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PREMATURE GRAYING OF HAIR | Cause, symptoms, Diet & HOMEOPATHY

Friday, April 6, 2012 · Posted in , ,


      Premature graying of hair is characterized by circumscribed or general lack or loss of normal pigment. It is also called as canities, blanching of hair, gray hair, poliosis and whiteness of the hair
 'Graying' of hair is due to the gradual loss of the melanocytes' pigment - melanin. In white hairs the melanocytes are absent. This is largely determined by heredity factors, hyperthyroidism and some autoimmune diseases.
Hair originates in the hair follicles. These follicles
are located in the dermis, the skin layer just below the surface layer and above the subcutaneous fat. Hair follicles are present everywhere on the surface of the body except the
lips, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. New hair is made in the hair matrix at the base of the hair follicle. Living cells in the hair matrix multiply and push upward. These cells rapidly dehydrate, die, and compact into a dense, hard mass that forms the hair shaft. The hair shaft, which is made up of dead protein, is covered by a delicate covering (cuticle) composed of platelike scales.

Hair is colored by the pigment melanin, which is also responsible for skin color. Human hair colors come from two types of melanin: eumelanin in black or brown hair and pheomelanin in auburn or blond hair.
Hair grows in cycles. Each cycle consists of a long growing phase followed by a brief transitional phase and then a short resting phase. At the end of the resting phase, the hair falls out and a new hair starts growing in the follicle, beginning the cycle again. Eyebrows and eyelashes have a growing phase of 1 to 6 months. Scalp hairs have a growing phase of 2 to 6 years. Normally, about 100 scalp hairs reach the end of the resting phase each day and fall out.
Hair growth is regulated by male hormones (androgens, such as testosterone and dihydrotestosterone), which are present in both men and women, although in different amounts. Testosterone stimulates hair growth in the pubic area and underarms. Dihydrotestosterone stimulates hair growth in the beard area and hair loss at the scalp.

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“Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground.  Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.”
                                   ~Shana Alexander                                  

        Hair is almost like a social status for both men and women, and also children. It is society’s expectation that you will have a head of hair! Hair states ones personality and adds additional beauty t is a statement about yourself, how you have your hair. Women who desire to be beautiful almost always start with their hair. There's nothing more stunning than long, shiny, healthy hair! Elegant and versatile, long hair gives women many options when it comes to styling and creating new looks. Even though the hair is a dead tissue, it suffers from numerous hazards mirroring hair problems. Everyone who desire to be beautiful and takes hair care should understand the basics of hair.
     Hair is composed of a protein substance called keratin. The average adult human being has about 10000 to 150,000 hairs on the scalp. The colour, type, and sizes varies from person to person and race to race.

Hair colour
Hair colour is the pigmentation of hair follicles due to two types of melanin:
1-     Eumelanin
2-     Pheomelanin
 Generally, if more melanin is present, the colour of the hair is darker; if less melanin is present, the hair is lighter. Levels of melanin can vary over time causing a person's hair colour to change, and it is possible to have hair follicles of more than one colour.

PREMATURE HAIR GRAYING
        It is an atrophic affection of hair, characterized by circumscribed or general lack or loss of normal pigment.
Premature hair graying refers to the graying of the hair in young or before age of 35 yrs
Grey hair caused by gradual reduction of melanin production over time in your hair follicle. Melanin is pigment that gives colour and smoothness to your hair. The degree of darkness of your hair depends on how much melanin each hair contains.
Eventually the hair begins to lose its colour and strength. When there is less melanin in the hair follicle.
What cause premature graying??
·         Nutrition deficiency  -  Vit B, Iron, Copper and Iodine.
·         Stress
·         Heredity
·         Medical conditions – Thyroid imbalance, Vitiligo, Vit B12 deficiency anaemia… etc
·         Excessive heating of hair
·         Unclean scalp
·         Thyroid deficiencies, Warrdenburg syndrome
·         Albinism
·         Pernicious Anaemia
·         Artificial factor-: Tobacco smoking.
·         Carelessness in maintaining of hair    
·         Use of certain hair oils and Shampoos

What are the symptoms?

