# Graphites

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **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 
percentage of iron, and so is also related to Ferr. Weinhold first thought of using this substance as a drug. He 
was led to it by seeing workmen in a mirror -factory use it as a local application for tetters. Rugg eri followed 
him, using it both internally and locally. 
Tendency to produce excoriations, cracks or fissures, at muco-cutaneous junction of eyes, nostrils, mouth, 
anus, nipples, finger tips, folds of skin. Mucus membranes are cracked and fissured and have scanty secre-
tions. Excoriations between toes. 
Thickening and induration of skin, glands, tarsi, nail, scars. Thick crusts on the skin. Tendency to callosities. 
Aids the absorption of scar tissue (Thiosin.). Cancerous diathesis in old scars. Recrudescence of scars. 
Syphilitic and constitutional ulcers. Tendency to grow cystic tumors, wens. Eradicates tendency to 
erysipelas. 
Watery hemorrhages. Dropsy. Edema. Paralysis or sensation of paralysis. Con tractions of muscles. Cramps 
and burning in d ifferent places. Offensive discharges and secretions. Discharges are, thin, foul, scanty and 
acrid. Sweat stains are yellow, sour, offensive. Gushing leucorrhea. Swollen genitals. 
Alternating digestive and skin symptoms. Gastro-intestinal disorders altern ating with acne and erythema 
of face, herpetic lesions or scrofulous hypochondriasis. Sourness of taste, belchings, stools, urine, blood about 
teeth etc. 
Frequently feels faint with partial loss of senses. Sensitive to cold. Cold aggravates bone pains, cor yza and 
stomach. Emanation of suffering parts. Sensation of burning, numbness and deadness. Pains go to parts not 
lain on. General sense of uneasiness, tremulousness, which elicits groans. Sudden sinking of strength.  
Cancer of pylorus. Duodenal ulcer. Infi ltrations. Weakness, then a relaxed condition, anemia, and chlorosis. 
Lymphatic glands are swollen. Take colds easily. Anemia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better in the dark. Better from wrapping up. Better after walking. Better in open air. Better hot 
drinks, especially milk. Better eating. Bet ter belchings. Bet ter touch. Worse from cold. Worse drafts. Worse 
warmth of bed. Worse night. Worse wet feet. Worse light. Worse motion. Worse scratching. Worse suppression 
of eruptions or secretions. Worse during and after menses. Worse empty swallowing.  Worse fats. Worse hot 
drinks.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Mentally sluggish, poor memory.
- Forgetful, makes mistakes in speaking and writi ng.
- Remembers all 
the events of youth, recent events are forgotten.
- Fatigue from scientific labor.
- Dread of work.
- Fidgety while sitting at work.
- Energized from work, followed by apathy, anxiety.
- Very irritable and fretful.
- Obstinate and moody.
- Miserable an d unhappy.
- Impulse to groan.
- Insolent.
- Offended easily.
- Periodic 
depressions.
- Anxiety about spiritual welfare.
- Full of fear in morning.
- Ailments from grief or fright.
- Sad, fear some, irresolute, hesitates at trifles.
- Grief about slightest occurrences.
- Internal grief and despair.
- Despair over trifles.
- Thinks of nothing but death.
- Weepingameliorates symptoms.
- Weeping alternating with irritability and laughter at trifles.
- Weeps without 
cause.
- Weepingfrom music.
- Weeping during menses.
- Apprehensive, despondent.
- Fearofinsanity.
- Fears are better after weeping.
- Great tendency to start.
- Anxiety 
in morning on waking.
- Excitement at night.
- Intense rest lessness, which drives him out of bed at night.
- Anxiety better warmth.
- Restlessness better walking in open air.
- Persistent thoughts, haunted by unpleasant subjects, better walking in open air.
- Restlessness while working.
- Dwells upon past disagreeable occurrences at night.
- Slowness of purpose.
- Dullness in morning.
- Dullness after a siesta.
- Inability to think from weakness  in 
brain.
- Indolence, better open air.
- Feels indifferent to everybody and everything, from exhaustion.
- Absent-minded.
- Unable to decide.
- Timid.
- Child impudent, teasing, laughing at repri mands.
- Anguish before 
menses.
- 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 
the events of youth, recent events are forgotten.
- Fatigue from scientific labor.
- Dread of work.
- Fidgety while sitting at work.
- Energized from work, followed by apathy, anxiety.
- Very irritable and fretful.
- Obstinate and moody.
- Miserable an d unhappy.
- Impulse to groan.
- Insolent.
- Offended easily.
- Periodic 
depressions.
- Anxiety about spiritual welfare.
- Full of fear in morning.
- Ailments from grief or fright.
- Sad, fear some, irresolute, hesitates at trifles.
- Grief about slightest occurrences.
- Internal grief and despair.
- Despair over trifles.
- Thinks of nothing but death.
- Weepingameliorates symptoms.
