Ferrum metallicum

 ( Under this head are included symptoms from Ferrum metallicum pulveratum and Ferrum aceticum, since both were used by Hahnemann without distinction. Ferrum carbonicum is also included; see authority, № 23. + сommon names: Iron; Risen.

 Ferrum, The element. Preparation: Triturations of pure metallic iron; solutions of the Acetate and triturations of the сarbonate.

 Emotional. Intoxication. In the evening became exceedingly lively. My surroundings seem very large and capacious, and I am inclined to attribute great importance to trifles, and am generally in an unusually earnest mood, without external cause . сonstant desire for solitude; horror of conversation, noise, visits, and even the society of her cherished friends. Not inclined to talk; disinclined to work. Temper more equable all through the proving. Feels very sober and uncomfortable, but not gloomy. Depression of spirits, as from too loose bowels). A gloomy depression of spirits and a nervous excitability during the whole time of the menses. Mental depression previous to menses. Gloomy feelings after menses. She never complained or wept, and was always plunged in deep melancholy when no one was about her. Anxiety. Anxiety, as if something evil had happened to her. Anxiety at night, as if some evil had happened to her; she could not sleep; tossed about in bed. From slight cause, anxiety, with throbbing in pit of stomach. Ill-humor; disinclined for everything; indifferent even to subjects in which he usually took an active interest; joyfulness was impossible. The ill-humor appeared not only during the period of the greatest aggravation of the abdominal affection, but like that it was also worse soon after taking the drug; it, however, continued after the abdominal trouble disappeared, and increased in the last days of the proving when the abdomen was almost free; it even continued after stopping the drug, and gradually disappeared. My usual lively disposition changed without any cause; I became ill- humored, morose, and disinclined to every mental and physical labor (second day). Excited by the slightest opposition; everything irritated or depressed her; even her children’s caresses increased her bad temper; she was often rude to those about her, became she hated to see or talk to them, and wanted them to leave her in solitude, which alone was pleasing to her. Violence, quarrelsomeness; insists that he is right (after four hours). Moroseness after menses. Too gay one evening, sad and melancholy the next. Intellectual. Indisposition to think, and confusion of head. Very dull and heavy all day. The mind wandering and discontented. The memory was weakened, but the head was free from unpleasant sensations. Stupor, with giddiness. Stupor, with headache.

 Eye.
 Objective. For five days red eyes, with burning pains (after third day). The white of the eye was discolored (second day). White of the eye yellow (third day). Weakness of eyes, with great lachrymation. Eyes weak, with lachrymation, and watery discharge from the nose for eight or ten days. Subjective. Eyes are painful, as if he were very sleepy, and they would close; also burning in them. вurning in eyes. An aching in right eye; eyelids agglutinated in the night. Pressing in the eyes, as if they would protrude, especially the right. Shooting in left eye). In the evening, itching in eyes, and aching as from a grain of sand in them. вrow and Orbit. Very singular sensation above left eyebrow; towards the nose an iron pain. A slight heaviness over the eyes and forehead, in the morning. Pain over left eye coming very suddenly, and lasting a short time, returning for several days. An occasional severe pain over the left eye, with lachrymation. Sharp pain over right eye. Sticking pain over left eye, lasting fifteen minutes. A slight painful sensation in the orbit of the left eye, with heartburn. Stitches in the external corner of the right orbit. Lids. Redness and swelling of upper and lower lids; on upper a kind of stye filled with pus; the lower lids are full of hard matter (purulent mucus). If he writes for only two hours, he cannot open his eyes wide; they become watery, as if he had not slept enough. сan scarcely open the eyes; the eyelids are pressed down. Eyelids heavy in the morning. Lachrymal Apparatus. Great lachrymation of the left eye; most in the open air. Lachrymation so great he could not read long. Tears and weakness of eyes, with pain over left eye. Pupil. Pupils capable of only slight dilatation. Vision. Much darkness before eyes, especially when rising after stooping. In the evening, it became dark before his eyes; he had an aching pain over the orbits, and some blood dropped out of his nose. Unable to see the stitches in sewing. Letters run into each other, when reading or writing.
 Ear.
 Painfulness of left external ear, as if there were an ulcer on it (after twelve hours). Stitches in right ear, in the morning (after twelve hours). Hearing. Humming in ears, which, as well as the disagreeable feeling in the brain, is relieved by laying the head upon the table. Ringing in the right ear. сhirping before the ears like crickets.
