PETROLEUM


Homeopathic remedy Petroleum drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Rock.oil. HAHNEMANN. Anthracite.

Mind

      Did not know where she was in the street.

Delirium; thinks another person lies alongside of him, or that one limb is double.

Sadness and despondency, inclination to weep.

Excited irritable, with inclination to be angry and to scold; anxious and irresolute.

Ailments from vexation, with fright.

Sensorium

      Vertigo on rising; often with bilious vomiting.

Inner Head

      Headache in forehead; every mental exertion causes him to become stupid.

Headache from anger.

Frontal headache, at times quite severe, but worse while the nausea remained.

Occipital headache, with general spasms and screaming; loss of appetite, constipation.

Pain from the occiput over the head to the forehead and eyes, with transitory blindness; he gets stiff; loses consciousness.

Pressing-stinging in the cerebellum.

Dull, pulsating pain in occiput.

Sensation as if everything in the head were alive Head feels numb, as it made of wood or as if bruised.

Outer Head

      Sensation as of a cold breeze blowing on head.

Scalp very sore to the touch, followed by numbness worse morning; and on becoming heated.

Moist eczema, acute and chronic, worse on the occiput.

Falling off of the hair.

Eyes

      Cannot open the eyes mornings; sight misty.

Aching in the eyes, worse in the evening and from light.

Ciliary blepharitis from conjunctivitis granulosa or from small-pox, with sticking and smarting in inner canthus.

Pannus in scrofulous patients; discharge from the eye white; cheeks rough.

Pains at the root of the Nose, lids swollen, purulent discharge from eyes and nose.

Iritis, with dull pulsating in the occiput. Syphilis.

Fistula lachrymalis (of recent origin).

Ears

      Sounds as of bells ringing.

Hardness of hearing; in old people.

Dryness and disagreeable sensation of dryness in the ear.

Eustachian tubes affected, causing whizzing, roaring, cracking, with hardness of hearing.

Polypus; wax increased, thick or thin.

Discharge of blood and pus from the ear.

Humid soreness behind the ear.

Nose

      Slight epistaxis, relieving the headache.

Dry feeling in nose, frequent sneezing; adherent phlegm, blown out in small lumps; thick phlegm in posterior nares, worse mornings.

Swelling of the nose, with pain at its root; purulent discharge.

Fluent coryza, with hoarseness.

Face

      Yellow complexion.

Lower Face

      Easily dislocated jaw, in morning in bed, with much pain.

External swelling on left lower jaw, painful to touch and on stooping.

Swelling of submaxillary glands.

Scurfs around mouth.

Teeth

      Sensation of coldness in teeth.

Toothache from contact with fresh, open air, at night, and with swelling of cheek.

Numbness of teeth, they pain when biting on them.

Swelling of the gums, with stinging, burning pain when touching them.

Fistula dentalis.

Tongue etc.

      Taste: slimy, pappy, bitter: putrid; sour.

The tongue coated white in centre, with dark streak along edges.

Mouth

      Fetid smell from mouth.

Saliva, offensive smelling.

Great dryness of mouth and throat in morning, with much thirst.

Ulcers on the inner cheek, painful when closing the teeth.

Throat

      When swallowing, food enters into posterior nares.

Throat feels swollen and raw.

Stinging from throat into ear, when swallowing.

Throat dry, sore; pain in nape of neck when swallowing.

Hawking of a tough, disagreeably tasting phlegm, in mornings.

Desires Aversions

      Hunger immediately after stool.

Ravenous hunger.

Aversion to meat and fat, as well as all warm, cooked food.

Loss of appetite.

Drinking all the time; passed water often.

Violent thirst (for beer).

Eating and Drinking

      After eating; giddiness; heat in the face; cutting in the abdomen; gastralgia better.

Nausea and Vomiting

      Sour, or bitter eructations.

Nausea and vomiting of bitter, green substances; worse from riding in a carriage, during pregnancy, and in the morning.

Stomach

      Pain in pit of stomach, as if something were tearing off.

Sensation of fulness or swelling of pit of stomach, with soreness when touched.

Violent pain in stomach, extending up into chest, with sweat and nausea.

Gastralgia, with pressing, drawing pains, better from eating.

Sensation of emptiness and weakness in stomach.

Weakness of digestion.

Abdomen

      Awake toward morning, with pinching colic, better from bending double.

Cold feeling in the abdomen.

Stool etc.

      Awakened early morning by urgent desire for stool, which is gushing, watery; sharp, cutting, colicky pains below the navel; rumbling.

Stools: slimy, preceded by colic; chronic diarrhoea; worse during the day; of bloody mucus; often profuse; yellowish, watery; weak feeling in bowels and rectum.

