PETROLEUM


PETROLEUM homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine PETROLEUM …


Symptoms

      1. Fair-complexioned subjects who take cold easily.

2. Irritability and quarrelsomeness; trifles offend.

3. Low fevers with delirium; patient imagines there is another person in the bed; that he is double; that tow babies are in the bed beside her.

4. Occipital vertigo or headache with pressure and heaviness like lead.

5. Ailments from riding in vehicles, etc.; seasickness.

6. Gastric complaints (>) by constant eating; nausea in the morning with accumulation of water in the mouth.

7. Diarrhoea (lienteric) and dysentery only in the day-time; gushing; from taking cold or eating cabbage; from suppressed skin eruptions; discharged offensive.

8. Skin complaints; (a) skin dry, rough and cracked; sore and bleeding; (<) winter, washing, contact of clothes, etc.; esp. tips of fingers; painful, itching chilblains; (b) herpetic and eczematous eruptions; parts fiery-red and raw, oozing a thick gelatinous fluid; violent itching and burning; may go on to formation of thick crusts oozing pus.

9. Chronic rheumatism with great stiffness of joints; cracking sounds on movement.

10. Modalities; (<) before and during thunder-storm; in winter.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.