Clinician's Quick Guide to Dermatological Complaints

Dermatitis:

• CHAM, HEP, MERC, PULS, RHUS-T, SIL, anac, apis,
  
• arn, ars, asaf, aur, bar-m, calc, dulc, gels, kali-s, nit-
  
• ac, plb, staph, sulph

Tendency to:

• CHAM, SIL, asaf, bar-c, bor, hep, merc, nit-ac,
• petr, puls, sulph
  
  

Therapeutics of Dermatitis

Hepar sulph :-

• Burning itching of body, with white vesicles after scratching.
• Chapped skin with deep cracks on hands and feet.
• Spreads by means of new eruption appearing just above the old one.
• Very sensitive to touch even cant bears the touch of cloths.

Mercuruis:-

• Moist, itch like eruption on hands with rhagades with tendency to suppurate.
• Vesicular or pastular eruption with yellowish brownish crust and offensive discharge.
• Modalities:-
  • <night
  • <Warmth of bed

Rhus tox :-

• Vesicular eruptions with tendency to scale formation.
• Vesicles are yellow, from left to right, with much swelling, inflammation, burning, itching and stinging.
• Modalities:-
  • < night
  • < Cold wet rainy weather
  • >dry weather
  • >warm application

Silicea:-

• Itching esp. during night, sensation as if ants were crawling over the skin.
• Itching humid spots on genitals, mostly on scrotum with sweating, driving to despair.
• Modalities:-
  • < night
  • >warmth covering

Herpes zoster:

• ARS, IRIS, MERC, MEZ, NAT-M, RAN-B, RHUS-T,
  
  
• canth, caust, cist, clem, graph, hep, kali-bi, kali-
  
  
• ch, lach, petr, sep, sil, sulph, thuja, vario
  
  

Chronic: nat-m, rhus-t

Neuralgic pains, persisting after herpes: mez, rhus-t

Therapeutics of Herpes zoster

Arsenicum alb:-

• Confluent herpetic eruption with intense burning of the blisters.
• Dry and parchment like skin.
• Marked prostration and lassitude.
• Modalities: -
  • <after midnight
  • <from cold of any kind
  • >from warmth

Iris vers:-

• Herpes following gastric derangement.
• Esp. on right side of body, fine eruption, showing black points after scratching with great itching.
• Modality:- < night

Mezereum:-

• Herpes zoster following intercostals or supraorbital nerves with sharp stitching, lightening like pains, sometimes boring, which leave the part numb.
• Vesicles from a brownish scab, blotches on forearm becoming hard after scratching.
• Neuralgic pain remains even after disappearance of herpes.
• Modalities:-
  • <in bed
  • < touch

Rananculus bulb :-

• Herpes zoster supraorbitalis and intercostalis with sharp stitching pain.
• Vessels filled with a thin, acrid fluid, burning, itching vesicles in clusters.
• Modalities:-
  • < touch
  • <motion
  • <change of temperature

Rhus tox:-

• Right sided affection, with incessant itching, burning, tingling, alternating with pains in chest and dysenteric stool.
• Herpes on hairy part, more annoying after perspiration.
• Modalities: - < in winter

Keloids: CARC, GRAPH, SIL, bad, calen, caust, fl-ac, iod, thiosin

Therapeutics of keloid

Graphites: -

• Rough, hard, persistent dryness of skin.
• Early stage of keloid.
• Burning and stinging pain.
• Modalities:-
  • < night
  • <warmth of bed
  • >open air

Thiosinaminum:-

A resolvent, externally and internally, for dissolving scar tissues.

Psoriasis: ARS, ARS-I, BOR, CARB-AC, CHRYSAR, GRAPH,KALI-ARS, KALI-BR, LYC,

MERC, PETRO, PHOS, SEP, SUL, THYR

Palms, on: GRAPH, HEP, LYC, calc-c, coral, med, petr, phos

Nails, of: SEP, graph

Tongue, of: SEP, graph, mur-ac

Therapeutics of Psoriasis

Arsenicum album:-

• Skin has white pasty look, with black eruption.
• Itching, burning, oedema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly scratching.
• Psoriasis with burning and restlessness.
• Icy coldness of body.

Arsenicum iod:-

• Psoriasis diffusa. Dry , scaly,itching.
• Marked exfoliation of skin in large scales, leaving a raw exuding surface beneath.
• Modality:- <washing

Graphites :-

• Psoriasis diffusa.
• Rough, hard, persistent dryness of skin.
• Eruptions moist, lids red and margins covered with scales and crusts
• Eruption esp. on palms- between the fingers and toes, upon the ears.
• Psoriasis of nails. Nails are brittle, crumbling and deformed, thick and crippled.

Kali sulph :-

• Psoriasis inveterata.
• Burning, itching, papular eruption.
• Seborric psoriasis with soreness of the skin.
• Modalities:-
  • < heated room
  • < evening
  • >cool open air

Lycopodium:-

• Psoriasis diffusa.
• Psoriasis with violent itching, fissured eruption.
• Skin becomes thick and indurated, dry, shrunken, esp. palms.
• Modality:- < warm

Petroleum: -

• Psoriasis inveterata.
• Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked, leathery.
• Psoriasis of hands esp. on tip of fingers. Thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching, redness, raw, cracks bleed easily.
• Modalities:-
  • < in winter
  • >In summer