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30C / 200CPetroleum
Crude Rock Oil · "The Winter Skin Seasickness Remedy"
petr.PolychrestMineralCommonPsoric
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🎯 Acts primarily on the skin, mucous membranes, and digestive system, particularly for chronic conditions aggravated by cold or motion.
📖 Boericke writes:
Strumous diathesis, especially the dark type, who suffer from catarrhal conditions of the mucous membranes, gastric acidity 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 diarrhoea.Long-lasting complaints follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc. Chlorosis in young girls with or without ulceration of the stomach.
👤 Constitution
•Typically dark-complexioned individuals with a strumous (glandular) tendency, prone to catarrhal conditions, gastric acidity, and chronic skin eruptions.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Long-lasting complaints follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc. Chlorosis in young girls with or without ulceration 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; occiput 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; blenorrhoea of lachrymal sac; marginal blepharitis.
eyes
Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn; tip of nose itches.
nose
Diarrhoea 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
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
30C
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝Use thirtieth for headache.
Primary Dosage
3X to 30C
Other
🕒As directed
📝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 →
📚 Sources & References

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