# Petroleum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from crude petroleum, a naturally occurring hydrocarbon mixture, prepared for. homeopathic  use  through  trituration  and  serial  dilution  to  enhance  therapeutic  action  while. eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for dermatological, gastrointestinal,. psychological, neurological, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving chronic skin. conditions, nausea, and disorientation. It is noted for symptoms such as dry, cracked skin, motion. sickness, irritability, and chilliness, often aggravated by cold, winter, or motion, and ameliorated by. warmth, rest, or eating. Modern  Context :  Indicated  for  dermatological  conditions  (e.g.,  eczema,  psoriasis),. gastrointestinal  conditions (e.g.,  motion  sickness,  dyspepsia),  psychological  conditions (e.g.,. generalized anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder), neurological conditions (e.g., vertigo, tension-. type  headache),  and  systemic  conditions (e.g.,  chronic  fatigue  syndrome,  seasonal  affective. disorder). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by  dry, cracked skin ,. nausea, disorientation, irritability, or chilliness, typically exacerbated by cold, winter, motion, or. stress, and often seen in individuals with sensitive, irritable constitutions. The remedy is particularly. relevant  for  those  with  dermatological  or  gastrointestinal  conditions,  often  presenting  with. symptoms like fissured skin or motion sickness, commonly observed in patients with eczema,. motion sickness, or generalized anxiety disorder triggered by cold, travel, or emotional stress.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Cold  (weather,  air,  drinks),  winter,  motion,  stress,  washing,  scratching,. fasting, noise, morning, damp weather, solitude, rich foods, dietary indiscretions.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Mental weakness and forgetfulness, with deep-seated disease.
- Very forgetful, disinclined to think.
- Loss 
of memory.
- Irresolution.
- Confusion while walking in open air.
- Presence of strangers aggravates.
- Anxiety in a crowd.
- Worries but does not know why.
- Anxiety and 
apprehension about his family.
- Anxiety with fear.
- Fear, long last ing.
- Anxiety increases unti l he becomes 
inconsolable.
- Feeling of helplessness.
- Low-spirited with dimness of sight.
- Sadness during menses, with weeping.
- Melancholy.
- Feels that death is near and must hurry to settle affairs.
- Irritable, easily offended, vexed at ev erything.
- Excited, irritable after sex with inclination to be angry and to 
scold.
- Cursing.
- Intolerant of contradiction.
- Anger with fright.
- Quarrelsome in morning.
- Sense of duality, thinks he is double of someone else lying alongside or one limb is double.
- Delusion there 
are two babies in the bed.
- Delusion that she has a third leg which would not remain quiet.
- Mental weakness and forgetfulness, with deep-seated disease.
- Very forgetful, disinclined to think.
- Loss 
of memory.
- Irresolution.
- Confusion while walking in open air.
- Presence of strangers aggravates.
- Anxiety in a crowd.
- Worries but does not know why.
- Anxiety and 
apprehension about his family.
- Anxiety with fear.
- Fear, long last ing.
- Anxiety increases unti l he becomes 
inconsolable.
- Feeling of helplessness.
- Low-spirited with dimness of sight.
- Sadness during menses, with weeping.
- Melancholy.
- Feels that death is near and must hurry to settle affairs.
- Irritable, easily offended, vexed at ev erything.
- Excited, irritable after sex with inclination to be angry and to 
scold.
- Cursing.
- Intolerant of contradiction.
- Anger with fright.
- Quarrelsome in morning.
- Sense of duality, thinks he is double of someone else lying alongside or one limb is double.
- Delusion there 
are two babies in the bed.
- Delusion that she has a third leg which would not remain quiet.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo on rising, felt in occiput.
- Vertigo, as if intoxicated or as if seasick.
- Vertigo like that produced 
by swinging motion.
- COMMENTS - Kent suggested Petr, for low conditions in which there is an inability to throw out er uptions on 
the skin or conditions in which an eruption has disappeared without improvement in health.
- Mucus membranes 
have catarrh.
- Ozaena, intestinal catarrh.
- Soreness and cracks about mucocutaneous orifices.
- Severe irritability of the skin.
- Affinity for the scalp, behind the ears, skin folds, scrotum, and genitals.
- Eczema (Sil., Graph.), especially of the hands and toes.
- Psoriasis (Nat -m., Graph.).
- Severely chapped skin.
- Chapped, rough hands.
- Induration with cracks.
- Deep cracks that bleed.
- Painful cracks of the heels of palms of the hands.
- Fissures that 
ooze clear or yellow fluid.
- Skin feels tight, like wrapped leather.
- Thickened skin, hard, splitting.
- Fingertips crack and bleed.
- Nails split and turn dark.
- Cracked nostrils.
- A slight wound or injury can s uppurate 
easily.
- History of suppressed eruptions with unhealthy looking skin that doesn't heal well.
- Marked burning sensations.
- Feet and palms burn (Sulph.).
- Severe itching, will scratch until the skin is raw and 
bleeding (Sulph.).
- Itching without eruption s.
- Feet feel frozen, tingling, numbness.
- Diabetic neuropathies 
(Agar.).
- Stinging and red.
- Very sensitive to clothing.
- Scalp eruptions, moist and sensitive to touch.
- Athletes foot (Thuj., Sil., Graph., Psor., Sanie.), with offensive 
foot sweats, deep cracks between the toes, burning and itching of the skin.
- Offensive, smelly feet (Sil.).
- Genital heipes (Nat -m., Rhus-t., Apis.).
- Vesicles with yellow fluid.
- Crusty appear ance.
- Vesicles with yellow 
thick crusts that become moist, ulcerating, rawness.
- Sores pop,  leaving a painful ulcer.
- Groin is itching and 
 
