Iodium - T.F. Allen
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Iodium in traditional homeopathic usage (by T.F. Allen), not approved by the FDA.
▲ GENERAL
General
Headache in the forehead.
the brain feels bruised and extremely sensitive.
the whole body, especially the arms, feels powerless and paralyzed.
he is obliged to lie down.
with eructations and painful sensitiveness of the external head to touch.
even on the next day, confusion of the head and painfulness of the brain on motion (after twenty-six days),.
Taste curiously affected, nothing having its natural flavor but sweets.
lemonade, grapes, etc., very unpleasant, tea bad, coffee less so, eggs all right.
but every kind of wine, even though watered and sweetened, was abominable, and tasted like nothing describable, acrid, astringent, bitter, acid, and unendurable.
punch, if possible, worse than wine,.
The post-mortem showed a separable orange-yellow patch on the uvula and arch of the palate, consisting of a thin but firm membrane easily detached.
this patch was confluent with one on the posterior wall of the pharynx, and extended increasing in thickness into the oesophagus and trachea.
the mucous membrane under this membrane was hyperaemic but not swollen.
the epiglottis was covered with a thick false membrane, the mucous membrane eroded, dark-red, with many swollen pustules, the submucous membrane oedematous but relaxed.
the ventriculi Morgagnii closed by swelling and covered with a similar false membrane.
the mucous membrane here was also intensely red and injected, a similar distinct membrane on the vocal cords, and a portion of the larynx beneath.
the trachea free from the membrane.
the whole extent of the bronchi, even to their finest divisions, inflamed and filled with tenacious mucus.
the mucous membrane not diminished but greatly swollen, injected, and showing on every section numerous small points of (apparent) pus, which however might be considered masses of mucus.
a high degree of acute emphysema between all the lobules of the lungs. The whole oesophagus from the pharynx to the stomach was covered with a continuous false membrane, orange-colored, firm and detachable.
the submucous connective tissue contained here and there phlegmonous purulent spots,.
Painful choking continued for two days and nights, only diminishing appreciably on the second night, accompanied all the time by copious salivation.
the choking felt as if caused by shreds of skin peeling off in various parts of the throat, accompanied by a sharp, smarting sensation, which was for the moment allayed by a spoonful of jelly or arrowroot,.
≡ show all authors ...▲ MIND
Mind
Emotional.
Sadness,
Disposed to fright and vexation,
Morbid sensitiveness; he is easily and frequently moved to tears,
Intellectual.
Feels unfitted for everything,
Stupor,
≡ more ...▲ HEAD
Head
General Head.
Headache
Dull headache in the forenoon,
Frontal headache,
Biting, sore pain in the right side of the occiput, above the ear, extending backward in the skin,
Scalp
Severe itching of scalp on vertex, lasting several days; worse in the morning,
Vertex
Parietals.
Occiput
External Head.
≡ more ...▲ EYES
Eyes
Objective.
Redness of eyes (second day),
Peculiar brownish discoloration under the eyes,
Subjective.
Tearing pain about the right eye, especially beneath it,
Lids.
Lachrymal Apparatus.
Profuse lachrymation,
Ball.
Pupil.
Vision
Objects seem as though veiled,
Dark rings float down before the eyes, at the sides and near the visual axis (after sixteen hours),
≡ more ...▲ FACE
Face
Objective.
Countenance suffused in the evening,
Pallid face (third day),
Cheeks.
Lips.
Chin.
Chattering of the teeth (immediately),
≡ more ...▲ NOSE
Nose
Objective.
Subjective.
Itching-sticking in the forepart of the septum of the nose,
Discharge
Fluent catarrh, with much sneezing,
Stoppage of the nostrils (after twenty-eight hours),
≡ more ...▲ MOUTH
Teeth
General Mouth.
Small elevations on the inside of the right cheek, at first with only some sore pressive pain when touched; after a few days, a sticking and cutting as if ulcerated, especially on opening the mouth widely on eating or reading aloud; with inflammation in the vicinity,
Speech.
Speech stammering (second day),
Gums and teeth
Pain, as from looseness in the teeth and gum, when eating,
Gums.
Ulcer on the gum of a lower hollow back tooth, with swelling of the cheek, extending up to beneath the eye,
Saliva
Saliva.
Increase of saliva,
Tongue
Tongue.
Taste
Taste.
≡ more ...▲ THROAT
Throat
The neck becomes thick when speaking loud,
Subjective.
Feeling of fulness in the throat (sixth day),
Uvula and Tonsils.
Swelling and elongation of the uvula, with much spitting of saliva,
Fauces, Pharynx, and Oesophagus.
Burning and dryness from the throat to the stomach (immediately),
Swallowing.
External Throat.
Constant sensation of constriction in the goitre,
≡ more ...▲ ABDOMEN
Flatus
Noisy flatulence,
Hypochondria
Umbilical.
Cutting in the region of the umbilicus,
General Abdomen.
Abdomen painful,
Stitches in the sides of the abdomen,
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
That place of a hernia becomes inflamed from the usual truss (sixth day),
Bubbling tearings in the right side close to the penis,
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