Platina

General

PLATINA. [Platin.] The metal. Stapf. An Element.

Mind

► Everything seems strange and horrible to her. ► She thinks all persons are demons. ► Illusion : everything around her is very small and every body inferior to her in mind and body. ► Delirium with fear of men, often changing with overestimation of oneself. ► Disturbed state of mind, also religious, with taciturnity, haughtiness, voluptuousness and cruelty. ► Mania, with great pride ; fault-finding ; unchaste talk ; trembling and clonic spasms ; caused by fright or anger. ► Mood changing ; cheerful or depressed. ► Low-spirited, inclined to shed tears, worse in the evening ; weeps with the pains. ► Past events trouble her. ► Much anguish ; she feels as if she would lose her senses and die soon. ► Satiety of life, with (taciturnity and) fear of death. ► Great indifference. ► Pride and overestimation of oneself ; looking down with haughtiness on others. ► Physical symptoms disappear, and mental symptoms appear, and vice versa. ► After anger, alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death. ► Mental disturbance after fright, grief or vexation.

Inner Head

► Sensation of numbness in head and externally on vertex, preceded by a sensation of contraction of the brain scalp ; worse in evening and while sitting ; better from motion and in open air. ► Neuralgic headache in sensitive or hysterical persons ; cramp-like pressing inwards, with hot and red face, and roaring in head ; pains gradually increase and as gradually decrease. ► Numb feeling in the brain. ► Sensation of water in the forehead.

Outer Head

► Formication in one temple, extending to lower jaw, with sensation of coldness on that spot ; worse in evening and when at rest, better from rubbing.

Eyes

► Scintillations before the eyes ; headache. ► Sensation of coldness in the eyes. ► Spasmodic trembling and twitching of the eyelids. ► Objects appear smaller than they really are.

Ears

► Ringing, rolling or rumbling sound in the ears. ► Thundering jerks like distant cannonade, in right ear. ► Otalgia with cramp-pain, often with rumbling in the ears. ► Sensation of coldness in ears, with sensation of numbness extending to cheeks and lips.

Nose

► Numbness and cramp-pain in nose. ► Violent crampy pain at root of nose, with heat and red face. ► Corrosive sensation on nose, as from something acrid.

Face

► Pale, sunken ; red and burning hot, with violent thirst, worse toward evening. ► Sensation of coldness, tingling and numbness in one (right) side of face. ► Cramp-pain, steady compressing, numb feeling and boring in malar bones.

Lower Face

► Purple, net-like appearance on chin.

Teeth

► Pulsating, digging through whole right jaw, worse toward evening and at rest ; followed by numbness ; pains come and go gradually.

Tongue, Etc

► Sensation as if the tongue were scalded. ► Sweet taste on the tip of the tongue.

Mouth

► Rhagades in the gums. ► Sensation of coldness, especially in the mouth.

Throat

► Cramp-like drawing in the throat, as if it were constricted. ► Hawking of mucus, with scraping in throat. ► Sensation as if the palate was elongated.

Desires And Aversions

► Loss of appetite on account of depressed mood. ► Ravenous appetite and hasty eating, detests everything around him. ► Thirstlessness ; or, thirst during heat.

Eating And Drinking

► Worse on an empty stomach. ► After meals : 17.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations empty, morning. ► Continuous nausea, with great weakness, anxiety and trembling sensation, through the whole body.

Stomach

► Pressure in stomach, especially after meals. ► Sensation of constriction in pit of the stomach and in abdomen. ► Burning in pit of stomach, extending into abdomen. ► Jactitation of muscles in region of stomach.

Abdomen

► Painter's colic ; pain in umbilical region, extending through into back ; patient screams and tries to relieve the pain by turning into all possible positions. ► Pressing and bearing down in abdomen, extending into pelvis.

Stool, Etc

► Constipation ; after lead poisoning ; or while travelling ; frequent urging, with expulsion of only small portions of feces, with great straining. ► After an evacuation, sensation of great weakness in abdomen, or chilliness. ► Itching-tingling and tenesmus at anus, especially in the evening. ► Stools adhere to rectum and anus like soft clay.

Urine

► Frequent micturition, with slow flow of urine. ► Urine : pale, watery ; red, with white clouds ; turbid, depositing a red sediment.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual desire excessive, with violent erections, especially at night. ► Embrace with but little pleasurable excitement. ► Morbid excitement inducing onanism, especially if prepubic.

