Psor, Psorinum

Good starter

• One of the best remedies to start in chronic diseases
• Esp after scarlet fever
• Allen suggests Psor in chronic diseases where the correct remedy was not effective.
• Psor has the same position in chronic disease that Sul has and in acute ones.

GENERALS - CHRONIC DISEASES, to begin treatment: calc. calc-p. morb. Nux-v. psor. puls. Sulph. tub

GENERALS - CHRONIC DISEASES, to begin treatment - scarlet fever; after

• Good remedy for weakness in recovery period of acute diseases (Carb-v, Sul, Tub), esp when child has lost fluid.

GENERALS - LOSS - fluids, of - children; in (Nurslings)

Clinic

• Psor is located between Sul , Syph , Hep , Tub and Arn
• Alan: Give Psor to a patient for whom Sul was a good drug but did not work (Psor ₳ Sul)
• Excellent remedy in the septic and foul-smelling condition that occurs during the recovery period (Pyrog)
• Psor = Hurried like Sul + Flatulence like Olean, Aloe + Constipation even with loose stools like Alum, Chin, Nux-v
• Radar suggest Psor in mania

  ACUTE DISEASES - Psychological disorders - manic stage symptoms  : hyos._k lach._k psor._k stram._k

• Psor has depression (No talkative, No happiness, No sexual mania)

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Scrotal desquamating eruption

Asthma

Asthmatic Dyspnea

Modalities:

• Open air Agg (Calad, Nat-m)

  RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - air - open, in

• Sitting up straight Agg (Laur)
• Lying down Amel

• Amel by opening the arms to the sides (Opposite to Ars)

  RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - amel.

Accompanied by

• Cough after suppressing itching or eczema
• Alternation of asthma with skin rashes

  RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - alternating with - eruptions

• Chest pain / Palpitations + Dyspnea

CHEST - PAIN - Heart - accompanied by - respiration; difficult

RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - palpitation, during

Skin

• Psor has multiple skin problems like Sul such as Acne, eczema, psoriasis
• Body rashes esp on skin folds and behind the ears
• Greasy skin, esp on the face
• His hair is tangled / stuck together / frizzy and lusterless (Lyc, Bar-c, Sars, Tub)
• His scalp has foul-smelling secretions.

Herpetic rashes

ACUTE DISEASES - Dermatological disorders - superficial mycotic infections: graph. Hep. Mez. nat-m. Peter psor puls. rhus-t.

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Circinate patch

• On the Scrotum / Groin
• Red/copper colored patches
• Fine wet crusts
• Hollow ring patches

  SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - circinate SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - patches EYE - ERUPTIONS - Lids - scaly herpes

Scaly rashes, Psoriasis, Scabies

• Desqumation behind the ear with sticky and smelly secretions (Graph)
• Dry and rough skin and small scales, esp on head

SKIN - ERUPTIONS – desquamating

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - scaly

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - scaly

ACUTE DISEASES - Dermatological disorders - psoriasis

It is the second medicine for (Acute /Chronic) scabies after Sul

ACUTE DISEASES - Dermatological disorders - scabies

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - scabies - suppressed - mercury and sulphur; by

• Heat agg (Onset of itching on entering the bed)
• Severe itchiness
• Pimple-like rash

Urticaria

Dermatological disorders - urticaria andioedema  APIS, psor._k

Itching

• Unbearable itching, he scratches until bleeding
• Pruritis: Itchy skin without rash
• Itching leads him to complete despair / Insomnia Insomnia /Terrible sleep (Nat-m)

  SKIN - ITCHING - despair from itching SKIN - ERUPTIONS - itching - warmth - bed; of - agg. SKIN - ITCHING - warm - bed; on becoming warm in

Purulent rash

• Little but continuous secretions that are sticky and smelly (Graph, Mez)
• The rash quickly ends is pus (Hep)
• Profuse sweating after acute diseases, which makes him feel better (Calad, Nat-m)

Generality

• Dirty and smelly
• Cold and weak
• Thin and hungry
• Cowardly and hopeless

Hungry

• He is very hungry and eats regularly, but he is still weak.
• He is so hungry that it disturbs his sleep.

