Cobaltum metallicum

The Metal Cobalt

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

(COBALTUM)

Adapted to neurasthenic spinal states. Sexual disturbances. Fatigue, agitation, and bone pains, worse in morning.

Mind

All mental excitement increases suffering. Constant interchange of mental moods.

Head

Aches; worse, bending head forward . Itching of hairy scalp and beard.

Teeth

Feel too long. Pain in teeth. Cracks across tongue. Coated white ( Ant cr ).

Abdomen

Shooting in liver. Pain in spleen.

Rectum

Constant dropping of blood from the anus, no blood from the stools.

Male

Pain in right testicle; better, urinating. Emissions without erection. Impotence. Backache in lumbar region and weak legs. Lewd dreams. Pain in end of urethra; greenish discharge; brown spots on genitals and abdomen.

Back

Pain in back and sacrum; worse while sitting ; better, walking or lying. Weakness in legs and backache after emissions.

Extremities

Aching in wrist-joints. Shooting into thighs from liver. Weak knees . Trembling in limbs. Tingling in feet. Foot-sweat, mostly between toes.

Sleep

Unrefreshing; disturbed by lewd dreams .

Skin

Dry and pimply. Pimples about nates, chin, hairy scalp.

Relationship

Compare: Cannab. Ind; Sepia; Zinc; Agnus; Selen .

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Cobaltum metallicum across the other classic books

Cobaltum metallicum appears in 6 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“The element, Co. Preparation , Trituration of the pure metal. Authorities. Emotional. Great exhilaration of spirits during the day (third day), 5d. Great vivacity (fifth day), 5d. Great vivacity and rapid flow of thought, 5a. Low-spirited; thinks too little of himself, 3. Condemned, mean feeling, as though guilty of…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Spine (lumbar). Genitals. Kidneys. Bones. Sexual losses. Sitting. Heat of bed or sun. Hawking mucus. Continued motion. Frothy discharges. Soreness. Aching bones. Sour taste, stomach, foot-sweat, etc. .................... Sense of guilt. Vertigo or head feels big; walking; with weak knees; can't straighten up. Sudden…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Cobalt. Co. (A. W. 58.6). Trituration. Constipation / Eye, affections of / Gonorrhœa / Hæmorrhages / Headache / Impotence / Liver disorders / Lumbago / Masturbation, effects of The most characteristic symptom of Cobalt is a very pronounced backache rising up, walking, or lying down. Backache with seminal emissions…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Cobalt. Co. A mental known to Hohenheim in the fourteenth century. Derives its name from the German word Kobold , signifying mischievous spirit, so named by the miners who considered it a profitless ore. It is found in conjunction with nickel from which it has to be separated, a process first taught in 1807 by a…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Great exhilaration of spirits. Great vivacity and rapid flow of thoughts (evening). More disposed to study. Feeling of great uneasiness, had to move about and could not keep still (with pain in the stomach and abdomen). Dizziness during stool. Dulness in the head, with hard stools. Fulness in the head; feels too…”

Cobaltum metallicum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Cobaltum metallicum in 474 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (78), EXTREMITIES (47), ABDOMEN (35), BACK (32), STOMACH (23).

MALE GENITALIA - SEMINAL emissions (nightly) - erections,without
ABDOMEN - DISCOLORATION, - yellow - brown spots
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - greenish - chronic
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - rising - amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - bending head - forward
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - lying - amel.
MOUTH - CRACKED - Tongue fissured - centre
ABDOMEN - DISCOLORATION, - brown spots
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - greenish
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - greenish - yellow
BACK - PAIN - aching - Lumbar region - sitting - while
URINE - ODOR - offensive - acrid,pungent
HEAD - PAIN, - Occiput - forenoon
THROAT - INFLAMMATION - chronic
HEAD - PULSATING,beating,throbbing - morning
HEAD - PAIN, - wrapping up head
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - rising - from a seat
ABDOMEN - FULLNESS,sensation of - eating - after
MIND - EXCITEMENT,excitable - emotional,ailments from
MALE GENITALIA - ERECTIONS, - incomplete

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