Female Sexual Organs

► Nymphomania, worse in the lying-in ; tingling or titillation from genitals up into abdomen. ► Painful sensitiveness and continual pressure in region of mons veneris and genital organs ; body, except the face, feels cold. θ Prolapsus uteri. ► Induration of the uterus ; ulceration, with co-existing ovarian irritation. ► Ovaries inflamed with burning pains in paroxysms, stitches in the forehead. Also chronic ovaritis. ► Frequent sensation as if the menses would appear. ► Menses too early, too profuse and too short-lasting ; flow dark, clotted ; preceded by spasms, much bearing down, desire for stool, or backache ; during the flow, pinching in abdomen, excruciating pains in uterus, twitchings, with screams ; melancholy. ► Metrorrhagia, the body feels as if growing large ; genitals very sensitive ; nymphomania. ► Hemorrhages in clots, with uterine cancer, fibroids, etc. ; even the fibroid may be cured. ► Leucorrhoea like white of egg, only by day, after urination and after rising from a seat. ► Pruritis vulvae ; voluptuous tingling, with anxiety and palpitation of the heart. ► Vulva painfully sensitive during coitus.

Pregnancy

► Contractions interrupted by sensitiveness of vagina and external parts ; labor-pains ; spasmodic, painful, but ineffectual. ► After labor, so sensitive, she cannot bear touch of napkin.

Larynx

► Loss of voice. ► Spasm of the glottis.

Breathing

► Difficult, anxious respiration. ► Shortness of breath, as if the chest was constricted. ► Deep breathing from sensation as of a weight on the chest.

Cough

► Hysterical dry cough, from stifling beneath upper fourth of sternum.

Lungs

► Cramp-pain in left chest, gradually increasing and decreasing in intensity.

Heart And Pulse

► Great anxiety and palpitation ; commencing endo or pericarditis. ► Pulse regular, but small and weak, sometimes tremulous.

Neck And Back

► Nape of neck weak ; head inclines forward. ► Cramp in posterior muscles of neck ; tensive, numb feeling close to occiput, as if tied together. ► Pains in back and small of back, as if bruised or broken ; worse from pressure or bending forward. ► Pressing from small of back upon the pelvic organs. ► Pain in small of back, going to groins and down limbs. ► Numbness in sacrum and coccyx.

Upper Limbs

► Weak, relaxed feeling in both arms, as after holding a heavy weight, better from motion of arms. ► Sore burning at the elbow, as if scraped.

Lower Limbs

► Weakness of thighs and knees, as if beaten. ► Pain like after a severe blow, in left knee. ► Tremulous restlessness in legs, with numb and torpid feeling when sitting ; worse evenings. ► Numb and tired feeling in feet, only while sitting.

Limbs In General

► Tension in limbs, as if wrapped tightly. ► Cramp-like pains ; numbness in limbs and joints. ► Spasmodic, jerking and drawing pains in limbs and joints. ► Ulcers on fingers and toes.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 3, 32. Assumes every position : 19. Rising from a seat : 23. Bending backward : 31. Rest : 4, 10, 36. Sitting : 3, 33.

Nerves

► Spasmodic affections of hysterical women and of children ; tetanic-like spasms, with wild shrieks, alternating with catalepsy ; spasms alternating with dyspnoea to suffocation ; twitches of single muscles, trembling, shivering ; worse at dawn. ► Spasms from sexual erethism. ► Tonic spasm, without loss of consciousness ; face pale, sunken ; child, after the spell, lies on its back, kicks off the clothes, and draws up its knees and spreads them apart. ► Paralytic weakness, worse at rest ; numbness, stiffness and coldness.

Sleep

► Great inclination to violent, almost spasmodic yawning. ► Awakes, at night and has difficulty in collecting his senses. ► During sleep, lies on back, arms over head, thighs drawn up, and with legs uncovered. ► Intense nervous wakefulness.

Time

► Morning : 36. Afternoon : 37. Evening : 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 20, 33, 40. Night : 22, 37. Day : 23.

Temperature And Weather

► Open air : 3, 40. Uncovered : 37. Warm air : 40.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill in evening, with trembling and tremulous feeling through whole body. ► Shaking chill when going from room into open, even warm, air. ► Chilliness predominates, with irritability, which ceases during the heat. ► Heat, with sensation of burning in face, without any visible change in color of face. ► Flushes of heat, interrupted by chilliness. ► Gradually increasing, and in like manner decreasing heat. ► Sweat only during sleep, ceases on wakening.

Attacks

► Pains increase and decrease slowly and gradually.

Sides

► Right : 10. Left : 28, 33. Front to back : 19. Above downward : 31.

Sensations

► Trembling through whole body : 16. ► Dull pushing pains, as from a plug.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Rubbing : 4. Touch : 23, 24. Pressure : 31. Scratching : 46.

Skin

► Sensation of soreness, tingling, smarting and itching, or pricking, stinging, burning with inclination to scratch on different parts of the body.

Stages And States

► Dark hair ; rigid fibre. ► Especially suited to females.

Relationship

► Platin. antidotes : bad effects of lead. ► Antidotes to Platin. : Pulsat., Spir. nitr. dulc. ► The facial neuralgia of Verbasc. is like a crushing with tongs, and occurs often twice a day.