Graphites graph.

NUTRITION. Circulation. SKIN: Folds. Behind ears. Angles. Flexures. Orifices. Nails. Mind. Mucous membranes. Glands. Eyes.

COLD. Drafts. Light. During menses. Suppressions of eruptions. Empty swallowing. Fats. Hot drinks. Warmth of bed. Scratching. Night. Wet feet.

Open air; after walking in. Eating. Touch.

LUMPY, THICK OR HARD (Chin. Thu.); skin, glands, tarsi, nails, scars, callosities, stools, crusts, etc. Infiltrations. EXCORIATIONS, CRACKS OR FISSURES; in angles; at margins of mucous membranes; of eyes, nostrils, mouth, finger-tips, nipples, anus, etc. Emaciation; of affected part. Scanty, foul, thin, sticky, corrosive secretions. Watery hæmorrhages. Sense of burning, numbness or deadness. Pains go to part not lain on. Fat, relaxed, chilly and costive.

Impulse to groan. Sad, fearsome and irresolute. Music brings tears. Brain feels numb. Burning spot on vertex. Heavy occiput. Wens. Matted, brittle or falling hair; < vertex and sides. Milk crust. Sore or cracked outer canthi. Scrophula of eyes. Pale tarsi. Ingrown lashes. Photophobia. Inflamed or dry, scaly tarsi. Scales from ears. Briny otorrhœa. Tinnitus. Hears > in a noise. Moist eruption behind ears. Dryness in ears and nose. Nose; stuffed coryza; bleeding, < before menses. Acute smell. Sensation as of a cobweb on face. Acne before menses. Barbers'itch. Lumpy goitre. Rotten taste. Dots of thick, white fur on tongue. Choking; on swallowing, from goitre, etc. Sour: taste, eructation, blood about teeth, stool, urine, odor from mouth, sweat, etc. Hunger. Averse to meats and sweets. Alternate digestive and skin symptoms. Gastric pains -burning- necessitate eating. Morning sickness during menses. Can't bear pressure about waist. Foul belching. Flatulence. Stomach > heat, hot food, eating and lying. Abdomen distended, as from incarcerated flatus. Intestinal torpor. Large, knotty, difficult, stringy, slimy coated stools; or loose, brown, lienteric and very foul. Constipation; for days (Sep.). Fissures of anus bleed and ulcerate. Stool of masses of mucus. Slender stool and urinary stream. Priapism. Sexual exhaustion. Itching of anus and pudendum; before menses. Averse to coition. Swelled (l) ovary. Cramps in various places or burning. Indurations; ovaries, mammæ, etc. Menses irregular; late, scanty, painful, etc.; cold taking, morning sickness or sweats during. Gushes of irritating, white leucorrhœa; instead of menses. Suffocation, after mid-night, > eating. Voice lacks control, > using it. Circulation irregular. Flushings. Rushes of blood to head. Bunions, < fire heat, > pressure. Can't stretch enough. Paralysed feeling in limbs. Arms and legs go to sleep. Rawness in folds of skin. Eruptions, cracked, moist and bleed easily; < on head and behing ears. Foul, acrid foot - sweat; chafes toes. Crippled, crumbling nails. IRRITABLE, DRY, rough skin, that breaks easily and exudes A GLUEY MOISTURE; < in folds - and is slow to heal. MOIST, CRUSTY ERUPTIONS. Eczema; anal, crural, palmar, etc. Wandering or recurrent erysipelas (Hyds. Rhus-t.). Eruptions, < from heat. Supersensitive to cold; it < bone-pains, coryza and stomach. Cold, wet feet. Burning coldness.

Complementary: Sul. Related: Ars. Calc-fl. Carbons. Fer. Kali-bi. Pul.

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 (Puls.). Fidgety while sitting at work (Zinc.). Sad, despondent; music makes her weep; thinks of nothing but death (music is intolerable, Nat. c., Sab.). 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 (Puls.). Morning sickness during menstruation; very weak and prostrated (Alum., Carbo an., Coc.). Leucorrhoea: acrid, excoriating; occurs in gushes day and night; before and after menses (before Sep., after, Kreos.). 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 (Hep.); 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 (Ant. c.); 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 (Cal., Sulph. - cold spot, Sep., Ver.). Cataleptic condition; conscious, but without power to move or speak. Takes cold easily, sensitive to draught of air (Bor., Cal., Hep., Nux). Suffering parts emaciate. Hears better when in a noise; when riding in a carriage or car, when there is a rumbling sound (Nit. ac.). Diarrhoea: stools brown, fluid, mixed with undigested substances, and of an intolerable odor; often caused by suppressed eruptions (Psor.). Chronic constipation; stool difficult, large, hard, knotty, with lumps united by mucous threads; too large (Sulph.); smarting sore pain in anus after stool. Children: impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Sensation of cobwebs on forehead, tries hard to brush it off (Bar., Bor., Brom., Ran. 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).

Complementary: Caust., Hep., Lyc. Graphites follows well: after Lyc., Puls., after Cal. 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, Lyc., Puls. in menstrual troubles.

At night, during and after menstruation.

Affections of left ear particularly--if the right ear is affected, it is generally from spreading from the left ear to the right. Noise in the ears in general, with hardness of hearing; can scarcely hear in the house at all, as the noises in the ear seem so loud; but when rolling along in the cars or carriage, hears distinctly ordinary tones of voices.

A very characteristic symptom of this remedy, is the exudation of a thin, sticky, glutinous, transparent, watery fluid from any raw or sore place. Exanthema, corroding and spreading with the characteristic exudation. Erysipelatous, moist, scurfy sores. Skin red. Callus, which may appear in breasts that have been inflamed; humid; pain in, as if ulcerated. Tetters in general; corroding and spreading; scurfy; humid.

Brittle and crumbling; deformity of; troubles of the toe nails; (in this "nail trouble," look out that no "toe doctor" is at work, whose manipulations, applications, drugs, etc., are interfering with the action of your medicines); complaints of the nails in general; painful, as if sore, or as if ulcerated; thickening of.

Female: Menses too late (particularly if the characteristic exudation appears anywhere); too scanty; suppressed; delay of first; complaints during and after. Watery leucorrhœa; nipples very sore during nursing, especially if there are little bluish blisters on the nipple, which discharge the characteristic fluid. Troubles of cicatrized mammæ, resulting from gathering; as there may be a deficiency in the flow of milk, or troubles of any kind when large and many cicatrices are seen on the breasts. Male: Weakness of sexual power in the male.

Waking too late; stupor-like sleep in the morning; anxious dreams; anxious dreams about fatal accidents.

Sensation of contraction in outer parts; same of joints; as if single parts were gone to sleep; sore pain in outer parts; prickling itching.

This remedy affects the right upper extremity and right lower extremity; left ear; hair of the head (which the patient may be losing); external head behind the ears; external crown of the head; internal nose. Affections of the anus (such as itching hæmorrhoids, etc.); sacrum and buttocks; calves; heels; toes; between the fingers, where there is itching exanthema with the exudation. Glittering before the eyes; face covered as if with erysipelas (especially when discharging the mentioned exudation); bad smell from the mouth. Constipation; hunger; flatulence in general; flatus obstructed; hæmorrhoids worse after the bowels have been moved. Stool very large and very hard: with tape-worm. Discharge of urine too scanty. Limbs drawn together, crooked, from the bones being bent. Emaciation in general; muscles being shortened; inclination to sit down; soreness from lying in bed; flushes of heat; yellow perspiration.

In the night; during menstruation, and after, and from suppressed; from light in general, particularly daylight; from having a tape-worm.

In the dark; from eructation.

This remedy is very applicable for females with a tendency to unhealthy corpulence, with perhaps deformed nails, characteristic exudation, menstrual troubles, etc.

Eczema capitis of the whole scalp, forming massive, dirty cruets which mat the hair together, painful and sore to touch. Soreness and cracking of the lips and nostrils, as from cold. Moist eczema on the face; especially on chin and around the mouth. Itching blotches, from which oozes a corrosive, watery, sticky fluid, on many parts of the body. Especially adapted to persons inclined to obesity, particularly women with disposition to delayed menstruation.

Black Lead-Plumbago

Like all the carbons, this remedy is an anti-psoric of great power, but especially active in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily. Children impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Has a particular tendency to develop the skin phase of internal disorders. Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Anæmia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals. Gushing leucorrhœa. Aids absorption of cicatricial tissue. Induration of tissue. Cancer of pylorus. Duodenal ulcer.

Great tendency to start. Timid. Unable to decide. Want of disposition to work. Fidgety while sitting at work. Music makes her weep. Apprehensive, despondency, indecision.

Rush of blood to head with flushed face also with nose bleed and distension and flatulence. Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side, with inclination to vomit. Sensation of cobweb on forehead. Feels numb and pithy. Rheumatic pains on one side of head, extending to teeth and neck. Burning on vertex. Humid, itching eruption on hairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor. Cataleptic condition.

Ophthalmia, with intolerance of artificial light. Eyelids red and swollen. Blepharitis. Dryness of the lids. Eczema of lids; fissured.

Dryness of inner ear. Cracking in ears when eating. Moisture and eruptions behind the ears. Hears better in noise. Hardness of hearing. Hissing in the ears. Detonation in ear like report of a gun. Thin, white, scaly membrane covering membrane tympani, like exfoliated epithelium. Fissures in and behind the ear.

Sore on blowing it; is painful internally. Smell abnormally acute; cannot tolerate flowers. Scabs and fissures in nostrils.

Feels as if cobwebs were on it. Eczema of nose. Itching pimples. Moist eczema around mouth and chin. Erysipelas, burning and stinging.

Rotten odor from mouth. Breath smells like urine. Burning blisters on tongue, salivation. Sour eructations.

