Psorinum is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• ezcema
• psoriasis
• recurrent ear infections
• recurrent eye infections
• sinusitis
• allergies
• hayfever
• allergic rhinitis
• bedwetting
• headaches
• skin conditions 

From Boericke:

(Scabies Vesicle) The therapeutic field of this remedy is found in so-called psoric manifestations. Psorinum is a cold medicine; wants the head kept warm, WANTS WARM CLOTHING even in summer. EXTREME SENSITIVENESS TO COLD. DEBILITY, independent of any organic disease, especially the weakness remaining after acute disease. LACK OF REACTION, i. e., phagocytes defective; when well-chosen remedies fail to act. Scrofulous patients. Secretions HAVE A FILTHY SMELL. Profuse sweating. Cardiac weakness. Skin symptoms very prominent. Often gives immunity from cold-catching. Easy perspiration when walking. Syphilis, inherited and tertiary. OFFENSIVE DISCHARGES.

Mind
Hopeless; despairs of recovery. MELANCHOLY, deep and persistent; religious. Suicidal tendency.

Head
Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head. Chronic headaches; hungry during attacks; with vertigo. Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change of weather. Dull, pressive pain in occiput. Humid eruption on scalp; hair matted. Hair dry.

Eyes
Agglutinated. Blepharitis. CHRONIC OPHTHALMIA, THAT CONSTANTLY RECURS. Edges of lids red. Secretion acrid.

Mouth
Obstinate rhagades at corners. Tongue, gums ulcerated; tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate.

Nose
Dry, coryza, with stoppage of nose. Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior nares. Acne rosacea.

Ears
Raw, red, OOZING SCABS AROUND EARS. Sore pain behind ears. Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks. OFFENSIVE DISCHARGE FROM ECZEMA AROUND EARS. INTOLERABLE ITCHING. Chronic otorrhoea. MOST FETID PUS FROM EARS, brownish, offensive.

Face
Swelling of upper lip. Pale, delicate. HUMID ERUPTION ON FACE. Sickly. Throat. Tonsils greatly swollen; painful swallowing, with pain in ears. Profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat. Recurring quinsy. ERADICATES TENDENCY TO QUINSY. Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste. (AGAR.)

Stomach
Eructations like bad eggs. VERY HUNGRY ALWAYS; MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. Nausea; vomiting of pregnancy. Pain in abdomen after eating.

Stool
Mucous, BLOODY, EXCESSIVELY FETID, DARK FLUID. Hard, difficult stool, with blood from rectum and burning piles. CONSTIPATION OF INFANTS, in pale, sickly scrofulous children.

Female
LEUCORRHAZA fetid, lumpy, with much backache and DEBILITY. Mammae swollen and painful. Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands.

Respiratory
Asthma, with dyspnoea; worse, sitting up; better, lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart. Dry, hard cough, with great weakness in chest. FEELING OF ULCERATION UNDER STERNUM. Pain in chest; better, lying down. Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption. HAY-FEVER returning irregularly every year.

Extremities
Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold together. ERUPTION AROUND FINGER-NAILS. Fetid foot-sweats.

Skin
Dirty, dingy look. Dry, lustreless, rough hair. INTOLERABLE ITCHING. Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints with itching; worse, from warmth of bed. Enlarged glands. Sebaceous glands secrete excessively; oily skin. Indolent ulcers, slow to heal. Eczema behind ears. Crusty eruptions all over. Urticaria after every exertion. Pustules near finger-nails.

Fever
Profuse, offensive perspiration; night-sweats.

Sleep
Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily startled.

Modalities
WORSE, coffee; Psorinum patient does not improve while using coffee. WORSE, changes of weather, in hot sunshine, from cold. DREAD OF LEAST COLD AIR OR DRAFT. BETTER, heat, warm clothing, even in summer.

