Ferrum Metallicum ferr.

VASO-MOTORS: CIRCULATION. Blood-vessels. Blood. Spleen. Digestion. Left deltoid.

NIGHT. Emotions. Violent exertion. Eating. Drinking. Vital losses. Sweats. Quinine. Eggs. Heat and cold. Sudden motions. Raising arms.

Gentle motion. Slight bleeding (Calad. Card-m. Lach.). Leaning head on something.

Pale mucous membranes. False erethism or plethora; weak; lies down. Excited, irregular surgings. Wandering orgasms; head, face, chest, etc. Pulsations. Hæmorrhages (bright or with small clots); in rapidly growing youths. Relaxed blood-vessels; dilated veins, < during menses, etc. Red faced old men. Exophthalmos. Pressure on chest, stomach, etc. Nightly pains that compel motion of part. Dry; food seems; vagina, etc. Rapid emaciation. Anæmia. Cachexy. Irritable mind and body.

Always in the right; excited by the least opposition. Weeps and laughs immoderately. Sensitive and excitable; < least opposition. Brain-tire. Throbbing, hammering headache, starts in the temples; < cough or stooping; > letting hair down; with vertigo. Pain over l. eye. Blind attacks. Puffy eye-lids. Nose - bleed. Face flushes and pales or reddens from the least thing; florid; feels bloated. Erethistic chlorosis. Toothache, > ice water. Stomach won't tolerate any food. Averse to meat. Spits up his food. Nausea at mid-night. Easy vomiting. Diarrhœa; painless lientery; < while eating; nightly gushing; spluttering; alternating with constipation; < if nervous or tired. Chronic nephritis. Enuresis by day only. Emissions; nightly, with backache; after over-exertion. Raw vagina, < coition. Menses pale; intermit. Leucorrhœa; acrid, milky, watery, at puberty. Changeable voice. Dry, tickling cough. Blood-spitting (streaked). Constriction of or flying stitches in chest. Dyspnœa or palpitation, > motion. Sudden cramps or tearing boring in limbs. Cracking joints. Omodynia. Swelled hands and feet. Heels pain, if lies on back. Sleepless. Chill, with red face and thirst. Heat, with distended veins. Sweats, clammy, yellow, cold, acrid or debilitating. Soft pulse.

Complementary: Chin. Related: Arn. Mang.

Persons of sanguine temperament;; pettish, quarrelsome, disputative, easily excited, least contradiction angers (Anac., Coc., Ign.); > mental exertion. Irritability: slight noises like crackling of paper drive him to despair (Asar., Tar.). Women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a fiery red face. Extreme paleness of the face, lips and mucous membranes which becomes red and flushed on the least pain, emotion or exertion. Blushing (Amyl., Coca.). Erethitic chlorosis, worse in winter. Red parts become white; face, lips, tongue and mucous membrane of mouth. Vertigo: with balancing sensation,, as if on water; on seeing flowing water; when walking over water, as when crossing a bridge (Lys.); on descending (Bor., Sanic.). Headache: hammering, beating, pulsating pains, must lie down; with aversion to eating or drinking. For two, three or four days every two or three weeks. Menses: too early, too profuse, too long lasting, with fiery red face; ringing in the ears; intermit two or three days and then return; flow pale, watery, debilitating. Haemorrhagic diathesis; blood bright red, coagulates easily (Fer. p., Ipec., Phos.). Regurgitation and eructation of food in mouthfuls (Alum.). without nausea. Canine hunger, or loss of appetite, with extreme dislike for all food. Vomiting: immediately after midnight; of ingesta, as soon as food is eaten; leaves table suddenly and with one effort vomits everything eaten, can sit down and eat again; sour, acid (Lyc., Sul. ac.). Diarrhoea: undigested stools at night, or while eating or drinking (Crot. t.); painless with a good appetite; of consumptives [Compare Kent's Lectures]. Constipation: from intestinal atony; ineffectual urging; stools hard, difficult, followed by backache or cramping pain in rectum; prolapsus recti of children; itching on anus at night. Always feels better by walking slowly about, although weakness obliges the patient to lie down. Cough only in the day time (Euphr.); relieved by lying down; > by eating (Spong.). Dropsy; after loss of vital fluids; abuse of quinine; suppressed intermittent (Carbo v., Cinch.).

Complementary: to, Alum., Cinch. Cinch.: the vegetable analogue follows well in nearly all diseases, acute or chronic. Should never be given in syphilis; always aggravates the condition.

At night; at rest, especially while sitting still.

Walking slowly about; in summer.

We may think of this remedy on seeing a very weak and very much debilitated person.

Fiery red; sallow-colored; reddish-yellow; red spots on the checks.

Vomiting in general; of blood; of what has been eaten; in whooping cough, where the child vomits food with every coughing spell.

Painless diarrhœa, particularly if it be with undigested food; undigested feces; stool with ascarides.

Female: Metrorrhagia, especially when accompanied by a very red face; menses profuse; acrid leucorrhœa.

Great variability of the mind; expectoration bloody, and blood-streaked. Plethora; bleeding from inner parts; congestion of blood to single parts: swelling and distension of blood vessels. Affections of the left lower extremity; of the upper arm; of the shoulder-joint; in young weakly persons; bloatedness and paleness of the skin; chlorosis. Tendency to get fat; inclination to motion; pain like labor pains; darting from above downward; debility.

In the night, particularly after midnight; from changing the position; on beginning to move; lying down, from fat food; abuse of Peruvian bark; while resting; on beginning to walk; from ascarides.

On leaning against anything; from moving; from continued motion; from moving affected part; when walking.

Acon., China, Conium, Lycop., Phosphor., Pulsat., Sulphur.

China, Pulsat., Thea.

Fiery redness of the face; veins of the face and head swollen. Flying pains in the chest and spitting of blood, especially in persons who flush easily and are subject to epistaxis, dyspnoea, palpitation, etc. In persons who, though weak and nervous, have a very red face.

Iron

Best adapted to young weakly persons, anæmic and chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities; oversensitiveness; 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. Pseudo-plethora. Muscles flabby and relaxed.

Irritability. Slight noises unbearable. Excited from slightest opposition. Sanguine temperament.

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.

Watery, dull red; photophobia; letters run together.

Fiery-red and flushed from least pain, emotion, or exertion. Red parts become white, bloodless and puffy.

Mucous membrane relaxed, boggy, anæmic, pale.

Pain in teeth; relieved by icy-cold water. Earthy, pasty taste, like rotten eggs.

Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite. Loathing of sour things. Attempts to eat bring on diarrhœa. 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. Distention and pressure in the stomach after eating. Heat and burning in stomach. Soreness of abdominal walls. Flatulent dyspepsia.

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.

Involuntary; worse daytime. Tickling in urethra extending to bladder.

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.

Chest oppressed; breathing difficult. Surging of blood to chest. Hoarseness. Cough dry, spasmodic. Hæmoptysis (Millefol). With the cough pain in occiput.

Palpitation; worse, movement. Sense of oppression. Anæmic 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.

Rheumatism of the shoulder. Dropsy after loss of vital fluids. Lumbago; better, slow walking. Pain in hip-joint, tibia, soles, and heel.

Pale; flushes readily; pits on pressure.

General coldness of extremities; head and face hot. Chill at 4 am. Heat in palms and soles. Profuse, debilitating sweat.

Better, walking slowly about. Better after rising. Worse, while sweating; while sitting still. After cold washing and overheating. Midnight aggravation.

Antidotes: Ars; Hep.

Complementary.: Chin; Alum; Hamamel.

Compare: Rumex (similar in respiratory and digestive sphere and contains organic iron).

Ferrum aceticum (alkaline urine in acute diseases. Pain in right deltoid. Epistaxis; especially adapted to thin, pale, weak children who grow rapidly and are easily exhausted; varices of the feet; copious expectoration of greenish pus; asthma; worse, sitting still and lying; phthisis, constant cough, vomiting of food after eating, hæmoptysis).

Ferrum arsenicum (enlarged liver and spleen, with fever; undigested stool; albuminuria). Simple and pernicious anæmia and chlorosis. Skin dry. Eczema, psoriasis, impetigo (Use 3x trituration).

Ferrum bromatum (sticky, excoriating leucorrhœa; uterus heavy and prolapsed, scalp feels numb).

Ferrum cyanatum (neuroses with irritable weakness and hypersensitiveness, especially of a periodical character; epilepsy; cardialgia, with nausea, flatulence, constipation, alternating with diarrhœa; chorea).

Ferrum magneticum (small warts on hands)

Ferrum muriaticum (Arrested menstruation; tendency to seminal emissions or copious urination at puberty; very dark, watery stools; diphtheria; phlegmonous erysipelas; pyelitis; hæmoptysis of dark, clotty blood; dyspareunia; pain in right shoulder, right elbow, and marked tendency to cramps and round red spots on cheeks; bright crystals in urine. Anæmia, 3x, after meals. Tincture 1-5 drops 3 times daily for chronic interstitial nephritis).

