Iodium iod.

GLANDS: THYROID. Testes. Mesenteric. Mammæ. MUCOUS MEMBRANES: LARYNX. Lungs (R. Apex or base). HEART. Blood-vessels. Skin. Nerves. Connective tissue.

HEAT: ROOM. Air. Wraps. Exertion: Ascending. Talking. Fasting. Night. Rest.

COLD: AIR. Bathing. Motion. Eating.

Intensely rapid action. ALWAYS TOO HOT. Hot, acrid or watery discharges. Persistent or salty secretions. Infiltration. GLANDS, SWELLED, HARD or heavy; later dwindling. Lean, hungry and hot. Weak and rapidly losing flesh; can't talk. Vascular degeneration. Scrofula. Acute exacerbations (Fer-p.). Local torpidity; little pus. Internal tickling. General pulsation or local throbbings. Burnings.

Dejected or intolerably CROSS and RESTLESS. Excited. Sudden dreadful impulses, > if busy, but motion < and exhausts. Thinks he is well. Reverberations in head. Prominent eyes. Pain at root of nose. Subject to head colds, < open air. Catarrh. Nose red and swelled; much sneezing; it drips hot water. Miserable, withered, brownish, sallow or dusky look. Increased saliva; soapy; foul. Metallic taste. Always hungry, yet emaciates, or variable appetite. Frothy, wheyey, fatty, cheesy or lienteric stools. Sediment in urine like red pepper. Sarcocele. Atrophied testes. Impotency. Menses brown; with weakness; after every stool. Leucorrhœa erodes thighs and linen. Painful, choking hoarseness; grasps the larynx. Laryngitis. Diphtheria; expectorates cast of larynx (Kali-bi.). Rough voice. Dry, tickling, croupy cough. Short breath. Raw bronchiæ. Violent pulmonary congestion. Pneumonia; rapid extension. Heart feels squeezed. Palpitation. Heavy mammæ. Hard goitre. Foot-sweat on backs of feet. Skin, dry, rough, dirty; brown spots on. Restlessness in blood prevents sleep. Hyperpyrexia, or external coldness with anxiety or stupor. Hectic. Heat waves to head. Sweats easily. Early morning sweats, with >.

Complementary: Lyc. Sil. Related: Ars. Flu - ac. Pho. Spo. Antidotes: Ars. Bell. Hep. Op. Pho.

Persons of scrofulous diathesis, with dark or black hair and eyes; a low cachetic condition, with profound debility and great emaciation (Abrot.). Great weakness and loss of breath on going upstairs (Calc.); during menses (Alum, Carbo an., Coc.). Ravenous hunger; eats freely and well, yet loses flesh all the time (Abrot., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.). Empty eructations from morning to nigh, as if every particle of food was turned into air (Kali c.). Suffers from hunger, must eat every few hours; anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina, Sulph.); feels > while eating or after eating, when stomach is full. Itching: low down in the lungs, behind the sternum, causing cough; extends through bronchi to nasal cavity (Coc. c., Con., Phos.). Hypertrophy and induration of glandular tissue - thyroid, mammae, ovaries, testes, uterus, prostate or other glands - breasts may dwindle and become flabby. Hard goitre, in dark haired persons (light haired, Brom.); feels > after eating. Palpitation, worse from least exertion (compare, Dig.- from least mental exertion, Cal. ars.). Sensation as if the heart was squeezed together; as if grasped with an iron hand (Cac., Sulph.). Leucorrhoea: acrid, corrosive, staining and corroding the linen; most abundant at time of menses. Cancerous degeneration of the cervix; cutting pains in abdomen and haemorrhage at every stool. Constipation, with ineffectual urging > by drinking cold milk. Croup: membranous, hoarse, dry cough, worse in warm, wet weather; with wheezing and sawing respiration (Spong.). Child grasps at larynx (Cepa); face pale and cold, especially in fleshy children.

Complementary: to, Lycopodium. Compare: Acet. ac., Brom., Con., Kali bi., Spong. in membranous croup and croupy affections; especially in overgrown boys with scrofulous diathesis. Follows well: after, Hep., Mer.; is followed by Kali bi. in croup. Acts best in goitre when give after full moon, or when moon is waning - Lippe. Should not be given during lying-in period, except in high potencies- Hering.

Warmth; wrapping up the head (reverse of, Hep., Psor.).

For glandular affections; thyroid gland.

Affections of right ear and the right chest; of the larynx, especially in croup where a great deal of phlegm is expectorated, which sometimes is streaked with blood. Palpitation of the heart. Consumption. Emaciation, even of single parts, as e.g., the mammary glands may shrivel up, etc.; itching or tickling, or sense of trembling in the inner parts; subsultus tendium. Goitre. Extreme hunger, the patient may still feel very hungry after eating a great deal.

In the night; before eating; fasting before breakfast; from wrapping up the head--can't bear even a hat on; lying in bed; lying on the painful side; from food difficult of digestion; from outward pressure, as pressure of the clothes, etc.; in a warm room; when walking quickly; from warmth in general; in warm air; when getting warm in the open air.

After breakfast; in a cold place; in the cold air; after eating (especially after eating bountifully); from uncovering the head; after rising from the bed.

Acon., Lycop., Merc. sol., Phosphor., Pulsat.

Arsen., Bellad., Hepar., Phosphor.

Vertigo; throbbing in the head and all over the body; tremor of the heart; fainting; worse immediately after rising from a seat, or bed; or by sitting or lying down after slight exercise. Teeth yellow and easily blunted by vegetable acids. The mammae dwindle away and become flabby. Membranous, croup, with wheezing and sawing respiration, dry, barking cough; child grasps the throat with the hand. Constant heavy oppressive pain in the region of the heart, with sharp, quick, piercing movable pains, and great precordial anxiety. Emaciation, skin dirty yellow; great debility and prostration.

Iodine (IODUM)

Rapid metabolism: Loss of flesh great appetite. Hungry with much thirst. Better after eating. Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration. Iod individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin. Tubercular type.

All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are especially affected; they atrophy. Iodine arouses the defensive apparatus of the system by assembling the mononuclear leucocytes whose phagocytic action is marked, at a given point. Lead poisoning. Tremor. Iodine craves cold air.

Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation. Arthritis deformans. Acts prominently on connective tissue. The plague. Goitre. Abnormal vaso-constriction, capillary congestion followed by œdema, ecchymosis, hæmorrhages, and nutritive disturbances are the pathological conditions at the basis of its symptomatology. Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects. Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes, rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite, and glandular atrophy call for this remedy, in numerous wasting diseases and in scrofulous patients. Acute affections of the respiratory organs. Pneumonia, rapid extension. Iodine is warm, and wants cool surroundings. Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs. Adenoid vegetations. Tincture internally and locally to swollen glands and rattlesnake bites.

Anxiety when quiet. Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the future. Sudden impulse to run and do violence. Forgetful. Must be busy. Fear of people, shuns every one. Melancholy. Suicidal tendency.

Throbbing; rush of blood, and feeling of a tight band. Vertigo; worse from stooping, worse in warm room. Chronic, congestive headache of old people (Phos).

Violent lachrymation. Pain in eyes. Pupil dilated. Constant motion of eyeballs. Acute dacryocystitis.

Sneezing. Sudden violent influenza. Dry coryza becomes fluent in open air, also a fluent hot coryza with general heat of skin. Pain at root of nose and frontal sinus. Nose stopped up. Tendency to ulceration. Loss of smell. Acute nasal engorgement associated with high blood pressure.

Gums loose and bleed easily. Foul ulcers and salivation. Profuse, fetid ptyalism. Tongue thickly coated. Offensive odor from mouth.

Larynx feels constricted. Eustachian deafness. Thyroid enlarged. Goitre, with sensation of constriction. Swollen submaxillary glands. Uvula swollen.

Throbbing at pit of stomach. Ravenous hunger and much thirst. Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas. Anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina; Sulph). Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well (Abrot).

Liver and spleen sore and enlarged. Jaundice. Mesenteric glands enlarged. Pancreatic disease. Cutting pain in abdomen.

Hæmorrhage at every stool. Diarrhœa, whitish, frothy, fatty. Constipation, with ineffectual urging; better by drinking cold milk. Constipation alternating with diarrhœa (Ant cr).

Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green (Bovista), thick, acrid with cuticle on surface.

Testicles swollen and indurated. Hydrocele. Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes.

Great weakness during menses (Alum; Carbo an; Coccul; Hæmatox). Menstruation irregular. Uterine hæmorrhage. Ovaritis (Apis; bell; Lach). Wedge-like pain from ovary to uterus. Dwindling of mammary glands. Nodosities in skin of mammæ. Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the linen. Wedge-like pain in the right ovarian region.

Hoarse. Raw and tickling feeling provoking a dry cough. Pain in larynx. Laryngitis, with painful roughness; worse during cough. Child grasps throat when coughing. Right-sided pneumonia with high temperature. Difficult expansion of chest, blood-streaked sputum; internal dry heat, external coldness. Violent heart action. Pneumonia. Hepatization spreads rapidly with persistent high temperature; absence of pain in spite of great involvement, worse warmth; craves cool air. Croup in scrofulous children with dark hair and eyes (Brom opposite). Inspiration difficult. Dry, morning cough, from tickling in larynx. Croupy cough, with difficult respiration; wheezy. Cold extends downwards from head to throat and bronchi. Great weakness about chest. Palpitation from least exertion. Pleuritic effusion. Tickling all over chest. Iod cough is worse indoors, in warm, wet weather, and when lying on back.

Heart feels squeezed. Myocarditis, painful compression around heart. Feels as if squeezed by an iron hand (Cactus) followed by great weakness and faintness. Palpitation from least exertion. Tachycardia.

Joints inflamed and painful. Pain in bones at night. White swelling. Gonorrhœal rheumatism. Rheumatism of nape and upper extremities. Cold hands and feet. Acrid sweat of feet. Pulsation in large arterial trunks. Rheumatic pains, nightly pains in joints; constrictive sensations.

Hot, dry, yellow and withered. Glands enlarged. Nodosities. Anasarca of cardiac disease.

Flushes of heat all over body. Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic. Profuse sweat.

Worse, when quiet, in warm room, right side. Better, walking about, in open air.

Yatren. Iod pathogenesis is similar to that of Carbol acid. Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph; Gratiola.

Complementary: Lycopod; Badiaga.

Compare: Brom; Hepar; Mercur; Phosph; Abrot; Nat mur; Sanic; Tuber.

The crude drug in saturated solution may be required. Third to thirtieth potency. Ioduretted solution of Potass iod (35 grains Potassa and 4 grains Iodine to 1 oz of water, 10 drops three times a day) expels tapeworms dead.

Locally the most powerful, least harmful and easily managed microbicide. Ideal agent to keep wounds clean and disinfected. Bites of insects, reptiles, etc. Gunshot wounds and compound fractures, excellent. Great skin disinfectant.

Always hungry; eat or wants to all the time, yet emaciates; > while eating.

Hypertrophy of all glands except mammary, which dwindle; while body withers glands enlarge.

Mentally anxious, anguish, wants to move, do something, hurry, kill somebody, etc. (Arsen.)

Warm blooded notwithstanding emaciation; wants a cool place to move, think, or work in.

Pulsations all over, stomach, back, even arms, fingers and toes (Bell.)

Especially suitable to dark haired, dark eyed, dark skinned persons of scrofulous habit.

Great weakness and loss of breath on going up stairs.

Hard goître in dark haired persons; also tumors in the breast.

Sensation as if the heart was squeezed together; as if grasped with an iron band. (Sulph.).

Croup; membranous; in scrofulous children; child grasps the larynx; face pale and cold; in fleshy children.

This is another so-called anti-scrofulous remedy. Here are a few characteristic indications:

First: "Scrofulous diathesis; low cachectic condition, with profound debility and great emaciation."

Second: "There is a remarkable and unaccountable sense of weakness and loss of breath on going up stairs."

Third: "Ravenous hunger; eats often and much, but loses flesh all of the time."

Fourth: "Feels relieved after eating or while eating."

Fifth: "Dwindling of the mammæ and soreness."

Sixth: "Profuse uterine hæmorrhages; cancer of uterus."

Seventh: "Chronic leucorrhœa, which is abundant and so corrosive as to eat holes in the linen."

Eighth. "Swelling of glands, especially mesenteric and thyroid."

Ninth: "Membranous croup, wheezing, sawing respiration, dry, barking cough, especially in children with dark eyes and hair; child grasps the throat with the hand when coughing."

Tenth: "Aggravations in general from warm room."

