FERRUM METALLICUM 3x, 6x, 12x, 6C, 12C, 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M USES AND SYMPTOMS
Ferrum Metallicum
(Iron)
Ferr.
Ideal for young, weak, anemic, and chlorotic individuals with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily and have cold extremities. They are overly sensitive and worsen with any active effort. Despite appearing strong, they experience weakness from simple activities like speaking or walking. Skin, mucous membranes, and face alternate between pallor and flushes. Blood rushes to the face, chest, head, and lungs, causing an irregular distribution of blood. Muscles are flabby and relaxed.
Mind: Irritable, intolerant of noise, and easily excited by opposition. Sanguine temperament.
Head: Vertigo when seeing flowing water, stinging headaches, and ringing in ears before menstruation. Congestive, pulsating headaches that extend to the teeth, with cold extremities. Pain in the back of the head, with throbbing in the neck. Painful scalp, must loosen hair.
Eyes: Watery, dull red, with photophobia; letters blur together.
Nose: Mucous membrane is relaxed, boggy, anemic, and pale.
Face: Flushed red from the least pain, emotion, or exertion. Red parts turn white, bloodless, and puffy.
Mouth: Tooth pain relieved by icy cold water. Earthy, pasty taste, like rotten eggs.
Stomach: Voracious or absent appetite, loathing for sour things. Eating can cause diarrhea. Vomits food without nausea, especially after eating or midnight. Intolerant of eggs. Stomach distended and pressured after eating, with heat, burning, and soreness. Flatulent dyspepsia.
Rectum: Painless, undigested stools at night, while eating or drinking. Ineffectual urging, hard stools followed by backache or cramping. Prolapsed rectum, itching anus, especially in young children.
Urinary: Involuntary urination, worse during the day. Tickling in urethra extending to bladder.
Female: Menses stop and return, discharge of long pieces from uterus. Weak, delicate, chlorotic women with fiery red faces. Menses are too early, profuse, and long-lasting with pale, watery blood. Sensitive vagina, tendency to abortion, and vaginal prolapse.
Respiratory: Chest oppression, difficult breathing (asthma). Blood rushes to the chest, hoarseness, dry spasmodic cough with pain in occiput.
Heart: Palpitations worsen with movement, sense of oppression, anemic murmur. Pulse can be full, soft, yielding, small, or weak. Sudden heart contractions cause pallor.
Extremities: Shoulder rheumatism, dropsy after fluid loss, lumbago relieved by slow walking. Pain in hip joint, tibia, soles, and heel.
Fever: General coldness of extremities, head and face hot. Chill at 4 a.m., heat in palms and soles, profuse debilitating sweat.
Skin: Pale, flushes easily, pits on pressure.
Modalities: Better with slow walking and after rising. Worse while sweating, sitting still, after cold washing, overheating, and at midnight.
Relationships:
Antidotes: Ars., Hep.
Complementary: Chin., Alum., Ham.
Compare: Rumx. (similar symptoms in respiratory and digestive sphere, contains organic iron).
Ferrum aceticum (alkaline urine in acute diseases. Pain in right deltoid. Epistaxis; thin, pale, weak children who grow rapidly and are easily exhausted; varices of feet; copious greenish pus expectoration; asthma; worse sitting still and lying; phthisis, constant cough, vomiting food after eating, hemoptysis).
Ferrum arsenicosum (enlarged liver and spleen with fever; lienteria; albuminuria. Simple and pernicious anemia, chlorosis. Dry skin. Eczema, psoriasis, impetigo. Use 3x trituration).
Ferrum bromatum (sticky, excoriating leucorrhea; heavy and prolapsed uterus, numb scalp).
Ferrum cyanatum (neuroses with irritable weakness and hypersensitivity, especially periodic; epilepsy; cardialgia with nausea, flatulence, constipation alternating with diarrhea; chorea).
Ferrum magneticum (small warts on hands).
Ferrum muriaticum (arrested menstruation; seminal emissions or copious micturition at puberty; very dark, watery stools; diphtheria; phlegmonous erysipelas; pyelitis; hemoptysis of dark, clotted blood; dysparunia; right shoulder and elbow pain, cramps, and round red cheek spots; bright crystals in urine. Anemia, 3x, after meals. Tincture 1-5 drops, 3 times daily in chronic interstitial nephritis).
Ferrum sulphuricum (watery, painless stools; menorrhagia, throbbing between periods with rush of blood to head. Basedow’s disease. Erethism. Gall bladder pain; toothache; acidity; food eructation in mouthfuls).
Ferrum pernitricum (cough with florid complexion).