Ferrum sulphuricum (Watery and painless stools; menorrhagia pressing, throbbing between periods with rush of blood to head. Basedow's disease. Erethism. Pain in gall-bladder; toothache; acidity; eructation of food in mouthfuls); Ferrum pernitricum (cough, with florid complexion); Ferrum tartaricum (cardialgia; heat at cardiac orifice of stomach).

Ferrum protoxalatum (Anæmia). Use 1x trit. Compare also; Graph; Mangan; Cupr.

States of debility where the blood is poor in hematin require material doses; plethoric, hæmorrhagic conditions call for small doses, from the second to the sixth potency.

Anxiety as after committing a crime. Changeable disposition, one evening low-spirited and melancholy, the next excessively cheerful. Quarrelsome, disputative.

Vertigo, particularly when descending and on seeing flowing water ; with sickness at the stomach in walking ; with the sensation as if the head would constantly incline to the right side. Congestion of blood to the head, with pulsation and hammering in the head, heat and redness of the face, enlarged veins, sensitiveness of the head to the touch ; worse after midnight and towards morning ; returning periodically. Pain in the back part of the head when coughing. Sensitiveness of the head to the touch and falling off of the hair ; the hair is also painful to the touch. Pressure on the top of the head when the cold air touches ; it.

Dull, lustreless eyes with blue rings around them. Inflammation and redness of the eyes with burning or stinging. Obscuration of sight in the evening. Redness and swelling of the upper and lower lids. Suppurating stye on the upper lid.

Stitches in the ear in the morning. Ulcerative pain of the outer ear.

Bleeding from the nose (evening). The nose is ; continuously filled with clotted blood.

Earthy, jaundiced color of the face. Paleness of the face with red spots on the white face. Pale bloated face, especially around the eyes. Fiery redness of the face ; the veins are enlarged. Pale, dry lips. Yellow spots in the face.

Aching, pressing pain in the throat during deglutition, with heat in the fauces. Constrictive sensation in the throat.

Aversion to and bad effects from meat, beer and acids. Cannot eat or drink any thing hot. Unquenchable thirst (or thirstlessness). Longing for acids. Solid food becomes dry and insipid in the mouth during mastication. Every thing he eats tastes bitter. Sour eructations. Bitter eructations after fat food. Vomiting of the ingesta as soon as he eats. Vomiting of the food tasting sour in the morning or during the night. Every thing vomited tastes sour and is acrid. Vomiting after eating eggs. Spasmodic pressure at the stomach after taking the least food or drink, especially after eating meat. Hardness and distention of the abdomen. Spasmodic contraction of the abdominal muscles, as if the abdomen were constricted, especially when stooping, so that he can only straighten himself slowly. Painful weight of the abdominal viscera in walking, as if they would fall down. The bowels feel sore as if bruised, when touching them or when coughing. Flatulent colic at night (violent rumbling in the abdomen).

Watery diarrhœa with burning at the anus. Diarrhœa ; passes undigested food. Discharge of blood and mucus at every stool. With the slimy stool discharge of ascarides. Painless diarrhœa (involuntary during a meal). Contractive spasm in the rectum. Protrusion of large varices at the anus. Itching at the anus from ascarides at night (children).

Involuntary micturition, particularly in the day-time.

Men. Impotence. Nocturnal emissions. Discharge of mucus from the urethra. Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse. Suppressed menstruation. Hæmorrhage from the uterus, with labor-like pains in the abdomen and glowing heat in the face ; the blood in partly pale, partly clotted. Miscarriage. Painfulness of the vagina during an embrace. Swellings and indurations in the vagina. Prolapsus of the vagina.

Hot breath. Oppressed, short breathing. Fulness and tightness of the chest. Asthma (after midnight), compelling one to sit up. Asthma most violent when lying, or when sitting still without doing any thing ; relieved by walking and talking. When sitting still loud breathing, as if asleep. Roughness of the throat, hoarseness. Stitches and soreness in the chest. Sensation of dryness in the chest. Spasmodic constriction in the chest. Spasmodic cough from tickling in the trachea, with expectoration only in the morning of blood-streaked, purulent, albuminous mucus ; greenish or frothy, tasting sweetish, putrid or sour. Cough worse in the evening, till midnight. Spasmodic cough in the morning relieved by eating. Spasmodic cough after eating and with vomiting of the ingesta. In the morning, copious expectoration of purulent matter ; in the evening, the cough is dry. Hæmoptysis in the morning and at night. When coughing, stitches in the chest ; sensation of soreness.

Upper. Paralytic tearing pain from the shoulder-joint into the upper arm (left) ; he cannot raise the arm ; slow movement improves it gradually. Cracking in the shoulder-joint. Nightly tearing and stinging in the arms. Numbness and contraction of the fingers. Swelling of the hands (and feet). Lower. Nightly tearing and stinging from the hip-joint to the thigh, gradually improving from slow motion. Numbness of the thighs. Painful cramps in the calves, while at rest, especially at night. Swelling of the feet. The toes are contracted.

Very sleepy at night, with inability to go to sleep. Can only lie on her back at night. Anxious tossing about in bed (after midnight). Vivid dreams. The child does not sleep, disturbed by the itching caused by the ascarides.

Great emaciation. Weakness of the body almost paralytic ; she is so weak that she must lie down. Restlessness in the limbs. Contraction of the limbs. Cramps ; in the limbs (during the day). Cracking in the joints.

Pulse full and hard -Violent ebullitions. Chilliness in frequent short attacks. Chill with thirst and red hot face. Coldness in the evening in bed, frequently continuing all night. Chilliness and want of animal heat. Dry heat over the whole body, especially in the evening, with very red face and inclination to uncover oneself. Profuse and long continued perspiration, during the day when moving, and at night, and in the morning hours in bed. Clammy and debilitating perspiration. Every other day perspiration in morning till noon. Cold perspiration (with convulsions). The perspiration is immediately preceded by headache. Intermittent fever s (consequent upon the abuse of Cinchona) with congestion of blood to the head, distention of the veins, vomiting of the ingesta, swelling of the spleen.

Dirty, earth-colored skin. Dropsy.

Especially suitable after the abuse of Quinine, Tea, and Alcoholic drinks. Aggravation towards and in the morning, and while at rest, especially when sitting still. Amelioration from slow exercise.

Iron. Fe. (A. W. 56). Including also symptoms of the acetate and the carbonate. Triturations of the pure metal and of the carbonate; solution of the acetate. The Protoxalate is also a useful preparation in the crude and in trituration. "Hensel's Tonicum," a liquid, is another serviceable form.

Anæmia. Aphonia. Asthma. Biliousness . Catalepsy. Chlorosis. Chorea. Consumption (Fe. acet.). Cough. Cramps. Debility. Diarrhœa . Enuresis diurna. Fever, intermittent. Goître , exophthalmic. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhages. Heart, affections of; palpitation of. Hectic. Hydrocephalus. Kidneys, affections of . Lienteria. Menstruation, disorders of . Neuralgia. Paralysis of viscera. Pregnancy, disorders of. Rectum, prolapsus of. Rheumatism. Shoulder, affections of. Spasms. Syphilis. Toothache. Urine, incontinence of. Vertigo.

Ferrum , the Mars of the alchemists, is one of the prominent constituents of the animal body, being present in considerable quantity in the blood. It is present in many articles of daily food, and when given in excess to men or animals its first effect is to increase the amount of iron in the blood, stimulate the appetite, augment the heart's beats and the bodily vigour. The secondary effects, which ensue sooner or later if the administration of iron is continued, are those which give the indications for homœopathic prescribing. Hahnemann ( Mat. Med. Pur .) describes the effects of iron on persons who habitually drink chalybeate waters: "In such localities there are few persons who can resist the noxious influence of the continued use of such waters and remain quite well, each being affected according to his peculiar nature. There we find more than anywhere else chronic affections of great gravity and peculiar character, even when the regimen is otherwise faultless. Weakness, almost amounting to paralysis of the whole body and of single parts, some kinds of violent limb pains, abdominal affections of various sorts, vomiting of food by day or by night, phthisical pulmonary ailments, often with blood spitting, deficient vital warmth, suppression of the menses, miscarriages, impotence in both sexes, sterility, jaundice, and many other rare cachexias are common occurrences."

