Platinum Metallicum

Platinum Metallicum
The following are the indications of Platinum Metallicum, as it relates to this part. Strongest indications are in bold, the next strongest are in italics, and the remaining indications are in a plain typeface.

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.

mind, behaviour, nymphomania;

mind, behaviour, shrieking;

mind, delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions, devils, are present;

mind, delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions, devils, that all persons are devils;

mind, desires, wants, sex, lustful;

mind, symptoms follow intense emotions, anger;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, anguish;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, conceited;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, contemptuous (see scorn);

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, contemptuous (see scorn), of everything;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, haughty;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, indifference, apathy, etc.;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, irritability;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, irritability, during chill;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, mood, alternating mood;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, rudeness, insolent;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, unhappy, sadness, mental depression;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, unhappy, sadness, mental depression, open air;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting);

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting), involuntary;

mind, hysteria;

mind, intellectual faculties, impaired thinking, absent-minded (see forgetful);

mind, insanity, erotic;

mind, insecure, uncertain, scared, fear;

mind, insecure, uncertain, scared, fear, of death;

mind, memory, forgetful;

mind, memory, weakness of memory;

mind, perception, incorrect judge of size, things appear smaller;

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

HEAD

Constriction about forehead and right temples

head, sensation of numbness, forehead;

head, sensation of numbness, temples;

Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot

Cramp-like, squeezing pain

Numbness, with headache.

head, pain, headache, indoors, in crowded room;

head, pain, headache, warm room;

head, pain, headache, sides, one side;

head, pain, headache, temples;

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

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

head, pain, headache, pressing (see bursting, pulling), temples;

EYES

Objects look smaller than they are

Twitching of lids ( Agar.) Eyes feel cold

Cramp-like pain in orbits.

EARS

Feels numb

Cramp-like twinges

Roaring and rumbling.

ear, noises in ear, buzzing;

ear, noises in ear, fluttering sounds;

ear, noises in ear, ringing;

ear, numbness, in mastoid;

ear, pain, bursting sensation;

ear, pain, jerking;

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 ( Stann.)

face, coldness;

face, coldness, right;

face, coldness, cold chin, sensation of coldness;

face, coldness, lower jaw;

face, numbness;

face, numbness, right;

face, numbness, right, during chill;

face, numbness, cheek bone;

face, pain;

face, pain, boring;

face, skin, discoloration, iron deficiency anaemia (greenish-yellow discoloration);

face, skin, discoloration, changing colour;

face, skin, like insects crawling on skin (see skin);

face, skin, like insects crawling on skin (see skin), lower jaw;

NOSE

nose, nose bleed, clotted, coagulated blood;

SKIN

skin, discoloration, pale;

skin, itching, crawling;

skin, itching, smarting;

skin, pain, gnawing, biting, eating at skin;

skin, prickling;

BACK AND NECK

back, pain, sore, bruised, beaten;

back, numbness, coccyx (bottom tip of spine);

back, numbness, coccyx (bottom tip of spine), while sitting;

ABDOMEN

Painter’s colic

Pain in umbilical region, extending through to back

Pressing and bearing down in abdomen, extending into pelvis.

abdomen, pain, lower part of abdomen;

abdomen, pain, cutting, on appearance of period;

abdomen, pain, dragging, bearing down, during period;

abdomen, pain, pressing, lower part of abdomen;

abdomen, pain, pressing, lower part of abdomen, as if period would come on;

abdomen, skin, itching, like insects crawling on skin;

abdomen, skin, itching, like insects crawling on skin, feels erotic;

abdomen, stomach, appetite, easily satisfied;

abdomen, stomach, burping, belching, loud;

abdomen, stomach, burping, belching, loud, while fasting;

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

RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

rectum, constipation, during period;

rectum, constipation, during pregnancy;

rectum, constipation, from inactive lifestyle;

rectum, pain, pressing (pressure), before stool;

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

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.

stool, clinging;

GENITALS ETC

genitals, male, itching, penis;

