Kreosotum 200 Uses, Benefits – Kreosotum Homeopathic Materia Medica

• Excoriating, burning and offensive discharges
• Rapid decay of teeth and bleeding gums
• Cholera infantum with dentional troubles
• Corrosive itching of vulva, leucorrhoea offensive like that of green corn

Source: It is a product of destructive distillation of wood tar
Synonyms: Kreosote, Wood tar
Prover: Dr Syrbius of Germany and Dr Wahle of Italy
Duration of Action: 15 to 20 days
Miasmatic Background: Psora and syphilis
Temperament: Irritable
Diathesis: Scrofulous and haemorrhagic
Thermal Relationship: Chilly patient

Introduction and History: It is a very important medicine of materia medica. It is one of the Nash’s Trio of Offensive remedies, the other two being Mercurius and Baptisia. It is mainly a left sided remedy. The odour of Kreosotum is very putrid. It is also corrosive in nature because it is a member of the tar family.

Description: It is available from Europe and America where beachwood is indigenous. It is a product of distillation of wood tar and is a mixture of phenols. It is a colourless or faintly yellow, strongly refracting liquid. Its odour is disagreeable, smoky and penetrating; its taste is burning and caustic.

Preparation: Mother tincture is prepared from the solution of Kreosotum in rectified spirit.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is best suited to infants in the cradle. ‘Overgrown, poorly developed children.’ Very tall for their age, who are old looking and wrinkled. Also suited to ladies having a dark complexion.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): Mucous membranes, gums, teeth, digestive tract, female genital organs, blood, lymphatic system, skin, etc.

Active Principles (Chemical Constituents): It is a mixture of phenols, chiefly guaiacol, cresol, methyl cresol and phenol.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. Acts upon mucous membranes, especially that of the digestive system producing vomiting and diarrhoea.
2. Acts upon female generative organs producing catarrhal conditions.
3. Acts upon the skin, producing a catarrhal condition, eruptions and itching.
4. It has a tendency to disorganisation, ulceration and destruction of the parts involved.
5. It produces pulsations all over the body, and profuse bleeding from small wounds. Also excoriating, burning and offensive discharges. Haemorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections.
6. Also acts upon the lymphatic system.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Child is cross, wilful and obstinate.
2. Music and other emotional causes compel him to weep.
3. Child wants everything, but nothing satisfies him when offered and throws it away.
4. Child screams at night. Thinks herself well.
5. Stupid feeling in the head, with a vacant gaze; neither seeing nor hearing.
6. ill-humour, moroseness, peevishness, ill-temper.
7. Weakness of memory, forgetfulness.
8. Frequent vanishing of thoughts.
9. Sorrowful mood, inclined to weep or longing for death.
10. Vertigo in the mornings, in the open air.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Putridity: All discharges and secretions are putrid and offensive. Bad odour from decayed teeth.

Haemorrhage: It is a great haemorrhagic remedy. Small wounds bleed freely. Bleeding is profuse, oozing of dark blood after extraction of teeth.

Corrosive: Discharges from mucous membranes and from the body are very acrid, corrosive and foetid.

Vomiting: Vomiting during pregnancy of sweetish water, of cholera, during painful dentition, with very bad smell.

Ear: Roaring and humming in ears, with deafness, before and during menses.

Leucorrhoea: Leucorrhoea very corrosive, offensive and acrid; worse between periods; has the odour of green corn.

Itching: Violent Itching in the evening. Violent corrosive itching of pudenda and vagina.

Menses: Too early, profuse, offensive, putrid and acrid; pain during menses, dysmenorrhoea. Flow on lying down, stops on sitting or walking. Flow intermits, at times almost stops then starts again.

Dentition: Painful dentition, teeth begin to decay as soon as they appear. Gums are bluish-red, soft, spongy, bleeding, inflamed.

Diametrically opposite conditions: Ravenous hunger or entire loss of appetite. No pain during coition; or burning pain during coition.