Graying of hair before the age of 35 is generally referred as premature graying.
Lack of regular thick hair being allowed to grow is one of the common symptoms of premature hair graying
Hair becomes dry, brittle, and thinner
At same time, you may experience hair loss too
Grey hair when they first come in, darker hairs may hide the graying stands.
Eventually, gray hair will grow more rapidly than the normal hair and becomes more noticeable with time.
TREATMENT FOR PREMATURE GRAYING OF HAIR

Home remedies for treating grey hair:

·         Eat foods rich in iodine such as banana, carrots and fish.
·         Drink butter milk with 2 teaspoons each of yeast and wheat germ will prevent and cure premature graying of hair.
·         Grate some fresh ginger. Mix with honey and place it in a jar. Eat 1 tea spoon every day.
·         Rub oil made with Indian gooseberry (Amla) into the scalp regularly. It can show wonderful results, your gray hair will turn black.
·         Every morning take palak juice and eat 10 curry leaves which works excellently, even the existing grey hair turn black from the roots.
·         Eat foods rich in iron, minerals and vitamin A and B.
a) Vitamin A - vitamin A is necessary for promoting a healthy scalp and gives body and glow to your hair. Include dark green vegetables and orange & yellow fruits & vegetables in your diet.
b) Vitamin B - vitamin B regulates the secretion of oil, keeps hair healthy & moisturized. Eat more of fresh green leafy vegetables, tomatoes, cauliflower, cereals, liver kidney, yogurt, bananas and green vegetables.
c) Minerals - minerals like zinc, iron & copper promote healthy hair. Food sources: zinc - red meat, chicken & green vegetables; iron - beef, dried apricots, red meat, parsley, eggs, wheat & sunflower seeds; copper - seafood, egg yolk & whole grains.
d) Proteins - consuming more of protein gives your hair natural shine and good texture. Include more of sprouted whole grains, cereals, meat and soy in your diet.

Some facts about hair

v  The average daily loss of hair on the scalp is between fifty to hundred hairs. If the loss is over hundred daily, hair loss will exceed replacement, and eventually you become bald.
v  Hair growth is fastest from the age of sixteen to the late twenties. New hairs grow faster and the growth rate slows down with the increasing length
v  The average number of hairs on the scalp of an adult is 100,000. to 140,000.
v    The hair is affected by the state of the nervous system and by the condition of the circulatory system. As such it is very much interrelated to the functioning of the entire human organism: body, mind and emotions. When you ponder on the opulence of the nerve and blood supply to the head, you will have no difficulty appreciating that whatever adversely affects them, will in the long term, be to the detriment of the hair.

Homeopathy in treating premature hair graying

        Homeopathic treatment for those who suffer from the premature hair graying can be a big boon.
        Homeopathy is a holistic system of medicine. This means that homeopathy treats the body as a whole. Detailed mental and physical symptoms of the whole being are taken into consideration while prescribing. This form of homeopathic treatment is called as constitutional treatment.
        There are several homoeopathic remedies which give great result in premature gray hair. However, the correct choice and the resulting relief is a matter of experience and right judgment on the part of the homeopathic doctor. The treatment is decided after thorough case taking of the patient.

Types of hair in different miasam
PSORIC HAIR
1.     It is dry tangles easily, has to comb by wetting the comb each time while combing
2.     Dry scalp with itching
3.     Lusterless, matted hair, angles easily
4.     Scalp--dry, rarely perspires
5.     Hair fall mostly in front, crown & on the top of head
6.     Hair fall after a/c illness
7.     Premature graying of hair--esp midline
SYCOTIC HAIR
1.     It is greasy but non tangling
2.     Fishy odor of scalp, excess perspiration
3.     Moist scalp with fishy odor
4.     Premature graying
5.     Hair fall in circular patches
SYPHILITIC HAIR
1.     It is greasy but tangles easily
2.     Greasy hair+++
3.     Hair fall in bunches
4.     Fetid, oily & sour smelling
5.     Hair matters together

Reportorial approach

J.T.KENT:-Pg No:120
Chapter HEAD- HAIR-grey, becomes: Ars, graph, hipp, kali-i, kali-n, Lyc, op, ph-ac, sec, sil, sul-ac,
In spot: Psor
Repertory by Oscar E. BOERICKE, M.D.
 Hair
     Gray, premature -- Lyc., Phos. ac., Sec., Sul. ac.
SYNTHESIS-:
HAIR
Grey- Ars, Graph, Hipp, kali-iod, kali-nit, Kreos, Lyco, Nat-m, Op, Phos-ac, Sec, Sil, Staph, Sulph, Sulph-ac, Thuj.

