Petroleum

Guernsey, Key Notes to the Materia Medica, 1887, p. 144

Affections in general, of any kind, appearing on the right eye; internal or external occiput; behind the ears; inner surface of the thighs; ball or under part of the toes; knee-joint.

When a person complains of eruption or itching at night (affecting the scrotum particularly), the eruption being either dry or moist; chilblains, particularly where they itch a good deal and are moist. Exanthema corroding and spreading; very dif_cult to heal; sensibility of the skin in general; sores produced by lying in bed.

Strong aversion to fat food; to meat; to the open air; made worse by eating cabbage.

Catalepsy; tonic spasms; cracking of the joints; inflexibility of the joints. Sprains; chronic sprains.

Remedies following

Calc. carb., Lycop., Bryon., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Silic., Sulphur.

Antidote

Nux vom.

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