Indium metallicum

The Metal Indium

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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

(INDIUM)

Headaches and migraine. Seminal emissions. Backache .

Head

Pain in head when straining at stool . Bursting in head during stool. Dull pains in temples and forehead, with nausea , weakness, sleepiness . Gone feeling in stomach about 11 am. Violent attack of sneezing. Sexual psychopathy.

Face

Painful suppurating pimples. Corners of mouth cracked and sore ( Condur ).

Male

Horribly offensive smell of urine after standing a short time. Emissions too frequent. Diminished power. Testicles tender; drawing pains along spermatic cord.

Throat

Uvula enlarged, ulcerated; thick, tough mucus in back part of pharynx. Worse evening.

Extremities

Stiffness in neck and shoulders. Pain, especially in left arm. Legs restless and weary. Toes itch ( Agar ).

Dose

Sixth to 200th potency.

Relationship

Compare: Selenium; Titanium (male sexual organs).

Indium metallicum across the other classic books

Indium metallicum appears in 4 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.
“[Wholly prepared for this work by Dr. Bell.] Metallic indium. Preparation , Trituration of the pure metal. Authorities. Bell's collection of provings in MS., as follows: 1 , J. U. W., took 30th dil., 2 drops at one dose; 2 , J. S. H., took 30th dil., 10 drops at one dose; 3 , D. C. P., took 30th dil., 8, 10, 15, and…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“A metal. In. (A.W. 1137). Trituration of the pure metal. Backache / Epistaxis / Foot-sweat / Headache / Megrim / Pollutions / Sexual perversion / Sore throat / Throat, ulceration of / Uvula, enlarged; ulcerated Indium (which receives its name from the Indigo blue line in the spectrum through which its presence was…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Trituration of the pure metal. In. "This metal was discovered by Reich and Richter in the zinc-blende of Freiberg. Its spectrum is characterized by two indigo colored lines, one very bright and more refrangible than the blue lines of Strontium, the other fainter but still more refrangible, approaching the blue line of…”

Indium metallicum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Indium metallicum in 382 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (88), HEAD (75), BACK (27), SLEEP (20), STOMACH (20).

BACK - STIFFNESS - Cervical region
RESPIRATION - DEEP - desire to breathe - lying,while
RESPIRATION - DEEP - lying, - down,
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Knee - walking, - while
FACE - PAIN - stinging
HEAD - PAIN, - stool, - from pressing,at
EXTREMITIES - STIFFNESS - Shoulder
BACK - PAIN - Dorsal region - scapulae - left - under
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - drawing - Spermatic cords
GENERALITIES - WARM - air agg.
RESPIRATION - DEEP - desire to breathe
NOSE - SNEEZING - violent
GENERALITIES - WARM - agg.
GENERALITIES - WARM - room agg.
URINE - ODOR - offensive
RESPIRATION - DEEP
HEAD - PAIN, - dull pain
VERTIGO - NAUSEA,with
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - stitching - Thigh
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - difficult stool

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