{"id":912,"remedy_name":"Graphites","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Syphilitic Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Night","keynote_indications":"Graphites is a mineral carbon, related to Carb -an. and Carb -v. It contains a small \npercentage of iron, and so is also related to Ferr. Weinhold first thought of using this substance as a drug. He \nwas led to it by seeing workmen in a mirror -factory use it as a local application for tetters. Rugg eri followed \nhim, using it both internally and locally. \nTendency to produce excoriations, cracks or fissures, at muco-cutaneous junction of eyes, nostrils, mouth, \nanus, nipples, finger tips, folds of skin. Mucus membranes are cracked and fissured and have scanty secre-\ntions. Excoriations between toes. \nThickening and induration of skin, glands, tarsi, nail, scars. Thick crusts on the skin. Tendency to callosities. \nAids the absorption of scar tissue (Thiosin.). Cancerous diathesis in old scars. Recrudescence of scars. \nSyphilitic and constitutional ulcers. Tendency to grow cystic tumors, wens. Eradicates tendency to \nerysipelas. \nWatery hemorrhages. Dropsy. Edema. Paralysis or sensation of paralysis. Con tractions of muscles. Cramps \nand burning in d ifferent places. Offensive discharges and secretions. Discharges are, thin, foul, scanty and \nacrid. Sweat stains are yellow, sour, offensive. Gushing leucorrhea. Swollen genitals. \nAlternating digestive and skin symptoms. Gastro-intestinal disorders altern ating with acne and erythema \nof face, herpetic lesions or scrofulous hypochondriasis. Sourness of taste, belchings, stools, urine, blood about \nteeth etc. \nFrequently feels faint with partial loss of senses. Sensitive to cold. Cold aggravates bone pains, cor yza and \nstomach. Emanation of suffering parts. Sensation of burning, numbness and deadness. Pains go to parts not \nlain on. General sense of uneasiness, tremulousness, which elicits groans. Sudden sinking of strength.  \nCancer of pylorus. Duodenal ulcer. Infi ltrations. Weakness, then a relaxed condition, anemia, and chlorosis. \nLymphatic glands are swollen. Take colds easily. Anemia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity.","modalities":"Better in the dark. Better from wrapping up. Better after walking. Better in open air. Better hot \ndrinks, especially milk. Better eating. Bet ter belchings. Bet ter touch. Worse from cold. Worse drafts. Worse \nwarmth of bed. Worse night. Worse wet feet. Worse light. Worse motion. Worse scratching. Worse suppression \nof eruptions or secretions. Worse during and after menses. Worse empty swallowing.  Worse fats. Worse hot \ndrinks.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Mentally sluggish, poor memory. Forgetful, makes mistakes in speaking and writi ng. Remembers all \nthe events of youth, recent events are forgotten. Fatigue from scientific labor. Dread of work.  \nFidgety while sitting at work. Energized from work, followed by apathy, anxiety. Very irritable and fretful. \nObstinate and moody.  Miserable an d unhappy. Impulse to groan. Insolent. Offended easily. Periodic \ndepressions. Anxiety about spiritual welfare. Full of fear in morning. \nAilments from grief or fright. Sad, fear some, irresolute, hesitates at trifles. Grief about slightest occurrences. \nInternal grief and despair. Despair over trifles. Thinks of nothing but death.  \nWeepingameliorates symptoms. Weeping alternating with irritability and laughter at trifles. Weeps without \ncause. Weepingfrom music. Weeping during menses. \nApprehensive, despondent. Fearofinsanity. Fears are better after weeping. Great tendency to start. Anxiety \nin morning on waking.  Excitement at night. Intense rest lessness, which drives him out of bed at night. \nAnxiety better warmth. Restlessness better walking in open air. \nPersistent thoughts, haunted by unpleasant subjects, better walking in open air. Restlessness while working. \nDwells upon past disagreeable occurrences at night. \nSlowness of purpose.  Dullness in morning. Dullness after a siesta. Inability to think from weakness  in \nbrain. Indolence, better open air. Feels indifferent to everybody and everything, from exhaustion.  \nAbsent-minded. Unable to decide. Timid. Child impudent, teasing, laughing at repri mands. Anguish before \nmenses. Cataleptic conditions, consciousness but without the power to move or speak. Mentally sluggish, poor memory. Forgetful, makes mistakes in speaking and writi ng. Remembers all \nthe events of youth, recent events are forgotten. Fatigue from scientific labor. Dread of work.  \nFidgety while sitting at work. Energized from work, followed by apathy, anxiety. Very irritable and fretful. \nObstinate and moody.  Miserable an d unhappy. Impulse to groan. Insolent. Offended easily. Periodic \ndepressions. Anxiety about spiritual welfare. Full of fear in morning. \nAilments from grief or fright. Sad, fear some, irresolute, hesitates at trifles. Grief about slightest occurrences. \nInternal grief and despair. Despair over trifles. Thinks of nothing but death.  \nWeepingameliorates symptoms. Weeping alternating with irritability and laughter at trifles. Weeps without \ncause. Weepingfrom music. Weeping during menses. \nApprehensive, despondent. Fearofinsanity. Fears are better after weeping. Great tendency to start. Anxiety \nin morning on waking.  Excitement at night. Intense rest lessness, which drives him out of bed at night. \nAnxiety better warmth. Restlessness better walking in open air. \nPersistent thoughts, haunted by unpleasant subjects, better walking in open air. Restlessness while working. \nDwells upon past disagreeable occurrences at night. \nSlowness of purpose.  Dullness in morning. Dullness after a siesta. Inability to think from weakness  in \nbrain. Indolence, better open air. Feels indifferent to everybody and everything, from exhaustion.  \nAbsent-minded. Unable to decide. Timid. Child impudent, teasing, laughing at repri mands. Anguish before \nmenses. Cataleptic conditions, consciousness but without the power to move or speak.","Vertigo":"Vertigo, worse looking upwards, reading or sewing. Vertigo with nausea and sour vomiting. Vertigo \nwith hyperesthesia of eyes. Vertigo from overexertion of eyes. Vertigo from venous stagnation. Confusion and \nvertigo in morning on waking. \nCOMMENTS - Hahnemann was quick to perceive that Graph, was much more than a mere remedy for skin \ndisorders, it proved to be a leading anti -psoric, similar to Sulph. Hahnemann's provings and observations de -\nfined its powers over skin disorders. \nThe skin of Graph, is rough, hard and dry. Eczematous and herpetic eruptions predominate. Poor healing of \nthe skin, tendency to scarring, keloids. Impetigo, eczema. Psoriasis. \nCracks between fingers and toes (Petr.), behind the ears, in the bends of joints, fol ds of skin, around the lips \nand anus, and margin of the hair. Intertrigo, infection in the folds of the skin, can fester and form pus. Yellow, \nsticky, honey-like discharge underneath the scabs. \nPimples, acne. Wens. For the results of repelled eruptions of any kind. Fungal infections that deform the nails, \ntend to split. Brittle, crack and split down the middle. Pus and infection under the nails (Ant -c.). \nThe circulation is at first excited, then there is a loss of energy and consequent venous hyperemia. Irregularities \nin the distribution of the blood occur, leading to pallor of skin and mucus membranes.  \nFainting readily occurs with great anxiety, motion is impaired and the tissues relaxed, but paralysis is not \ncomplete. Characteristic rush of blood to the head with a flushed face. Hemorrhages. \nStrong affinity for the breasts. Cracked nipples (Petr., Sars.). Blocked milk ducts, abscess of the breast. For \ncancer, particularly of the breast, where the cancer occurs on the site of a scar, where the cancer regro ws in \nthe scar of a lumpectomy. Also if there is a history of cracked nipples and abscessed breasts.  \nPain under left breast at menstrual period, often waking patient in the night. Scanty menses, with headache,","Head":"Rush of blood to head, with flushed face, nosebleed or distention and flatu lence. Burning on vertex, \nin a small spot. Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side with inclination to vomit. Headache with \nnausea during menses. Heavy weight or dull pressure at the oc ciput, as if head is drawn back. Pain as if \nconstricted in occiput, which pains as if broken o n looking up. Desolate, empty feeling in head. Rheumatic \npains on one side of head, extending to teeth and neck. Pressive pain or burning spot on vertex. Sensation \nof cobweb on forehead. Skin of forehead as if drawn into folds. Brain feels numb. Humid, itching eruption on \nhairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor. Much scaliness on head, causing distressing itch ing, becomes scurf, \nwhich disappears on washing, an d is then humid. Hair, matted, brittle or falling out of hair, worse vertex and \nsides. Milk crusts. Eczema capitis, scabs sore to touch. Bald spots. Herpes. Hair falls out, even on sides of \nhead. Rush of blood to head, with flushed face, nosebleed or distention and flatu lence. Burning on vertex, \nin a small spot. Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side with inclination to vomit. Headache with \nnausea during menses. Heavy weight or dull pressure at the oc ciput, as if head is drawn back. Pain as if \nconstricted in occiput, which pains as if broken o n looking up. Desolate, empty feeling in head. Rheumatic \npains on one side of head, extending to teeth and neck. Pressive pain or burning spot on vertex. Sensation \nof cobweb on forehead. Skin of forehead as if drawn into folds. Brain feels numb. Humid, itching eruption on \nhairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor. Much scaliness on head, causing distressing itch ing, becomes scurf, \nwhich disappears on washing, an d is then humid. Hair, matted, brittle or falling out of hair, worse vertex and \nsides. Milk crusts. Eczema capitis, scabs sore to touch. Bald spots. Herpes. Hair falls out, even on sides of \nhead.","Eyes":"Recurrent keratitis. Blepharitis. Ophthalmia with intolerance of artificial light. Hot tears. Eyelids, red \nand swollen. Dryness of the lids. Eczema of lids, fis sured. Eyelids, heavy and falling. Cystic tumors on \neyelids. Sore or crac ked outer canthi. Ingrown lashes. Phlyctenae. Sight vanishes during menses. Shuns \ndaylight. Photophobia. Letters appear double, when writing, seem together when reading.  \nEace-Flushes of heat in face.  Pale, bloated, haggard, flushed. Feels as if cobwebs wer e on it. Acne before \nthe menses. Itching pimples, moist after scratching.  Moist eczema around the mouth, chin and nose. \nErysipelas, burning and stinging. Lips cracked and sore. Formication on lips during menses. Painful nodules \non the lower jaw. Barber's i tch. Facial paralysis with distortion of muscles and difficult speech. Falling of hair \nfrom chin.","Ears":"Moisture and eruptions, fissures in and behind the ear.  Thin, white scaly membrane covering the \neardrum. Eczema behind the ears. Briny otorrhea. As if hard body behind ear. Cracks andfissures behind \nthe ears. Feel stuffed at full moon. As if air inside, as if filled with water. Dryness of inner ear. Snapping after \nevery eructation. Hardness of hearing. Hears better in noise. Tinnitus. Hissing in the ears. Detonation in ear \nlike report of agun. Cracking in ears when eating.","Mouth":"Angles of the mouth ulcerated. Taste, sour like rotten eggs. Rotten, sour, foul odor from mouth. Breath \nsmells like urine. Salivation, at night. Dots of thick, white fur on tongue. Burning blisters on tongue. Teeth on  \nedge. Blood from teeth, tastes sour. Easy bleeding and swelling of the gums.  \nNose - Stuffed coryza. Coryza from cold. Colds at menses. Chronic catarrh. Sore on blowing it is painful \ninternally. Discharge offensive especially during menses. Excoriated. Scabs and fissures in the nostrils.  \nPainful internally. Eczema of nose. Sneezing on opening the eyes. Smell acute, cannot bear the smell of \nflowers. Dryness with loss of smell. Nosebleed with rush of blood to the head, worse before menses.  \nPerspiration - Profuse sweat at night. Profuse sweat during menses. Sweats often on front of body only. \nOffensive, sour sweat, stains yellow. Cold sweat. Entire inability to sweat. Sweats from  \nslightest motion.","Throat":"Chronic sore throat. Chronic hoarseness with skin disorders. Tonsils enlarged. Nodulated goiter. \nChoking, on swallowing from goiter. As of a lump in throat worse empty swallowing, urging to swallow from \nconstant spasms. Asif food would not go down from spasms. Hoarseness as soon as he starts singing. Voice \nlacks control, better using it. Ulcerative pain in throat when swallowing.","Chest":"Constriction of chest, as if too narrow. Feels as if about to suffocate when falling asleep, jumps out of \nbed, takes hold of something and must eat some thing, worse after midnight. Cramps in the chest. Pain in \nmiddle of chest with cough, scraping and soreness. \nConstitutions - Suited to persons who have a tendency to put on unhealthy fat. Fat, relaxed, chilly and costive. \nDefective animal heat from defective oxygenation, always cold indoors or out. Chlorotics. Affections of glands, \nskin and mucus membranes, especially at orifices. Syphilitic and \u201cconstitutional\u201d ulcers. \nCoughs - Dry cough, troublesome with sweat on face. Cough at night, caused by deep inspiration. Loose \ncough from tickling deep in chest. Cough with stran gling, red face, watery eyes, straining all over. Fatiguing \ncough, before and during menses. As if an electric shock from heart to neck. Strong p ulsations in the whole body. Palpitations of heart \nwith anxiety with nosebleeds. Palpitations from least exer tion. Cold feeling in precordium. Pulse slows \nduring day, fast in the morning \n \n \nKidneys - Burning between acts of urinating. Biting pain in urethra after urination. Stricture of urethra. Pain in \nsacrum or coccyx while urinating. Nocturnal bed wetting. Frequent urination at night. Dark brown urine. Urine, \nsour smelling, turbid, stream slender. Urine turbid, with white sediment. Sour smelling urine. Spasmodic asthma, suffocative attacks wake from sleep, must eat so mething. Dry, troublesome \ncough with sweat on face. Lachrymation, worse taking deep breath.