Here is Iodine in a nutshell. The remarkable hunger relieved by eating, with progressive emaciation, is the first in importance. This relief by eating is not only of the sensation of hunger, but his sufferings in general; he only feels well while eating, or always feels best while eating. It makes no difference whether it is phthisis pulmonalis, mesenteric, or general, that this symptoms well developed rules out everything but Iodine in almost every case and it has made many remarkable cures. I have cured many cases of goître with Iodine c. m., when indicated, giving a powder every night for four nights, after the moon fulled and was waning.

I have only failed in one case either to check the further development or cure. Some will sneer at this, but the cured ones do not. The local application for glandular enlargement is foolish and dangerous.

Modalities: < fasting, in warm air or room; > while eating; moving, and cold air.

Excessive excitability ; irritability and sensitiveness. Restlessness, with inclination to move about, not permitting one to sit or to sleep. Despondency, with disposition to weep. Fixed, immovable thoughts.

Congestions to and pulsations in the head. Headache, as if tape or a band were tightly drawn around the head. Pressure on a small spot, above the root of the nose. Throbbing in the head at every motion. The headache is aggravated in the warm air, or when riding a long time in a carriage or walking fast.

Smarting in the eyes. The white of the eye is of a dirty-yellow color. Watery white-swelling of the eyelids. Obscuration of sight. Twitching of the eyes ; the lower eyelids. Double vision.

Sensitiveness to noise. Hardness of hearing ; buzzing in the ears.

Small scab in the right nostril. Dry coryza, becoming fluent in the open air.

Complexion pale, yellow, or soon changing to brown. Convulsive twitching of the facial muscles. Suppurating ulcer on the (left) cheek, with swelling of the submaxillary glands.

The teeth are colored yellow and are covered with mucus in the morning. Gums puffed up, red, inflamed, painful to the touch and bleed easy. Ulcers in the mouth, with putrid smell from the mouth. Aphthæ in the mouth, with ptyalism. Thickly-coated tongue. Dryness of the tongue. Swelling and elongation of the uvula. Inflammation of the throat, with burning pain ; burning in the fauces. Constriction of the throat, with impeded deglutition. Increased secretion of watery saliva.

Taste salt, sourish or sweet on the tip of the tongue. Unusual a petite ; feels much better after having eaten a good deal. Eats too often and too much ; rapid digestion, but losing flesh all the time. Alternate canine hunger and want of appetite. Thirst increased, day and night. Heartburn, after heavy food. Sourish eructations, with burning. Hiccough. Qualmishness, nausea (with spasmodic pain in the stomach). Violent vomiting ; renewed by eating. Vomiting of bile, with violent colic. Gastric derangement, with constipation. Spasmodic pains in the stomach renewed by eating. Swelling and distention of the abdomen ; when assuming a wrong position he is threatened with suffocation (has to lie on the back). Pulsations in the pit of the stomach. Swelling of the mesenteric glands. Labor-like spasms in the abdomen. Pulsations in the abdomen. Incarceration of flatulence (left side of the abdomen). Scirrhous swelling of the inguinal glands.

Stools hard, knotty, dark-colored. Constipation alternating with diarrhœa (whitish). Dysenteric mucous stools without feces. Copious papescent stools. Itching and burning of the anus (in the evening).

Retention of urine. Urine yellowish-green, or acrid ; dark ; turbid ; milky ; with a variegated cuticle on its surface.

Men. Increased sexual desire. Swelling and induration of the testicles and of the prostate gland. Women. Menstruation irregular, sometimes too early, at other times too late. Menses premature, violent and copious (Metrorrhagia). Leucorrhœa, corroding the linen ; acrid ; profuse. Induration and swelling of the uterus and ovaries. The mammæ dwindle away, become flabby.

Inflammation of the larynx and trachea. Pain in the larynx, with discharge of hardened mucus. Contraction and heat in the larynx. Increased secretion of mucus in the trachea. Hoarseness in the morning and insupportable tickling and tingling in the larynx. The voice becomes deeper. 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, which is frequently bloody. Rattling of mucus in the chest, with roughness under the sternum and oppression of the chest. Burning-stinging tension in the integuments of the chest. Difficulty of expanding the chest on taking an inspiration. Sensation of weakness in the chest (and heart). Violent palpitation of the heart ; increased from the least exertion (from walking or going down stairs). Sensation as if the heart were squeezed together.

Swelling of the neck. The neck swells up when talking. Struma ; enlargement and painful induration of the goitre. Sensation of constriction in the goitre. Swelling of the glands of the neck. Swelling of the thyroid gland.

Upper. Pain in the bones of the arm on which he lies at night. Trembling of the arms and hands. Subsultus tendinum in the hands. Coldness of the hands. The fingers go to sleep. Lower. White swelling of the knee. Hot, bright-red swelling of the knee, with inflammation, pricking and burning ; aggravated by touch and pressure. Subsultus tendinum, in the feet. Œdematous swelling of the feet. Acrid sweat of the feet, corroding the skin. Pain in the corns.

Restless sleep with vivid or anxious dreams.

Great irritability of the whole nervous system. Great emaciation (with good appetite). Great debility, even talking causes perspiration. Twitching of the muscles ; subsultus tendinum. Trembling of the limbs. Chronic rheumatism in the joints, with violent pains at night, without swelling.

Pulse large, hard, quick, or accelerated, weak, thread-like. The pulse becomes much quicker as soon as one moves about. Chill alternating with heat. Cold feet all night. Chill, with shaking even in the warm room. Flushes of heat over the whole body ; ebullitions and pulsations over the whole body. Internal dry heat, with external coldness. Profuse night-sweat. Very debilitating, perspiration in the morning hours, smelling sour, with much thirst.

Swelling and induration of the glands (after bruises). Pain in the bones at night. Dirty, yellow, clammy, moist skin. Rough, dry skin. Itching and itching pimples on an old cicatrix.

Aggravation at night, in the evening ; before eating ; from fasting ; when lying on the painful side ; from pressure ; from warmth ; in a warm room ; from wrapping the head up warm ; on walking quickly. Amelioration from cold ; in a cold room ; on getting cold ; from uncovering the head ; after eating ; after rising from bed.

Iodium. Iodine. An element. l. (AM. 126.53). Tincture.

