Iodium - Clarke

▲   GENERAL

General

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

affections of. Hiccough. Hydrocephalus. Iritis. Jaundice. Joints, affections of. Lactation, disordered. Laryngitis Leucorrhoea. Liver, affections of. Lymphatic swellings. Melancholia. Mollities ossium. Ovaries, affections of.

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.

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 ^Bromium and Spongia Tosta ^Spongia.

Its mental symptoms are more marked than those of Bromium ^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 diarrhoea 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 Dyspnoea; cough with blood-streaked expectoration; tickling all over chest; weakness and emaciation; agg. of symptoms in a warm room.

Iodium last, "agg. 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 Carb ^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 Iodatum ^{Kali iod}. (Kali Iodatum ^{Kali iod}. gr. xxxv., Iod. gr. iv., Aqua Marina ^Aqua one ounce; ten drops for a dose) has been used with success as a taenicide, 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 agg. Sitting up amel., and lying down agg. dyspnoea and heart affections. agg. By warmth.

by wrapping up. in warm room. agg. In wet weather. Drinking cold milk amel. constipation. amel. By eating, of hunger and other symptoms, is another marked character of Iod. Iod. is a sensitive remedy, and many symptoms are agg. 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.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships

Nat Mur ^{Nat. m.} especially about the neck); Kali Iodatum ^{Kali iod}. (talkative as if from alcohol); Bar. c. (tabes mesenterica, extreme hunger, emaciates, talkative, averse to strangers; Bar. c. suited to dwarfish persons; has not the intolerable crossness of Iod., which is agg. than that of Antimonium Crudum ^{Ant. c.}); Alumina ^Alumina (apprehensive, fears); Apis Mel ^Apis (joint effusions, sensitiveness, hydrocephalus); Cactus Grandiflorus ^Cact. and Spigelia Anthelmia ^Spig. (heart); Hydrastis Canadensis ^Hydrast. (uterine affections); Arsenicum Album ^Ars., Calc Carb ^Calc., Cin., Silicea ^Sil. and Staphysagria ^Staph. (ravenous hunger); Hyoscyamus Niger ^Hyo. (loss of voice; Iod. antidotes this); Sulphur ^Sul. Causation.

Compare

Compare Bromium ^Brom. (Bromium ^Brom. has light hair and complexion; Iod. dark; Bro. carrion-like odour of ulcers); Chlorinum ( Chlorum ) ^Chlorum; Nat Mur ^{Nat. m}. (ravenous appetite yet gets thin)

Complementary

Complementary Lycopodium ^Lyc.

Antidotes

Antidotes to small doses Antimonium Tartaricum ^{Ant. t}., Apis Mel ^Apis, Arsenicum Album ^Ars., Belladonna ^Bell., Camphora ^Camph., Chininum Sulphuricum ^Chi., Chininum Sulphuricum ^Chi. Sulphur ^sul., Coffea Cruda ^Coff., Hep Sulph Calc ^Hep., Op., Phosphorus ^Pho., Spongia Tosta ^Spo., Sulphur ^Sul. It antidotes Merc Viv ^Merc. Follows well Merc Viv ^Merc.; Hep Sulph Calc ^Hep. (croup); Arsenicum Album ^Ars. Followed well by Aconite ^Aco., Argentum Nitricum ^{Arg. n}., Calc Carb ^Calc., Merc Viv ^Merc. sol., Phosphorus ^Pho., Pulsatilla ^Pul.

Relations

Nervous shock. Disappointed love.

▲   MIND

Mind

Lachrymose disposition and mental dejection.

Melancholy hypochondriasis, sadness, heart-ache, and anxiety.

Fear shuns persons.

Anxious apprehensions.

Restless agitation (with inclination to move about), which will neither permit the patient to remain seated, nor to sleep.

Irresistible impulse to run; feels she will fall if she walks.

Cross, irascible, peevish.

Heart palpitates "like lightning" when thinking of real or imaginary wrongs.

Sudden maniacal impulses; to murder.

Excessive mental excitement, with great susceptibility.

Illusions of moral feeling.

Loquacity and immoderate gaiety.

Hesitation and irresolution.

Indolence of mind, with great repugnance to all intellectual labour.

Fixedness, immovableness of thought.