- Weeping alternating with irritability and laughter at trifles.
- Weeps without 
cause.
- Weepingfrom music.
- Weeping during menses.
- Apprehensive, despondent.
- Fearofinsanity.
- Fears are better after weeping.
- Great tendency to start.
- Anxiety 
in morning on waking.
- Excitement at night.
- Intense rest lessness, which drives him out of bed at night.
- Anxiety better warmth.
- Restlessness better walking in open air.
- Persistent thoughts, haunted by unpleasant subjects, better walking in open air.
- Restlessness while working.
- Dwells upon past disagreeable occurrences at night.
- Slowness of purpose.
- Dullness in morning.
- Dullness after a siesta.
- Inability to think from weakness  in 
brain.
- Indolence, better open air.
- Feels indifferent to everybody and everything, from exhaustion.
- Absent-minded.
- Unable to decide.
- Timid.
- Child impudent, teasing, laughing at repri mands.
- Anguish before 
menses.
- 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 
with hyperesthesia of eyes.
- Vertigo from overexertion of eyes.
- Vertigo from venous stagnation.
- Confusion and 
vertigo in morning on waking.
- COMMENTS - Hahnemann was quick to perceive that Graph, was much more than a mere remedy for skin 
disorders, it proved to be a leading anti -psoric, similar to Sulph.
- Hahnemann's provings and observations de -
fined its powers over skin disorders.
- The skin of Graph, is rough, hard and dry.
- Eczematous and herpetic eruptions predominate.
- Poor healing of 
the skin, tendency to scarring, keloids.
- Impetigo, eczema.
- Psoriasis.
- Cracks between fingers and toes (Petr.), behind the ears, in the bends of joints, fol ds of skin, around the lips 
and anus, and margin of the hair.
- Intertrigo, infection in the folds of the skin, can fester and form pus.
- Yellow, 
sticky, honey-like discharge underneath the scabs.
- Pimples, acne.
- Wens.
- For the results of repelled eruptions of any kind.
- Fungal infections that deform the nails, 
tend to split.
- Brittle, crack and split down the middle.
- Pus and infection under the nails (Ant -c.).
- The circulation is at first excited, then there is a loss of energy and consequent venous hyperemia.
- Irregularities 
in the distribution of the blood occur, leading to pallor of skin and mucus membranes.
- Fainting readily occurs with great anxiety, motion is impaired and the tissues relaxed, but paralysis is not 
complete.
- Characteristic rush of blood to the head with a flushed face.
- Hemorrhages.
- Strong affinity for the breasts.
- Cracked nipples (Petr., Sars.).
- Blocked milk ducts, abscess of the breast.
- For 
cancer, particularly of the breast, where the cancer occurs on the site of a scar, where the cancer regro ws in 
the scar of a lumpectomy.
- Also if there is a history of cracked nipples and abscessed breasts.
- Pain 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, 
in a small spot.
- Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side with inclination to vomit.
- Headache with 
nausea during menses.
- Heavy weight or dull pressure at the oc ciput, as if head is drawn back.
- Pain as if 
constricted in occiput, which pains as if broken o n looking up.
- Desolate, empty feeling in head.
- Rheumatic 
pains on one side of head, extending to teeth and neck.
- Pressive pain or burning spot on vertex.
- Sensation 
of cobweb on forehead.
- Skin of forehead as if drawn into folds.
- Brain feels numb.
- Humid, itching eruption on 
hairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor.
- Much scaliness on head, causing distressing itch ing, becomes scurf, 
which disappears on washing, an d is then humid.
- Hair, matted, brittle or falling out of hair, worse vertex and 
sides.
- Milk crusts.
- Eczema capitis, scabs sore to touch.
- Bald spots.
- Herpes.
- Hair falls out, even on sides of 
head.
- Rush of blood to head, with flushed face, nosebleed or distention and flatu lence.
- Burning on vertex, 
in a small spot.
- Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side with inclination to vomit.
- Headache with 
nausea during menses.
- Heavy weight or dull pressure at the oc ciput, as if head is drawn back.
- Pain as if 
constricted in occiput, which pains as if broken o n looking up.
- Desolate, empty feeling in head.
- Rheumatic 
pains on one side of head, extending to teeth and neck.
- Pressive pain or burning spot on vertex.
- Sensation 
of cobweb on forehead.
- Skin of forehead as if drawn into folds.
- Brain feels numb.
- Humid, itching eruption on 
hairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor.
- Much scaliness on head, causing distressing itch ing, becomes scurf, 
which disappears on washing, an d is then humid.
- Hair, matted, brittle or falling out of hair, worse vertex and 
sides.
- Milk crusts.
- Eczema capitis, scabs sore to touch.
- Bald spots.
- Herpes.
- Hair falls out, even on sides of 
head.

