Antimonium iodatum
van Edwin M. Hale — Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies
Volume I — Appendix
(Teriodide of Antimony.)
Description. — Iodine and antimony combine together directly, with the evolution of so much heat, that if large quantities are employed explosions may ensue. It is a brownish-red crystalline mass, yielding a cinnabar-red powder. On heating it melts to a garnet-red liquid and forms a violet-red vapor, which at a higher temperature becomes scarlet. Water decomposes it, with the formation of a yellow iodide.
Preparation. — Triturations.
No Proving.
0 Bronchitis, humid asthma, and even cases simulating pulmonary phthisis.
° Frequent spells of coughing, with the expectoration of frothy,
white, or yellowish mucus. ° Loss of appetite and strength. ° Moderate febrile action.
° Coated tongue, with nausea and disgust for food. ° Yellowish discoloration of the skin and conjunctiva. ° Chronic bronchitis, with or without asthma. ° Uterine areolar hyperplasia.
Volume II — Special Therapeutics
( Teriodide of Antimony.)
I have recommended this remedy in my work on Sterility, for uterine areolar hyperplasia, for which Tartar emetic has heretofore been used.
The remedy has been used with excellent results in bronchitis, humid asthma, and even in cases which simulated pulmonary phthisis. The symptoms present in the cases cured are: Frequent spells of coughing', with expectoration of frothy, white, or thick yellowish mucus; loss of appetite and strength ; moderate febrile action ; coated tongue; yellowish discoloration of the skin and conjunct vse. In subacute bronchitis it acts like a charm. In chronic bronchitis with or without asthma it has brought relief when other remedies have failed. The dose is from one grain of the third decimal trituration to five grains of the second. The remedy bids fair to rival Tartar emetic (Tartrate of antimony and Potash) in the treatment of bronchial and pulmonary affections. From the nature of the elements of which the new remedy is composed we may expect that it will have a specific action on the skin as well as on the mucous membrane.