FERRUM METALLICUM
(Iron)
Best
adapted to young weakly persons, anemic and chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora,
who flushes easily; cold extremities; over-sensitiveness; worse after
any active effort. Weakness from mere speaking or walking though looking
strong. Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with
flushes. Orgasms of blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc. Irregular
distribution of blood. Muscles flabby and relaxed.
Mind
:- Irritability. Slight
noises unbearable. Excited from slightest opposition. Sanguine temperament.
Head
:- Vertigo on
seeing flowing water. Stinging headache. Ringing in ears before menses. Hammering,
pulsating, congestive headache; pain extends to teeth, with cold
extremities. Pain in back of head, with roaring in neck. Scalp painful.
Must take down the hair.
Eyes
:- Watery, dull red; photophobia; letters run
together.
Face
:- Fiery-red and flushed
from least pain, emotion, or exertion. Red parts become white, bloodless
and puffy.
Nose
:- Mucous membrane relaxed, boggy, anemic, pale.
Mouth
:- Pain in
teeth; relieved by icy-cold water. Earthy, pasty taste, like rotten eggs.
Stomach
:- Voracious appetite, Or absolute loss of
appetite. Loathing of sour things. Attempts to eat bring on diarrhea. Spits
up food by the mouthful. [Phos.]
Eructations of food after eating, without nausea. Nausea and vomiting
after eating. Vomiting immediately after eating. Vomiting after midnight . Intolerance of eggs. Distension and pressure in the
stomach after eating, Heat and burning in stomach. Soreness of abdominal walls.
Flatulent dyspepsia.
Stool
:- Undigested, at
night, while eating or drinking, painless. Ineffectual urging; stool hard,
followed by backache or cramping pain in rectum; prolapsus recti; itching of
anus, especially young children.
Urine
:- Involuntary;
worse daytime. Tickling in urethra extending to bladder.
Female
:- Menses remit a
day or two, and then return. Discharge of long pieces from uterus. Women who
are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a fiery-red face. Menses too early, too
profuse, last too long; pale, watery. Sensitive vagina. Tendency to abortion.
Prolapse of vagina.
Respiratory
:- Chest oppressed;
breathing difficult. Surging of blood to chest. Hoarseness. Cough dry,
spasmodic. Hemoptysis. [ Millefol.] With the cough pain in occiput.
Heart
:- Palpitation;
worse, movement. Sense of oppression. Anemic murmur. Pulse full, but soft
and yielding; also, small and weak. Heart suddenly bleeds into
the blood vessels, and as suddenly draws a reflux, leaving pallor of
surface.
Extremities
:- Rheumatism of
the shoulder. Dropsy after loss of vital fluids. Lumbago; better, slow walking.
Pain in hip-joint, tibia, soles, and heel.
Skin
:- Pale; flushes
readily; pits on pressure.
Fever
:- General
coldness of extremities; head and face hot. Chill at 4 a.m. Heat in palms and soles. Profuse,
debilitating sweat.
Modalities
:- Better, walking
slowly about. Better after rising.
Worse,
while sweating;
while sitting still. After cold washing and overheating. Midnight aggravation.
Relationship
:-
Antidotes
: Ars.; Hep.
Complementary
: Chin.; Alum.;
Hamamel.
Dose:- States of debility where the blood is poor in hematin
require material doses; plethoric, hemorrhagic conditions call for small doses
from the second to the sixth potency.
