PSORINUM

PSORINUM

(Scabies Vesicle)

Psor.

Therapeutic field effective for psoric manifestations. Psorinum is a cold remedy; the patient needs to keep their head warm and prefers warm clothing even in summer. Shows extreme sensitivity to cold, debility unrelated to organic disease, especially after acute illness. Notable for defective phagocytes where well-chosen remedies fail. Useful for scrofulous patients with foul-smelling secretions, profuse sweating, cardiac weakness, and prominent skin symptoms. Can provide immunity against colds, with easy perspiration during walking. Addresses inherited and tertiary syphilis with offensive discharges.

Mind: Feels hopeless and despaired of recovery, deeply melancholic with religious undertones, and has suicidal tendencies.

Head: Wakes at night with pain, feeling as if struck, with chronic headaches, hunger during attacks, and vertigo. Hammering pain; the brain feels too large; worsens with weather changes. Dull, pressure pain in the occiput. Humid scalp eruptions and dry, matted hair.

Eyes: Sticky, blepharitis, recurrent chronic ophthalmia, red eyelid edges, and acrid secretion.

Ears: Red, raw, oozing scabs around ears, sore pain behind ears, herpes spreading from temples over ears to cheeks. Offensive discharge from eczema around ears, intolerable itching, chronic otorrhea with fetid, brownish pus.

Nose: Dry coryza with nasal blockage, chronic catarrh, and posterior nares discharge. Acne rosacea present.

Face: Swollen upper lip, pale, delicate, with humid eruptions and a sickly appearance.

Mouth: Persistent rhagades at corners, ulcerated tongue and gums, foul-tasting tough mucus on soft palate.

Throat: Swollen tonsils with dysphagia and ear pain. Profuse, offensive saliva, tough throat mucus, recurring quinsy, and cheesy, foul-smelling balls.

Stomach: Eructations of rotten eggs, constant hunger with nighttime eating, nausea, and vomiting of pregnancy. Abdominal pain after eating.

Stool: Mucoid, bloody, excessively fetid, dark fluid; hard, difficult stools with rectal bleeding and burning piles. Constipation in scrofulous children.

Female: Fetid, lumpy leucorrhea with severe backache and debility. Swollen, painful breasts (mastitis) with oozing pimples.

Respiratory: Asthma with dyspnea worse when sitting, improved lying down with arms spread. Dry cough, chest weakness, and sensation of sternum ulceration. Recurring winter cough from suppressed eruptions, irregular hay fever.

Extremities: Joint weakness, eruptions around fingernails, fetid foot sweat.

Sleep: Sleepless from severe itching, easily startled.

Fever: Profuse, offensive perspiration and night sweats.

Skin: Dirty, dull appearance, dry, rough hair, intense itching. Herpetic eruptions on scalp and joints, worsened by bed warmth. Enlarged glands, oily skin, slow-healing ulcers, eczema behind ears, crusty eruptions, urticaria after exertion, pustules near fingernails.

Modalities: Worsens with coffee, weather changes, hot sun, and cold drafts. Improves with heat and warm clothing, even in summer.

Relationship: Complementary to Sulph. Compare with Pediculus capitis for psoric manifestations in children, Calc, and Nat-ars for lack of reaction. Bacillus Gaertner shares pessimistic tendencies and troublesome eye symptoms. Use 30th and 200th potencies.

Dose: Use 200th potency or higher. Do not repeat often; may take up to 9 days to manifest effects and a single dose may cause symptoms lasting weeks.