Appetite, disordered. Atrophy . Brain, atrophy of. Breasts, affections of. Cancer . Chilblains. Chyluria. Constipation. Consumption . Coryza. Cough. Croup. Debility . Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria . Emaciation. Enteric fever. Galactorrhœa. Goître Hæmorrhoids. Headaches. Heart, hypertrophy of; affections of. Hiccough. Hydrocephalus. Iritis. Jaundice. Joints, affections of . Lactation, disordered. Laryngitis Leucorrhœa. Liver, affections of. Lymphatic swellings. Melancholia . Mollities ossium. Ovaries, affections of ; dropsy of. Ozæna. Prostate gland, enlarged. Rheumatic gout. Rheumatism. Salivation . Scars. Seborrhœa. Sterility . Syphilis. Tabes mesenterica. Throat, affections of. Uterus, affections of. Voice, affections of. Vomiting . Worms.

The most prominent feature of the action of Iodium is its power of causing absorption. It is this power which has made the drug such a favourite among old-school practitioners as a paint in all kinds of swellings. Given internally its power is much greater: the absorbents are stimulated to fresh activity; muscles, fat, tissues, and glands waste away, and general emaciation is the result. When new growths and hyperplasias are present, these come under the action of Iod . before the normal tissues. I have seen it given with excellent effect in the lower attenuations, when swollen and deformed joints have been left behind after an attack of acute rheumatism. Scrofulous and syphilitic indurations, effusions and tumours, and especially goître, are equally amenable to its resolvent action. Emaciation of single parts. In this connection must be mentioned its power to set up a ravenous appetite. "Eats ravenously, yet emaciates," is a keynote. It seems as if the waste of tissue set up the desire for absorbing great quantities of food. Absence of appetite is also among the effects of Iod ., and either condition may indicate it. I once used it with excellent effect in the case of a young woman who had had a nervous shock, and had lost all appetite and desire to live. She was much emaciated, and had quietly made up her mind to starve herself to death. I gave five drops of Iod . 3x in a wineglass of water half an hour before meal-times, and her appetite returned with such vigour she could not choose but eat, and was soon restored to a normal mental and bodily state. I have recorded another similar case of nervous shock producing rapid emaciation and vomiting cured by Iod . in my book on Indigestion . Both these patients were somewhat dark, and Iod. is specially suited to persons of dark hair and complexion; dark, yellow, tawny skin. Herein it is the antipodes of Bromium and Spongia . Its mental symptoms are more marked than those of Brom . There is increased erethism, patient very excitable and restless, moving about from place to place. Fears every little occurrence will end seriously. In his anxiety shuns every one, even his doctor. Fixed ideas are among the Iod . effects; also sudden impulses. A patient of mine had once been given Iodine for goître by an allopath. She was compelled to discontinue it because it produced this inconvenient symptom: impulse to run; she felt she must fall if she walked. Iod . produces atrophy of nerve and brain tissue, as well as of other tissues (Allen mentions that it is valuable in persistent headaches with vertigo in old people); and it also has a place in acute hydrocephalus; and in pleuritic effusions. In tubercular disease of all kinds it may be called for: tabes mesenterica; pulmonary phthisis. In rheumatism and heart affections it has a large sphere. It is indicated by indurations or atrophy of testes, ovaries, and uterus. The salivary glands and pancreas are especially affected by Iod ., and a diarrhœa of milky, whey-like stools, often indicative of pancreatic disease, is especially amenable to its action. In pneumonia and phthisical affections with lung consolidation it is of great service. The chief indications are: Dyspnœa; cough with blood-streaked expectoration; tickling all over chest; weakness and emaciation; < of symptoms in a warm room. This last, " < by warmth," is a leading modality of Iod . In defects of growth, curvature of bones, and in children's ailments, it follows well upon Calc . In phthisis of rapidly-growing young people, thin and dark, it is especially indicated. There are many marked symptoms in the heart sphere: palpitation from slightest cause; sensation as if being squeezed; hypertrophy. With the heart symptoms there is a "gone," exhausted feeling, and the patient is scarcely able to breathe or walk. C. S. McKay noticed lumbrici passed by an infant who had tasted Iodine accidentally, and used the experience in another case, giving a dilute solution (one part of the Ø to three of water; of this three drops every three hours), and produced the expulsion of lumbrici when Santonin had completely failed. An Ioduretted solution of Kali iod . ( Kali iod . gr. xxxv., Iod . gr. iv., Aqua one ounce; ten drops for a dose) has been used with success as a tænicide, expelling the tapeworm, dead. Erethism is marked in Iod .: nervousness; restlessness; twitching; subsultus tendinum and trembling; also sense of trembling in inner parts. Facial paralysis and epilepsy have followed suppression of goître by large doses of Iod . Weakness is excessive. Fainting on going upstairs. (General weakness and loss of appetite and pain in temples, and pain in left chest as if something were being torn away: heart large. — Cooper). Motion and exertion of all kinds < . Sitting up > , and lying down < dyspnœa and heart affections. < By warmth; by wrapping up; in warm room. < In wet weather. Drinking cold milk > constipation. > By eating, of hunger and other symptoms, is another marked character of Iod. Iod . is a sensitive remedy, and many symptoms are < by touch and pressure. Nash thinks Iod . one of the remedies affected by the moon's changes. In cases of goître where it is indicated he gives a powder of Iod . c.m. every night for four nights after the moon has passed the full.

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Feeling as of having forgotten something and does not know what.
Fixed, immovable thoughts.
Must keep in motion day and night, brain felt as if it was stirred up, felt as if going crazy.
Restless, inclined to move about, not permitting to sit or sleep ; thought she could tear everything to pieces.
Melancholy mood, low spirited.
Despondency, with disposition to weep.
Apprehends an accident from every trifle.
Fear of evil, with over-carefulness.
Fear and anxiety, shuns even the doctor.
Mind very sensitive during digestion, felt like crying.
Irritability and sensitiveness.
Cross, with excessive nervous excitability.
Excessive kind of impatience, she is running about all the time and never sits down or sleeps at night.
Consequences of amorousness.
At night, especially when thinking of real or imaginary wrongs, heart palpitates "like lightning," pulsations being felt also at pit of stomach and in petrous portion of temporal bone, being especially violent in latter locality ; the violent palpitation and accompanying
arterial excitement drives him out of bed ; by use of cold baths and friction obtains temporary relief ; at times most terrible thoughts take possession of him, and he hardly dares go home for fear of doing some dreadful deed ; on one occasion was seized with an almost
irresistible impulse to murder a woman who was acting as a guide for him, he having lost his way ; these attacks of mania come on at most unexpected times ; troubles all < by quiet and meditation ; must be constantly in action, in some laborious occupation. θ Mania.

