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Petroleum

Coal or Rock Oil. Anthracite

Adapted to persons with light hair and skin; irritable, quarrelsome disposition ( Nux ); easily offended at trifles ( Ign. , Med. ); vexed at everything.

Ailments: from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship ( Coc. , Sanic. ).

Ailments which are worse before and during a thunderstorm ( Nat. c. , Phos. , Psor. ).

Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly ( Bell. , Mag. p. - reverse of Plat. , Stan. ).

During sleep or delirium: imagines that one leg is double; that another person lies alongside of him in same bed; that there are two babies in the bed ( Val. ).

Vertigo on rising ( Bry. ); in occiput; as if intoxicated; like seasickness ( Coc. ).

Headache: in occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing, pulsating pain; as if everything in the head were alive; numb, bruised, as if made of wood.

Gastralgia: of pregnancy; with pressing, drawing pains; whenever stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating ( Anac. , Chel. , Sep. ).

Diarrhoea: yellow, watery, gushing; after cabbage, sour krout; during pregnancy, stormy weather; always in the daytime.

Painful sensitiveness of skin of whole body; all clothing is painful; slight injury suppurates ( Hep. ).

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. ).

Herpes: of genital organs extending to perineum and thighs; itching, redness; skin cracked, rough, bleeding; dry or moist.

Heat and burning of soles of feet and palms of hands ( Sang. , Sulph. ).

Sweat and moisture of external genitals, both sexes.

Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands < in cold weather; decubitus.

Sensation of coldness about the heart ( Carbo an. , [Kali m.], Nat. m. ).

Relations. - One of our best antidotes for lead poisoning.

The skin symptoms are worse in winter, better in summer ( Alum. ); if suppressed, causes diarrhoea.

Aggravation. - Carriage riding ( Coc. , Sanic. ); during a thunderstorm; in winter ( Alum. ).