Iodium - Hering
Iodine, Iodum, Iodinum, Iod.Have you ever used Iodium? Yes No
Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Iodium in traditional homeopathic usage (by Hering), not approved by the FDA.
▲ MODALITIES ETC
Desires and aversions
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.
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Complementary
Iodum and Lycopodium Lycop. are complementary.
Relationship
Iodum is frequently suitable in ailments from Arsenicum Album Arsen., Merc Viv Mercur., Calcar. or Argentum Nitricum Arg. nitr.
Iodum follows well after Merc Viv Mercur., and is followed by Kali bichr. (croup).
Antidotes
Antidotes to Iodum of large doses, starch or wheat flour, beat up in water; of small doses, Antimonium Tartaricum Ant. tart.; Arsenicum Album Arsen., Belladonna Bellad., Camphora Camphor., China Chin., Sulphur Sulph., China Cinchon., Coffea Tosta Coffea, Hep Sulph Calc Hepar, Opium, Phosphorus Phosphor., Spongia Tosta Spongia, Sulphur Sulphur.
⥄ Show reverse lookup of Iodium relationships from all sources▲ MIND
Mind
Must keep in motion day and night, brain felt as if it were stirred up, felt as if going crazy.
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Vertigo
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.
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Gums and teeth
Gums puffed, red, inflamed, painful to touch, and bleed easily.
Tongue
Tongue dry; brown and dry; thickly coated.
Fauces
Thick, brown, croup-like exudation in mouth and fauces.
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Throat
Inflammation and ulceration of the oesophagus.
Larynx
OEdema 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.
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Lungs
Hepatization, worse upper part of right lung; high fever, restlessness, thirst apathy.
Rapid hepatization; tightness across the chest.
Pulse
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.
Respiration
Shortness of breath, palpitation and feeling of weakness on going up stairs.
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Abdomen
Swelling of the inguinal glands.
Hypochondria
Swelling of the spleen, after intermittent fever; vague pains down to left iliac region.
Stomach
Stitches in stomach, relaxed feeling must loosen clothing; milk disagrees; intense thirst.
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Urine
Urine dark, thick, ammoniacal; dark, yellowish-green; acrid; milky; with a variegated cuticle on its surface.
Male
Painless swelling of the testicles, with offensive sweat.
Genitals
Bluish-red nodosities, size of a hazel-nut, in the skin of both mammae; dry, black points at the tips.
Pregnancy
Iodum should not be given during lying-in, except in high potencies.
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Extremities, limbs
Chronic arthritic affections, with violent nightly pains in the joints, no swelling.
Upper extremities
Fingers "go to sleep".
Lower extremities
Painful corns.
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Sleep
Restless sleep, with vivid or anxious dreams.
Nausea and vomiting
Vomiting of bile, with violent colic; of milk.
Eating and drinking
Eating 16, 17; heavy food 16. Drinking milk 20.
Tissues
Plastic exudations.
Violent pulsations all over; anguish and dyspnoea; compression of the brain.
Nerves
Rapid failing of strength.
Temperature and weather
Marked fever, restlessness; thirst, throbbing headache, circumscribed red cheeks; mind apathetic. θ Pneumonia, croup, etc.
Right 5, 18, 23. Left 2, 3, 18, 19, 32, 33. Right to left 23.
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Position etc
Motion 1, 3. Sitting 2. After rising 2. Lying down 2, 32. Walking 3. Exertion 2, 29. Ascending 26.
Morning 12, 20, 27, 32, 40. Evening 7. Night 34, 40, 44. After midnight 27. Day and night 1. Day 16, 25.