Ferrum Bromatum

Bromide of Iron. Fe Br 2 . Trituration. Solution.

Clinical

Headache / Leucorrhœa / Spermatorrhœa / Uterus, prolapse of

Characteristics

Hale mentions this remedy as having been highly commended to him in cases of spermatorrhœa with anæmia, debility, and depression. It has been since proved by Dr. Sarah N. Smith, of New York, who took the sixth dilution of Boericke and Tafel's make (Amer. Hom., xxi. 302). It produced (in this order): Very distinct symptoms in the head and eyes; dry mouth and nose, relieved by coryza; a feeling that she might die; diarrhœa; burning in urethra when urinating; sticky, excoriating leucorrhœa weight and discomfort in uterus. The symptoms which made the most impression on the prover were the "dead, numb" feeling of the scalp; the unconscious moaning after stool; and the sticky, excoriating leucorrhœa. The heaviness and discomfort in the uterus was so severe that she declined to continue the proving as it interfered with her work.

Relations

Heavy eyes, Con., Caust., Gels. Smarting while urinating, Can. s. (Can. s. has burning while urinating and after).

1. Mind

Woke at 2 a.m. with the feeling that I might die, which lasted for a few moments and passed away. Recurred three different mornings at the same hour (9 o'clock).

2. Head

Severe internal pressure in occiput, producing a painful sensation in ears, as if they were pressed from within outwards; after a few hours the same feeling extended to vertex, producing a dead, numb feeling of the scalp extending from occiput to vertex. Head feels enlarged in all directions, the ears seeming to stand out from the head.

3. Eyes

Heavy feeling in the eyes and drooping of lids, could not keep eyes open. Dull appearance of eyes.

5. Nose

Dryness of nose. Dryness of nose and mouth > by coryza.

8. Mouth

Mouth very dry. Tongue dry and stiffened on waking.

12. Abdomen

Much rumbling in l. hypochondrium, accompanied with diarrhœa.

13. Stool

Diarrhœa followed with a bloody mucus and tenesmus, with the sensation that the lower bowel protruded. After the diarrhœic stool, unconscious moaning, heard in the next room, accompanied with a distressed noise in the head. Stools excoriating and frequent.

14. Urinary Organs

Burning, smarting pain in urethra while urinating (appeared near end of week of proving and continued after it).

15. Male Sexual Organs

Spermatorrhœa.

16. Female Sexual Organs

As the excoriating stools decreased in frequency, a sticky mucus-like excoriating leucorrhœa came on; with the appearance of the discharge came the descent of the uterus, which continued for a week or more, and the discharge several days beyond. "The uterus seems heavy and uncomfortable, so that it interferes with my work. I call scarcely get up and down stairs."