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KREOSOTUM
Beech kreosote
Clinical Picture:Children arVe old looking, wrinkled (Abrotanum); scrofulous or psoric affections; rapid emaciation (lodium); post-climacteric diseases of women (Lachesis).
Hemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed freely (Crotalus cascavella, Lachesis, Phosphorus).
Itching so violent towards evening as to drive one crazy (itching, without eruption: Dolichos).
Children arVe old looking, wrinkled (Abrotanum); scrofulous or psoric affections; rapid emaciation (lodium); post-climacteric diseases of women (Lachesis).
Hemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed freely (Crotalus cascavella, Lachesis, Phosphorus).
Itching so violent towards evening as to drive one crazy (itching, without eruption: Dolichos).
Modalities:
Worse:
In the open air.Better:
Cold weather.
When exposed to cold.
From washing or bathing with cold water.
Especially when lying down.
Generally better from warmth.
Warm food.
Motion.
Relations:
Kreosotum is followed well by Arsenicum album, Phosphorus, Sulphur in diseases with a malignant tendency. Carbo vegetabilis and Kreosotum are inimical.
Summary of Indications:
Skin and gum diseases - menstrual disorders - incontinence of urine.
Antidotes:
Aconitum napeilus
Nux vomica