Aversion to meat. Sweets nauseate. Hot drinks disagree. Nausea and vomiting after each meal. Morning sickness during menstruation. Pressure in stomach. Burning in stomach, causing hunger. Eructation difficult. Constrictive pain in stomach. Recurrent gastralgia. Flatulence. Stomach pain is temporarily relieved by eating, hot drinks especially milk and lying down.

Nauseous feeling in abdomen. Fullness and hardness in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence; must loosen clothing; presses painfully at abdominal ring. Croaking in abdomen. Inguinal region sensitive, swollen. Pain of gas opposite the side on which he lies. Chronic diarrhœa, stools brownish, liquid, undigested, offensive. Very fetid gas preceded by colic.

Constipation; large, difficult, knotty stools united by mucus threads. Burning hæmorrhoids. Prolapse, diarrhœa; stools of brown fluid, mixed with undigested substance, very fetid, sour odor. Smarting, sore anus, itching. Lump stool, conjoined with threads of mucus. Varices of the rectum. Fissure of anus (Ratanhia; Paeonia).

Turbid, with sediment. Sour smelling.

Menses too late, with constipation; pale and scanty, with tearing pain in epigastrium, and itching before. Hoarseness, coryza, cough, sweats and morning sickness during menstruation. Leucorrhœa, pale, thin, profuse, white, excoriating, with great weakness in back. Mammæ swollen and hard. Induration of ovaries and uterus and mammæ. Nipples sore, cracked, and blistered. Decided aversion to coitus.

Sexual debility, with increased desire; aversion to coition; too early or no ejaculation; herpetic eruption on organs.

Constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, suffocative attacks wakes from sleep; must eat something. Pain in middle of chest, with cough, scraping and soreness. Chronic hoarseness with skin affections. Inability to control the vocal chords; hoarseness on beginning to sing and for breaking voice.

Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and back and limbs. Spinal pains. Pain in small of back with great weakness. Excoriation between thighs. Left hand numb; arms feel asleep; finger-nails thick, black, and rough, matrix inflamed (Psor; Fluor ac). Œdema of lower limbs. Toe-nails crippled. Stiffness and contraction of toes. Nails brittle and crumbling. Nails deformed, painful, sore, thick, and crippled. Cracks or fissures in ends of fingers. Offensive perspiration of feet.

Rough, hard, persistent dryness of portions of skin unaffected by eczema. Early stage of keloid and fibroma. Pimples and acne. Eruptions, oozing out a sticky exudation. Rawness in bends of limbs, groins, neck, behind ears. Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates. Ulcers discharging a glutinous fluid, thin and sticky. Swelling and induration of glands. Gouty nodosities. Cracks in nipples, mouth, between toes, anus. Phlegmonous erysipelas of face; burning and stinging pain. Swelling of feet. Wens. Chronic Poison Oak.

Worse, warmth, at night, during and after menstruation. Better, in the dark, from wrapping up.

Complementary: Argent nit (follows well in gastric derangements); Caustic; Hep; Lycop; Ars; Tuberc.

Compare: Petrol; Sep; Sulph; Fluor ac. The associated constipation with mucus-covered stools and gastric flatulency should be taken into consideration and differentiate it from such remedies as Petrol and Lycop (Raue).

Antidote: Nux; Acon; Ars.

Sixth to thirtieth potency. Locally as a cerate, in sore nipples.

Eruption on the skin, oozing out of thick, honey-like fluid.

Mucous outlets; eyelids inflamed, with pustules; ears discharge, moist sore places behind ears; mouth cracked in corners; anus, eruptions, itching, fissured.

Nails grow thick, cracked, out of shape.

Constipation; stools knotty, large lumps, united by mucous threads.

Diarrhœa; stools, brown fluid, mixed with undigested substances, and of an intolerably fœtid odor.

Sad and desponded; inclined to weep; thinks of nothing but death.

Especially adapted to persons inclined to obesity; particularly females who delay menstruation.

Hears better when in a noise; when riding in a carriage or car; when there is a rumbling sound.

Sensation of cobweb on forehead; tries hard to brush it off.

The chief leading characteristic of this remedy is found in its skin symptoms.

Hoyne had expressed it nearly right. "Eruptions oozing out a thick, honey-like fluid." It may be found on any part of the body, but is especially found on or behind the ears, on head, face, genitals, or eyelids. I once treated a case of eczema of the legs which was of twenty years' standing. It was in an old obese woman, and, by the way, that is the kind of subject in which this remedy is found most efficacious.

I gave her, on account of much burning of the feet, a dose of Suphur c. m. In two or three weeks an eruption was developed all over the body which exuded a glutinous, sticky fluid. One dose of Graphites c. m., dry on the tongue, cured this as well as the eczema of the legs and left her skin as smooth as that of a child. This was years ago. Erysipelas sometimes takes this form, and in such cases recurs again and again. It will naturally occur to the physician that, because of this recurrence, there is some psoric taint which must be met by Sulphur. But we must not make the too common mistake of thinking that Sulphur is the remedy on account of its great antipsoric powers, or on the often misleading indication "when seemingly indicated remedies don't act," because Sulphur is not the only anti-psoric and where Graphites is indicated is not at all the anti-psoric for the case in hand. In short, we must not prescribe for psora (which is only a name after all) without indications any more than we would prescribe for the name scarlatina or diphtheria. Graphites is a powerful anti-psoric, as are also Psorinum, Lycopodium, Causticum and many others. Symptoms must decide here, as elsewhere. In order to still further show the wonderful anti-psoric powers of this remedy I will give another case from practice.

A child three years of age had eczema capitis. Under allopathic local treatment the eczema disappeared; but soon entero-colitis of a very obstinate character set in. Then the regulars could not "do" that as they had the eczema, and after they had given up the case, pronouncing it consumption of the bowels, the homœopath (myself) was called in on the ground that he could do no harm if he could do no good (so they said).

Case. -Child greatly emaciated, little or no appetite, very restless, and "stools brown fluid mixed with undigested substances, and of an intolerably fœtid odor." Taking into the account the history of the suppressed eczema I prescribed Graphites 6m. (Jenichen) and in a short time a perfect cure was the result. Psorinum has a similar stool as was present in this case, but the eruptions of the two remedies are different and this one corresponded to Graphites, hence Psorinum was ruled out. If this case of so long standing had not had the eruption I might have thought of China on account of the extreme weakness from long-continued drain or loss of fluid, for China is another remedy that has brown, loose, fœtid stools. So we must take into consideration all the case, psora and all. In chronic cases, in which Graphites is likely to be the remedy, we may look for affections of the eyelids, of the same eczematous character as that found on the head, behind the ears, etc.

Notice. -Eczema of lids, eruptions moist and fissured margins of lids covered with scales and crusts. In Sulphur lids the margins are very red. All the orifices under Sulphur are very red. Graphites leads all the remedies for eczematous affections of the lids, Staphisagria stands next, but of course special indications, local or general, or both, must decide.

Graphites is one of our best anal remedies. We have given the kind of loose stool characteristic of the drug. This is, however, exceptional, for it generally tends to constipation instead of diarrhœa. The stools are knotty and large, the lumps sometimes united by mucous threads and mucus often follow the stool. There is often eczema around the anus, and it is one of our best remedies for fissura ani. There is in these cases apt to be much pain after stool, and much soreness in anus on wiping it. Now if all this should occur in subjects of this tendency to sticky eruptions, we should not hesitate to give Graphites with expectations of success.

Another very characteristic calling for this remedy is found in the nails. Both finger and toe nails become thick, grow out of shape. Never forget Graphites when you find this state of nails present. Again, Graphites has cracks or fissures in the ends of the fingers (Sarsaparilla), nipples, labial commissures, of anus, and between toes (Petroleum). It is one of our best remedies for wens found in persons of herpetic dyscrasia. Old, hard cicatrices soften up and go away under its action, especially those left by abscesses of the mammæ. Lumps in the breast of suspicious appearance also go away under the action of this remedy. In menstrual troubles it resembles Pulsatilla, but there are plenty of points to differentiate them. In temperament it resembles Calcarea ostrearum; but in Graphites the menses are mostly scanty and delayed, in Calcarea too soon and too profuse; Graphites cures complaints of many kinds when you have present two things:

1st. The peculiar tendency to obesity.

2d. The characteristic glutinous eruptions.

Melancholy with inclination to grief, anxiety about the future, and nightly restlessness driving one out of bed. Despairing grief with shedding of tears. Anxious fear of an approaching misfortune. Irresoluteness and excessive cautiousness. Easily vexed and wrathful. Want of disposition to work. Forgetfulness, chooses wrong words in speaking or writing.

Feeling of intoxication, in the morning on rising, the forehead is contracted, with nausea and vomiting. Headache every morning on waking, semilateral, with inclination to vomit. Pain in the head as if the head were numb and pithy. Burning on the top of the head on a small spot. Fulness in and congestions to the head, the menstruation being suppressed. Humid, spreading, scurfy eruption on the top of the head, painful to the touch, as if from subcutaneous ulceration, and emitting a disgusting odor ; extending down the sides of the head into the whiskers ; after scratching, more sore and humid ; later drying up to a white scurf. Smooth large wens on the hairy scalp ; the hairy scalp is very hot and itches very much, especially when walking in the open air. The hair becomes gray early and falls out from the top and sides ; of the head and the whiskers. Rheumatic pains in the scalp, principally in the sides, extending to the teeth and the cervical glands ; worse when walking and becoming cold in the open air, relieved from warmth and while getting warm when walking. Perspiration smelling acid or very offensive, coloring the linen yellow ; on the head (as on the whole body) at night and during the day, from the least exercise ; increased even while talking, better when walking in the open air.

Pressure and stinging in the eyes, with lachrymation. Inflammation of the eyes with photophobia, and red, swollen eyelids. Intolerance to the light (of day). Short-sightedness. Sensation of dryness of the eyelids. Agglutination of the eyes early in the morning. Dry gum in the eyelashes.

