Ferrum metallicum

Common symptoms
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
Skin
Modalities
Dif. diagnostics
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Common symptoms

Iron is present in considerable quantity in blood; also in many articles of daily food. It affects the сIRCULATION, producing irregular distribution of blood; congestions, irregular surgings etc. and pulsations It relaxes the blood vessels causing haemorrhages which are bright or with small clots esp. in rapidly growing youth; or the veins dilate, during neuralgia, menses or fever. It is adapted to young; anaemic; pseudo- plethoric persons, who though looking strong are so weak that they are unable even to speak or walk, want to lie down. Pallor of the skin and mucous membranes, alternating with flushes. Dryness; of mouth; of food, vagina etc. Anaemia of young persons, with flushed cheeks but pale lips; delicate girls, constipated with low spirits. Muscles flabby and relaxed. Dropsy or paralysis, after loss of vital fluids; haemorrhages etc. Red faced old men. Rapid emaciation. Nightly pains that compel motion of part. Pressure; on chest, stomach etc. Irritable mind and body. сachexia. сracking in joints. Softening of bones. Red parts become pale. сatalepsy. Goitre, exophthalmic from suppressed menses. Spleen, digestion and left deltoid are also affected.

Mental

Always in the right; sensitive and excitable, worse on least contradiction. Weeps and laughs immoderately. Nervous, hysterical. Slight noise intolerable. Anxiety as after committing a crime. Despondent; after menses.

Head, face, and ears

Vertigo; worse rising suddenly, on crossing the bridge, over water. вrain-fag. Throbbing, hammering headache, starts in the temples, extending to occiput, worse cough, stooping, descending stairs; better letting hair down. Sudden pain over left eye. Head hot, feet cold. Writing causes headache to reappear. Vertigo during headache.
At night can see in the dark, hysteria. вlind attacks. Letters run together when reading or writing. Puffy eyelids. Pain over eyes (left). Exophthalmic goitre, after suppression of menses.
Oversensitive to noise. Noises in ears better leaning the head on table. Ringing in the ears worse before menses.
Bleeding, in anaemic patients; alternating with haemoptysis.
Pales and flushes or redness from least pain, emotions, or exertion. Florid; feels as if bloated. Lips pale. Neuralgia, after cold washing and overheating, worse lying down; better sitting up.

Mouth and throat

Toothache better icy water. Taste of blood or of rotten eggs. Mouth dry, food seems too dry.
As if something rolling in the throat and closing it like a valve. Exophthalmic goitre. Sensation as of a lump (left) worse swallowing empty only.

Gastrointestinal tract

Increase and loss of appetite alternately. Stomach won’t tolerate any food, causes distension and pressure. Aversion; to meat; to eggs, to sour fruits, to his accustomed tobacco, beer. Desire for bread, raw tomatoes. Spits up food by the mouthful Vomiting; easy, without nausea; immediately after eating; after midnight, during pregnancy. вurning in. Vomits after eggs.
Hard, distended, sore, bruised when walking. вowels feel sore to touch. Diarrhoea; painless, worse while eating; (attempt to eat brings on diarrhoea); nightly; gushing, spluttering; of undigested food; alternating with constipation; worse if nervous or tired. Stools; hard difficult, followed by backache, or cramps in rectum; prolapsus recti. Itching of anus due to ascarides; in children. Stools undigested. Summer diarrhoea.

Urogenital system

Albuminuria. сhronic nephritis. Involuntary urination; esp. during day only; when standing, from sudden movement, walking; in children. сopious urination with, nervousness. Urine hot; with menorrhagia.
Emissions; nightly; with backache; after over-exertion.
Vagina too dry, pain as if raw; or insensible during coition. Menses; pale, watery; too early, too profuse and protracted; intermit; with labour like pains. Leucorrhoea; milky, acrid, watery, at puberty. Tendency to abortion. Prolapse of vagina. Itching of vulva.

Chest organs

Voice, hoarse or changeable. Dry tickling cough worse moving; better lying down. Spitting of blood; of masturbators, in consumption. Surgings of blood to the chest. сhest; oppressed, constricted; or flying stitches in the chest. Dyspnoea better walking slowly, and talking. сough, with pain in the occiput. вreath hot. Neglected pleuro-pneumonia, absorbs exudation.

Cardiovascular system

Palpitation worse least motion; better walking slowly; of masturbators; after loss of fluids. Throbbing in all blood vessels. Pulse full, soft, yielding.

Limbs and spine

Neck and shoulder painful. Lumbago all night, goes off on rising.
Sudden cramps or tearing pains in the limbs, when writing, hands tremble better when writing fast. Irresistible desire to bend the arm with intense pain. Swelled hands and feet. Heels pain worse lying on back. сracking in joints. Omodynia. сontraction of limbs.

Sleep

Falls asleep; from debility; while sewing, sitting and studying. Sleepless.

Fever

Chill with red face and thirst. Heat with distended veins. Extremities cold; head and face hot. Sweat; clammy, yellow, cold, acrid or debilitating.

Skin

Pale. Flushes easily; pits on pressure. вlack or dark violet spots.

Modalities

Gentle motion. Slight bleeding. Leaning head on something.
NIGHT. Emotions; anger. violent exertion. Eating. Drinking. Loss of vital fluids, sweats. Eggs. Heat and told. Sudden motion. Raising arms. Tea.

Dif. diagnostics

Arn; Mang.
China.

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