Relationship
Complementary: SULPHUR. Compare: PEDICULUS-Head-louse-(psoric manifestations in children. Eruption on dorsum of hands, feet, neck. Prurigo; pellagra. Unusual aptitude for study and work). PEDICULUS (Cooties) transmit typhus and trench fever.) In lack of reaction compare CALCAREA and NATRUM ARS. GAERTNER. (Pessimistic, lack of confidence, subjective troublesome eye symptoms, fear of heights. Urticaria. Use 30th and 200th. (Wheeler.)

Dose
Two hundredth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too often. PSORINUMrequires something like 9 days before it manifests its action, and even a single dose may elicit other symptoms lasting for weeks. (Aegedi.)

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Reed) A remedy for catarrhal states. Hay-fever. 

Head
Itching; falling off of hair; roots of hair painful. Pustules. Pain in occiput, extends to right ciliary region. Deep seated pain in sides of head. 

Ears
Burning and itching in auditory canals. Eczema behind ears. 

Nose
Hay-fever begins with burning and ITCHING OF PALATE and conjunctiva. ANNOYING ITCHING IN THE NOSTRILS AND ROOF OF THE MOUTH. (WYETHIA.) Coryza; loss of smell. (NAT. MUR.) Sneezing, ITCHING OF NOSTRILS. 

Mouth
Burning and itching; bleeding of gums. Ulcers and exfoliations in the commissures. Fissures in tongue. 

Stomach
Coldness in stomach. Longing for acids. 

Abdomen
Movement as from something alive. Flatulence pain at pubic region. 

Stool
Greenish. Burning at anus. Diarrhoea of nursing children. (CHAM.; CALC. PHOS.) Urine. Burning. Red sediment. (LYC) 

Male
Pain in spermatic cord after embrace. 

Female
Menses too early and profuse. Neuralgic pains from face to shoulders and pubis. Desire with vaginal pruritus. 

Respiratory
Dyspnoea; cough; bluish expectoration. Burning and pain in nipples. 

Extremities
Itching, burning; oedema of hands and feet. Burning and swelling of soles. Copious and offensive sweat of feet. 

Skin
Eczema; itching and crawling, especially of chest, upper extremities. Fissures in fingers and heels. 

Relationship
Compare: ANTHOXANTUM-sweet vernal grass (a popular medicine for hay-fever and coryza). LOLIUM; CEPA; SABAD.; SILICA.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Reed) A remedy for catarrhal states. Hay-fever. 

Head
Itching; falling off of hair; roots of hair painful. Pustules. Pain in occiput, extends to right ciliary region. Deep seated pain in sides of head. 

Ears
Burning and itching in auditory canals. Eczema behind ears. 

Nose
Hay-fever begins with burning and ITCHING OF PALATE and conjunctiva. ANNOYING ITCHING IN THE NOSTRILS AND ROOF OF THE MOUTH. (WYETHIA.) Coryza; loss of smell. (NAT. MUR.) Sneezing, ITCHING OF NOSTRILS. 

Mouth
Burning and itching; bleeding of gums. Ulcers and exfoliations in the commissures. Fissures in tongue. 

Stomach
Coldness in stomach. Longing for acids. 

Abdomen
Movement as from something alive. Flatulence pain at pubic region. 

Stool
Greenish. Burning at anus. Diarrhoea of nursing children. (CHAM.; CALC. PHOS.) Urine. Burning. Red sediment. (LYC) 

Male
Pain in spermatic cord after embrace. 

Female
Menses too early and profuse. Neuralgic pains from face to shoulders and pubis. Desire with vaginal pruritus. 

Respiratory
Dyspnoea; cough; bluish expectoration. Burning and pain in nipples. 

Extremities
Itching, burning; oedema of hands and feet. Burning and swelling of soles. Copious and offensive sweat of feet. 

Skin
Eczema; itching and crawling, especially of chest, upper extremities. Fissures in fingers and heels. 

