Arsenicum Album - Skin symptoms - Reversed & reworded Kent repertory

SKIN

Skin

Adhesion, skin sticks; while writing

Blisters

black

filled with blood

bluish

burning

gangrenous

phagedenic (spreading, obstinate ulceration)

after scratching

surrounded by red skin, from excessive perspiring

yellow

whitish

Coldness

night

icy

when in pain

Discoloration

blackish

blackish; spots

bluish

spots

brown, liver spots

dark spots in aged people

dirty

green spots

mottled

during chill

pale

purple (purpura haemorrhagica purplish spots or patches from haemorrhage under skin)

in aged people

red; spots

bluish-red

coppery

scarlet

spots; as if burned

spots; moist

white

spots

yellow, jaundice, etc.

after intermittent fever

spots

Dry

burning

inability to perspire (see inactivity)

Filthy skin

Gangrene

from burns or gangrenous sores

cold

hot

Goose bumps

Abnormal growths

fleshy

cauliflower-like fungus

haematodes

syphilitic

swelling, inflamed, puffy bunches

ulcer like lesions, leaving scars, spread over body

ulcers

gnawing, biting

black

black

base

black; margins

bleeding

bleeding; edges

bluish

burning

burning; when touched

burning; around about ulcer

burning; in margins

as if burnt

with cold feeling

crusty

deep

dirty

discharges; bloody

discharges; brownish

discharges; copious

discharges; corrosive

discharges; grey

discharges; green

discharges; greenish

discharges; with maggots

discharges; offensive

discharges; offensive; putrid

discharges; scanty

discharges; clinging

discharges; thin

discharges; watery

discharges; whitish

discharges; yellow

with elevated, hardened margins

with deep hole (fistula)

flat (see superficial)

foul

fungus

gangrenous

painless, slow developing

hardened

hardened; with red circle around

hardened; margins

inflamed

itching

itching; around about

with jagged margins

lardy

lardy bases

mottled with red circle

painful

painful; around about

painful; margins

painless

phagedenic (spreading, obstinate ulceration)

surrounded by pimples

pulsating

red with red circle

reopening of old ulcers

like eczema

like sarcoma

after scratching

sensitive

sensitive; around ulcers

sensitive; margins

lesion with wavy margin

shooting

smarting

spongy

spongy; margins

stinging, sudden, sharp

stinging, sudden, sharp; in red circle around

stinging, sudden, sharp; margins

superficial

generating pus

generating pus; with pain

swollen

swollen; with red circle

swollen; margins

syphilitic

with tearing pain

varicose

surrounded by blisters

warmth

wart shaped

with white spots

warts

burning

generating pus

surrounded by a circle of ulcers

withered

waxy

wrinkled, shrivelled

Sensation of ice or ice-cold needles

Inactivity

Pushed in easily from pressure

Inelastic

Inflammation

skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

gangrenous

after scratching

with swelling

blisters

indurated (hard from inflammation), nodules, etc.

tendency to inflame

Like insects crawling on skin

Hair falls out (see regions)

Hard

like parchment

with thickening

Heat without fever

Itching

burning

crawling

without visible out-break on skin

must scratch

until it bleeds

scratching

during sleep

stinging

after suppressed out-breaks on skin

undressing

Loss of feeling

As if infested with lice

Moisture

after scratching

Out-breaks on skin

gnawing, biting

blackish

bleeding

after scratching

blisters

blotches

boils

painful boil, shedding skin and tissues (carbuncle)

painful boil, shedding skin and tissues (carbuncle); burning

periodical

burning

night

chicken-pox

from becoming cold

coppery

crusty

black

over whole body

dry

grey

moist

after scratching

generating pus

peeling in scales

discharging, moist

corrosive

destroying hair

after scratching

yellow

dry

bleeding after scratching

large, round pimples on hardened base

eczema

elevated

offensive smelling

flat

granular

herpetic

burning

crusty

dry

grey

itching

mealy

moist

red

scaly

scaly

white

scaly; white, dry , mealy

stinging

generating pus

tearing

yellowish

zoster, zona

impetigo (bacterial infection on skin surface)

inflamed

itching

night

leprosy

mealy

white

measles

painful

patches

groups of itching blisters

small, purple spot

pimples

burning

itching

white after scratching

pocks

black

burning

psoriasis (red patches with silvery scales)

diffuse

syphilitic

pus-filled pimples

offensive smelling

malignant

painful

red

rose-coloured

after scratching

ulcerated

rash (see granular)

receding in eruptive fevers; scarlet fever

on coming into warm room from the open air

white

red

suppurating (producing pus), which dries to blackish crusts

scabies

scabies; dry

scabies; suppressed

scabies; suppressed; with mercury and sulphur

scaly

scaly; bran-like

scaly; hereditary

scaly; white

scarlet fever

gangrenous

after scratching

small-pox

black

smarting

stinging

suppressed

generating pus

with swelling

syphilitic

with tearing pain

tubercles (nodules, knob-like lumps)

malignant

painful

syphilitic

ulcerative with pain

like nettle rash

during chill

nodular

after scratching

at seashore

Pain

gnawing, biting; eating at skin

burning

night

after scratching

spots

excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed)

between skin folds

pain after scratching

stinging

tearing; after scratching

ulcerative pain

Rough

Scars; burn

Sensitive

Becomes sore when lying down

feeling

Sticking

after scratching

Stings of insects

Swelling

of parts affected with symptoms

bluish-black

burning

cold

fluid in tissues

hard

inflamed

pale

after scratching

shining

spongy

stinging

Swollen sensation

Tension

Skin becomes thick after scratching (see hard)