Diarrhoea: from cabbage, sour-krout; after riding in a carriage.

Stool insufficient, difficult, hard, in lumps.

Piles and fissures of the anus; great itching; scurf on borders of anus.

Excrescences on and in the anus, moist, irregular.

Urine

      Constant dripping of urine.

Frequent micturition, with scanty, brown, fetid urine.

Involuntary micturition, at night in bed.

Itching in the meatus urinarius (female) during micturition, preceded by an urgent desire to urinate.

Chronic blenorrhoea.

Contraction of the urethra. Burning in the urethra.

Chronic inflammation of parts prostatia urethra, with frequent emissions and imperfect erection; chronic urethritis accompany stricture.

Male Sexual Organs

      Sexual desire decreased in morning.

Gonorrhoea; chronic cases, with urethral itching.

Itching and humid herpes: on the scrotum; between scrotum and thigh; on the perineum.

Female Sexual Organs

      Aversion to an embrace.

Menses: too late and scanty; early and profuse; menstrual blood causes itching.

Before the menses, throbbing in head; during menses, singing and roaring in the ears; lassitude.

Prolapsus uteri in patients reduced by chronic diarrhoea, occurring during the day.

Leucorrhoea, like albumen, profuse every day, or with nightly lascivious dreams.

Soreness and moisture on genitals, with violent itching.

Pregnancy

      During pregnancy, diarrhoea and vomiting, worse riding.

After confinement imagines there is another baby in bed which requires attention.

Itching and mealy covering of the nipples.

Larynx

      Dryness and scraping sensation in larynx.

Bronchial catarrhs. Hoarseness.

Breathing

      Cold air causes an oppressed feeling on chest.

Oppression of the chest, at night.

Cough

      Dry at night, coming deep from the chest, caused by a scratching in the throat; with stitches under the sternum.

Heart Pulse

      Cold feeling about the heart.

Fainting, with ebullitions, heat, pressing on the heart and palpitation.

Pulse accelerated by every motion; slow during rest.

Outer Chest

      Herpes on the chest.

Neck Back

      Stiff neck; it cracks when moved.

Herpes on the neck. Furuncles.

Pain in spine and pain all over body, with sciatica.

Pain in back, which does not allow him to move.

Great uneasiness and stiffness in small of back and coccyx in the evening.

Pain in the coccyx while sitting.

Upper Limbs

      Fetid sweat in the axillae, Salt rheum on arms, red, raw, burning; moist or covered with thick crusts.

Deep, bloody rhagades on hands, thick crusts; worse during winter.

Brown or yellow spots on the arms.

Wrist feels sprained.

Burning in palms of hands.

Lower Limbs

      Legs swollen from knee to ankle, purplish, oozing, or covered with scales or scabs, which are easily detached; itching and burning like fire.

Spreading, sloughing ulceration of the leg.

Herpes on knees and ankles.

Ulcers on toes, originating in blisters.

Hot swelling of the soles, with burning.

Heel painfully swollen and red; chilblains.

Feet swollen; cold.

Feet tender and bathed in a foul moisture.

Limbs in General

      The limbs go to sleep and become stiff.

Rheumatic stiffness of the joints, with cracking when moved.

Rheumatic stiffness of shoulders and ankles; syphilis.

Position etc.

      Motion:. Mental exertion: Rising: Stooping: Bending double: Sitting: Rest:.

Nerves

      Twitching in the limbs; epileptic attacks.

Violent trembling of the limbs; weak unto faintness.

Sleep

      With distressing dreams, as if somebody were lying alongside of him in bed.

Time

      Morning:,,,,, Evening: Night:, After midnight: Toward morning:, Day: 7 P.M.: 12 P.M.:.

Temperature and Weather

      Many ailments are worse before or during a thunder storm.

Aversion to the open air and from it chilliness.

Warmth:; of bed: Open air:, Cold air: Winter:.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Chilliness through the body, followed by violent itching of the skin.

Chilliness in the open air.

Chill, with headache, and excessively cold face and hands.

Shaking chill, 7 P.M., then sweat in the face, and later all over except the legs, which are cold.

Chill, especially toward evening, often with heat at the same time.

Heat in the evening after chill, with cold feet.

Heat after 12 P.M., and in morning in bed.

Flushes of heat all over, in frequent attacks during day.

Profuse sweat every night, or immediately after chill.

Tissues

      Hemorrhages, blood light red.

Swelling and indurations of glands; also after contusions.

Increased secretion of the mucous membranes.

Emaciation, with diarrhoea by day, none at night; in children.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.