Platinum Metallicum

▲   GENERAL

General

Is pre-eminently a woman’s remedy. Strong tendency to paralysis, anaesthesia, localized Numbness and coldness are shown. Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually ( Stannum Iodatum ^Stannum.) Tremulousness.

Dose

Sixth trituration to thirtieth potency.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, sitting and standing; evening.

Better

BETTER, walking.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Rhodium; Stannum Metallicum ^Stann.; Valeriana ^Valer.; Sepia ^Sep.

Compare, also: Platinum Muriaticum (Platinum Metallicum has achieved beneficial results after Iodium ^Iodine of Potash failed to cure in syphilitic affection; violent occipital headaches, dysphagia, and syphilitic throat and bone affections; caries of bones of feet); Platinum Metallicum. Mur. nat ( polyuria and salivation); Sedum Acre ^{Sedum Acre} (sexual irritability, relieves irritation of nerve centers and gives rest).

Antidotes

Antidote: Pulsatilla ^Puls. Platinum Metallicum antidotes the bad effects of lead.

▲   MIND

Mind

Irresistible impulse to kill

Self-exaltation; Contempt for others

Arrogant, proud

Weary of everything

Everything seems changed

Mental troubles, associated with suppressed menses

Physical symptoms disappear as mental symptoms develop.

Behaviour

nymphomania

shrieking

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

devils; are present

devils; that all persons are devils

Desires, wants; sex, lustful

Symptoms follow intense emotions; anger

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anguish

conceited

contemptuous (see scorn)

of everything

haughty

indifference, apathy, etc.

irritability

during chill

mood; alternating mood

rudeness; insolent

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

open air

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

involuntary

Hysteria

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; absent-minded (see forgetful)

Insanity; erotic

Insecure, uncertain, scared

fear

fear; of death

Memory

forgetful

weakness of memory

Perception; incorrect judge of size; things appear smaller

Talking, conversation; dislike of talking, desire to be silent, taciturn

▲   HEAD

Head

Constriction about forehead and right temples

Sensation of numbness

forehead

temples

Headache

Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot

Cramp-like, squeezing pain

Numbness, with headache.

Pain, headache

indoors; in crowded room

warm room

sides; one side

temples

pressing (see bursting, pulling); as if in a vice

pressing (see bursting, pulling); forehead; cramp-like

pressing (see bursting, pulling); temples

▲   EYES

Eyes

Objects look smaller than they are

Twitching of lids ( Agaricus Muscarius ^Agar.) Eyes feel cold

Cramp-like pain in orbits.

▲   EARS

Ear

Feels numb

Cramp-like twinges

Roaring and rumbling.

Noises in ear

buzzing

fluttering sounds

ringing

Numbness; in mastoid

Pain

bursting sensation

jerking

▲   FACE

Face

Prosopalgia, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws

Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed in a vise

Coldness, creeping, and numbness, in whole right side of face

Pains increase and decrease gradually ( Stannum Metallicum ^Stann.)

Coldness

right

cold chin

sensation of coldness

lower jaw

Numbness

right

during chill

cheek bone

Pain

boring

Skin

discoloration; iron deficiency anaemia (greenish-yellow discoloration)

discoloration; changing colour

like insects crawling on skin (see skin)

lower jaw

▲   NOSE

Nose

Nose bleed; clotted, coagulated blood

▲   SKIN

Skin

Discoloration; pale

Itching

crawling

smarting

Pain; gnawing, biting; eating at skin

Prickling

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain; sore, bruised, beaten

Back

Numbness

coccyx (bottom tip of spine)

coccyx (bottom tip of spine); while sitting

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Painter’s colic

Pain in umbilical region; extending through to back

Pressing and bearing down in abdomen, extending into pelvis.

Pain

lower part of abdomen

cutting; on appearance of period

dragging, bearing down; during period

pressing; lower part of abdomen

as if period would come on

Skin

itching; like insects crawling on skin

itching; like insects crawling on skin; feels erotic

Stomach

appetite; easily satisfied

burping, belching; loud

while fasting

Nausea

Fermentation, much flatulence; Constriction; ravenous hunger; persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constipation

during period

during pregnancy

from inactive lifestyle

Pain; pressing (pressure); before stool

Urging, desire to stool (see pain; urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); frequent

Stool

Retarded; faeces scanty; evacuated with difficulty

Adheres to rectum, like soft clay

Sticky stool

Constipation of travelers, who are constantly changing food and water

Stool as if burnt.

Clinging

▲   GENITALS ETC

Male

Male; itching; penis

Female

Pruritus vulvae

Female

vaginal discharge

sensitive; vagina

Womb

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain); comes on suddenly

pain; bearing down; womb, and region of womb (see labour-like pains, also pains in abdomen)

prolapse; womb

Genitals

Parts hypersensitive

Tingling internally and externally ( Kali Bromatum ^Kali-brom.; Origanum Majorana ^Orig.) Ovaries sensitive and burn

Vaginismus

Nymphomania

Excessive sexual development; vaginismus

Ovaritis with sterility

Abnormal sexual appetite and melancholia.

Male

erections; troublesome

erections; night

erections; violent

itching

erotic itch

masturbates frequently

pain; sore; bruised

sensitiveness

sexual passion; increased

sexual passion; violent

with trembling

tingling; like insects crawling on skin

Female

irritation; itching

irritation; itching; feels erotic

metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding)

black

pain; labour-like

pain; sore, tenderness

sexual intercourse; desire increased

with violent involuntary orgasms

in virgins

sensitive

tingling; erotic

Menses

Menses too early, too profuse, Dark-clotted, with spasms and painful bearing-down, chilliness, and sensitiveness of parts

Female

period; clotted

period; copious

period; dark

period; frequent

period; protracted

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped

Numb and weary sensation

Feel paralyzed.

Constriction

sensation as if bandaged

thigh

as from a tightly pulled bandage

Cramps

joints

Numbness (see tingling); upper limbs

fingers

leg

Stiffness

during convulsion

lower limbs

knee

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

In the open air

Chilliness (see also whole body

temperature); during urination

temperature); after urination

Trembling and shivering

During urination

After urination

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleeps with legs far apart ( Chamomilla ^Chamom.)

Yawning

without sleepiness

spasmodic

Convulsions

Convulsions

after masturbation

with tetanus rigidity

continuous contraction

Perspiration

During sleep

Generalities

Evening

Anaemia; as from iron deficiency - greenish yellow skin

Constriction

internally

sensation of a band

Eating and food; symptoms while fasting

Formication (like insects crawling around); external parts

internally

Insensitive to pain (see irritability); inner parts

parts affected by disease or injury

Jerking; internally

Lying down

lying down

after lying down

Numbness

internally

internally; of suffering parts

Pain

appear gradually; and disappear gradually

benumbing

constricting; externally

constricting; internally

gnawing, biting; externally

pressing; inward

pressing; together

sore, bruised

parts affected with cramp-like pain

on pressure

tearing; muscles; cramp-like in muscles

Prickling; externally

Symptoms not symmetrical; symptoms on one side

While sitting

Tension; externally

Trembling; externally

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); during stool

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