### Eyes
- Recurrent keratitis.
- Blepharitis.
- Ophthalmia with intolerance of artificial light.
- Hot tears.
- Eyelids, red 
and swollen.
- Dryness of the lids.
- Eczema of lids, fis sured.
- Eyelids, heavy and falling.
- Cystic tumors on 
eyelids.
- Sore or crac ked outer canthi.
- Ingrown lashes.
- Phlyctenae.
- Sight vanishes during menses.
- Shuns 
daylight.
- Photophobia.
- Letters appear double, when writing, seem together when reading.
- Eace-Flushes of heat in face.
- Pale, bloated, haggard, flushed.
- Feels as if cobwebs wer e on it.
- Acne before 
the menses.
- Itching pimples, moist after scratching.
- Moist eczema around the mouth, chin and nose.
- Erysipelas, burning and stinging.
- Lips cracked and sore.
- Formication on lips during menses.
- Painful nodules 
on the lower jaw.
- Barber's i tch.
- Facial paralysis with distortion of muscles and difficult speech.
- Falling of hair 
from chin.

### Ears
- Moisture and eruptions, fissures in and behind the ear.
- Thin, white scaly membrane covering the 
eardrum.
- Eczema behind the ears.
- Briny otorrhea.
- As if hard body behind ear.
- Cracks andfissures behind 
the ears.
- Feel stuffed at full moon.
- As if air inside, as if filled with water.
- Dryness of inner ear.
- Snapping after 
every eructation.
- Hardness of hearing.
- Hears better in noise.
- Tinnitus.
- Hissing in the ears.
- Detonation in ear 
like 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 
smells like urine.
- Salivation, at night.
- Dots of thick, white fur on tongue.
- Burning blisters on tongue.
- Teeth on  
edge.
- Blood from teeth, tastes sour.
- Easy bleeding and swelling of the gums.
- Nose - Stuffed coryza.
- Coryza from cold.
- Colds at menses.
- Chronic catarrh.
- Sore on blowing it is painful 
internally.
- Discharge offensive especially during menses.
- Excoriated.
- Scabs and fissures in the nostrils.
- Painful internally.
- Eczema of nose.
- Sneezing on opening the eyes.
- Smell acute, cannot bear the smell of 
flowers.
- Dryness with loss of smell.
- Nosebleed with rush of blood to the head, worse before menses.
- Perspiration - Profuse sweat at night.
- Profuse sweat during menses.
- Sweats often on front of body only.
- Offensive, sour sweat, stains yellow.
- Cold sweat.
- Entire inability to sweat.
- Sweats from  
slightest motion.

### Throat
- Chronic sore throat.
- Chronic hoarseness with skin disorders.
- Tonsils enlarged.
- Nodulated goiter.
- Choking, on swallowing from goiter.
- As of a lump in throat worse empty swallowing, urging to swallow from 
constant spasms.
- Asif food would not go down from spasms.
- Hoarseness as soon as he starts singing.
- Voice 
lacks 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 
bed, takes hold of something and must eat some thing, worse after midnight.
- Cramps in the chest.
- Pain in 
middle of chest with cough, scraping and soreness.
- Constitutions - Suited to persons who have a tendency to put on unhealthy fat.
- Fat, relaxed, chilly and costive.
- Defective animal heat from defective oxygenation, always cold indoors or out.
- Chlorotics.
- Affections of glands, 
skin and mucus membranes, especially at orifices.
- Syphilitic and “constitutional” ulcers.
- Coughs - Dry cough, troublesome with sweat on face.
- Cough at night, caused by deep inspiration.
- Loose 
cough from tickling deep in chest.
- Cough with stran gling, red face, watery eyes, straining all over.
- Fatiguing 
cough, before and during menses.
- As if an electric shock from heart to neck.
- Strong p ulsations in the whole body.
- Palpitations of heart 
with anxiety with nosebleeds.
- Palpitations from least exer tion.
- Cold feeling in precordium.
- Pulse slows 
during day, fast in the morning 
 
