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Ferrum
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Origin Mineral · Simple
ClarkePreparation Triturations of the pure metal and of the carbonate; solution of the acetate.
Sources 11 entries across 9 books: Clarke, Hering, Lippe, T. F. Allen, Tyler …

Dose
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No dose stated in the library’s books

By regionHering
Mind ► Head confused, meddled ; with cold feet and stiff fingers. ► Mind confused, cannot collect his thoughts. ► Prone to weep or to laugh immoderately ; with choking sensation in throat, as if swollen outside. ► Not inclined to talk or study ; nervous, restless. ► Lively in evening. ► Depression of spirits ; also after menses. ► Excitable, pettish, least, contradiction angers. ► Proud, self-contented look. ► Nervous, hysterical feeling.
Inner Head ► Head dull and full, eyelids heavy, apt to sleep, while sitting reading. ► Pain over left eye, coming suddenly. ► After 3 A.M., with stitches in both temples, which spread gradually over whole forehead, with chilliness. ► Throbbing pain in top of head when moving suddenly. ► Headache on top of head, as if skull was pushed upwards. ► Weight in back of head, from ear to ear. ► Congestion to head, pulsating, hummering pains ; head sensitive ; worse after 12 P.M. ; returning periodically ; feeling of an iron band around the head ; better from external pressure ; face red. ► Pain in back of head when coughing. ► Beating in back of head and neck, gradually extending to sides and forehead, worse stooping or moving. ► Headache : occupying left side of head ; with coryza ; after menses. ► Head hot, feet cold. ► Writing causes headache to re-appear.
Eyes ► At right can see in the dark ; hysteria. ► Dark before the eyes ; giddy. ► Letters run together when reading or writing. ► Eyes weak, with lachrymation. ► Pupils contracted. ► Pressure in the eyes as if they would protrude ; worse right. ► Redness and swelling of both lids. ► Inflamed eyes, burning, stinging. ► Can scarcely open eyes ; lids pressed down. ► Suppurating stye on upper lid.
Stomach ► Heat and burning in stomach, with momentary, cramp-like pain in splenic region. ► Heavy pressure in pit of stomach. ► Palpitation in stomach and through oesophagus, as if a nerve was quivering, with an occasional suffocating feeling, as if a valve rose in the throat. ► Occasional uneasiness at splenic end of stomach.
Female Sexual Organs ► Desire lessened, sterility. ► During coitus, insensible ; painfulness of the vagina. ► Dropsy of uterus ; face flushes red. ► Sharp pains in abdomen, bearing down in uterus, with aching below it. ► Sticking, shooting pains in uterus. ► Pains near mouth of uterus when lying down. ► Passive flow, dark, grumous. θ Menorrhagia. ► Swellings and indurations in the vagina. ► Vagina too dry. ► Prolapsus of vagina. ► Before menses, stinging headache, ringing in ears, discharge of long pieces of mucus from uterus. ► Menses : too late, long-lasting and profuse ; flow watery, or in lumps ; preceded by labor-like pains ; varices in legs worse ; intermit two or three days, then return ; uterus displaced ; come on with a physical languor and mental displaced ; come on with a physical languor and mental depression unfitting her for work ; could overcome them by forced exertion. …
Lungs ► Shooting-stinging in chest. ► Feeling of dryness in the chest. ► Slight heaviness in upper part of left lung, making breathing rather difficult ; sore feeling below clavicle and left nipple, cannot take a long breath. ► Slight, dull, heavy pain across upper part of chest, rendering breathing uneasy. ► Sticking and bruised sensation in the chest. ► Constricting spasm of chest. ► Flying pains in chest ; blood-spitting ; persons who flush easily and get epistaxis, dyspnoea, palpitation.
Neck And Back ► Neck : sore as if bruised ; stiff. ► Neck and shoulder painful when lying on right side. ► Constant pains along back, worse in those parts she had to lie on. ► Lumbago all night, goes off on rising. ► Pain in region of kidneys, with desire to make water.
Limbs In General ► Nightly tearing in arms and legs. ► Swelling of hands ; also of feet to the ankles.
Sleep ► Falls asleep : from debility ; while sewing, sitting and studying. ► Sleep at night with inability to sleep. ► Anxious tossing in bed after 12 P.M. ► Can lie only on the back, at night. ► Child does not sleep because of itching from ascarides. ► Dreams : vivid ; confused ; unpleasant. ► Nightmare.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chilly every evening : hectic fever. ► Frequent short attacks of chilly shivering. ► Chill with hot and red face, thirst. ► General coldness in evening, in bed, often lasting all night. ► Chilly and want of animal heat. ► Thirst with chill. ► Dry heat, worse towards evening ; face red ; inclined to uncover ; better moving or speaking, and after meals. ► Sweat profuse, long-lasting, as well by day at every motion, as at night and morning, in bed. ► Clammy, generally debilitating sweat. ► Every other (third) day sweat from morn till noon. ► Strong-smelling night-sweat (with cramps of different parts). ► Sweat stains yellow, is fetid on going to sleep. ► Worse while sweating. ► Intermittent fever after abuse of quinine ; congestions to head ; veins distended ; vomiting ingesta ; swelling of spleen ; anaemia masked by pseudo-plethora.
Skin ► Dry skin. θ Pneumonia. ► Skin pale, yellow, sallow, dirty, withered, flabby. ► Yellow-brown spots, sore to touch. ► Scarlatina during desquamation. ► Skin peels off on shoulders and left hand. ► Warts on fingers and backs of hands. ► Ulcers pale, oedematous.

Books*
Antidoted by Cinchona Officinalis 3, Pulsatilla Pratensis 3, Arnica Montana 2 +13
Complementary Alumina, Cinchona Officinalis
Follows well —
Compare Arsenicum Album, Anacardium Orientale, Borax Veneta +25

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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