Ferrum tartaricum (cardialgia; heat at stomach’s cardiac orifice).
Ferrum protoxalatum (anemia). Use 1x trituration. Compare also: Graph., Mang-act., Cupr
SYMPTOMS OF FERRUM METALLICUM
Mind:
Irritability, even slight noises are unbearable.
Easily excited by slight opposition.
Sanguine temperament.
Head:
Vertigo when seeing flowing water.
Stinging headaches, ringing in ears before menses.
Hammering, pulsating headaches with pain extending to the teeth and cold extremities.
Pain in back of head with roaring in the neck.
Painful scalp, needing to take down hair.
Eyes:
Watery, dull red; photophobia.
Letters run together when reading.
Nose:
Relaxed, boggy, anemic, and pale mucous membranes.
Face:
Fiery red and flushed from slight pain, emotion, or exertion.
Red parts becoming white, bloodless, and puffy.
Mouth:
Tooth pain relieved by icy cold water.
Earthy, pasty taste, like rotten eggs.
Stomach:
Voracious or absolute loss of appetite.
Loathing for sour things, eating causes diarrhea.
Spitting up food, eructations without nausea.
Nausea and vomiting after eating, especially after midnight.
Intolerance of eggs.
Stomach distention and pressure.
Heat and burning in stomach, soreness of abdominal walls.
Flatulent dyspepsia.
Rectum:
Undigested stools at night or while eating/drinking, painless.
Ineffectual urging; hard stools followed by backache or cramping rectal pain.
Rectal prolapse, itching, especially in children.
Urinary:
Involuntary urination, worse during the day.
Tickling sensation in urethra extending to bladder.
Female:
Menses remit and return.
Long pieces discharge from uterus.
Weak, delicate, chlorotic women with fiery red faces.
Early, profuse, long-lasting menses; pale, watery (menorrhagia).
Sensitive vagina, tendency to abortion.
Vaginal prolapse.
Respiratory:
Chest oppression, difficult breathing (asthma).
Blood surges to chest.
Hoarseness, dry, spasmodic cough.
Hemoptysis, cough with occipital pain.
Heart:
Palpitations worse with movement, sense of oppression.
Anemic murmur.
Full but soft pulse, also small and weak.
Sudden heart contractions leading to reflux and pallor.
Extremities:
Shoulder rheumatism, dropsy after vital fluid loss.
Lumbago better with slow walking.
Pain in hip joint, tibia, soles, and heel.
Fever:
General cold extremities, hot head and face.
Chill at 4 a.m., heat in palms and soles.
Profuse, debilitating sweat.
Skin:
Pale, flushes easily, pits on pressure.
Modalities:
Better walking slowly and after rising.
Worse while sweating, sitting still, after cold washing, and overheating.
Midnight aggravation.
selection of the potency
Individualization:
- Homeopathy is based on the principle of treating the individual, not just the disease. The unique symptoms and characteristics of the person are crucial in determining the most suitable potency.
Intensity of Symptoms:
- The intensity of the symptoms guides the choice of potency. If the symptoms are intense and acute, a lower potency (e.g., 6C, 30C) might be considered. For chronic conditions with less intensity, higher potencies (e.g., 200C, 1M) may be appropriate.
Sensitivity of the Patient:
- Some individuals are more sensitive to homeopathic remedies, while others may require higher potencies. The practitioner considers the patient’s sensitivity when selecting the potency.
Acute vs. Chronic Conditions:
- Lower potencies are often used for acute conditions, while higher potencies may be considered for chronic or long-standing issues.
Previous Response to Potencies:
- The patient’s response to previous homeopathic treatments helps guide the choice of potency. If a particular potency has been effective in the past, it may be repeated or adjusted as needed.
Vital Force and Susceptibility:
- Homeopathy views illness as a disturbance in the vital force. The practitioner assesses the patient’s overall vitality and susceptibility to determine the appropriate potency.
Aggravation or Amelioration:
- The direction of the symptom response (aggravation or amelioration) after taking a remedy can influence the choice of potency.
Miasmatic Considerations:
- In classical homeopathy, the concept of miasms (inherited disease tendencies) is considered. The practitioner take this into account when selecting the potency.
Practitioner Experience:
- The experience and preference of the homeopathic practitioner play a role. Some practitioners may have success with certain potencies based on their clinical experience.
SAFETY INFORMATION
- Do not exceed the recommended dose by physician
- Keep out of the reach of children
- Store in a cool dry place away from direct sunlight
- Maintain half an hour gap between food/drink/any other medicines and homoeopathic medicine
- Avoid any strong smell in the mouth while taking medicine e.g. camphor, garlic, onion, coffee, hing
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