GRAPHITES – Word Mnemonic & Keynotes

(Black Lead – Amorphous Carbon)

🧠 WORD MNEMONIC – “GRAPHITES”

G – Gummy discharges

Sticky, glutinous, honey-like oozing from eruptions; moist eczema.

R – Rough, cracked skin

Fissures at corners of mouth, nipples, anus, fingers, toes.

A – Aversion to coition

Sexual debility; decreased desire in both sexes.

P – Plump, pale, constipated women

Obese, chilly, delayed menses; suited to climacteric age.

H – Hears better in noise

Strange keynote – hearing improves in a rumbling sound.

I – Indecisive, irresolute

Timid, hesitant, excessively cautious; sad, weeps from music.

T – Too large stool

Hard, knotty stool united by mucus threads; painful anus after stool.

E – Eruptions moist & fissured

Eczema of lids, behind ears; watery sticky discharge.

S – Sensitive to cold air

Takes cold easily; chilly patient.

🌟 KEYNOTES OF GRAPHITES

🧍‍♀️ Constitution

Fat, fair, chilly women

Habitual constipation

Delayed, scanty menstruation

“Pulsatilla at puberty, Graphites at climacteric”

🧠 Mental Keynotes

Timid, hesitant, cannot decide

Sad, despondent; thinks of death

Music makes her weep

Children impudent, teasing

Gastrointestinal

Chronic constipation

Large, hard, knotty stool

Mucus threads connecting stool pieces

Sore, burning pain in anus after stool

👩 Female Complaints

Menses late, scanty, pale

Colic with menses

Leucorrhea acrid, excoriating, gushes day & night

Morning sickness during menses

Hard scars in breast after abscess

Peculiar Symptom

Hears better in noise (very characteristic)

🧴 Skin

Unhealthy skin; every wound suppurates

Old scars reopen

Sticky, honey-like discharge

Cracks at mucocutaneous junctions

Worked by Stephen Ryan 3rd yr bhms