1. Common name : Crude rock oil Family : Anthracite

2. SOURCE Crude oil from interior of earth

3. SPHERE OF ACTION Skin especially folds Scalp face Genitals produces catarrhal condition of the bowels

4. AILMENTS FROM Riding in a carriage or ship +3 Suppressed eruptions Sprains Lingering gastric & intestinal troubles

5. Leading Indications DRYNESS OF SKIN unhealthy dirty hard rough and thickened skin

6. Tendency to cracks and fissures at the muco-cutaneous junctions with great soreness

7. Symptoms appear and disappear very rapidly (Bell , Mag- p)

8. Sensation of coldness of affected part or real coldness which is spotty especially of abdomen and uterus

9. All gone sensation in stomach driving the patient to eat

10. Nervous affections with… paretic conditions especially of left side

11. MIND Mental weakness & forgetfulness of mind … … loses his way in well known streets

12. Confusion of mind… while walking in open air from smoking and taking spirituous liquors

13. During sleep, delirium feels that… … another person lies alongside to him in same bed (Bapt)

14. During sleep imagines that one leg is double and after waking up he is unable to forget this thought and is troubled all the time by this

15. He feels that death is approaching and he should settle down his affairs

16. He has a excitable & quick temper and is easily offended

17. Low spirited with dimness of vision

18. SKIN…. has a tendency to throw out herpetic vesicles which form yellow crusts with considerable moisture

19. The vesicles break early and form phagedenic ulcers this is usually seen around fingers, scrotum, scalp

20. All eruptions itch violently… … person scratches it till the surface is raw moist bloody & oozing

21. It is one of the useful remedies in Chilblains where the parts are frozen and are itching and burning

22. Inflammation of the mucous membranes with watery and finally thick yellow discharges

23. RESPIRATORY Useful in old catarrhal complaints of nose with crust and yellow discharge and foetid odour from the nose

24. The nose pharynx and the posterior nares become thickened with accumulation of mucus especially in the morning

25. Dry hacking cough with emaciation of the body with soreness and pain in the chest

26. Dry cough alternates with copious expectoration and is worse at night

27. G.I.T Catarrhal condition of the rectum with much mucous with stools diarrhoea is better during the night

28. He has pain during eating… … but the gnawing hunger drives him to eat (Lach Garph)

29. GENITALIA Chronic gonorrhea with catarrhal discharge and itching in the posterior half of urethra this drives him wild and keeps him awake

30. HEAD….It is useful remedy in occipital headaches with offensive foot sweat

31. Pain often settles in the occiput but if it is very severe it will extend to the top of the head & to the eyes & forehead

32. Vertigo coming on with Occipital headaches which are worse from shaking the head

33. Vertigo coming on during traveling in car or carriage or sea its basically due to lack of accommodation of the vision

34. EXTREMITIES…. Burning & itching of the palms, scalp, soles and face

35. Feet burn and have a sensation as if frozen

36. Sweating of single parts Itching in parts complaints come in single parts

37. In women Nipples inflame and become sensitive even to touch of cloth

38. MODALITIES Worse Motion Travelling of cars +3 by ship+3

39. WORSE before or during thunderstorm Winters +3 Dampness , Cold Touch even of clothes

40. BETTER BY Warm air +2 Dry weather Open air