Homeopathic medicines for premature graying
GRAPHITES
-Single hairs turn gray.
-Itching on the hairy scalp.
-Much dandruff on the head, causing a very troublesome itching, and causing scabs, which go off when the head is washed, and leaved the parts humid.
-Eruption on the crown, which pains and becomes moist when touched.
-Humid eruption on the head, which does not itch, but only aches when touched, as if festering underneath.
-Scurfy spot on the crown, with violent pain as from excoriation, when touched.
-Painfulness and moistness under the scurfy spots on the head.
-The old scurfs on the hairy scalp become detached and begin to emit a fetid smell.
LYCOPODIUM
-Premature baldness and gray hair
- Many grey hairs are coming on her head.
- Beginning on temples and vertex the hair turns gray early and falls out profusely, even to baldness, while it grows and increases
- The hair of the head is falling out excessively.
- The hair comes out while combing.
- Rapid falling out of the hair of the head, while hair grows anew in many parts of the body.
- The head is very much disposed to take cold ; a slight cold breeze causes a cutting sensation in the scalp.
- Itching of the hairy scalp.
- Gnawing on the scalp, he has to scratch.
- Eruption on the head, with swollen glands of the neck ; on the occiput a large boil, and over the whole hairy scalp a scurf, which the child scratches open and which then bleeds.
PHOSPHORIC ACID
-Hair gray early in life; falls out.
- Hair thins out, turns gray early.
-Very oily, soft, flaxen hair, which turns gray early and falls from head and beard, especially after grief and care
- Itching on the hairy scalp
SULPHUR
-Hair grey, offensive,dry,cold &hard
-Tinea capitis, dry form.
 -Scalp dry, falling of hair; worse, washing.
-The hair of the head aches, when scratching the head.
- Pain of the roots of the hair, especially when touched.
- Falling out of the hair.
- Sensation of coldness on the head.
- Itching on the head, with impatience.
- Itching pimples on the hairy scalp.
SULPHURICUM ACIDUM
- The Hair turns gray early and falls out, with an eruption and erosive sore pain on scalp, which changes place when scratched.
- Intense itching on the hairy scalp.
- Severe itching on the head.
- Severe eruption on the head, in the face and neck.
SECALE CORNUTUM
. Falling of hair; dry and gray.
. Profuse falling of hair.
. Dull pain in occiput
THUJA OCCIDENTALIS
. White, scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling out
He always desire to have the head closely wrapped up.
Dry and white hairs
Itching of occiput
Hair fall after headache, from vertex
Lustreless & split
PSORINUM
. Gray hair in spot
Humid eruption on scalp; hair matted. Hair dry.
. Hair feels pulled.
VINCA MINOR
Hair falls out in single spots and white hair grows there
Spots on head oozing moisture, the hair matting together
Bald patches covered
Itching on scalp with short wooly hair
PHOSPHORUS
-Roots of the hair turn Dry & Grey
-Pressure on the hairy scalp, in the face and on the neck.
- Severe itching on the hairy scalp.
- Much dandruff on the hairy scalp which at times itches (aft. 8 d.).
- Itching little lumps on the hairy scalp ; when touched they are painful like a furuncle.
- The hair falls out frequently
THYROIDINUM
Premature graying of hair

“Grey hair is a blessing - ask any bald man.”


Sources:-
     Disease of the skin – Frederick.M.Dearborn,A.B.,M.D,
     Hair loss-explained and analysed- Dr. FAROKH JAMSHED MASTER
     Gray’s Anatomy
     Concise Medical Physiology- Sujith K. Chawdhari
     Text Book of Pathology – Harsh Mohan
     Illustrated guide to the homoeopathic Treatment- Dr. H.S.Khaneja
     Directory of Diseases & Care in Homoeopathy- Ram Lal Gupta M.A.  M.H.M
     A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica- J.H. CLARKE M.D
     Boericke Materia medica
     The Chronic Disease- Dr SAMUAL HAHEMANN
     Reportory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica- J.T.Kent
     Synthesis- Repertorium Homoeopathicum Syntheticum- Dr.Frederic Schroyens
     www.wikipedia.com
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CONTACT DERMATITIS & HOMEOPATHY

