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Kreosotum

30C / 200CKreosotum

Beechwood Creosote · "The Rapid Decay Remedy"

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🎯 A powerful remedy for conditions involving rapid decay, offensive discharges, and burning pains, particularly in teeth, gums, and female reproductive organs.

📖 Boericke writes:

Kreosotum is a mixture of phenols obtained from this distillation.

Pulsations 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. Haemorrhages, 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.

👤 Constitution

•Often indicated for poorly developed, overgrown children or individuals suffering from post-climacteric diseases.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Very painful dentition; child will not sleep.

mouth

Very rapid decay of teeth, with spongy, bleeding gums; teeth dark and crumbly (Staph; Ant c).

mouth

Putrid odor.

throat

Offensive.

urine

Must hurry when desire comes to urinate.

urine

Menstrual flow intermits (Puls); ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down.

female

Hoarse, with pain in larynx.

respiratory

Winter coughs of old people, with heavy pressure on sternum.

respiratory

After every cough, copious, purulent expectoration.

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠MENTAL

Useful for children who are extremely irritable and fickle, or adults experiencing mental fatigue and emotional sensitivity to music.

Music causes weeping and palpitation.

Vanishing of thought; stupid, forgetful, peevish, irritable.

Child wants everything but throws it away when given.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3rd to 30th

Centesimal

Primary Dosage

200th

Centesimal

📝For sensitive patients

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Arsenicum Album →Phosphorus →Sulphur →

🚫 Antidotes

Nux Vomica →

🔄 Compare With

Iodium →Carbolicum Acidum →Fuligo Ligni →Lachesis Mutus →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Kreosotum is listed in 309 rubrics across 22 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 86 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System89 Respiratory System32 Urinary System29 Stomach24 Skin20 Generalities18 Teeth13 Modalities13 Locomotor System10 Abdomen9 Face8 Gums7 Ears6 Mouth6 Nervous System5 Nose5 Male Sexual System5 Mind3 Fever3 Eyes2 Throat1 Head1

See all 309 rubrics for Kreosotum →