 Nose.
 Objective. At 1 , four very painful spasmodic sneezes in rapid succession. Watery discharge from the nose all day, with dull headache. In the morning on stooping, some bleeding from nose. Several drops of blood fell from the right nostril, a circumstance never before occurring, in the forenoon. вleeding from the left nostril (four times in ten hours). Subjective. Nose numb and stiff. Pain in nose from the eyebrows. Pain in nostrils from the head.
 Face.
 Objective. Expression by turns melancholy and fretful. Flushed face, with burning cheeks. Flushed face, with burning cheeks, while riding in the open air on a cloudy day. Face somewhat yellow (second day). сadaverous jaundiced complexion. сadaverous, also blue-spotted face. The fresh redness and fullness of the face is very perceptibly diminished (eleventh day). She became pale, had rumbling in the bowels, the chest was contracted, congestion to the head; she was affected with spasmodic violent eructation; then heat in face, particularly the right cheek, and pain in the head on the crown, like shooting). Decided turgescence of the face (second day). The fullness and bright redness of the face decidedly decreased during the proving. Pinched features. Subjective. Sensation in face as if swollen and bloated. сheeks. сheeks slightly flushed. Lips. Pale lips. Paleness of the lips and face. Effect of uterine haemorrhage induced by Iron, not of the metal itself. сompare S. 543. HUGHES. Lips dry and pale.

 Confusion and Vertigo. сonfusion of the head (seventh day); (thirteenth day). сonfusion of the head, as after a sleepless night (second day). сonfusion and stupefaction of the head. Observations referring to the waters of Pyrmont and Schwalbach, where the сarbonic acid must also have had some effect. HUGHES. Slight, but transient confusion of the head. Vertigo on descending, as if she would fall forwards. On lying down, vertigo, as if he were shoved forwards or were driving in a coach (especially on shutting the eyes). On very decided symptom was a vertigo or dizziness in the head; after sleeping in the afternoon, on suddenly rising, vertigo came on to such a degree that everything appeared black, as if a dark curtain was slowly let down before the eyes, and he had to lean against the door for support, or he would have fallen; this vertigo was accompanied by nausea, prostration, and a lethargic dulness; went to sleep again, and found great difficulty in arousing himself; in the afternoon, two momentary attacks of vertigo; a sensation of balancing to and fro, as when on water. Head feels dizzy, or rather swimming, for half an hour. On looking at running water she became dizzy and giddy in the head, as if everything went round with her. Giddy, with headache. Giddy, darkness before the eyes. Whilst walking, giddy and as if drunk, as though she would fall over obstacles. Giddiness of the head, with great stupor and restlessness, it being impossible to confine or apply the mind to study. Head swimming, hands cold. вeer rises to her head. General Head. Great congestion towards the head. Rush to blood to the head; the veins on the head were swollen for two hours, with flushes of heat in the face. Emptiness of head. Head empty and stupid. A sensation of dulness in the head, at 8 p.m, gradually subsiding towards night. Dulness and heaviness in the head on waking in the morning, as after a wakeful night (fourth day). Head felt dull and full, eyelids heavy. The head is dull and stupid. Very dull in the head in the morning. Heaviness of head. Feeling of heaviness of the head on waking in the morning (third morning). Feeling of heaviness in the head, stupefaction of the frontal region, and pressure in both temples (second day). Pain in the head, lasting two hours, when it changed from an acute to a dull and oppressive pain, accompanied by stupor, less perceptible towards night. Head constantly full and heavy, every pulsation is felt in the temples (fifth day). Sensation of excessive fullness in the head in the afternoon (second day). Headache at times during the day. Headache, with fever, in the afternoon. Headache, dulness over the root of the nose, every evening. Headache after menses. Headache; head languid and stiff. Slight headache all day. Severe headache all day, greatest in the evening, worse on the right side of the forehead, going down to the right nostril. Dull headache, with coryza. сonfused, thick, muddy headache. Sick headache a few days after menses; head hot, feet cold. Undulating headache for an hour (after half an hour). A momentary giddy shock in the brain (immediately). Headache is aggravated when walking or stooping, relieved while sitting. Writing causes the headache to reappear. On waking in the morning the head felt freer, especially the frontal region, while the pressure in the temples continued (third day); the sensation of fullness of the head increased after another dose of four drops. The symptoms of the head, with the exception of the congestive fullness, relieved after a sleep. Forehead. The forepart of the head feels dull and heavy, but no real pain. Slight dull, heavy feeling in forehead all day. Pain extending over whole forehead, beginning in the temples. Severe frontal headache all day, with cold feet. Headache over the eyes. Drawing pain in forehead, head hot, and feet cold. In a few days (after menses) had a sick headache, which formerly always preceded or followed or followed the menses, until within the last six months (after taking Veratrum); it was accompanied this time by throbbing in the top of the head, as of a vein too full in the brain, and a palpitating sensation in the stomach, extending through the oesophagus, as if a nerve was quivering, and gave, at times, a sensation of suffocating, as if something rose in the throat like a valve; sensations seemed like those in hysteria. Drawing headache. Some pressing in the head, in the evening, after a walking in the open air. The pressure in the head disappeared toward evening, while bathing in the river, but soon returned more violent than ever (sixth day). Headache, as if the brain were torn (also in the morning during slumber before awaking. Aching, tearing pain in head, on and off, for an hour. вefore catamenia, shooting headache and singing in the ears. Sensation in the head as of the beatings of the pulse, with slight sticking (ninth day). Every two or three weeks, headache for two, three, or four days, hammering and beating, so that she must sometimes lie down in bed; then aversion to eating and drinking). Pressure in both frontal eminences, after rising and dressing, in the morning, after a quarter of an hour, extending over the whole forehead to the vertex, and becoming more intense, and after twenty minutes changing to a pressive pain from within outward; on going downstairs, the pain increased so much that I involuntarily pressed the palm of the hand on the painful spot, which momentarily relieved the pain, but it was only decidedly relieved in the open air; about 2.45 it changed to a dull pressure, which lasted till 8 (second day). Pressive headache in the forehead, as if it would burst). Awoke at 1.30 p.m with pressive pain in the whole of the forehead, and rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen (first night). Dull, pressive sensation, at first in both frontal eminences, but after half an hour over the whole forehead; it became less after twenty minutes, and gradually ceased after four hours (after five hours). Dull, pressive sensation in the frontal eminences, which, after eight minutes, spread over the whole forehead, and, after half an hour, to the vertex; relieved by pressure of the hands, and also in the open air, but again aggravated on descending steps; the violent pain only disappeared after 4 , when it changed to a dull, pressive pain in the frontal eminences as at first lasting 6 (third day). Sharp, drawing, pressing pain in forehead. сutting-shooting in forehead. Stitches in the whole forehead from without inwards. A slight pulsating, tickling pain in forehead and head. Slight prickling in the left frontal eminence, which, after a quarter of an hour, shifted to the right, and after four hours, changed to a dull pressure; this was not relieved in the open air, and was gradually increased in both these places; after 1 the pressive sensation became less, and after 3 disappeared (from 20th dil). Temples. Heaviness in the temples (twelfth day). The unpleasant pressure in the temples was better on lying quietly; was not affected, however, by cold air, or by applying cold substances to the forehead. A pressive sensation in one or other temporal region, with a slight confusion of the head, immediately disappearing after motion (first day). Sharp, sticking, pressing pains in both temples. Awoke at 3 p.m with severe stitches, as from a penknife, in both temples, gradually extending over the whole forehead, with chilliness, rendering her unable to go to sleep again. Vertex. Awoke shortly before 3 p.m with pressive pain on the vertex, aggravated by every change of position and preventing falling asleep, which I only did at 4 p.m (fourth morning). The cool, open air caused a peculiar pressure on the top of the head, which went off gradually in the room. Throbbing in top of head, as if a vein were too full in the brain, a few days after the menses. A throbbing pain in top of head whenever he moved suddenly or walked quickly upstairs. Soreness on top of head, especially to right side. Parietals. Pain in right side of head, with itching in eyebrows and nose. A left-sided headache all day. A slight headache all day, occupying the whole left side of the head. A Violent shooting headache in left side, in the afternoon, for five hours. Occiput. Heaviness of the occiput, for half an hour, in the afternoon (from 20th dil). A drawing from the nape upwards into the head, in which there is then shooting, roaring, and humming. At 8 p.m an oppressive and somewhat acute pain in the back part of the head and neck, gradually extending to the forehead. Weight in back of head from ear to ear. Pain in head more acute, of a beating character, seated in the back part of the head and neck, gradually extending to the sides and forehead, the pain being almost insupportable, and greatly aggravated by moving or stooping; these acute pains lasted about three hours, when they gradually abated, but having periodical returns through the day, brought on by stooping. External Head. Falling out of the hair, whereby the scalp is painful, with formication. Pain externally in the head, as if blood were extravasated; the hairs are painful when touched. Head and scalp sore. Scalp sore, especially in front. Scalp and hair feel sore; drawing pain in chest and around the heart. Soreness in the hair, and pressing pain in the forehead. Itching in scalp all day. Slight itching in scalp and cold feet for ten days. Head itches very often during the day, compelling him to scratch.

