Author: Urenus

The mother tincture is prepared from the whole fresh plant, gathered when coming into flower, of Petroselinum crispum [Mill.] Nym. ssp. crispum, a native of Southern Europe and cultivated in many places as a culinary herb and for the production of the essential oil. N.O. Umbelliferae.

The main indications are:

Bladder problems. Sudden, irresistible urging to urinate. Itching in the urethra (which may cause impotence owing to a persistent disorder resulting from the im- pregnation effects of retoxic treatment of gonorrhoea).

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Petroselinum crispum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for petroselinum: inflammations of the urinary tract; irritable urinary bladder.

The attenuations are prepared by retification of naturally-occurring rock oil, a clear colourless liquid boiling between 180 and 220 °C.

Nash describes Petroleum as one of our best antipsoric remedies, its skin eruptions being very similar to those of Graphites, occurring in the creases of joints and in folds of skin, e.g. behind the ears, on the scrotum, on the female genitalia, and on hands, feet and legs. The characteristic leading symptom is the aggravation in win- ter, the hands become cracked, chapped and bleeding, covered in eczema during winter-time and typically healing up in summer. Thus Petroleum is also a good rem- edy for chilblains and, like Hepar Sulphuris, shows an aggravation in cold weather or cold air. The slightest injury or abrasion of the skin suppurates just as in Hepar Sulphuris also.

A further important symptom of Petroleum is nausea and vertigo while travelling, so that it can be used for sea-sickness and train-sickness.

Nash also mentions a particular kind of headache in the occiput, which feels as heavy as lead with a dizzy sensation.

Cracking in the joints can also respond favourably to Petroleum, as it does to Causticum, and there is a pain in the stomach, ameliorated by eating, and diarrhoea and dysentery which are aggravated during the daytime.

Thus Nash includes Petroleum among the main antipsorics, such as Sulphur, Graphites, Causticum and Lycopodium.

Mention must also be made of the nervous irritability which is found in Petroleum patients, also restless sleep with great excitement and internal heat and tossing about in bed (similar to Sulphur), starting up in fear with anxious dreams and phantasies, and also with palpitation and trembling in the limbs; during the day there is sleepiness and fatigue, the patient possibly falling asleep unexpectedly while sitting quietly. There may be restlessness and discontent, an excited manner, easily aroused to out- bursts of temper and displaying strong feelings. The patient can be angry, but may also be gloomy, despondent and anxious, finally becoming dispirited. There may also be forgetfulness and disinclination for mental exertion, with weakness of intellect, and also vertigo, heaviness and swimming in the head, and tinnitus, associated with dull, drawing headaches.

The skin conditions of Petroleum may extend to the mucosa of the eyes, with dacry- ocystitis, lachrymation, easy tiredness of the eyes, weakness of vision and floaters.

Otitis externa with chronic inflammatory discharge, associated with tinnitus and hearing impairment also responds to Petroleum, as does epistaxis with ulcerations of the nasal mucosa.

Also particularly characteristic are the dislocated pains in the shoulder, elbow, hand and finger joints; the lower jaw is also easily dislocated and there may be stiffness in all joints and cramps in the thighs, calves and feet which is intensified during the day. Petroleum can likewise be used to good effect in stomach complaints as part of the duodenal syndrome; there is then often offensive mouth-odour with ulcerative stom-

atitis and a white, mucous coating of the tongue, and accompanying tonsillitis. There may also be flatulent abdominal distension, watery vomiting and large quantities of foetid diarrhoea. Defaecation is often followed by a sensation of great weakness and itching in the anus with burning and stinging in the rectum.

In addition to pruritus of the male and female genitalia with a tendency to eczema, there is also neuralgia of the spermatic cord and testes and burning irritation in the urethra, and in women there is vaginal discharge like egg-white.

Typical of Petroleum is always the aggravation from travelling and in winter, espe- cially of skin complaints, or also from vexation.

If the main symptoms are summed up, the result is the following typical remedy- picture:

1. Chronic rheumatism. Arthritis and arthroses with cracking and grating in the joints. Habitual subluxation of the mandible. Aggravation in winter.
2. Tendency to catch colds easily. Fatigue and shivering. Swimming in the head after mental exertion. Depressive mood.
3. Skin eruptions with moist, sore eczemas in the creases of the joints and behind the ear. Scrotal eczema. Chapped, cracked hands, chilblains. Rhagades. Foetid sweat in the axillae, on head, hands and genitalia. Stubborn ulcers on the toes.
4. 4.   Dandruff on the head. Lachrymation. Fistulae. Ototis externa. Purulent inflamma- tions of the nasal mucosa.
5. Vertigo and nausea when travelling. Sea-sickness. Nausea and vomiting (also in pregnancy).
6. Duodenal syndrome with diarrhoea and consequent weakness. Ravenous hunger with rapid satiety.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Petroleum rectificatum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for petroleum: various skin diseases; inflammations of the respiratory passages, the gastrointestinal tract, and the urinary organs; rheumatism; vertigo.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from pertussis immunoglobulins.

The main indications are:

In whooping cough (pertussis) and all types of cough. Also in emphysema, bronchial asthma with attacks of coughing. According to Julian also in neurological diseases of childhood with convulsions; also in tetany, epilepsy and imbecility, should whooping cough appear in the medical history.