 
Kidneys - Burning between acts of urinating.
- Biting pain in urethra after urination.
- Stricture of urethra.
- Pain in 
sacrum or coccyx while urinating.
- Nocturnal bed wetting.
- Frequent urination at night.
- Dark brown urine.
- Urine, 
sour 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 
cough with sweat on face.
- Lachrymation, worse taking deep breath.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Gastralgia with burning pains radiating through abdomen.
- Sour or foul belchings.
- Frequent 
eructations, tasting of ingesta.
- Eructation of sour green water.
- Eructations while walking.
- Pressure in stomach.
- Constrictive pain in stomach.
- Recurrent stomach pain with vomiting of food immediately after eating, stom-
ach worse by cold.
- Burning in stomach, causing hunger, better from eating or hot drinks especially milk, lying 
down.
- Periodical gastralgia, with vomiting of food immediately after eating.
- Morning sickness during menses.
- Nausea like faintness, prevents sleep.
- Nausea with spasm in throat.
- Nausea during headache.
- Nausea with 
sour vomiting.
- Vomiting of sour of food.
- Vomiting and purging and icy cold sweat with headache.
- Cancer of 
pylorus.
- Temperature - Chill in the evening worse eat ing better open air and drinking water.
- Chill with coldness of 
whole body.
- Chill in morning in bed.
- Chill during menses.
- Wants covers in all stages of fever.
- Recur rent 
periodical fever.
- Fever with restlessness, unable to sleep, or remain in bed on accoun t of it.
- Flushes of heat.
- Dry 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.
- Flatulence.
- Very fetid gas preceded by colic.
- Pain of gas opposite the side on which he lies.
- Intestinal torpor.
- Pain as if intestines were torn.
- Nauseous feeling in abdomen.
- Cramp like pain in abdomen with deficient 
secretion of urine, at night.
- Inguinal region 
sensitive, swollen.
- Excessive hunger or no appetite, worse when hungry.
- A version to meat, fish.
- Aversion to cooked food, 
salt.
- Aversion to soup.
- Sweets nauseate.
- Better warm milk, worse cold drinks.
- Desires chicken, beer, sweets.
- Worse sweets.
- Worse boiled meat.
- Hot drinks disagree.

### Urinary & Genital
- Herpetic eruption on organs.
- Hydrocele.
- Sexual debility with increased desire.
- Priapism.
- Ejaculation too 
early or failing during sex.
- Cramps in calves duri ng sex.
- Averse to sex, lack of sexual enjoyment.
- Impotence 
from excessive indulgence or masturbation.
- Menses, too late.
- Menses scanty, pale, irregular, painful.
- Sighing during menses.
- Hoarseness, 
coryza, cough, morning sickness, sweats, swelling of fe et or headache during menses.
- Leucorrhea, pale, 
thin, profuse, white, excoriating in gushes  with weakness in back.
- Leu corrhea worse before and after 
menses.
- Leucorrhea in place of menses.
- Acrid, excoriating leucorrhea in gushes day or night, before and 
after menses.
- Swelling and hardness of ovary (left) worse after menses.
- Induration of ovaries, uterus and 
breasts.
- Pain in the uterus when reaching high with arms.
- Retro-version of uterus, heaviness in hypogastrium 
with cutting pain down thighs.
- Uterus feels  as if com ing out through vagina.
- Vagina, dry, hot or cold.
- Eczematous eruptions around the vulva.
- Great aversion to sex.

### Extremities
- Edema of legs.
- Paralyzed feeling in the limbs.
- Cannot stretch enough.
- Burnings, cramps, jerking.
- Arms and legs go to sleep.
- Excoriation of thighs while walking.
- Bunions worse fire heat, better pressure.
- Burning in soles and heels.
- Feet cold, wet.
- Acrid, foot sweat, chafes the toes.
- Stiffness and contraction of toes.
- Foul excoriating sweat, worse evening.
- Burning pressure beneath the armpit.
- Hands or feet either hot or cold.
- Pain in thumb joint as if sprained.
- Nails, brittle and crumbling.
- Nails deformed, 
Graphites naturalis painful, sore, thick and crippled.
- Nails, thick, rough ingrown.
- Horny callosities on hands 
with 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 
looking up and stooping the head.
- Sacral pains with crawling.
- Painless swollen glands on side of neck.
- Numbness of sacrum, down the legs.
- Pain in the lumbar region as if vertebrae were broken.
- Breasts - Induration of breasts and ovaries.
- Breasts swollen and hard.
- Cracks in nipples.
- Breast cancer from 
old scars, remaining after mammary abscess.
- Nipples, sore, cracked and blistered.
- Causations - Ill effects of grief, fear, over lifting, surgery.

