Ferrum

General

FERRUM. [Ferrum] Iron. Hahnemann. Metals.

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.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : on rising suddenly, things grew black, had to lean against something, or fall ; nausea, prostration, lethargy ; as if balancing to and fro, as when on the water ; when walking over water, as when crossing a bridge.

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.

Outer Head

► Scalp and hair feels sore ; drawing in chest. ► Pressure on top of head when cold air touched it. ► Slight itching in scalp and cold feet.

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.

Ears

► Ringing in right ear. ► Oversensitive to sounds. ► Stitches in the ears in the morning. ► Ulcerative pain of the outer ear.

Nose

► Bloody, puruloid, greenish, whey-like, slimy, acrid discharge ; cold in head. ► Dropping of fluid from posterior nares or frontal sinuses ;

Headache

► Nose continually filled with clotted blood ; especially with coryza. ► Epistaxis ; in anaemic patients subject to ebullitions. ► Scabs out of nose, or coughed up every few weeks.

Face

► Face ashy pale or greenish ; it becomes bright red with pain and other symptoms. ► Blue rings around the eyes, which are dull, lustreless. ► Face feels as if swollen and bloated. ► Face pale, with red spots. ► Face fiery red, veins large ; congestion to head. ► Yellow spots on face. ► Face pale, collapsed, or expressionless, stiff and stupid ; pneumonia. ► Neuralgia after cold washing and overheating.

Lower Face

► Lips pale, dry.

Tongue, Etc

► Unbearable taste of blood. ► Taste like rotten eggs. ► Bad state, mouth dry, tongue coated white.

Mouth

► Dry in the morning. ► Paleness of the buccal cavity.

Throat

► Like a lump in left side of throat, below the tonsil ; worse from empty swallowing ; not when eating and drinking. ► Throat sore ; dull, heavy all day, lively in evening. ► Constructive sensation in throat.

Desires And Aversions

► Appetite good and bad alternately ; with diarrhoea. ► Loathing sour things. ► Aversion to : meat, which disagrees ; bear ; hot things. ► Appetite for bread. ► Appetite lessened or natural. ► Thirstless, or unquenchable thirst.

Eating And Drinking

► Worse from meat ; sour fruit. ► Solid food seems dry and insipid while masticating. ► All food tastes bitter. ► A fear eggs, vomiting. ► After fat food, bitter eructations. ► Wine agrees, if not acid. ► After eating, heat in stomach, nausea. ► After least food or drink, especially after meat spasmodic pressure at the stomach. ► Cold water : 20.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations : sour ; foul ; burning, relieving burning in stomach. ► Nausea : with headache ; with nightly diarrhoea ; with vertigo. ► Vomiting : at midnight, or morning after breakfast ; as soon as food is taken.

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.

Hypochondria

► Tightness in right hypochondriac region. ► Pain is small of back and liver, all dry. ► Fullness in region of liver. ► Liver enlarged, sensitive to pressure. ► Spleen large ; after intermittents. ► Shooting pain in left hypochondrium. ► Cramp-like sensation in splenic region.

Abdomen

► Abdomen hard, distended, but not with flatulence. ► Rumbling, with pain in small of back and kidneys, and slight urethral soreness when urinating. ► Flatulent colic at night ; violent rumbling. ► Bowels feel sore when touched, as if bruised, or weakened by cathartics.

Stool, Etc

► Prolapsus recti ; with children. ► Straining for stool all day, sick at stomach, disagreeable taste, worse drinking cold water. ► Diarrhoea, with undigested good ; painless and involuntary during a meal. ► Rice-water discharges ; cold, with cold, sour sweat. ► Stools : watery, with burning at the anus ; slimy, with discharge of ascarides ; stools with blood and mucus. ► Costive : stools hard and difficult, followed by backache. ► Itching at the anus at night, from ascarides. ► Piles, copious bleeding or ichorus oozing ; tearing pains, with itching and gnawing.

Urine

► Pains in bladder. ► Slight soreness in urethra. ► Involuntary urination at night, and also when walking about by day. ► Urine more copious and clear ; with relaxation and prostration, making him very nervous. ► Urine alkaline. ► Hot urine ; metrorrhagia.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual desire increased. ► Impotence. ► Seminal emissions. ► Gleet, copious, painless, milky.

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. Hysterical symptoms after menses ; suppressed. ► Leucorrhoea milk, milky, or itching, sharp, with soreness. ► Much itching of vulva ; delicate women, with red face.

Pregnancy

► Prevents abortion. ► Promotes expulsion of moles. ► Spasmodic labor-pains. ► Uterine hemorrhage with labor-like pains, glowing face ; flow watery, or containing lumps ; pulse full, hard.

Larynx

► Voice : hoarse ; almost extinct. ► Roughness of the throat ; hoarseness.

Breathing

► Breath hot. ► Dyspnoea increases slowly. θ Pneumonia. ► Difficult inspiration, as from heaviness of the chest. ► Breathing dry, loud, anxious ; sometimes in children, rattling. ► Oppression from orgasm of blood ; chest scarcely moves in breathing ; nostrils dilated during expiration. ► Asthma, worse after 12 P.M. must sit up ; better walking slowly about and talking ; better uncovering chest ; after itch. ► Suffocative fits evening, in bed, with warmth of neck and trunk, limbs cold. ► Breath fails at end of coughing fit.