Relationship
Compare: ANTHOXANTUM-sweet vernal grass (a popular medicine for hay-fever and coryza). LOLIUM; CEPA; SABAD.; SILICA.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Mugwort) Has some reputation as a remedy for epileptic conditions, and convulsive diseases of childhood and girls at puberty. Locally and internally is injurious to eyes. PETIT MAL. Epilepsy without aura; after fright and other violent emotions and after masturbation. Several convulsions close together. Somnambulism. Gets up at night and works, remembers nothing in the morning. ( KALI PHOS. ) 

Head
Drawn back by spasmodic twitchings. Mouth drawn to left. Congestion of brain. 

Eyes
COLORED LIGHT PRODUCES DIZZINESS. Pain and blurring of vision; better, rubbing; worse, using eyes. 

Female
Profuse menses. Violent uterine contractions. Spasms during menses. 

Fever
Profuse sweat, SMELLING LIKE GARLIC. 

Relationship
Compare: ABSINTH.; CINA; CICUTA.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Indian Hemp) Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts on cellular tissue, producing oedema and dropsy and on skin causing diaphoresis. Acute hydrocephalus. A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication. This is one of our most efficient remedies, in DROPSIES, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax, and urinary troubles, especially suppression and strangury. In the digestive complaints of Bright's disease, with the nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing, it will be found of frequent service. The dropsy is characterized by great thirst and gastric irritability. Arhythmia. MITRAL AND TRICUSPID REGURGITATION. ACUTE ALCOHOLISM. Relaxation of sphincters. 

Mind
Bewildered. Low spirited. 

Nose
Long-continued sneezing. Snuffles of children. (SAMBUCUS.) Chronic nasal catarrh with tendency to acute stuffiness with dull, sluggish memory. Dull headache. Takes cold easily, nostrils become congested and blocked up easily. 

Stomach
Nausea, with drowsiness. Thirst on walking. EXCESSIVE VOMITING. Food or water is immediately ejected. Dull, heavy, sick feeling. Oppression in epigastrium and chest, impeding breathing. (LOBELIA INFL.) Sensation of sinking in stomach. Abdomen bloated. Ascites. 

Stool
WATERY, flatulent, with soreness in anus; worse after eating. Feeling as if sphincter were open and stools ran right out. Urine. Bladder much distended. Turbid, hot urine, with thick mucus and burning in urethra, after urinating. Little expulsive power. Dribbling. Strangury. RENAL DROPSY. 

Female
Amenorrhoea, with bloating; metrorrhagia with nausea; fainting, vital depression. Haemorrhages at change of life. Blood expelled in large clots. 

Respiratory
Short, dry cough. RESPIRATION SHORT AND UNSATISFACTORY. Sighing. Oppression about epigastrium and chest. 

Heart
Tricuspid regurgitation; rapid and feeble, irregular cardiac action, low arterial tension, pulsating jugulars, general cyanosis and general dropsy. 

Sleep
Great restlessness and little sleep. 

Modalities
Worse, cold weather; cold drinks; uncovering. 

Relationship
CYMARIN is the active principle of Apocyn., lowers pulse rate and increases blood-pressure. STROPHANTHUS (extreme cardiac depression with intense gastric disturbance; dropsy). ARALIA HISPIDA-Wild Elder--a valuable diuretic, useful in dropsy of the cavities, either due to hepatic or renal disease with constipation. Urinary disorders, especially with dropsy. Scudder advises doses of five to thirty drops in sweetened cream of tartar, Solution). APIS., ARSENIC; DIGITAL.; HELLEB.

From Boericke's materia medica:

(The Honey-Bee) Acts on cellular tissues causing oedema of skin and mucous membranes. The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish unerring indications for its employment in disease. Swelling or puffing up of various parts, OEDEMA, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms. Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes. It produces serous inflammation with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion, etc. Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked. CONSTRICTED sensations. Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body. Much prostration. 

