Sulphur: Eczema with intense burning and itching.
Aggravated by washing or scratching. The skin is rough and
coarse, dry and scaly. Fiery redness of all the orifices, eyelids,
ears etc. Very offensive odour from the body. Sinking at the pit
of the stomach. Hands and head hot. Aggravation or irritation
from heat of bed covers, pillows etc. Eczema caused by hair
dyes. The patient is usually dirty and untidy.
Graphites: Eczema weeping. Sticky honey-like fluid comes
out on scratching. Eczema on hands, face, lips and behind the
ears and skin sore and hard after rubbing Worse by warmth and
at night. Give lower dilutions six times daily in acute cases and
higher dilution say 200 or 1000, in chronic cases, repeated every
week or every month respectively. The discharge is gluey,
sticky and viscid.
Rhus Tox: Dry eczema with redness and swelling, intolerable
itching and burning which is worse by warmth. Eczema on
scalp in infants. Eruptions more or less vesicular with thin
watery and dark coloured offensive secretion; tend to form into
scales. Vesicles inclined to suppurate. Give in 200 or 1000
potency; the former every week and the latter every month.
Urtica Urens: In acute cases when there- is burning and
itching.
Bovista: Eczema on the back of hand. Baker's eczema. Moist
eczema in the bends of the knees, appearing during the full
moon. Frequently in women who suffer from dysmenorrhea.
Kali Bich: Eczema of the scalp with thick heavy crusts from
which oozes a yellow, thick, gluey substance.
Alumina: Dry, very irritable eczema with constipation.
Skookum Chuck: Eczema, urticaria, itch etc.
Cicuta V: Eczema on hairy parts. Pustules run together;
suppurating eczema which dries into hard crusts and becomes
solid like a cap.
Psorinum: Eczema dry and scaly on the scalp and face, crusts
over the scalp, the hair falls out, the oozing lifts up the crusts
and exposes new vesicles-worse at night and from the warmth
of the bed. Patient is low spirited, despondent and unhopeful.
Discharges thick, fetid, excoriating, offensive like decomposed
meat; nauseating sickening odour from the oozing fluid. This
is just the opposite of general symptoms of Psorinum which
is worse by cold.
Natrum Sulph: Breathing and skin symptoms associated with
asthma.
Manganum: Skin will not heal. Slight scratches ulcerate.
Anantherum: Ulcers on scalp, penis; vulva.
Hepar Sul: Moist eruption s in folds of skin with itching on
bends of joints. Skin suppurates easily and pimples form, all
due to handling mercury or zinc. Sensitiveness to touch, worse
in dry cold winds. Better in damp weather and in warmth.
Petroleum: Has yellowish green thick crusts on the face and
neck which discharge profusely. It cures eczema with bloody
cracks but little or no discharge, Eczema is dry and scaly or
moist disappearing in summer and reappearing in winter or
cold weather. Eczema and fissures occurring on the hands or
behind the ears. The discharge is thin and watery.
Streptococcin: Repeated recurrence of eczema with bleeding
cracks, the patient feels pleasure in scratching. Give in IM or
CM dilution.
Mezereum: Intolerable itching, worse in bed and from touch;
copious, serous exudation. The head is covered with thick
leather like crusts, under which thick and white pus collects,
hair are glued and matted together. Pus becomes offensive after
some time and breeds vermin. Eczema on hairy parts.
Luna: Skin diseases, eczema etc. which are worse at full moon.
Calcarea Carb: Violent itch at all times, worse towards
morning in bed. Sensation as if she is wearing cold damp
stockings. Liable to suffer from chilblains. Eczema in children
possessing Cal. Carb. constitution. Give in 200 potency.
Tellurium: Itching of hands and feet. Herpetic eruption, ring
shaped lesions with offensive discharge. Barber's itch. Stinging
skin, Eczema on back of ears and on occiput. Offensive
footwear.
Lycopodium: Eczema about and behind ears.
Calcarea Sulph: Dry eczema in children. Yellow purulent
crusts and scales. Little pimples on the head which bleed when
scratched.
Arsenic Album: Eczema with burning and restlessness.
Itching, burning and swelling which is worse from cold and
scratching. Dry rough scaly skin. Better from h eat and warm
drinks. Exhaustion after slight exertion. Eczema between the
fingers and cracks on the tip of fingers. Scaly eruptions on scalp
and face with acrid and even fetid discharge, intense burning
and itching.
Antim. Crud: Eczema with gastric derangements. Sensitive to
cold bathing. Itching when warm in bed, thick hard and honey
coloured scales. Much burning, worse at night.
Kali Sulph: Vesicles filled with yellow pus which is like thin
fluid. Copious on in side of hands and fingers. Lips cracked.
Craves for sweets which aggravate.
Ranunculus B: Eczema with thickening of the skin and
formation of hard horny scales.
Staphisagria: Eczema, yellow acrid fluid oozes from under
the crusts; new vesicles form from the contact of exudation;
humid itching, fetid eruptions on head and behind ears.
Scratching changes the place of itching but in- creases oozing.
Natrum Mur: Eczema on hair margins especially at the back
of head.
Mancinella: Dermatitis with excessive vesiculation. Oozing
sticky serum and formation of crusts. Heavy brown crusts and
scales.
Clematis: Vesicular and pustular eczema, with purulent or
watery secretion followed by scales and crusts which are inflamed during the increasing and dry during the decreasing
of the moon; dark, rough and firmly adhering crusts upon the
scalp with excoriating yellowish discharge. Itching worse by
warmth of bed and from washing.
Colchicum: Eczema rubrum in old people, beer or wine
drinkers with a marked uric or lithic condition of the system.
Agaricus M: Eczema with burning, biting and extreme itching;
pricking as from needles; electric-like stiches in the skin; small
nodules deep in the skin. Eczema worse in winter and
accompanied with chilblains.
Thuja: Sycotic patients. Eczema after suppression of
gonorrhoea or following vaccination. Dirty brown skin,
covered with itching vesicles. Suppression of eczema by
injections or when eczema is due to vaccination.
X Ray: Deep cracks and fissures in the hands and feet, knees
and extensor surface of the joints; very deep fissures. Dark blue
eruptions resembling a burn. Skin dry; scaly, cracked, much
swelling of the part. It also antidotes abuse of Sulphur.
Tuberculinum: As an inter-current remedy when well
selected remedies fail. The patient is despondent and morose,
takes cold easily. Fiery red skin with rawness and soreness.
Eczema over the entire body, itching worse at night, intense
when undressing.
Gunpowder: Is a great anti-psoric remedy and a great blood
purifier. It helps to clear up many skin troubles. It should be
given for a long time in 3X potency.
