Ferrum metallicum

Ferrum metallicum
(iron)
* Best adapted to young weakly persons, anaemic and chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora, who
flush easily; cold extremities; oversensitiveness; worse after any active effort.
* Weakness from mere speaking or walking though looking strong.
* Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes.
* Orgasms of blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc.
* Irregular distribution of blood.
* Pseudo-plethora.
* Muscles flabby and relaxed.
Mind
- Irritability.
- Slight noises unbearable.
- Excited from slightest opposition.
- Sanguine temperament.
Head
- Vertigo on seeing flowing water.
- Stinging headache.
- Ringing in ears before menses.
- Hammering, pulsating, congestive headache; pain extends to teeth, with cold extremities.
- Pain in back of head, with roaring in neck.
- Scalp painful.
- Must take down the hair.
Eyes
- Watery, dull red; photophobia; letters run together.
Face
- Fiery-red and flushed from least pain, emotion, or exertion. Red parts become white,
bloodless and puffy.
Nose
- Mucous membrane relaxed, boggy, anaemic, pale.
Mouth
- Pain in teeth; relieved by icy-cold water.
- Earthy, pasty taste, like rotten eggs.
Stomach
- Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite.
- Loathing of sour things.
- Attempts to eat bring on diarrhoea.
- Spits up food by the mouthful. [Phos.] Eructations of food after eating, without nausea.
- Nausea and vomiting after eating.
- Vomiting immediately after eating. Vomiting after midnight. Intolerance of eggs.
- Distention and pressure in the stomach after eating.
- Heat and burning in stomach.
- Soreness of abdominal walls.
- Flatulent dyspepsia.
Stool
- Undigested, at night, while eating or drinking, painless.
- Ineffectual urging; stool hard, followed by backache or cramping pain in rectum; prolapsus
recti; itching of anus, especially young children.
Urine
- Involuntary; worse daytime.
- Tickling in urethra extending to bladder.
Female
- Menses remit a day or two, and then return.
- Discharge of long pieces from uterus.
- Women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a fiery-red face.
- Menses too early, too profuse, last too long; pale, watery.
- Sensitive vagina.
- Tendency to abortion.
- Prolapse of vagina.
Respiratory
- Chest oppressed; breathing difficult.
- Surging of blood to chest.
- Hoarseness.
- Cough dry, spasmodic.
- Haemoptysis. [Millefol.]
- With the cough pain in occiput.
Heart
- Palpitation; worse, movement.
- Sense of oppression.
- Anaemic murmur.
- Pulse full, but soft and yielding; also, small and weak. Heart suddenly bleeds into the blood
vessels, and as suddenly draws a reflux, leaving pallor of surface.
Extremities
- Rheumatism of the shoulder.
- Dropsy after loss of vital fluids.
- Lumbago; better, slow walking.
- Pain in hip-joint, tibia, soles, and heel.
Skin
- Pale; flushes readily; pits on pressure.
Fever
- General coldness of extremities; head and face hot.
- Chill at 4 a.m.
- Heat in palms and soles.
- Profuse, debilitating sweat.
Modalities
- Better, walking slowly about.
- Better after rising.
- Worse, while sweating; while sitting still.
- After cold washing and overheating.
- Midnight aggravation.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Ars.; Hep.
- Complementary.
- : Chin.; Alum.; Hamamel.
- Compare : Rumex (similar in respiratory and digestive sphere and contains organic iron.)
- Ferrum aceticum (alkaline urine in acute diseases. Pain in right deltoid. Epistaxis; especially
adapted to thin, pale, weak children who grow rapidly and are easily exhausted; varices of the
feet; copious expectoration of greenish pus; asthma; worse, sitting still and lying; phthisis,
constant cough, vomiting of food after eating, haemoptysis).
- Ferrum arsenicum (enlarged liver and spleen, with fever; undigested stool; albuminuria).
- Simple and pernicious anaemia and chlorosis.
- Skin dry.
- Eczema, psoriasis, impetigo. (Use 3x trituration.)
- Ferrum bromatum (sticky, excoriating leucorrhoea; uterus heavy and prolapsed, scalp feels
numb).
- Ferrum cyanatum (neuroses with irritable weakness and hypersensitiveness, especially of a
periodical character; epilepsy; cardialgia, with nausea, flatulence, constipation, alternating
with diarrhoea; chorea).
- Ferrum magneticum (small warts on hands)
- Ferrum muriaticum. (Arrested menstruation; tendency to seminal emissions or copious
urination at puberty; very dark, watery stools; diphtheria; phlegmonous erysipelas; pyelitis;
haemoptysis of dark, clotty blood; dyspareunia; pain in right shoulder, right elbow, and
marked tendency to cramps and round red spots on cheeks; bright crystals in urine. Anaemia,
3x, after meals. Tincture 1-5 drops 3 times daily for chronic interstitial nephritis.)
- Ferrum sulphuricum. (Watery and painless stools;menorrhagia pressing, throbbing between
periods with rush of blood to head. Basedow's disease. Erethism. Pain in gall-bladder;
toothache; acidity; eructation of food in mouthfuls)
- ; Ferrum pernitricum (cough, with florid complexion); Ferrum tartaricum (cardialgia; heat
at cardiac orifice of stomach).
- Ferrum protoxalatum (Anaemia).
- Use 1x trit.
- Compare also; Graph.; Mangan.; Cupr.
Dose
- States of debility where the blood is poor in hematin require material doses; plethoric,
haemorrhagic conditions call for small doses, from the second to the sixth potency.