Petroleum

Common names: rock oil; coal oil.

It acts prominently on the skin, producing eczema, fissures and pustules, and upon the glandular and digestive systems (D.).

Particularly indicated in diseases of the ears, mucous membranes, skin, and joints (Ml.).

Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly (Bell., Mag-P.; reverse of Plat., Stann.) (A.).

Ailments from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship (Cocc.) (A.).

Salt-rheum on hands; red, raw, burning, or moist, or covered with thick crusts (N.).

Ailments which are worse before and during a thunderstorm (Nat-C., Phos., Psor.) (A.).

Heat and burning of soles of feet and palms of hands (Lach., Med., Sep., Sulph.) (A.).

THE SKIN SYMPTOMS ARE WORSE IN WINTER, BETTER IN SUMMER (Alum.); AND IF SUPPRESSED, CAUSES DIARRHOEA (A.).

Salt-rheum on lower legs from knee to ankles; purplish oozing, or covered with scales or scabs, which are easily detached; itching and burning like fire (N.).

Headache: In the occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing, pulsating pain; as if everything in the head were alive; numb, bruised; as if made of wood (A.).

Vertigo in the occiput, like sea-sickness (Cocc.) (A.).

Vertigo, when rising from a recumbent posture (Bry., Chin., Nux-V., Puls., Sep.) (Py.).

Vertigo on closing the eyes (Arn., Chel., Lach., Sep., Ther.) (K.).

Ozæna, with scabs and muco-purulent discharge (Aur., Hep.) (Br.).

The nostrils are cracked and ulcerated (Alum., Graph., Nat-M.) (Bl.).

Post-nasal catarrh (Hydr., Kali-B., Nat-S.) (Bl.).

Easily offended at trifles (Ign., Med., Puls., Staph.) (A.).

Irritable, quarrelsome disposition (Bry., Nat-M., Nux-V., Sulph.) (A.).

Feeling as if intoxicated (Bapt., Gels., Nux-V.) (A.).

Vexed at everything (Bry., Cham., Nux-V., Sulph.) (A.).

SENSE OF DUALITY (Anac., Bapt.) (B.).

IMAGINES THAT ANOTHER PERSON LIES IN THE SAME BED (Bapt.) (Be.).

DELUSION THAT THERE ARE TWO BABIES IN THE BED (A.).

THINKS HE IS DOUBLE, (Anac., Bapt., Cann-I., Glon., Lach., Mosch., Nux-M., Stram.) (Br.)., OR SOME ONE ELSE LYING ALONG-SIDE (Br.).

Imagines that one leg is double (A.).

Irresolute (Puls.) (B.).

Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs (Ars.) (Br.).

CHRONIC FOETID DISCHARGE FROM THE EAR (Calc-S., Graph., Hep., Merc., Sil., Tell.) (Ml.).

Chronic Eustachian catarrh (Puls.) (Br.).

IMPAIRED HEARING (Calc., Phos., Puls.) (Ra.).

A large quantity of thick or thin wax in the ear, which is dry or hard, and of a brown colour (Ra.).

Humid soreness behind the ear (Graph.) (N.).

CHRONIC MOIST ECZEMA; PARTS SEEM EXCORIATED (Ars., Graph., Nat-M., Rhus-T.) (N.).

CRACKING OF THE JOINTS (Led., Lyc., Merc., Nat-C., Nat-M., Nat-S., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Phos., Plb., Rhus-T., Sep., Sulph., Thuj.) (G.).

Inflexibility of the joints (Ars., Bell., Caust, Led., Lyc., Rhus-T., Sep., Sil., Sulph.) (G.).

Chronic sprains (Rhus-T.) (G.).

COLD FEELING IN THE HEART (Arn., Carb-An., Graph., Helo., Kali-B., Kali-Chl., Kali-N., Lil-T., Nat-M., Pyrog.) (G.).

Fainting, with ebullitions, heat and palpitation (Br.).

FETID SWEAT FROM THE AXILLAE (Merc.) (G.).

Brown or yellow spots on the skin (G.).

Painful sensitiveness of the skin of the whole body (Hep., Lach.); all clothing is painful (A.).

SLIGHT INJURY SUPPURATES (Hep., Merc., Sil., Sulph.) (A.).

Skin of hands rough, cracked; tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured, every winter (A.).

Vesicular eruptions, turning into pustules, which are covered with scabs (D.).

Tenderness of the feet, which are bathed in foul-smelling sweat (Graph., Sanic., Sil.) (A.).

Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands, worse in cold weather (A.).