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 · Posted in


         Contact dermatitis is skin inflammation caused by direct contact with a particular substance. The rash is very itchy, is confined to a specific area, and often has clearly defined boundaries.           
       Substances can cause skin inflammation by one of two mechanisms—irritation (irritant contact dermatitis) or allergic reaction (allergic contact dermatitis).Irritant contact dermatitis, which accounts for 80% of all cases of contact dermatitis, occurs when a chemical substance causes direct damage to the skin; symptoms are more painful than itchy.
  Allergic contact dermatitis is a reaction by the body's immune
system to a substance contacting the skin. Sometimes a person can be sensitized by only one exposure, and other times sensitization occurs only after many exposures to a substance. After a person is sensitized, the next exposure causes itching and dermatitis within 4 to 24 hours, although some people, particularly older people, do not develop a reaction for 3 to 4 days.
Common Causes of Allergic Contact Dermatitis
Cosmetics:
Hair-removing chemicals hair dyes, nail polish, nail polish remover, deodorants, moisturizers, aftershave lotions, perfumes, sunscreens
 Metal compound (in jewelry):
Nickel  
Plants:
Poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, ragweed, primrose, thistle.
Drugs:
Antibiotics (sulfonamides, neomycin), antihistamines (diphenhydramine, promethazine), anesthetics (benzocaine), antiseptics (thimerosal), stabilizers
Chemicals used in clothing manufacturing:
Tanning agents in shoes; rubber accelerators and antioxidants in gloves, shoes, undergarments, other apparel.

Symptoms and Diagnosis

·        Regardless of cause or type, contact dermatitis results in itching and a rash.
·        The itching is usually severe, but the rash varies from a mild, short-lived redness to severe swelling and large blisters.
·         Most commonly, the rash contains tiny blisters. The rash develops only in areas contacted by the substance.
·         However, the rash appears earlier in thin, sensitive areas of skin, and later in areas of thicker skin or on skin that had less contact with the substance, giving the impression that the rash has spread.
·        Touching the rash or blister fluid cannot spread contact dermatitis to other people or to other parts of the body that did not make contact with the substance.
Determining the cause of contact dermatitis is not always easy. The person's occupation, hobbies, household duties, vacations, clothing, topical drug use, cosmetics, and household members' activities must be considered. Most people are unaware of all the substances that touch their skin. Often, the location of the initial rash is an important clue, particularly if it occurs under an item of clothing or jewelry or only in areas exposed to sunlight. However, many substances that people touch with their hands are unknowingly transferred to the face, where the more sensitive facial skin may react even if the hands do not.
The "use test," in which a suspected substance is applied far from the original area of contact dermatitis (usually on the forearm), is useful when perfumes, shampoos, or other substances used in the home are suspected.
Prevention and Treatment

              Contact dermatitis can be prevented by avoiding contact with the causative substance. If contact does occur, the material should be washed off immediately with soap and water. If circumstances risk ongoing exposure, gloves and protective clothing may be helpful.
             Treatment is not effective until there is no further contact with the substance causing the problem. Once the substance is removed, the redness usually disappears after a week. Blisters may continue to ooze and form crusts, but they soon dry. Residual scaling, itching, and temporary thickening of the skin may last for days or weeks.
Homeopathy for contact dermatitis
        In any chronic skin conditions it is better to take a constitutional medicine. Patient’s previous history of treatment and other illnesses are impotent in case taking. Patient will have to take medicine for a particular period of time according to the seat of disease.
I have listed some common homeopathic medicines with their skin symptoms, generalities and mental symptoms. You cannot take homeopathic medicines by your own without a classical homeopaths advice
Commonly used medicines are
Alumina, Belladanna , graphitis , Arsenic alb, bovista, staphysagria , Appis mallifica
Calc carb. Calc sulph, Croton tig, Hepar sulph, Kali sulph, Merc sol, Mezereum, Nat mur
Nitric acid, Rhus tox . Sarsaparilla Sulphur  Etc

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HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR SKIN DISEASES | Contact Dermatitis, Scabies, candidiasis, payoderma Eczema & urticaria

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  In any chronic skinconditions it is better to take a constitutional medicine. Patient’s previous history of treatment and other illnesses are impotent in case taking. Patient will have to take medicine for a particular period of time according to the seat of disease.
I have listed some common homeopathic medicines with their skin symptoms, generalities and mental symptoms. You cannot take homeopathic medicines by your own without a classical homeopaths advice.

