Iodium - Hahnemann
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Iodium in traditional homeopathic usage (by Hahnemann), not approved by the FDA.
▲ GENERAL
General
IODINE.
Iodine is obtained from various kinds of sea-wrack (, 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 Sulphuricum Acidum sulphuric acid, in order to remove from it all Muriaticum Acidum muriatic acid.
then manganese is added and the mass is strongly heated in a retort, whereby the iodine is separated, rising as a Viola Odorata 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 homoeopathic 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 homoeopathic physician; when misapplied in allopathic hands, iodine is frequently seen to cause the most fearful destruction of the body and life of patients.
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.
after heavy viands. nausea.
. 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.
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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 , Hartlaub and Trinks gave a list of 516, mainly taken from authors, but including also some symptoms from themselves and SchréTerebinthina ter. These, with a few additions from v. Gersdorff and Gross, presumably obtained from the thirtieth dilution, constitute the present pathogenesis.
IODIUM.
To Kuenzli -Not accessible. To Matthey -"From the tincture in a goitrous subject." To Gairdner -"Observations on patients." To Richter -"General statement from authors."
Not accessible.
Not found at reference.
To Graefe-Effects when given in scrofula.
General statement from authors.
Observations on patients.
In the original-"Sense of sinking and faintness, which were peculiarly oppressive, and were complained of during intense pain as the thing most difficult to bear."
Observation.
From tincture in a goitrous subject.
The citations from are all as S. 29, save where otherwise specified.
Proving on several healthy persons with moderate doses.
Observations on patients.
Headache in the forehead.
the brain is as if bruised and extremely sensitive.
the whole body, and especially the arms, are without strength, and, as it were, paralyzed.
he has to lie down. attended with eructations and painful sensitiveness of the outside of the head when touched.
the following day there is still obtuseness of the head and painfulness of the brain, when moved (aft. 26 d.).
Symptoms of iodic saturation.
From tincture in a goitrous subject.
From tincture in a goitrous subject.
From tincture in a goitrous subject.
Effects when given for glandular indurations.
Observations on patients.
From swallowing 20-30 centigrammes in substance.
Effects on patients.
Effects on patients.
Observation.
Observation.
From tincture in a goitrous subject.
From tincture in a goitrous subject.
In a married woman, subject to such haemorrhages.
Observations on patients.
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Not traceable.
Not accessible.
Observation. The observer merely says that in three cases the emaciation and prostration was so great as to threaten a slow phthisis.
Not found.
In the original "Breathing sufficiently free, but chest at times contracted during inspiration."
Not found.
Observation.
From local use of ointment of Kali Iodatum iodide of potassium.
Instead of "induration" the original has "suppuration."
Preceding S. 553.
From external applications.
See note to S. 514.
A restless and morbid state, with a quivering motion from the gastric region toward the whole surface of the body, as if he was about to tremble or as if a general pulsation was about to break out, with a general increase of heat, seeming to come form the stomach.
then a pressure in the cardiac region, a weight or the chest, with difficult breathing and acceleration of the pulse by seven or eight beats.;.
Trembling, first of the hands, and then also of the arms, of the feet and the back, so that he can only walk tottering and unsteady, and the hand, which moves in a zigzag fashion, cannot guide anything straight to his mouth.
the trembling parts can easily be held fast when at rest.
general movements at the same time are painful and the circulation is accelerated, with a small, threadlike pulse.;.
Observation.
Not accessible.
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Mind
Anxiety.
Illusions of the sense of touch.
Obtuseness of the head, with great disinclination to serious employment.
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Headache
Headache.
Sharp pressive pain on the left side of the upper part of the head, above the forehead.
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Gums and teeth
Toothache, with pressive pain, now here, now there, on the right side and the left, in the molars.
Tongue
Coated tongue.
Taste
Salty taste in the mouth (1st and 2d D.).
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Throat
Increased secretion of saliva.
Increased secretion of mucus in the windpipe.
Enlargement and painful induration of the goitre.
Dwindling away of old and hard or doughy swellings of the thyroid glands and of large goitres (curative effect).
Swelling of the glands on the neck and in the nape disappear permanently (curative effect.).
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Chest
Palpitation.
Violent palpitation.
Dwindling of the breasts, in two females.
Pulse
Quick, hard pulse.
Accelerated, increased pulse.
Small, threadlike, accelerated pulse.
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Appetite
Thirst.
Much thirst, day and night (aft. 24 h.).
Very much thirst, day and night.
Unusual, increased thirst.
Violent thirst.
Distressing thirst.
The appetite is diminished.
Diminished appetite.
Lack of appetite.
Total lack of appetite and of sleep.
Increased appetite.
Continued increase of appetite.
Unusual hunger.
Gnawing hunger (aft. 3 h.).
Violent hunger.
Wild appetite.
Voracity.
Appetite increased even to rabid hunger.
Ravenous hunger, she cannot be satiated.
Ravenous hunger, she would like to eat again directly after a meal; she also feels much better when she has eaten to full satiety.
If he does not eat something every three or four hours, he feels anxious; but he dare not eat too much.
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Rectum
Burning of the anus, in the evening.
Stool
Copious papescent evacuations.
Diarrhoeic stools.
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Fever and chill
Feverish states.
Sourish night-sweat all over, every morning, and the first hour afterward, she is very faint in her lower limbs.
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Fatigue
Lassitude.
Sleep and dreams
Sleeplessness.
Warmth of the skin is increased.
Increased animal warmth of the whole body.
Generalities
Trembling.
Cramps.
Subsultus of the tendons.
Weakness of the muscles.
Decrease of strength.
Loss of all strength.
Great prostration.
Swoons.
Emaciation.
Severe emaciation, which may reach an extraordinarily high degree.
The greatest emaciation, till he is a mere skeleton.
Dropsical Swellings.
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