Iodium iod.

Feels constantly as if she had forgotten something.
Fixed, immovable thoughts.
Fear of evil, with overcarefulness.
Shrinking and fear when anyone comes near, particularly the physician (this is not in gout).
Mind very sensitive during digestions, felt like crying.
Melancholy mood, low-spirited.
Irritability and sensitiveness.
Excessive excitability.
Must keep in motion day and night, brain felt as if it were stirred up, felt as if going crazy.

Vertigo: only on left side; with throbbing in head and all over body, tremor at heart, fainting; worse immediately after rising from a seat or bed; or by sitting or lying down after slight exercise.

Headache; left side and top, sometimes paralytic feeling of the arms.
Headache, as if a tape or band were tightly drawn around head.
Headache worse: in warm air; when riding a long time in a carriage; from walking fast.
Pressure on a small spot above root of nose.
Throbbing in the head, at every motion.

Optical illusions in bright colors.
Obscuration of sight.
Like a veil before the eyes.
Protrusion of the balls.
Smarting in the eyes.
Constant tearing pain around right eye; passing backwards from inner canthus to articulation of jaw.
Trembling of the lids.
Dilation of the pupil, with constant motion of the balls.
White of the eye dirty yellow.
Œdematous swelling of the lids.

Sensitiveness to noise.
Hearing first sensitive, then dull.
Buzzing in the ears.
Adhesions in the middle ear.

Sensation as if the alæ were spread wide open and nose dry; loss of smell; in the evening, sneezing.
Dry coryza, becoming fluent in the open air.
Chronic fetid discharge from nose; nose painful and swollen.

Face: pale, yellow, or soon changing to brown; sallow, distressed; pale, alternating with red.
Convulsive twitchings of the facial muscles.
Coldness of the face in very fleshy children.

Toothache, gums swollen and bleeding.
Little blisters form on the gums.
Gums puffed, red, inflamed, painful to touch, and bleed easily.

Taste: salty; sourish; sweetish, on tip of tongue.
Tongue: dry; brown and dry; thickly coated.

Mouth filled with mucus on awaking in the morning, with putrid taste, not relieved by washing mouth with water.
Copious, sweet saliva.
Ptyalism; also, that after mercury.
Aphthæ in the mouth.
Ulcers in the mouth, gums red swollen, receding from the teeth, bleeding slightly, and with small ash-colored painful ulcers; profuse fetid ptyalism.
Thick, brown, croup-like exudation in mouth and fauces.

Swelling and elongation of the uvula.
Inflammation of the throat, with burning pain.
Sensation of constriction (fulness or pressure) in the larynx, with impeded deglutition.
Ulcers in the throat, with swelling of the gland of neck.
Inflammation and ulceration of the œsophagus.

Hunger, suffering from it, must eat every few hours; gets anxious and worried if he does not eat.
Eats freely, yet loses flesh all the time.
Alternate canine hunger and want of appetite.
Much thirst: 40.

Fasting causes pain in the chest.
Eating: 16, 17; heavy food: 16. Drinking milk: 20.

Hiccough.
Heart-burn, after heavy food.
Empty eructations from morning till evening.
Sour eructations, with burning there from.
Qualmishness, nausea, with spasmodic pain in stomach.
Violent vomiting renewed by eating.
Vomiting: of bile, with violent colic; of milk.

Spasmodic pains in stomach, renewed by eating.
Pulsations in the pit of stomach.
Tenderness of the epigastrium.
Stitches in stomach, relaxed feeling must loosen clothing; milk disagrees; intense thirst.

Region of liver sore to pressure.
Swelling of the spleen, after intermittent fever; vague pains down to left iliac region.

Swelling and distention of the abdomen.
Incarceration of flatulence in left side of abdomen.
Violent throbbing of the aorta abdominalis.
Swelling of the inguinal glands.

Stools: of watery, foaming, whitish mucus, always in the morning; copious, papescent; dysenteric, mucous, without feces; whey-like; fatty.
Constipation alternating with diarrhœa.
Constipation, with ineffectual urging, better after drinking milk.
Stools hard, knotty, dark-colored.

Incontinence of urine in the aged.
Urine: dark, thick, ammoniacal; dark, yellowish-green; acrid; milky; with a variegated cuticle on its surface.

Bearing down, or twisting, in the seminal cord.
Swelling and induration of testicles, and of prostrate gland.
Painless swelling of the testicles, with offensive sweat.