Confusion of head, with great aversion to earnest work.
Vertigo : only on left side, < from stooping ; weakness in morning ; with throbbing headache ; very weak and tremulous ; rising aggravates it, and produces faintness ; with throbbing all over body ; tremor at heart
and fainting, < after just rising from a seat or bed, or on sitting or lying down after slight exercise ; very sickly look of patient.
Goitre ; hypertrophy of left ventricle, with great congestions to head and face ; hysteria and nervousness. θ Vertigo.

Sharp pressive pain in upper part of left side of forehead.
Headache : left side and top ; as if a tape or band was tightly drawn around head ; so violent it almost makes him crazy ; with paralytic feeling of arms.
Pressure on a small spot above root of nose.
Pressive pains in vertex.
Congestions to and pulsations in head.
Throbbing in head at every motion ; < in warm air.
Brain feels as if stirred around with a spoon ; must keep in motion day and night.
Violent aching at base of occiput, in afternoon.
Persistent, annoying, but not very violent headache ; head feels heavy, as though a foreign substance was inside of brain, < by fatigue ; oppressive, dull feeling, inclining head to seek a support.
Chronic headache ; dizziness on active exertion ; carelessly loquacious ; languid, uneasy, and of fitful humor.
Chronic congestive headache, in old people with dark hair and eyes.
Headache < : in warm air ; when riding a long time in a carriage ; from walking fast.
During course of acute articular rheumatism inflammation in hands subsided and brain symptoms developed ; became delirious and very restless, sat up in bed and then threw himself upon it.
Cholera encephalitica.
Acute hydrocephalus of scrofulous children.
Atrophy of brain ; apoplexy.

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This remedy in all of its complaints whether acute or chronic, has a peculiar kind anxiety that is felt both in mind and body.

It seems also that this state of anxiety is attended with a thrill that goes throughout his frame unless he removes it by motion or change of position. The anxiety comes on when trying to keep still, and the more he tries to keep still the more the anxious state increases. While attempting to keep still, he is overwhelmed with impulses, impulses to tear things, to kill himself, to commit murder, to do violence.

He cannot keep still and so he walks night and day. This remedy carries the same feature with it into the Iodide of Potassium, so that it makes the Iodide of Potassium patient walk. But there is this difference, the Kali iod . patient can walk long distances without fatigue, and the walking only seems to wear off his anxiety, whereas in Iodine there is great exhaustion; he becomes extremely exhausted from walking and sweats copiously even from slight exertion.

Iodine corresponds to those cases in which it seems that there is some dreadful thing coming on; the mind threatens to give out. Insanity threatens, Or the graver forms of disease are threatening, such as are present in the advanced stages of suppressed malaria, in old cases of chills, in threatened phtysie, especially abdominal.

runs through the remedy.

There is enlargement of the liver, spleen, ovaries, testes, lymphatic glands, cervical glands, of all the glands except the mammary glands. The mammoe dwindle while all other glands become enlarged, nodular and hard.

This enlargement of the glands is especially observed among the lymphatic glands of the abdomen, the mesenteric glands.

There is this peculiar circumstance also in Iodine, viz., that while the body withers the glands enlarge. That is peculiar and will enable you to think of Iodine, because the glands grow in proportion to the dwindling of the body and the emaciation of the limbs. We find this state in marasmus. There is withering throughout the body, the muscles shrink, the skin wrinkles and the face of the child looks like that of a little old person, but the glands under the arms, in the groin and in the belly are enlarged and hard.

The mesenteric glands can be felt as knots. We see the same tendency in old cases of malaria coming from the allopaths in which Quinine and Arsenic have been extensively used and the chills have kept on; the face and the upper part of the body are withered, the skin looks shriveled and yellow; a diarrhoea has come on, the liver and spleen are enlarged and the lymphatic glands of the belly can be felt. Even in the earlier stages, when these states are only threatening, we may look forward and see that the case is progressing toward an Iodine state.

Now take a patient that is suffering from intermittent fever brought on from malaria, or damp cellars. The patient grows increasingly hot; it is not always a febrile heat, but a sensation of heat; he wants to be bathed in cold water, wants the face and body cooled by cold sponging; he suffocates and coughs in a warm room, dreads heat, sweats easily and easily becomes exhausted. It is in this kind of a constitution that acute complaints will come on, such as acute inflammatory conditions of the mucous membranes and gastritis, inflammation of the liver, inflammation of the spleen, diarrhoea, croup, inflammation of the throat.

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Persons of a scrofulous diathesis, with dark hair and eyes; a low cachectic condition with profound debility and great emaciation (Abrot.).

Great weakness and loss of breath on going up stairs (Cal.); during the menses (Alum., Carbo a., Coc.).

Empty eructations from morning till evening, as if every particle of food was turned into air (Kali c.).

Ravenous hunger; eats freely and well, yet loses flesh all the time (Abrot., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.).

Suffers from hunger, must eat every few hours, anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina, Sulph.); feels > while eating or after eating, when stomach is full.

Itching: low down in the lungs, behind the sternum; causing cough. Extends through bronchi to nasal cavity (Coc. c., Con., Phos.). Hypertrophy and induration of the glands—thyroid, mammæ, ovaries, testes, uterus, prostate or other glands—breasts may dwindle and become flabby.

Hard goitre, in dark-haired persons (light-haired, Brom.); feels > after eating.

Palpitation, worse from least exertion (from least motion, Dig.—from least mental emotion, Cal. ars., Lith. c.).

Sensation as if the heart was squeezed together; as if grasped with an iron hand (Cac., Sulph.).

Leucorrhœa: acrid, corrosive, staining and corroding the linen; most abundant at time of menses.

Cancerous degeneration of the cervix; cutting pains in abdomen and hemorrhage at every stool.

Constipation, with ineffectual urging > by drinking cold milk.

Croup: membranous, hoarse, dry cough, < in warm wet weather; with wheezing and sawing respiration (Spong.); especially in overgrown psoric boys.

Child grasps the larynx (Cepa); face pale and cold, especially in fleshy children.

Complementary to: Lycopodium.

Follows well: after Hep., Mer.; is followed by Kali bi. in croup.

Acts best in goitre when given after full moon, or when the moon is waning.—LIPPE.

Warmth; wrapping up the head; cannot bear hat on (rev. of Hep., Psor.).

Cold air; washing in cold water.

Quartan; tertian. Sporadic La Grippe; tubercular.

