Graphites


Graphites homeopathy medicine, complete details of homeopathic remedy Graphites from Keynotes and Characteristics by H C Allen…


Graphites Suited to women, inclined to obesity, who suffer from habitual constipation; with a history of delayed menstruation. “What Pulsatilla is at puberty, Graphites is at the climacteric.”. Excessive cautiousness; timid; hesitates; unable to decide about anything (Pulsatilla). Fidgety while sitting at work (Zincum met.). Sad, despondent; music makes her weep; thinks of nothing but death (music is intolerable, Natrum carb., Sabina). Eczema of lids; eruption moist and fissured; lids red and margins covered with scales or crusts. Sexual debility from sexual abuse. Menses: too scanty, pale, late with violent colic; irregular; delayed from getting feet wet (Pulsatilla). Morning sickness during menstruation; very weak and prostrated (Alumina, Carbo animalis, Cocculus indicus). Leucorrhoea: acrid, excoriating; occurs in gushes day and night; before and after menses (before Sepia, after, Kreosotum). Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess, retarding the flow of milk; cancer of breast, from old scars and repeated abscesses. Unhealthy skin; every injury suppurates (Hepar); old cicatrices break open again; eruptions upon the ears, between fingers and toes and on various parts of body, from which oozes a watery, transparent sticky fluid. The nails brittle, crumbling, deformed (Antim crud.); painful, sore, as if ulcerated; thick and crippled. Cracks or fissures in ends of fingers, nipples, labial comminssures; of anus; between the toes. Burning round spot on vertex (Calcarea, Sulphur – cold spot, Sepia, Verbascum). Cataleptic condition; conscious, but without power to move or speak. Takes cold easily, sensitive to draught of air (Borax, Calcarea, Hepar, Nux). Suffering parts emaciate. Hears better when in a noise; when riding in a carriage or car, when there is a rumbling sound (Acid nitricum). Diarrhoea: stools brown, fluid, mixed with undigested substances, and of an intolerable odor; often caused by suppressed eruptions (Psorinum). Chronic constipation; stool difficult, large, hard, knotty, with lumps united by mucous threads; too large (Sulphur); smarting sore pain in anus after stool. Children: impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Sensation of cobwebs on forehead, tries hard to brush it off (Baryta, Borax, Bromium, Ranunculus s.). Phlegmonus erysipelas: of face, with burning, stinging pain; commencing on right side, going to left; after application of iodine. Decided aversion to coition (both sexes).

Graphites Relations. – Complementary: Causticum, Hepar, Lycopodium Graphites follows well: after Lycopodium, Pulsatilla, after Calcarea in obesity of young women with large amount of unhealthy adipose tissue; follows Sulph. well in skin affections; after Sepia in gushing leucorrhoea. Similar: to, Lycopodium, Pulsatilla in menstrual troubles.

Aggravation. – At night, during and after menstruation.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.