The attenuations are prepared from Benzylpenicillin potassium, C₁₆H₁₇KN₂O₄S, MW: 327.5 (Potentised allopathic compound).

The main indications are:

Iatrogenic damage during or after treatment with antibiotics, sulphonamides etc. General exhaustion, only feels well when lying down. Eczemas. Urticaria. Warts. Stinging pains in various places, aggravated by movement (cf. Bryonia). Supra-orbital neuralgia, also behind the right eyeball (cf. Chelidonium, Sanguinaria, Belladonna). Restless sleep. Waking around 2:00 a.m. Conjunctivitis. Blepharitis. Protracted colds. Eczema of the auditory canal. Tinnitus. Cardiac asthma. Dry, hoarse cough.

Pains under the sternum with palpitations, tachycardia. Angina pectoris. Paraes- thesias in the extremities.

Bleeding of the gums. Imprints of the teeth show on the tongue, which is coated yellowish-brown. Aphthous stomatitis. Constipation with umbilical pain and disten- sion. Renal pains. Albuminuria and oedema. Leucorrhoea. Pains in the joints and muscles.

Aggravation from movement, damp cold, and at 4:00 p.m. Amelioration from rest, and in warm dry weather.

Julian (of Paris) recommends the preparation proved by Guermonprez in 1954/55 in chronic reticuloendotheliosis (Letterer-Siwe disease).

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Benzylpenicillinum-Kalium, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Fed- eral Gazette) for penicillin: chronic inflammations of the skin and mucosae.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts of the plant, Passiflora incarnata L., a native of South America and the East Indies, and cultivated in many places for decoration. N.O. Passifloraceae.

The main indications are:

Nervous sleeplessness. States of restlessness. Addictions.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Passiflora incarnata, published

the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for passiflora incarnata: insomnia; spasmodic conditions; conditions of restlessness.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the fresh parotid gland removed from a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

The main indications are:

Follow-up treatment for mumps. Cysts and secretory disorders of the parotid gland.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from mumps vaccine.

The main indications are:

Mumps is to be distinguished from the parotitis which is seen in scarlet fever,  cholera and other infectious diseases, and also from the secondary parotitis, arising from throat infections and diseases of the oral mucosa.

There is painful swelling of the parotid gland with characteristic displacement of the ear-lobe, fever, otalgia and hearing-difficulty, and sometimes pancreatic involve- ment is also found in mumps. The use of Parotidinum should therefore be borne in mind in affections of the pancreas of various kinds, as well as in various diseases of the oral mucosa such as stomatitis, tonsillitis, Eustachian catarrh and hearing prob- lems of catarrhal origin. It should also be borne in mind in involvement of the testes from viral illnesses of all kinds, and should be tried in cryptorchism and benign tu- mours of the testes (fibroma, myoma, lymphangioma, adenomatoid tumours), and may also be tried in malignant tumours of the testes or seminoma. It might also be tried in teratoma and dermoid cysts. Since iatrogenic damage is not to be reckoned with in the use of nosodes, we have here at our disposal new – and often surprising- ly effective – therapeutic possibilities.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from periodontal tissue (gum, root membrane and alveolar bone) which is affected by periodontitis.

The Parodontosis Nosode is indicated not only in periodontitis, but it constitutes an effective stimulative therapy in the event of homotoxic overloading (a raised level of toxins), especially if it is supported by other anti-homotoxic preparations such as enzyme stimulators, intermediary catalysts and organ stimulating remedies.

The Parodontosis Nosode is also particularly indicated when, after all the teeth have been removed, the symptoms of periodontitis are suddenly halted and a regres- sion sets in of the homotoxins which were previously routed through the infection. These then trigger off a wide variety of phases at other sites of least resistance, e.g. manifestation of liver damage, cirrhosis of the liver, intolerance of alcohol (wine and beer), a sudden rise in the blood pressure, disturbances of coronary ciruclation, etc. As is generally the case with the nosodes, and particularly in the case of the Paro- dontosis Nosode, the general homotoxic state must be taken into account. So those homotoxins which were formerly being eliminated by way of the reaction phase of periodontitis and are now taking effect, because of retoxication, must be stimulated by the use of other suitable preparations, particularly combination-remedies, such as

are used in cellular phases.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh plant, gathered when the fruit is ripe, of Paris quadrifolia L., a native of Europe and Northern Asia. N.O. Liliaceae.

The main indications are:

Headache with a sensation of enlargement (like a balloon); sensation as if the eye- balls were pulled backwards by a thread. Globus hystericus. Periodic painless hoarseness. Laryngitis with expectoration of mucus.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Paris quadrifolia, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for paris quadrifolia: headaches; inflammations of the respiratory passages; deceptive- ly perceived impressions from the olfactory or tactile senses.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried root of the plant Chondodendron to- mentosum Ruiz. et Pav., a Native of Central and South America. N.O. Menisperma- ceae.

The main indications are:

Inexhaustible strangury, has to cry out with the pain and kneel down in order to pass urine. Urine with thick, viscous, white mucus or brick-dust sediment. Pains ex- tend down into the thighs. Hypertrophy of the prostate. Renal colic.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Chondodendron tomentosum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Fed- eral Gazette) for pareira brava: disorders in voiding from the urinary bladder; uri- nary-tract inflammation; enlargement of the prostate gland.