The digestive disorders set up by Iron are marked and peculiar, and among them is intolerance of eggs. The occurrence of this symptom in a patient about forty-five, who had had repeated attacks of articular rheumatism, led Kunkel to cure his case after he bad been dosed for three weeks with salicylate of soda by the allopaths. The only other distinctive feature was constant. < of pain after midnight. The obvious advantages derived in many cases of anæmia from the use of Iron in its crude forms has led to very grave abuses in old-school practice. That Iron is what may be called a "nutritive" remedy in certain defective blood conditions, having an organopathic relation to the blood, I have no doubt. In the anæmia of cancer and syphilis it is often of great service as an accessory, and need not interfere with more specific remedies. But it is not suited to all cases of anæmia and chlorosis, or even to a majority of them, and should never be given without discrimination and careful watching. But apart from its organopathic sphere, Ferrum has a strictly homœopathic use in anæmia in which the highest potencies are curative. For excess of Iron will cause anæmia, and at times will aggravate it when present. The type of anæmia caused by Iron and suited for its homœopathic use is commonly seen in young persons subject to irregular distributions of blood. The cheeks are flushed as if in blooming health; but in spite of bloom in appearances there is pallor of lips and mucous membranes, great fatigue and breathlessness, and any motion will set up the symptoms. Delicate girls, fearfully constipated, with low spirits. Chlorosis with erethism. Mucous membranes abnormally pale. Feet swell. The irregular distribution of blood in chlorotics recalls another set of symptoms which indicate Ferrum: hæmorrhages of many kinds, from over-fulness of blood-vessels from vaso-motor paralysis, or else from delicacy of the vessels themselves. Throbbing pains, the blood-vessels all over the body throb violently. Feet swell. Fulness of blood-vessels accompanies neuralgia, which is brought on by washing in cold water, especially after being over-heated. Hammering headache. The pulse of Ferrum is full and yielding ; (that of Acon . is full and bounding ). With Ferrum there is excessive irritability, both of the mind and of the tissues. It is like Arsen . and Chin . in this, as in many other symptoms, and it is an antidote to both. It is one of the best remedies for over-dosing with quinine, and hence the favourite old-school combination of "Quinine and Iron" is so far a wise one. Cramps are well marked in the pathogenesis; irritability of the bladder causing incontinence of urine when standing; irritability of the bowels, causing diarrhœa whilst eating. This symptom is peculiar to Ferrum , the diarrhœa coming on when the patient begins to eat. Many remedies have it immediately after eating. < From eating eggs. There is also gastralgia, heavy pressure in region of stomach; a feeling as if something rolled into the throat and closed it like a valve; frequent spells of nausea, periodic vomiting (especially at twelve midnight). The liver and spleen are affected. Walls of abdomen are sore. Pain in os tincæ on lying down; feeling of dryness in vagina. Ferrum is a remedy that should be given carefully in hæmorrhagic phthisis, as it may aggravate. The acetate, iodide, and phosphate are better than the metal in such cases, unless the similarity is very close. Rheumatic symptoms, especially of left shoulder and deltoid. Paralytic weakness. Restlessness. Tremor. Most symptoms are < by motion, especially sudden motion. Vertigo on suddenly rising; when crossing a bridge over water; vertigo as if balancing to and fro, as when on water. Neuralgia is > moving slowly about. In fact " > moving about slowly" is a keynote condition of many Ferrum cases. Rest < cramps. Lying down < pain in face; asthma; = pain in os tincæ; > cough ( H. W ., xxxi. 57). Descending stairs < headache. Walking slowly > palpitation; pain in arms; in hip-joint. The chief time of aggravation is night, and especially midnight, and also in early morning. The symptoms generally are < in cold weather, and > in warm air; but there is a good deal of contradictoriness in this respect, showing the irritability of Ferrum to all influences: uncovering chest > asthma and constriction, but too light covering < pain in shoulder. Over-heating = neuralgia, and so does washing in cold water. There is dread of open air, but open air > headache. The chlorosis of Ferrum is < in winter.

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Mind confused, cannot collect his thoughts.
Prone to weep or laugh immoderately ; with a choking sensation in throat, as if swollen outside.
Lively in evening.
Not inclined to talk or study ; nervous, restless.
Great indifference.
Changeable disposition, one evening low-spirited and melancholy, next excessively cheerful.
Depression of spirits ; also after menses.
Mental depression, gloomy foreboding thoughts.
Mind in highest degree oppressed ; despondent ; great solicitude about those belonging to him, with constant thoughts of death. θ Aphonia.
Anxiety as after committing a crime.
From slightest cause, anxiety, with throbbing in pit of stomach.
Nervous, hysterical feeling ; fear of apoplexy.
Irritability ; little noises, such as crackling of a newspaper, drive him to despair.
Pettish, quarrelsome, disputative, easily excited, least contradiction angers.
Excited by slightest opposition ; everything irritates or depresses her.
Vehement ; quarrelsome ; anxious.
Haughtiness ; proud, self-contented look.
Ailments from anger.
Moderate mental exertion improves many symptoms.

Head confused, muddled ; with cold feet and stiff fingers.
Gloomy feeling in head, which feels heavy and confused.
Dulness of head, want of disposition to think.
Confusion of head.
Vertigo : on rising suddenly, things grew black, had to lean against something or fall ; with nausea, prostration lethargy ; as if balancing to and fro ; as when on water when walking over water, like when crossing a bridge when
descending, with disposition to fall forward.
Whilst walking, giddy as if drunk, as though she would fall over obstacles.
On looking at running water dizzy and giddy in head as if everything went round with her.
Staggering in walking, as if intoxicated ; reeling sensation and vertigo on seeing flowing water ; vertigo with sickness at stomach in walking ; momentary shock, with giddiness in brain.
Sensation as if head would constantly incline to right side.

Pressive headache in forehead as if it would burst.
Pressure in frontal eminences, after rising and dressing in morning, after quarter of an hour, extending over whole forehead to vertex and becoming more intense and after twenty minutes changing to a pressive pain from within outward ; on going down stairs pain <, involuntarily
presses palm of hand on painful spot which momentarily > the pain, but it is only decidedly > in open air.
Dull, pressive sensation in frontal eminence, afterward spreading over whole forehead and finally to vertex > by pressure of hands ; in open air ; < descending.
Severe frontal headache all day, with cold feet.
Lancination in forehead.
Awake 3 A. M. with severe stitches, as from a pen-knife in both temples, gradually extending over whole ford head, with chilliness, rendering her unable to go to sleep again.
Headache every evening above root of nose.
Sticking pain over left eye, coming suddenly.
Hammering, boring pain beginning mostly in left temple with sensation of expansion of blood-vessels in the temples.
Violent shooting headache in left side, in afternoon.
Headache : occupying left side of head ; with coryza ; after menses.
Tearing from lambda to temporal bone.
Headache on top of head, as if skull was pushed upward.
Throbbing pain in top of head when moving suddenly.
Beating in back of head and neck, gradually extending to sides and forehead, < stooping or moving.
Drawing from nape of neck into head, with stinging hammering and roaring in head.
Drawing, from nape upward into head, in which there is then shooting, roaring and humming.
Pain in back of head when coughing.
Weight in back of head, from ear to ear.
Confusion of mind, with hammering, beating sensation in head.
Sensation in head as of the beatings of the pulse, with slight sticking.
Rush of blood to head, with swelling of veins of head, and slight flushes of heat.
Rush of blood to head, with throbbing pains, roaring, buzzing and prickling in brain.
Hammering and throbbing headache, obliging one to lie down, or as if brain were rent asunder.
Hammering, pulsating pain ; humming in ears ; congestion of head, with pale face ; intolerance of all spirituous liquors ; dread of movement, with loss of muscular tone and debility.
Headache : for two, three, or four days, every two or three weeks ; hammering, beating, pulsating pains, must lie down in bed ; with aversion to eating and drinking.
Hammering, pulsating headache ; ulcerative pain of scalp, with loss of hair ; bruit du diable in vessels of neck ; paleness of mucous membranes of mouth and eyes ; vigorous, healthy appearance, the general condition simulating a plethoric
rather than an anemic habit. θ Megrim.
Congestion of blood to head, with pulsation and hammering in head, heat and redness of face, enlarged veins, sensitiveness of head to touch ; < after midnight and towards morning ; returning periodically ; > external pressure.
Head dull and full, eyelids heavy, apt to sleep, while sitting reading.
Writing causes headache to re-appear.
Headaches of anemic, debilitated persons, especially with congestion of head or chest.
Head hot, feet cold.
Apoplexia sanguinea.
Hydrocephalus with open fontanelles and great anemia.

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We will take up the study of Ferrum metallicum. The Old School has been giving Iron for anaemia throughout all tradition. They have given it in great quantities in the form of the tincture of chloride, and the carbonate.

Whenever the patient became anemic, pallid, waxy and weak, Iron was the tonic. It is true that Iron produces anemia, and it would be astonishing to any one who ever read the provings of Ferrum of the allopaths did not create additional bloodlessness with the doses of Iron they administer.

It is true that under the provings, and under those circumstances where Iron has been given in excess, the patient becomes greenish, waxy, yellow and pallid, with a sickly and anemic countenance. The lips become pale; the ears lose their pink color; the skin of the body becomes waxy, and there comes a tendency to hemorrhage, at times with clots, but commonly with copious, thin, liquid blood, very dark.

