Homeopathic Medicine :: GRAPHITES
1. – Eczema capitis of the whole scalp, forming massive, dirty cruets which mat the hair together, painful and sore to touch.
1. – Eczema capitis of the whole scalp, forming massive, dirty cruets which mat the hair together, painful and sore to touch.
Children who are exposed to cats soon after birth face an increased risk of developing eczema, an inflammatory condition that causes the skin to become red, scaly and itchy, says a study.
Indicated in convulsive and spasmodic affections (chorea, puerperal convulsions), with drawing back of the head and neck, even to opisthotonos (opisthognathous – retreating jaws). Particularly valuable in cerebro-spinal meningitis and in the sequels of concussion of the brain and spinal marrow.
Indicated in neuralgia, in affections resulting from suppressed gonorrhoea, inflammation and induration of glands (testicles); in some form of eczema; in rheumatic affections of persons subject to perpetic eruptions.
Indicated in fat, fair persons of indolent disposition, subject to moist eruptions. ?The graphites obesity is more particularly seen in older people, that of Calcarea in children? (T. F. Allen). In eczema of the scalp, ear, face, scrotum and elsewhere; in nasal catarrh; glandular swellings; herpes of prepuce, etc.
Indicated in certain affections of the skin and bones, and in neuralgia; seems best adapted to persons of light complexion, hesitating, irresolute.
Indicated chiefly in anaemic and chlorotic states and in chronic manifestations of malarial poisoning. In muscular affections of the eyes. Anaemic headaches of young girls at school.
Indicated in diseases of the skin, sea-sickness, and occipital headaches with nausea and vertigo.
Indicated in conditions due to imperfect assimilation of food and to innutrition. Frequently employed during the development of suppurative processes, over which it has a marked influence, both in preventing suppuration and in controlling excessive pus-formation and its consequences. It is an antipsoric of far-reaching power, and as such often proves of great efficacy in conditions which seem beyond its range of action, as epilepsy. Its chief sphere of usefulness is in suppurative processes, as abscesses, joint-disease, carbuncle; scrofulous affections of the bone, rachitis, Pott?s disease, necrosis, etc.; glandular affections; eczema and eruptions inclined to ulcerate; old, offensive catarrhs; all sorts of abscesses, as tonsilitis and hepatic abscesses; cough of phthisis, with very fetid expectoration; bronchorrhoea, especially of old people.
Common signs and symptoms of Wiskott Aldrich syndrome – WAS usually appear soon after birth or within the first year of life: