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 Common name: Black lead
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Miasm: Psora

Temperament: Irritable

Relation with hot and cold: Very chilly person

Diathesis: Scrofulous

 Founder: Samuel Hahnemann

General analysis:
  • It is a powerful anti psoric remedy
  • Pulverise  the purest black lead taken from a fine English pencil and prepare the triturations and dilutions in the usual fashion
Constitution:
  • Crude and coarse people who do a lot of physical work like labourers
  • Fat, chilly and costive with swollen lymphatic glands
  • The tendency towards obesity is marked
  • This is due to malnutrition and imperfect assimilation
  • Stout and anaemic with a tendency to skin affection and constipation
  • Hair is blonde with pale face and a low spirited 
  • In women, obesity is associated with habitual constipation and history of delayed menstruation
  • It medicine for menopause period
Mind:
  • Timid 
  • Unable to decide
  • Tendency to start
  • Music make to weep
  • Indecision, despondency, apprehensive
  • Nervous while sitting at work
  • Wants of disposition to work
Head:
  • Headache in the morning on a walking
  • Mostly one side with leaning to vomit also called migraine
  • The rush of blood to the head with flushed face and distension, epistaxis and flatulence.
  • Rheumatic pains on one side of head extending to neck and teeth
  • Feels pithy and numb
  • Sensation like a cobweb on the forehead
  • Itchy,  humid eruption on the hairy scalp
  • Emitting a fetid odour
  • Cataleptic condition
Eyes:
  • Eyelids swollen and red
  • Blepharitis
  • Dryness of lids
  • Eczema and fissured lid
  • Ophthalmia with intolerance of artificial light
Ears:
  • Cracking in ears when eating
  • Dryness in the inner ear
  • Hears good in noise
  • Difficult of hearing
  • Eruption and moisture behind ears
  • The explosion in the ear like the retort of the gun
  • Hissing feeling in the ear
  • Fissure in and behind the ear
  • Thin white scaly membrane tympani feels like exfoliated epithelium
Nose:
  • Abnormal smell
  • Cannot tolerate the smell of a flower
  • Fissure and scabs in the nostril
  • Sore on blowing it is painful internally
Face:
  • Itching pimples on the face
  • Moist eczema around chin and mouth
  • Eczema on nose
  • Erysipelas stinging and burning sensation
  • Sensation like cobwebs was on the face
Mouth:
  • Breath smell like urine
  • Burning blisters on the tongue with more salivation also called aphthae
  • The rotten odour from the mouth
  • Sour eructation
Stomach:
  • Hot drinks disagree
  • After eat sweet feels nauseate
  • Aversion to meat
  • Vomiting and nausea after each meal
  • Pressure in stomach
  • Morning sickness during menstruation
  • Flatulence
  • Difficult eructation
  • Burning sensation in the stomach when hunger
  • Contractive feeling in the stomach
  • Recurrent gastralgia
  • Stomach pain relieved after eating temporary, milk, hot drink and lying down
Abdomen:
  • Hardness and fullness in the abdomen
  • Incarcerated flatulence must loosen cloths
  • The abdominal ring is painful when pressing it
  • Nausea feeling in abdomen
  • The swollen and sensitive inguinal region also called inguinal hernia
  • Croaking pain in the stomach
  • Very fetid gas is pass precede by colic
  • Chronic diarrhoea
  • Stool liquid, brownish, undigested and offensive
Rectum:
  • Constipation
  • Difficult, large knotty stool cover by mucus thread
  • Very fetid sour odour
  • Sour anus smarting and itching
  • Burning haemorrhoids
  • Prolapse, stool, diarrhoea, fluid mix brownish with the undigested substance also called lienteric
  • Varices of the rectum
  • Fissure in anus
Urinary:
  • Sour smelling urine
  • Turbid urine with a sediment
Male:
  • Herpetic eruption on organ
  • Aversion to coition
  • Sometimes too early or sometimes no ejaculation
  • Increase sexual desire with debility
Female:
  • Pale and scanty look
  • Too late menses with constipation
  • Tearing pain in epigastrium  and itching before menses
  • Cold, coryza hoarseness of voice, morning sickness and sweat during menstruation.
  • Swollen and hard mammae
  • Induration  of uterus, ovary and mammae in cancerous affection
  • Leucorrhea thin, pale, profuse, white and excoriating
  • Leucorrhea with back pain and great weakness
  • Nipple cracked, sore and blistered
  • Decided aversion to coitus
Respiratory:
  • Pain in the middle of the chest with scraping, soreness and cough
  • Constriction of chest
  • Spasmodic asthma
  • Suffocation lead to wake up from sleep and must eat something
  • Inability to control vocal cord
  • Skin affection with chronic hoarseness
  • Hoarseness on beginning to sing
Extremities:
  • Edema of lower limb
  • Pain in the shoulder, back limb and nape of the neck
  • Spinal pain
  • The lumbosacral region is painful with great weakness
  • Between two thigh excoriation formation
  • Left hand numb
  • Nail of fingers black, round and thick
  • Toenails crippled
  • Contraction and stiffness of toes
  • Nails painful, sore, thick, deformed and crippled
  • Foot sweat offensive
  • Fingertips are fissures and cracks
  • Swelling in feet
Skin:
  • Swelling and induration of gland
  • Chronic poison oak
  • Acne and pimples
  • Every little injury suppurate
  • Unhealthy skin
  • Early-stage of fibroma and keloid
  • Hard, rough and persistent dryness in a portion of skin unaffected by eczema
  • Oozing, eruption out of sticky exudation
  • Rawness in a bend of limbs, neck, groin behind ears
  • Cracks in mouth, anus, nipple and between toes
  • Ulcer discharge thin sticky, glutinous skin
  • Phlegmonous erysipelas face with stinging and burning pain
Modalities:

Aggravate
  • At night
  • After and during menses
  • Warmth
Better
  • From wrapping up
  • In dark
Relationship:
  • Complementary with Argentum Nitricum, Caust, Hep, Lyc, Ars, Tub
  • Compare with Petroleum, Sulpher, Fluoricum Acidum
  • Antidote with Aconite, Arsenicum Album, Nux vomica 
Dose:
  • Sixth to thirtieth potency
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