Boericke William

KREOSOTUM

Beechwood Kreosote


  • Kreosotum is a mixture of phenols obtained from this distillation.
  • Pulsations all over the body, and profuse bleeding from small wounds. 
  • Very severe, old neuralgic affections; pains rather aggravated by rest. 
  • Excoriating, burning, and offensive discharges. 
  • Haemorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections. 
  • Rapid decomposition of fluids and secretions, and burning pains. 
  • Overgrown, poorly developed children. 
  • Post-climacteric diseases. 
  • Tumefaction, puffiness, gangrene. 
  • Ailings of teething children.

Mental

  • Music causes weeping and palpitation. 
  • Vanishing of thought; stupid, forgetful, peevish, irritable. 
  • Child wants everything but throws it away when given.

Head

  • Dull pain, as from a board pressing against forehead. 
  • Menstrual headache. 
  • Occipital pain (Gels; Zinc pic).

Eyes

  • Salty lachrymation. 
  • Lids red and swollen.

Ears

  • Eruption around and pimples within. 
  • Difficult hearing and buzzing.

Face

  • Sick, suffering expression; hot, cheeks red.

Mouth

  • Lips red, bleeding. 
  • Very painful dentition; child will not sleep. 
  • Very rapid decay of teeth, with spongy, bleeding gums; teeth dark and crumbly (Staph; Ant c). 
  • Putrid odor and bitter taste.

Nose

  • Offensive smell and discharge. 
  • Chronic catarrh of old people. 
  • Acrid rawness. 
  • Lupus (Ars).

Throat

  • Burning, choking sensation. 
  • Putrid odor.

Stomach

  • Nausea; vomiting of food several hours after eating; of sweetish water in the morning. 
  • Feeling of coldness, as of ice water in stomach. 
  • Soreness; better eating. 
  • Painful hard spot. 
  • Haematemesis. 
  • Bitter taste after a swallow of water.

Abdomen

  • Distended. 
  • Burning haemorrhoids. 
  • Diarrhœa; very offensive; dark brown. 
  • Bloody, fetid stools. 
  • Cholera infantum in connection with painful dentition, green stools, nausea, dry skin, exhaustion, etc.

Urine

  • Offensive. 
  • Violent itching of vulva and vagina, worse when urinating. 
  • Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of bed quick enough during first sleep. 
  • Dreams of urinating. 
  • Enuresis in the first part of night. 
  • Must hurry when desire comes to urinate.

Female

  • Corrosive itching within vulva, burning and swelling of labia; violent itching between labia and thighs. 
  • During menses, difficult hearing; buzzing and roaring; eruption after. 
  • Burning and soreness in external and internal parts. 
  • Leucorrhœa, yellow, acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods. 
  • Haemorrhage after coition. 
  • Menses too early, prolonged. 
  • Vomiting of pregnancy, with ptyalism. 
  • Menstrual flow intermits (Puls); ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down. 
  • Pain worse after menses. 
  • Lochia offensive; intermits.

Respiratory

  • Hoarse, with pain in larynx. 
  • Cough; worse evening, with efforts to vomit, with pain in chest. 
  • Raw burning in chest; pains and oppression. 
  • Cough after influenza (Eriodyction). 
  • Winter coughs of old people, with heavy pressure on sternum. 
  • Gangrene of lungs. 
  • After every cough, copious, purulent expectoration. 
  • Haemoptysis; periodic attacks. 
  • Sternum feels pressed in.

Back

  • Dragging backache, extending to genitals and down thighs. 
  • Great debility.

Extremities

  • Pain in joints, hip and knee. 
  • Boring pain in hip-joints. 
  • Scapulae sore.

Skin

  • Itching, worse towards evening. 
  • Burning in soles. 
  • Senile gangrene. 
  • Small wounds bleed freely (Crot; Lach; Phos). 
  • Pustules and herpes. 
  • Ecchymosis; dorsal surface of fingers and hands eczematous.

Sleep

  • Disturbed with tossing. 
  • Paralytic sensation in limbs on waking. 
  • Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc.

Modalities

  • Worse, in open air, cold rest, when lying; after menstruation. 
  • Better, from warmth, motion, warm diet.

Relationship

  • Antidote: Nux. 
  • Inimical: Carbo.
  • Complementary in malignant diseases: Ars; Phos; Sulph.
  • Guaiacol (is the principal constituent of Kreosote, and similar in action. Used in pulmonary tuberculosis. Dose 1 to 5 m).
  • Matico-Artanthe or Piper augustifolia, (Gonorrhoea, haemorrhage from lungs; catarrhal conditions of genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract. Topically a haemostatic. Difficult, dry, deep, winter cough. Use tincture).
  • Compare also: Fuligo ligni; Carbol ac; Iod; Laches.

Dose

  • Third to thirtieth potency. 
  • The 200th in sensitive patients.





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