Menses: sometimes too early, at others too late; premature, violent and copious.
Uterine hemorrhage, renewed after every stool.
Metrorrhagia, with acute pain in mammæ; or, mammæ dwindle away and become flabby.
Induration and swelling of the uterus and ovaries.
Dropsical affections of the ovaries, with pressing down toward the genitals.
Dull, pressing, wedge-like pains, from right ovary toward the uterus.
Leucorrhœa: acrid, corroding the limbs; worse at time of menses.
Bluish-red nodosities, size of a hazel-nut, in the skin of both mammæ; dry, black points at the tips.

Iodum should not be given during lying-in, except in high potencies.

Hoarseness, lasts all day, phlegm in small quantities and tough, constant hemming and hawking.
Tightness and constriction about the larynx, with soreness and hoarseness.
Œdema glottidis (may be used by inhalation).
Membranous croup, with wheezing and sawing respiration, dry, barking cough, especially children with dark eyes and dark hair; child grasps the throat with the hand, raises large, tough flakes (not stringy exudation); fever.

Shortness of breath, palpitation and feeling of weakness on going up stairs.

Dry morning cough, from tickling in the larynx.
Dry cough, with stitches and burning in the chest.
Cough, with expectoration of large quantities of mucus, frequently blood-streaked.
Expectoration: salty; sourish; grey or white.

Sensation of weakness in the chest.
Sharp, quick, piercing pains.
Tendency to bronchial and pulmonary congestion and hemorrhage.
Hepatization, worse upper part of right lung; high fever, restlessness, thirst apathy.
Rapid hepatization; tightness across the chest.

Violent palpitation, worse from the least exertion.
Sensation as if the heart were squeezed together.
Heart acts tumultuously, with hard, full pulse; or, pulse, small, weak.
Constant, heavy, oppressive pain, in region of the heart.
Pulse: large, hard and accelerated, with orgasm of blood and beating in the blood-vessels; rapid, but weak and thread-like; accelerated, by every slight exertion.

Goitre, with marked hardness.
Swelling and induration of the cervical glands.
Spinal complaints, with gressus vaccinus.

Weariness of the arms, as if paralyzed, in the morning, in bed.
Painful weakness in the extensors.
Pains in the left elbow.
Coldness of the hands and feet.
Fingers "go to sleep".

Hot, bright red swelling of the knee, with inflammation, pricking and burning; aggravated by touch or pressure.
Violent itching nettle-rash, particularly around the knee; on outer side of left knee especially.
Œdematous swelling of the feet.
Acrid, corrosive sweat of the foot.
Painful corns.

Subsultus tendinum of hands and feet.
Chronic arthritic affections, with violent nightly pains in the joints, no swelling.

Motion: 1, 3. Sitting: 2. After rising: 2. Lying down: 2, 32. Walking: 3. Exertion: 2, 29. Ascending: 26.

Twitchings of muscles.
Trembling of limbs or whole body.
Great debility; sweats, even from talking.
Rapid failing of strength.

Sleeplessness after midnight.
Restless sleep, with vivid or anxious dreams.

Morning: 12, 20, 27, 32, 40. Evening: 7. Night: 34, 40, 44. After midnight: 27. Day and night: 1. Day: 16, 25.

Warm air: 3. Warm room: 40. Open air: 7.

Cold feet, the whole night.
Chill, with shaking, also in the warm room.
Chill, frequently alternating with heat.
Flushes of heat over the whole body.
Internal heat, with coldness of the skin.
Marked fever, restlessness; thirst, throbbing headache, circumscribed red cheeks; mind apathetic. θ Pneumonia, croup, etc.
Profuse night-sweat.
Debilitating sour-smelling sweat in the morning hours, with much thirst.

Right: 5, 18, 23. Left: 2, 3, 18, 19, 32, 33. Right to left: 23.

Swelling and induration of the glands.
Plastic exudations.
Nightly bone-pains.
Arthritic affections of the joints, with effusion, and with great emaciation.

Touch: 10, 33. Pressure: 18, 33. Riding: 3.
Violent pulsations all over; anguish and dyspnœa; compression of the brain.

Rough, dry skin.
Dirty yellow, clammy, moist skin.
Scars itch, break open, or pimples break out on them.
Nodes.

Dark hair and eyes.
Overgrown boys; weak chests.
Scrofulous diathesis.
Aged persons.

Iodum is frequently suitable in ailments from Arsen., Mercur., Calcar. or Arg. nitr.
Iodum follows well after Mercur., and is followed by Kali bichr. (croup).
Iodum and Lycop. are complementary.
Antidotes to Iodum: of large doses, starch or wheat flour, beat up in water; of small doses, Ant. tart.; Arsen., Bellad., Camphor., Chin., Sulph., Cinchon., Coffea, Hepar, Opium, Phosphor., Spongia, Sulphur.