Ferrum metallicum
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: iron.
Great emaciation (Ars., Bar-C., Calc., Chin., Graph., Iod., Lyc., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sil., Sulph., Tub.)
Weakness amounting to paralysis (Ars., Caust., Gels., Kali-P., Nux-V., Phos., Plb., Sep.).
Restlessness in the affected limbs (Rhus-T., Zinc.).
Cracking in the joints (Calc., Caps., Kali-B., Led., Nat-C., Nit-Ac., Petr., Rhus-T., Sep., Thuj.).
Disposition to languor and rest on account of internal weakness (Bry., Calc-P., Gels., Kali-P., Phos-Ac., Sep., Sil., Zinc.).
Walking in the open air greatly affects him.
Produces a false plethora: an irregular distribution of blood, with headache, nose-bleed, dyspnœa, etc. (D.).
Chill with red face and thirst (D.).
Fever mal-treated by quinine (A.).
Profuse, long-lasting debilitating sweat; clammy and cold at night (A.).
During the day-time, sudden spasms of the limbs are complained of.
Vomiting of ingesta after every cough (Bry., Ipec., Nux-V.) (N.).
RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTS (Bry., Calc., Kali-M., Rhus-T., Ruta, Sil.).
RHEUMATIC PAIN IN THE LEFT DELTOID MUSCLES (Rhus-T.) (D.).
Nightly emission with backache (B.).
Contortion of the limbs (Cupr., Mag-P., Sec.).
EXTREME PALENESS OF THE FACE, WHICH BECOMES RED AND FLUSHED ON THE LEAST PAIN, MOTION OR EXERTION (Amyl-N.) (A.).
Varices (Calc-F., Ham., Nat-M., Sep.).
Vertigo: on going down hill, or on crossing water, even though the water be smooth (D.).
BLUSHING (Amyl-N., Coca) (A.).
CHLOROSIS (Alum., Ars., Calc-P., Cycl., Ferr-Ars., Graph., Lyc., Mang., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Phos., Puls., Sep.).
COLOUR OF THE FACE YELLOW, OR ELSE EARTHY (Calc., Nat-M., Puls., Sep.).
Circumscribed red area on the cheeks (Lachn., Phos., Sulph.).
RED PARTS BECOME WHITE-LIPS, FACE, TONGUE (A.).
Congestions (not limited to any part of the body, but useful throughout).
Swelling and distension of blood-vessels (Glon., Nat-M., Verat-V.) (G.).
METRORRHAGIA WITH RED FACE AND SWELLED VEINS (Bell., Glon., Sang.).
Menses intermit for a few days (Puls., Sep.) (Bl.).
CATAMENIA: TOO EARLY AND TOO PROFUSE (Ars., Bell., Bov., Calc., Cocc., Cycl., Ipec., Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos., Plat., Rat., Sab.).
Milky, corrosive leucorrhœa (Calc.) (R.).
Constipation: from intestinal atony (Alum., Bry., Op.); ineffectual urging; stools hard and difficult, followed by backache or cramping pain in the rectum (A.).
HAEMORRHAGIC DIATHESIS; BLOOD BRIGHT RED; COAGULATES EASILY (Ferr-P., Ipec., Phos.) (A.).
SPITTING BLOOD, WITH FLYING PAINS IN THE CHEST, RELIEVED BY SLOWLY WALKING ABOUT (N.).
Hæmorrhages in debilitated or anæmic subjects (N.).
Headache: hammering, beating pulsating pains; must lie down; with aversion to eating and drinking (A.).
Headache after the menses (C.).
PALPITATION WITH FEAR, AMELIORATED BY SLOWLY WALKING ABOUT (N.).
Impotence (Agn., Bar-C., Calad., Con., Graph., Kali-P., Lyc., Med., Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos., Sel., Sep., Sulph.).
Pettish, quarrelsome, disputative, easily excited; least contradiction angers (Anac., Nux-V., Sulph.) (A.).
Desire for solitude (Ign., Phos-Ac., Sep.) (R.).
Anxiety from slight cause (R.).
Bellows-sound of the heart, and anæmic murmur of the arteries and veins (Bt.).
Aversion to fat food and vomiting of what has been eaten (Cycl., Phos., Puls.).
Bad effects from the abuse of tea and from the abuse of quinine (Puls.).
Ravenous appetite (Iod., Nat-M., Phos., Tub.) (D.).
Alternate canine hunger and anorexia (N.).
Regurgitation and eructation of food in mouthfuls (Alum.), without nausea (A.).
Averse to meat (B.).
Dropsy: after loss of vital fluids (Chin.); abuse of quinine (Ars., Nat-M., Puls., Sep.); suppressed intermittent (Carb-V., Chin.) (A.).
Diarrhœa: undigested, painless, sometimes involuntary stools; desire to go to stool as soon as anything touches his stomach (D.).
Diarrhœa, worse after mid-night (D.).
AGGRAVATION: At night, towards morning; while at rest; when sitting quietly; and during menses.
AMELIORATION: By slow motion; from walking slowly about; and in summer.
RELATIONSHIP: Complementary to: Alum. and Chin.
Chin. its vegetable analogue follows well in nearly all diseases, acute or chronic.
Antidotes: Chin., Puls. and Thea.