJURY SUPPURATES (Hepar, Mercurius, Silicea, Sulphur) (A.).

Skin of hands rough; cracked; tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured, every winter (A.).

Vesicular eruptions, turning into pustules, which are covered with scabs (D.).

Tenderness of the feet, which are bathed in foul-smelling sweat (graph., Sanicula, Silicea) (A.).

Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands, worse in cold weather (A.).

Many furuncles on the neck and arms, with ulceration of the ears (MI.).

Bitter of sour taste in the mouth (China, Nux vomica, Sepia) (G.).

DISGUST FOR MEAT (Calcarea, China, Graphites) (G.).

Deep, fistulous ulcers (Silicea) (G.).

RAVENOUS APPETITE OR CANINE HUNGER WITH DIARRHOEA (Aloe,. Calcarea, Fluor-Ac., Iodium, Lycopodium, Olnd., Stramonium, Sulphur, Verat) (K.).

Aversion to fat food (China, Mercurius, Ptelea trifoliata, Puls) (G.).

Empty, hungry feeling and nausea, which lasts all day (D.).

Particularly applicable in all gastric troubles of pregnant females (Pulsatilla, Sepia) (G.).

Sensation of repletion after a little food (Lycopodium, Nux-M.) (Mr.)

GASTRALGIA, WHENEVER THE STOMACH BECOMES EMPTY (Bar-C., Calcarea, Cocc., Graphites, Ignatia, Lachesis, Acid nitricum, Psorinum, Sepia) (Dr. Brs.)

Gastralgia with pressing, drawing pains; ameliorated by keeping on eating something constantly (Anacardium, Bromium, Chelidonium, Cina., Dioscorea, Graphites, Hepar, Ignatia) (G.).

SEA-SICKNESS (Carb-Ac., Cocc., Colchicum, Conium, Gloninum, Hyoscyamus, Kali- B., Kreosotum, Lac-Ac., Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Sepia, Staphysagria, Tabacum, Theridion) (K.).

Nausea when riding (Calcarea phos., Cocc., Magnesia carb., Nux-M., Sepia) (G.)

COLD FEELING IN THE ABDOMEN (Ambr., Calcarea, Camph., Crot-T., Gratiola, Kali-S., Meny., Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Secale, Veratrum) (G.).

Nausea, worse from motion or riding, and accompanied by vertigo (D.).

Diarrhoea, preceded by colic (Aloe., Nux vomica) (N.)

Diarrhoea, After cabbage, sourcrout; during pregnancy: and during stormy weather (A.).

Chronic diarrhoea (Aloe., Podophyllum, Sulphur) (Br.).

DIARRHOEA, ALWAYS IN THE DAY TIME (A.).

Stools yellow, watery, gushing (Aloe, China, Crot-T., Sulphur) (A.)

Slimy stools with pain in the bowels (Coloc., Dioscorea, Mercurius, Nux- V., Sulphur) (Bt.).

Burning and stinging in the anus and rectum (Aloe, Sulphur) (G.).

Raw haemorrhoids; scurf on the anus. (G.).

Great desire to urinate, with itching of the meatus (Cannabis indica, Causticum, Cocc-C., Hydrastis, Kali carb., Merc-C., Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur) (Ra.).

Chronic gonorrhoea (Calcarea sulph., Kali-S., Medorrhinum, Natrum muriaticum, Nat-S., Petrosel., Sepia, Thuja) (k.).

Itching in the urethra (Petrosel.) (Br.).

HERPES OF THE GENITAL ORGANS EXTENDING TO THE PERINEUM, AND THIGHS; ITCHING, REDNESS; SKIN CRACKED, ROUGH, BLEEDING; DRY OR MOIST (A.).

Sweat and moisture of the external genitals, both sexes (Lycopodium, Mercurius, Sulphur, Thuja) (A.).

Menses cause an itching in the genitals (Calcarea, Causticum, Kreosotum, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Sepia, Silicea, Zinc,) (G.).

Profuse leucorrhoea every day, with lascivious dreams every night (G.).

Labia majorae perspire and itch much (G.).

INFLAMED TARSI (Alumina, Graphites, Sepia, Sulphur) (B.).,

Cough at night only (Ambr., Causticum) or worse then (con., Hyoscyamus, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla) (B.),

Cough produces headache (Bryonia, Sepia,) (Br.).

MARGINAL BLEPHARITIS (Alumina, Argentum nitricum, Borax, Graphites, Sepia, Sulphur) (Br.)

FISTULA LACHRYMALIS (Calcarea, Fluor-Ac., Pulsatilla, Silicea) (K.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From carriage-riding; before and during a thunder- storm; in winter; during the day time; in a ship; on rising; when fasting; during pregnancy; from touch; and from taking sauer- kraut or cabbage.

AMELIORATION:

      At night; in summer; after eating; in warm air; and from lying with the head high.

RELATIONSHIP:

      One of our best ANTIDOTES for lead-poisoning.

Remedies following; Bryonia, Calc-C., Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia, silicea, Sulphur

ANTIDOTES: Cocc., and Nux vomica

Complementary: Sepia

Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)