Leprosy
Signs and tests:
If the symptoms agree following medicines may be helpful
Iodine Where there is great induration of the glands, they are very sluggish and torpid
; the patient is subject to wasting diseases, there is wasting of the mammae,
ovaries. testicles, etc.
Sulphur
Tendency to eruptions ; defective osseous growth ; open fontanelles ; bone
affections ; rickets and curvature of the spine.Appetite voracious, caused by
defective assimilation from diseased glands.The child looks like a little old
man or woman ; the skin is wrinkled and flabby.
Graphites
When the lymphatic glands of the neck and axillae are swollen ; also the
inguinal and mesenteric glands, and when there are marked skin symptoms.
Mercurius Enlarged glands ; open fontanelles, especially the posterior ; slow in learning
to walk ; imperfect formation of teeth ; feet cold and damp ; perspiration about
head offensive and oily.
Calcarea carbonica and
Silicea
The Calcarea sweat is mostly about the head and is offensive.The Silicea sweat
is especially about the feet and is offensive.Calcarea is not as sensitive as
Silicea.
In Calcarea carbonica Dentition is slow. The abdomen is swollen, child is
" pot-bellied." The upper lip is swollen. The fontanelles are open. There is
emaciation.
The skin is flabby and hangs in folds. Partial sweating is characteristic.
Scrofulous affections of the bones.
Rhus
toxicodendron
The skin is red and covered with numerous vesicles.There is great itching
and tingling.The skin is swollen and oedematous.It is especially the remedy for
vesicular erysipelas.
Apis differ from
Rhus toxicodendron
Under Apis there is more burning and stinging than under Rhus.There is also more
oedema, and in erysipelas it is more especially indicated in the pale variety
than in the vesicular variety.
Cantharis
Cantharis produces large blisters on the skin, and there is especially a great
deal of burning and smarting.The blisters are the characteristic.Burns and
scalds.
Croton tiglium
The blisters are very small and numerous and itch terribly, and they form
pustules which dry into yellow scabs, the characteristics being the confluent
vesicles and the itching accompanying.
Hura
Brasiliensis is a similar remedy here.
Ranunculus bulbosus
It forms vesicles of the skin, which are filled with serum and burn.They
sometimes have a bluish-black appearance, and it is especially indicated when
these vesicles form along the course of the nerves, producing a disease known as
shingles.Herpes
zoster.
Mezereum
There are numerous small vesicles with terrible itching, but the characteristic
is that the secretion dries quickly, producing thick, high scabs, from which an
acrid, thick pus oozes.Crusts and itching are characteristic.
Chininum
sulphuricum
It's eruption is called erythematous, and resembles greatly scarlet fever.
Ranunculus
sceleratus resembles Cantharis in
producing large blisters which burst and leave a raw surface.
Potashes causes
Papulous eruption.
Psorinum Herpetic eruptions on the skin, accompanied by a
great deal of itching, which is worse as soon as patient gets in bed.The skin is
dirty, greasy, and looks as if it had never been washed. Tinea capitis ; oozing
of offensive matter.
Sulphur
The troubles of the skin are apt to alternate with some internal trouble ; there
is the great aggravation from washing, and the more the eruption is scratched
the more it itches and burns ; the skin is rough, coarse and measly ; the
eruptions are usually pustular, and there is tendency to soreness in the folds
of the skin.
Great dryness and heat of the scalp, with. intense itching, and scratching,
though it relieves, causes burning ; all the eruptions are greatly aggravated by
washing and by being wet ; wetting produces burning ; there may be also an
eruption of yellow crusts on the scalp.
Graphites
Moist, scabby eruptions, especially of the scalp, face, bends of joints, and in
the folds of skin, as between the fingers, behind the ears, in the corners of
the mouth or eyes ; they are cracked, bleeding, or oozing a gluey, honey like,
thick and tenacious discharge ; the skin may be dry and horny ; there is absence
of sweat, the hair is dry and falls out, the nails become loose.Cicatrices
are benefited by Graphites.
Lycopodium has dry, scaly eruptions.
Mezereum has thick, hard, scabby and crusty
eruptions.
Arsenicum
Pains, itching, biting, gnawing and burning.Watery swellings, from puffiness to oedema.Eruptions, papules, nettle rash and pimples.Painful ulcers, burning and sensitive, with offensive discharges.
Oleander
The skin is sensitive ; slight friction causes chafing and soreness.It produces eruption on the scalp and back of the ears like a crusta lactea,
which oozes a fluid and breeds vermin.
Vinca minor
This also produces an eruption which breeds vermin and it produces by the
discharge a matted condition of the hair, and there is a very offensive odor
arising therefrom.
Eczema of scalp and face. Plica
polonica.
Viola tricolor
It is useful for crusts on the scalp where the exudation is very copious.It mats the hair like Vinca
minor and is distinguished by its urinary
symptoms ; urine smells like that of a cat.
