Black Lead (Amorphous Carbon)
- 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 commissures; of anus; between the toes.
- Burning round spot on vertex (Calc., 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.).
- 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).
Relations
- Complementary: Caust., Hep., Lyc.
- Graphites 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 leucorrhoea.
- Similar: to, Lyc., Puls. in menstrual troubles.
Aggravation
- At night, during and after menstruation.
