RADIUM BROMATUM

RADIUM BROMATUM

(Radium Bromide)

Rad-br.

Radium Bromide is a valuable addition to the materia medica, particularly after Diffenbach’s precise provings. It has a radioactivity of 1,800,000. This remedy is effective for treating rheumatism, gout, various skin conditions, acne rosacea, nevi, moles, ulcers, and cancers. It lowers blood pressure and alleviates severe, restlessness-inducing pains that improve with movement. It addresses chronic rheumatic arthritis and delayed symptom onset. Ulcers from Radium burns heal slowly, with a notable increase in polymorphonuclear neutrophils and great weakness.

Mind: Apprehensive and depressed; fears being alone in the dark; craves company. Tired and irritable.

Head: Vertigo with pain in the back of the head and left-sided pain in bed. Pain in the occiput and vertex with severe lumbar ache. Severe pain over the right eye extending to the occiput and vertex, improved in the open air. Heavy head, frontal headache, aching eyes, itching, and dryness in the nasal cavities, better in open air. Aching in the right lower jaw angle. Violent trigeminal neuralgia.

Mouth: Dry mouth, metallic taste, prickling on the tip of the tongue.

Stomach: Empty feeling, warm sensation, aversion to sweets and ice-cream. Nausea, sinking sensation, gas belching.

Abdomen: Violent cramps, rumbling, gas, pain over McBurney’s point (appendicitis) and sigmoid flexure. Marked flatulence. Alternating constipation and diarrhea. Itching anus and piles.

Urinary: Increased solids elimination, especially chlorides. Renal irritation, albuminuria, granular and hyaline casts. Nephritis with rheumatic symptoms. Enuresis.

Female: Pruritus vulvae. Delayed, irregular menstruation with backache. Abdominal aching over pubes during menstruation (dysmenorrhea). Sore right breast, relieved by hard rubbing.

Respiratory: Persistent cough with tickling in the suprasternal fossa (bronchitis). Dry, spasmodic cough. Dry, sore throat, constricted chest.

Back: Neck aching. Pain and lameness in cervical vertebrae, worse when dropping head forward, better standing or sitting erect (cervical spondylosis). Lumbar and sacral backache, pain in the bones, relieved by continuous motion. Backache between shoulders and lumbosacral region, improved by walking.

Extremities: Severe pain in all limbs, joints, particularly knee and ankle joints, sharp pain in shoulders, arms, hands, and fingers. Hard, brittle feeling in legs, arms, and neck. Heavy arms. Shoulder cracking. Pain in toes, calves, hip joint, popliteal spaces. Sore muscles in legs and hips. Arthritis, night-time aching. Dermatitis of fingers. Trophic changes in fingernails.

Sleep: Restless with lethargy. Vivid, busy dreams, including dreams of fire.

Fever: Internal cold sensation with teeth chattering until noon. Internal chilliness followed by skin heat, associated with bowel movements and flatulence.

Skin: Small pimples, erythema, dermatitis with itching, burning, swelling, redness, necrosis, and ulceration. Itching and burning of the skin as if on fire. Epithelioma.

Modalities: Better in open air, with continuous motion, hot bath, lying down, and pressure. Worse when getting up.

Relationship: Compare to Anac. (ulceration like Rad-br., may appear elsewhere), X-Ray; Rhus-t., Sep., Uran-n., Ars., Puls., Caust.

Antidotes: Rhus-v., Tell.