PETROLEUM (Petr.)  پیٹرولیم پٹرولیم

DRY SKIN, NAUSEA

MENTAL

THINKS HE IS DOUBLE OR SOMEBODY ELSE IS LYING NEXT TO HIM.

Feels that death is near and has to settle his affairs (presentiment of death).

Depression with dim vision.

Loss of memory, confusion. Does not recognize well known streets.

Excited, irritable after coition.

PHYSICAL

Affects the skin and the mucus membranes.

SKIN: DRY, CRACKED, DIRTY, HARD, ROUGH, THICKENED, raw. Wounds heal slowly.

ERUPTIONS, usually with painful cracks. Eczema, psoriasis, herpes. <winter.

Itching of skin, must scratch until is raw.

DRY SKIN with INCREASED MUCUS SECRETIONS.

Diarrhœa during skin eruptions.

Sea-sickness, car-sickness.

Falling out of hair.

Weakness, stomach emptiness, hunger after stool or during diarrhœa.

Ravenous hunger, frequently awakened by it at night.

Burning sensation is marked.

MODALITIES

AGG.: cabbage, flatulent food (beans and peas), after coition, eating after.

AMEL.: summer.

DES.: brandy, beer.

AVERS.: fat, meat.