### Skin
- affection.
- Getting feet wet causes delaye d menses.
- Hysterical melancholia with occipital headache.
- Profuse, gushing leucorrhea, excoriating.
- Cracks along the labia.
- Moist itching excoriation around anus and fissures.
- Very low sex drive (Sep.).
- Uncontrollable sexual excitement with violent erections.
- Priapism.
- Impotence.
- Clean tongue.
- Fishy taste in the morning, disappearing later in the day.
- Milk agrees, especially when hot.
- Roasted, but not boiled meat or potatoes.
- Diarrhea, thin offensive, partly digested stools.
- Constipation, stools 
coming in lumps coated with mucus and with mucus shreds.
- Anal fissures, can pass blood and painful stools.
- Weak, exhaustion of whole body.
- Spasms, contractions of muscles, twitching of eye lids.
- Cataleptic condition.
- Sensitiveness of internal parts, numbness in various parts, drawing pain in whole body.
- Bathing after measles 
causes paralysis of face.
- Attacks occur during summer and autumn.
- Suffering parts emaciated.
- General obesity with a thick, white, pro fuse irritating discharge.
- Suffocative spells which arouse the  patient 
from sleep, he must jump out of bed, worse after midnight (Lach., worse after sleep).
- General condition is not sensitive (op posite of Hep.).
- Abnormally acute senses, cannot tolerate the smell of 
flowers.
- Music causes weeping.
- Sadness.
- Ears feel stuffed during the full moon.
- Hardness of hearing is better 
when riding in a carriage.
- Easy to over-lift.
- Teste classed Graph, in the Puls, group with Sil., Calc., Hep.
- and Phos.
- It affects the nutrition in a peculiar 
way, it is a remedy for those persons w ho have a tendency to put on unhealthy fat or for those who begin to 
emaciate.
- Graph, is an anti-psoric.
- Typically “fat, chilly and costive.
- ” Especially active in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexion with 
a tendency to skin disorders and constipation, with a delayed menstrual history.
- Hufeland related the cure of a lady, 41, by the internal and external use of Graph, of an acne rosacea which 
had defied all other modes of treatment.
- Kent and Grimmer noted cases of late stage breast cancer that they treated with high potencies.
- Graph, caused 
the tumors, and in one case the entire breast, to slough off and heal.
- Nash recorded a case of a child who was relieved of an eczema capitis under old- school treatment, whereupon 
 
 
entero-colitis set in and became so alarming that it was pronounced “tuberculosis of the bowels.”  
Nash found the child greatly emaciated with little or no appetite, very restless, pass ing “stools of brown fluid 
mixed with undigested substances and of an intolerably fetid odor.” Graph.
- 6,000c cured promptly.
- Goullon cured two notable cases of cramps in the stomach with “improvement of the cramps by eating.”  
Clarke cured two very severe cases of nosebleed in elderly people.
- In one case, there had been flushing of 
head and neck for ma ny months previous to the attack, and flushing preceded and accompanied each 
occurrence of the bleeding.
- In the other case, the patient said the precursory flush seemed to come up from his toes.
- He had his nostrils 
plugged without avail.
- Graph, in a high potency, cured promptly in both instances.
- When giving Graph, internally in cases of anal eruption, the external use of an ointment made with a drachm 
of the 3x trituration to an ounce of Cetacean ointment is of great service.
- Hirsh 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 
sleep.
- Nightly pains felt in sleep.
- Amazingly weary and sleepy.
- Does not feel fresh in the morning.
- Amorous 
dreams with emissions.
- Horrible 
Graphites 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 
large as an egg were behind ear.
- As o f a cobweb over the face.
- As of a lump in stomach with beating as of 
two hammers.
- As if intestines were torn, croaking as of a frog in abdomen.
- As if everything would be torn to 
pieces during menstruation.