Dryness of the inner ear. Sensation as if the (left) ear were filled with water. Moisture and sore places behind the ears. Hardness of hearing. Cracking in the ears when moving the jaw.

Painful dryness of the nose. Bleeding at the nose. Black sweaty pores on the nose. Dry scurfs in the nose. Frequent discharge of thick, yellowish, fetid mucus from the nose. Coryza as soon as ; he becomes cold. Smell too sensitive (cannot bear the smell of flowers).

Pale-yellow color of the face. Flushes of heat in the face. Swelling and erysipelatous inflammation of the face, burning and stinging ; the erysipelas is spreading in rays. Semilateral (left) distortion and paralysis of the face which impedes the speech. Continued feeling as of cobweb on the face. Eruption on the face, as if the skin were raw. Ulcers on the surface of the lips. Ulcerated corner of the mouth. Scabby eruptions on the chin and around the mouth. Swelling and induration of the submaxillary glands.

Lancinating pain in the teeth from cold drinking, and aggravated by warmth. Swelling of the gums. The gums bleed readily when rubbing them. Fetid odor from the gums and mouth. Sensation in the throat (at night) as if a plug had lodged in it. Constant spasm in the throat, obliging him to swallow as if he were choking. Swelling of the tonsils, with pain when swallowing. Accumulation of a great deal of mucus in the throat. Bitter taste in the mouth, the tongue being much coated. Taste of rotten eggs in the morning, after rising.

Canine hunger (with acidity of the stomach). Frequent sour eructations, with bitter taste in the mouth. Morning nausea. Nausea and vomiting after each meal ; sour vomiting. Repugnance to salt food. Violent thirst, early in the morning. The abdomen becomes inflated after eating. Burning in the stomach, causing hunger. Fulness and heaviness in the abdomen. Distended abdomen with diarrhœa. Hardness of the abdomen. Painfulness of the groins, and swelling of the inguinal glands. Colic and pressure in the stomach with nausea ; relieved by heat. Inflation of the abdomen, owing to an accumulation and incarceration of flatulence. Inflation of the abdomen, with congestion of blood to the head, heaviness in the head and vertigo. Excessive discharge of fetid flatulence. Rumbling in the abdomen. Croaking, as of frogs in the abdomen. Pinching in the abdomen, previous to every emission of flatulence.

Constipation ; the stool hard, knotty, the lumps being united by mucous threads ; hard, of too large a size. A quantity of white mucus is expelled with the stool. Mucous diarrhœa. Sour-smelling stool with burning at the rectum. Continuous soft stools ; of too small a size. With the stool discharge of a little blood ; of tape-worm. Itching and sore feeling of the anus. Varices of the rectum, and between them burning rhagades at the anus. Prolapsus ; recti with the varices, as if the rectum were paralyzed.

Anxious, painful desire to urinate, with discharge of small quantities ; of brown urine in drops, with a stitch in the urethra, when emitting it. The urine smells sour. The urine becomes very turbid, with a reddish sediment. During micturition pain in the os sacrum. Wetting the bed at night. Nightly desire to urinate -frequent micturition.

Men. Tension and lascivious feeling in the genitals ; voluptuous irritation of the genital organs. Immoderate sexual desire ; violent erections. Eruptions on the penis. Dropsical swelling of the prepuce and the scrotum. During an embrace painful cramps in the calves ; no emission of semen. After an embrace coldness of the legs, exhaustion, heat of the body and perspiration. Women. Soreness of the vagina. Painful swelling of the (left) ovary. Menses too late, too scanty and too pale. The first menses delay. Suppression of the menses, with heaviness of the limbs and congestions of blood to the head. Before and during the menstruation, fatiguing cough (morning and during the day). During the menses, colic ; violent headache with nausea ; morning sickness ; soreness between the legs ; swelling of the feet ; chilliness ; pain in the varices. Profuse white, thin, leucorrhœa, with weakness in the back.

Sensitiveness of the larynx ; scraping in it and roughness, hoarseness. Cough, caused by taking a deep inspiration in the evening and at night. Voice (when singing) cracked. Stitches in the chest and palpitation of the heart from the least exercise. Oppression of the chest -Asthma in the evening in bed. Perspiration on the sternum every morning. Swelling and induration of the mammary glands. Soreness of the nipples with small corrosive blisters.

Sensation as if the small of the back were broken or bruised. Formication in the back. Contractive pain between the shoulders. Painful stiffness of the neck, when bending the head and raising the arms.

Upper. Emaciation of the hands. Distortion of the fingers. Gouty nodosities on the finger-joints. Soreness between the fingers. The nails are thick and crippled. Lower. Soreness between the thighs. Numbness and stiffness of the thighs (and toes). Stiffness and contraction of the muscles in the bend of knee. Stiffness of the knee. Stiffness and contraction of the toes. Coldness of the feet (in the evening, in bed). Stinging pains in the heels. Between the toes soreness, with violent itching. On the toes, spreading blisters, ulcers. Ulceration on the borders of the big toe. Sore pains of the corns. The nails are thick and crippled.

Unable to fall asleep before midnight on account of a fixed idea. Perspiration about the head, when falling asleep. Bleeding from the nose at night. Wakens at night with a suffocative attack. During sleep frightful, vexatious dreams. Constant talking during sleep. Bleeding from the nose at night. Wetting the bed at night while asleep.

Great emaciation. The limbs go to sleep. Drawing through the whole body, with inclination to stretch. Contractions of the muscles. Pulsation through the whole body whenever he moves. Sensation of debility, without pain, compelling one to groan.

Pulse full and hard, but not accelerated. Chill and chilliness, principally in the evening, after 4 P.M. General dry heat, evening and night, preceded by a chill. Heat when riding in a carriage. Perspiration from the least exercise. Perspiration sour, coloring the linen yellow, of offensive smell. Night-sweat, offensive smelling. Inability to perspire. Quotidian fever ; shaking chill in the evening ; an hour afterwards heat in the face and cold feet, without any subsequent perspiration.

Swelling and induration of the glands. Dryness of the skin and want of perspiration. Erysipelatous inflammation. Humid tetters and eruptions. Soreness and rawness of the skin (in the bends of the limbs, groins, neck, behind the ears), especially in children. Unhealthy skin ; every little injury causes suppuration. Ulcers, with fetid pus ; proud flesh ; itching, stinging. Burning pain in an old cicatrix. Itching of the varices on the lower limbs. Twitching-stinging on the surface of a mole.

Liability to take cold ; has to avoid a draught of air. Dread of the open air (in the morning), sensitiveness to a draught of air. Aggravation, at night ; from becoming cold ; during and after menstruation ; from suppressed menstruation. Amelioration from eructations.

Plumbago. Black Lead. An allotropic modification of carbon. (The finest specimens contain traces of iron, 0.04 to 0.6 per cent.; poor qualities as much as 4 per cent.) Trituration of prepared Black Lead from finest English drawing-pencils.

Acne. Amenorrhœa. Anus, affections of . Blepharitis. Breasts, indurated; cancer of. Cancer. Catarrh. Chaps . Chlorosis. Colic. Constipation . Deafness. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhœa. Ears, affections of. Eczema . Epistaxis. Erysipelas . Eyes, affections of . Face, erythema of. Feet, affections of . Fissures. Gastralgia. Glandular swellings. Gleet. Gravel . Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Herpes. Hydrocele. Influenza . Irritation. Lachrymal duct inflamed. Leucorrhœa. Lips, cracked. Liver, indurated. Menstruation, disorders of . Mentagra. Nails, disorders of. Noises in head. Nose, affections of . Nose-bleed. Obesity. Ovarian tumours. Paralysis . Parotitis. Pityriasis . Priapism. Pruritus vaginæ. Psoriasis. Ptosis. Rectum, affections of . Rhus poisoning. Scar., inflamed. Scrofula. Seminal emissions. Skin, affections of. Smell, disorders of . Stomach, cramp in. Sycotic diathesis. Syphilis . Trichiasis. Tumours. Ulcers. Urine, disordered . Uterus, cancer of. Vaccination, effects of. Wens. Whooping-cough. Worms. Zona.

The first idea of using this substance as a drug, says Hahnemann, is due to S. Weinhold, who was led to it by seeing workmen in a mirror-factory use it as a local application for tetters. Ruggieri followed him, using it both internally and locally. Hufeland relates the cure of a lady, 41, by the internal and external use of Graph ., of an acne rosacea which had defied all other modes of treatment. Teste classes Graph . in the Pulsatilla group with Silic., Calc., Hepar , and Phos . He gives the following among other symptoms as common to Puls., Silic ., and Graph .: "Anxious, changeable, wavering mood; aversion to work; vertigo with cloudiness; a sort of intoxication in the morning; sense of fulness or emptiness in the head; drowsiness in daytime; single, acute, deep shocks in right half of brain; flickering before eyes; suspension of visual power; photophobia; lachrymation in open air; foul smell before nostrils; amenorrhœa; swelling of right testicle; swelling of veins; wandering pains; pain in the parts not lain upon; heaviness in affected parts; rheumatism at nape of neck; sweat at night having odour of urine; drowsiness in daytime."

Hahnemann was quick to perceive that Graph . was much more than a mere remedy for skin affections. Like that other great skin remedy, Sulphur, Graph . proved to be a leading antipsoric. Hahnemann's provings and observations defined its powers over skin affections. Its special characteristic is: "Eruptions oozing out a thick, honey-like fluid." Wherever such eruptions are found Graph . is in all probability the remedy. I have cured many cases, notably some occurring on the occiput, and behind the ears. It is no less frequently a remedy for the results of repelled eruptions of the kind. Nash records such a case: A child had been "relieved" of an eczema capitis under old-school treatment, whereupon entero-colitis set in, and became so alarming that it was pronounced "consumption of the bowels." Nash when called in found the child greatly emaciated, with little or no appetite, very restless, passing " stools of brown fluid mixed with undigested substances, and of an intolerably fetid odour ." Graph . 6m (Jenichen) cured promptly. Graph . being one of the forms of Carbon, it is therefore related to Carbo anim ., and Carbo veg .; and as it contains a small percentage of iron, it is also related to Ferrum .