Any hour; often at night.

Shaking chill, or unusual chilliness, even when in a warm room. Hands, nose, feet icy cold; cold feet the whole night. Chill frequently alternating with heat.

Quartan fever, with a constant diarrhœa on the days free from fever (urticaria when fever has been suppressed, Elat.). Hot flushes of heat over the body (Fer., Sep.). Internal heat, with coldness of the surface. Burning heat of the hands (burning heat of palms of hands and soles of feet, with cold feet, Sul.). Fever with dry skin, weak and rapid pulse, twitching of the muscles, and more coldness than heat of skin.

With thirst. Debilitating, sour sweat all over in the morning hours, with great weakness of the limbs. Profuse, cold, viscid sweat at night. Palms of hands sweat continually. Cold feet sweat easily; so acrid that it corrodes the skin (Graph.).

Thickly coated, brown in centre, white at the edges. Salivation; salty or sour.

Large, hard, with orgasm of blood and throbbing in vessels especially in larger arterial trunks; weak, rapid, thready, irregular; accelerated by every slight exertion.

Countenance sallow; distressed look; ravenous hunger, must eat every few hours; left hypochondriac region hard and acutely sensitive to pressure. Emaciation, debility, restlessness Gets anxious and worried if he does not eat, yet loses flesh all the time while eating freely.

The general characteristic symptoms are the only guides; symptoms of the paroxysm not marked. Fevers of

Iodine often occur in tubercular persons, and may be result of suppressed intermittent by quinine.

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.

A tincture is made by dissolving 1 part in 99 parts of alcohol.

It affects nearly every organ and tissue in the body. ▶ Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes, especially eyes and nose. ▶ Salivation; enlargement of all lymphatic glands, followed by atrophy, especially of testicles and mammæ, and general emaciation. ▶ Polyuria, nephritis and albuminuria. ▶ Skin eruptions. ▶ Neuralgia, even convulsions and paralysis. ▶ It is particularly important to observe that it controls inflammations (with high temperature) of many, if not all, parenchymatous structures, particularly the lungs, when the indications permit its exhibition.

(Bromine), Sulph., Arsen., Merc., Nit. ac., Nat. mur., Bry.

▶ Emaciation (Nat. m., Sul.); ending in marasmus; of glandular tissues (breasts, testicles, thyroid gland). ▶ Dropsy. ▶ Œdematous swelling of whole body (Arsen.). ▶ Sitting in bed, and restless. ▶ Indolent in all movements. ▶ A kind of catalepsy. ▶ Convulsive movements; of arms and legs, and head drawn backward; almost convulsed when the pains are intense. ▶ Cramps of arms, back and legs, with jerkings of them. ▶ Trembling; agg. arms from least movement, and out of breath. ▶ Restless moving about, with sleeplessness, so that she was taken to be insane. ▶ Hysteria. ▶ Nervous condition; an internal agitation, as from bad news or remorse after a quarrel, with inability to fix attention when reading or drawing, weeping and intolerance of opposition.

Rheumatic pains; in nape and upper arms; in neck, arms and body. ▶ Rush of blood to head and heart. ▶ General sensibility increased. ▶ Takes cold easily. ▶ Restlessness (Arsen.); in morning, with anxiety. ▶ Aversion to sitting still. ▶ Weakness (Arsen.); in afternoon, after a short walk, with feeling of fasting, but no hunger; after dinner, with discomfort; during menses; during the passing away of menses; after restless sleep; with craving for something reviving, temporarily amel. a cordial or a little nourishment, but delay in eating causes malaise, drawings and often pain in stomach; physical and mental; so that sweat breaks out on talking. ▶ Collapse, with sunken face. ▶ Inability to stand. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Paralysis of limbs, then of organs of deglutition and respiration.

Cases requiring Iod., when root febrile, are apt to have great appetite, but rapid emaciation. ▶ It is indicated in numerous wasting diseases in scrofulous patients. ▶ Mollities ossium. ▶ Lymphatic tumors in various parts.

Clouded. ▶ Delirium. ▶ Excitement, with heaviness, indolence and ill humor; E. in afternoon, sleepiness in evening. ▶ Illusions of sensation. ▶ Sat all day with her head leaning on her hand, and hardly answered. ▶ Irritability; during digestion, from noon till evening, with sensitiveness and with oppression of throat and chest, as if about to weep. ▶ Anger. ▶ Sad; and taking no interest in anything, unable to fix her thoughts. ▶ Anxiety; and depression busy with the present rather than the future. ▶ Fright; and sensation. ▶ Fear that from every trifle some misfortune would arise. ▶ Apprehension after manual labor, amel. sitting; A. if he does not eat every three or four hours, yet he dares not eat too much. ▶ Aversion to work. ▶ Lively and talkative. ▶ Sensitive; and easily moved to tears. ▶ Mild, scrupulous and timid, with blunted sensibilities. ▶ Thoughts fixed; troublesome and unreasonable mental impressions easily developed into fixed ideas. ▶ Sluggish, but inclined to mechanical labor. ▶ It is difficult to collect his senses, and he is irresolute. ▶ It constantly seems as if he ought to remember something, but he know not what, he remembers nothing. ▶ Feels unfitted for anything. ▶ Stupor.

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Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes, especially of the eyes and nose.
Salivation.
Enlargement of lymphatic glands, followed by atrophy, especially of testicles and mammæ, and general emaciation.
Polyuria, nephritis and albuminuria.

Emaciation.
Restlessness.
Trembling of the limbs.
Muscular twitchings.
Œdematous swellings.
Weakness so great that one can hardly speak.
Great excitement of the whole nervous system.
Violent pains; worse at night.

Clinical:
Chronic cases, not febrile, generally characterized by great appetite and rapid emaciation.
Acute cases, with high fever.
Localized inflammations very frequently require Iod., which seems to be adapted to febrile conditions accompanying parenchymatous inflammations of the various organs and tissues.
These patients are usually very thirsty, but not of necessity restless; certainly not anxious like Aconite.

General despondency.
Irritability, with sadness.

A feeling of rush of blood, with throbbing.
Pain as if a tight band were about the head.
Headache; < warmth, noise and talking.

Inflammation, especially from taking cold; swelling of the lids.
Obscured vision.

Clinical:
Valuable for intra ocular inflammations, especially of the iris and choroid.

Deafness (due to adhesions in the middle ear, or associated with chronic catarrh. Sensitiveness to noise).