The clots will separate and the fluid parts look brown, dirty and watery. The patient gradually emaciates. He is pallid and waxy; his muscles become flabby and relaxed; he is incapable of endurance. All the muscular fibers become tired from any exertion. Rapid exercise, or, any unusual exertion. is impossible. Any rapid exertion or motion brings on weakness, dyspnea, sinking and fainting.

A strange thing running through all the constitutional conditions of Ferrum is that the pains and sufferings come on during rest.

The palpitation sometimes comes on during rest, the dyspnoea comes on during rest, and even the weakness. The patient is ameliorated by moving gently about, but any exertion tires and causes faintness.

Any rapid motion aggravates the complaints. The pains are ameliorated by moving about the house slowly, so that the exertion does not excite or fatigue. In many cases the patient is dropsical. The skin pits upon pressure and is pale, yet the face shows an appearance of plethora. From every little excitement the face becomes flushed.

During the chill the face becomes red. From taking wine or stimulant the face becomes flushed, and the patient, though flabby, relaxed and tired, does not get credit for being sick.

She fails to get the sympathy of her friends. She is feeble, she suffers from palpitation and dyspnoea, she has great weakness with inability to do anything like work, she feels that she must lie down-yet the face is flushed. This is called a pseudo-plethora.

The blood-vessels are distended, the veins varicose, and their coatings relaxed. On this account bleed ing takes place easily; capillary oozing; hemorrhage from all pass of the body, haemorrhage from the nose, the lungs, the uterus.

Women suffer much from haemorrhage from the uterus, especially during and after the climacteric period. Ferrum will be found of great value when the symptoms agree in that wonderful anemic state called "green sickness," that comes on with girls at the time of puberty and in the years that follow it.

There will be almost no menstrual flow, but a cough will develop, with great pallor. So common is this sickness among girls that all mothers are acquainted with and dread it. In a large practice you will have a number of cases of chlorosis.

Sometimes the early menstrual period is attended with a copious, and then occurs, and this goes on for a number of years before anything like menstrual regularity is established.

In these cases the Old School always used to feed their patients Iron in great quantities, but the more Iron the patient took the worse she grew.

Congestion, tending upwards, with red face, hot head and coldness of the extremities. But the heat of the head and face is not at all in proportion to the red appearance. It will be found that this congestion upward in Ferrum will take place during a chill, in septic fevers or in other forms of fever, and the head is not always hot, but sometimes cool. The face may be red and cool.

Another grand feature of Ferrum is that, like China, it has complaints from loss of animal fluids; from prolonged haemorrhage, with weakness remaining a long time. There is no repair, no assimilation. The bones are soft and easily bent; they take on crooks. Emaciated and feeble children. Dryness of the joints, causing cracking on motion. Sudden emaciation, with false plethora.

Redness of face - a healthy looking bloom - in one who is unable to walk fast on the street, or to stand any exertion. Yet some of the complaints of Ferrum are better from occupation, from doing something, from taking a little exercise, because the complaints come on during rest.

Over-excitability and sensivity of the nerves; oversensitiveness to pain. The sensitive woman who needs Ferrum has a flushed face and is often complaining because she gets no sympathy. She does not look sick, yet she puffs on going up stairs; she feels weak and wants to lie down.

Restless when keeping still; must keep the limbs moving. Rending pains in the limbs; dull aching in the limbs. These pass off when moving about quietly and gently, like Pulsatilla. But Ferrum is a very cold remedy, and is ameliorated by warmth, except the pains about the neck, face and teeth, which are ameliorated by cold. But most of the pains are ameliorated by heat; the patient wants to keep warm and dreads anything like fresh air or a draught.

Weakness and prostration; weakness even from talking. Prostration with irregular pulse and rapid pulse, or with too slow pulse; palpitation. And then comes paralytic weakness; the limbs give out. Paralytic conditions from anaemia or haemorrhage. Fainting spells from haemorrhage. Jerking and twitching of the muscles; chorea; catalepsy.

You may easily imagine something of the character of the mental symptoms, for they are like the physical. The mind is confused and the patient tearful. Depression of spirits; mental weariness and depression. The highest degree of depression and despondency. Anxiety from the slightest cause; irritability.

The least noise, like the crackling of paper, sets the patient wild. It brings on nervous excitement and restlessness; she must get up and move.

Excitement from the slightest opposition. Any sudden or rapid motion, or the least hurry, causes blackness before the eyes; dizziness; things turn in a circle; she must sit down. And with all this the face is red. When alone and at rest, the face becomes pale and cold, but the least excitement brings a flush to the cheeks.

The headaches are congestive in character, with mounting of blood upwards. There is a sense of fullness and distension, with red face.

Fullness and distension of the eyes; fullness of the neck. Palpitation of the heart. Exophthalmic goitre. The headaches are ameliorated by pressure. Ferrum wants to be pressed to support the veins. Throbbing like hammers in the head.

Every quick motion aggravates the headache. Coughing aggravates the headache; pain in the head and occiput from coughing. These pains are sometimes ameliorated by walking gently. Going up stairs, sitting down, rising from a seat unless it is done very deliberately - will arouse all the pains of Ferrum.

Any sudden motion will bring on hammering and a feeling of great expansion in the head. And then will come more or less shooting, tearing pains. Beating in the back of the head from rising or from coughing, because coughing is a sudden motion. Confusion of mind with hammering headache. Rush of blood to the head. Congestive headaches from excitement; from taking cold; from exposure; lasting three or four days or a week. The face is gushed and perhaps cold, the head somewhat hot, but not as hot as would be expected.

Redness of the eye; engorged vessels. Great weakness, dyspnoea and palpitation. Writing - a mental operation - causes the headache to reappear. Great sensitiveness of the scalp. The patient must let the hair hang down. Mental disorders and headaches accompanying or following haemorrhages, and in lying in women.

Bloated appearance about the eyes. All sorts of disturbance of vision from congestion. Venous stasis; swelling of the eyelids; pus-like discharge. Over-sensitiveness to sound; ringing in the ears.

The symptoms of the nose are numerous. Colds and catarrhal troubles, ending in nosebleed. Nosebleed on slight provocation, with headaches at the menstrual nisus.

Scabs form in the nose. Extreme paleness of the face; face becomes red and flushed on the least emotion. Flushed face with dropsy of the lower limbs; flushed face with chill. Thirst during the chill is a striking feature of Ferrum. During the menstrual period there are violent pains, and as soon as the pain starts the face becomes flushed.

Nothing taken into the stomach digests, and yet there is no special nausea. It is the exception to find nausea in Ferrum. Food goes into the stomach and is vomited without nausea-simply emptied out. Sometimes there are eructations of food by the mouthful, like Phosphorus.

Phosphorus was the remedy with all the old masters for spitting up of food by the mouthful until. the stomach was empty.

Canine hunger. It says in the next:

"Double the amount of an ordinary meal in the evening was hardly sufficient."

All food tastes bitter; solid food is dry and insipid. After eating there are eructations. Heat in the stomach; regurgitation of food. Spasmodic pressure in the stomach after the least food or drink, especially after meat. Aversion to meat, to eggs, to sour fruit. Aversion to milk, and to his accustomed tobacco and beer. Sweet wines agree, but sour wines and all sour things disagree. The tongue feels as if burnt. As soon as the stomach is empty vomiting ceases until he eats again. Vomiting of food, immediately after midnight, Vomitus tastes sour.

Ferrum is occasionally indicated during pregnancy. A few weeks after becoming pregnant the woman commences to throw up her food by the mouthful.

There is no nausea, but the face is flushed and the woman is flabby and weak. She vomits without becoming sick. Fullness and pressure in the stomach; pressure in the stomach after eating. Ferrum is an unusually interesting remedy because of this peculiar stomach. It is like a leather bag; it will not digest anything. Fill it up and it empties itself just as easily as it was filled.

Ferrum has a troublesome diarrhoea, with acrid watery excoriating stool. Morning diarrhoea. Many of these patients are old sinners with broken-down constitutions, who have suffered long from constipation. Chronic constipation with ineffectual urging and hard, difficult Stools.

Relaxation runs through the remedy. From this relaxation there is prolapsus of the rectum, vagina and uterus. Dragging down in the lower part of the body, as if the organs would come out-and sometimes they do come out.

The bladder is also relaxed. Its sphincter is weak, and there is no regularity of its muscular action. Hence, we have involuntary urination from sudden motion, from walking, or from coughing. In little children the urine dribbles all day just as long as the child plays the urine dribbles and keeps the clothing wet, but this better while keeping perfectly quiet.

The bladder is so relaxed and tired that it cannot hold the urine, and as soon as it is partially filled it allows its contents to escape. This relaxation runs through the remedy and gives it character, just like a human being. You know what each one of your friends is likely to do on every occasion. So it is with a remedy. You ought to know what it is most likely to do, in order to know what it will accomplish in curing the sick.

