Crude Rock-oil
- Strumous diathesis, especially the dark type, who suffer from catarrhal conditions of the mucous membranes, gastric acidity and cutaneous eruptions.
- Very marked skin symptoms, acting on sweat and oil glands.
- Ailments are worse during the winter season.
- Ailments from riding in cars, carriages, or ships; lingering gastric and lung troubles; chronic diarrhea.
- Long-lasting complaints follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc.
- Chlorosis in young girls with or without ulceration of the stomach.
Mind
- Marked aggravation from mental emotions.
- Loses his way in streets.
- Thinks he is double, or some one else lying alongside.
- Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs.
- Irritable, easily offended, vexed at everything.
- Low-spirited, with dimness of sight.
Head
- Sensitive, as of a cold breeze blowing on it.
- Feels numb, as if made of wood; occiput heavy, as of lead (Opium).
- Vertigo on rising, felt in occiput, as if intoxicated, or like sea-sickness.
- Moist eruption on scalp; worse, back and ears.
- Scalp sore to touch, followed by numbness.
- Headache, must hold temples to relieve; provoked by shaking while coughing.
- Use thirtieth.
Eyes
- Loss of eyelashes.
- Dim sight; far-sighted; cannot read fine print without glasses (hypermetropia); blenorrhea of lachrymal sac; marginal blepharitis.
- Canthi fissured.
- Skin around eyes dry and scurfy.
Ears
- Noise unbearable, especially from several people talking together.
- Eczema, intertrigo, etc., in and behind ears, with intense itching.
- Parts sore to touch.
- Fissures in meatus.
- Dry catarrh, with deafness and noises.
- Ringing and cracking in ears.
- Chronic Eustachian catarrh.
- Diminished hearing.
Nose
- Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn; tip of nose itches.
- Epistaxis.
- Ozena, with scabs and muco-purulent discharge.
Face
- Dry; feels constricted, as if covered with albumin.
Stomach
- Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation.
- Distention.
- Feeling of great emptiness.
- Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating cabbage.
- Hunger, immediately after stool.
- Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth.
- Gastralgia when stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating (Anac; Sep).
- Ravenous hunger.
- Must rise at night and eat (Psorin).
- Odor of garlic.
Abdomen
- Diarrhea only in the daytime; watery, gushing and itching of anus.
- After cabbage; with empty feeling of stomach.
Male
- Herpetic eruption on perineum.
- Prostate inflamed and swollen.
- Itching in urethra.
Female
- Before menses, throbbing in head (Kreos).
- Leucorrhea, profuse, albuminous (Alum; Bor; Bov; Calc p).
- Genitals sore and moist.
- Sensation of moisture (Eup purp).
- Itching and mealy coating of nipple.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness (Carbo; Caust; Phos) dry cough and oppression of chest; worse, cold air.
- Dry cough at night, coming deep from chest.
- Croup and laryngeal diphtheria.
Heart
- Sensation of coldness (Carb an; Nat mur).
- Fainting, with ebullitions, heat and palpitation.
Back
- Pain in nape of neck, stiff and painful.
- Weakness in small of back.
- Coccyx painful.
Extremities
- Chronic sprains.
- Fetid sweat in axillae.
- Knees stiff.
- Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured every winter.
- Scalding sensation in knee.
- Cracking in joints.
Skin
- Itching at night.
- Chilblains, moist, itch and burn.
- Bed-sores.
- Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked, leathery.
- Herpes.
- Slightest scratch makes skin suppurate (Hepar).
- Intertrigo; psoriasis of hands.
- Thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching; redness, raw; cracks bleed easily.
- Eczema.
- Rhagades worse in winter.
Fever
- Chilliness, followed by sweat.
- Flushes of heat, particularly of the face and head; worse at night.
- Perspiration on feet and axillae.
Modalities
- Worse, dampness, before and during a thunder-storm, from riding in cars, passive motion; in winter, eating, from mental states.
- Better, warm air; lying with head high; dry weather.
Relationship
- Compare: Carbo; Graph; Sulph; Phos.
- Complementary: Sepia.
- Antidotes: Nux; Coccul.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth and higher potencies.
- Material doses often better.
