Kreosotum

Kreosote. A Distillation of Wood Tar.

Keynotes

Dark complexion, slight, lean, ill-developed, poorly nourished, overgrown; very tall for her age (Phos.).

Children: old looking, wrinkled (^Ahroi.) ; scrofulous or psoric affections; rapid emaciation (lod.) ; post climacteric diseases of women (Lach.).

Hæmorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed freely (Grat., Lach., Phos.) ; flow passive, in epistaxis, haemoptysis, haematuria ; in typhoid, followed by great prostration; dark, oozing, after the extraction of a tooth (Ham.).

Roaring and humming in ears, with deafness, before and during menses.

Corrosive, fetid, ichorous discharges from mucous membranes ; vitality greatly depressed.

Itching, so violent toward evening as to drive one almost wild (itching, without eruption, Dolichos).

Painful dentition; teeth begin to decay as soon as they appear; gums bluish-red, soft, spongy, bleeding, inflamed, scorbutic, ulcerated.

Vomiting: of pregnancy, sweetish water, with ptyalism; of cholera, during painful dentition; incessant with cadaverous stool; in malignant affections of stomach.

Severe headache before and during menses (Sep.).

Menses: too early, profuse, protracted; pain during, but < after it ; flow on lying down, cease on sitting or walking about ; cold drinks relieve menstrual pains ; flow intermits, at times almost ceasing, then commencing again (Sulph.).

Incontinence of urine; can only urinate when lying; copious, pale; urging, cannot get out of bed quick enough (Apis, Petros.); during first sleep (Sep.), from which child is roused with difficulty.

Smarting and burning during and after micturition (Sulph.) .

Leucorrhoea : acrid, corrosive, offensive ; worse betzvcen periods (Bov., Bor.) ; has the odor of green corn ; stiffens like starch, stains the linen yellow.

Lochia : dark, brown, lumpy, offensive, acrid ; almost ceases, then freshens up again (Con., Sulph.). Violent corrosive itching of pudenda and vagina.

Relationship p. 157

Kreosote is followed well by Ars., Phos., Sulph., in cancer and diseases of a malignant tendency. Carbo veg. and Kreosote are inimical. Aggravation. — In the open air; cold weather; when growing cold; from washing or bathing with cold water ; rest, especially when lying.

Amelioration.' — Generally better from warmth.