- Source: Derived from beechwood creosote, a distillate of wood🌿 WoodMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. tar obtained from Fagus sylvatica.
- (European beech🌿 BeechMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.), prepared for homeopathic use through serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. and succussionVigorous shaking of homeopathic dilutionThe process of vigorously shaking a liquid homeopathic solution against a firm surface during dilution to potentize it. to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for mucous membrane, dental,.
- Gynecological, urinary, dermatological, and systemic disorders, particularly those involving acrid, corrosive discharges, bleeding tendencies, and putrid odors.
- It is noted for symptoms such as burning vaginal discharge, tooth decay, hematuriaPresence of blood in the urineA condition where red blood cells are present in the urine, making it look pink, red, or smoky., and cachexiaWasting of body tissues due to chronic illnessWeakness and wasting of the body due to severe chronic illness, such as tuberculosis or cancer., often aggravated by cold, rest, or menses, and ameliorated by warmth, motion, or warm applications.
- Modern Context: Indicated for mucous membrane conditions (e.g., vaginitis🩺 VaginitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., stomatitisInflammation of the mouth liningInflammation of the mucous membranes inside the mouth, causing painful sores, redness, or swelling.), dental conditions (e.g., caries, gingivitisInflammation of the gumsA common and mild form of gum disease that causes irritation, redness, and swelling of the gums around the base of teeth.), gynecological conditions (e.g., leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., menorrhagia🩺 MenorrhagiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.),.
- Urinary conditions (e.g., cystitisInflammation of the urinary bladderInflammation of the urinary bladder, typically caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection, causing painful urination., hematuria), dermatological conditions (e.g., eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches.,.
- Ulcerations), and systemic conditions (e.g., chronic fatigue, malignancy-related cachexia).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by acrid discharges , bleeding, burning pains, dental decay, or weakness, typically exacerbated by cold, rest, or menses, and often seen in individuals with chronic inflammatory or degenerative conditions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets., debilitated constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like corrosive leucorrhea or bleeding gums alongside systemic symptoms like exhaustion or weight loss, commonly observed in patients with bacterial vaginosis, periodontal disease, or malignancy-.
- Associated cachexia triggered by infection, hormonal changes, or systemic decline.
- COMMENTS-A remedy for decomposition of tissue or rotting away of flesh (Pyrog., Carb-an.).
- Discharges are brownish, yellow🌿 YellowMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., and very offensive, a carrion-like odor, cadaver-like odor, putrid, like rotten flesh.
- Tendencies toward bacterial infections.
- Tendency to hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
- Stomach and uterine cancers, gangreneDeath of body tissue from lack of blood flowLocalized death and decomposition of body tissue, resulting from either obstructed circulation or bacterial infection., and injuries where the tissue decomposes and smells putrid.
- Breath or discharges that smell of rotting flesh.
- Cadaverous-smelling stools.
- Emaciation with deco mposition.
- History of use in typhoid.
- Intermittent fevers, marked periodicity.
- According to Grauvogl, Kreos has a short period of action, one or two days.
- He noted the incompatibility in intermittents.
- Chin., which has a period of two to three weeks, may be given after Kreos., but not Kreos after Chin. Marked burning and stitching pains.
- LupusAutoimmune inflammatory diseaseA chronic autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs. of nose with burning pains.
- Chronic pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. with pain like red-hot coals in the chest.
- Pain and stiffness across hips and sacrum, at 7 a.m sitting up in bed, continuing through the day.
- Knees give way and joints crack, particularly in the overweight.
- Guernsey noted that Kreos particularly affects the inner temples, external ears and lobe of the ear.
- Chronic headache accompanied with great drowsiness, with moaning in their sleep.
- Intense itching.
- General sensitiveness to touch and contact.
- Large purulent blisters on concha of both ears with a red base like smallpox pustules.
- Small warts on the scalp after a headache.
- W. P. Wesselheft noted the indication of coarse, red, elevated acne pimples.
- Clarke used it for toothache cases where the teeth are decayed, especially if the gums are scorbutic.
- Foul breath.
- Useful for infections, abscesses and a bad taste after a pulled tooth.
- Teeth decay, fall out, with swollen gums that bleed easily (Staph., Merc.).
- Gums are dark red or blue🌿 BlueMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and very painful.
- Pyorrhea.
- Nash noted the specific action on children, <K$e& \31ty dwimg dmitm.
- PawÁAl dentition.
- Useful for teeth that come in rotten and brown, then break.
- Teste observed that it acted well on infants in the cradle, particularly for congenital syphilis🩺 SyphilisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Teste emphasized a discharge of fetid pus from the nostrils.
- Hoarseness is better by sneezing.
- Cough compels sitting up all night, causes involuntary urination.