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Gastralgia with burning pains radiating through abdomen. Sour or foul belchings. Frequent \neructations, tasting of ingesta. Eructation of sour green water. Eructations while walking. Pressure in stomach. \nConstrictive pain in stomach. Recurrent stomach pain with vomiting of food immediately after eating, stom-\nach worse by cold. Burning in stomach, causing hunger, better from eating or hot drinks especially milk, lying \ndown. Periodical gastralgia, with vomiting of food immediately after eating. Morning sickness during menses. \n \n \nNausea like faintness, prevents sleep. Nausea with spasm in throat. Nausea during headache. Nausea with \nsour vomiting. Vomiting of sour of food. Vomiting and purging and icy cold sweat with headache. Cancer of \npylorus. \nTemperature - Chill in the evening worse eat ing better open air and drinking water. Chill with coldness of \nwhole body. Chill in morning in bed. Chill during menses. Wants covers in all stages of fever. Recur rent \nperiodical fever. Fever with restlessness, unable to sleep, or remain in bed on accoun t of it. Flushes of heat. \nDry heat every evening and night. Burning heat in hands and soles and feet. Heat when riding in a carriage. Abdomen distended, as from incarcerated flatus. Cannot bear tight clothes around the waist.  \n \n \nFlatulence. Very fetid gas preceded by colic. Pain of gas opposite the side on which he lies. Intestinal torpor. \nPain as if intestines were torn. Nauseous feeling in abdomen. Cramp like pain in abdomen with deficient \nsecretion of urine, at night. Inguinal region \nsensitive, swollen. Excessive hunger or no appetite, worse when hungry. A version to meat, fish. Aversion to cooked food, \nsalt. Aversion to soup. Sweets nauseate. Better warm milk, worse cold drinks. Desires chicken, beer, sweets. \nWorse sweets. Worse boiled meat. Hot drinks disagree.","Urinary & Genital":"Herpetic eruption on organs. Hydrocele. Sexual debility with increased desire. Priapism. Ejaculation too \nearly or failing during sex. Cramps in calves duri ng sex. Averse to sex, lack of sexual enjoyment. Impotence \nfrom excessive indulgence or masturbation. Menses, too late.  Menses scanty, pale, irregular, painful. Sighing during menses.  Hoarseness, \ncoryza, cough, morning sickness, sweats, swelling of fe et or headache during menses. Leucorrhea, pale, \nthin, profuse, white, excoriating in gushes  with weakness in back. Leu corrhea worse before and after \nmenses. Leucorrhea in place of menses. Acrid, excoriating leucorrhea in gushes day or night, before and \nafter menses. Swelling and hardness of ovary (left) worse after menses. Induration of ovaries, uterus and \nbreasts. Pain in the uterus when reaching high with arms. Retro-version of uterus, heaviness in hypogastrium \nwith cutting pain down thighs. Uterus feels  as if com ing out through vagina. Vagina, dry, hot or cold. \nEczematous eruptions around the vulva. Great aversion to sex.","Extremities":"Edema of legs.  Paralyzed feeling in the limbs. Cannot stretch enough. Burnings, cramps, jerking. \nArms and legs go to sleep. Excoriation of thighs while walking.  Bunions worse fire heat, better pressure. \nBurning in soles and heels. Feet cold, wet. Acrid, foot sweat, chafes the toes. Stiffness and contraction of toes. \nFoul excoriating sweat, worse evening. Burning pressure beneath the armpit. Hands or feet either hot or cold. \nPain in thumb joint as if sprained. Nails, brittle and crumbling. Nails deformed, \nGraphites naturalis painful, sore, thick and crippled. Nails, thick, rough ingrown. Horny callosities on hands \nwith cracks. Cracks and fissures in fingertips. Swelling of feet.","Neck & Back":"Spinal pains. Pain in small of back with great weakness. Pain in the nape of neck and shoulders, worse \nlooking up and stooping the head. Sacral pains with crawling. Painless swollen glands on side of neck.  \nNumbness of sacrum, down the legs. Pain in the lumbar region as if vertebrae were broken.  \nBreasts - Induration of breasts and ovaries. Breasts swollen and hard. Cracks in nipples. Breast cancer from \nold scars, remaining after mammary abscess. Nipples, sore, cracked and blistered.  \nCausations - Ill effects of grief, fear, over lifting, surgery.","Skin":"affection. Getting feet wet causes delaye d menses. Hysterical melancholia with occipital headache. \nProfuse, gushing leucorrhea, excoriating. \nCracks along the labia. Moist itching excoriation around anus and fissures. Very low sex drive (Sep.). \nUncontrollable sexual excitement with violent erections. Priapism. Impotence. \nClean tongue. Fishy taste in the morning, disappearing later in the day. Milk agrees, especially when hot. \nRoasted, but not boiled meat or potatoes. Diarrhea, thin offensive, partly digested stools. Constipation, stools \ncoming in lumps coated with mucus and with mucus shreds. Anal fissures, can pass blood and painful stools.  \nWeak, exhaustion of whole body. Spasms, contractions of muscles, twitching of eye lids. Cataleptic condition. \nSensitiveness of internal parts, numbness in various parts, drawing pain in whole body. Bathing after measles \ncauses paralysis of face. Attacks occur during summer and autumn. Suffering parts emaciated.  \nGeneral obesity with a thick, white, pro fuse irritating discharge. Suffocative spells which arouse the  patient \nfrom sleep, he must jump out of bed, worse after midnight (Lach., worse after sleep).  \nGeneral condition is not sensitive (op posite of Hep.). Abnormally acute senses, cannot tolerate the smell of \nflowers. Music causes weeping. Sadness. Ears feel stuffed during the full moon. Hardness of hearing is better \nwhen riding in a carriage. Easy to over-lift. \nTeste classed Graph, in the Puls, group with Sil., Calc., Hep. and Phos. It affects the nutrition in a peculiar \nway, it is a remedy for those persons w ho have a tendency to put on unhealthy fat or for those who begin to \nemaciate. Graph, is an anti-psoric. \nTypically \u201cfat, chilly and costive. \u201d Especially active in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexion with \na tendency to skin disorders and constipation, with a delayed menstrual history. \nHufeland related the cure of a lady, 41, by the internal and external use of Graph, of an acne rosacea which \nhad defied all other modes of treatment. \nKent and Grimmer noted cases of late stage breast cancer that they treated with high potencies. Graph, caused \nthe tumors, and in one case the entire breast, to slough off and heal. \nNash recorded a case of a child who was relieved of an eczema capitis under old- school treatment, whereupon \n \n \nentero-colitis set in and became so alarming that it was pronounced \u201ctuberculosis of the bowels.\u201d  \nNash found the child greatly emaciated with little or no appetite, very restless, pass ing \u201cstools of brown fluid \nmixed with undigested substances and of an intolerably fetid odor.\u201d Graph. 6,000c cured promptly. \nGoullon cured two notable cases of cramps in the stomach with \u201cimprovement of the cramps by eating.\u201d  \nClarke cured two very severe cases of nosebleed in elderly people. In one case, there had been flushing of \nhead and neck for ma ny months previous to the attack, and flushing preceded and accompanied each \noccurrence of the bleeding. \nIn the other case, the patient said the precursory flush seemed to come up from his toes. He had his nostrils \nplugged without avail. Graph, in a high potency, cured promptly in both instances. \nWhen giving Graph, internally in cases of anal eruption, the external use of an ointment made with a drachm \nof the 3x trituration to an ounce of Cetacean ointment is of great service.  \nHirsh or Prague used Graph, locally in cases of disease of the nails with very good results.","Sleep":"Excessively tired and sleepy. Sleepy during day. Sleeplessness until midnight. Constant talking during \nsleep. Nightly pains felt in sleep. Amazingly weary and sleepy. Does not feel fresh in the morning. Amorous \ndreams with emissions. Horrible \nGraphites naturalis dreams. Dreams about fatal accidents.","Generalities":"As if skin of forehead was drawn into folds. As if a skin were before ear. As if a hard body as \nlarge as an egg were behind ear. As o f a cobweb over the face. As of a lump in stomach with beating as of \ntwo hammers. As if intestines were torn, croaking as of a frog in abdomen. As if everything would be torn to \npieces during menstruation."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}