PLATINUM METALLICUM

(PLATINA)

Is pre-eminently a woman's remedy. Strong tendency to paralysis, anæsthesia, localized numbness and coldness are shown. Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually ( Stannum ). Tremulousness.

Mind

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

Head

Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot. Cramplike, squeezing pain . Constriction about forehead and right temples. Numbness, with headache .

Eyes

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

Ears

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

Face

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 right side of face. Pains increase and decrease gradually ( Stann ).

Stomach

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

Abdomen

Painter's colic. Pain in umbilical region; extending through to back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen; extending into pelvis.

Stool

Retarded; feces scanty; 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.

Female

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 sensitiveness of parts. Vaginismus. Nymphomania. Excessive sexual development; vaginismus. Pruritus vulvæ. Ovaritis with sterility. Abnormal sexual appetite and melancholia.

Extremities

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

Sleep

Sleeps with legs far apart ( Chamom ).

Modalities

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

Relationship

Compare: Rhodium; Stann; Valer; Sep . Compare, also: Platinum muriaticum (this remedy has achieved beneficial results after Iodide of Potash failed to cure in syphilitic affection; violent occipital headaches, dysphagia, and syphilitic throat and bone affections; caries of bones of feet); Plat mur nat (polyuria and salivation); Sedum acre (sexual irritability, relieves irritation of nerve centers and gives rest).

Antidote: Puls . Platina antidotes the bad effects of lead.

Dose

Sixth trituration to thirtieth potency.