Petroleum
(Petroleum · Crude rock oil)
The remedy of cracked winter skin and travel sickness. In the materia medica, Petroleum is associated with rough, deeply cracked skin that worsens every winter, and with nausea from riding in cars, trains or boats.
Source
Crude rock oil (petroleum)
Kingdom
Mineral
Abbreviation
Petr.
Home acute kit
Usually prescribed by a homeopath
The classic picture
(a remedy is chosen when the whole picture fits the person, not from a single symptom)
Rough, dry skin that cracks and fissures, especially on fingertips and hands, worse each winter
Nausea and dizziness from riding in cars, trains or ships
Hunger or stomach pain when the stomach is empty, eased by eating
Irritable and easily offended; complaints can linger after upset or emotion
Tends to feel better
Warm air
Dry weather
Lying with head high
Eating
Tends to feel worse
Winter
Riding in vehicles
Damp weather
Before and during a thunderstorm
How it compares
(remedies that are often confused with Petroleum)
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Graphites
(Graphites)
Both have cracked skin; Graphites' cracks ooze a sticky, honey-like fluid.
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Cocculus
(Cocculus indicus)
Cocculus is the classic motion sickness picture with weakness and exhaustion from lost sleep; Petroleum adds empty-stomach hunger.
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Tabacum
(Nicotiana tabacum)
Tabacum's travel nausea is deathly, pale and cold-sweating, eased by fresh air.
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Side-by-side comparisons
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From the classic texts
“Very marked skin symptoms, acting on sweat and oil glands; Ailments are worse during the winter season. Ailments from riding in cars, carriages, or ships…”
“Skin of hands rough, cracked, tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured, every winter; tenderness of the feet, which are bathed in foul-smelling sweat (Graph., Sanic., Sil.).”
Articles that mention Petroleum
Homeopathic Remedies for Motion Sickness, Jet Lag and Travel Stress
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