Many furuncles on the neck and arms, with ulceration of the ears (Ml.).

Bitter or sour taste in the mouth (Chin., Nux-V., Sep.) (G.).

DISGUST FOR MEAT (Calc., Chin., Graph.) (G.).

Deep, fistulous ulcers (Sil.) (G.).

RAVENOUS APPETITE OR CANINE HUNGER WITH DIARRHOEA (Aloe, Calc., Fluor-Ac., Iod., Lyc., Olnd., Stram., Sulph., Verat.) (K.).

Aversion to fat food (Chin., Merc., Ptel., Puls.) (G.).

Empty, hungry feeling and nausea, which lasts all day (D.).

Particularly applicable in all gastric troubles of pregnant females (Puls., Sep.) (G.).

Sensation of repletion after a little food (Lyc., Nux-M.) (Mr.).

GASTRALGIA, WHENEVER THE STOMACH BECOMES EMPTY (Bar-C., Calc., Cocc., Graph., Ign., Lach., Nit-Ac., Psor., Sep.) (Dr. Brs.).

Gastralgia with pressing, drawing pains; ameliorated by keeping on eating something constantly (Anac., Brom., Chel., Cina, Dios., Graph., Hep., Ign.) (G.).

SEA-SICKNESS (Carb-Ac., Cocc., Colch., Con., Glon., Hyos., Kali-B., Kreos., Lac-Ac., Nat-M., Nux-V., Sep., Staph., Tab., Ther.) (K).

Nausea when riding (Calc-P., Cocc., Mag-C., Nux-M., Sep.) (G.).

COLD FEELING IN THE ABDOMEN (Ambr., Calc., Camph., Crot-T., Grat., Kali-S., Meny., Nat-M., Phos., Sec., Verat.) (G.).

Nausea, worse from motion or riding, and accompanied by vertigo (D.).

Diarrhœa, preceded by colic (Aloe, Nux-V.) (N.).

Diarrhœa: After cabbage, sour-crout; during pregnancy; and during stormy weather (A.).

Chronic diarrhœa (Aloe, Podo., Sulph.) (Br.)

DIARRHOEA, ALWAYS IN THE DAY TIME (A.).

Stools yellow, watery, gushing (Aloe, Chin., Crot-T., Sulph.) (A.).

Slimy stools with pain in the bowels (Coloc., Dios., Merc., Nux-V., Sulph.) (Bt.).

Burning and stinging in the anus and rectum (Aloe, Sulph.) (G.).

Raw hæmorrhoids; scurf on the anus (G.).

Great desire to urinate, with itching of the meatus (Cann-I., Caust., Cocc-C., Hydr., Kali-C., Merc-C., Nat-M., Sulph.) (Ra.).

Chronic gonorrhœa (Calc-S., Kali-S., Med., Nat-M., Nat-S., Petrosel., Sep., Thuj.) (K.).

Itching in the urethra (Petrosel.) (Br.).

HERPES OF THE GENITAL ORGANS EXTENDING TO THE PERINEUM, AND THIGHS; ITCHING, REDNESS; SKIN CRACKED, ROUGH, BLEEDING; DRY OR MOIST (A.).

Sweat and moisture of the external genitals, both sexes (Lyc., Merc., Sulph., Thuj.) (A.).

Menses cause an itching in the genitals (Calc., Caust., Kreos., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Sep., Sil., Zinc.) (G.).

Profuse leucorrhœa every day, with lascivious dreams every night (G.).

Labia majora perspire and itch much (G.).

INFLAMED TARSI (Alum., Graph., Sep., Sulph.) (B.).

Cough at night only (Ambr., Caust.) or worse then (Con., Hyos., Nux-V., Puls.) (B.).

Cough produces headache (Bry., Sep.) (Br.).

MARGINAL BLEPHARITIS (Alum., Arg-N., Bor., Graph., Sep., Sulph.) (Br.).

FISTULA LACHRYMALIS (Calc., Fluor-Ac., Puls., Sil.) (K.).

AGGRAVATION: From carriage-riding; before and during a thunderstorm; in winter; during the day time; in a ship; on rising; when fasting; during pregnancy; from touch; and from taking sauer-kraut or cabbage.

AMELIORATION: At night; in summer; after eating; in warm air; and from lying with the head high.

RELATIONSHIP: One of our best antidotes for lead-poisoning.

Remedies following: Bry., Calc-C., Lyc., Nux-V., Puls., Sep., Sil., Sulph.

Antidotes: Cocc. and Nux-V.

Complementary: Sep.