Malignancy: Vomiting in malignant affections of the stomach. After every cough, copious purulent expectoration. Gangrene of lungs. Cancerous and other malignant ulcerations of cervix uteri.

Rapidity: This is a very important symptom which runs through the whole remedy. Rapid decay of teeth; rapid emaciation.

Numbness: Numbness and loss of sensation, pulsations all over the body.

Yawning: Complaints accompanying yawning. Great inclination to sleep with frequent yawning.

Paretic conditions: Child wets the bed during first sleep. Wets the bed at night while dreaming that he is urinating properly. Prolapse of vagina and uterus.

Restlessness: Children very restless, toss about all night; will only sleep when caressed and fondled.

Cholera: In cholera infantum there is profuse offensive vomiting, stool smells like a cadaver.

Chilly: Patient is highly chilly. All symptoms are aggravated from cold and ameliorated by warmth.

Pulsations: Pulsations all over the body till the ends of the fingers. Worse by excitement or by emotion.

Weak circulation: Weak circulation with venous engorgement; crusts are formed which ulcerate and bleed.

Important Characteristic Features

Menses and leucorrhoea: It is a very good medicine for menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea. The menstruation of Kreosotum is usually copious. It is accompanied with humming and roaring in the head, and preceded by abdominal bloating. The flow may be intermittent and accompanied with a dragging down feeling in the back. It differs from Sepia, in that the flow is early and profuse, while that of Sepia is late and scanty. Menses are apt to be followed by dark brown, offensive leucorrhoea. The leucorrhoea of Kreosotum is very characteristic. The discharge is very acrid, very offensive and it excoriates the parts which it touches; it is yellow, the patient is weak and there is violent itching of the vagina with smarting and burning between the thighs.

Baby and dentition: Dentition in children is very painful. Teeth begin to decay as soon as they appear with bluish, spongy gums. Baby is chilly, easily affected by cold. Child looks older than it really is. Psoric and scrofulous baby with rapid emaciation. Baby is mentally irritable, wants this and that but is never satisfied.

Cholera infantum: It is a very good medicine for cholera infantum. Vomiting and diarrhoea are profuse, offensive and acrid, causing rawness and soreness of parts. Baby is very irritable. Nocturnal enuresis in baby. Difficult dentition. Baby is very emaciated, psoric and scrofulous. Child becomes very weak due to loss of fluids.

General Modalities

Aggravation: Eating cold things, open air, during menses, cold bath, cold weather, pregnancy, walking, dentition, touch.

Amelioration: Eating hot food, sitting, sneezing, warmth.

Remedy Relationships

Follows well: Ars, Bell, Calc, Kali-c, Lyc, Nit-ac, Nux-v.

Antidotes: Acon, Nux-v.

Inimical: Carb-v, Chel, Carb-ac.

Comparison

Leucorrhoea before menses: Sep.

Leucorrhoea before and after menses: Graph.

Leucorrhoea after menses: Kreos

Migraine during menses: Lac-d, Kreos, Sep.

Menses on lying down: Kreos, Mag-c.

Menses flow only when moving about: Caust, Lill-t.

Menses cease when walking: Am-m, Kreos, Mag-c.

Flow more during the day: Puls.

Difficult dentition, child irritable, restless, pale face and sour smell: Cham, Kreos, Rheum.

Toothache in carious tooth: Kreos, Mez.

Potency: 3x, 6x, 12x, 30, 200, 1000

Dosage: 30 to 200.

Repetition: Single dose is sufficient, no need of repetition.

Therapeutic Value: Abdominal and Stomach troubles, Cancer, Carbuncles, Cholera, Constipation, Cough, Dentition, Diarrhoea, Enuresis, Haemorrhage, Haemorrhoids, Hysteria, Leucorrhoea, Menstrual disorders, Neuralgia, Pregnancy troubles, Teeth caries, Toothache, Tuberculosis, Ulcers, Vomiting, whooping cough, etc.