Weakness and relaxation of the genital organs is common to Ferrum. The menstrual flow comes in for its share. Copious, watery flow; haemorrhage or suppression - amenorrhoea - no flow at all, only a leucorrhoea. Suppression of the menses with great nervous excitement; with flushed face; with weakness and palpitation. Prolapsus of the vagina. Insensibility of the vagina during coition. Metrorrhagia. Menses too soon too profuse and lasting too long.

Difficult respiration; pains and disturbances in the chest. Difficult breathing, with a sense of a great load on the chest. Suffocating fits at night; catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract; congestion of the chest; dyspnoea.

Spasmodic cough, such as we find in whooping cough, coming on in violent paroxysms. Cough after every meal, with gagging, emptying the stomach of its contents. Cough felt in the head. Cough worse from the abuse of brandy, tobacco or tea. Cough coming on after the loss of fluids, as after haemorrhages.

Chest troubles following uterine hemorrhage, and after other hemorrhages. Coughing up blood; bleeding from the lungs. Persons debilitated by secret vices, with a tendency to go into tuberculosis.

Palpitation of the heart from fear, excitement, or exertion. Rapid action of the heart, or sometimes slow action. Fatty degeneration of the heart. Pulse accelerated toward evening. Pulsations throughout the body, feeling like little hammers.

in the extremities, ameliorated by heat and by gentle motion; aggravated by cold, by exertion, or by rapid motion. Pains through the deltoid muscles are spoken of more prominently than pains in other parts, but these pains are no more striking than the pains anywhere in Ferrum.

Tearing pains through the limbs. Inability to raise the arm; paralytic pains, - that is, pains that are benumbing. Pains that make him feel as if he were going to lose the power to move the part. Violent pains in the hip-joint are just as common as the pains in the shoulder.

Lippe says,

"Rheumatism in the left shoulder," but it is just as common in the right. Rheumatic pains in the deltoid muscle of either side. Violent pain in the muscles and along the nerves. Pinching in the right deltoid; boring in the right shoulder; aggravated by motion and by the weight of the bedclothes; ameliorated by heat.

Tearing and stinging pains. The Ferrum pains come on in the night, because the patient attempts to keep still in bed. Rest brings on the Ferrum pains. When moving gently about in the daytime be will not have so much pain. Coldness of the limbs; and again, heat of the soles and palms, they change about. With all this weakness and prostration dropsical conditions come on, so that the feet and hands become bloated.

Evening chill or chilliness with fever, cold hands and feet and red face. Icy cold feet with the chill. Chill ameliorated after eating. Thirst with the chill. Copious sweat which stains yellow. All symptoms worse while sweating. Strong-smelling night sweats. All the febrile symptoms are better by slowly moving about. In intermittent fever after the abuse of quinine.

We read in the text that Ferrum is a remedy for diarrhea in the last stages of consumption. Well, sometimes it is, if the patient is prepared to die.

Ferrum will stop the diarrhea, but after it is stopped the patient will not live long. The diarrhea is not usually painful. It is annoying, but it is painless, and the night sweats are painless. Do not suppress them; they had better be let alone. Let the patient go on to a peaceful termination.

The best remedy for diarrhoea in the last stages of consumption is Saccharum lactis in the crude form, given in very small quantities and repeated as often as is required by the patient and the bystanders.

Adapted to persons of sanguine temperament; pettish, quarrelsome, disputative, easily excited, least contradiction angers (Anac., Coc., Elaps); women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a very red face.

Hemorrhagic diathesis; blood bright red, coagulates easily (Fer. p., Ipec., Phos.).

Extreme paleness of the face, which becomes red and flushed on the least pain, motion or exertion; blushing (Amyl, Coc.).

Irritability: slight noises, like crackling of paper, drive him to despair (Asar., Ther.).

Always feels better by walking slowly about, although weakness obliges the patient to lie down.

Erethitic chlorosis, worse in winter.

Red parts become white; lips, face, tongue.

Menses: early, profuse, protracted, with fiery red face; ringing in the ears; intermit two or three days and then return; flow pale, watery, debilitating.

Vertigo; with balancing sensation as if on the water; on seeing flowing water; when walking over water, as when crossing a bridge (Lys.); when descending (Bor., San.).

Headache: for two, three, or four days, every two or three weeks; hammering, beating, pulsating pains, must lie down in bed; with aversion to eating or drinking.

Regurgitation and eructation of food in mouthfuls (Alum.), without nausea.

Canine hunger, or loss of appetite, with extreme dislike for all food.

Vomiting : immediately after midnight; of ingesta, as soon as food is eaten; leaves table suddenly and with one effort vomits everything eaten, can sit down and eat again; sour, acid (Lyc., Sul. ac.).

Diarrhœa :

Bar., coldness of body which was hot to the touch). Flushes over the whole body, as if perspiration would break out. Heat of head, feet cold. Great heat of palms of hands and soles of feet. Heat in the stomach (relieved by eating), vomiting of the ingesta. Dry heat, worse towards evening; inclination to uncover (Sec.); > by moving about, eating, speaking. Face very red.

From early morn till noon every other day, preceded by headache. Sweat profuse, long-lasting, whether by day at every motion, or night and morning in bed. Strong-smelling, clammy, debilitating night-sweat. Sweat stains yellow, and is fetid on going to sleep. Sweat > while speaking and after eating. All the symptoms are < while sweating (all the symptoms are > by sweating, Nat., Psor.). "Nausea during sweat."—C. PEARSON.

Coated white. Lips, gums, tongue and mucous membrane of entire buccal cavity pale and bloodless (Sec.). All food tastes bitter, dry, woody and insipid. Taste like rotten eggs (Acon., Arn.). Anorexia; extreme dislike to all food.

Hard and full at beginning of paroxysm; or weak, small and scarcely perceptible during apyrexia; great ebullition of blood.

Prostration, debility and great loss of muscular power. Anæmia. Œdema of feet and face, especially upper and lower eyelids (Apis, Ars.—of upper eyelids, Kali c.). Headache; vertigo; swelling of the cutaneous veins; splenic region swollen and sore on pressure (Apis, Arn.). Vomiting of everything eaten without being digested. Constipation or chronic diarrhœa with lienteria. Cadaverous, jaundiced complexion. Yellow spots on the face (Sep.). Very weak and tired, but always better when walking slowly about (better from being perfectly still, Bry.). Cases maltreated by Quinine.

"Iron is evidently one of the most precious remedies against the cachectic condition; but I admit that its action is due to neither the chemical reasons that have been imagined and which have been current even on the lips of our school, nor the massive doses which naturally flow from these considerations; it is by its dynamic virtues that Ferrum acts and confers all its benefits.—A. CHARGE.

Intermittent fever after abuse of Quinine; congestions to head and face; veins distended; vomiting ingesta; swelling of spleen; anæmia marked by pseudo-plethora; skin transparent when it is not earthy. The totality of the characteristic symptoms.

A history of anæmia, chlorosis, and general constitutional weakness.

Pale face, flushed during chill or heat.

Feet cold, as if in snow.

Profuse, long-lasting, debilitating sweat; clammy and cold at night.

Maltreated by Quinine.

Head confused, meddled; with cold feet and stiff fingers.
Mind confused, cannot collect his thoughts.
Prone to weep or to laugh immoderately; with choking sensation in throat, as if swollen outside.
Not inclined to talk or study; nervous, restless.
Lively in evening.
Depression of spirits; also after menses.
Excitable, pettish, least, contradiction angers.
Proud, self-contented look.
Nervous, hysterical feeling.

Vertigo: on rising suddenly, things grew black, had to lean against something, or fall; nausea, prostration, lethargy; as if balancing to and fro, as when on the water; when walking over water, as when crossing a bridge.

Head dull and full, eyelids heavy, apt to sleep, while sitting reading.
Pain over left eye, coming suddenly.
After 3 A.M., with stitches in both temples, which spread gradually over whole forehead, with chilliness.
Throbbing pain in top of head when moving suddenly.
Headache on top of head, as if skull was pushed upwards.
Weight in back of head, from ear to ear.
Congestion to head, pulsating, hummering pains; head sensitive; worse after 12 P.M.; returning periodically; feeling of an iron band around the head; better from external pressure; face red.
Pain in back of head when coughing.
Beating in back of head and neck, gradually extending to sides and forehead, worse stooping or moving.
Headache: occupying left side of head; with coryza; after menses.
Head hot, feet cold.
Writing causes headache to re-appear.

Scalp and hair feels sore; drawing in chest.
Pressure on top of head when cold air touched it.
Slight itching in scalp and cold feet.

At right can see in the dark; hysteria.
Dark before the eyes; giddy.
Letters run together when reading or writing.
Eyes weak, with lachrymation.
Pupils contracted.
Pressure in the eyes as if they would protrude; worse right.
Redness and swelling of both lids.
Inflamed eyes, burning, stinging.
Can scarcely open eyes; lids pressed down.
Suppurating stye on upper lid.

Ringing in right ear.
Oversensitive to sounds.
Stitches in the ears in the morning.
Ulcerative pain of the outer ear.

