DR.

JASMIN-J
1ST MD - CR

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 A NOSODE
 It was first brought into life
by our great Master Samuel
Hahnemann from the sero-
purulent matter of a scabies
vesicle
( Gross- C.Hering)
 Adapted to psoric
constitution.

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 H. C. Allen gives another : Pso. is indicated in
chronic cases when well-selected remedies
fail to relieve or to permanently improve (in
acute diseases Sul.)

 When Sul. seems indicated but fails to relieve.

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 Ailments : from suppressed
itch or other skin diseases,
when Sulphur fails to
relieve; severe, from even
slight emotions

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 Especially adapted to the psoric constitution

 Scrofulous patients.

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 NERVOUS

 RESTLESS

 EASILY STARTLED

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 "cloudiness of mind
and difficult thinking,“
 Cannot apply his
mind to business.
 - Seems confused;
cannot reckon.

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 "Feels unusually well
day before attack."

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 Very depressed,
hopeless – sad
suicidal thoughts
 Thinks he will
never recover;
has lost all hope.
 Despairs of
salvation

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 Extreme dulness;
fears inflammation of
brain >> by nose-
bleed.

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 ANXIOUS, full of
fear; evil
forebodings

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 Religious melancholy;

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 Fears he will die; that he
will fail in business; during
climaxis; making his own
life and that of those about
him intolerable.

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 Psorinum is a cold
medicine; wants
the head kept
warm, wants warm
clothing even in
summer.
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 Lack of vital reaction;
prostration after
acute disease

 Appetite will not

return

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  Stormy
weather he
feels acutely

 feels restless
for days
before or
during a
thunderstorm

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 Exhaustion and
emaciation.

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 Body has a filthy
smell even after
washing.

 All excretions-
diarrhoea,
leucorrhoea,
menses,
perspiration- have a
carrion-like odor.

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 Good appetite, with daily
attacks of anxiety, easily
satisfied

 Great hunger, even after a

hearty meal

 Canine hunger preceding

attacks (diarrhea)

 Ravenous hunger at midnight,

waking from sleep.

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 Great thirst; during
convalescence.

 Thirst : during dinner; with

dryness of throat

 Thirst especially for beer,

mouth feels so dry.

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 Desire for acids.

 Loathing of pork.

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 least exertion puts him
into a perspiration.
 Though strong and
well before he now
became weak,
perspiring easily
 Profuse sweat after
acute diseases, with
>> of all suffering.
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 Great weakness and
Debility, independent
of any organic disease,
especially the
weakness remaining
after acute disease,
from loss of animal
fluids.

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 Periodicity is a strong feature of
Psorinum

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 convalescing from typhoid fever, reported :
"Stationary, no appetite."

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 Children are pale, delicate,
sickly.
 Sick babies will not sleep
day or night but worry, fret,
cry
 child is good, plays all day;
restless, troublesome,
screaming all night .
 look dirty and unwashed

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 skin in the child is very rough, and dry. In the
adolescent PSORINUM case , commonly
greasy.

 upset by washing, which greatly increases the

irritation of their skin.

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 Face sallow and greasy; several pustules on
chin and neck which itch intensely and bleed
when scratched.

 Pale, delicate, Sickly.

 Humid eruption on face.

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 "Spasmodically contracting headache."

 Headache agg. by change of weather

 Headache : preceded, by flickering before

eyes, by dimness of vision or blindness , by
black spots or rings.

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 Headache : always hungry during; >> while
eating ; from suppressed eruptions, or
suppressed menses; >> nosebleed.
 Hair, dry, lustreless, tangles easily, glues
together . Plica polonica
 Scalp : dry, scaly or moist, foetid, suppurating
eruptions; oozing a sticky, offensive fluid .
Tinea capitis

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 Spot of white skin with white lock of hair
becomes natural colour under Pso.

 Acne : all forms, simplex, rosacea; < during

menses, from coffee, fats, sugar, meat; when
the best selected remedy fails or only
palliates.

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 Intense photophobia, with
inflamed lids; cannot open the
eyes; lies with face buried in
pillow.

 Agglutinated.
 Blepharitis.
 Chronic ophthalmia,

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 Otorrhoea : thin, ichorous, horribly foetid
discharge, like decayed meat; chronic, after
measles or scarlatina.

 Raw, red, oozing scabs around ears.

 Sore pain behind ears.

 Offensive discharge from eczema around

ears. Intolerable itching.
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 Quinsy, tonsils greatly swollen, difficult,
painful swallowing
 Burns, feels scalded
 Cutting, tearing, intense pain to ears on
swallowing
 Profuse, offensive saliva
 Tough mucus in throat, must hawk
continually,
 Eradicate the tendency for quinsy.
 Hawks up cheesy balls, size of pea, of
disgusting taste and carrion-like odor
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 - Cough : after suppressed itch, or eczema;
chronic, of years' duration < mornings on
waking and evening on lying down; sputa
green, yellow or salty mucus; pus-like;
coughs a long time before expectorating.