Mind
Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness. AWKWARD; DROPS THINGS READILY. Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and startings. Stupor alternating with erotic mania. Sensation of dying. Listless; cannot think clearly. Jealous, fidgety, hard to please. Sudden shrill, piercing screams. WHINING. TEARFULNESS. Jealously, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study. 

Head
Whole brain feels VERY TIRED. Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closing eyes. Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion. Sudden stabbing pains. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow, extending to neck (better on pressure), accompanied with sexual excitement. Bores head into pillow and screams out. 

Eyes
Lids SWOLLEN, red, OEDEMATOUS, everted, inflamed; burn and sting. Conjunctiva bright red, puffy. LACHRYMATION HOT. Photophobia. SUDDEN PIERCING PAINS. Pain around orbits. SEROUS EXUDATION, OEDEMA, AND SHARP PAINS. SUPPURATIVE INFLAMMATION OF EYES. Keratitis with INTENSE CHEMOSIS OF OCULAR CONJUNCTIVA. Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation. STYES, also prevents their recurrence. 

Ears
External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains. 

Nose
Coldness of tip of nose. RED, SWOLLEN, inflamed, with sharp pains. 

Face
Swollen, red, with piercing pain. Waxy, pale, Oedematous. Erysipelas with stinging burning oedema. Extends from right to left. 

Mouth
Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles. Scalding in mouth and throat. Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling. Gums swollen. Lips swollen, especially upper. Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished. RED, SHINING, AND PUFFY, like erysipelas. Cancer of the tongue. Throat. Constricted, stinging pains. UVULA SWOLLEN, saclike. Throat swollen, inside and out; tonsils swollen, PUFFY, FIERY RED. Ulcers on tonsils. FIERY RED MARGIN around leathery membrane. Sensation of fishbone in throat. 

Stomach
Sore feeling. THIRSTLESS. Vomiting of food. CRAVING FOR MILK. (RHUS.) 

Abdomen
SORE, BRUISED on pressure, when sneezing. EXTREMELY TENDER. Dropsy of abdomen. Peritonitis. Swelling in right groin. 

Stool
Involuntary on every motion; ANUS SEEMS OPEN. Bloody, painless. Anus feels raw. Haemorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinement. Diarrhoea watery, yellow; CHOLERA INFANTUM TYPE. Cannot urinate without a stool. Dark, fetid, worse after eating. Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining. Urine. Burning and soreness when urinating. Suppressed, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and strangury; SCANTY, HIGH COLORED. Incontinence. LAST DROPS burn and smart. 

Female
Oedema of labia; relieved by cold water. Soreness and stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in RIGHT ovary. Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls. Dysmenorrhoea, with severe ovarian pains. Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain. Sense of tightness. Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear. Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains. Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region. 

Respiratory
Hoarseness; DYSPNOEA, breathing hurried and difficult. Oedema of larynx. Feels AS IF HE COULD NOT DRAW ANOTHER BREATH. Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal. Hydrothorax. 

Extremities
Oedematous. Synovitis. Felon in beginning. Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with stinging pain. Feet swollen and stiff. Feel too large. Rheumatic pain in back and limbs. Tired, bruised feeling. Numbness of hands and tips of fingers. Hives with intolerable itching. Oedematous swellings. 

Skin
Swellings after bites; SORE, SENSITIVE. Stinging. Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue. Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain. (ARS.; ANTHRAC) Sudden puffing up of whole body. 

Sleep
Very DROWSY. Dreams full of care and toil. Screams and SUDDEN STARTING DURING SLEEP. 

Fever
AFTERNOON CHILL, WITH THIRST; WORSE ON MOTION AND HEAT. External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with sleepiness. Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently. Sleeps AFTER the fever paroxysm. After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering. 

Modalities
Worse, heat in any form; TOUCH; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms. Right side. BETTER, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing.

Apis is a homeopathic remedy indicated for: 

• Hives
• Pink eye
• Styes
• Allergies
• Edema
• Swelling
• Insect bites
• Bee stings
• Swollen ankles