Cough

► Spasmodic, from tickling in trachea ; at night, must sit up to raise the sputum ; spasmodic, after eating with vomiting of food ; after drinking ; with stitches and soreness. ► Sputa : copious, putrid, purulent greenish or frothy, worse morning ; copious when moving ; scanty, thin frothy, with streaks of blood. ► Dry, trickling cough, with blood spitting. ► Cough, worse from abuse of tea, quinine, brandy, tobacco smoke ; loss of fluids. ► Haemoptysis morning and at night ; blood, bright, coagulated, scanty during slight cough with interscapular pains, heavy breathing ; must sit up ; better walking slowly about, notwithstanding weakness obliges lying down ; palpitation. ► Haemoptysis : of onanists ; consumptives ; from severe exertion ; after loss of fluids ; from suppressed menses.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Consecutive heart disease ; chlorosis. ► Hard, strong beating of the heat ; pseudo-plethora. ► Palpitation, better walking slowly ; also in onanists ; after loss of fluids ; with blood-spitting. ► Throbbing in all blood-vessels ; soft bellows sound at apex. ► Pulse : full, hard ; increased by exertion.

Outer Chest

► Drawing in chest and around heart ; scalp sore.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Shoulders sore to touch, painful, also arm. ► Pinching in right deltoid. ► Boring in right shoulder, and from biceps to elbow ; worse from motion ; better from heat ; worse from weight of bedclothes. ► Right arm lame. ► Irresistible desire to bend arm, with intense pain ; derives out of bed. 2 A.M. ; better walking slowly about. ► Arms nearly rigid. ► When writing the hand trembles, does better when writing fast. ► Hands cold, stiff, numb ; palms hot. ► Fingers ; stiff, numb, contracted.

Lower Limbs

► Violent pain in the hip-joint, worse evening until 12 P.M. ; must get out of bed and walk about ; can hardly put foot to the ground ; but pain lessens while walking. ► Varicose veins inside of right thigh, then of left. ► Numbness of thighs. ► Neuralgia, throbbing at night ; worse rest ; better moving. ► Legs feel weak. ► Calves weak, as if bruised. ► Cramps in calves, worse at rest, especially at night. ► Toes contracted. ► Shooting-pricking in right instep. ► Cramp in soles of feet. ► Heel pains. ► Feet cold, numb, stiff. ► Soles feel hot.

Limbs In General

► Nightly tearing in arms and legs. ► Swelling of hands ; also of feet to the ankles.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 3, 32, 33, 40. Walking : 2, 21, 26, 27, 29, 32, 33, 36. Exertion : 5, 23, 27, 29. Stooping : 3. Lying : 23, 27, 31, 36 ; on back : 37. Sitting : 3, 37. Must sit up : 26, 27. Rising : 2. Must bend arm : 32. Rest : 33.

Nerves

► Increased bodily irritability ; excitable. ► Restlessness, must walk slowly about. ► Tired, aching, as from lying long in one position. ► Prostration, lethargic dulness, vertigo. ► So weak she must lie down. ► Paralysis from loss of fluids.

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.

Time

► Morning : 6, 12, 16, 27, 40. Morn till noon : 40. Evening : 1, 13, 26, 33, 40. Night : 5, 16, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 40. After midnight : 3, 26, 37. Day : 13, 20, 21, 40.

Temperature And Weather

► Generally worse in cold, or wet weather ; better in warm air. ► Cold air : 4 ; weather : 44. Cold washing : 8. Over heating : 8. Heat : 32. Warmth of bed : 26. Inclines to uncover : 40.

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.

Attacks

► Periodical attacks of pain. ► Menses intermit. ► Every other day : 40. ► Pains increase gradually.

Sides

► Left : 3, 13, 17, 18, 28, 40, 46. Right : 5, 6, 18, 31, 32, 33. Right to left : 33. Left to right : cramp in feet ; pain in lungs.

Tissues

► Red parts become white. ► Hemorrhages ; blood light or lumpy ; coagulates easily. ► Blood-vessels distended, especially those of head, face, feet. ► Varices. ► Pseudo-plethora ; congestions, etc., yet anaemic ; the face is earthy, flushing easily. ► Erethic chlorosis, worse during cold weather. ► Dropsy after loss of fluids, abuse of Cinchon., intermittent fever ; anasarca. ► Gland swollen, with rending, tearing pains. ► Bones disposed to soften or bend ; fractures unite slowly. ► Cracking in joints. ► Sudden emaciation ; muscles lax, limbs cold ; weak digestion.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 19, 32, 46. Pressure : 18. Weight of bedclothes : 32.

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.

Stages And States

► Delicate, chlorotic women. ► Weak, nervous ; yet face is very red. ► Sanguine, choleric.

Relationship

► Ailments from Arsen., Iodium, Cinchon. ► Complementary to : Alum., Cinchon. ► Antidotes to Ferrum : Arsen., Cinchon., Hepar, Ipec., Pulsat.