 Pain in chest extending to shoulder,

aggravated after cold drinks.
 Drinking causes cough.
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 Eructations like rotten eggs.
 Very hungry always; must
have something to eat in
the middle of the night.

 Nausea; vomiting of pregnancy.

 Pain in abdomen after eating.

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 Diarrhoea ; Stools very thin and
watery, dirty greenish, smelt like
carrion.

 involuntary, < at night from 1 to 4 A.M

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 Hard, difficult stool, with blood from rectum
and burning piles.

 Constipation of infants

 Constipation : obstinate, with backache; from

inactivity of rectum

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 Enuresis : from vesical paresis; during full
moon, obstinate cases, with a family history
of eczema.

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 Excessive, uncontrollable sexual instinct.
 Aversion to coition; impotence; want of
emission during coitus.
 Absence of erections
 Prostatic fluid discharged before urinating.
 Drawing pains in testicles and spermatic
cords.
 Inflamed ulcer on glans, with swelling and
heaviness of testicles.
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 Chronic gonorrhoea of year's duration that
can neither be suppressed nor cured; the best
selected remedy fails.

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 Mammae swollen and painful.
 Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and
excoriates the glands.
 Leucorrhoea : large, clotted lumps of an
intolerable odor; violent pains in sacrum;
debility; during climaxis.
 - During pregnancy : most obstinate
vomiting, foetus moves too violently; when
the best selected remedy fails to relieve; to
correct the psoric diathesis of the unborn.
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 Skin has dirty look as if never washed.

 Dry scaly erruption disappear in summer and

return in winter

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 Intolerable itching.
 Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and
bends of joints and knees with itching;
worse, from warmth of bed.
 Enlarged glands.
 Indolent ulcers, slow to heal.
 Urticaria after every exertion.
 Pustules near finger-nails.

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 Skin : abnormal tendency to receive skin
diseases
 eruptions easily suppurate
 dry, inactive, rarely sweats
 dirty look
 coarse, greasy, as if bathed in oil
 bad effects from suppression by sulphur and
zinc ointments.

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 Acne : all forms, simplex, rosacea; < during
menses, from coffee, fats, sugar, meat; when
the best selected remedy fails or only
palliates.

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 The symptoms are agg. by touch; pressure ;
rubbing; scratching; riding; blow; fall.

 Slight emotions = severe ailments.

 Pso. cannot bear to have the limbs touch each

other at night; or weight of arms on chest.

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 Worse, coffee; Psorinum patient does not
improve while using coffee.

 Worse, changes of weather, in hot sunshine,

from cold.

 Dread of least cold air or draft.

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 >> When eating;

 >> Lying down (most ailments, especially of

chest;

 >> By rest and in room.

 Better, heat, warm clothing.

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 Complementary : Sulphur and Tuberculinum

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 Coffee.
 Nux vom

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 after Lact. ac. (vomiting of pregnancy);

 after Arn. (blow on ovary);

 Sul. after Pso. in mammary cancer.

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 Apis
 Lach. and the serpent poisons.

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 Weakness of joints, as if they
would not hold together.
 Eruption around finger-nails.
 Fetid foot-sweats.
 "Left foot colder than right“
 The whole body painful, easily
sprained and injured.

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 Numbness of legs and arms, agg. left side;
agg. going to bed, formication and crawling
with prickling and smarting on scalp, and
same on extremities.

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 Profuse, offensive perspiration; night-sweats.

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 Two hundredth and higher potencies.

 Should not be repeated too often.

 Psorinum requires something like 9 days

before it manifests its action, and even a
single dose may elicit other symptoms lasting
for weeks. (aegidi.)

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 H.C.ALLEN- Psorinum should not be given for
psora or the psoric diathesis, but like every
other remedy, upon a strict individualization
the totality of the symptoms and then we
realize its wonderful work.

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‘ whether derived from purest gold or purest
filth , our gratitude for its excellent service
forbids us to inquire or care’ - P.B.BELL

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 ALLEN H. C., Keynotes and Characteristics with
Comparisons
 ALLEN H. C., The Materia Medica of Some Important
Nosodes
 ALLEN J. H., The chronic miasms : Sycosis, Psora and
Pseudo-psora
 ALLEN T. F., A Primer of Materia Medica
 BOERICKE W., Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia
Medica
 BORLAND D. M., Children's types
 CHATTERJEE T. P., Hints on Homoeopathic Practice and
Children’s Diseases
 CHOUDHURI N. M., A study on Materia Medica

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