KREOSOTUM
(Beechwood Kreosote)
Kreosotum
is a mixture of phenols obtained from this distillation.
Pulsation
all over the body and profuse bleeding from small wounds. Very severe, old
neuralgic affections; pains rather aggravated by rest. Excoriating, burning
and offensive discharges. Hemorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections.
Rapid
decomposition of fluids and secretions and burning pains. Overgrown, poorly
developed children. Post-climacteric diseases. Tumefaction, puffiness,
gangrene. Ailings of teething children.
Mind:-
Music causes
weeping and palpitation. Vanishing of thought; stupid, forgetful, peevish,
irritable. Child wants everything but throws it away when given.
Head:-
Dull pain, as
from a board pressing against forehead. Menstrual headache. Occipital pain. [Gels.;
Zinc.pic]
Eyes:-
Salty
lachrymation. Lids red and swollen.
Ears:-
Eruptions around
and pimples within. Difficult hearing and buzzing.
Face:-
Sick, suffering
expression; hot cheeks red.
Mouth:-
Lips red,
bleeding. Very painful dentition; child will not sleep. Very rapid decay of
teeth, with spongy, bleeding gums; teeth dark and crumbly. [Staph.;
Ant-c.] Putrid odor and bitter taste.
Nose:-
Offensive smell
and discharge. Chronic catarrh of old people. Acrid rawness. Lupus. [Ars.]
Throat:-
Burning, choking
sensation. Putrid odor.
Stomach:-
Nausea; vomiting
of food several hours after eating; of sweetish water in the morning. Feeling
of coldness, as of ice water in stomach. Soreness; better eating. Painful hard
spot. Haematemsis. Bitter taste after a swallow of water.
Abdomen:-
Distended.
Burning hemorrhoids. Diarrhoea; very offensive; dark brown. Bloody, fetid
stools. Cholera infantum in connection with painful dentition, green
stools, nausea, dry skin, exhaustion, etc.
Urinary:-
Offensive. Violent itching of vulva and
vagina, worse when urinating. Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of
bed quick enough during first sleep. Dreams of urinating. Enuresis in the first
part of night. Must hurry when desire comes to urinate.
Female:-
Corrosive itching
within vulva, burning and swelling of labia; violent itching between labia and
thighs. During menses, difficult hearing; buzzing and roaring; eruption
after. Burning and soreness in external and internal parts. Leucorrhea, yellow,
acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods. Hemorrhage after coition.
Menses too early, prolonged. Vomiting of pregnancy, with ptyalism. Menstrual
flow intermits [Puls.]; ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on
lying down. Pain worse after menses. Lochia offensive; intermits.
Respiratory:-
Hoarse, with
pain in larynx. Cough;
worse evening, with efforts to vomit, with pain in chest. Raw burning in chest;
pains and oppression. Cough after influenza. [Eriodyction.] Winter
coughs of old people, with heavy pressure on sternum. Gangrene of lungs.
After every cough, copious, purulent expectoration. Hemoptysis; periodic
attacks. Sternum feels pressed in.
Back:-
Dragging
backache, extending to genitals and down thighs. Great debility.
Extremities:-
Pain in joints,
hip and knee. Boring pain in hip-joints. Scapulae sore.
Skin:-
Itching, worse
towards evening. Burning in soles. Senile gangrene. Small wounds bleed freely.[
Crot.; Lach.; Phos.] Pustules and herpes. Ecchymosis; dorsal surface of
fingers and hands eczematous.
Sleep:-
Disturbed with
tossing. Paralytic sensation in limbs on waking. Anxious dreams of pursuit,
fire, erections, etc.
Modalities:- Worse, in open air, cold, rest, when lying; after menstruation. Better,
from warmth, motion, warm diet.
Relationship:-
Antidote:
Nux.
Inimical:
Carbo.
Complementary
in malignant diseases: Ars.; Phos; Sulph.