Graph . causes slight erethism at first, then a weak, relaxed, condition; anæmia; chlorosis. The typical Graphites patient is "fat, chilly, and costive." Lymphatic glands are swollen. Like the skin, the mucous membranes are cracked and fissured, and have scanty secretions. Irregularities in the distribution of the blood occur, pallor of skin and mucous membranes. The circulation is at first excited, then follows loss of energy and consequent venous hyperæmia. Fainting readily occurs with great anxiety; motion is impaired and the tissues relaxed, but paralysis is not complete. A marked characteristic of Graphites is a rush of blood to head, with flushed face. I have cured two very severe cases of nose-bleed in elderly people where this symptom was present. In one case there had been flushing of head and neck for many months previous to the attack, and flushing preceded and accompanied each occurrence of the bleeding. In the other case the patient said the precursory flush seemed to come up from his toes. He had had his nostrils plugged, without avail, before I saw him. Graphites , in a high potency, cured promptly in both instances. Hahnemann gives the symptom on which I based the prescription as follows: "Bleeding of the nose at 10 p.m.; preceded in the afternoon by rush of blood to the head, and heat of face," There is also "rush of blood to head, with distension and flatulence."

Graphites is suited to persons who have a tendency to put on unhealthy fat. Defective animal heat from defective oxygenation; always cold, indoors or out. Chlorotics. Affections of glands, skin, and mucous membranes, especially at orifices. The Graphites condition is not sensitive and herein it differs from Hepar , which has extreme sensitiveness of affected parts. The tone of mind is sad and foreboding. The eyes, ears, and nose are affected, especially the integumentary parts. There is a very characteristic symptom in reference to the hearing: "hardness of hearing > when riding in a carriage." There is a sore throat like that of Lachesis ; sensation of a lump, < on empty swallowing. It has also a "lump" sensation at the stomach. It resembles Lachesis , too, in its flushings; in gastralgia > by eating. Hurries to meals to relieve violent pain at epigastrium; especially to dinner and supper. Goullon cured two notable cases of cramps in the stomach with "improvement of the cramps by eating." There was also clean tongue. Milk agreed well, especially hot milk. In one case roast meat agreed, but not boiled meat, and, still less, potatoes. In the morning there was a fishy taste, disappearing later in the day. Another cure by Goullon was of a young lady who was troubled with salivation, coming on any time; sometimes just before sitting down to dinner; oftenest when riding in a carriage, less often when riding in a train. She was prevented by it from seeing company, and was low-spirited. There was also habitual costiveness. Graph . 12 at first aggravated and then rapidly cured. Goullon understood the power of Graphites , perhaps, more completely than any other writer, and I will give another of his cures, as it illustrates several points in the drug's action. A well-grown, healthy-looking girl of fifteen had violent headache in right temple every four weeks; the pain was stinging. Glittering before the eyes frequently preceded and followed the attack, which recurred to the hour, and sometimes also on the following day. Drowsiness accompanied the attack, deep sleep, heat and redness of the head, followed by a chill. Sep . 6 relieved the headache, but the glitter remained. The heaviness of the eyelids led Goullon to Graph . (which causes ptosis). His choice was strengthened on learning that there had been no menstruation, and finally she "had a degree of hoarseness that indicated chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils. (A. Vogel claims this to be a sign of scrofula derived from syphilis.") Graph . 2x trit., in two-grain doses, was given six mornings in succession. The period for the headache passed without recurrence, and the sensation of lights completely disappeared ( H. R ., vi. 271). Graphites causes suffocative spells which arouse the patient from sleep, he must jump out of bed, < after midnight ( Lach . < after sleep). There is a diarrhœa of thin, offensive, partly digested stools. Constipation is more common, the stools being in lumps coated with mucus, and with mucous shreds. Habitual costiveness and, in females, scanty menses form a keynote indication when found associated with other complaints, as headache, skin-affections, &c. Moist itching excoriation around anus and fissures. The male sexual organs are affected as well as the female: Uncontrollable sexual excitement, with violent erections. Priapism. (I have frequently seen this condition produced in patients taking Graph . for other things; and have frequently relieved priapism with Graph .) Impotence. In the female the breasts are affected. Pain under left breast at menstrual period, often waking patient in the night. Hysterical melancholia with occipital headache. Leucorrhœa profuse, in gushes, excoriating. It has many symptoms in common with Sepia , but Graph . affects the ovaries more markedly than the latter. There is a feeling as if the uterus would press out at the vagina. Stiffness of knees. The skin of Graphites is rough, hard, and dry. Eczematous and herpetic eruptions predominate. Eruption on occiput exuding gluey humour; eczema of ears; moist eczema round anus. Pimples, acne. Wens. Gastro-intestinal affections alternating with acne and erythema of face, herpetic lesions or scrofulous hypochondriasis. Excoriations between toes. Syphilitic and "constitutional" ulcers. Recrudescence of scars. Cracks and fissures. Offensive discharges and secretions. Sweat: stains yellow; sour, offensive.

The senses are abnormally acute: music causes weeping; cannot tolerate the smell of flowers. Weak, exhaustion of whole body. Spasms; contractions of muscles; twitching of eyelids. Cataleptic condition. Sensitiveness of internal parts; numbness in various parts; drawing pain in whole body. Pain as if head were numb, or pithy, or made of wood. Pain as if constricted in occiput, extending to nape of neck, which pains as if broken. "Intense, heavy weight in occiput, as if head drawn back, must rest it, unable to read or think" (result of 2x and 3x, on three separate occasions in a patient of Dr. W. Epps. Chi . 1x. relieved in a few days — Hom. Rev ., xl. 162). As if skin of forehead was drawn into folds. As if a skin were before ear. As if a hard body as large as an egg were behind ear. As of a cobweb over the face. As of a lump in stomach, with beating as of two hammers. As if intestines were torn; croaking as of a frog in abdomen. As if everything would be torn to pieces during menstruation. Bearing-down pains in various parts. Rest > ; motion < . Riding in a carriage < many complaints; but > hardness of hearing. < Lying on left side. Cold drinks, cold air, damp, wet atmosphere, washing < . Warmth < tearing pain in teeth; warmth of bed < itching; > crampy pain in stomach; scrofulous affections of bones. Eating > cramps in stomach; hot drinks, especially hot milk, > . < In open air; in wind. Bathing after measles = paralysis of face. Getting feet wet = delayed menses. Attacks occur during summer and autumn. Ears feel stuffed at the full moon. Suffering parts emaciate. Overlifting easily. Hæmorrhages. (When giving Graphit . internally in cases of anal eruption I have found the external use of an ointment made with a drachm of the 3x trituration to an ounce of Cetacean ointment of great service. Hirsh, of Prague, has also used Graph . locally in cases of disease of the nails, with very good results.)

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Forgetfulness ; dim recollection of recent events.
Weakness in head, can scarcely think.
Slow in thought ; absent minded.
Dread of work.
Mood : changeable ; forlorn ; depressed ; dejected.
Sadness, with thoughts of nothing but death.
Sad, despondent ; she must weep ; music makes her weep.
Oppression.
Feels miserable, unhappy.
Grief about slightest occurrences, even to despair.
Apprehensiveness, with inclination to weep, in frequent attacks.
Extreme apprehensiveness, so that she did not know how to overcome it.
It frequently seemed to him as though his end was near, or the greatest misfortunes were impending.
Full of fear in the mornings.
Solicitude concerning spiritual welfare.
Great anxiety.
Fidgety while sitting at work.
Desperate state of mind. θ Ophthalmia after syphilis.
Extreme hesitation ; she is unable to make up her mind about anything ; timidity.
Irritability. θ Gastrodynia.
Fretful : ill-humored ; easily vexed ; irritable.
Extremely fretful ; everything angers and offends him.
Impudent, teasing, laughs at reprimands. θ Cough after pertussis.
Very easily excited ; hot hands even from speaking.
Scientific labor fatigues him.
Thoughts of many things at night prevent sleep.
Ailments from grief (or fright).

Weakness of head down to neck.
Desolate, empty feeling in head.
Dulness of head.
Beclouded feeling in forehead.
Confusion of head, in morning, with nausea and sour vomiting.
Feels as if drunken when rising from bed in morning.
Attacks of dizziness, with inclination to fall forward.
Vertigo : during and after stooping ; on looking upwards ; in the morning on awaking ; in evening ; was obliged to lie down ; with inclination to fall forward ; venous stagnation.
Rush of blood with feeling of heat in head.
Congestion to head with roaring in ears, in young people.
Frequently feels faint, with partial loss of senses.

Forehead : pressure deep in ; drawing ; tearing ; bursting.
Lancinating pain in right temple, with flickering before eyes and lassitude ; heaviness of eyelids.
Transient stitches in left temple.
Stinging or stitching pains in temples.
Pain from left temple down side of face to shoulder ; face distorted ; left corner of mouth drawn inward and downward.
Periodical, unilateral headache ; numbness in left side of head, violent nausea with straining and retching ; obstinate constipation. θ Amenorrhœa.
Semilateral headache, early in morning, in bed, with inclination to vomit.
Tearing pain in one side of head, in teeth and glands of throat.
Throbbing in sides of head.
Oppressive headache on top of head.
Pressive pain : in vertex ; in occiput.
Pain as if constricted, especially in occiput, extending to nape of neck, which pains on looking up, as if broken.
Pain as if head were numb and pithy.
Pressive pain in head.
Violent headache, with eructations and nausea, during menstruation.
Frequent congestions to head and chest, dark red cheeks, oppression and anguish when lying down. θ Amenorrhœa.
Headache, in morning on waking.