- Eye symptoms alternate with drawing in the limbs.
- Incessant vomiting, due to stomach weak ness, inability to digest and rejection of a meal hours after it was eaten.
- Vomiting sweetish water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. during pregnancy, with pty-alism.
- Incessant vomiting with cadaverous stools in malignant disease of the stomach.
- Cholera🩺 CholeraClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. infantum.
- Nocturnal bedwetting from too profound sleep, child cannot be awakened when taken up.
- Bedwetting when the urine smells foul, offensive (Benz-ac.).
- Prostate and bladder irritation during night.
- Frequently rises to pass very little urine comes in a spray.
- Sudden, great urging, the patient cannot go quickly enough.
- Copious, pale urine.
- Complaints after menstruation or menopauseEnd of menstrual cycles in womenThe natural biological transition in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop, typically occurring between ages 45 and 55..
- Foul smelling vaginitis where the chief complaint is the odor and not itching or burning.
- Guernsey notes the putrid leucorrhea, especially when it's fetid and exhausting.
- Discharge stains the clothing yellow or brown.
- Leucorrhea is better sitting, worse standing and walking.
- Foul and offensive lochia after childbirth.
- Sufferings from the non-appearance of menses, at menopause.
- General symptoms are worse after menstruation, during leucor-rhea, when yawning.
- Grauvogl cured with Kreos.
- 3x a young woman, 20, of suppression of menses with a concomitant state of imbecility.
- In another woman who had suppressed menses with tertian intermittent fever, the intermittent was cured with Chin-s one grain four times a day and then Grauvogl, hearing for the first time of the suppression of the menses, gave Kreos.
- 3x with the result that the fever returned in full force.
- Quinine was again given and the fever again disappeared.
- Before the next period, as the patient was of the Nux-v type, that remedy was given and the period was reestablished.
- Gentry recorded a case of a woman, 45, on visiting a friend ill with dysenteryIntestinal infection with severe bloody diarrheaInfection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces., was struck by the odor, went home, commenced to vomit, and vomited all food or drink and continued without ceasing, vomiting or retching for three weeks, being fed by the rectum all the time.
- She was greatly emaciated and had to be held up by the nurse.
- One dose of Kreos.
- 200c was given.
- In twenty minutes the retching ceased.
- The patient fell asleep, had no more vomiting and rapidly recovered.
- Up to this time she had been under allopaths, who advised that homeopathy should be tried, as they could do no more.
- James H. Freer cured a woman, over 80, who suffered from incontinence of urine during bronchial attacks, which compelled her to keep to bed.
- Villers had reported a case of incontinence, worse when lying down, that was cured b y Kreos.
- This led Freer to the remedy, which rapidly cleared up the case, bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing. and all.
- Freer also cured incontinence in a case of locomotor ataxiaLoss of full control of bodily movementsA neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality. in a man, 74, with Kreos.
- 6c.
- An allopathic authority, Vladimir de Holstein of Paris🌿 ParisMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., accidentally cured aggravated constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. in a chlorotic girl with 6 drop doses of Kreos., given in beer or milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- He gave it with the idea of “disinfecting” the intestines.
- Meredith cured with it a young woman, 17, of intense urethral scalding after urination.
- Cooper cured with Kreos.
- 30c a case of auditory vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. in a patient with pegged teeth.
- No other medicine would touch the case.
- It is also frequently called for in acquired syphilis, especially in the skin manifestations.
- Kreos cured at the same time constipation of ten to twelve days' duration.
- Harmar Smith cured a girl, 10, of very frequent and violent eructationBelching or burpingThe act of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth., she was apparently healthy in other respects.
- Bell, and Puls, did no good.
- Arg-n., aggravated.
- Kreos.
- 2x at once did good and cured in a few days.
- Temperature-Predominance of cold, tendency to shiver.
- Thirst after shiverings.
- Transient chill without thirst.
- Chilly while at rest.
- Chill with great bodily restlessness.
- Always feels chilly at menstrual period.
- Coldness of face and hands.
- Feverish sensation over whole body, with good appetite.
- Flushes of heat with circumscribed redness of the cheeks.
- Burning pain in bowels.
- Pres sure in region of spleen.
- Griping pain about navel before menses.
- Inflation and tension of abdomen.
- Contractive pain in abdomen.
- Shooting pain in abdomen.
- Pain, as from ulceration in abdomen, when breathing and moving.
- Painful sensation of coldness in abdomen with too scanty emission of urine.
- Violent abdominal cramps, worse in groins.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., resembling labor pains.
- Obstinate flatus in old abdominal disease.
- Tabes mesenterica.
- Loss of appetite, everything tastes bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Aversion to meat.
- Craving for smoked meat.
- Disgust of food during convalescence.
- Better warm food, worse cold food, fasting
