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30C / 200CPetroleum
Crude Rock Oil · "The Winter Skin Seasickness Remedy"
petr.PolychrestMineralCommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the skin, mucous membranes, and digestive system, particularly for chronic conditions aggravated by cold or motion.
📖 Boericke writes:
Strumous , especially the dark type, who suffer from conditions of the mucous membranes, gastric and cutaneous eruptions.
Very marked skin symptoms, acting on sweat and oil glands; Ailments are worse during the winter season. Ailments from riding in cars, carriages, or ships; lingering gastric and lung troubles; chronic . Long-lasting complaints follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc. in young girls with or without of the stomach.
👤 Constitution
•Typically dark-complexioned individuals with a strumous () tendency, prone to conditions, gastric , and chronic skin eruptions.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Long-lasting complaints follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc. in young girls with or without of the stomach.
introduction
Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs.
mind
Low-spirited, with dimness of sight.
mind
Sensitive, as of a cold breeze blowing on it.
head
Feels numb, as if made of wood; heavy, as of lead (Opium).
head
Moist eruption on scalp; worse, back and ears.
head
Dim sight; far-sighted; cannot read fine print without glasses; of sac; marginal .
eyes
Nostrils , cracked, burn; tip of nose itches.
nose
only in the daytime; watery, gushing and Itching of anus.
abdomen
Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured every winter.
extremities
Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked, leathery.
skin
Thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching; redness, raw; cracks bleed easily.
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for mental states involving anxiety about death, irritability, and confusion.
Marked aggravation from mental emotions.
Loses his way in streets.
Thinks he is double, or some one else lying alongside.
Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs.
Irritable, easily offended, vexed at everything.
Low-spirited, with dimness of sight.
🔑 Modalities
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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.

30C
Centesimal
📝Use thirtieth for headache.
Primary Dosage
3X to 30C
Other
📝Third to thirtieth and higher potencies. Material doses often better.
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Sepia Officinalis →
🚫 Antidotes
Cocculus Indicus →Nux Vomica →
🔄 Compare With
Graphites →Sulphur →Phosphorus →Carbo Vegetabilis →

Boericke's Materia Medica

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Petroleum is listed in 281 rubrics across 23 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 62 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Skin40Locomotor System37Stomach30Head30Ears18Urinary System17Abdomen16Modalities11Fever10Nose9Male Sexual System9Eyes9Female Sexual System8Mind6Respiratory System6Generalities6Face4Throat4Circulatory System3Nervous System3Mouth3Taste1Tongue1

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