Homeopathy LibraryFerrum Metallicum
Dewey - Essentials of Homoeopathic Materia Medica · Willis Alonzo Dewey · 2,084 chars
General
Where are our data concerning Ferrum metallicum found ?
In Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura ; British Journal of Homoeopathy , Vols. XXXII and XXVII.
Give the general action of Ferrum.
Produces a false plethora ; an irregular distribution of blood, with headache, nosebleed, dyspnoea, neuralgia, etc. Its action is to dilate the blood-vessels.
Give six grand characteristics of the drug.
Undigested Diarrhoea, Worse From Eating
When is Ferrum indicated in anaemia ?
When the patient has an appearance of full bloodedness or plethora, which is followed by a paleness and earthiness of the face, and puffiness of the extremities.
The mucous membranes are pale and there may be anaemic murmurs in the veins of the neck.
The patient is constantly chilly with perhaps an afternoon hectic like fever.
What is the chill of Ferrum ?
It is a chill with red face and thirst ; during the heat there is distension of the blood-vessels and headache ; the chill is apt to come on about 3 or 4 in the morning.
What are the stomach symptoms ?
There seems to be no secretion in the stomach capable of changing the food, and it is vomited as taken. The appetite is ravenous.
What is the characteristic headache ?
It is a throbbing headache at the base of the brain. It seems as if the head would burst ; there is congestion and pulsating in the head, worse after midnight, with red face and cold feet.
What is there characteristic about the vertigo of Ferrum ?
It comes on on going down hill, or on crossing water, even though the water be smooth.
What is the diarrhoea of Iron ?
Undigested, painless, sometimes involuntary stools ; there is a desire to go to stool as soon as anything touches his stomach ; it is worse just after midnight ; there is great hunger, but eating brings on diarrhoea.
What is the characteristic rheumatic pain of Ferrum ?
In the left deltoid muscle.
What remedy has rheumatism in the right deltoid muscle ?
Sanguinaria .