 
red.
- Groin eczema, fungal infections.
- Chilblains.
- Frostbite (Agar., Zinc.).
- Intermittent claudication, painful cramps and spasms, burning in hands and 
feet from poor circulation.
- Pain on touching something cold.
- Skin symptoms are worse in winter.
- This modality gave Nash the key to several cases of eczema, chapped 
hands, chilblains and one case of chronic diarrhea, as soon as he discovered that the patient had eczema of 
the hands in winter.
- Petr.
- 200c was given.
- A man, a patient of Clarke's who suf fered from inveterate eczema and who had formerly been employed in a 
factory where much petroleum was used, noticed that his eczema was much better while working with 
petroleum.
- He told Clarke that the vapor had the  singular effect of making some of the workmen insane, causing desire 
to kill, hallucinations, they will see things not actually visible, for instance, “they will see the rails in a station 
when a train is on them.” 
“Falling out of the hair.” Cooper clarified that Petr, “probably acts on the sebaceous rather than the sudoriferous 
secretions of the skin and its local action is on parts where the sebum is abundant.”  
Vertigo and heaviness, often associated with nausea and bilious vomiting.
- Useful for motion s ickness or 
seasickness (Tab.,Cocc.).
- Carsickness, feels as if intoxicated.
- Faint and weak.
- Pale, cold, cold sweat, sinking 
nausea.
- Worse motion, better fresh air and cold water on face, closing eyes.
- Headache in the occiput region with sick ness.
- Heaviness like lead, pressure, sticking, pulsating, worse on 
shaking head or any jar.
- Pain travels from occiput to eyes and is associated with temporary loss of sight and 
fainting.
- Blocked Eustachian tubes and itching in the ears (Kali-m., Cham.).
- Dizziness, ringing in the ears.
- “Oppression of the chest, worse in cold air.” Cough coming from deep down in the chest and frequently waking 
the patient up at night, usually in children.
- Thick, purulent and yellowish green discharges.
- Kent remarked on the awful ravenous h unger.
- Empty feeling, gnawing hunger, must eat small amounts.
- Hunger immediately after a stool in diarrhea, nervous affections, spinal disease, etc.
- Irritability of the mind.
- Excitable, angry at trifles.
- Characteristic illusion that there is another perso n or another 
baby in bed has led to cures in cases of typhoid and puerperal fever with Petr.

### Head
- Headache, worse shaking, while coughing, must hold temples for relief.
- Occiput, aching, heavy (Op.).
- Head feels numb as if made of wood.
- Scalp, sore to touch, followed by numbness.
- Sensitive scalp, as if a 
cold breeze blowing on it.
- Moist eruption on scalp, worse back and ears.
- Falling of the hair.
- Headache, worse shaking, while coughing, must hold temples for relief.
- Occiput, aching, heavy (Op.).
- Head feels numb as if made of wood.
- Scalp, sore to touch, followed by numbness.
- Sensitive scalp, as if a 
cold breeze blowing on it.
- Moist eruption on scalp, worse back and ears.
- Falling of the hair.

### Eyes
- Inflamed tarsi.
- Fistula lachrymalis (of recent origin).
- Blenorrhea of lachrymal sac.
- Marginal blepharitis.
- Canthi fissured.
- Skin around eyes dry and scurfy.
- Loss of eyelashes.
- Dim sight, far -sighted, cannot read fine 
print without glasses.

### Ears
- Ears sore to touch.
- Dryness in ears.
- Eczema in and behind ears with intense itching.
- Moist spots behind 
the ears.
- Fis sures in meatus.
- Discharge of pus and blood from the ears.
- Itching deep in ears in Eustachi an 
tubes.
- Chronic Eustachian catarrh.
- Dry catarrh with deafness and noises.
- Ringing and cracking in ears.
- Diminished hearing.
- Deafness with noises in ears in the elderly.
- Noise from several people talking is 
unbearable.

