GRAPHITIS AND PETROLEUM HOMOEOPATHIC DRUGS

1. GRAPH
ITES

2. INTRODUCTION
oCOMMON NAME: Black Lead
oCHEMICAL NAME: Amorphous Carbon
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3. CONSTITUTION
o“What Pulsatilla is at puberty, Graphites is at the climacteric.”
oSuited to women, inclined to obesity, who suffer from habitual
constipation; with a history of delayed menstruation.
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4. MENTAL GENERALS
oExcessive cautiousness; timid, hesitates; unable to decide about
anything (Puls.).
oFidgety while sitting at work (Zinc.).
oSad, despondent; music makes her weep; thinks of nothing but
death (music is intolerable, Nat-c., Sab.).
oChildren: Impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands
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5. PHYSICAL GENERALS
oTakes cold easily, sensitive to draft of air (Borx., Calc., Hep., Nux-
v.).
oSuffering parts emaciate.
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6. HEAD
oSensation of cobwebs on forehead, tries hard to brush it off (Bar-
c., Borx., Brom., Ran-s.).
oBurning round spot on vertex (Calc., Sulph. — cold spot, Sep.,
Verat.).
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7. EYES
oEczema of lids; eruption moist and fissured; lids red and margins
covered with scales or crusts.
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8. EARS
oHears better when in a noise; when riding in a carriage or car,
when there is a rumbling sound (Nit-ac.).
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9. GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYSTEM
oDiarrhea: Stools brown, fluid, mixed with undigested substances,
and of an intolerable odor often caused by suppressed eruptions
(Psor.).
oChronic constipation; stool difficult, large, hard, knotty, with lumps
united by mucus threads; too large (Sulph.); smarting sore pain
in anus after stool
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10. MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
oDecided aversion to coition (both sexes).
oSexual debility from sexual abuse.
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11. FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
oMenses: Too scanty, pale, late with violent colic; irregular;
delayed from getting feet wet (Puls.).
oMorning sickness during menstruation; very weak and prostrated
(Alumn., Carb-an., Cocc.).
oLeucorrhea; acrid, excoriating; occurs in gushes day and night;
before and after menses (before Sep.; after Kreos.).
oHard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess, retarding the
flow of milk; cancer of breast, from old scars and repeated
abscesses.
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12. EXTREMITIES
oThe nails are brittle, crumbling, deformed (Ant-c.); painful, sore,
as if ulcerated; thick and crippled.
oCracks or fissures, in ends of fingers, nipples, labial
commissures; of anus; between the toes.
oPhlegmonous erysipelas: Of face, with burning, stinging pain;
commencing on right side, going to left; after application of
iodine.
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13. NERVOUS SYSTEM
oCataleptic condition; conscious, but without power to move or
speak.
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14. SKIN
oUnhealthy 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.
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15. MODALITIES
oAggravation: At night, during and after menstruation
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16. RELATION
oComplementary: Caust., Hep., Lyc.
oGraphites follows well: After Lyc., Puls.; after Calc. in obesity of
young women with large amount of unhealthy adipose tissue;
follows Sulph. well in skin affections; after Sepia in gushing
leucorrhea.
oSimilar: To Lyc., Puls., in menstrual troubles.
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17. PETROL
EUM

18. INTRODUCTION
oCOMMON NAME: Black Lead
oCHEMICAL NAME: Amorphous Carbon
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19. CONSTITUTION
oAdapted to persons with light hair and skin; irritable, quarrelsome
disposition (Nux-v.).
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20. MENTAL GENERALS
oEasily offended at trifles (Ign., Med.); vexed at everything.
oDuring sleep or delirium: Imagines that one leg is double; that
another person lies alongside of him in same bed; that there are
two babies in the bed (Valer.).
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21. PHYSICAL GENERALS
oAilments: From riding in a carriage, railroad car, or
in a ship (Cocc., Sanic.).
oAilments which are worse before and during a
thunderstorm (Nat-c., Phos., Psor.).
oSymptoms appear and disappear rapidly (Bell.,
Mag-p.—reverse of, Plat., Stann.).
oSweat and moisture of external genitals, both
sexes.
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22. HEAD
oVertigo on rising (Bry.); in occiput; as if intoxicated; like sea
sickness (Cocc.).
oHeadache: In occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing,
pulsating pain; as if everything in the head were alive; numb,
bruised; as if made of wood
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23. GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYSTEM
oGastralgia: Of pregnancy; with pressing, drawing pains;
whenever stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating (Anac.,
Chel., All-c.).
oDiarrhea: Yellow, watery, gushing; after cabbage, sour krout;
during pregnancy, stormy weather; always in the daytime.
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24. CARDIO-VASCULAR SYSTEM
oSensation of coldness about the heart (Carb-an., Kali-m., Nat-
m.).
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25. EXTREMITIES
oHeat and burning of soles of feet and palms of hands (Sang.,
Sulph.)
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26. SKIN
oPainful sensitiveness of skin of whole body; all clothing is painful;
slight injury suppurates (Hep.).
o Skin of hands rough, cracked; tips of fingers rough, cracked,
fissured, every winter; tenderness of the feet, which are bathed in
foul-smelling sweat (Graph., Sanic., Sil.).
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27. SKIN (CONT.)
oHerpes: Of genital organs extending to perineum and thighs;
itching, redness; skin cracked, rough, bleeding; dry or moist.
o Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands < in cold weather;
decubitus.
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28. MODALITIES
oAggravation: Carriage riding (Cocc., Sanic.); during a
thunderstorm; in winter (Alum.).
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29. RELATION
oOne of our best antidotes for lead poisoning.
oThe skin symptoms are worse in winter, better in summer
(Alum.); if suppressed, causes diarrhea.
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