Staphisagria
Eruption is worse on the occiput, and the characteristic indication is that it
itches terribly, but scratching changes the place of the itching.
Anacardium and
Mezereum have this last symptom, though less marked.
Nux juglans
and Arctium lappa
are useful for Crusta
lactea.
Petroleum
Petroleum has an eruption which particularly occurs behind the ears ; it is a
pure eczema ; the skin is harsh and dry, and there are deep cracks and fissures
which bleed and. suppurate ; the finger tips are cracked and painful and the
hands chap.
Petroleum distinguished from
Graphites
Graphites pictures more of a
herpes and Petroleum more of an
eczema.
Natrum
muriaticum It is a dry, scaly eruption, or a herpetic eruption of little watery blisters ;
especially when in the bends of the knees ; also, it is a remedy for affections
of the scalp accompanied by a falling of the hair
and the brows.Eruptions on flexor surfaces.
Kreosote has eruptions on the
extensor surfaces.
Apis in urticaria
The eruption suddenly appears on the surface of the skin in long pinkish-white
welts, with terrible itching.
Urtica urens
and Terebinthina are especially useful for
urticaria caused by eating shell fish.
Sepia It causes yellowish-brown spots on the skin with itching, redness and
rawness. It is especially a remedy for ring-worms. Herpetic conditions about
knees and ankles.
Tellurium and
Calcarea carbonica are useful for
ringworms.
Belladonna It causes a bright scarlet redness of the skin, which is extremely sensitive to
the touch. It has an erysipelatous condition, and there is a great deal
of throbbing, as if the deeper parts of the skin were affected.
Anacardium
It is useful where the skin is covered with small blisters, which have an
umbilicated center ; they discharge a yellow serum which hardens into crusts
with extreme itchiness. It is one of the antidotes to
Rhus poisoning. Croton
tiglium, Ammonium
carbonica. and
Grindelia robusta are useful for
Rhus poisoning. Anacardium
occidentale or the Cashew
nut
Useful in a vesicular eruption on the skin, which is umbilicated and which
itches terribly.
Antimonium crudum.
It produces thick, horny callosities on the skin ; it causes deficient growth of
the nails, and the eruptions are crusty — the crusts being of a honey yellow
character ; the skin cracks easily.
Kalium bromatum
produces acne.
Psoriasis -
Arsenic, Arsenicum
iodide and Rhus
toxicodendron are useful in Psoriasis.
Thuja It is a remedy for warts and diseases of the epidermal tissue, such as
affections of the nails, etc.
Thuja and Causticum
- The Causticum warts have a solid body and
are very horny. Thuja warts are fissured, cut up, having a
cauliflower appearance.
Arnica
It produces a peculiar form of erysipelas — a dermatitis with much itching and
soreness, dark blue in color.Boils with great soreness.
Camphor antidotes the skin symptoms of
Arnica.
Arnica should be diluted before being applied externally because the
tincture is resinous and not only liable to produce the condition above
referred to in sensitive skins, but this quality interferes with its easy
absorption.
Calcarea
The skin is unhealthy ; small wounds suppurate easily ; it is useful for certain
forms of eczema of the scalp with general Calcarea symptoms.
Comocladia dentata
It has many symptoms on the skin similar to Rhus
toxicodendron , but its peculiar symptom is
a pain in the right eye as if it were pushed out of the head ; worse near a warm
stove.
Dolichos A violent itching all over the body without any visible eruption ; useful in
intense itching of jaundice, which is worse at night.
Dulcamara
It produces an eruption of large wheals, and it is useful in such be brought on
by digestive troubles, with aggravation from cold air.
Hepar sulphur The skin is sensitive to the open air ; inflamed skin ; injuries suppurate
easily ; eruptions and ulcerations are sensitive, and bleed easily, and
discharge a foul smelling excretion ; around the principal ulcerations there are
little pimples.
Hippomane
mancinella
It produces vesicles on the skin, with an intense erythema ; so irritating is it
that water dropping from its leaves on the skin will produce vesicles. It has
been utilized in scarlet fever when this intense irritation of the skin exists.
Hydrocotyle
asiatica Skin diseases, with an immense amount of desquamation.
Sarsaparilla Sycotic eruptions looking like the roseola of syphilis and itching intolerably ;
eruptions exuding an irritating pus ; moist eruption about genitals.Is an anti-sycotic remedy.
Silicea There is a general unhealthy condition of the skin.It suppurates easily and heals with difficulty.In suppurative skin diseases it is our best remedy.
Antimonium
tartaricum
It produces an eruption of pustules resembling those of smallpox, for which it
is a remedy.
Urtica urens
Nettle rash, with intolerable itching and burning ; hives from eating shell
fish. Also indicated in absence of milk after confinement without apparent
cause.
Viola tricolor
-
Crusta lactea, with copious exudation which mats the hair, and urine smelling
like that of a cat.
Natrum carbonicum
and Pix liquida
are remedies for eczema of the dorsa
of the hands.
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