PSORINUM


Psorinum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

The seropurulent matter contained in the Scabies vesicle was used for Hahnemann’s provings (No. 1). The product of “Psora sicca” (epidermoid efflorescence of Pityriasis) was used for the provings by Dr. Gross (Nos. 2 to 5). Preparations, Triturations.

Mind

Excitable before falling asleep. Very sentimental. Cheerful, lively, enjoys everything (sixth day). Suddenly very lively, at other times depressed; thus it changed several times during the day. He pictures the future in the brightest colors. In good humor; he works with pleasure (second morning). In great humor and full of fun. Anxiety full of forebodings, very restless, with trembling of the hands. Unusual anxiety when riding in a carriage (first day). He is anxious, full of fear, and melancholic.

Anxious oppression, palpitation. Sometimes very melancholy, and then excessively frolicsome. She is so downhearted that she could commit suicide, then is full of phantasms. Very melancholy and despairing; he wishes to die in spite of his good luck.

Melancholy and sorrowful. Very depressed (seventh day).

Despairing mood; he fears to fail in business. His ideas are sad and joyless. Extremely ill-humored. Very irritable; quarrels about trifles. Very irritable, and wants to talk all the time. She is very irritable, easily angered; thinks always of dying. Very irritable and quarrelsome, in the morning. He is very irritable, although he conquers his ill-humor; only disagreeable things affect him, agreeable impression he passes by without noticing them (from smelling 28th potency). Irritable, could weep about everything. Irritable and quarrelsome in the something.

Fretful for two days (after one drops of 15th). Very quarrelsome.

Every moral impression affects her so much that she trembles over the whole body. Thinking that he understood what he read, he tries to explain it to another, and thus finds out that he does not understand it himself. He cannot rid himself of the ideas which appeared to him first in his dreams, during the night (for three days). Great disinclination to ride in a carriage (for four weeks); then at once she wants to ride all the time, even in bad weather. Dose not like to work. She loses her memory, so that she dose not recognize the room after looking out of the window (second day). Memory so weak that he forgets what he had just said. Very forgetful (eighth day). Very weak memory; she cannot recollect anything.

Head

Vertigo. Vertigo, everything turns around with him (eighth day).

Vertigo and former sparks before the eyes reappear. Vertigo in the morning. Much dizziness in the head. General Head. When he woke at night his head felt cloudy, as if he had been intoxicated during the evening; befogged, stupid, he tumbles about. Sensation of heaviness in the head (mornings). Great dulness of the head, so that he fears an inflammation of the brain; nosebleed relieves. Dull headache, with eructations. Weakness of the head.

Severe headache, as if a stick were pressing into her head, with great weakness. She has to lie down about 1 P.M. and soon falls asleep. She perspires freely during the night, which greatly relieves her (second to third day). Headache tearing. Headache, as if everything would protrude through the forehead (second day, toward evening). Headache (evening, second day). Headache, coldness, dryness of mouth and lips. Spasmodically contracting headache (eighth day). Pressing headache, with otorrhoea (seventh and eighth days). Pressing headache, especially unilateral (in a herpetic patient). Frequent intermittent headache (from 9 drops of the 29th potency). Pain in the head; an excruciating tearing, from which, in a similar manner, he formerly suffered, and then always for two days, is this time combined with a high fever and general arthritic pains. Pains all through the head, as if a hammer were beating in the head. Thrusts in the head (fifth day).

A severe stitch in the sinews of the head, when turning in the neck on the left side. Sensation as if her whole head were burning. Fullness of the head during mental labor. The blood pulsates in the head during mental labor. Forehead. He feels stupefied in the left half of the forehead (in the morning, after three hours). Frontal headache, with sensation of weakness in the forehead. Frontal headache, as if the brain had not space enough in the skull, on rising in the morning, as if everything were pushed out; it feels better after washing and breakfast.

Frontal headache (third day). Headache, pressing, over the whole forehead, especially in the temples, increased by steady mental exertion, relieved by motion, especially in the fresh air; it is worst morning and evening, with excessive sensation of heaviness in the forehead; frequently it suddenly passes off, and attacks instead the molars of the left side (from 10 drops of 30th).

