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Paraffinum

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Paraffinum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
🧠 General & Mental Health
▲ GENERAL
  • Paraffin as a generic term includes all those substances which have no affinity for sulphuric acid and cannot be destroyed by it, including petroleum🌿 PetroleumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
  • Specifically, Paraffin is a tasteless, inodorous, fatty matter, which resists the action of acids and alkalis, obtained by the dry distillation of wood🌿 WoodMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., peat, bituminous coal, petroleum, etc.
  • In the distillation of pet roleum, naphthalin is the first substance that comes off, paraffin the next.
  • The homeopaths of Rome found it serviceable in uterine and other troubles, particularly constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass..
  • Pains in the groins, stabbing in mons veneries, cutting pain from one iliac c rest to the other.
  • LeucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., pruritusSevere itching of the skinAn uncomfortable, irritating sensation of the skin that creates an urge to scratch. vulvae and other disturbances of the female generative system with pains.
  • Uterine disorders.
  • Knife-like pains extend from one part to another and alternate.
  • Pain in stom ach alternates with pain in throat and spine.
  • Aversion to tobacco, smoking causes pain in stomach pain with palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
  • Constipation.
  • COMMENTS-Knife-like stabs, twisting, wrenching pains, stinging and twisting, electric pains extend from one part to another and alternate.
  • Pain in the stomach alternates with pains in throat and spine.
  • Clarke recorded the case of Mrs. W., 37, mother of three children, who suffered since her last confinement, five years before, with bearing-down pains, excessive menses, and leucorrhea.
  • Constant and violent indigestion with morning retching or vomiting.
  • Pain in back, shoulders and abdomen after, any food, however light.
  • The pains, which “double her up” were worse on standing.
  • Much thirst.
  • Constipation with hemorrhoids🩺 HemorrhoidsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • Constant desire to pass water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
  • After Murx., and Alstonia constricta🌿 Alstonia ConstrictaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. had given some relief, the indigestion returned in full force.
  • A few globulesSmall medicated sugar pillsTiny spherical pills made of sucrose/lactose, used as a carrier for liquid homeopathic dilutions. of Paraf.
  • 30c were dissolved in water and a teaspoonful taken every two or three hours.
  • In a few days, all symptoms of indiges tion were gone and did not return.
  • Other symptoms were ameliorated.
  • The menses, instead of recurring too soon, were delayed much beyond the normal time.
  • Paraf also has a remarkable action in joints with nodules.
  • Cooper saw swollen joints lessen considerably from its use as a liniment.
  • Temperature-Chill, heat, and sweat, frequently alternati ng.
  • Chill, followed by dry heat with thirst, which is soon followed by sweat.
  • Face and hands hot and red, hot sweat on upper part of body, especially forehead.
  • Pain in lower abdomen, extending to genitals, rectum and coccyx, better sitting
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Better after sleep, rest.
  • Better by supporting the part.
  • The pains are worse bending over.
  • Worse standing or walking (soon bring back the symptoms)
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison
  • 1 Napht., Petr., Eupi
  • 2 Desire to walk fast, Buff., lod
  • 3 Uterine symptoms, Sep., Murx., Nat-m„ Nat-s
  • 4 Intolerance of tight clothing, Lach
▲ SLEEP
  • Continued yawning, although the joints of the jaw are painful.
  • Frequent gaping with great somnolence.
  • Cannot keep awake and goes to sleep in her chair, her feet go to sleep.
  • Sensual, lascivious dreams
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👁️ Head & Sensory Organs
▲ HEAD
  • Left side of head and face suffer most, pains stinging and twisting.
  • Pain as if a nail were driven in left side of vertex.
  • Twisting in left ear.
▲ EYES
▲ EARS
  • Roaring in right ear like rumbling of a mill wheel, afternoon.
  • Gurgling in left ear like beating of pulse.
  • Ringing in both ear, morning.
  • Stinging and twisting in left ear
🫁 Respiratory & Throat
▲ MOUTH
▲ THROAT
  • Dryness of throat, fauces as if dried up, but without thirst.
  • Sense of suffocation in p harynx
▲ CHEST
  • Chest pains as if compressed.
  • Stinging in chest.
  • Diaphragm, as if it was inflamed.
  • Pulse weak, thready, increased in frequency.
  • Breasts-The nipple is painful on touching them, as if sore inside
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🥗 Digestive & Genitourinary
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Hungry all the time.
  • Pain across stomach.
  • Pain in stomach alternates with pain in throat and spine, extends to chest with belching.
  • Fixed pain in left hypochondrium, as if parts were being twisted.
  • Stomach pains with palpitations.
  • Teeth-Tearing in teeth.
  • Stabbing pain in .
  • One of the left lower molars.
  • Twisting in teeth with stinging in ear.
  • Twisting pain in left lower teeth and left temple, sleep impossible
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Menses too late, black, abundant.
  • Milky leucorrhea.
  • Nipples pain wh en touched, as if sore inside.
  • Stabbing pain in mons veneris.
  • Very hot urine with burning pains in vulva
🦴 Musculoskeletal & Skin
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Pain in spine extending to inguinal region and in both loins, when ascending the stairs.
  • Feeling of electric shocks in all joints.
  • Wrenching pain in calves, extending into toes in joints.
  • Feet swollen with tearing in ankles and soles
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Pains in spine, extending into lumbar vertebra.
  • Pai ns in spine as if it had been injured, as bad during rest as when in motion.
  • Back pains are worse by bending.
  • Drawing and stinging between the shoulders.
  • Pains as if from fatigue in both loins
▲ SKIN
  • Frost bite.
  • Burns, even of third degree with sloughing and sepsis <span style="color:#0d9488; font-weight:600; margin:0 6px;">➔</span> Wash with ster ile water and dry and spray with paraffin and cover with thin layer of cotton

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🏷️ Category 🩺 Homeopathic
🧬 Miasm Psoric Miasm
🌡️ Temperament Neutral
🕒 Aggravation 🌙 Night

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
🩺 Medical Verification & Disclaimer:

This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.

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