Bloody, puruloid, greenish, whey-like, slimy, acrid discharge; cold in head.
Dropping of fluid from posterior nares or frontal sinuses; headache.
Nose continually filled with clotted blood; especially with coryza.
Epistaxis; in anæmic patients subject to ebullitions.
Scabs out of nose, or coughed up every few weeks.

Face ashy pale or greenish; it becomes bright red with pain and other symptoms.
Blue rings around the eyes, which are dull, lustreless.
Face feels as if swollen and bloated.
Face pale, with red spots.
Face fiery red, veins large; congestion to head.
Yellow spots on face.
Face pale, collapsed, or expressionless, stiff and stupid; pneumonia.
Neuralgia after cold washing and overheating.

Lips pale, dry.

Unbearable taste of blood.
Taste like rotten eggs.
Bad state, mouth dry, tongue coated white.

Dry in the morning.
Paleness of the buccal cavity.

Like a lump in left side of throat, below the tonsil; worse from empty swallowing; not when eating and drinking.
Throat sore; dull, heavy all day, lively in evening.
Constructive sensation in throat.

Appetite good and bad alternately; with diarrhœa.
Loathing sour things.
Aversion to: meat, which disagrees; bear; hot things.
Appetite for bread.
Appetite lessened or natural.
Thirstless, or unquenchable thirst.

Worse from meat; sour fruit.
Solid food seems dry and insipid while masticating.
All food tastes bitter.
A fear eggs, vomiting.
After fat food, bitter eructations.
Wine agrees, if not acid.
After eating, heat in stomach, nausea.
After least food or drink, especially after meat spasmodic pressure at the stomach.
Cold water: 20.

Eructations: sour; foul; burning, relieving burning in stomach.
Nausea: with headache; with nightly diarrhœa; with vertigo.
Vomiting: at midnight, or morning after breakfast; as soon as food is taken.

Heat and burning in stomach, with momentary, cramp-like pain in splenic region.
Heavy pressure in pit of stomach.
Palpitation in stomach and through œsophagus, as if a nerve was quivering, with an occasional suffocating feeling, as if a valve rose in the throat.
Occasional uneasiness at splenic end of stomach.

Tightness in right hypochondriac region.
Pain is small of back and liver, all dry.
Fullness in region of liver.
Liver enlarged, sensitive to pressure.
Spleen large; after intermittents.
Shooting pain in left hypochondrium.
Cramp-like sensation in splenic region.

Abdomen hard, distended, but not with flatulence.
Rumbling, with pain in small of back and kidneys, and slight urethral soreness when urinating.
Flatulent colic at night; violent rumbling.
Bowels feel sore when touched, as if bruised, or weakened by cathartics.

Prolapsus recti; with children.
Straining for stool all day, sick at stomach, disagreeable taste, worse drinking cold water.
Diarrhœa, with undigested good; painless and involuntary during a meal.
Rice-water discharges; cold, with cold, sour sweat.
Stools: watery, with burning at the anus; slimy, with discharge of ascarides; stools with blood and mucus.
Costive: stools hard and difficult, followed by backache.
Itching at the anus at night, from ascarides.
Piles, copious bleeding or ichorus oozing; tearing pains, with itching and gnawing.

Pains in bladder.
Slight soreness in urethra.
Involuntary urination at night, and also when walking about by day.
Urine more copious and clear; with relaxation and prostration, making him very nervous.
Urine alkaline.
Hot urine; metrorrhagia.

Sexual desire increased.
Impotence.
Seminal emissions.
Gleet, copious, painless, milky.

Desire lessened, sterility.
During coitus, insensible; painfulness of the vagina.
Dropsy of uterus; face flushes red.
Sharp pains in abdomen, bearing down in uterus, with aching below it.
Sticking, shooting pains in uterus.
Pains near mouth of uterus when lying down.
Passive flow, dark, grumous. θ Menorrhagia.
Swellings and indurations in the vagina.
Vagina too dry.
Prolapsus of vagina.
Before menses, stinging headache, ringing in ears, discharge of long pieces of mucus from uterus.
Menses: too late, long-lasting and profuse; flow watery, or in lumps; preceded by labor-like pains; varices in legs worse; intermit two or three days, then return; uterus displaced; come on with a physical languor and mental displaced; come on with a physical languor and mental depression unfitting her for work; could overcome them by forced exertion. Hysterical symptoms after menses; suppressed.
Leucorrhœa milk, milky, or itching, sharp, with soreness.
Much itching of vulva; delicate women, with red face.

Prevents abortion.
Promotes expulsion of moles.
Spasmodic labor-pains.
Uterine hemorrhage with labor-like pains, glowing face; flow watery, or containing lumps; pulse full, hard.

Voice: hoarse; almost extinct.
Roughness of the throat; hoarseness.

Breath hot.
Dyspnœa increases slowly. θ Pneumonia.
Difficult inspiration, as from heaviness of the chest.
Breathing dry, loud, anxious; sometimes in children, rattling.
Oppression from orgasm of blood; chest scarcely moves in breathing; nostrils dilated during expiration.
Asthma, worse after 12 P.M. must sit up; better walking slowly about and talking; better uncovering chest; after itch.
Suffocative fits evening, in bed, with warmth of neck and trunk, limbs cold.
Breath fails at end of coughing fit.

Spasmodic, from tickling in trachea; at night, must sit up to raise the sputum; spasmodic, after eating with vomiting of food; after drinking; with stitches and soreness.
Sputa: copious, putrid, purulent greenish or frothy, worse morning; copious when moving; scanty, thin frothy, with streaks of blood.
Dry, trickling cough, with blood spitting.
Cough, worse from abuse of tea, quinine, brandy, tobacco smoke; loss of fluids.
Hæmoptysis morning and at night; blood, bright, coagulated, scanty during slight cough with interscapular pains, heavy breathing; must sit up; better walking slowly about, notwithstanding weakness obliges lying down; palpitation.
Hæmoptysis: of onanists; consumptives; from severe exertion; after loss of fluids; from suppressed menses.

Shooting-stinging in chest.
Feeling of dryness in the chest.
Slight heaviness in upper part of left lung, making breathing rather difficult; sore feeling below clavicle and left nipple, cannot take a long breath.
Slight, dull, heavy pain across upper part of chest, rendering breathing uneasy.
Sticking and bruised sensation in the chest.
Constricting spasm of chest.
Flying pains in chest; blood-spitting; persons who flush easily and get epistaxis, dyspnœa, palpitation.

Consecutive heart disease; chlorosis.
Hard, strong beating of the heat; pseudo-plethora.
Palpitation, better walking slowly; also in onanists; after loss of fluids; with blood-spitting.
Throbbing in all blood-vessels; soft bellows sound at apex.
Pulse: full, hard; increased by exertion.

Drawing in chest and around heart; scalp sore.

Neck: sore as if bruised; stiff.
Neck and shoulder painful when lying on right side.
Constant pains along back, worse in those parts she had to lie on.
Lumbago all night, goes off on rising.
Pain in region of kidneys, with desire to make water.

Shoulders sore to touch, painful, also arm.
Pinching in right deltoid.
Boring in right shoulder, and from biceps to elbow; worse from motion; better from heat; worse from weight of bedclothes.
Right arm lame.
Irresistible desire to bend arm, with intense pain; derives out of bed. 2 A.M.; better walking slowly about.
Arms nearly rigid.
When writing the hand trembles, does better when writing fast.
Hands cold, stiff, numb; palms hot.
Fingers; stiff, numb, contracted.

Violent pain in the hip-joint, worse evening until 12 P.M.; must get out of bed and walk about; can hardly put foot to the ground; but pain lessens while walking.
Varicose veins inside of right thigh, then of left.
Numbness of thighs.
Neuralgia, throbbing at night; worse rest; better moving.
Legs feel weak.
Calves weak, as if bruised.
Cramps in calves, worse at rest, especially at night.
Toes contracted.
Shooting-pricking in right instep.
Cramp in soles of feet.
Heel pains.
Feet cold, numb, stiff.
Soles feel hot.

Nightly tearing in arms and legs.
Swelling of hands; also of feet to the ankles.

Motion: 3, 32, 33, 40. Walking: 2, 21, 26, 27, 29, 32, 33, 36. Exertion: 5, 23, 27, 29. Stooping: 3. Lying: 23, 27, 31, 36; on back: 37. Sitting: 3, 37. Must sit up: 26, 27. Rising: 2. Must bend arm: 32. Rest: 33.

Increased bodily irritability; excitable.
Restlessness, must walk slowly about.
Tired, aching, as from lying long in one position.
Prostration, lethargic dulness, vertigo.
So weak she must lie down.
Paralysis from loss of fluids.

Falls asleep: from debility; while sewing, sitting and studying.
Sleep at night with inability to sleep.
Anxious tossing in bed after 12 P.M.
Can lie only on the back, at night.
Child does not sleep because of itching from ascarides.
Dreams: vivid; confused; unpleasant.
Nightmare.