ALUMINA
The key word is dryness. There is, however, a lot more to it than that,
and the idea of dryness should not be allowed to eliminate it from consideration in certain other situations. Alumina is a great polychrest with a rich picture. Its essence and mental symptoms should be understood well. It is also often possible to recognise it when there is little or no symptomatology on a mental level. This is most often the case in infants, although they will usually display some general symptom of the remedy too.
Characteristic Skin Symptoms
 Dryness and roughness and thickening. Inability to perspire.  Cracks and fissures.
 Cracks that can be deep and bloody, worse for washing, worse in winter.
 Eruptions worse in winter.  Dry eruptions that bleed after scratching.
 Dry eruptions that discharge after scratching. White scaly eruptions.
Most Useful General Symptoms 
 Chilly but worse for warmth.   Better damp, worse dryness.   Worse and averse potatoes.   Desires indigestible things, charcoal, chalk, etc.   Worse in the morning, better in the evening. 
APIS MELLIFICA
 Apis is well known for such conditions as erysipelas and urticaria, but is not one of the remedies first thought of for eczema. It can however be very useful in the treatment of eczema where the symptoms agree
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
 Eruptions on perspiring parts.  Eruptions worse from cold air, even though generally worse for heat.  Red stinging eruptions. Dermographic skin.
Dryness, desquamation and inelasticity.  Itching and stinging vesicles. Suppressed eruptions. Shiny red eruptions. Swelling of affected parts. Waxy appearance of skin.  Allergic eruptions.
 Itching worse from cold air, although generally averse to heat.  Itching on perspiring parts.  Burning and smarting.
 Itch is worse becoming warm in bed.
Characteristic Mental Symptoms
 Busy, industrious people, better when occupied.  Fruitlessly busy.
 Jealousy. Awkward, clumsy, fidgety. Says he is well when sick.
 Ailments from suppressed sexuality or sexual excess. Ailments from anger, bad news, grief.
 Most Useful General Symptoms
 Aggravation from warmth of any kind - warm rooms, heat of a fire, saunas, warm bath are all intolerable.    Right-sidedness.     Effects of suppression of any kind.    Worse from touch and pressure.        Oedematous swellings.     Thirstlessness.

ARSENICUM ALBUM
Can be any of the following:
 Dry and very scaly. Dry, bleeding after scratching.  Hard and thickened. Inelasticity.
 Vesicular, including black and bloody vesicles.  Crusty, white or black.
 Discharging, especially a corrosive discharge. Ulcerated, suppurating.
 Eruptions alternating with internal/respiratory symptoms. Eruptions from cold air and becoming cold. Eruptions after scratching, and thickening after scratching.
 Burning after scratching.  Swelling of affected area, swelling after scratching.
Itch better for warmth. Even scalding water ameliorates.  Itching alternating with burning.
 Better when bleeding.       Worse at night.
Characteristic Mental Symptoms
 Insecurity, dependence.   Fearfulness - death, poverty, disease, being alone, robbers, cancer.
 Fastidious, orderly and conscientious.    Censorious.     Miserly, possessive.  Restless anguish.
 Most Useful General Symptoms  
 Restlessness.       Cold. Better warmth.   Acridity, burning sensations and discharges.
 Night time aggravation, especially midnight to 3am.     Periodicity.
 Desires fat, sour things, cold drinks in frequent sips.
 Averse to sweets (may desire), fat, farinaceous foods.  Worse for cold food, fruit, fat

BELLADONNA
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
 Fiery red eruptions. Blotches.   Shiny eruptions like Apis.  Red streaks after scratching.
 Dry burning eruptions with desquamation.    Eruptions moist after scratching.
 Suppressed eruptions.    Swelling of affected parts.  Inflamed painful vesicles and vesicles that appear after scratching.
Characteristic Mental Symptoms
 Energetic, plethoric, intense temperament.     Aggressive.     Desire to bite, kick, strike, pull hair.
 Strikes head against the wall with anger.      'An angel when well, a devil when sick.'
 Fear of animals, dogs.     Fearlessness, audacity.
 Most Useful General Symptoms
 Sudden violent onset.     Right-sided.      3 p.m.  aggravation.
 Worse from heat, especially of the sun.      Sensitive to light, jar, noise.
 Worse from suppressed perspiration, touch, motion, drafts, washing hair.