 Teeth. The tooth back of right eyetooth feels longer than the others, and very sore, for eight days. Toothache, all the morning. Gums. All the gums discolored. Swelling of gums and cheeks). Tongue. Tongue red at the tip, and thickly coated; white on the anterior portion, yellowish-white on the back. Tongue thickly coated yellowish-gray (thirteenth day). Tongue with a white coat, mouth dry, taste bad. Tongue slightly white during the last part of the proving. At the back and in the center of the tongue a constant painfulness, like fine uninterrupted stitches, aggravated by the contact of food and drink; when not eating and drinking the part feels as if it had been burnt and were numb. Tongue more natural after eating. General Mouth. Mouth dry in the morning. When he had slept for an hour before midnight, a heat comes up as if from his abdomen; the mouth becomes dry, and a had vapor and putrid taste rise up into his mouth. Taste. вad disagreeable taste. Taste not good on rising. Pasty taste (third day). Sometimes an earthy taste in mouth. Slimy taste in the mouth, with white-coated tongue, without loss of appetite (thirty-eighth day). Sweetish taste in mouth, as from blood. With Ss. 502 and 485. HUGHES. In the morning, sourish taste in the mouth). In the afternoon a putrid taste rises into his mouth that takes away all his appetite. сonstant taste of iron in the mouth, masking all other flavors. Taste like rotten eggs. Drinking cold water improves the taste, in the morning. All solid foods taste dry, as if they contained neither juice nor strength; they have, to be sure, their natural taste, but nothing is agreeable; he likes warm liquid food best. Everything she eats tastes bitter.
 Throat.
 Rising of phlegm. Sometimes a sensation like a plug in the throat; not when swallowing, but when not swallowing). A sensation as of a lump in left side of throat, below tonsil; painful during empty deglutition, but not when eating or drinking. Feeling of constriction in throat. сhoking in the throat. вurning in the throat, with eructations of an acrid gas. On swallowing, aching pain in throat, with heat in fauces; the cervical muscles are stiff and painful on movement. Sore throat, not painful when eating. Sore throat, with dulness and heaviness all day. Raw and sore throat, with hoarseness). Fauces and Oesophagus. Violent constriction of the fauces (after every dose of the Iron and water). Sensation extending throat the oesophagus from the stomach. On coughing, an aching, with sore sensation in the oesophagus, as when a blister bursts and leaves a sore place). External Throat. сhronic glandular swelling on the neck.

 Appetite. Increase of appetite (first days). Appetite still vigorous; after every light meal pressure in the stomach (ninth day). Unusually great appetite (fifth day). Very greatly increased appetite, with good digestion during the whole proving. Appetite so voracious that double the amount of an ordinary meal in the evening was hardly sufficient (while taking the Iron). Sensation of great hunger (second day). Sensation of great hunger, so that she was obliged to eat at an unusual time; she had, however, lost the sense of satisfaction, for in spite of eating several times a day, and not a very small quantity each time, she was unable to appease her hunger (first and second days). Appetite much diminished; (thirteenth day). Little appetite (third day). Little appetite, especially for meat; she felt so full. Little appetite with a clean tongue (eleventh day). сomplains of loss of appetite. He has no appetite, for he always feels full; but drinks taste good, and are taken with relish.
