GRAPHITES

SKIN INDICATIONS:

• Atopic eczema.

• Various dermatitis with characteristic honey wetting: intertrigo, impetigo.

• Hyperkeratosis (skin is hard as the horn, cracked, rough (especially the palm), scaly).

• Cracks in the nipples, at the interface of the skin and mucous membranes.

• Keloid scars.

• Warts around the nails.

• Brittle, roughened, deformed nails; dry, hard and brittle hair.

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM:

• Hypostenic dyspepsia with bloating, burning and spasmodic stomach pain improving with food.

• Chronic enterocolitis with extreme inflation, how much it is prevented by expelling odorous gases; sometimes dark-colored diarrhea, very smelly stool.

• Constipation without the urge to stool, bulky dry stool, the individual parts are connected by mucus, mucus is excreted in the stool.

• Hemorrhoids and anal fissures, itching, burning, hemorrhoids slightly bleeding.

• Scarring retracted stomach ulcers.

SEXUALLY DEVICE:

For men:

• libido disorders, premature or no ejaculation, no orgasm.

In menopausal women:

• vasomotor flushes in pale women prone to obesity.

• Delayed short, inexpensive menstruation with light blood, preceded by breast enlargement and vulvar itching.

• Hoarseness during menstruation.

• White irritating liquid leukorea.

OTHER INDICATIONS:

• Thyroid hypofunction.

• Chronic blepharitis, recurrent hordeolum, palpebral margin cysts, chalazion.

• Varicose veins and varicose ulcers.

CHARACTERISTICS - GENERAL FEELINGS: Feeling cold all over the body and chilling; feeling cold (headache, knees, feet); sometimes a burning sensation: at night, cold feet start to burn before; feeling hot in the head with vasomotor surges; a cobweb feeling on the face; odor hyperesthesia; feeling of heavy limbs in peace; burning or stinging in the varicose veins; feeling of tendon shortening; calf cramps (usually Cuprum metallicum); burning and itching in skin diseases exacerbated by heat, especially the heat of the bed.

DIGESTIVE FEELINGS: burning, gnawing spasmodic pain in the stomach ameliorating with food, drink, and hot meals in general, but which do not entice the patient in any way; feeling of the belt being too tight (inflating); feeling full and heavy abdomen; anal burning itchy and stabbing pain (hemorrhoids).

MODALITIES: Cold deterioration (but desire for fresh air); warm bed; during menstruation. Fresh air movement improvement; with food (stomach pain).

ACCOMPANYING FEATURES: Characteristic skin disorders; characteristic constipation; beer taste (Kalium bichromicum is an adjunct); bulimia or, conversely, an aversion to sweets, meat, cooked and hot food.