Morning: 6, 12, 16, 27, 40. Morn till noon: 40. Evening: 1, 13, 26, 33, 40. Night: 5, 16, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 40. After midnight: 3, 26, 37. Day: 13, 20, 21, 40.

Generally worse in cold, or wet weather; better in warm air.
Cold air: 4 ; weather: 44. Cold washing: 8. Over heating: 8. Heat: 32. Warmth of bed: 26. Inclines to uncover: 40.

Chilly every evening: hectic fever.
Frequent short attacks of chilly shivering.
Chill with hot and red face, thirst.
General coldness in evening, in bed, often lasting all night.
Chilly and want of animal heat.
Thirst with chill.
Dry heat, worse towards evening; face red; inclined to uncover; better moving or speaking, and after meals.
Sweat profuse, long-lasting, as well by day at every motion, as at night and morning, in bed.
Clammy, generally debilitating sweat.
Every other (third) day sweat from morn till noon.
Strong-smelling night-sweat (with cramps of different parts).
Sweat stains yellow, is fetid on going to sleep.
Worse while sweating.
Intermittent fever after abuse of quinine; congestions to head; veins distended; vomiting ingesta; swelling of spleen; anæmia masked by pseudo-plethora.

Periodical attacks of pain.
Menses intermit.
Every other day: 40.
Pains increase gradually.

Left: 3, 13, 17, 18, 28, 40, 46. Right: 5, 6, 18, 31, 32, 33. Right to left: 33. Left to right: cramp in feet; pain in lungs.

Red parts become white.
Hemorrhages; blood light or lumpy; coagulates easily.
Blood-vessels distended, especially those of head, face, feet.
Varices.
Pseudo-plethora; congestions, etc., yet anæmic; the face is earthy, flushing easily.
Erethic chlorosis, worse during cold weather.
Dropsy after loss of fluids, abuse of Cinchon., intermittent fever; anasarca.
Gland swollen, with rending, tearing pains.
Bones disposed to soften or bend; fractures unite slowly.
Cracking in joints.
Sudden emaciation; muscles lax, limbs cold; weak digestion.

Touch: 19, 32, 46. Pressure: 18. Weight of bedclothes: 32.

Dry skin. θ Pneumonia.
Skin pale, yellow, sallow, dirty, withered, flabby.
Yellow-brown spots, sore to touch.
Scarlatina during desquamation.
Skin peels off on shoulders and left hand.
Warts on fingers and backs of hands.
Ulcers pale, œdematous.

Delicate, chlorotic women.
Weak, nervous; yet face is very red.
Sanguine, choleric.

Ailments from Arsen., Iodium, Cinchon.
Complementary to: Alum., Cinchon.
Antidotes to Ferrum: Arsen., Cinchon., Hepar, Ipec., Pulsat.

Pure Iron, reduced by Hydrogen, is triturated for use.

Iron acts chiefly on the blood, producing more rapid oxydation, with rise of temperature, at first an increase of red color (or of red corpuscles), but subsequently a diminution of red corpuscles and profound anæmia. ▶ The use of the various preparations of iron for febrile and inflammatory states has been greatly neglected.

Cinchona, Bell., Mangan., Phos., Puls., Lyc.

▶ Emaciation. ▶ Trembling; in frequent attacks; anxious T., alternating with fatigue. ▶ Blood darker, corpuscles intensely colored, more colorless corpuscles, coagulating in a shorter time; darker, corpuscles intensely colored, sharply margined, more and larger colorless corpuscles, fewer elementary corpuscles, longer in coagulating, serum darker; corpuscles deeply colored, colorless corpuscles smaller, longer in coagulating; serum increased in one case, diminished in four, dried serum diminished, ashes of serum increased in four cases, diminished in one, coagulum increased in three cases, diminished in two, dried coagulum increased in two, diminished in three, ashes of coagulum increased, red sediment increased in three cases, diminished in two, fibrin increased in one, diminished in four, water increased, dry residue diminished, fat increased in two, diminished in two, sol. ▶ Salts in ashes increased, iron in ashes increased in one case, diminished in three, Calc. phos. in ashes increased in two cases, diminished in three.

Periodical pains. ▶ Wandering about at night on account of pains. ▶ Magnetized sensation on waking, irresistible sleepiness. ▶ Nervousness; after menses; for three successive monthly periods, with headache and varicose vines in left ankle; and hysterical feeling, proneness to weep or laugh immoderately, with choking in throat as if it were swelling outwardly. ▶ Restlessness.

▶ Weakness; all day, with sleepiness; by day, with sleepiness (little amel. by sleep); in afternoon; general, from mere speaking; from walking; walking in open air; during menses; at beginning of menses, amel. exercise, with mental depression and the pain usually felt at beginning of menses disappeared; agg. towards evening; with falling asleep; with drowsiness and disinclination to talk or work; with aching in all limbs; periodical, then persistent (after increase of physical and mental energy), agg. walking. ▶ Tired aching as from lying long in one position. ▶ Inclination to lie down. ▶ Syncope; when walking, darkness before eyes, feeling as if she would have apoplexy and at every step roaring in ears; then weakness.

Aggravation in evening; A. by sitting; when standing, by motion, heat eating, drinking water, conversation, the sight of any person, even the dearest, noise, the sound of voices. ▶ Amelioration from gentle movement; A. from rest, sitting, lying, cool weather, after vomiting or evacuations, silence and solitude.

Profound prostration, generally with restlessness and general relief from walking slowly, cannot keep quiet, but feels worse from any active effort. ▶ General oversensitiveness to pain (headache, neuralgia, etc.). ▶ General anæmia, but with tendency to flushing of the face and head and liability to violent headache; in anæmia the extremities are generally cold, and the feet and hands often swollen.

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Iron acts chiefly on the blood, producing more rapid oxidation, with rise of temperature; at first an increase of red color (or of red corpuscles), but subsequently a diminution of red corpuscles and profound anæmia.

Emaciation.
Extreme weakness, bordering on paralysis.
Trembling and uneasiness in all the limbs; unable to keep quiet, yet motion aggravates.
Unnatural sensitiveness to pain and external impressions.
Wandering pains.
General aggravation at night and towards morning; also during rest, especially when sitting still.
Amelioration from gentle movement.

Easily made anxious; excited by the slightest opposition.
Great alternations of mood; excessively lively, then again sad and melancholy.

Violent hammering and beating; must lie down; apparent rush of blood to the head; all the vessels seem swollen.
Violent pulsating headache, apt to recur periodically.
Hot headache, with flushed face.
Occipital headache when coughing.
The scalp is even sensitive to touch, with falling out of the hair.
(Congestive headache usually > pressure, < sudden noise or motion, associated with cold extremities and feeble pulse.)

Sensation as if they would protrude; sunken, with blue rings.
Vision obscured in the evening.

Bleeding in the morning on stooping; also in the evening.
Clots of blood constantly accumulate in the nose.

Face usually earthy, yellowish, pale; at times becoming flushed, with red spots on the cheeks.
Lips pale and dry.

Taste foul; everything seems dry.

Constriction, with pain on swallowing.

Loss of appetite, especially in the forenoon.
Aversion to meat and sour food.
Meat and acids, as well as beer, cause nausea.
Unquenchable thirst.
Vomiting of food, especially after midnight.
Sour eructations.
Bitter eructations after fat food.
Vomiting of food immediately after eating.
Sour vomiting of food in the morning or at night.
Vomiting after eating eggs.

Soreness, as if beaten, on touch and on coughing, especially in the epigastric region, usually > walking about.
A feeling of tension in the right hypochondrium.

Watery diarrhœa, with burning.
Undigested stools.
Evacuation of mucus, with worms.
Evacuation generally painless, more at night or after eating and drinking, with coldness of the body and great prostration.

Constant urging to urinate, with pain in the liver, chest and kidneys.
Involuntary micturition, especially during the day, or also at night.

Painfulness of the vagina during coition.
Sore pain and smarting in the vagina during coition, with loss of all sexual desire.
Suppressed menstruation, with vicarious hæmorrhages.
Menses usually profuse and prolonged, with great debility; preceded by labor-like pains and headache, followed by milky-white, acrid leucorrhœa.

Hoarseness, with roughness in the larynx, almost loss of voice.
Cough < moving about; spasmodic, with expectoration of transparent, tenacious mucus, immediately > eating; spasmodic at noon after eating, followed by vomiting of food.
Expectoration bloody morning and night; copious in the morning, greenish during the day, sometimes streaked with blood.
Cough is apt to be dry in the evening after lying down; when coughing he loses breath.
Dyspnœa after midnight, also when sitting up.
Anxious oppression of the chest.
Stitches in the chest when coughing; the chest pains as if it were bruised.

Heart's action rapid, tumultuous.
Pulse frequently slow and feeble, sometimes full and hard; increased by any effort.
General disturbance of the circulation, a tendency to congestion of the face, head, chest, etc.

