Zincum Metallicum
Zinc · Abbrev.: Zinc
Abdomen
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Pain after a light meal, with tympanitis. Pain in a spot beneath navel. Gurgling and griping; distended. Flatulent colic, with retraction of
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[Plumb.] Fjilarged, indurated .sore
Back
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Cannot bear back touched. [Sul.; Therid.; Cinch.] Tension and stinging between shoulders. Spinal irritation. Dull aching about
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Pain in small of
Chest
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Dyspnoea better as soon as expectoration appears.
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Hoarseness. Debilitating, spasmodic cough; worse, eating sweet things. Child grasps genitals during cough, Asthmatic bronchitis, with constriction of
Compare
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Zincum aceticum (effects of night-watching and erysipelas ; brain feels sore ; RademachePs solution, five-drop doses three times a day in water, for those who are compelled to work, on an insufficient amount of sleep); Zinc, bromatum (dentition, chorea, 790 ZINCUM METALLICUM — ZINCUM VALERIANUM hyrocephalus ; Zinc, oxydatum (hypochrondriasis due to masturbation) ; Zinc, cyanatum (as a remedy for meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis, paralysis agitans, chorea, and hysteria, it has received some attention) ; Zinc. ars. (chorea, anaemia, profound exhaustion on slight exertion. Depression and marked involvement of lower extremities) ; Zinc. carb. (postgonorrhoeal throat affections, tonsils swollen, bluish superficial spots) ; Zinc. phos. (herpes zoster lx) ; Zinc, niuriat. (disposition to pick the bedclothes; sense of smell and taste perverted ; bluish-green tint of
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Agaric.; Ign.; Plumb. Argent.; Puls.; Helleb.; Tuberc. Inimical; Nux Cham. Compare in amelioration by secretions: Lack. Stan.; Mosch.
Dose
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Second to sixth potency.
Ears
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Tearing, stitche.s, and external swelling. Discharge of fetid pus.
Extremities
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Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of various muscles. Chilblains. [Agar.^ Feet in continued motion; cannot keep still. Large varicose veins on legs. Sweaty. Convulsions, with pale
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Night-sweat. Profuse sweat on feet.
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[Puls.i Formication of feet and legs as from bugs crawling over the skin, preventing
Eyes
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Blurring of one-half of vision; worse, stimulants. Squinting. Amaurosis, with severe headache. Red and inflamed conjunctiva; worse, inner canihus.
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Pterygium ; smarting, lachrymation, itching. Pressure as if pressed into
Face
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Pale lips, and corners of mouth cracked. Redness and itching eruption on chin. Tearing in facial bones.
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Transverse pains, especially in upper extremity. Soles of feet sensitive. Steps with entire sole of foot on floor.
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lightning-like pains in locomotor ataxia, brainfag, nervousness, and vertigo; sexual excitement and sleeplessness) ; Ammon, valerian (violent neuralgia, with great nervous agitation) ; Zinc, picrtcutn (facial paralysis; brain-fag, headache in Bright's disease; seminal emissions; loss of mminry and energy); Zinc, sulph. (corneitis; granular lids; tongue paralyzed; cramps ip arms and legs; trembling and convulsions).
Female
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Ovarian pain, cspviially left; cant keep .Ml. [Viburn.] Nymphomania of lying-in women. Menses too late, suppressed; lochia suppressed. [Puls.] Breasts painful. Nipples sore. Menses flow more at night. Complaints all better during menstrual floiv. [Eupion; Lack.] All the female symptoms are associated with restlessness, depression, coldness, spinal tenderness and restless feet.
Fever
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Frequent, febrile shiverings down
Guiding symptoms
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the last dorsal or first lumbar vcrtehrce ; zvorsc sitting. Burning along
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The provings picture cerebral depression. The nervous symptoms of most importance. Defective vitality. Impending brain paralysis. Period of depression in disease. Spinal affections. Twitchings. Pain, as if between skin and flesh. Great relief from discharges. Chorea, from fright or suppressed eruption. Convulsions, with pale fact and no heat. Marked anaemia with profound prostration. It causes a decrease in the number^ and destruction of red blood cuipuscles.
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to it. Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime. Melancholia, Lethargic, stupid. Paresis.
Head
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Feels as if he would fall to left side. Headache from the smallest quantity of wine. Hydrocephalus. Rolls head from side to side. Bores head into pillow. Occipital pain, with weight on vertex. Automatic motion of head and hands. Brain-fag; headaches of overtaxed school children. Forehead cool; base of brain hot. Roaring in
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Starting in fright.
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Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles. Ptosis. Rolling of
Larynx
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Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing.
Liver
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Reflex symptoms from floating kidney. Griping after eating. Urine. — Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards. Hysterical retention. Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing.
Male
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Testicles swelled, drawn up. Erections violent. Emissions with hypochondriasis. Falling off of hair (pubic). Drawing in testicles up to spermatic cord.
Mind
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-Weak memory. Very sensitive to noise. Averse to work, to talk. Child repeats everything said
Modalities
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Worse, at menstrual period, from touch, between 5 to 7 p, M. ; after dinner, from wine. Better, while eating, discharges, and appearance of eruptions.
Mouth
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Teeth loose. Gums bleed. Gnashing of
Nose
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Sore feeling high up; pressure upon root.
Rectum
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Hard, small, constipated stotd Cholera infantum, with tenesmus; green mucous discharges. Sudden cessation of diarrhoea, followed by cerebral symptoms.
Respiratory
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Burning pressure beneath sternum. Constriction and cutting in
Skin
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cold and sweaty) ; Zinc. phos. (neuralgia of head and
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Faricose veins, especially of lower
Sleep
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body jerks; wakes frightened, stares. Nervous motion of feet when asleep. Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it. Somnambulism. [Kali phos.]
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Eczema, especially in the anaemic and neurotic. Itching of thighs and hollow of knees. Retrocession of erup^ tions.
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Cries out during
Spine
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Nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion. Tearing in shoulder-blades.
Stomach
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Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus. Burning in stomach, heartburn from sweet things. Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine. Ravenous hunger about 11 a. m. [Sulph.] Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough. Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed. 788
Teeth
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Bloody taste. Blisters on
Throat
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Dry; constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus. Rawness and dryness in throat and
Tongue
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Difficult dentition; child weak; cold and restless feet.
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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