Delirium.

Effects of amorousness; of disappointed love.

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

In the morning, dizziness.

Vertigo; throbbing in the head and all over the body.

Vertigo with red face, palpitation, hysteria, nervousness.

▲   HEAD

Head

Confusion of the head (with aversion to earnest work).

Pressure on a small spot, above the root of the nose.

Congestion in the head, with beating in the brain.

Throbbing in the head at every motion.

Headache

Headache, in hot air, as well as from the prolonged movement of a carriage, or from a long walk, and agg. by noise and speech.

Pain, as from a bruise, in the brain, with want of strength in the body, as from paralysis.

Acute pressive pains in the forehead.

Headache, as if a tape or band were tightly drawn around the head.

Scalp

Hair falls out.

▲   EYES

Eyes

Pains in orbits.

Feeling of depression above the eyes, as if they were deeply sunken, in the evening.

Pain, as from excoriation, in the eyes.

Inflammation of the eyes, sometimes after taking cold.

Watery white swelling of the eyelids.

Dirty yellowish colour of the sclerotica.

Protrusion of the balls.

Lachrymation.

Convulsive movements, and quivering of the eyes; of the (lower) eyelids.

Weak sight.

Dimness of vision following upon application of Iodine to any part of body.

Choroido-iritis.

Diplopia.

Sparks and scintillations before the eyes.

▲   EARS

Ears

Buzzing in the ears.

Hardness of hearing.

Sensibility to noise.

(Chronic deafness with adhesions in middle ear.)

Deafness from Eustachian catarrh, inflamed tonsils, roaring in the ears, &c.).

▲   FACE

Face

Complexion pale, yellowish, or easily tanned; or greenish.

Acneous eruption on r. side of face, with burning, and itching, twitching of r. upper eyelid, and twitchings in other parts.

Sallow, distressed countenance.

Bluish lips, with swelling of the superficial veins.

Frequent and sudden redness of the face, with sensation of burning in the ears.

Face sunken with eyes cast down.

Starting of the muscles of the face.

Suppurating ulcer on the l. cheek, with swelling of the contiguous glands.

Swelling of submaxillary glands.

▲   NOSE

Nose

Small scab in the r. nostril.

Epistaxis.

Red, burning spot on the nose, below the eyes.

Blowing of much yellow mucus from the nose.

Discharge

Stoppage of the nose, or secretion of mucus more abundant than usual.

Dry coryza, becoming fluent in the open air (agg. evening).

Fluent coryza with much sneezing.

Violent coryza with lachrymation and frontal headache; discharge hot, nose sore, fever.

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Aphthae in the mouth.

Ulcers in the mouth.

Pain and swelling of the glands of the interior of the mouth.

Exhalation of putrid odour from the mouth; after Merc Viv ^Mercury.

Gums and teeth

Pressive pains in the molars.

Teeth yellow, and covered with mucus, in the morning; easily blunted by vegetable acids.

Inflammatory swelling and bleeding of the gums, with swelling of the cheek; the gums are painful to the touch.

Teeth loose.

Softening of the gums.

Saliva

Salivation.

Tongue

Tongue loaded with a thick coating.

Dryness of the tongue.

▲   THROAT

Throat

Swelling and elongation of the uvula.

Sore throat, with pressive pain, when not swallowing.

Permanent constriction of the gullet and impeded deglutition.

Increased secretion of watery saliva.

Inflammation of the gullet, with sensation of burning and scraping; burning in the fauces.

Ulcers in throat, with swelling of glands of neck.

▲   CHEST

Chest

Difficulty of expanding the chest on taking an inspiration.

Suffocation.

Weakness of the chest.

Congestion in the chest.

Burning, shooting tension in the integuments of the chest.

Heart

Sensation of weakness in the chest (and heart).

Violent palpitation of the heart; increased by the least exertion (from walking or going downstairs).

Sensation as if the heart were squeezed together.

Constant, heavy, oppressive pain in region of heart, with sharp, piercing, movable pain.

Great precordial anxiety, obliging him to constantly change his position.

(Hypertrophy of heart, very like that of Arnica ^Arn., and like that often met with in housemaids and others from over-exertion.)

Fatty degeneration of heart.

Cooper.).

