Homeopathic IRON

 

FERRUM METALLICUM.

Ferrum produces a false plethora ; an irregular distribution of blood, with headache, nosebleed, dyspnœa, neuralgia, etc. Its action is to dilate the blood-vessels.

Characteristics
Anæmia with plethora.
Vomiting of food.
Chill with red face and thirst.
Flushed face.
Coldness of the body.
Undigested diarrhœa, worse from eating.

Anæmia
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 anæmic murmurs in the veins of the neck. The patient is constantly chilly with perhaps an afternoon hectic like fever.

Chill
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.

Stomach
 There seems to be no secretion in the stomach capable of changing the food, and it is vomited as taken. The appetite is ravenous.

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.

Vertigo
It comes on on going down hill, or on crossing water, even though the water be smooth.

Diarrhœa
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 diarrhœa.

Rheumatic symptoms
In the left deltoid muscle. Sanguinaria has rheumatism in the right deltoid muscle.
 

   

FERRUM IODATUM.

Bearing down in the uterine region when sitting ; the patient feels as if something sore and painful were being pushed up. Prolapsus uteri. Starchy leucorrhœa. Pressure in the rectum ; painful menses, especially in pale anæmic subjects.

   

FERRUM ACETICUM.


In stubborn anæmia and debility. In children who grow tall rapidly and are so active that they become easily exhausted ; they keep thin, weak and pale.

   

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM.

Its field is in all ailments of a hyperæmic or congestive nature, anæmia, etc.

Characteristic
 First stage of inflammations.
A florid complexion.
It stands midway between Aconite and Gelsemium in febrile conditions.
It stands midway between Ferrum metallicum and Phosphorus in respiratory troubles.

Eye symptoms
Eyes inflamed, red, with a sensation as if grains of sand were under the lids ; pain on moving the eyes ; photophobia worse from artificial lights.

Ear
 Diffused inflammatory processes.
Dark, beefy redness of parts.
Muco-purulent discharge with tendency to hæmorrhage.
The complete establishment of the discharge is not followed by relief of pain.
The paroxysmal character of the pain.

Throat
 Dry, red, inflamed and painful throat ; sore throats of singers and speakers.

Diarrhœa
 Undigested or copious, watery and accompanied by vomiting.
Diarrhœa in children with pinched face, half open eyes, hot skin and thirst, startings  in sleep, etc.

Urinary
Incontinence of urine from weakness of the sphincter, constant dribbling of urine during the daytime.

Respiratory
 During the first stage of any inflammatory condition about the chest ; it stands about midway between Aconite and Bryonia in many cases.

Ferrum phosphoricum suitable to articular rheumatism or sub-acute rheumatism, the pains are worse from motion.

Sleep 
In low potencies it has been found to cause sleeplessness, and in higher potencies it has been used with success in sleeplessness, especially when caused by a hyperæmic condition of the brain.

Anæmia
It is useful to improve the quality of the red blood corpuscles and follows Calcarea phosphorica well, but should be indicated by general symptoms.