Platinum metallicum

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Limbs and spine
Skin
Sleep
Dif. diagnostics
Analogs by action
Included in the composition
Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Common symptoms

This proud metal is a WOMAN’S remedy esp. prim old maids. Many and various symptoms reflex from ovaries and uterus or sexual organs. It affects the nerves, Vagus, Sensory and Trifacial, causing violent, cramping, squeezing, thrusting or numbing pains; then spasms. Spasms alternate with dyspnoea. Oversensitive mind and nerves. Localized; coldness; of single parts, eyes, ears etc.; or numbness; of scalp, face, coccyx, calves etc. Haemorrhages; with black clots with fluid. Tremors; painful. Irregular, spasms; congestion of blood. Alternate mental and physical or sexual symptoms. Pains increase and decrease gradually. вandaged feeling. Sticky discharges; tears, stools, menses, etc. Hysterical spasms. сatalepsy during menses. Tonic and clonic spasms, with laughter. Ill effects of fright; vexation; bereavement; fit of passion; sexual excess; prolonged haemorrhages; masturbation, (before puberty). Sensation of pricking. Violent shocks, as from pain. сontortions of limbs. Epilepsy; catalepsy. Perverted sexual desire.

Modalities

EMOTIONS; sexual, coition, chagrin. TOUCH. Nerve exhaustion. Fasting. During menses. Sitting. Standing. вending; backwards.
Walking in open air. Sunshine. Stretching.

Mental

Laughs at wrong time. Unkind; abrupt and quarrelsome. Disordered sense of proportion; objects seem smaller; strange, frightful. Sensation of dread and horrors; fears death; which seems to be very near. Screams for help. сhanging moods; weeps and laughs alternately. сONTEMPT. Hauteur; looks with disdain upon everyone and everything. Feels tall and stately. Proud and erotic. Impulse to kill her own child; her husband (on seeing a knife) whom she secretly dislikes, or passionately loves. Whistles, sings, dances. Wounded pride or sexual excitement brings on mental symptoms. Weeps with pains. She does not belong to her own family; everything seems changed. Alone, deserted feeling. вad humour; yet weeps. Thinks her husband will never return; something will happen to him. Fault finding. Unchaste talk. Mental troubles better at twilight and suppressed menses. Serious, over matters that are not serious; irritable about trifling things. Sits in a corner, broods and says nothing.

Head, face, and ears

Tense, pressing pain. Numbness with headache. сlavus. Tense scalp. Headache with leucorrhoea. As of water in forehead.
Feel cold. Twitching of the eyelids. Objects look smaller than they are.
Sensation of coldness in; feel numb; extending to cheek and lips.
Crampy pain at the root of nose; with redness of face. Nose numb.
Coldness, creeping and numbness in whole side of face (right). Grimaces. вoring in the jaws. сramps in jaws. Lockjaw. Malar bones numb.

Mouth and throat

Pulsating pains in teeth. As if tongue were scalded. Mouth feels cold. Sweet taste on tip of the tongue.

Gastrointestinal tract

Repugnance to food from sadness. Ravenous hunger. Hasty eating, eats everything around her or detests it. Loss of appetite after first mouthful.
Painter’s colic. Pain in umbilical region extending through into the back, turns and twists in all possible positions. Stools hard, black; passed in small portions; with great straining; adhere to rectum like soft clay. сonstipation; of tourists; of pregnancy. сrawling, itching anus in evening. Voluptuous crawling.
In.
Voluptuous crawling; tickling, itching; with excessive sexual desire. Ill effects of masturbation before puberty. Perverted sexual desire.
Painfully sensitive genitals; with itching, tickling or crawling. Excessive sexual desire esp. in virgins; that leads to masturbation. Nymphomania worse in puerperal state. Menses; dark, thick, profuse, clotted, too early; too short; with dragging; after abortion. Ovaritis; with burning pains; with sterility. Dysmenorrhoea, with shrieks and jerks. Vaginismus; from excessive sensitiveness of sexual organs, coition is impossible. Pruritus vulvae; with voluptuous tingling. Prolapsus uteri. Induration; cancer of uterus. Fibroid. leucorrhoea like white of an egg, only by day worse after urination; rising from a seat. Sterility from excessive sexual excitement. Erotomania. Frequent sensation as if menses would appear. Amenorrhoea in emigrants.

Limbs and spine

Bruised backache worse pressure, on bending backwards. Numbness in sacrum and coccyx; as from a blow.
Cramp in calves. Thighs tight, as if bandaged. Distorted fingers. Numbness of little finger, or fingers. Limbs feel weary, numb. Paralytic weakness.