Paraffine
Purified Paraffin
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 496
Valuable in uterine affections. Particularly serviceable, in constipation. Knife-like pains. Pains extend from one part to another, and alternate. Pain in stomach alternates with pain in throat and spine.
Head
Left side of head and face suffer most; pains stinging and twisting. Pain as if a nail were driven in left side uf vertex. Twisting in left ear.
Eyes
Vision dim; black specks before. Lids red. Sensation as if there were fat on the eyes.
Mouth
Tearing, twisting pain in teeth down to lower jaw. Full of saliva; feels sticky; bitter taste.
Stomach
Hungry all the time. Pain across stomach. Pain in stomach alternates with pain in throat and spine, extends to chest with belching. Fixed pain in left hypochondrium, as if parts were being twisted. Palpitation with stomach pains.
Abdomen
Pain in lower abdomen, extending to genitals, rectum and coccyx; better, sitting.
Rectum
Frequent desire for stool. Obstinate constipation in children. (Alumina; Nyctanthes.] Chronic constipation, with hemorrhoids and continual urging to stool, without result.
Female
Menses too late, black, abundant. Milky leucorrhœa. Nipples pain when touched, as if sore inside. Stabbing pain in mons veneris. Very hot urine with burning pains in vulva.
Extremities
Pain in spine extending tc inguinal region and in both loins, when ascending the stairs. Feeling of electric shocks in all joints. Wrenching pain in calves, extending into toes, in joints. Feet swollen with tearing in ankles and soles.
Skin
Burns, even of third degree, with sloughing and sepsis. Wash with sterile water and dry and spray with paraffine, and cover with thin layer of cotton. Useful also in frost bites.
Relationship
Compare: Naphthalin; Petrol.; Kreos.; Eupion.
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