Pulse rapid, small, weak, with tumultuous, irregular, at times intermittent action of heart.

Pulse

Pulse quick, small, and hard; weak, threadlike.

The pulse becomes much quicker as soon as one moves about.

Respiration

Difficulty of respiration, and dyspnoea.

Shooting in the l. side, on breathing.

Loss of power to breathe, esp. on going upstairs.

Insupportable hoarseness and tingling in the throat, esp. in morning.

The voice becomes deeper.

Membranous croup, with wheezing and sawing respiration; dry, barking cough, esp. in children with dark eyes and hair; child grasps throat with hand.

Croup, with much mucous expectoration, sometimes streaked with blood.

Inflammation of the throat, of the larynx and trachea, with contractive pain of excoriation.

Pain in the larynx, with discharge of hardened mucus.

Contraction and heat in the larynx.

Increased secretion of mucus in the trachea, with frequent hawking.

Dry cough, with pressure, shooting, and sensation of burning in the chest.

Cough in the morning.

Cough, with expectoration of abundant, and sometimes sanguineous mucus, pains in the chest, and fever.

Rattling of mucus in the chest, with roughness under the sternum and oppression of the chest.

Cough, resembling whooping-cough, excited by an insupportable tickling in the chest, with anguish before the paroxysm, and excessive emaciation.

Hepatization; worse upper part of r. lung.

▲   SKIN

Skin

Skin rough, dry, or clammy, moist, and of a dirty yellow.

Tetters.

Furfur.

Panaris.

Itching and itching pimples on an old cicatrix.

Papulous eruptions tending to pustulation.

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Hard and large goitres.

Constant sensation of constriction in the goitres.

Cramps in the back.

Pain in sacrum and coccyx.

Spinal complaints, with gressus vaccinus. 21. Limbs.

Chronic arthritic affections; with violent nightly pains.

Stiff and enlarged joints after acute rheumatism.

Subsultus tendinum.

Cold hands and feet.

Neck

Tension in the neck.

Swelling of the exterior of the neck.

Swelling of the neck when speaking.

Swelling of the glands of the neck, of the nape of the neck, and of the armpits.

Yellowish spots on the neck, and redness, as from ecchymosis.

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Inflation of the abdomen.

Enlargement of the abdomen, which renders it impossible to lie down without danger of suffocation.

Region of liver sore to pressure; swelling and hypertrophy of liver; jaundice.

Hard, painful swelling of the spleen.

Cramp-like pains in the abdomen.

Violent colic.

Pains in the abdomen, like those of parturition.

Swelling and inflammation of the mesenteric glands.

Pancreas enlarged; whitish, whey-like diarrhoea.

Abdominal pulsations; throbbing of abdominal aorta.

Trembling in the abdomen, from the pit of the stomach to the periphery, with increased heat.

Hard swelling of the inguinal glands.

Appetite

Disagreeable, saponaceous, sourish, or bitter salt taste.

Increased thirst day and night.

Appetite variable; at one time bulimy, at another, absence of appetite.

Great weakness of digestion.

Eats too often and too much; rapid digestion, but losing flesh all the time.

Eating

Abdominal pains, which return after every meal.

Heartburn, after heavy food.

Pyrosis, esp. after indigestible food.

Aching in the stomach after every meal.

Unusual hunger, with amelioration after a meal (after having eaten a good deal).

Flatus

Incarceration of flatulence (l. side of abdomen).

Nausea

Qualmishness, nausea (with spasmodic pain in the stomach).

Frequent nausea.

Vomiting

Violent vomitings renewed by eating.

Vomiting of bilious matter, or of yellowish mucus.

Stomach

Risings, generally acid, with burning sensation.

Hiccough.

Excessive pains in the stomach, with bilious evacuations.

Cramp-like, gnawing, or burning pains in the stomach.

Inflammation in the stomach.

Pulsations in the epigastrium.

Gastric derangement with constipation.

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Stool

Hard, knotty, dark-coloured faeces.

Constipation.

Loose, soft evacuations, sometimes whitish, alternately with constipation.

Evacuations copious of the consistence of pap.

Violent, frothy diarrhoea, or composed of sanguineous mucus.

Dysenteric evacuations of thick mucus, or sometimes purulent, with retention of faecal matter.

