Iodium

Common name: iodine.

Adapted to persons of a scrofulous diathesis, with a low, cachectic condition, profound debility and great emaciation (Abrot., Nat-M., Sanic.) (A.).

Bad effects of mercury (Chin., Dulc., Hep., Lach., Nit-Ac.) (Bt.).

EMACIATION TO A SKELETON.

Great debility; the slightest effort induces perspiration (Calc., Chin., Kali-C., Sep.).

Violent trembling of the limbs (Agar., Gels., Kali-Br., Lach., Merc., Mygale, Phos., Plb., Sil., Tarant., Zinc.)

Twitching of the muscles (Bell., Cur., Gels., Hyos., Lach.).

Great excitability of the whole nervous system (Coff., Gels., Phos.).

Violent tearing in the joints.

CHRONIC RHEUMATISM OF THE JOINTS, WITH NIGHTLY PAINS WITHOUT SWELLING.

Swelling and induration of the glands are of major importance when the remedy is indicated.

White swelling of the knee (Apis, Bry., Kali-C., Puls., Rhus-T., Sep.).

Struma.

Nightly pains in the bones (Aur., Merc., Mezer., Sarsa., Sil., Syph.).

Softening of the bones (Calc., Calc-P., Merc., Phos., Sil.).

Hæmorrhages from various organs (Arn., Bell., Chin., Ferr-P., Ham., Ipec., Kali-P., Lach., Merc., Nit-Ac., Phos., Trill., Ust.).

Pulsations (Bell., Nat-M., Sep.).

Warm-blooded notwithstanding emaciation; wants a cool place to move, think, or work in (N.).

Great weakness and loss of breath on going up-stairs (N.).

Inflammations of the larynx and trachea (Brom., Chlor., Kali-M., Phos.).

WHEEZING AND SAWING RESPIRATION (Spong.) (A.).

CROUP: THERE IS A HOARSE VOICE AND DIFFICULT INSPIRATION; THE CHILD GRASPS ITS THROAT; CROUP CAUSED BY LONG-CONTINUED DAMP WEATHER (D.).

Membranous croup (Brom., Chlor., Kali-B., Kali-M., Merc-Cyn., Phos.) (N.)

Phthisis pulmonalis, with constant tickling and inclination to cough, in the wind-pipe and under the sternum; expectoration of transparent mucus, streaked with blood; morning sweats; emaciation; wasting fever; rapid pulse; diarrhœa; and in females amenorrhœa (Hg.)

First and second stages of pneumonia, especially in the croupous form, where the hepatization tends to extend rapidly; difficulty in breathing, as if the chest would not expand; cough and blood-streaked sputa, accompanied by high fever (Bry., Kali-M., Phos., Sulph.) (D.).

Continual taste of salt in the mouth (Merc., Merc-C., Nat-M., Puls.) (G.).

Constipation, with ineffectual urging, relieved by drinking cold milk (A.).

HUNGER AND THIRST INCREASED (Ars., Bism., Chel., Phos., Sulph.).

Continual empty eructations, from morning till evening, as if every particle of food was turned into air (G.).

RAVENOUS APPETITE, WITH GREAT EMACIATION (Abrot., Nat-M., Sanic.) (D.).

Extreme hunger, but in spite of this the patient emaciates. (D.).

ALWAYS HUNGRY; EATS OR WANTS TO EAT ALL THE TIME, YET EMACIATES; AMELIORATED WHILE EATING (N.).

Pancreas enlarged (Phos.) (R.).

Pulsations all over, stomach, back, even arms, fingers and toes (Bell.) (N.).

The patient is subject to wasting diseases (Calc-P., Lyc., Nat-M., Sil., Tub.) (D.).

THERE IS WASTING OF THE MAMMAE, OVARIES, TESTICLES, ETC. (D.).

Frothy, wheyey, fatty, cheesy or lienteric stools (B.).

ENLARGEMENT OF THE THYROID GLAND OR GOITRE (Calc-F., Spong.) (D.).

Hypertrophy of all glands except mammary, which dwindle; while body withers glands enlarge (N.).

Tabes mesenterica, with rapid emaciation, night-sweats, slow fever, dry laryngeal cough, diarrhœa, etc. (Hg.).

ORCHITIS, WITH PAINS EXTENDING TO THE ABDOMEN (Bell., Clem., Puls.) (D.).

Chronic congestive headache in old people (Gels., Lach., Nat-C., Sep., Sulph.) (Bt.).

Hard swelling in the inguinal glands (Bad., Carb-An., Merc-I-F.) (R.).

Mentally anxious; anguish, wants to move, to do something, to hurry, to kill somebody, etc. (N.).

DEJECTED, OR INTOLERABLY CROSS AND RESTLESS (Aur., Phos., Sulph.) (B.).

Melancholy mood (Nat-M., Puls.) (C.).

Vertigo (Chin., Kali-P., Lyc.) (C.).

Urine at times turbid, dark, at others milky (R.).

Cirrhosis of the liver (Chel., Mur-Ac., Phos., Sulph.) (R.).

REGION OF THE LIVER SORE TO PRESSURE (Bell., Chel., Dig., Hep., Lach., Merc., Nat-S., Phos., Sep.) (R.).

Chronic enlargement of the spleen (Ars., Cean., Chin., Nat-M., Sep.) (R.).

SENSATION AS IF THE HEART WAS SQUEEZED TOGETHER; AS IF GRASPED WITH AN IRON HAND (Cact., Sulph.) (N.).

Palpitation, worse from least exertion (Dig.) (A.).

Præcordial anxiety causing constant change of position (Acon., Ars.) (R.).

Peri-carditis attending pneumonia and rheumatism (Bl.).

Tongue loaded with thick coating (Ant-C., Kali-M., Puls.) (C.).

Offensive odour from the mouth (Aur., Carb-Ac., Merc., Nit-Ac., Sulph.) (C.).

THICK, YELLOW LEUCORRHOEA, SO CORRODING THAT IT EATS HOLES IN THE LINEN (N.).

Leucorrhœa, worse during the menses (G.).

Tumours in the breast (Calc-F., Con., Carb-An., Graph., Phyt., Sil.) (N.).

Great weakness during the menses, particularly when going upstairs (G.).

Long-lasting uterine hæmorrhages (G.).

Uterine hæmorrhage after every stool (Ambr., Am-M., Ind., Lyc.), with cutting pains in the abdomen, loins and back.

Cancerous degeneration of the cervix (Ars., Kreos., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sep.) (A.).

AGGRAVATION: From heat; from fasting; in warm air; in a warm room; from wrapping up the head (reverse of Hep., Psor. and Sil.); at night; during rest.

AMELIORATION: While eating; from moving; in cold air; and from bathing.

RELATIONSHIP: Complementary to: Lyc.

Compare: Acet-Ac., Brom., Chlor., Con., Kali-B. and Spong. in membranous croup.

Follows well after: Hep., and Merc.; and is followed by K ali-B. in croup.

Antidotes: Bell., Camph., Hep., and Phos.