Sneezing, with acute, fluent coryza, which sometimes becomes stopped towards evening; sudden, violent lachrymation, pain in the eyes, and a feeling as if the larynx were constricted.

Clinical:
In acute influenzas, with hot watery discharge, pain at the root of the nose and over frontal sinuses, with general fever.

Pale, sometimes yellowish or greenish, with blue lips (in chronic cases).
Twitching of the facial muscles.
Swollen submaxillary glands.

Teeth yellow and covered with mucus in the morning.
Gums loosened from the teeth and bleeding easily.
Ulcers in the mouth, of a foul odor.
Salivation.
Tongue thickly coated.

Inflamed, with burning pain.
Constriction, with general swallowing.

Clinical:
Catarrh of the Eustachian tube, with deafness, sometimes with hoarse cough.
Ulceration, with swollen glands.
Enlargement of the thyroid gland.
(External application of Iodum to be absolutely forbidden as extremely hazardous.)

Ravenous hunger.
Great thirst.
Heartburn.
Nausea, even vomiting, < after eating.
Vomiting of bile, with violent pains in the stomach.
Pressure in the stomach always after eating.
Burning; gnawing.
A peculiar internal trembling seems to spread over the region of the stomach.

Pains in the region of the liver, renewed after eating; sore to pressure.
Pain in the region of the liver, with jaundice, emaciation, etc.
Inflammation of the liver, with fever, dry tongue, restlessness etc.
Region of the spleen very painful.

Clinical:
Enlarged spleen, with salivation.
Disease of the pancreas.
Enlarged mesenteric glands, with enormous appetite, emaciation.
Enlarged liver, with jaundice, etc.

Diarrhœa; whitish, frothy; sometimes with undigested fat.
Diarrhœa alternating with constipation.

Frequent, copious micturition.
Urine yellowish-green; or with iridescent film.

Swelling and induration of the testicles.
Uterine hæmorrhage.
Menstruation usually very irregular, early or late.

Clinical:
Excoriating leucorrhœa, with atrophy of the mammary glands, goitre, etc.
Ovaritis, with leucorrhœa.
Chronic metritis.
A wedge-like pain from the right ovary to uterus.

Pain in the larynx, with hoarseness, rawness and intolerable crawling, provoking a dry cough.
Cough croupy, with difficult respiration.

Clinical:
Extremely valuable in croup, with dry cough and fever, particularly indicated after Aconite; has relieved the restless anxiety but not the fever.
Iod. controls the fever and softens the cough, and is frequently to be followed by Bromine.
In pneumonia the hepatization, dry cough and fever, without the anxiety of Acon. or the sticking pains of Bryonia, especially if the lesion be at the apex of the lungs.
Atrophy of the breasts.

Palpitation; < any effort.
Symptoms of inflammation of the heart or of hypertrophy.

Trembling and weariness in the extremities and debility.
Tearing pains in the joints.
Pains in the bones at night; < when lying on that side.

Clinical:
Inflammation of the joints; rheumatic, especially when complicated with inflammation of the heart.
White swelling of the knee joints.

Heat predominates; sometimes followed by profuse sweat at night, especially of the feet.

IODIUM. IODINE.

Iodine is obtained from various kinds of sea-wrack (fucus, seaweed), by leaching the ashes, and then crystallizing the salts contained in it that can be crystallized ; the residual uncrystallizable lye, consisting of iodide of sodium, is then evaporated and allowed to stand in a warm place mixed with strong sulphuric acid, in order to remove from it all muriatic acid ; then manganese is added and the mass is strongly heated in a retort, whereby the iodine is separated, rising as a violet-colored vapor, which is condensed on the upper part of the retort in bluish-brown scales or leaflets. One grain of this is prepared for the homœopathic dynamization and brought up to the thirtieth potency in the manner prescribed for dry drugs at the conclusion of the first part of this work. Even in the higher and the highest degrees of dynamization iodine is a very heroic medicine, which calls for every precaution of the good homœopathic physician ; when misapplied in allopathic hands, iodine is frequently seen to cause the most fearful destruction of the body and life of patients. - Iodine has been of service especially when the following states were at the same time present : Dizziness in the morning ; throbbing in the head ; excoriation of the eyes ; humming before the ears ; hardness of hearing ; a coated tongue ; mercurial salivation ; bad, soapy taste ; sourish eructation, with burning ; heartburn after heavy viands ; voracious hunger ; nausea ; incarceration of flatus ; inflation of the abdomen ; constipation ; incarceration of flatus ; inflation of the abdomen ; constipation ; micturition at night ; delay in the menses ; cough ; inveterate morning cough ; difficulty in breathing ; external swelling of the neck ; weariness of the arms in the morning, in bed ; the fingers go to sleep ; curvature of the bones ; dryness of the skin ; night-sweats. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow-observers are : Gff., Dr. Augustus Baron von Gersdorff ; Gr., Dr. Gross ; Htb. u. Tr., Drs. Hartlaub and Trinks, in their Reine Arzneimittellehre ; and S. (Schréter ?). [*].

[] In the first edition of this work (1828) Hahnemann published a list of 153 symptoms, as observed by himself from iodine. In 1829, in the second volume of their Reine Arzneimittellehre, Hartlaub and Trinks gave a list of 516, mainly taken from authors, but including also some symptoms from themselves and Schréter. These, with a few additions from v. Gersdorff and Gross, presumably obtained from the thirtieth dilution, constitute the present pathogenesis. -Hughes*.

Dejection. [KUENZLI, ueber d. Iod. Winterth., 1826 ; MATTHEY, in Gilbert's Annal., GAIRDNER, Essay on the Eff. of Iod., etc., RICHTER, spec. Arzeim. Lehre, Vol. X.] [*].

[] To Kuenzli -Not accessible. To Matthey -"From the tincture in a goitrous subject." To Gairdner -"Observations on patients." To Richter -"General statement from authors." -Hughes*.

Gloomy mood. [S.].

Sad, melancholy mood. [PERROT, in med. Annal., V. PIERER, 1821, Hft. IX.] [*].

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Iod. / (Ida-Ideal.) / Jo.

Iodine,-shows indication
Of corrosive suppuration.
Cancer-scrofula-and phthisis-
Jaundice in its chronic crisis-
Pneumo-typhus-inflammation
In the stage of pus-formation.
Croupal and catarrhal riot,
Palpitation forcing quiet.
Weariness-emaciation-
Craving hunger-salivation.
Worse form talking and move movement,
Taking food gives some improvement.

