Platina

William Boericke 1922

Painter’s colic. Pain in umbilical region ; extending through to

William Boericke 1922

Pressing and bearing down in abdomen, extending into pelvis. Stool. — Retarjled ; faces jg ^nty ; evacuated with difficulty. Adheres to rectum, like soft clay. Sticky stool. Constipation of travelers, who are constantly changing food and water. Stool as if burnt.

William Boericke 1922

Rhodium; Stann.; Valer.; Sep. Compare^ also : Platinum muriaticum (this remedy has achieved beneficial results after Iodide uf Potash failed to cure in syphilitic affection ; violent occipital headaches, dysphagia, and syphilitic throat and bone affections) ; Plat. mur. nat. (polyuria and salivation) ; Sedum acre (sexual irritability, relieves irritation of nerve centers and give.s rest). Antidote: Puls. Platina antidotes the bad effects of lead.

William Boericke 1922

Third to thirtieth potency.

William Boericke 1922

Feels numb. Cramp-like twinges. Roaring and rumbling.

William Boericke 1922

Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped. Numb and weary sensation. Feel paralyzed.

William Boericke 1922

Objects look smaller than they are. Twitching of lids. [Agar.] Eyes feel cold. Cramp-like pain in orbits.

William Boericke 1922

Prosopalgia, with' numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws. Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed in a vise. Coldness, creeping, and numbness, in whole light side of

William Boericke 1922

Pains increase and decrease gradually. [5'^flnw.]

William Boericke 1922

Parts hypersensitive. Tingling internally and externally. [Kali brom,; Orig.] Ovaries sensitive and burn. Menses too early, too profuse, dark-clotted, with spasms and painful bearing-down, chilliness, and sihsttivencss of parts. Nymphomania. Excessive sex- PLATINA — PLUMBUM lODATUM 601 ual development; vaginismus. Pruritus vulvae. Ovaritis with sterility. Abnormal sexual appetite and melancholia.

William Boericke 1922

Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot. Cramp-like, squeecing pain. Constriction about forehead and right temples. Numbness, with headache.

William Boericke 1922

Irresistible impulse to kill. Self-exaltation ; contempt for others. Arrogant, proud. Weary of everything. Everything seems changed. Mental troubles, associated with suppressed menses. Physical symptoms disappear as mental symptoms develop.

William Boericke 1922

Worse, sitting and standing ; evening. Better, walking.

William Boericke 1922

Sleeps with legs far apart. [Chatnom.]

William Boericke 1922

Fermentation, much flatulence; constriction; ravenous hunger; persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.

William Boericke 1922

Is pre-eminently a woman’s remedy. Strong tendency to paralysis, anaesthesia, localized numbness and coldness are shown. Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually. [Stannum.] Tremulousness. 600