Sensation as if skin of forehead was drawn into folds.
Scalp feels bruised.
Coldness of scalp.
Itching on scalp.
Sweat on head when walking in open air.
Burning round spot on top of head.
Lumpy patches on vertex, red and painful.
Humid eruption on vertex, painful to touch.
Scurfy spots on vertex, with violent sore pain when touched.
Much scaliness on head, causing distressing itching, becomes scurf, which disappears on washing, and is then humid.
Humid eruption on head, pains as if suppurating, only when touched.
Intolerable itching all over body, followed by a moist eruption behind right ear ; crept gradually upwards on right side of scalp, forming pustules, which discharged an acrid, sticky fluid, by which hair stuck together, and finally fell off, leaving a bare spot behind, covered with
a mealy dust and small crusts ; felt < after washing ; is very sensitive to cold air ; has chronic lachrymation and fluor albus.
Eczema capitis, of entire scalp, forming massive, dirty crusts, which mat the hair together ; painful and sore to touch.
Fissured eruption back of and above ears, on cheeks, and about region of posterior fontanelle, exuding a glutinous secretion, forming a scab, and cracking open, itching a little all the time, but excessively before a storm ; perfectly indifferent to any
one touching the sore places.
Tinea capitis ; eruption dry and scabby, large and confluent, color dark ; cervical glands swollen and hard.
Eczema capitis in scrofulous child, infesting entire hairy scalp, and forming massive, dirty crusts, which mat the hair together.
Falling out of hair of scalp.
Bald places on head perfectly smooth and shining.
Circumscribed bald spot on front of head covered with herpes.
Porrigo decalvans.
Hair falls out, even on sides of head.

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The complaints of Graphites are worse morning, evening and during the NIGHT, especially before midnight. It is useful in people who are morbidly fat, or have been fat and are now emaciating; with constipation more commonly than diarrhoea; in women in these conditions whose menstrual habit is pale, late, short and scanty; catarrhal discharges that are albuminous and viscid represent to the mind some peculiar general states of the sick man not explainable and not common to diseased conditions nor to many remedies; hence, strange, rare and peculiar. Raw surfaces upon the skin are generally marked by such viscid glutinous discharges.

It is a very deep acting remedy, like all carbons, and is accompanied with induration and burning in the base of the ulcers, inflamed tissues and old cicatrices; hence, its great usefulness in cancerous growths and ulceration.

Cancerous development in old cicatrices is a strong feature of this remedy. Contraction of tendons, especially behind the knee. It has hemorrhagic oozing of pale blood. In the higher sense the patient is anaemic and chlorotic. From eruptions, catarrhal discharges, menstrual flow, ulcers, breath and perspiration there is marked offensiveness (like Carbo v., Psorinum, Kali phos., Kali ars.).

When eruptions or discharges have disappeared suddenly from any cause and grave chronic phenomena have followed Graphites is one of the medicines to be studied. Scrofulous conditions and swelling of glands; recurrent herpes upon all parts of the body and especially about the anus and genitals; burning in many parts and especially in old cicatrices; general dropsical tendency; weakness in muscles and tendons after straining them by overlifting.

The patient is very sensitive to cold and needs warm clothing; he is sensitive to the cold in winter and to the heat in summer; he is sensitive to a warm room and desires open air which is grateful. Worse in a warm bed; complaints come on from becoming cold or heated; the headaches are worse in a warm room and better in the open air. Graphites has cured deep seated spinal complaints, and in such cases the patient delights to lie heavily covered in a cold draft from an open window.

It is easy to see in this, the resemblance to Carbo veg., which often cures when the patient wants to be fanned. Craving for air is strong in the carbons, yet often easily chilled and just as easily overheated and complaints that come from overheating are related to the carbons. This one becomes ill from being overheated; exertion makes all symptoms worse.

Motion increases all symptoms except the numbness and general feeling of stagnation which come on during rest. Extreme weakness. Weakness and desire to lie down. Paralysis in any part but especially in the lower limbs; sensation of paralysis or stagnation creeps over the body and limbs.

He is made sick by bathing and is sensitive to cold, damp weather. What there is in the general life to cause eruptions to come out in the bends of the joints must be left for others to explain, but such is the case with this wonderful remedy.

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Adapted to women inclined to obesity, who suffer from habitual constipation, and whose history reveals a tendency to delaying menstruation.

"What Pulsatilla is at puberty, Graphites is at the climac- teric."

Morning sickness during menstruation; very weak and prostrated (Alum., Carbo a., Coc.).

Hears better when in a noise; when riding in a carriage or car, when there is a rumbling sound (Nit. ac.).

Excessive cautiousness; timid, hesitates; unable to decide about anything (Puls.).

Fidgety while sitting at work (Zinc.).

Sad, despondent; music makes her weep; thinks of nothing but death (music is intolerable, Nat. c., Sab.).

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 (Puls.).

Leucorrhœa: acrid, excoriating; occurs in gushes day and night; before and after menses (before, Sepia; after, Kreos.).

Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess, retarding flow of milk; cancer from old scars.

Unhealthy skin: every injury suppurates (Hep.); eruptions, behind the ears, on various parts, from which ooze a watery, transparent, sticky fluid; nails brittle, crumbling, deformed; painful and sore, as if ulcerated; old cicatrices re-open.

Cracks or fissures of ends of fingers and nipples, labial commissures, of anus, between the toes (Nit. ac.).

Burning round spot on vertex (Cal., Sul.—cold spot, Sep., Ver.).

Diarrhœa: stools brown, fluid, mixed with undigested substances, and of an intolerable odor; often caused by suppressed eruptions (Psor.).

Chronic constipation : stool difficult, large, hard, knotty, with lumps united by mucous threads ; too large (Sulph.) ; smarting sore pain in anus after stool.

Children ; impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands.

Sensation of cobweb on forehead, tries hard to brush it off (Bar., Bor., Brom., Ran. s.).

Phlegmonous erysipelas : of face, with burning, stinging pain ; commencing on right side, going to left ; after application of Iodine.

Decided aversion to coition (both sexes).

Cataleptic condition ; conscious, but without power to move or speak.

Takes cold easily ; sensitive to draught of air (Bor., Cal., Hep.); suffering parts emaciate.

Complementary : Caust., Hep., Lyc.

Follows well after Lyc., Puls.; after Cal. in obesity of young women with large amount of unhealthy adipose tissue.

Cold or becoming cold; night; during and after menstruation; after eating.

Eructations (Carbo v.); while walking; open air.

Quotidian; double quotidian.

6 or 7 A. M.; morning in bed; 4, 5. 6, 7, 8 P. M.

Without thirst, in the morning in bed; from 4 P. M. till evening; chilliness and coldness of whole body at 5 P. M., with icy cold feet. Violent febrile chilliness morning and evening, the heat followed by sweat. Shaking chill every day, in the evening; after an hour, hot face and cold feet without subsequent heat. Chill in evening, with headache and tearing in the limbs, great thirst, and profuse perspiration after midnight, lasting till morning. Chill < after meals; > after drinking (Caust.—< after drinking, Ars., Caps., Cimex); > in open air (Apis, Ipec.—< in open air, Ign.). Icy cold feet, alternating with burning.

At night; with restlessness; unable to sleep, or remain in bed on account of it; when riding in a carriage. Dry heat every evening and night, lasting till morning, with headache on vertex and in nape of the neck till noon. Hands and soles of the feet hot and burning.

Profuse at night; from the slightest motion; on front of body and centre of chest (sternum); stains yellow; is sour and offensive (Hep., Lyc.). Profuse sweat on the feet; they swell and become sore (Iod., Sil.). Entire inability to sweat (Hep.).

Coated white and sensitive. Taste sour, salty, bitter; like rotten eggs Rotten odor from mouth. Breath smells like urine. Lips and nostrils sore and cracked, as from cold. Averse to meat, fish, cooked food, salt.

Excessive hunger, or no appetite, with great distension of abdomen, as from accumulation or incarceration of flatulence. Constipation. Urine turbid, and deposits white sediment.

Constitutional symptoms of apyrexia are the best guide for selection of remedy.

Forgetfulness; dim recollection of recent events.
Weakness in the head, can scarcely think.
Slow in thought.
Dread of work.
Hates work.
Mood: changeable; sad, with thoughts of death; sad and weeping; forlorn; depressed; dejected.
Full of fear in the morning.
Solicitude concerning spiritual welfare.
Great anxiety.
Much inclined to grief.
Hesitates at trifles.
Timidity.
Fretful.
Ill humored.
Easily vexed.
Irritable.
Child impudent, teasing, laughs at reprimands.
Fidgety while sitting at work.
Scientific labor fatigues him.
Thoughts of many things at night prevent sleep.
Ailments from grief.

Attacks of dizziness, with inclination to fall forward; feels as if drunken when rising from bed in the morning.
Dulness of the head.
Rush of blood, with feeling of heat in the head.
Vertigo; on looking upwards, in the morning on awaking; in the evening, was obliged to lie down; during and after stooping, with inclination to fall forward; venous stagnation.
Frequently feels faint, with partial loss of senses.
Desolate, empty feeling in the head.
Beclouded feeling in the forehead.

Forehead: pressure deep in; drawing; tearing; bursting.
Stinging or stitching pains in the temples.
Throbbing in the sides of the head.
Pressive pain: in the vertex; in the occiput.
Tearing pain in one side of head, in teeth and glands of throat.
Pain as if constricted with a cord, particularly in occiput.
Pain from left temple down the side of the face to the shoulder; face distorted; left corner of mouth drawn inward and downward.
Lancinating pain in right temple.
Violent headache, with nausea, during the menses.