Jo,-Has Canine Hunger.

Jo Abbot Comes with his glossy Chinese staff, to seek a fight with foes of Pete Santo, the tinner.

This Jo,-Who feels better after eating,-Is at Kipling's, sporting with his pet Lass, Ana Chel.

Canine Hunger: Iod., Abrot., Cal. c., Mer., Sul., Graph., Lyc., Sep., Chin., Staph., Sec., Phy., Pho. a., Pet., Cina, Stan. (Night hunger, Lyc., Pho., Pho. a., Cina.)

Better After Eating: Iod., Kal. p., Spo., Pet., Lyc., Sep., Ana., Chel.

Indicated in ailments of scrofulous persons of dark complexion, with induration of glands (including testicles, ovaries, liver, pancreas, mesentery, thyroid, etc.), who eat much and often, yet are scrawny and lose flesh constantly; often called for in wasting diseases. Of service in cough, especially laryngeal; in croup, with copious expectoration of blood-stained mucus.

Great prostration; even talking causes perspiration.

Emaciation of single parts, as dwindling away of mammae.

Ravenous hunger, but gets thin; wants to eat every little while, and for a time feels the better for it.

Constant empty eructations.

Indurations and hypertrophy of glands.

Larynx painful, raw, with difficult perspiration.

Cough from tickling behind the sternum, low in the chest.

Cough dry, hoarse, worse in warm, wet weather, with wheezing, sawing breathing.

Leucorrhoea, corrosive, staining skin and linen.

Cancer of the uterus, with copious uterine haemorrhage at every stools, with cutting in abdomen and pains in the loins and small of the back.

Worse from warmth; from eating.

Anxiety. Great excitement, irritability and sensitiveness. Low spirits and weeping, with ill - humor. Restlessness which renders sitting quietly or sleep impossible. Excessive loquacity and mirthfulness.

Congestion to, with throbbing therein. Aching as from a tight band about. Headache from warm air or a long drive noise and talking.

Smarting. Dirty yellow sclerotic. Swollen lids. Obscured vision. Diplopia.

Difficult hearing. Sensitive in noise.

Increased secretion of mucus from. Nasal catarrh, dry in morning, fluent in evening.

Complexion pale, yellow or rapidly changing to brown, earth - colored. Twitching of facial muscles. Suppurating ulcers on cheeks with swelling of submaxillary glands.

Yellow and covered with mucus in morning. Gums are detached and bleed easily.

Ulcers in, with fetid odor therefrom. Aphthae. Throat inflamed, with burning pains. Constriction of throat with difficult swallowing. Salivation. Thickly coated tongue.

Appetite: Unusual hunger, the patient feels generally better after satisfying it. Ravenous hunger alternating with loss of appetite. Increased thirst.

Eructations: Heartburn after heavy food.

Nausea, etc. - Frequently nauseated. Vomiting. Forcible, renewed after every meal, bilious, with violent pains in stomach.

Pains in. Pressure after every meal. Burning and corrosive gnawing in. A single internal tremor, which radiates therefrom, with increased warmth.

Hypochondriac: Pain in liver. Painful swelling of spleen.

Abdominal pains renewed after every meal. Enlarged a., it threatens suffocation when he assumes a wrong position. Swollen mesenteric glands. Labor - like cramps in. Scirrhous swelling of inguinal glands.

Flatulence: Incarcerated.

Hard, nodular. Soft, frequently whitish diarrhoeic s., alternating with constipation. Of dysenteric mucous without feces.

Suppressed. Yellowish, green or acrid. With an iridescent pellicle.

Swollen and indurated testes and prostatic gland. Increased sexual desire.

Menses: Sometimes too early, sometimes too late. Long - continued, profuse uterine hemorrhage. Corrosive leucorrhoea.

Difficult with tightness of chest.

Chronic, dry, early in morning, excited by an unbearable crawling of tickling in larynx or throat pit. With sticking and burning in chest. With copious, frequently bloody or tenacious yellow mucus expectoration in evening.

Inflammation of, and of trachea. Increased secretion of mucus in, in trachea and bronchi. Hoarseness and insufferable crawling, early in morning.

Neck: Swollen externally. Swells up when talking. Goitre from swelling of thyroid gland. Constant sensation of constriction in the goitre. Swelling of glands of throat and neck.

Burning, sticking tension in integuments of. Burning, itching and tickling in. Forcible palpitation increased to violence by every exertion. Flaccidity and dwindling of the female mammae.

Nightly bone pains in arms wherein he lies. Trembling arms and hands. Cold sweat on hands.

While swelling of knee. Hot, bright swelling of knee, with inflammation, sticking and burning, greatly touch and pressure. Sweat excoriates the feet.

Violent trembling of limbs. Twitching of muscles and subsultus tendinum. He emaciates to a skeleton. Edematous swellings. Great weakness, even talking causes sweat to break out. Great irritability of entire nervous system. Violent tearing in joints. Chronic gouty arthritis, with violent nightly pains, but without swelling. Intolerance of heat.

Glands swollen and indurated after bruises.

Nightly pains. Curvature.

Dirty, clammy, moist. Rough, dry. Anasarca.

Sleeplessness. Anxious dreams.

Pulse: Large, hard and accelerated, with strong abullition and throbbing in blood vessels. Quick, but weak and thready. It instantly becomes quicker, from every movements. Chill: Frequently alternating with heat. Cold feet throughout entire night. With shaking, also in a warm room. Heat: General flying over whole body. Internal, dry, with external coldness of skin. Sweat: Very profuse at night. Very exhausting, in the morning hours, of a sour odor and with much thirst.

Allied Remedies: Ap., Ars., BELL., Bro., Bry., Calc - c., Chin., HEP., Kali-c., Lyc, Merc., Par., Phos., Sil, Spo., Sul.

Complementary: Sil., Lyc.

Violent trembling of the limbs.

Twitching of the muscles.

Emaciation to a skeleton.

Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration.

Great excitability of the whole nervous system.

Violent tearing in the joints.

Chronic rheumatism of the joints, with nightly pains without swelling.

Swelling and induration of the glands are of major importance when the remedy is indicated.

Haemorrhages from various organs.

Pulsations.

Hunger and thirst increased.

Inflammations of the larynx and trachea.

Struma.

White swelling of the knee.

Nightly pain in the bones.

Softening of the bones.

Aggravation from heat.