In the evening, sensation of itching and burning in the anus.

Piles protrude and burn; agg. from heat.

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Suppressed secretion of urine.

Copious and frequent flow of urine.

Involuntary emission of urine at night.

Urine of a deep colour, turbid, or yellowish green; or milky; or acrid and corrosive.

Parti-coloured cuticle on the urine.

(Incontinence in old people with prostatic enlargement.).

Urethra

After stool, milk-like fluid runs from urethra.

Male

Complete loss of sexual power, testicles atrophied.

Painful pullings in the anterior part of the penis.

Swelling and hardness of the testes.

Womb

Pain (dull, pressing, wedge-like) commencing in r. ovary passing down broad ligament to uterus.

Uterine haemorrhage renewed after every stool.

Genitals

Violent and constant erections.

Sexual desire increased.

Aching, pressing, twisting, or forcing pain in spermatic cords; after sexual dalliance.

Hardness of the prostate gland.

Hydrocele.

Offensive sweat of genitals.

Metrorrhagia.

Atrophy of ovaries and breasts, with sterility.

Inflammation of r. ovary with an itching eruption on head and hands following application of Iodine to os uteri.

Chronic oöphoritis (l.) with thick, yellow, burning leucorrhoea, amel. after eating (H. N. Martin.).

Pain in lower abdomen; agg. l. ovarian region; amel. by motion and by eating.

Flaccidity and atrophy of the breasts.

Mammary hyperaesthesia.

Heaviness of breasts as if they would fall off.

Acute pain and soreness in breasts with metritis.

Bluish red nodosities size of hazel nut; in both breasts; dry, black points at tips.

Galactorrhoea; thin, watery milk; weakness; emaciation.

Milk suppressed; breasts atrophied and relaxed.

Menses

Catamenia at one time too late, at another too early.

Menses premature, violent and copious.

Weakness, palpitation of the heart, and many sufferings, before, during, and after the catamenia.

Great sensitiveness of r. ovarian region during or after menses.

Leucorrhoea, corroding the limbs and the linen; acrid; profuse; worse at time of menses.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Upper extremities

Pains in the bones of the arms, agg. when lying down, and disturbing the sleep.

Lassitude in the arms in the morning, in bed.

Convulsive movements and trembling of the arms, of the hands, and of the fingers.

Numbness of the fingers.

Tearing pains in the fingers.

Startings of the tendons of the fingers.

Panaris.

Constant coldness of the hands, which are covered with a cold sweat during labour.

Carphologia.

Lower extremities

Cramp-like pains in the legs when seated.

Heaviness, swelling, trembling and paralysis of the legs.

Rheumatic pullings in the thighs and knees.

Inflammatory swelling of the knee, with tearing pains, and suppuration.

Hot, bright-red swelling of the knee, with inflammation, pricking and burning; agg. by touch and pressure.

Dropsical swelling of the knee.

White swelling of the knee.

Cramps in the feet, esp. at night.

Startings of the tendons of the feet.

OEdematous swelling of the feet.

Chilblains.

Acrid and corrosive sweat on the feet.

Pain in the corns.

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever

Shivering, even in a warm room.

Chill alternating with heat.

Cold feet all night.

Internal dry heat, with external coldness.

Profuse night-sweat.

Increase of bodily heat.

Fugitive heat.

Acid perspiration in the morning.

Fever, with consumption.

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep

Agitated dreams.

Restless sleep with vivid or anxious dreams.

Nocturnal sweat.

Generalities

Erratic pains in the joints.

Chronic rheumatism in the joints, with violent pains at night; without swelling.

Sensation of torpor in the limbs.

Convulsive starting and twitching of the tendons.

Distortion of the bones.

Pains in the bones at night.

Swelling and induration of the glands.

Haemorrhage from different organs.

Powerful over-excitement of all the nervous system.

Ebullition of blood, and pulsation over the whole body, increased by the slightest exertion.

Trembling of the limbs.

Tottering walk.

Great weakness; even speaking excites perspiration.

Plastic exudations.

Atrophy and emaciation till reduced to the state of a skeleton (with good appetite).

Emaciation; ending in marasmus; of glandular tissues (mammae, testicles, thyroid gland, &c.).

OEdematous swelling, even of the whole body.