About Psorinum Homeopathy Dilution

Also known as Psorinum Nosode, Scabies Vesicle

This remedy is found to be effective in cases of debility independent of any organic diseases. It has characteristic symptom of extreme sensitiveness to cold, wants warm clothing even in summer. It is given in subjects of low vitality and lack of reaction. The glands are affected. The secretions are profuse and have a filthy smell. The skin symptoms are very prominent with the history of syphilis.

Psorinum Patient Profile

Mind: Hopeless. Despair of recovery. Melancholic and suicidal tendency

Head: The pain in the head as if from blow on head which is more at night. The headaches are chronic and hungry during attacks. The pain is hammering type worse change of weather. The scalp is covered with humid eruptions and hair matted.

Eyes: The eyes are agglutinated. The eyelids are inflamed and swollen. The secretion is acrid.

Mouth: The corners of mouth ulcerated and cracked. The tongue and gums are ulcerated.

Nose: The nose is stopped and dry. The mucus drips from posterior nares.

Ears: The ears are raw, red and oozing. The scabs around ears are oozing. The discharge is offensive and intolerable itching around ears. The pus oozes from the ears which is brownish and offensive.

Throat: It is indicated in inflammation of the tonsils with pain in the throat while swallowing. The saliva is profuse and offensive. It eradicates tendency to quinsy.

Stomach: The eructations are like bad eggs. The hunger is too much and must have something to eat in the middle of the night. It is indicated in nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.

Stool: The stool is mixed with mucus and blood, excessively fetid and dark. The stool is hard, difficult with blood from rectum and burning piles.

Female: The white discharge is fetid and lumpy with severe backache and debility.

Respiratory: It is indicated in asthma with difficult breathing worse when sitting and better by lying down and keeping arms spread apart. The cough is dry, hard with great weakness of chest. The cough returns every winter from suppressed eruptions. It is indicated in hay fever every year.

Skin: The skin looks dirty and dingy. The skin is dry, lusterless, rough and intolerable itching. The herpetic eruptions are seen on the scalp and bends of joints. The itching is worse from heat of bed.

Modalities: The complaints are worse from coffee, changes of weather, hot sunshine and cold and better by heat.

Dosage: Please note that the dosage of single homoeopathic medicines varies from drug to drug depending upon the condition, age, sensitivity and other things. In some cases they are given as regular doses as 3-5 drops 2-3 times a day whereas in other cases they are given only once in a week, month or even in a longer period. We strongly recommend that the medication should be taken as per the physician's advice.

Please avoid taking any food or drinks for a few minutes before and after taking the medication.

Side effects :

No side effect of this remedy is known in therapeutic doses.

Contraindications:

No contra-indication for the use of this remedy is known.

Psorinum as per Boericke Materia Medica

The therapeutic field of this remedy is found in so-called psoric manifestations. Psorinum is a cold medicine; wants the head kept warm, wants warm clothing even in summer. Extreme sensitiveness to cold. Debility, independent of any organic disease, especially the weakness remaining after acute disease. Lack of reaction, i.e, phagocytes defective; when well-chosen remedies fail to act. Scrofulous patients. Secretions have a filthy smell. Profuse sweating. Cardiac weakness. Skin symptoms very prominent. Often gives immunity from cold-catching. Easy perspiration when walking. Syphilis, inherited and tertiary. Offensive discharges.

Mind -Hopeless; despairs of recovery. Melancholy, deep and persistent; religious. Suicidal tendency.

Head -Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head. Chronic headaches; hungry during attacks; with vertigo. Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change of weather. Dull, pressive pain in occiput. Humid eruption on scalp; hair matted. Hair dry.

Eyes -Agglutinated. Blepharitis. Chronic ophthalmia, that constantly recurs. Edges of lids red. Secretion acrid.

Mouth -Obstinate rhagades at corners. Tongue, gums ulcerated; tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate.

Nose -Dry, coryza, with stoppage of nose. Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior nares. Acne rosacea.

Ears -Raw, red, oozing scabs around ears. Sore pain behind ears. Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks. Offensive discharge from eczema around ears. Intolerable itching. Chronic otorrhśa. Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive.

Face -Swelling of upper lip. Pale, delicate. Humid eruption on face. Sickly.

Throat -Tonsils greatly swollen; painful swallowing, with pain in ears. Profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat. Recurring quinsy. Eradicates tendency to quinsy. Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste (Agar).

Stomach -Eructations like bad eggs. Very hungry always; must have something to eat in the middle of the night. Nausea; vomiting of pregnancy. Pain in abdomen after eating.

Stool -Mucous, bloody, excessively fetid, dark fluid. Hard, difficult stool, with blood from rectum and burning piles. Constipation of infants, in pale, sickly scrofulous children.

Female-Leucorrhśa fetid, lumpy, with much backache and debility. Mammć swollen and painful. Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands.

Respiratory-Asthma, with dyspnśa; worse, sitting up; better, lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart. Dry, hard cough, with great weakness in chest. Feeling of ulceration under sternum. Pain in chest; better, lying down. Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption. Hay-fever returning irregularly every year.

Extremities -Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold together. Eruption around finger-nails. Fetid foot-sweats.

Skin -Dirty, dingy look. Dry, lusterless, rough hair. Intolerable itching. Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints with itching; worse, from warmth of bed. Enlarged glands. Sebaceous glands secrete excessively; oily skin. Indolent ulcers, slow to heal. Eczema behind ears. Crusty eruptions all over. Urticaria after every exertion. Pustules near finger-nails.

Fever-Profuse, offensive perspiration; night-sweats.

Sleep-Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily startled.

Modalities-Worse, coffee; Psorinum patient does not improve while using coffee. Worse, changes of weather, in hot sunshine, from cold. Dread of least cold air or draft. Better, heat, warm clothing, even in summer.

Relationship-Complementary: Sulphur.

Compare: Pediculus-Head-louse--(psoric manifestations in children. Eruption on dorsum of hands, feet neck. Prurigo; pellagra. Unusual aptitude for study and work). Pediculus (Cooties) transmit typhus and trench fever). In lack of reaction compare Calcarea and Natrum ars. Gaertner (Pessimistic, lack of confidence, subjective troublesome eye symptoms, fear of heights. Urticaria. Use 30th and 200th (Wheeler).

Dose -Two hundredth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too often. Psorinum requires something like 9 days before it manifests its action, and even a single dose may elicit other symptoms lasting for weeks (Aegedi).