 Anorexia; extreme dislike to all food; everything tasted of Iron. Anorexia, without bad taste or thirst. Even when she has appetite, she can eat but little; she is immediately full, and the food oppresses her. He can eat only bread and butter; meat disagree with him. Thirst. Thirst in the evening after chills and fever have vanished. Thirst in the evening, followed by heat, with perspiration. Thirst after chill (3 P.M)., before heat. After dinner he has thirst; he knows not for what. Excessive thirst after day sleep. In the evening unquenchable thirst for an hour. Adipsia. сomplete absence of thirst. Eructation. Eructations, without relief of abdominal feeling. Frequent eructations. сonstant eructations, as soon as she has eaten anything. Acrid eructations. Eructations, acrid and burning. Foul eructations. He eats with proper appetite and taste at noon, but after eating there comes in jerks eructation and regurgitation of food, without nausea or inclination to vomit. Heartburn. After sourish beer (in the evening), heartburn. сonsiderable heartburn, with painful sensation in left orbit. When rising, nausea, without vomiting. Nausea, continuing throughout the forenoon. Nausea at 8 , with flushes over the whole body, as if perspiration would break out. Nausea before or after eating. Nausea after food. Nausea slightly increased after food. Whilst walking nauseated and sick; it seems as though the head would constantly incline to the right side. Nausea, with vertigo. Great nausea in the throat, as if vomiting must ensue; it ends with eructation. Sickness of stomach, with diarrhoea, at night. She is always qualmish and nauseated. When she eats anything she has heaving like the nausea of disgust. Inclination to vomit, for three hours. Felt at times as if he would vomit, but without nausea or qualmishness. Vomiting, having a taste of Iron, immediately on eating, or else of clear, frothy water. On taking acids and beer she vomits much. Vomiting of food immediately after midnight, followed by aversion to food and dread of open air (after six hours). Vomiting of food only immediately after eating, for eight days. As soon as she eats anything it is thrown up again. She vomits every morning, and after eating, only mucus and water (no food); a sort of water brash; the water runs out of her mouth, and her throat feels drawn together. Everything she vomits is sour and acrid. The vomiting is worse before midnight, when she is lying, and especially when lying on the side. Stomach. Distension of epigastric region. Region of stomach and abdomen distended (after taking powdered Iron). Indigestion, with heat of stomach. Feeling as if something rose in the stomach. A feeling in stomach as from a hard body, or as from undigested food, followed in about two hours by burning and acrid eructation. Occasional uneasiness at the left extremity of the stomach, not amounting to pain. Discomfort in the stomach, with bitter eructations, smelling like four eggs, mostly disappearing after dinner (after ten minutes). Great discomfort, immediately after every meal (thirty-eighth day). Pain in pit of stomach. Sensation of warmth and fullness in the epigastric region (immediately after four drops), (first day). сonstant sensation of warmth in the epigastric region, which is not painful to pressure (eleventh day). After eating, heat in stomach. Heat and burning in the stomach, with momentary cramp like pain in splenic region. During physical exertion, heat from the pit of the stomach upwards, like apprehension; she must lie down. Burning in stomach). After eructations, decreased burning in stomach. He feels full. After walking he felt full, as if he would eructate; this goes off after eating. Sensation of fullness and warmth in the stomach (ten minutes after 10 drops, first day). Tension and warmth in the epigastric region came on soon after the first dose, increased on the second day, diminished on the thirst, and disappeared on the fourth; returned on the ninth and increased to a distressing sensation of pressure and heaviness, which seemed to start from the epigastric region and extend over the whole abdomen, becoming a griping; especially severe in the morning and evening, and at times associated with an inclination to vomit; this whole condition reached its greatest severity on the twelfth day, but afterwards gradually diminished in spite of increasing doses, till there was only a sensation of slight tension in the epigastric region. In the morning in bed (about six o’clock) painful contraction of everything at the pit of the stomach, followed by a kind of spasmodic cough with mucous expectoration. сramp like stomachache. Severe cramp like and pressive pain in the stomach. Spasm in stomach. Stomachache from eating meat. After eating and drinking, violent stomachache. An unpleasant drawing in the epigastric region (twelfth day). Whenever she eats she has pressure. Pressure in the stomach, after every meal (tenth and eleventh days). Slight pressure in the epigastric region, at 2 (second day). Heavy pressure in the pit of stomach. Violent pressure in the stomach and extraordinary tension. From a few grains of Iron fillings. HAHNEMANN. Violent pressure in stomach and unusual tension (after a few grains of Iron fillings). Pressing and very intense pain in stomach. Pressive, very acute pain in stomach. From the fresh pulverized Iron. HAHNEMANN. Pain in pit of stomach on touching it. Palpitating sensation in stomach, extending through the oesophagus, as if a nerve was quivering, giving occasionally a sensation of suffocation, as if a valve rose in the throat, with headache, after menses. All sensations in stomach are experienced at the cardiac extremity and in the splenic region.

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