This document provides information about the homeopathic remedy Petroleum. It describes Petroleum's sphere of action as treating skin conditions like eczema, inflammation, and foul secretions. It outlines key characteristics of those who benefit from Petroleum, including being irritable and sensitive to weather and mental states. The document lists many guiding symptoms across various body systems that indicate when Petroleum may be a suitable remedy.

1. PETROLEUM
Dr. Roni Dudhwala

2. Introduction
 Common name
 Oleum petrae
 Rock-Oil
 Coal Oil
 Prover: Dr. Hahnemann
 Preparation:
 Trituration and tincture of the rectified oil.
 Preparations of the non-rectified oil should also be made.

3. Sphere Of Action
Eczema
Vesicular
Inflammation
Pustules
Fissures
& cracks
Skin
Lymphatic
Secretions
Foul and
Fetid
Glands
Gastro-
Enteritis
GIT
Catarrhal
Inflammation
Esp. of lung
Mucus
Membr
ane

4. Constitution
o Physical make up:
o Adopted to persons of light hair and light skin
who suffers from cutaneous eruptions and
gastro intestinal disorder.
o Temperament:
o Irritable, quarrelsome, easily offended by trifles
and vaxed on everything.
o Thermal:
o very chilly
o Miasm:
o psora
o Diathesis:
o scrofulous

5. Guiding symptoms
 Ailments from: riding in carriage, car or ship(Coc., Sanic.); fright, vexation, eatin
cabbage.
 Ailments are worse before and during a thunderstorm (Nat. c., Phos., Psor., Gels.,
Rhodo.)
 Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly
 Aversion to meat and fat food
 Long lasting complaints follow mental state, fright, vexation.
 During sleep or delirium : imagines that one leg is double; that another person lies
alongside of him in same bed; that there are two babies in the bed

6.  Delirium : imagines that one leg is double; that another person lies alongside of him
in same bed; that there are two babies in the bed.
 Irritable, offended at trifles, very quarrelsome; vexed about everything.
 Irritable, offended at trifles, very quarrelsome; vexed about everything.
 Marked aggravation from mental emotions.
 Loses his way in streets.
 Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs.
 Low-spirited, with dimness of sight.
 Sensation as if there were a cold stone in heart.

7.  Sensitive, as of a cold breeze blowing on it.
 Feels numb, as if made of wood; occiput heavy, as of lead. Vertigo on rising, felt in occiput, as
if intoxicated, or like sea-sickness.
 Moist eruption on scalp; worse, back and ears.
 Scalp sore to touch, followed by numbness.
 Headache, must hold temples to relieve; provoked by shaking while coughing.
 Dry; feels constricted, as if covered with albumin.

8.  Loss of eyelashes.
 Dim sight; far-sighted; cannot read fine print without glasses; blenorrhoea of lachrymal sac;
marginal blepharitis.
 Canthi fissured.
 Skin around eyes dry and scurfy.
 Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn; tip of nose itches.
 Epistaxis.
 Ozaena, with scabs and muco-purulent discharge.

9.  Noise unbearable, especially from several people talking together.
 Eczema, intertrigo, etc., in and behind ears, with intense itching.
 Parts sore to touch.
 Fissures in meatus.
 Dry catarrh, with deafness and noises.
 Ringing and cracking in ears.
 Chronic Eustachian catarrh.
 Diminished hearing.

10.  Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation.
 Distention.
 Feeling of great emptiness.
 Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating cabbage.
 Hunger, immediately after stool.
 Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth.
 Gastralgia when stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating. [Anac.; Sep.]
 Ravenous hunger.
 Must rise at night and eat. [Psorin.]
 Odor of garlic.
 Diarrhoea only in the daytime; watery, gushing and Itching of anus.< after cabbage

11. Male
 Herpetic eruption on perineum.
 Prostate inflamed and swollen.
 Itching in urethra.
 Female
 Before menses, throbbing in head. [Kreos.]
 Leucorrhoea, profuse, albuminous. [Alum.; Bor.; Bov.; Calc. p.]
 Genitals sore and moist.
 Sensation of moisture. [Eup. purp.]
 Itching and mealy coating of nipple.

12.  Hoarseness. [Carbo; Caust.; Phos.]
 dry cough and oppression of chest; worse, cold air.
 Dry cough at night, coming deep from chest.
 Croup and laryngeal diphtheria.
 Sensation of coldness. [Carb. an.; Nat. mur.]
 Fainting, with ebullitions, heat and palpitation.

13.  Pain in nape of neck, stiff and painful.
 Weakness in small of back.
 Coccyx painful.
 Chronic sprains.
 Fetid sweat in axillae.
 Knees stiff.
 Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured every winter.
 Scalding sensation in knee.
 Cracking in joints.

14.  Itching at night.
 Chilblains, moist, itch and burn.
 Bed-sores.
 Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked, leathery.
 Herpes.
 Slightest scratch makes skin suppurate. [Hepar.]
 Intertrigo; psoriasis of hands.
 Thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching; redness, raw; cracks bleed easily.
 Eczema.
 Rhagades worse in winter.

15.  Chilliness, followed by sweat.
 Flushes of heat, particularly of the face and head; worse at night.
 Perspiration on feet and axillae.
 Worse
 dampness, before and during a thunder-storm, from riding in cars, passive motion; in
winter, eating, from mental states.
 Better
 warm air; lying with head high; dry weather.

16.  Compare : Carbo; Graph.; Sulph.; Phos.
 Complementary : Sepia.
 Antidotes : Nux; Coccul.
 Third to thirtieth and higher potencies.
 Material doses often better.

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