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Iodium
IOD
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Origin Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture.
Sources 7 entries across 7 books: Boericke, Clarke, Nash, Hahnemann, Cowperthwaite …

Dose Boericke
3X–30X
The crude drug in saturated solution may be required. Third to thirtieth potency. Ioduretted solution of Potass iod (35 grains Potassa and 4 grains Iodine to 1 oz of water, 10 drops three times a day) expels tapeworms dead. Locally the most powerful, least harmful and easily managed microbicide. Ideal agent to keep wounds clean and disinfected. Bites of insects, reptiles, etc. Gunshot wounds and c

Reason for useGladstone Clarke

1 . Scrofulous subjects ; dark hair and eyes ; dirty yellow skin ; never fat ; especially children. 2 . Patient excitable, restless, impulsive. 3 . General sluggishness of patient and symptoms. 4 . Great debility and emaciation in spite of voracious appetite ; after shock or emotional strain ; unaccountable sense of weakness and loss of breath on going upstairs. 5 . Hypertrophy or atrophy of glandular tissues ; usually painless ; thyroid and mammae specially affected. 6 . Catarrhal affections of the mucous membranes especially of the upper air passages. Membranous croup, early stage with feverishness, dry, hot skin, dry cough and dyspnoea (follows Acon .). Also tuberculous infections. 7 . Heart troubles with palpitation < least exertion, heart feels squeezed. 8 . Chronic arthritic conditions after acute affections ; intense pains at night ; no swelling ; after syphilis or mercury. 9 . Salivation ( Ipecac., Merc .). 10 . Patient < warmth ; wet weather ; always > out of doors ; after or while eating.


Books*
Antidoted by Sulphur 2, Thuja Occidentalis 2, Antimonium Tartaricum +17
Complementary Lycopodium Clavatum, Badiaga
Follows well Aconitum Napellus, Argentum Nitricum, Arsenicum Album +9
Compare Bromium, Natrum Muriaticum, Abrotanum +22

* 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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