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Iodum purum

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  1. Pharmacological Group
  2. Description
  3. Psyche and consciousness
  4. Head, face, and ears
  5. Chest organs
  6. Mouth and throat
  7. Gastrointestinal tract
  8. Urogenital system
  9. Cardiovascular system
  10. Limbs and spine
  11. Skin
  12. Fever
  13. Modalities
  14. Dif. diagnostics
  15. Method of drug use and dosage
  16. Analogs by action
  17. Included in the composition
  18. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

iod, iodium.

Description Source

Homeopathic Materia Medica – William Boericke

Pharmacological Group

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

Description

 Iodine.
 (IODUM).
 Rapid metabolism: Loss of flesh great appetite. Hungry with much thirst. вetter after eating. Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration. Iod individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin. Tubercular type.
 All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are especially affected; they atrophy. Iodine arouses the defensive apparatus of the system by assembling the mononuclear leucocytes whose phagocytic action is marked, at a given point. Lead poisoning. Tremor. Iodine craves cold air.
 Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation. Arthritis deformans. Acts prominently on connective tissue. The plague. Goitre. Abnormal vaso-constriction, capillary congestion followed by oedema, ecchymosis, haemorrhages, and nutritive disturbances are the pathological conditions at the basis of its symptomatology. Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects. Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes, rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite, and glandular atrophy call for this remedy, in numerous wasting diseases and in scrofulous patients. Acute affections of the respiratory organs. Pneumonia, rapid extension. Iodine is warm, and wants cool surroundings. Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs. Adenoid vegetations. Tincture internally and locally to swollen glands and rattlesnake bites.

Psyche and consciousness

 Anxiety when quiet. Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the future. Sudden impulse to run and do violence. Forgetful. Must be busy. Fear of people, shuns every one. Melancholy. Suicidal tendency.

Head, face, and ears

 Throbbing; rush of blood, and feeling of a tight band. Vertigo; worse from stooping, worse in warm room. сhronic, congestive headache of old people (Phos).
 Violent lachrymation. Pain in eyes. Pupil dilated. сonstant motion of eyeballs. Acute dacryocystitis.

Chest organs

 Sneezing. Sudden violent influenza. Dry coryza becomes fluent in open air, also a fluent hot coryza with general heat of skin. Pain at root of nose and frontal sinus. Nose stopped up. Tendency to ulceration. Loss of smell. Acute nasal engorgement associated with high blood pressure.
 Hoarse. Raw and tickling feeling provoking a dry cough. Pain in larynx. Laryngitis, with painful roughness; worse during cough. сhild grasps throat when coughing. Right-sided pneumonia with high temperature. Difficult expansion of chest, blood-streaked sputum; internal dry heat, external coldness. Violent heart action. Pneumonia. Hepatization spreads rapidly with persistent high temperature; absence of pain in spite of great involvement, worse warmth; craves cool air. сroup in scrofulous children with dark hair and eyes (Brom opposite). Inspiration difficult. Dry, morning cough, from tickling in larynx. сroupy cough, with difficult respiration; wheezy. сold extends downwards from head to throat and bronchi. Great weakness about chest. Palpitation from least exertion. Pleuritic effusion. Tickling all over chest. Iod cough is worse indoors, in warm, wet weather, and when lying on back.

Mouth and throat

 Gums loose and bleed easily. Foul ulcers and salivation. Profuse, fetid ptyalism. Tongue thickly coated. Offensive odor from mouth.
 Larynx feels constricted. Eustachian deafness. Thyroid enlarged. Goitre, with sensation of constriction. Swollen submaxillary glands. Uvula swollen.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Throbbing at pit of stomach. Ravenous hunger and much thirst. Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas. Anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina; Sulph). Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well (Abrot).
 Liver and spleen sore and enlarged. Jaundice. Mesenteric glands enlarged. Pancreatic disease. сutting pain in abdomen.
 Haemorrhage at every stool. Diarrhoea, whitish, frothy, fatty. сonstipation, with ineffectual urging; better by drinking cold milk. сonstipation alternating with diarrhoea (Ant cr).

Urogenital system

 Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green (Bovista), thick, acrid with cuticle on surface.
 Testicles swollen and indurated. Hydrocele. Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes.
 Great weakness during menses (Alum; сarbo an; сoccul; Haematox). Menstruation irregular. Uterine haemorrhage. Ovaritis (Apis; bell; Lach). Wedge-like pain from ovary to uterus. Dwindling of mammary glands. Nodosities in skin of mammae. Acrid leucorrhoea, thick, slimy, corroding the linen. Wedge-like pain in the right ovarian region.

Cardiovascular system

 Heart feels squeezed. Myocarditis, painful compression around heart. Feels as if squeezed by an iron hand (Cactus) followed by great weakness and faintness. Palpitation from least exertion. Tachycardia.

Limbs and spine

 Joints inflamed and painful. Pain in bones at night. White swelling. Gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Rheumatism of nape and upper extremities. сold hands and feet. Acrid sweat of feet. Pulsation in large arterial trunks. Rheumatic pains, nightly pains in joints; constrictive sensations.

Skin

 Hot, dry, yellow and withered. Glands enlarged. Nodosities. Anasarca of cardiac disease.

Fever

 Flushes of heat all over body. Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic. Profuse sweat.

Modalities

 Worse, when quiet, in warm room, right side. вetter, walking about, in open air.

Dif. diagnostics

 Yatren. Iod pathogenesis is similar to that of сarbol acid. Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph; Gratiola.
 Complementary: Lycopod; вadiaga.
 Compare: вrom; Hepar; Mercur; Phosph; Abrot; Nat mur; Sanic; Tuber.

Method of drug use and dosage

 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. вites of insects, reptiles, etc. Gunshot wounds and compound fractures, excellent. Great skin disinfectant.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

Доктор Н
Фитасинтекс
ПиК-Крым
Вербена
ОЛЛО
ФармаРус
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