Ferrum Metalltcum
Blood
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dyspareunia ; pain in right shoulder, right elbow, and marked tendency to cramps and round red spots on cheeks; bright crystals in urine. Anaimia, 3x. after meals). Fcrrum sulphurirum (pain in gall-bladder; toothache; acidity; eructation of food in mouthfuls); Fcrrum pcrnitricum (cough, with florid complexion) ; Fcrlurh tartaricum (cardialgia; heat at cardiac 'orifice of stomach ) . Compare also: Graph.; Mangan.; Cupr. Ferrum proloxalatum (Anasinia).
Chest
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Hoarseness. Cough dry, spasmodic. Haemoptysis. [MillcfoL] With the cough pain in occiput.
Compare
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Rumex (similar in respiratory and digestive sphere and contains organic iron.) Ferrum aceticum (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 spleen, with fever, undigested stool; albuminuria). FERRUM METALLICUM — FERRUM PHOSPIIORICUM 333 Fcrruin bromatum (sticky, excoriating leucorrhoea ; uterus heavy and prolapsed, scalp feels numb). Fcrrum cyanatum (neuroses with irritable weakness and hypersensitiveness, especially of a periodical character; epilepsy; cardialgia, with nausea, flatulence, constipation, alternating with diarrhoea; chorea). Fcrruin magnciicum (small warts on hands). Fcrrum murioticum (Arrested menstruation ; tendency to seminal emissions or copious urination at puberty ; very dark, watery stools ; diphtheria ; phlegmonous erysipelas ; py elitis ; h?emoptysis of dark, clotty
Dose
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plethoric, haemorrhagic conditions call for small doses, from the second to the sixth potency.
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States of debility where the blood is poor in hematin require material
Extremities
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head and face hot. Chill at 4 a. m. Heat in palms and soles. Profuse, debilitating
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Rheumatism of the shoulder. Dropsy after loss of vital fluids. Lumbago; better, slow walking. Pain in hip-joint, tibia, soles, and heel.
Face
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Menses too early, too profuse, last too long; pale, watery. Sensitive vagina. Tendency to abortion. Prolapse of vagina.
Fever
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General coldness of
Heart
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Palpitation ; worse, movement. Sense of oppression. Anaemic murmur. Pulse full, but soft and yielding; also, small and weak. Heart suddenly bleeds into the blood 7Jesscls, and as suddenly draws a reflux, leaving pallor of surface.
Modalities
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Better, walking slowly about. Better after rising. Worse, while sweating; at night; while sitting still. After cold washing and overheating. Midnight aggravation.
Relationships
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Antidotes: Ars.; Hep. Complementary: Chin.; Alum.; Hamamel.
Respiratory
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Chest oppressed; breathing difficult. Surging of blood to
Skin
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Pale ; flushes readily ; pits on pressure.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.