Iodium - Skin symptoms
Iodine, Iodum, Iodinum
Homeopathic remedies are prescribed on the basis that in a tiny dilution like cures like, so while very dilute Iodium may help, unprocessed Iodium may be best avoided.
Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Iodium in traditional homeopathic usage, not reviewed by the FDA.
SKIN
Skin
Hot, dry, yellow and withered
Glands enlarged
Nodosities
Anasarca of cardiac disease.
Blisters; covered with spots
Coldness
during fever
with internal heat
Discoloration; brown, liver spots
dirty
grey
freckles
grey spots
purple (purpura haemorrhagica purplish spots or patches from haemorrhage under skin)
red; spots
scarlet
yellow, jaundice, etc.
spots
Dry
inability to perspire (see inactivity)
rough
Filthy skin
Flabbiness
Abnormal growths
cauliflower-like fungus
syphilitic
ulcers
bleeding
discharges; bloody
discharges; copious
discharges; corrosive
discharges; thin
discharges; watery
discharges; yellow
painless, slow developing
hardened
no feeling in ulcer
after scratching
sensitive
spongy
generating pus
generating pus; with pain
swollen
syphilitic
tense
warts; withered
Inactivity
Inflammation; skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)
indurated (hard from inflammation), nodules, etc.
Like insects crawling on skin
Heat without fever
Itching
burning
unchanged by scratching
spots
stinging
Loss of feeling
Out-breaks on skin
boils
blood boils
periodical
crusty; yellow
peeling in scales
discharging, moist
yellow
herpetic
rings
zoster, zona
leprosy
small, solid, no pus
pimples
pocks; whitish
psoriasis (red patches with silvery scales)
pus-filled pimples
rash (see granular)
receding in eruptive fevers; scarlet fever
scabies; suppressed; with mercury and sulphur
scaly
scaly; bran-like
like nettle rash
nodular
Pain; burning
burning; spots
excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed)
stinging
Rough
Scars; break open
itching
pimply
Sticking
Swelling
of parts affected with symptoms
burning
fluid in tissues
pale
spongy
Tension
Skin becomes thick after scratching (see hard)
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