SBL Graphites(Dilution)
Trituration of prepared Black Lead from finest English drawing-pencils is used to make the dilutions.
Common Name: Plumbago, Black lead
Causes & Symptoms for SBL Graphites
- Graphites, one of the carbon remedies, which also contains a small percentage of iron, is a major eczema remedy, as well as useful in other skin problems.
- Affections of glands, skin, and mucous membranes, especially at orifices marks its action.
- Cough at night, or in the evening in bed, excited by taking a full inspiration is relieved with Graphites.
- Swelling and hardness of the mammary glands, Swelling of the glands of the neck.
- Great tendency to take cold, and fear of the open air.
- Rapid failure of strength with great emaciation is checked with Graphites.
- Unhealthy skin, every injury tending to ulceration is a characteristic of this medicine.
Mind and Head
The mind is dull and lethargic, slow to receive information. Lack of capability to understand, to think, to talk.
Irritabiltity about trifles indicate Graphites.
Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side with numbness is relieved with Graphites.
Vertigo with cloudiness in the morning, sense of fullness or emptiness in the head is relieved with Graphites.
Eyes, Ear and Nose
Heat and burning sensation in the eyes, Intolerance to the light of day with Shooting pains, redness of eyes is relieved with Graphites.
Hardness of hearing better when riding in a carriage with Dryness of the internal ear.
Dry scabs in nose, Stoppage with Nostrils, excoriated, cracked and ulcerated.
Mouth and Throat
Burning blisters on tongue, salivation is relieved with Graphites.
Dryness of the mouth in the morning is relieved with Graphites.
Swelling of the tonsils, with pains when swallowing with roughness and scraping in the throat.
Stomach and Abdomen
Sour risings, with bitterness in the mouth, Colic, and pressure on the stomach.
Cramps in stomach better by eating indicates the medicines Graphites.
Rumbling in the abdomen with Painful swelling of the inguinal glands is relieved with Graphites.
Boring pain in region of navel, extending into back. Very fetid gas preceded by colic.
Stomach pain, after food, which is relieved by hot food or drink, especially warm milk.
Heartburn often accompanied by a feeling of intense heat in the stomach and throat, causing a desire for cold drinks indicates Graphites.
Stool and Rectum
stools are large, hard, knotty, constipated.
Varices of the rectum. Fissure of anus is relieved with Graphites.
Female complaints
Graphites is useful in hot flushes, night sweats, irregular or late periods, vaginal dryness with aversion to coitus.
Too late menses associated with constipation marks graphites.
Great weakness in back with swollen and hard mammae/ breast, sore, cracked, and blistered nipples is relieved with Graphites.
Male complaints
Eruptions on the groin area with itching and ejaculatory complaints are relieved.
Extremities
Arthritic pulling and tearing in the limbs and joints, especially in ulcerated parts.
Nodosities formed on the joints are relieved with help of Graphites.
Swelling and inflexibility, stiffness and distortion of the fingers. Emaciation of the hands.
Swelling of the legs and of the feet, with hardness and shooting pain, stiffness and want of flexibility.
Cramps and starting of the muscles in the calves of the legs.
Skin
Graphites is beneficial in dry skin cracks and flakes.
Eczema areas are thickened and there is a tendency to form thick scars after surgeries indicates Graphites.
The characteristic of Graphites is; that it dries into yellow crusts.
It occurs on the flexor surfaces, that is in the bends of elbows, groins, behind the ears, in the corners of the mouth, and in the eyelids.
The fissuring of the skin, especially at the mucocutaneous borders includes; sides of nose, mouth and anus is checked with Graphites.
Generalities
Patients sensitive to the least draft of cold air indicates Graphites
A marked characteristic of Graphites is a rush of blood to head, with flushed face.
Graphites is suited to persons who have a tendency to put on unhealthy fat.
Side effects of SBL Graphites
There are no such side effects. But every medicine should be taken following the rules as given.
It is safe to take the medicine even if you are on other mode of medication like allopathy medicines, Ayurveda etc.
Homeopathic medicines never interfere with the action of other medicines.
Precautions while taking SBL Graphites
Always keep a gap of 15 minutes before or after meals when you take medicine.
If pregnant or breastfeeding, ask a homeopathic practitioner before use.
Avoid eating tobacco or drinking alcohol during the course of medication.