Scalp feels bruised.
Sensation as if the skin of forehead were drawn into folds.
Coldness of the scalp.
Burning on the vertex in a small spot.
Sweat on the head when walking in the open air.
Itching on the scalp.
Eczema capitis, of entire scalp, forming massive, dirty crusts, which mat the hair together; scabs sore to touch.
Bald places on the head perfectly smooth and shining.
Circumscribed bald spot on front of head covered with herpes.
Porrigo decalvans.
Hair falls out, even on the sides of the head.

Intolerance of light; with redness of the white of the eye; hyperæsthesia of eyes, with the vertigo.
Shunning daylight usually more than gaslight; photophobia.
Light dazzles the eyes; sunlight causing lancinating pains in the eyes.
Shortsightedness.
Letters: appear double when writing; run together when reading; sees fiery zigzags around the outside of the field of vision, in the evening, with the eye open.
Flickering before the eyes.
Sees as through a mist; everything turns black before the eyes when stooping.
Tiredness of the eyes.
Pressing pain in the eyes, morning and evening.
Drawing, extending from the eye up into the head.
Stitches from the temple through the eye to inner canthus, on looking at anything white or red, or at the sun.
Smarting in the eyes, with heat in them.
Burning and aching in eyes; burning pain around the eyes.
Ulcer on the cornea, with a few small vessels running into it; with moist fissured eczematous eruptions.
Pustules on the cornea and conjunctiva, with much lachrymation.
Pustule on the cornea, or reddish appearance, with white halo around it; the corners of lids raw and bleed easily.
Arthritic ophthalmia, with contraction and irregularity of the pupils.
Lachrymation in the open air; also chronic.
Thin, acrid discharge from the eyes; pus-like discharge from the eyes.
Internal canthus: itching; burning; stitches; sore.
External canthus; sore and fissured; fissured and bleed easily.
Heat in the eyes and some pus in the canthi.
Swelling of the eyelids and lachrymal gland.
Heaviness of the eyelids; cannot open his eyes.
Lids: feel dry, rough with itching; edges inflamed or covered with scurf; agglutinated night and morning; œdematous.
Left lower lid hangs down.
Inverted lids (margins); wild hairs.
Styes on lower lid, with drawing pain -may prevent return.
On both eyes hordeola and chalazion in all stages, also wens.
Coldness over the eyes.
Twitchings beneath the eyes.

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Purified Graphite ("Black Lead") is triturated as directed in the Pharmacopœias.

A profound tissue remedy (like all the Carbons), showing a particular tendency to develop a cutaneous phase of internal disorders.

Carbo v., Carb. an., Carb. sulf., Petrol., Nat. m., Sil., Nit. ac., Sep., Puls., Lyc.

▶ Emaciation. ▶ Swelling of feet and cheeks during menstruation. ▶ Trembling in morning; T. and twitching in head, neck and right arm. ▶ Jerking in all limbs, now in one, now in another, even in shoulder and scrotum. ▶ Constant tossing about at night without weariness. ▶ Inclination to stretch and yawn, without ability to stretch enough. ▶ Stitches here and there in whole body; S. downward through whole body. ▶ Shocks through whole body as from fright or electric shocks. ▶ Intermittent cramplike sensation in various parts, arms, neck, finger, feet, whereupon the parts are swollen, red, indurated and sensitive to touch. ▶ Intermittent pain here and there, then soreness of the part on touch. ▶ Pain pressive rather than drawing, now here, now there, in periosteum of bones, during rest, agg. falling asleep. ▶ Pains return on beginning to walk. ▶ Bruised pain in whole side of body on which he lies in midday nap, and arm in asleep.

Drawing tension, agg. arms and trunk. ▶ Drawing in whole body in morning after rising, as in intermittent fever. ▶ Oppression; with anxiety and unpleasant sensation in stomach. ▶ Dread of open air in morning. ▶ Takes cold easily and has headache therefrom. ▶ Sensitiveness to draught of air in evening, with hoarseness, chilliness, dryness of nose and anxiety. ▶ General sick feeling; with necessity to groan without knowing for what pain. ▶ Uneasiness, agg. walking in open air, with no thought for his work, no inclination for anything. ▶ Tremulous sensation through whole body. ▶ Pulsation of blood in whole body, agg. heart, agg. motion; P. in heart, trunk and head in morning in bed. ▶ Indolence of whole body, amel. a long walk. ▶ Weakness of whole body as from catarrh; W. in forenoon and towards evening, with sleepiness and much yawning; after dinner, with falling asleep; on walking in open air; after coition; with sleepiness; sudden; even to sinking down during and after walking in open air, with retching and nausea; faintlike, when walking in open air, as if beginning in abdomen. ▶ Attacks of faintness. ▶ Symptoms disappear when walking in open air.

Chlorosis, with tendency to rush of blood to head and flushing of the face (Fer., which is contained in Grap.), menses pale, scanty and delayed, profuse leucorrhœa, pimply eruption on the face, worse at the menstrual period, constipation. ▶ A general tendency to get fat (Calc.); the obesity of Grap. is more particularly seen in older people, that of Calc. in children. ▶ Herpetic constitution with a great variety of complaints. ▶ Paralytic symptoms, especially with suppression of menses, with numbness and coldness of arms and hands.

▶ Sadness, with thoughts of nothing but death (Nat. m.). ▶ Despondency, she must weep. ▶ Apprehension and inclination to weep, in attacks; A. amel. weeping. ▶ It frequently seemed as if his end were near or misfortune impending. ▶ Grief at trifles; even to despair. ▶ Anxiety till lying down in evening; A., with headache, vertigo and ill humor; with haste, driving him about like an evil-doer; so that she trembled; so that she cannot sit, with nausea and sweat; preventing sleep all night; in evening, as if a misfortune had happened, with heat of face and coldness of hands and feet. ▶ Weeping in evening without cause; W. at trifles; at music; in a child, with fretfulness. ▶ Fretful; and uneasy; and violent in morning, hypochondriac in afternoon. ▶ Hypochondriac uneasiness, discouragement, anxious sweat, loss of sleep. ▶ Easily angered, but it just as easily passed out of her mind. ▶ Would rather be alone, irritated by every disturbance. ▶ Indisposed, frightened, (nervous). ▶ Timid. ▶ Easily excited, hot hands even from speaking. ▶ Hesitation. ▶ Slowness of purpose and thought. ▶ Loss of inclination to work. ▶ Lively in morning, depressed in evening. ▶ Laughing at every trifle in forenoon, inclined to grieve and cry in evening. ▶ Absent-minded. ▶ Beclouded. ▶ Incapable of mental work after midday nap. ▶ Mistakes in talking and writing. ▶ Forgetful. ▶ Fancies at night. ▶ Fixed idea at night, so that he could not sleep before midnight. ▶ Thinking of all sorts of things at night, so that she slept little.

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Great emaciation.
Takes cold easily, and the symptoms are increased by becoming cold.
General inclination to stretch, with drawings through the whole body.
Falling asleep of various parts.
Contractions of tendons.
Drawing up of various parts.
Violent pulsations of the whole body on every motion.
Many of the pains return on beginning to walk, but many symptoms disappear after walking in the open air.
Tremulous weakness of the whole body.
General tendency of old people to grow fat.

Sadness, with thoughts of death.
Despondency: must weep.
Apprehension and weeping.
Very irritable and fretful.
Internal grief and despair.
Intense restlessness, which drives him out of bed at night.

Dull ache, as if numb and pithy.
A feeling of constriction, especially in the occiput, extending to the nape.
Headache worse every morning, with faintness or cold sweat.
A feeling of constriction and tension in the occiput, with stiffness of the nape of the neck.
Headache on riding in a wagon.
The scalp becomes moist.
Eruptions on the top of the head, painful to touch and moist.
The hair turns gray and falls out.

Inflammation of the white of the eye, with lachrymation.
Photophobia.
Biting, stinging pains, with lachrymation.
Burning.
Margins of the lids inflamed and swollen.
Lashes filled with dry crusts.
The external canthus is particularly affected; it is apt to be cracked.
Lids are agglutinated in the morning.

Clinical:
Various forms of inflammation: characterized by redness, inflammation and swelling of the margins of the lids, with tendency to cracking in the outer corners; ulceration; pustules on the cornea, little tumors on the margins of the lids, etc.

Behind the ears it is moist, sore and cracked.
The glands below the ears are swollen with pain.
There is apt to be a bloody discharge from the ears.
Hearing diminished, roaring and humming noises, etc.

General dryness within the nose.
Nostrils ulcerated and scabby.
The pores on the nose become black.
There is a purulent, offensive discharge from the nose.
Smell often very acute; cannot tolerate odors.

Color is generally pale yellow.
Flushes of heat; sometimes erysipelatous inflammation and swelling.
Facial muscles of one side distorted or paralyzed, making speech difficult.
Sensation of a cobweb on the face.
Tearing pains in the left zygoma in the evening in bed.
Eruption and cracking in the corners of the lips.
Scurvy eruption on the chin and mouth.
Cracking of the lower lip.
Hard swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Ulcers on the inner surface of the lips.
Shooting pains in the teeth on drinking cold water, but < in warmth.
Swelling and easy bleeding of the gums.
A general foul, urinous odor from the mouth.
Burning blisters on the lower side and on the tip of the tongue.
Tubercles and painful blisters on the back of the tongue.
Taste as of rotten eggs in the mouth.
Bitter taste in the mouth.
Saliva pours into the mouth in the morning.

Feeling of a lump or plug in the throat, especially at night.
A sensation of constriction in the œsophagus, with retching.

Frequent, sour eructations, with bitter taste.
General aversion to animal food, and to sweets.
Sweets are disgusting and nauseous.
Aversion to salt food.
Nausea in the morning.
Vomiting after eating.
Griping pains in the stomach, and constant spitting of saliva.
Constrictive pain.
Pains in the stomach > lying down, and warmth of bed; also by eructations.
Symptoms generally > eating, especially by warm milk, < cold drinks.

