Petr, Petroleum

Core theme

• Adapted to persons with light hair and skin;
• Irritable, quarrelsome disposition; easily offended at trifles; vexed at everything.
• Ailments: from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship.
• Ailments which are worse before and during a thunderstorm.
• Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly.
• Petr is located between Calc ,Sul and Puls. (Calc ₳ Petr) (Petr ₳ Sul) (Petr ₳ Puls)
  • Typology of Calc
  • Modalities and Skin problems of Sul
  • Mildness of Puls
  • Their problem is usually Psor type. (Petr ₳ Psor)
• Note that Sul may not have skin problem but Petr without skin problem is rare.

Mentally like Calc

• Gentle, obedient
• A little anxious and cautious
• Floating doubts and anxieties
• You could say Petr is a Calc with Nat-m depressions

Skin disease

• Petr is used in all skin problems such as Scabs, Psoriasis, Herpes

Eczema

• Scalp / Face is most common affected (Esp Occiput)
• Skin folds (esp genitals)
• Yellow spots on the skin
• Corrosive skin lesions / wounds
• Pruritus: In rarer cases, the patient's skin may be itchy but not have lesions.

Herpetic eruption

Step (1)

• An itchy, herpetic vesicle with a simple appearance but very annoying
• Scratching and yellow discharging wound
• At this point it is similar to Sul, Graph and maybe Psor (Note that Psor is generally drier). (Graph ₳ Petr)

Step (2)

• Crust formation that gradually hardens.
• Hardening starts from the edge.
• Eczema with an old, rough and itchy face

Step (3)

• Development of eczema and the formation of deep skin cracks
• Dried blood in the depth of the cracks (Ugly sight) (Scabs) (Mez ₳ Petr)

• Boger: Dry skin (Esp hands, fingers and nipples and more in the corners), dirty, rough and thick
• His skin is ulcerated and does not heal easily. (Esp in skin folds)
• Itching of orifices, internal itching

Psoriasis

• Simple forms of psoriasis on extensor surfaces
• Psoriasis with painful and bleeding lesions with deep fissures
• Generalized form of Psoriasis

Confusion

• His Irresolution is much more stronger than Puls
• It is accompanied by spatial perception ambiguity.
• Feeling that he cannot put the parts of a whole together.
• Feeling of duality and losing oneself (Boger)
• Lack of Concentration/ Orientation
• Loses his way in famous streets. (Nux-m, Glon)

MIND - MISTAKES; making - localities, in

MIND - RECOGNIZING - not recognizing; does - streets; well known

MIND - CONFUSION of mind - loses his way in well-known streets

• He reveals his secrets in his sleep. (Am-c)

MIND - REVEALING secrets - sleep, in

Dizziness

• Positional Dizziness / Unsteadiness such as car sickness but not in true vertigo
• Movement agg

Headache

• Headache spread from occiput to the forehead and eyes (Sil) (Petr ₳ Sil)
• Headache that causes temporary blindness and neck stiffness.
• Agg by shaking the head.
• He feels a heavy weight on the back of the head pulling him back. This condition is associated with blood flow to the head (Carb-v, Sep, Sil).

Death presentiment

Petr thinks that he would die very soon, so he must do something but there is not enough time left so he feel anxious and despaired

MIND - DEATH - presentiment of (Acon ₳ Petr)

MIND - DELUSIONS - die - about to die; one was

Diarrhea

• Diarrhea that only exists during
• Daytime (Nat-m, Phyt)
• Agg by eating cabbage
• Feels terribly empty and weak.

General modalities

Washing agg

He hates washing and it gets worse with water, even when you wash his hands and face, his nose bleeds.

NOSE - EPISTAXIS - washing; from - Face

Cold agg

• Burning sensation with cold in skin lesions after scratching is a general problem in Petr. (Mez) (Mez ₳ Petr)
• He is completely cold
• Cold agg him generally and mentally (ARS, Dulc, rhus-t)

MIND - AVERSION - water, to

Miasm

HSV-2