GRAPHITES
Black Lead-Plumbago
Like all the carbons, this treatment is an anti-psoric of outstanding power, however particularly energetic in sufferers who are alternatively stout, of honest complexion, with tendency to pores and skin affections and constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual history, take bloodless easily. Children impudent, teasing, snicker at reprimands. Has a unique tendency to boost the pores and skin segment of inside disorders. Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Anaemia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals. Gushing leucorrhoea. Aids absorption of cicatricial tissue. Induration of tissue. Cancer of pylorus. Duodenal ulcer.
Mind.–Great tendency to start. Timid. Unable to decide. Want of disposition to work. Fidgety whilst sitting at work. Music makes her weep. Apprehensive, despondency, indecision.
Head.–Rush of blood to head with flushed face additionally with nostril bleed and distension and flatulence. Headache in morning on waking, in general on one side, with inclination to vomit. Sensation of cobweb on forehead. Feels numb and pithy. Rheumatic pains on one facet of head, extending to tooth and neck. Burning on vertex. Humid, itching eruption on bushy scalp, emitting a fetid odor. Cataleptic condition.
Eyes.–Ophthalmia, with intolerance of synthetic light. Eyelids pink and swollen. Blepharitis. Dryness of the lids. Eczema of lids; fissured.
Ears.–Dryness of internal ear. Cracking in ears when eating. Moisture and eruptions in the back of the ears. Hears higher in noise. Hardness of hearing. Hissing in the ears. Detonation in ear like record of a gun. Thin, white, scaly membrane protecting membrane tympani, like exfoliated epithelium. Fissures in and in the back of the ear.
Nose.–Sore on blowing it; is painful internally. Smell abnormally acute; can’t tolerate flowers. Scabs and fissures in nostrils.
Face.–Feels as if cobwebs have been on it. Eczema of nose. Itching pimples. Moist eczema round mouth and chin. Erysipelas, burning and stinging.
Mouth.–Rotten smell from mouth. Breath smells like urine. Burning blisters on tongue, salivation. Sour eructations.
Stomach.–Aversion to meat. Sweets nauseate. Hot drinks disagree. Nausea and vomiting after every meal. Morning illness at some point of menstruation. Pressure in stomach. Burning in stomach, inflicting hunger. Eructation difficult. Constrictive ache in stomach. Recurrent gastralgia. Flatulence. Stomach ache is briefly relieved via eating, warm drinks particularly milk and mendacity down.
Abdomen.–Nauseous feeling in abdomen. Fullness and hardness in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence; need to loosen clothing; presses painfully at stomach ring. Croaking in abdomen. Inguinal area sensitive, swollen. Pain of fuel contrary the aspect on which he lies. Chronic diarrhoea, stools brownish, liquid, undigested, offensive. Very fetid fuel preceded via colic.
Stool.–Constipation; large, difficult, knotty stools united by means of mucus threads. Burning haemorrhoids. Prolapse, diarrhoea; stools of brown fluid, combined with undigested substance, very fetid, bitter odor. Smarting, sore anus, itching. Lump stool, conjoined with threads of mucus. Varices of the rectum. Fissure of anus (Ratanhia; Paeonia).
Urine.–Turbid, with sediment. Sour smelling.
Female.–Menses too late, with constipation; light and scanty, with tearing ache in epigastrium, and itching before. Hoarseness, coryza, cough, sweats and morning illness at some stage in menstruation. Leucorrhoea, pale, thin, profuse, white, excoriating, with extraordinary weak spot in back. Mammae swollen and hard. Induration of ovaries and uterus and mammae. Nipples sore, cracked, and blistered. Decided aversion to coitus.
Male.–Sexual debility, with multiplied desire; aversion to coition; too early or no ejaculation; herpetic eruption on organs.
Respiratory.–Constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, suffocative assaults wakes from sleep; have to devour something. Pain in center of chest, with cough, scraping and soreness. Chronic hoarseness with pores and skin affections. Inability to manage the vocal chords; hoarseness on starting to sing and for breaking voice.
Extremities.–Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and lower back and limbs. Spinal pains. Pain in small of again with fantastic weakness. Excoriation between thighs. Left hand numb; palms sense asleep; finger-nails thick, black, and rough, matrix infected (Psor; Fluor ac). Å’dema of decrease 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.
Skin.–Rough, hard, power dryness of parts of pores and skin unaffected by using eczema. Early stage of keloid and fibroma. Pimples and acne. Eruptions, oozing out a sticky exudation. Rawness in bends of limbs, groins, neck, in the back of ears. Unhealthy skin; each little harm suppurates. Ulcers discharging a glutinous fluid, skinny 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.
Modalities.–Worse, warmth, at night, all through and after menstruation. Better, in the dark, from wrapping up.
Relationship.–Complementary: Argent nit (follows nicely in gastric derangements); Caustic; Hep; Lycop; Ars; Tuberc.
Compare: Petrol; Sep; Sulph; Fluor ac. The related constipation with mucus-covered stools and gastric flatulency need to be taken into consideration and differentiate it from such treatments as Petrol and Lycop (Raue).
Antidote: Nux; Acon; Ars.
Dose.–Sixth to thirtieth potency. Locally as a cerate, in sore nipples.