Distention as from incarcerated flatus, with intolerance of anything tight about the hypochondria.
A feeling of hardness in the region of the liver.
Pain as if everything would be torn to pieces in the upper portion during menstruation.
Burning pain in the left hypochondrium > motion.
Burning pains radiate throughout the abdomen.
General heaviness and distention.
Swollen glands in the groins, with sensitiveness.

Tendency to prolapsus of the rectum, as if the anus were paralyzed.
Burning hæmorrhoids, sometimes with smarting, sore pain.
Fissures, with burning, smarting and itching.
Stools generally in large hard masses, with mucus, causing smarting sore pain and cracking of the anus.
Stools dark colored, only partially digested, of an intolerable odor.

Painful and anxious urging to urinate, but urine only dribbles.
Urine becomes turbid and deposits a white sediment; or is covered with an iridescent film; or has a sour odor.
Upon urinating, pain in the coccyx.

Eruptions on the prepuce, sometimes with œdematous swelling.
Itching; moist eruption on scrotum.
Loss of sexual power; coition without emissions.

Menstruation generally delayed or suppressed, with mental depression.
Eruptions and abdominal symptoms.
Leucorrhœa profuse, white, discharged in gushes, with great weakness and soreness.
Itching of the pudenda before menstruation.
Stony hardness of the left ovary, with stitches, pain, etc.

Clinical:
Dysmenorrhœa; sometimes membranous; menses dark, with colic, or suppressed, with cutting and bearing-down pains.
Especially adapted to dysmenorrhœa of fat women, who have herpetic eruptions.
Indurations of the ovaries; particularly of the left ovary, with violent pain on touch or on breathing; aggravated by taking cold or getting feet wet.
Pelvic tumors, with bearing-down pains.
The nipples of nursing women become sore and cracked, and bleed.

Tickling in the larynx causes a short, hacking cough, which is worse in the evening or at night, and on deep breathing.
Hoarseness every evening.
Sensitiveness of the larynx, with scratching and hoarseness.
Suffocative paroxysms at night; must jump out of bed, with hoarse cough.
A feeling of constriction in the chest; sometimes a pain like a rawness.

Pain in the nape of the neck, with stiffness.
Glandular swellings on the side of the neck.
Small of the back feels bruised.
Formication on the back.

Weakness and paralyzed sensation of the extremities; the arms and legs fall asleep, even while sitting, with formication, especially on walking.
Sticking, tearing pains in the left shoulder joint; in the wrists and hands.
The finger nails become thickened and rough.
Rheumatic, tearing pains in the joints of the fingers, especially the first joint of the right thumb.
Tearing or bruised pains in the thighs, and especially in left knee.
The legs seem to fall asleep.
Cramps in the calves at night.
Swelling of the legs, even when lying in bed.
Rheumatic pains in the feet and toes.

General tendency to thickened indurations of the skin, sometimes with moist eruptions, but always with tendency to crack.
The cracks ooze a glutinous moisture, and are sore and burning.
Soreness in the folds of the skin, with oozing of corrosive moisture.
Itching here and there; skin becomes moist after scratching.
Itching < warmth.

Chill mostly in the evening, sometimes in the morning in bed.
Flushes of heat, especially at night; could not stay in bed.
Burning of the feet; of the heels, especially in the morning in bed.
Sweat after slight effort, frequently offensive.
Sweat of the feet, which is disagreeable.

GRAPHITES. PLUMBAGO.

A grain of the purest plumbago from an English lead pencil of the best quality is pulverized, and according to the direction for preparing antipsoric medicines, as given at the end of the first volume, it is first triturated up to the one millionth powder-attenuation. Then, according to the direction there given, the solution of one grain of this preparation in a mixture of fifty drops of water and fifty drops of alcohol, after being shaken up ten times, is further diluted in pure alcohol to the billionth (II.). quadrillionth (IV)., sextillionth (VI), octillionth (VIII), and decillionth (X) degree, and every time potentized with ten strokes of the arm. In these forms and degrees of potency, this medicine is then applied to its homœopathic antipsoric use, taking one or two small pellets moistened with the medicine, for a dose. The purest plumbago is a sort of mineral carbon, and the small contents of iron are probably to be viewed merely as an admixture not essential to the nature of plumbago, which is further confirmed by the fact, that Davy has fully proved the actual transition of diamond into plumbago by treating the same with metallic potassium. The first thought of the medicinal use of plumbago was given to Dr. Weinhold by the fact, that during his journey in Italy he saw workmen in a mirror factory in Venice use it externally for driving away herpes. He imitated them, and described the result in a little work ; Der Graphit als Heilmittel gegen Flechten (Plumbago as a remedy for herpes), (2d ed., Meissen, 1812). He prescribed its external application either with saliva or with some fat, or the rubbed in the ointment, or applied a plaster of plumbago. He also administered it in several cases internally, as a confection or in pills, not without success. We go somewhat further, and administer graphites as a very serviceable antipsoric remedy, and this, whether herpes be present in the (non-venereal) chronic disease or not, provided that the present (and previous) symptoms of the patient are found to be homœopathically as similar as possible to the pure symptoms below adduced, which are peculiar to graphites, and caused by it in the healthy body. Graphites has a lengthy period of action. Graphites has proved itself especially useful, in chronic diseases where it is otherwise appropriate, in curing the following symptoms : Feeling unhappy ; apprehension in the morning ; anxiety ; anxiety during sedentary work ; peevishness ; dislike of work ; feels as if intoxicated on rising from bed ; chaotic feeling in the head ; fatigued by scientific work ; buzzing in the head ; tearing pain in the side of the head the teeth and the glands of the neck ; the falling out of hair, even on the sides of the head : itching on the head ; scab head ; perspiration of the head when in the open air ; pressive pain in the eyelids, as from a grain of sand ; pressing, shooting and lachrymation of the eyes, dry pus on the eyelids and eyelashes ; everything becomes black before the eyes on stooping ; the letters in reading run together ; flickering before the eyes ; the eyes fear the daylight ; dryness of the internal ear ; flow of pus from the ear ; bad smell from the ear ; porrigo behind the ears ; hardness of hearing ; singing and ringing in the ears ; humming in the ears ; thundering rumbling before the ears ; hissing in the ears ; bad smell from the nose ; dry scabs in the nose ; swelling of the nose ; flying heat in the face ; semi-lateral paralysis of the face ; freckles in the face ; humid, eruptive pimples in the face ; falling out of the hair of the beard ; ulcerated corners of the mouth ; ulcers on the inner side of the lips ; nocturnal toothache ; shooting toothache after drinking something cold ; swelling of the gums ; dryness of the mouth in the morning ; hawking up of mucus ; sensitiveness of the throat, in the region of the larynx ; almost constant sore throat, during deglutition ; nocturnal pain in the throat, as if a plug were lodged in the throat, or as if the food filled the gullet all the way up ; painful lumps on the lower jaw ; repugnance to cooked food ; voracious hunger ; eructation ; nausea in the morning ; nausea after every meal ; weakness of the stomach ; pressure in the stomach ; nocturnal pinching in the stomach and digging in the chest ; heaviness in the abdomen ; hardness in the hypogastrium ; tapeworm ; painfulness in the groin ; inflation of the abdomen ; inflation after meals ; accumulation of flatus ; obstruction of flatus ; excessive discharge of flatus ; chronic constipation ; with costiveness and hardness of the hepatic region ; insufficient stools ; long-continued, excessive softness of stools ; discharge of mucus from the rectum ; pains in the varices of the anus ; pains as from excoriation of the varices of the anus after stool ; burning, painful fissure between the varices of the anus ; large varices of the anus ; micturition at night ; quiescent sexual desire ; uncontrollable sexual desire ; lack of morning erections ; almost involuntary emission of semen, without erection ; too scanty voluptuous sensation in coitus ; excoriation between the lower limbs, on the pudenda ; delayed menses ; menses retarded, with severe colic ; menses too scanty and too pale ; pains during the menses ; cramps in the abdomen, with the menses ; pain in the chest, with the menses ; weakness, during the menses ; leucorrhœa, like water ; profuse leucorrhœa, before and after the menses. Stoppage of the nose ; troublesome dryness of the nose ; flow of mucus from the nose ; daily coryza, when becoming cold ; the voice in singing is not clear ; scraping in the throat ; cough ; nocturnal cough ; asthma ; oppression of the chest ; spasm of the chest ; pain in the sacrum as if it was bruised or broken ; contractive pains in the back ; pain in the nape ; cramp in the hand ; horny callosities in the palms ; knotty, arthritic fingers ; constant excoriation between the fingers ; pain as from a sprain, in the joint of the thumb ; excoriation between the legs ; restlessness in the lower limbs ; numbness of the thigh ; herpes on the thigh ; herpes on the houghs ; stitches in the heel when treading ; coldness of the feet in the evening in bed ; burning of the feet, swelling of the feet ; horny skin on the toes ; eroding blisters on the toes ; suppurating toes ; thick, crippled toe-nails ; cramp in many places, e. g., on the nates, the calves, etc. ; drawing in the limbs ; tendency to strains ; the outside of the chest, the arms and the legs go to sleep ; tendency to take colds ; chronic lack of bodily perspiration ; perspiration on slight exertion ; excoriation of the skin on the bodies of children ; the skin does not heal easily, is apt to ulcerate ; herpes ; difficulty in falling asleep ; when going to sleep, suffocating tightness of the chest ; light slumber at night ; starting from sleep ; nocturnal pains, sensible while asleep ; sleep full of ravings ; drowsy slumber in the morning ; anxious, frightful dreams ; anxiousness at night, forcing him to get up ; night-sweat. Where chronic constipation and menses, delaying several days cause trouble, graphites is often indispensable. It is not often repeated to advantage, even after intervening remedies. Smelling of Arsenicum X° seems to be an antidote, especially to desperate grief caused by graphites. A very small dose of nux vomica antidotes several troublesome symptoms from graphites. The symptoms marked Htb. were observed by Dr. Hartlaub, those marked Ng. by an anonymous observer in the pure Arzneimittellehre of the Drs. Hartlaub and Trinks ; Rl., Dr. Rummel ; Kr., Dr. Kretschmar. [*].

