Ferrum Magneticum

Loadstone

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

Marked symptoms in intestinal tract. Pain in nape of neck. Paralytic weakness. Small warts on hands.

Stomach

During a meal, flatulence; afterwards lassitude taciturn and hot, pain in epigastrium, especially on breathing.

Abdomen

Movements and grumbling in abdomen. Loose evacuations with much flatulency, especially left side with pullings in legs. Abundant and frequent emission of fetid flatus.

Dose

Third potency.

Ferrum Magneticum across the other classic books

Ferrum Magneticum appears in 3 of the 13 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 — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“FERRUM MAGNETICUM. Authority. Jahr's Manual of Hom. Medicine, translated by C. Hering, M.D., Philad., 1836, p. 190. Walking along with a self-sufficient impression of importance. Hopeful with hilarity and confidence in the future. Fretful. Irresolute; he considers for a long time before commencing anything. Sluggish…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Sesquioxide of Iron. Loadstone. A black oxide of iron. FeO Fe 2 O 3 . Amaurosis / Diarrhœa / Flatulence / Ganglion / Rheumatism / Vision, disorders of / Warts / Whitlow Caspari is the authority for Fer. magnet. It produces paralytic weaknesses like the other Iron preparations, of which this is the most peculiar…”

Ferrum Magneticum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Ferrum Magneticum in 139 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (47), FACE (12), RECTUM (11), ABDOMEN (7), EAR (6).

RECTUM - URGING,desire - dinner - after
FACE - TINGLING
FACE - SUNKEN
MOUTH - SALIVATION
FACE - DISCOLORATION - red
ABDOMEN - MOVEMENTS in - eating - while
CHEST - PALPITATION heart - drawing up chest and throwing back right arm
CHILL - SIDES - one-sided - side - not lain on
COUGH - DUST,as from - in - trachea
EAR - PAIN - stitching in - cold stitches
EXTREMITIES - DISCOLORATION, - Ankle, - redness - streaks
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Hip - drawing back the leg
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Hip - lying - on painful side amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Wrist - intermittent
EXTREMITIES - WARTS,upper limbs - Wrist
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Knee - rising,after
EAR - PAIN - drawing in - swallowing
EXTREMITIES - JERKING - Foot - sole,of
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Thumb - paroxysmal
EXTREMITIES - TENSION - Leg - calf - morning

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