BOVISTA
 The puffball is an easily overlooked remedy, but with careful repertorisation it is surprising how often it is indicated in eczema cases.
 Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
 Cracks and burning eruptions.   Eczema of the hands and hollow of the knees.
 Eruptions bleeding after scratching.   Most Useful General Symptoms .   Tendency to puffiness.
 Worse during menses.     Worse at full moon.    Worse becoming heated.
 Better for eating .  Very useful after Rhus tox to complete the cure

CALCAREA CARBONICA
 Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
 Eruptions on the the occiput, scalp and flexures.      Crusts and scabs with bland pus.
 Eruptions worse from washing.      Worse in winter.           Cracking that is worse in winter.
 Bleeding after scratching. Eruptions may be: in patches, vesicular, crusty, dry and desquamating.       Milk crust.      Eruption in and around umbilicus.  
 Most Useful General Symptoms
 Chilly.      Worse cold damp, change of weather.       Worse ascending, exertion.
 Worse during and difficult dentition.     Sour perspiration.       Flabbiness.
 Aversion to meat, milk, slimy foods, fat, coffee.    Desire for eggs, indigestible things, chalk, ice cream, starchy foods, oysters, sweets, salt, sour.     Worse from dry foods, milk.
 Note: Calcarea Carbonica is in the rubric: 'Eruptions; bleeding after scratching' but not in the rubric 'Itching; must scratch until it bleeds'

CALCAREA SULPHURICA
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
 Crusty eruptions, especially yellow crusts.     Unhealthy skin, poor healing, suppuration.
 Pussy spots.       Dryness and desquamation - yellow scales.        Cracks.
 Cracks that are worse after washing and worse in winter. 
 Scratching ameliorates.       Itching with burning.           Worse on becoming warm in bed.
Most Useful General Symptoms
 Tendency to suppuration.     Warm-blooded but heat, cold and damp aggravate.
 Desire for open air but drafts aggravate.      Desire for green fruit.

CROTON TIGLIUM
Vesicular and pustular eruptions.       Clustered vesicles that crust when they burst.
 Inflamed and scabby pustules.      Affinity for the genital region, face and head.
 Alternation of eczema and internal affections.  'Sensation as if hidebound.'
 Most Useful General Symptoms
 Diarrhoea that is worse from the least food or drink.     Worse for washing.
 Worse in the summer.      Worse at night.     Mentally better in the open air.

GRAPHITES
One of the most used medicine in skin complaints
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
 Numerous symptoms but most characteristic is the honey-like, glutinous discharge.
 Cracks and fissures, deep and bloody and worse in winter. Dryness, roughness, chapping.
 Moist, crusty eruptions. Crusts after scratching. Discharge is either corrosive or fetid, offensive.
 Eruptions in patches.      Itching, burning vesicles.    Eruptions alternating with internal affections.        Suppressed eruptions.     Worse before and during menses.
 Wandering itch.          Scratching aggravates.
Most Useful General Symptoms
 Chilly, sensitive to drafts, but prone to flushes of heat.        Better open air.
 Worse on waking.    Obesity.       Aggravation from suppressions.  Tendency to fissures.
 Worse from bright light.     Averse to fish, salt, sweets, meat.    Desires chicken, beer.

HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
 Cracks and painful, sensitive eruptions.       Worse in winter.
 Unhealthy skin, inflammation, suppuration.  Can be dry, moist, pimples, pustules, scabs, vesicles or patches.               Fetid eruptions, especially in folds.          Thin acrid discharge.
 Eruptions after scratching.
Characteristic Mental Symptoms
 Hypersensitive and vulnerable to everything.           Irritable, impatient, hurried.
 Impolite, unpleasant nature. Threatening.        Violent anger. Impulse to stab or kill.
 Wants to set things on fire. Dreams of fire.    Most Useful General Symptoms
 Very cold. Draft aggravates.  Uncovering aggravates.       Sensitive to pain.
 Offensiveness.               Splinter-like pains.          Glandular swelling.
 Worse in dry air, better for damp.     Better from warmth.  Worse in winter.