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Graph. / (1st G-Gray.) / Grace.

Graphites,- Thy keynote appears,
In oozing rawness round the ears.
And in the creases of the skin,
Where rolls of fat are folded in.
And itching scabs, with watery base,
(Whilst Hepar scabs, show bloody trace.
And Mezereum scabs are dry,
And club-moss gives a scale supply).
Thy aching head, feels pithy-numb,-
Thy scalp is capped with scabby gum,
Thy eyes glued up, and canthi red,
Thy face with cobweb, feels o'erspread,
Thy tongue is blistered-nostrils sore,-
Thy sense of smell enhanced galore,
Thy ears molesting sounds attack,
Thy jaws when chewing grate and crack.
Thy abdomen is swollen,-tense,-
Thy knotted stools a dire offense,
Thy anus sore, prolapsed and cracked,
With burning haemorrhoids impacted.
Thy urine sediment is white,
Thy privates in oedemic plight.
Or damp with filthy sweat and sore,
Or spread with itching pimples o'er.
Thy ailments feminine may show
Pudendal itching, ere the "flow,"
And morning sickness at the date,
Of coming, which may be too late.
A leucorrhoea white, and thin,
Between the menses may set in.
An induration of a kind,
An inflammation leaves behind,
In ovary or mammary gland;
Or seen in cracked and hardened hand-
To all flesh food thou art averse,
And to all sweetmeats even worse.
Though better walking in the air,
A chilling wind thou canst not bear.

Grace,-Has Rawness in the folds of the skin.

Grace Bacil is the Pete Calvin's slim child.

This Grace,-Who is subject to agglutinated eyelids,- Is at Palm Arbor, with eye askant for Eugene Bari-bor, the Potter.

Rawness in the folds of the skin: Graph., Bacil., Pet., Cal. c., Sul., Lyc., Mer., Cham.

Agglutination of the Eyelids-Eye Gum: Graph., Pul., Lyc., Mer., Thuj., Apis., Sil., Kreo., Euphra., Bar. i., Borax, Kal. c.

Indicated in fat, fair persons of indolent disposition, subject to moist eruptions. "The graphites obesity is more particularly seen in older people, that of Calcarea in children" (T. F. Allen). In eczema of the scalp, ear, face, scrotum and elsewhere; in nasal catarrh; glandular swellings; herpes of prepuce, etc.

Adapted to stout, fat persons, inclined to be chilly and constipated.

Humid, itching, fetid eruptions on the scalp.

Ophthalmia; eye-lids swollen; eczematous itching.

Constipation; stools large, knotty; united by threads of mucus.

Indigestion, with burning at the stomach and hunger; dislikes meats; drinks and sweets disagree.

Profuse, pale, excoriating leucorrhoea, with swollen, hard mammae, weak back, cracked and sore nipples and aversion to sexual intercourse.

Skin unhealthy; suppurates easily. Moist eruptions, sticky, like glue, behind the ears, on scalp, mouth, chin; glands enlarged, hard; cracks in the ends of fingers, nipples, mouth, between toes, at anus, etc.

Worse at night.

Better in the dark; from bundling up.

Extreme irritability and anger. Silent grief and despair, with much weeping. Anxious restlessness, driving him out of bed at night. Concern for the future. Anxious fear of misfortune. Apprehensive, early in morning. Irresolution and fastidiousness. Hysteria.

As though' intoxicated, when rising from bed in morning.

Violent headache every morning, ending in fainting and cold sweat. Contraction in forehead. Feeling of tensive pressure like a constriction. Worse in occiput, with stiff neck. Numb feeling in. Scald head. Worse: Early, on awaking and rising from bed, moving head, riding, eating. Better: Walking in open air, external pressure, at rest, in warmth.

Moist, crusty, foul, smarting eruption, spreading by eating at its edges from vertex down sides of head, scratching causes excoriation and more moisture, which dries into white crusts. Violent sticking itching on, most on vertex and behind ears. leaving moist bald spots when scratched, which develop erysipelas and pain like boils. Bald swellings, follicular tumors and scales on, with great heat of. Paralytic tearing in cranial muscles, especially on sides and behind ears. Hair of vertex, sides and beard turns gray early and falls out. Worse: By day than by night, becoming cold, walking in open air. Better: Warmth, after being in open air.

Pressure and sticking in with lachrymation. Inflamed, with red, swollen lids and photophobia. Intolerance of daylight. Myopia.

Dryness of internal. Eruption and excoriation behind. Difficult hearing.

Chronic dryness of. Black pores on. Discharge of fetid pus from. Ulcerating, scurfy nostrils. Extremely sensitive smell. Coryza on becoming cold, during day. Stuffed coryza, with headache and nausea, Discharge of foul - smelling mucus from.

Pale yellow color. Flying heat. Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of. Follicular tumors on. Unilateral distortion and paralysis of facial muscles, rendering speech difficult. Ulcers on inside of lips. Scurfy eruption on chin, and about mouth. Hard, swollen submaxillary glands.

Sticking ache from cold drinks, worse warmth. Gums swell and bleed easily.

Offensive, urinous odor from. Sore throat, with a feeling of a lump or plug therein, especially at night. Spasms in throat causing retching.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth.

Great weakness of digestion. Spasms and pressure in, with nausea, better from warmth of bed. Burning in, necessitates eating.

Hypochondria: Induration in region of liver.

Appetite: Excessive hunger. Aversion to warm, cooked food. Great thirst early in morning and after eating.

Eructations: Copious. Sour, with bitter taste in mouth

Nausea: Early in morning. And vomiting after every meal. Sour vomiting.

Fullness and heaviness in. Indurations in. (Plb.) Painfulness in inguinal region, with swelling of glands. Distended after eating.

Flatulence: Extraordinary accumulation of gas in abdomen, which is tense and inflated. Excessive discharge of fetid f.

Chronic constipation. Hard and too large in form. (Chronic soft, too small in size.) Mucus.

Painful varicosities of, with fissures between them.

Sour smelling. Anxious, painful urging to urinate, with discharge of dark, scanty urine, drop by drop. Nocturnal enuresis. Pain in coccyx when urinating.

Tension in, with voluptuous thoughts. Uncontrollable sexual desire. Edematous swelling of foreskin and scrotum. Excoriation of female pudendum. Painful swelling of ovaries.

Menses: Too late, too scanty and too pale. Appear with difficulty in young women. Cramp in abdomen during. Thin, white leucorrhoea.

In evening or at night, excited by deep breathing.

Sensitive, with scratching therein and hoarseness. Husky voice.

Stitches in and palpitation from the least motion. Inflamed and swelled mammae. Excoriated nipples with humid vesicles on.

Formication on. Bruised feeling in lumbar region.

Neck: Painful stiffness of nape when nodding head and raising arms.

Emaciation of hands. Distorted fingers. Gouty nodes on fingers. Excoriation between fingers. Thick, distorted nails.

Excoriation between legs. Numb thighs. Stiffness and muscular contraction in popliteal spaces. Stiff knees. Cold feet in evening in bed. Sticking pains in heels. Distortion and stiffness of toes. Spreading vesicles and ulcers on, and excoriation between toes. Thick, crippled toe - nails.

Great emaciation Complaints are intensified when becoming cold, he takes cold easily. Drawing through entire body, with inclination to stretch. Asleep sensation in limbs, of part wherein he lies. Contracted tendons. Distortion of single parts. Violent pulsation throughout entire body with every movement. Great general debility without pain, compelling him to groan. After walking in open air many complaints disappear.

Glands swollen and indurated.

Sense of dryness, and want of transpiration. Erysipelatous inflammations. Eruptions and humid herpes. Encysted tumors. Denuded, raw spots in children. Unhealthy. Ulcers with offensive pus and proud flesh. Thick, crippled nails.

Difficult falling to s., in evening Dizzy, fatiguing morning sleep. Disturbed by anxious, fearful dreams at night.

Pulse: Full and hard, but not noticeably accelerated. Chill: And chilliness, mostly in evening. Chilliness day and night, especially in evening after four o'clock. Heat: General, dry, in evening and during night, after previous chill. When riding in a carriage. Sweat: From slightest motion. profuse night sweat. Sour, offensive smelling, from cold, staining linen yellow. Utter inability to. Is aggravated by talking and ameliorated by walking open air.

Allied Remedies: Aco., Ag-c., Ap., Ars., Bell., Calc-c., Caust., FLU-AC., Guai., Kali-c., Lyc., Mag-c., NAT-C., nit-ac., Nux-v., Phos., PULS., Sep., Sil., Sul., Thuj.

Complementary: Sul.

Twitching and contortions of the limbs.

Disposition to catch cold and aggravation from getting cold.

Drawing through the whole body with disposition to stretch the limbs.

Stiffness of the limbs.

Sensation of trembling in the whole body with twitches in all the limbs.

The limbs go to sleep.

Pulsation in all the arteries from every motion.

Great debility without pain which induces to sigh.

Contraction of the muscles.

Pains which are felt during sleep.

Pain during change of weather.

Varices, with stinging tension and itching.

Weakness of the sexual powers.

Flatulency.

Urinary discharge too scanty.

Humming in the ears.

Incarcerated flatulency.

Swelling and induration of the glands.

Hard swelling with stinging.

Rheumatic tearing, especially in such limbs as are affected with ulcers.

Constipation.

The stool has a sour odor.

Urine has also a sour smell.

Sour eructations.

Offensive perspiration.

Catamenia is too scant and too pale.

Rhagades.

Eczematous affections markedly benefited.

Soreness of the nipples.

Erysipelas.

Dryness of the skin, with crippled nails.

Sexual desire very strong.

When walking in the open air many pains cease.