Pressing headache in the forehead and temples (seventh day).

Pressing, frequently at intervals; pinching pain, with a sensation of heaviness in the upper part of the forehead; sometimes the whole forehead aches, and then it feels as if the temples were pressed in; afterwards it suddenly changes to pressing pains in the molars, most frequently when walking in the fresh air; it begins early in the morning and in the evening (eight hours after 10 drops of 1st). On the left side of the forehead dull, pressing, acute stitches, not affected by rest or motion (second and third days). Contracting frontal headache.

Burning in the forehead (second day). A drawing in the frontal sinuses, as in coryza. Pain in the center of the forehead (fourth day). A stitching pain extending from the forehead to the nose.

Stitches in the right side of the forehead, extending into the eye. Temples. Pain in the temple after mental exertion. A pressure, shooting into the head, in the left temple (first evening). Hammering pain in the temples. Boring, stitching pains in the temples. Vertex and Occiput. Dull pressing headache in a small spot of the vertex, after an hour, returning repeatedly (from the 30th). Sensation as if a cord were tied firmly around the skin, especially about the occiput, which feels as if it were pressed outward. A pressing pain, as if strained, in the right side of the occiput (noon. External Head. Many pimples on the forehead. A crampy pain in the skin of the right temple (7 1/2 P.M.). The forehead itches.

Eye

Objective. Deep, broad, blue rings around the eyes. Glassy eyes; agglutination of the eyes, in the morning; pressing pains in the eyes. Inflammation of the right eye, from December 18th to 30th.

Ophthalmia, with pressing pains, as if sand were in the eyes; lachrymation during the night. Soreness of the eyes and burning, she has to close them constantly. Subjective. The eyes feel tired in the evening, as after reading much by candlelight (first day, evening). Pressure in the right eye, worse when touching it. Pressure as of a foreign body in the right eye, as soon as it is closed; when the eye is opened the pain is gone (evening). Pressing pains in the eyes. Burning, pressing pains in the eyes, when looking sharply at something, and in the evening by candlelight (from 10 drops of 30th). Burning pains in the eyes, as if sand were thrown into the eyes. Eyes as if full of sand. Biting pain in the eyes. Pressing stitches in the left eye. Stitches in the left eye. Stitches in the eye (fifth hour). Fine stitching pain in the region of the eye, below the orbits, as if she had sand in the eyes (four hours). Lid. The eyes become gummy. Heat and itching in the inner canthi (from 49 drops of 29th potency). Itching in the canthi. Itching of the right eyelid (sixth hour). Itching of the left lower eyelid from one side to the other. Lachrymal Apparatus. Towards evening, lachrymation. Lachrymation (fifth hour). When looking for a long time at an object the eyes fill with tears. Vision. The sight suddenly vanishes, so that for a few minutes everything appears blurred (second day). Dazzling of the eyes when walking in the street (evening, first day). Fiery sparks before the eyes (fifth hour). The former sparks, with vertigo before the eyes, reappear. All objects in the room appear as if they were trembling (vibrating).

Ear

Objective. Discharge of fetid pus from the ear (seventh hour).

Discharge of fetid pus from the left ear. Otorrhoea, with headache (eighth day). Discharge of reddish cerumen from the left ear. Subjective. A long-continued, very painful stitch in the lobe of the left ear (evening). Single intermitting tearing through the left external meatus auditorius, sometimes also through the right, as from the temporal muscle to the styloid process, for several days (from 10 drops of 30th). His ears feel as if stuffed with cotton, for several forenoons (from 10th drops of 30th). Sensation in the left ear, as if the breath did not come from the respiratory organs, but from the ear.

Sensation as if something suddenly bursts in the ears, when eating or swallowing saliva. Earache in right ear (seventh day, morning). Biting pains in left ear. Pain as from an ulcer in left ear; at the same time on the right ear a pimple, having the appearance of the healthy skin, but split in four parts by a cross, like a wart; in the center a deep small indentation.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.