Iodium - Boericke

▲   GENERAL

General

Rapid metabolism: Loss of flesh with great appetite. Hungry with much thirst. Better after eating. Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration. Iodium. 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. Iodium 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 vasoconstriction, capillary congestion followed by oedema, ecchymosis, hemorrhages, 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 Iodium, in numerous wasting diseases and in scrofulous patients. Acute affections of the respiratory organs. Pneumonia, rapid extension. Iodium is warm, and wants cool surroundings. Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs. Adenoid vegetations. Tincture internally and locally to swollen glands and Crotalus Horridus ^Rattlesnake bites.

Dose

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▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, when quiet, in warm room, right side.

Better

BETTER, walking about, in open air.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Bromium ^Brom.; Hep Sulph Calc ^Hepar; Merc Viv ^Mercur.; Phosphorus ^Phosph.; Abrotanum ^Abrot; Nat Mur ^Nat-mur.; Sanic.; Tuberculinum ^Tuber.

Complementary

Complementary: Lycopodium ^Lycopod.; Badiaga ^Badiaga.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Hep Sulph Calc ^Hepar; Sulphur ^Sulph.; Gratiola Officinalis ^Gratiola.

▲   MIND

Mind

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.

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo; worse from stooping, worse in warm room Chronic, congestive headache of old people ( Phosphorus ^Phos.)

▲   HEAD

Head

Throbbing; Rush of blood, and feeling of a tight band

▲   EYES

Eyes

Violent lachrymation

Pain in eyes

Pupil dilated

Constant motion of eyeballs

Acute dacryocystitis.

▲   NOSE

Nose

Sudden violent influenza

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.

Discharge

Sneezing

Dry coryza becomes fluent in open air, also a Fluent hot coryza with general heat of skin

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Profuse, fetid ptyalism

Offensive odor from mouth.

Gums and teeth

Gums loose and bleed easily

Saliva

Foul ulcers and salivation

Tongue

Tongue thickly coated

▲   THROAT

Throat

Larynx feels constricted

Eustachian deafness

Thyroid enlarged

Goitre, with sensation of constriction

Swollen submaxillary glands

Uvula swollen.

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Heart feels squeezed

Myocarditis, painful compression around heart

Feels as if squeezed by an Ferrum Met ^Iron hand (Cactus Grandiflorus ^Cactus) followed by great weakness and faintness

Palpitation from least exertion

Tachycardia.

Respiration

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 ( Bromium ^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

Pleuritis effusion

Tickling all over chest

Iodium

cough is worse indoors, in warm, wet weather, and when lying on back.

▲   SKIN

Skin

Hot, dry, yellow and withered

Glands enlarged

Nodosities

Anasarca of cardiac disease.

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Throbbing at pit of stomach

Ravenous hunger and much thirst

Anxious and worried if he does not eat ( Cina ^Cina; Sulphur ^Sulph.) Loses flesh, yet hungry and eating well ( Abrotanum ^Abrot.)

Liver and spleen sore and enlarged

Jaundice

Mesenteric glands enlarged

Pancreatic disease

Cutting pain in abdomen.

Eating

Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Stool

Hemorrhage at every stool

Diarrhoea, whitish, frothy, fatty

Constipation, with ineffectual urging; better by drinking cold milk

Constipation alternating with diarrhoea ( Antimonium Crudum ^Ac">Ant)

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▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

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

Male

Male; Testicles swollen and indurated

Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes.

Womb

Uterine hemorrhage

Ovaritis ( Apis Mel ^Apis.; Belladonna ^Bell.; Lachesis ^Lach.) Wedge-like pain from ovary to uterus

Genitals

Hydrocele

dwindling of mammary glands

Nodosities in skin of mammae

Acrid leucorrhoea, thick, slimy, corroding the linen

Wedge-like pain in the right ovarian region.

Menses

Female; Great weakness during menses ( Alumina ^Alum.; Carbo Animalis ^{Carbo An}.; Cocculus Indicus ^Coccul.; Haematoxylon.) Menstruation irregular

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Joints inflamed and painful

Pain in bones at night

White swelling

Gonorrhoeal 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.

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Flushes of heat all over body

Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic

Profuse sweat.