### Face
- Dry, as if covered with albumin.
- Pale or yellow, hot after eating.
- Easy dislocation of jaw.

### Mouth
- Dry.
- Offensive smell like garlic.
- Ulcers on the inner cheek, painful when closing the teeth.
- Soreness, 
while chewing.
- Tongue, white in center, dark streak along edges.
- Nose - Dry.
- Tip of nose itches.
- Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn.
- Ozaena with scabs and muco -purulent 
discharge.
- Nosebleed.

### Throat
- Dry.
- Hoarseness (Carb-v, Caust., Phos.).
- Foul mucus in throat, hawks out in the morning.
- Croup and 
laryngeal diphtheria.

### Chest
- Oppression of chest, worse cold air.
- Constitutions - Suited to persons with light hair and skin.
- For lean, slender persons.
- Cold feeling about heart (Carb-an., Nat-m.).
- Fainting with ebullitions, heat and palpitations.
- Kidneys - Cystitis, urethritis.
- Stricture from chronic urethritis.
- Acute sudden urging, if not attended to 
immediately, will cause severe pain.
- Involuntary urine on rising.
- Bedwetting at night.
- Dribbling of urine after urination.
- Dry cough at night, coming deep from chest, waking the pat ient (in young girls and boys).
- Cough at 
night or worse at night.
- Shatters the head, better pressing.
- Cough produces headache.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Feeling of emptiness.
- Stomach pain when stomach is empty, relieved by constant eating (Anae., 
Sep.).
- Ravenous hunger.
- Must rise at night and eat (Psor.).
- Smells of garlic.
- Distention.
- Heartburn, hot, sharp, 
sour eructation.
- Pungent, acrid belchings.
- Nausea with accumulation of water in mouth.
- Vomits bitter green 
substance.
- Seasickness and motion sickness.
- Nausea during pregnancy, must stoop.
- Temperature - Chilly with dry mouth.
- Chilliness, followed by sweat.
- Flushes of heat, particularly of the face 
and head, wo rse at night.
- Flushes of heat all over in frequent attacks during day.
- Palms and soles hot.
- Perspiration, foul on feet and axilla.
- Sweat in spots.
- Inflated abdomen.
- Sensation of coldness inside.
- Pinching colic, bet ter bending double.
- Navel 
ulcerated in infants.
- Hunger, causing nausea, wakes at night.
- Hunger immediately after stool.
- Desire for dainties, aversion 
to meat, fats, cooked or hot foods.
- Worse eating cabbage.
- Thirst for beer.

### Urinary & Genital
- Sweaty genitals.
- Herpetic eruption on perineum.
- Itching in urethra.
- Prostate inflamed and swollen.
- Dry, obstinate eruptions.
- Genitals sore and moist.
- Aversion to sex.
- Before menses, throbbing in head 
(Kreos.).
- Men strual flow causes itching.
- Leucorrhea, profuse, albuminous (Alum., Calc -p.), with lascivious 
dreams.
- Prolapsed uterus from constant diarrhea.

### Extremities
- Limbs go to sleep.
- Chronic sprains.
- Cracking in joints.
- Joints stiff, particularly knees.
- Scalding 
sensation in knee.
- Stitch es, blisters, cracks in heels.
- Fingertips rough, cracked, fissured every winter.
- Ragged, chapped hands and fingers, bleeding in housemaids.
- Psoriasis of the palms.
- Offensive sweat in axilla.

### Neck & Back
- Neck, stiff and painful, cracks when moved.
- Weakness in small of back.
- Pain in spine and all over the 
body with sciatica.
- Coccyx painful on sitting.
- Pain in sacrum, worse standing erect.
- Sharp pains shooting up 
dorsal spine into occiput, in confinement.
- Breasts - Itching and mealy coating of nipple.
- Causations - Ailments from riding in cars, carriages or ships (Nit -ac has deafness).
- Vexation.
- Ill effects of 
sprains or suppressed eruptions.
- Cabbage.

### Skin
- Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of prostration or lethargy, resembling.
- chronic fatigue syndrome, worse with cold, winter, exertion, or morning, often with.
- cold extremities.
- Cold sensitivity or chilliness, with a tendency to shivering or pallor, resembling.
- hypothermia-like states, aggravated by cold, damp weather, or winter.
- General debility or weight fluctuations, with a sensation of sluggishness, resembling.
- metabolic syndrome, worse with cold or poor diet.
- Tendency to systemic hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cold or fatigued states.

### Sleep
- Restless with frightful dreams.

### Generalities
- Brain as if wrapped in a fog.
- As if everything in head were alive.
- As if head made of wood or as 
if bruised.
- As if a cold breeze were blowing on head.
- As if head would burst.
- Veil before eyes, sand in eyes.
- Jaw as if distended.
- As if some thing were tearing off from pit of stomach.
- As if a cold stone at heart.
- Upper 
and lower limbs as if stiff without joints.
- Splinter in heel.