Induration and inflammation of the glands of the body. Stiffness in the back. Pain in the back on rising from a seat. Heat and burning. Feet burn and have a sensation as if frozen.
Chilblains itch, burn and become purple.
Parts frozen will, years after, itch, burn, sting and become red and hot. The patient can tell when it will thaw because of the itching in the chilblains. Petroleum cures the itching and burning in frozen parts, but not as prominently as Agaricus leads all other remedies, especially when the condition affects parts where the tissues are thin over the bones, as over the back of the toes. The eruptions on the surface and the state of induration are like Graphites , but the oozing in Petroleum is thin and watery, and in Graphites it is gluey, honey like, sticky, viscid. You have indurations and cracks of the fingers, and rhagades in both remedies, but the horn-like warty growths, lifting up the quick of the nails, you will find only in Graphites .