Drawing pains, extending from the nape into the head.
Lumbago, > walking slowly, worse after sitting.

General tendency to swelling of the hands and legs below the knees.
Sticking or tearing pains in the arms during night.
Paralytic tearing pain in the shoulder and muscles of the upper arm, so that raising the arm is impossible, but it gradually disappears on gentle motion.
Nightly sticking tearing from the hip joint down through the leg, gradually > gentle motion.
Cramp in the calves at night.

Cannot sleep at night; restless.
Sleep disturbed by numerous dreams; weary in the morning on rising.
Must lie on the back at night.

General coldness; lack of vital warmth.
Excessive surging of blood through the vessels.
Dry heat, with tendency to uncover.
Sweat during sleep and on the slightest motion.
Cold, anxious sweat, with cramps in the muscles.
Sweat at night of a very strong odor.

Ferr. m. / (Iron.) / Irene.

Ferrum,-With complexion white,
Calls a crimson blush on sight,
From emotion, or from pain,
With confusion of the brain.
Loses blood with passive flow,
Thus prolonging monthly "show".
But anemia is the key,
To choicest treasury.

Irene,-Has Anemia.

Irene Kip picks at Helen Calp, the lady cyclist.

This Irene,-Who is subject to easy blushing,- Is on St. Meli Plat, aiding Amy Bell.

Anemia: Ferr., Kal. p., Pic. a., Helon., Cal. p., Pul., Cyc.

Easy Blushing - Crimson Flushes: Ferr., Ig., Meli., Plat., Dig., Amyl, Bell.

Indicated in weak, anaemic, chlorotic persons, especially women, who are pale, flush easily from moderate excitement and from slight pain, the face assuming a bright red color. In congestive headaches; diarrhoea of undigested food, especially chronic cases; in teething children, consumption. Menstrual derangements in women who suffer from pain in the vagina during sexual intercourse. Coughs (consumption?); rheumatism, especially of shoulder and in the back.

Face pale, sallow; easily flushes bright red.

Fiery red face from any pain, even moderate, from exertion or excitement; red spots on the cheek.

Tendency to haemorrhage of bright red blood, coagulating easily.

Painless irritability of fibre (neck of bladder, urethra, rectum).

Headache: throbbing, hammering; with rush of blood to the head, swelling of the veins of the head; slight flashes of heat; cold hands and feet.

Vertigo on closing eyes or going downstairs, on walking over water; disposition to fall forward.

Tearing, stitching, lancinating pains in different parts of the body, with numbness, weakness, trembling; worse from efforts to move, but growing better when motion is continued.

Rheumatic pain in shoulders; lumbago; relieved by walking slowly.

Voracious hunger or complete loss of appetite.

Spitting up of food by the mouthful.

Intolerance of eggs.

Cardialgia, with heavy pressure in the stomach and vomiting of food right after eating.

Stools slimy, containing ascarides; or of hard, blackish balls; undigested; at night; painless with good appetite.

Cough; dry; after meal; with dyspnoea, dull pain and congestion of blood to the chest. Bloody, green, pus-like expectoration in the morning.

Menses too profuse; with labor-like pains in the abdomen and glowing heat of face; suffers from cold and damp; head hot, feet cold; flow intermittent, pale and watery or black and clotted.

Worse at night; at rest; after overheating; from washing in cold water.

Better from walking about slowly.

Changeable mood. Anxiety as though' he had committed a crime. Quarrelsome, vehement and dogmatic. Excessively merry one evening, alternating with sadness and melancholy the next.

When descending, or looking at water, with nausea and blindness.

Congestion so violent the veins swell up. Hammering, throbbing ache, recurring periodically. Headache in occiput when coughing. Painfulness of scalp to touch, with falling of hair. Worse: After midnight and toward morning.

Puffiness around. Weak, dim, encircled by blue rings. Inflamed, with burning therein. Obscured vision in evening.

Nosebleed in evening. Nose constantly filled with clotted blood.

Earthy, jaundiced complexion. Pale, with red spots on the pallid cheeks. Pale, puffy face, especially about eyes. Head and fiery redness of, with distended blood vessels. Pale, dry lips.

Pressive pain in, when swallowing.

Taste: Solid foods become dry and insipid when chewed. He can neither eat nor drink hot things.

Spasmodic pressure in, after eating, especially after meat. Oppression of, each time after eating and drinking. Contraction in pit.

Hypochondria: Tension in right.

Appetite: Loss of, especially in forenoon. No appetite for anything but bread and butter. Aversion to meat and sour foods. Bad effects from beer, meat and sour things. Unquenchable thirst (or thirstlessness).

Eructations: Sour. Bitter, after fat food.

Vomiting: Of food, immediately after eating. Of the soured ingesta, at night or early in morning. After eating eggs. Sour, of food, relieved at once by eating. About midnight. Everything vomited is sour and acid.

Hard, distended. Spasms in muscles of, as thought a. were contracted especially from the exertion of stooping, compelling him to straighten up slowly. Flatulent colic at night.

Diarrhoea: Watery, with burning in anus, of undigested food. Mucus, with ascarides.

Painful soreness and smarting in vagina, and want of pleasurable sensation during coition. Swellings and indurations in vagina. Barrenness. Miscarriage. Impotency in the male.

Menses: Too early, and too profuse. Suppressed. uterine hemorrhage, with labor - like pains in abdomen and a glowing red face. Labor - like pains and stitching headache, during. Persistent, milky, acrid (or painless) leucorrhoea.

Hot breath. Want of breath, mostly when at rest. Tightness of chest, especially when sitting and after midnight. Anxious oppression of chest Loud breathing, as if asleep, when sitting still.

Spasmodic, excited by tickling in trachea, with expectoration of transparent tenacious mucus, early in morning, ceasing immediately after eating a little. Spasmodic, after the noon meal, with vomiting of ingesta. With frothy or greenish, finely blood - streaked expectoration during day, of a sweetish, putrid or sourish taste. Inability to breathe when coughing, better after eating. Copious, purulent expectoration early in morning, in evening, after lying down, the cough becomes dry. Haemoptysis at night and early in morning.

Roughness of. Hoarseness.

Constricting spasm of. Feeling of dryness in. (Lach.) Stitches in, when coughing. Pains, as though bruised, when coughing. Pressure superiorly on sternum.

Tearing between scapulae.

Upper Extremities.

Nightly sticking and tearing in arms. Paralytic tearing pain, extending from shoulder - joint into muscles of upper arm and clavicle, rendering raising of arm impossible. gradually disappearing from slow motion. Numb, distorted fingers. Swollen hands and feet.

Nightly sticking and tearing, extending from hip - joint into thighs, gradually disappearing from slow motion. Numb thighs. Cramp in calves during rest, especially at night. Swelling of feet to ankles. Distorted toes. Cold feet.

Rapid emaciation. Weakness of body, almost amounting to paralysis. Restless limbs. Cracking in joints. Sudden cramps in limbs, frequently during day. Distorted limbs. Inclination to lie down, from a sense of weakness internally. Indisposition from walking in open air. After effects of misuse of China and tea. Most complaints appear at night and toward morning. Attacks are worse during rest, especially when sitting still, and better from slow motion.

Dirty, earth - colored. Anasarca.

Restless, with anxious tossing. Great drowsiness and fatigue, with inability to sleep at night. Falls to sleep late in evening. Can lie on back only.

Pulse: Full and hard. Violent ebullitions. Chill: Shuddering in frequent, short attacks. With a glowing face and thirst. General coldness in evening in bed, often lasting all night. Chilliness and want of natural vital heat. Heat: Dry, over the whole body, especially towards evening, with a very red face and inclination to uncover. Sweat: Very profuse and long continued, form every movement, during day as well as at night, and while in bed in the early morning. Clammy and mostly very exhausting. From morning till noon, every other day. Strong - smelling night s. Sometimes a cold, anxious s. (during spasms).

Allied Remedies: Ap., Arn., ARS., Bor., Carb-v., Chin., Glo., HEP., Ip., Puls., Sul., Sul-ac., Verat-a.

Complementary: China.

Great emaciation.

Weakness amounting to paralysis.

Restlessness in the affected limbs.

Cracking in the joints.

Disposition to languor and rest on account of internal weakness.

During the day-time, sudden spasms of the limbs are complained of.

Rheumatic complaints.

Contortion of the limbs.

Varices.

Chlorosis.

Congestions (not limited to any part of the body, but useful throughout).

Metorrhagia with red face and swelled veins.

Impotence.

Catamenia - too early and too profuse.

Aversion to fat food and vomiting of what has been eaten.

Walking in the open air greatly affects him.

Bad effects from the abuse of tea - and from the abuse of quinine.

Color of the face yellow or else earthy.

Circumscribed red area on the cheeks.

Aggravation at night and towards morning.

Also whilst at rest and when sitting quietly.

Amelioration by slow motion.