Pruritus vulvae

genitals, female, vaginal discharge;

genitals, female, sensitive, vagina;

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

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

genitals, female, prolapse, womb;

Female, Parts hypersensitive

Tingling internally and externally ( Kali-brom., Orig.) Ovaries sensitive and burn

Vaginismus

Nymphomania

Excessive sexual development, vaginismus

Ovaritis with sterility

Abnormal sexual appetite and melancholia.

genitals, male, erections, troublesome;

genitals, male, erections, night;

genitals, male, erections, violent;

genitals, male, itching;

genitals, male, itching, erotic itch;

genitals, male, masturbates frequently;

genitals, male, pain, sore, bruised;

genitals, male, sensitiveness;

genitals, male, sexual passion, increased;

genitals, male, sexual passion, violent;

genitals, male, sexual passion, violent, with trembling;

genitals, male, tingling, like insects crawling on skin;

genitals, female, irritation, itching;

genitals, female, irritation, itching, feels erotic;

genitals, female, metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding);

genitals, female, metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding), black;

genitals, female, pain, labour-like;

genitals, female, pain, sore, tenderness;

genitals, female, sexual intercourse, desire increased;

genitals, female, sexual intercourse, desire increased, with violent involuntary orgasms;

genitals, female, sexual intercourse, desire increased, in virgins;

genitals, female, sensitive;

genitals, female, tingling, erotic;

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

genitals, female, period, clotted;

genitals, female, period, copious;

genitals, female, period, dark;

genitals, female, period, frequent;

genitals, female, period, protracted;

EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped

Numb and weary sensation

Feel paralyzed.

extremities, limbs, constriction, sensation as if bandaged;

extremities, limbs, constriction, thigh;

extremities, limbs, constriction, thigh, as from a tightly pulled bandage;

extremities, limbs, cramps;

extremities, limbs, cramps, joints;

extremities, limbs, numbness (see tingling), upper limbs;

extremities, limbs, numbness (see tingling), fingers;

extremities, limbs, numbness (see tingling), leg;

extremities, limbs, stiffness, during convulsion;

extremities, limbs, stiffness, lower limbs;

extremities, limbs, stiffness, knee;

FEVER AND CHILL

chill, in the open air;

chill, chilliness (see also whole body, temperature), during urination;

chill, chilliness (see also whole body, temperature), after urination;

chill, trembling and shivering;

chill, during urination;

chill, after urination;

GENERALITIES

Sleeps with legs far apart ( Chamom.)

sleep, yawning, without sleepiness;

sleep, yawning, spasmodic;

generalities, convulsions, after masturbation;

generalities, convulsions, with tetanus rigidity;

generalities, convulsions, continuous contraction;

perspiration, during sleep;

generalities, evening;

generalities, anaemia, as from iron deficiency - greenish yellow skin;

generalities, constriction, internally;

generalities, constriction, sensation of a band;

generalities, eating and food, symptoms while fasting;

generalities, formication (like insects crawling around), external parts;

generalities, formication (like insects crawling around), internally;

generalities, insensitive to pain (see irritability), inner parts;

generalities, insensitive to pain (see irritability), parts affected by disease or injury;

generalities, jerking, internally;

generalities, lying down, lying down;

generalities, lying down, after lying down;

generalities, numbness, internally;

generalities, numbness, internally, of suffering parts;

generalities, pain, appear gradually, and disappear gradually;

generalities, pain, benumbing;

generalities, pain, constricting, externally;

generalities, pain, constricting, internally;

generalities, pain, gnawing, biting, externally;

generalities, pain, pressing, inward;

generalities, pain, pressing, together;

generalities, pain, sore, bruised;

generalities, pain, sore, bruised, parts affected with cramp-like pain;

generalities, pain, sore, bruised, on pressure;

generalities, pain, tearing, muscles, cramp-like in muscles;

generalities, prickling, externally;

generalities, symptoms not symmetrical, symptoms on one side;

generalities, while sitting;

generalities, tension, externally;

generalities, trembling, externally;

generalities, weakness (see lethargic, weariness), during stool;