KALI SULPHURICUM
 This remedy is included here to represent all the Kali salts, any of  which can have eczema in their picture. Kali Sulphuricum is the one most likely to be helpful, possibly because of the sulphur element in  the compound.
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
 Scaly, profuse desquamation, especially yellow scales.      Crusty eruption. Moist yellow crusts.         Cracks.         Moist eruption, especially yellow discharge.     Suppurating eczema.
Characteristic Mental Symptoms
 Proper, rigid, inflexible attitude.     Hurried and irritable.  Anxiety ameliorated in the open air.
 Fear of death, falling, people.     Worse from consolation.
 Most Useful General Symptoms
 Worse from warmth.           Better in the open air.          Worse from warmth but drafts aggravate (Sulphur).           Tendency to suppuration.          Aversion to eggs, fats, fish, meat and warm things.            Desires sweets.                       Better from motion, especially in the open air.

MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS
Mercurius appears in 458 rubrics in the 'Skin' section of the Complete Repertory
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
 Moist and bleeding eruptions.     Bleeding after scratching.
 Foetid, offensive odour from the eruption, even if the discharge is scanty.
 Thick crusts, vesicular or pustular eruption.         Deep, bloody cracks.  Worse in winter.
 Worse on hairy parts.       Discharge destroys hair.               Worse in evening and at night.
 Warmth aggravates.  Wool aggravates.   Perspiration aggravates.
 Mental Symptoms
 Closed, unconfident people.
 Delusion that everyone is an enemy. Easily offended.       Stammering.             Violent impulses.
 Internal hurried feeling with slowness of execution.   Anarchist, disobedience, defiance. Most Useful General Symptoms  
 Worse at night.         Worse from perspiration and easy perspiration.
 Worse on becoming heated, or heat and cold aggravates.  Sensitive to weather changes and draughts.           Offensiveness.         Glandular affections, salivation.       Worse lying on right side.
 Trembling and restlessness.          Desire for bread and butter, lemons.
 Aversion to sweets, coffee, salt, fat.

MEZEREUM
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
   Crusts and scabs with purulent matter underneath.   Also pustules and vesicles and desquamation.   Eruptions alternating with asthma.   Washing aggravates.   Worse in winter.   Eczema after vaccination.   Often eruptions on the face, around eyes and mouth.   Bleeding after scratching. 
Characteristic Mental Symptoms
   Anxiety felt in the stomach.   Anticipatory.   Indifference.   Desire for company.   Most Useful General Symptoms   Worse at night.   Worse from suppressions.   Lack of vital heat (although skin worse for warmth).   Affinity for nerves and bones.   Effects of vaccination.   Herpetic tendency. 

NATRUM MURIATICUM 
All the Natrum   salts can have eczema in their pictures, and sometimes differentiating between them is not easy
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms  
Mostly affects the margins of the hair, eyelids, around mouth, hands and flexures.   Raw, red inflamed eczema.   Crusty eruption with corrosive discharge.   Eruptions on hairy and perspiring parts.   Worse at the seaside and from excessive salt.    Worse from the sun and exertion.   Tendency to urticaria and vesicular eruptions.   Chapping and cracking of the skin.   Dryness, inability to perspire.   Greasy skin.   Worse before menses.  
Characteristic Mental Symptoms
  Ailments from grief and disappointment. Silent grief.   Desire to be alone yet fear of rejection. Self-reliant.   Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences. Resentful.   Avoids causing and being hurt. Defensive.   Sympathetic.   Guilt.   Consolation aggravates.   Closed, reserved and serious. 
Most Useful General Symptoms   Worse from the heat of the sun.   Worse with the sun.   Worse or better by the seaside.   Worse 9-11 a.m.    Periodicity.   Worse from sympathy.   Better in the open air.   Desires salt, bitter, bread, fish, oysters, chocolate, coffee.   Aversion to salt, fat, coffee, fish, bread, chicken, slimy.

NITRIC ACID
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms 
 Deep, bloody cracks.   Bleeding after scratching.   Painful eczema, especially burning and splinter-like pains.   Sensitive eruptions, e.g.  to touch.   Eczema around the anus and genitals.   Eruptions on hairy parts.   Eruptions, especially crusts, in patches.   Discharging after scratching - corrosive or pus.   Fetid, offensive eruption.
Characteristic Mental Symptoms 
 Anxiety about health, fear of death.   Resentful, hatred, bitter, revengeful, litigious.   Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences. Tormenting thoughts.   Anger with cursing.   Discontented.   Quarrelsome.   Sensitive to all external impressions.   Selfish.   Most Useful General Symptoms   Worse from slight causes.   Worse for touch, jarring, noise.   Coldness.   Better for gentle motion.   Splinter-like pains.   Strong urine.   Affinity for angles and mucocutaneous margins.   Desires fat, salt, lime, fish.   Averse to cheese, meat. 

RHUS TOXICODENDRON
 This is another remedy which, when well indicated, is fairly easy to recognise owing to its clear characteristic general and particular symptoms.
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
  Vesicular and crusty eruptions.   Eruptions alternating with internal affections.   Cold air aggravates.   Worse in the winter, spring and from change of weather.   Worse on perspiring parts.   Corrosive discharge.   Fissures, worse after washing.   Eruptions after scratching.   Swelling of affected part.   Eruptions around genitals and of hairy parts.   Hardness, thickening and inelasticity.   Tendency to urticaria and herpes.
Better for warmth and worse in cold air.   Better for hot bathing.   Worse on hairy parts.   Worse from perspiration and on perspiring parts.   Scratching can aggravate or ameliorate.   Wool aggravates.
SARSAPARILLA
 Sarsaparilla has deep bleeding cracks like Petroleum. The cracks can be anywhere, including the hands, but a characteristic of this remedy is cracks on the feet. It is mainly a sycotic remedy
Characteristic Skin Symptoms  
Deep cracks.   Worse in the spring and summer, as markedly as Petroleum's winter aggravation.   Worse before and during menses.   Eruptions that date from vaccination.   Worse from washing.   Eruptions in patches and blotches.  Shrivelled-looking skin.
Most Useful General Symptoms
  Worse at close of urination.   Worse in spring.   Worse at night.   Worse for cold damp.   Suppressed gonorrhoea.   Marasmus.   Gouty tendency.

STAPHYSAGRIA
 A Staphysagria eczema case will always have an emotional component to it, with the well known 'ailment from suppressed anger' being the most likely underlying cause of the skin problems.
Characteristic Eczema Symptoms
  Moist crusty eruptions.   Eruptions after scratching.   Offensive discharge.   Suppressed eruptions.   Eruptions in patches.   Scabs on the scalp.   Unhealthy skin, easily suppurating.
Characteristic Mental Symptoms
   Ailments from suppressed emotions, especially anger.   Ailments from grief, wounded honour, embarrassment, indignation, rudeness of others, reproaches, mortification.   History of physical or emotional abuse.   Sensitive to discord and easily offended.   Mild and yielding temperament.  Conscientious about trifles.
Most Useful General Symptoms
   Worse from sexual excess.   Generally worse from emotions.   Worse for touch.   Systemic effects of wounds, especially lacerated wounds.   Worse from tobacco.   Averse to milk, cheese.   Desires sweets, spicy, tobacco, soup, milk, rice.

SULPHUR
 Sulphur is the king of polychrests and the best known 'skin remedy'. It is also the most overprescribed remedy, as it is easy to make Sulphur fit almost any situation in which there is an eruption. It is very much in the category of the 'unsuppressors' - it has a particularly powerful centrifugal action, in that it brings symptoms to the surface.
Characteristic Skin Symptoms
  Itch worse from warmth.   Eruption worse from water.   Itch worse at night. (Can also be worse morning and evening.)   Eruption bleeding after scratching.   Cracking, worse from water and in winter.   Redness.   Itching with burning.   History of suppressed eruptions.   Eruptions alternating with respiratory complaints.   Eczema dating back to vaccination. 
Characteristic Mental Symptoms
  Theorising, intellectual.   Selfish, egotism.   Critical.   Lazy, tendency to take short cuts.   May have: disgust, fastidiousness, anxiety for others; fear of heights, failure, narrow places, disease; hoarding, avarice.   Most Useful General Symptoms   Worse from warmth, desire for air but worse from draughts.   Uncovers feet.   Worse for bathing.   Worse from suppression, and a history of suppressions.   Hungry at 11 a.m.    Stoop-shouldered.   Offensiveness.   Desires chocolate, spices, fat, alcohol, sweets, apples, ice cream.   Averse to eggs, fish, sweets, vegetables. 
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