PETROLEUM

Petroleum is a deep-acting homoeopathic medicine prepared from crude rock oil. It is especially well-suited to individuals of strumous diathesis, particularly those with dark complexions, who are prone to persistent skin affections, gastric disorders, and catarrhal inflammation of mucous membranes. Petroleum exerts a powerful influence on the skin, sweat and oil glands, and mental sphere, and is particularly helpful in conditions that worsen during cold winter months. It aids in managing chronic complaints that follow emotional stress, vexation, motion sickness in cars, carriages, or ships, and long-standing digestive or lung disturbances.

Common Name

English: Crude Rock-oil

SBL’s Petroleum can be helpful in the following conditions:

Skin Issues

• Petroleum aids in healing dry, cracked, and leathery skin, especially during cold weather.
• Treats fissures, rhagades, and eczema with bleeding, burning, and intense itching.
• Manages chilblains that are moist, itchy, and burning.
• Helps in bed-sores, intertrigo, and psoriasis with thick, greenish crusts.
• Supports skin repair when the slightest scratch leads to suppuration.
• Aids in cases of herpes, eczema recurrence, and moist, itching eruptions, especially around nipples and perineum.
• Useful in night-time itching and dry, irritable skin aggravated by cold exposure.

Gastrointestinal Troubles

• Supports relief from gastric acidity, hot, sour eructations, and heartburn.
• Aids in managing gastric distension and a persistent feeling of emptiness.
• Treats ravenous hunger, especially at night; requires constant eating to ease gastralgia.
• Helps with nausea and accumulation of saliva, along with strong aversion to fatty foods and diarrhea from cabbage.
• Petroleum manages daytime-only diarrhea, which is watery, gushing, and accompanied by anal itching.
• Supports digestion in individuals with chronic gastralgia and indigestion after vexation or fright.

Emotional Sensitivity

• It helps in addressing emotional hypersensitivity, irritability, and being easily offended.
• Supports emotional regulation after fright, vexation, or mental emotions.
• Aids in confusion, forgetfulness, and the feeling of being lost or not oneself.
• Treats anxiety about death with urgency to settle personal matters.
• Manages low mood, dullness, and discouragement often seen with digestive or skin symptoms.

Mucous Membranes (Nose, Ears, Eyes)

• Treats dry catarrh, with deafness & noises, chronic Eustachian catarrh, and mucous membrane irritation.
• Aids in relieving nasal ulceration, cracks, and burning with ozæna and foul discharges.
• Manages eczema of the ears and fissures in the meatus with soreness and intense itching.
• Helps in addressing dim vision, cannot read fine print without glasses, loss of eyelashes, and marginal blepharitis.
• Supports the healing of lachrymal sac infections and scurfy, dry skin around the eyes.
• Ringing and cracking in ears.

Cough & Chest Oppression

• Treats dry, harsh coughs that come deep from the chest, especially at night and in cold air.
• Supports relief in laryngeal conditions such as croup and diphtheritic inflammation.
• Helps in easing chest oppression, hoarseness, and respiratory discomfort during winter.

Head and Scalp Irritation

• Manages headaches that compel one to hold the head still, especially while coughing.
• Aids in treating occipital heaviness, vertigo on rising, and sea-sickness-like sensations.
• Petroleum supports the scalp in moist eruptions, soreness to touch, and subsequent numbness.
• Helps relieve the sensation of a cold breeze blowing on the head.

Urethral Discomfort & Leucorrhoea

• Treats itching in the urethra, prostatic swelling, and herpetic eruptions on the perineum.
• Aids in managing albuminous, profuse leucorrhea, genital soreness, and moist discharges in women.
• Supports relief in itchy nipples with a mealy appearance and premenstrual headaches.

Heart and Circulation

• Helps in fainting spells, heat flushes, and palpitations, often with a sensation of internal coldness.

Back and Extremities Stiffness

• Treats stiffness and pain in the neck, coccyx tenderness, and lumbar weakness.
• Aids in recovery from chronic sprains, joint cracking, and stiffness of the knees.
• Supports skin healing in rough, cracked fingertips that worsen in winter.
• Manages burning, scalding sensations in the knees and fetid axillary sweat.

Fever and Chills

• Aids in managing alternating chills and sweats, especially during the night.
• Petroleum helps in reducing flushes of heat, particularly on the face and head.
• Supports those who experience night sweats, particularly on the feet and underarms.