  STOMACH - APPETITE - increased - night

• Hunger esp during pregnancy (Phos, Lyc, Petr) Hunger during headache

  STOMACH - APPETITE - increased - headache - before

STOMACH - APPETITE - increased - headache - with

Offensiveness

• Bad-smelling on the
• Chronic / Recurrent Funky Mucous discharge such as nose (sinusitis) , expectoration, menses , eye, ear discharges
• Stool/ Flatulence / Anus

Ear / nose / throat disorders - otitis media SKIN - ULCERS - discharges - offensive - putrid

• He hawks and expels piecemeal and foul-smelling phlegm (Kali-m)

Depression

• Fear and despair about future
• Thinks he is a loser. Desperate and pessimistic, he may even think of suicide
• Feelings of intense loneliness and being forgotten.
• Concerned about his health, so that he is completely hopeless about recovery.
• Tiredness and restlessness at night (Ars)
• He blames himself for his anxiety. (Nux-v, Puls, Lyc)

Children

• Restless thin /Bony child with skin rashes
• Child's restlessness during skin rash

  MIND - RESTLESSNESS - eruptions - with - children; in

• Nocturnal urinary incontinence Infant diarrhea

  RECTUM - DIARRHEA - children; in-nurslings

Children restlessness

• He does not sleep day and night and cries constantly (Jal), but he is refreshed in the morning. (Allen)
• A child who is good and plays during the day but is restless all night (opposite to Lyc)

MIND - IRRITABILITY - children, in - good all day, cross all night : jal , psor

MIND - RESTLESSNESS - children, in - night - morning fresh and lively; but in the :Psor

SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - children, in - fretful from bedtime to morning; next day lively : Psor.

MIND - TALKING - sleep, in - children, in

MIND - WEEPING - children, in - night

MIND - WEEPING - children, in - night - toss all night : Psor , Rheum

MIND - IRRITABILITY - night - children; in - babies; in sick : Psor

MIND - IRRITABILITY - children, in - sleepless - day and night : psor

MIND - IRRITABILITY - sleeplessness, with - children, in : psor

SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - daytime - children - and night : psor

SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - children, in – babies : carc, psor

A child who is restless and hyperactive day and night needs Tub

Headache

• Ocular migraine, optic neuritis: Headache after Spot-flying flies/ Blurred vision / Even blindness (Lac-d, Kali-bi, Cycl)
• He feels hungry during headache and gets better by eating (Anac, Kali-p)
• Headache caused by suppression of rash or
• Menses during headaches that improves with nosebleeds (Meli)
• Headache caused by exposure to air draught.

Digestion

• Wakes up in the middle of the night with hunger (Cina, Sul, Lyc)
• Sore throat with the smell of rotten eggs (Arn, Ant-t, Graph)
• Sudden morning diarrhea + Urging (Sul, Aloe)
• Diarrhea, esp during teething or after acute / severe diseases
• Chronic constipation caused by rectal inactivity (Sul)
• Dark stools, very smelly and runny, which is worse at night (Podo)

Hirsutism of women face (Na-m, Sul, Calc)

