by Henry N. Guernsey — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
The symptoms of this drug are very closely allied to those of Sulphur; if the latter appears to be indicated, but fails to cure, study up Psorin.
Dry, lustreless, rough head of hair. Eructations tasting like rotten eggs; stools (diarrhœic) smelling like rotten eggs. Debility remaining after acute diseases.
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Psorinum appears in 13 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
“A Product of Psora. (A Nosode.) Especially adapted to the psoric constitution. In chronic cases when well selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve (in acute diseases, Sulph.); when Sulphur seems indicated by fails to act. Lack of reaction after severe acute diseases. Appetite will not return. Children…”
“Description : In the subsequent list of antisoric remedies no isopathic remedies are mentioned, for the reason that their effects upon the healthy organism have not been sufficiently ascertained. Even the itch miasm (psorinum), in its various degrees of potency, comes under this objection. I call psorin a homeopathic…”
“The sero-purulent matter contained in the Scabies vesicle was used for Hahnemann's provings (No. 1 ). The product of "Psora sicca" (epidermoid efflorescence of Pityriasis) was used for the provings by Dr. Gross (Nos. 2 to 5 ). Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. Excitable before falling asleep, 1. Very…”
“Scabies Vesicle The therapeutic field of this remedy is found in so-called psoric manifestations. Psorinum is a cold medicine; wants the head kept warm, wants warm clothing even in summer. Extreme sensitiveness to cold. Debility , independent of any organic disease, especially the weakness remaining after acute…”
“CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE, weather, seasons, oncoming storms, etc. Agg. CHILLED, cold becoming, while hot, by ices, uncovering a part, as head, hand-hands, etc. in cold water, etc.., Agg. COLD TAKING CRUSTS, scabs DISCHARGES, eruption appearing etc., Amel. EARS EMOTIONS, excitement, etc. GREASY, oily, fatty INACTIVE…”
“SKIN: FOLDS OF. Sebaceous glands. EARS. BOWELS. Respiration. Right side. COLD: Open air. Washing. Weather; stormy; changing. Winter. Heat: Of bed. Exertion. Woolens. SUPPRESSIONS. Yearly. Contact of his own limbs. Lying with head low, or quietly. Eating. Washing. Nosebleed. Hard pressure. Profuse sweating. Feels sick…”
“Psoricum. The nosode of Psora. [The sero-purulent matter of a scabies vesicle was used by Hahnemann. The product of "Psora sicca" (epidermoid efflorescence of Pityriasis) by Gross. The salt from a product of Psora by Hering.] Triturations. Acne / Adenoids / Anus, itching in / Asthma / Backache / Boils / Cancer /…”
“NOSODES. This class of remedies, as I have already intimated in my introductory lecture, consists of disease products. Many of them have been demonstrated to possess medicinal properties, hence they are useful in the treatment of diseases of the human frame. The field here is certainly an immense one. As yet, we…”
“A salt from a product of Psora. A Nosode. The sero-purulent matter contained in the scabies vesicle was used for Hahnemann's provings. The product of "Psora sicca" (epidermoid efflorescence of pityriasis) was used for the provings of Gross. The salt from a product of Psora was used by Hering. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES…”
“Psorinum is closed allied to Sulphur . The patient dreads to be washed. The skin over the body, especially of the face, looks filthy, though it has been well washed. A dingy, dirty, foul look, as if covered with dirt. Skin rough and uneven, cracks easily, bleeding fissures; it becomes rough and scaly. He cannot wash…”
“Anxiety about the future. Despair of recovery, thinks to be very ill, and in great danger not to survive the sickness; hopelessness. Great anxiety, full of fears. Religious melancholy. Impatience; ill humor. Vertigo with headache; it presses the eyes out. Congestions of blood to the head, with red-hot cheeks and nose…”
“Very sad, hopeless, despondent; “bluest of the blue.” Great debility; sweats on slightest movement; wants to. give up and lie down. Eruptions on the skin, dry, or moist; or skin scaly and dry as parchment; dirty, the great unwashed, unwashable. Intense itching of skin < in warmth of bed. Discharges and exhalations…”
Kent's Repertory lists Psorinum in 2,093 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (280), HEAD (205), GENERALITIES (121), MIND (120), CHEST (109).