MIND - ANTICIPATION

MIND - ANXIETY - conscience; anxiety of

MIND - ANXIETY - fear; with

MIND - DELUSIONS - head - separated from body; head is

MIND - DESPAIR - itching of the skin, from

MIND - DESPAIR - typhus fever; in - epistaxis amel.; after

MIND - FEAR - cancer; of

MIND - FEAR - evil; fear of

MIND - FEAR - happen, something will

MIND - FEAR - misfortune, of

MIND - FEAR - neglected, of being

MIND - FEAR - streets - busy streets; of

MIND - FEAR - walking - of walking - street; across a busy

MIND - FORSAKEN feeling

MIND - RESTLESSNESS - eruptions - with

MIND - RESTLESSNESS - eruptions - with - children; in

MIND - SADNESS - itching, from

MIND - SUICIDAL disposition

MIND - SUICIDAL disposition - thoughts

HEAD - CONGESTION - night

HEAD - ERUPTIONS - crusts, scabs

HEAD - ERUPTIONS - crusts, scabs - moist

HEAD - ERUPTIONS - crusts, scabs - ulcerated

HEAD - ERUPTIONS - dry

HEAD - ERUPTIONS - eczema

HEAD - ERUPTIONS - moist

HEAD - PAIN - coughing - on

HEAD - PAIN - eruptions; suppressed

HEAD - PAIN - pressing

HEAD - PAIN - pulsating

HEAD - PAIN - stunning, stupefying

HEAD - PULSATING - Brain - Against skull - hammers, like little

HEAD - SEPARATED - body; as if head were separated from

EYE - INFLAMMATION - catarrhal - cold; from

EYE - INFLAMMATION - scrofulous

EYE - INFLAMMATION - Conjunctiva - pustular

VISION - SPOTS - headache - before

EAR - DISCHARGES - bloody

EAR - DISCHARGES - fetid

EAR - DISCHARGES - ichorous

EAR - DISCHARGES - offensive

EAR - DISCHARGES - offensive - meat; like putrid

EAR - DISCHARGES - purulent

EAR - DISCHARGES - scarlet fever, after

EAR - ERUPTIONS - purulent

EAR - ERUPTIONS - scurfy

EAR - ERUPTIONS - Behind the ears

EAR - ERUPTIONS - Behind the ears - eczema

EAR - ERUPTIONS - Behind the ears - excoriating

EAR - ERUPTIONS - Behind the ears - moist

EAR - ERUPTIONS - Behind the ears - scurfy

EAR - ERUPTIONS - Behind the ears - sore

EAR - NOISES in - ringing

EAR - ODOR

NOSE - CATARRH

NOSE - CATARRH - Postnasal

NOSE - DISCHARGE - bloody

NOSE - DISCHARGE - offensive

NOSE - DISCHARGE - offensive - putrid

NOSE - DISCHARGE - purulent

NOSE - HAY FEVER

FACE - DISCOLORATION - dirty looking

FACE - ERUPTIONS

FACE - ERUPTIONS - acne - rosacea

FACE - ERUPTIONS - acne - Forehead

FACE - ERUPTIONS - comedones

FACE - ERUPTIONS - eczema

FACE - ERUPTIONS - scurfy

FACE - ERUPTIONS - vesicles

FACE - PAIN - Jaw - Condyle

MOUTH - DRYNESS - Tongue

MOUTH - ODOR - putrid

MOUTH - TASTE - putrid

MOUTH - ULCERS - Gums

MOUTH - ULCERS - Tongue

THROAT - INFLAMMATION - Tonsils

THROAT - LUMP; sensation of a

EXTERNAL THROAT - ERUPTIONS - herpes

RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - difficult stool - natural stool

RECTUM - DIARRHEA - night

RECTUM - DIARRHEA - children; in

RECTUM - HEMORRHAGE from anus

RECTUM - INVOLUNTARY stool - sleep, during

STOOL - DARK

STOOL - ODOR - eggs, like rotten

STOOL - ODOR - offensive

STOOL - ODOR - putrid

STOOL - WATERY

BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary

MALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONDYLOMATA - Penis

MALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONDYLOMATA - Penis - Prepuce

FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - LEUKORRHEA - offensive

FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - LEUKORRHEA - offensive - putrid

FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENOPAUSE

FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful

FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful - menopause, near the

FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA

FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - menopause - during

COUGH - COLD - becoming

COUGH - DRINKING - after

COUGH - DRINKS - cold

EXPECTORATION - GREENISH

EXPECTORATION - MUCOUS

CHEST - ERUPTIONS

CHEST - ERUPTIONS - boils

CHEST - ERUPTIONS - dry

CHEST - ERUPTIONS - eczema

CHEST - ERUPTIONS - Axilla - eczema

CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - Pericardium

CHEST - PAIN - respiration

CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Heart

CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - exertion

CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - lying - side - left

CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - lying - side - right - amel.

CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - motion

CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis

CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis - incipient

CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis - pituitous

BACK - ERUPTIONS

BACK - PAIN

BACK - PAIN - aching - walking - while

BACK - PAIN - pressing - Lumbar region

BACK - PAIN - pressing - Lumbar region - motion - during

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Joints

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Upper limbs - dry

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Elbow - Bend of - crusts

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Elbow - Bend of - eczema

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Hand - Between the fingers - itching

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Hand - Between the fingers - vesicles

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Fingers - Joints

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Fingers - Joints - dry

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Lower limbs

EXTREMITIES - INVERSION - Lower limbs

EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Lower limbs

EXTREMITIES - LOWER LIMBS; complaints of - right

EXTREMITIES - NAILS; complaints of - brittle nails - Fingernails

EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Joints - gouty

EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Lower limbs

EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Lower limbs - deep

EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Lower limbs - fetid

EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Leg - Tibia

EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Joints

SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - itching, from

CHILL - CHILLINESS

CHILL - EXPOSURE, after - malarial influences

CHILL - PERIODICITY - irregular

CHILL - PERIODICITY - marked, not

CHILL - PERNICIOUS

CHILL - SHAKING

CHILL - SPRING, in

CHILL - SUMMER, in

FEVER - INTERMITTENT

FEVER - PAROXYSMS increasing in severity - irregular

FEVER - PERSPIRATION - heat, with

FEVER - RELAPSING

FEVER - REMITTENT - typhoid fever; prone to become

FEVER - TROPICAL

FEVER - UNCOVERING - aversion to

PERSPIRATION - PERSPIRATION in general

PERSPIRATION - NIGHT - midnight - after - 3 h

PERSPIRATION - AIR - open, in the

PERSPIRATION - EXERTION - during slight

PERSPIRATION - HOT

PERSPIRATION - MOTION - on

PERSPIRATION - ODOR - putrid

PERSPIRATION - ODOR - sour

PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE

PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE - walking - while

PERSPIRATION - WALKING - while

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GENERALS - NIGHT

GENERALS - BATHING - aversion to bathing

GENERALS - COLD - agg.

GENERALS - COLD - air - agg.

GENERALS - COLD - take cold; tendency to

GENERALS - CONVALESCENCE; ailments during - ear; after discharges from

GENERALS - HEAT - flushes of

GENERALS - HEAT - flushes of - perspiration - with

GENERALS - HEAT - flushes of - warm water; as if - poured over one; were

GENERALS - HEAT - lack of vital heat

GENERALS - IRRITABILITY, physical - lack of

GENERALS - ODOR OF THE BODY - offensive

GENERALS - PERSPIRATION - after - amel.

GENERALS - PERSPIRATION - suppression of perspiration; complaints from

GENERALS - PSORA

GENERALS - REACTION - lack of

GENERALS - SEASONS - winter; in - agg.

GENERALS - SENSITIVENESS - pain, to

GENERALS - WEAKNESS

GENERALS - WEAKNESS - mental exertion - from

GENERALS - WEAKNESS - perspiration - from perspiration; weakness

GENERALS - WEAKNESS - walking

GENERALS - WEAKNESS - Joints, of

GENERALS - WEATHER - change of weather - agg.

GENERALS - WEATHER - change of weather - cold to warm agg.

GENERALS - WEATHER - thunderstorm - approach of a

GENERALS - WELL - unusually well - then agg.