PLUMBUM METALLICUM


PLUMBUM METALLICUM signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine PLUMBUM METALLICUM…


SPHERE OF ACTION

This remedy has a powerful action upon the cerebro-spinal system. The nervous centres centres are softened and indurated; producing anaesthesia, paralysis, great atrophy of the muscular system;

the bodily and mental powers are completely prostrated; spasmodic pains in the abdomen of the most violent character; with the most obstinate constipation, &c.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.

Colic, the motor nerves are mostly affected, whereas Colocynth attacks the sensory.–S.L.

Owing to the slowness of its action, it is not adapted to acute cases; in chronic cases, it is indicated by speedy emaciation of the paralyzed parts, which are painfully contracted.–BAEHR.

Colicky pains proceeding from the spinal cord, call for Plumbum.–BAEHR.

Sensation as of drawing in from the abdomen to the back, with great depression of spirits.

Severe colic, with contracted abdomen and bending backwards.

Constipation, with violent colic.

Obstinate constipation, the faeces composed of lumps packed together like sheep’s dung.

Sensation as if a rough body were traversing the rectum during stool.

Jaundice; skin, white of the eyes, urine and stool, are all exceedingly yellow; has nausea and vomiting, and very restless nights, with much exhaustion.

Fluids can be swallowed without difficulty; solids come back into the mouth again.

A sensation in the abdomen, at night in bed, which causes the patient to stretch violently for hours together; sometimes she must stretch in every possible direction, or she feels that she must do so, and this inclination is so strong that it is almost uncontrollable.

Kidneys.–Much troubled with the urine, in not being able to pass it, apparently from want of sensation to do so; the will to do so cannot effect it, as if from paralysis.

Complete paralysis of the urinary organs.

Sexual Organs of Men.–Complete impotence, with excessive emaciation, and great debility.–HEMPEL.

Women.–Menorrhagia, with a sensation of a string pulling from the abdomen to the back.

Cessation of the menses, on the invasion of colic, but they reappear after the paroxysm, or not again until the next period.

Leucorrhoea, with a continual sense of drawing in from the abdomen to the back.

Generalities.–Pale dry skin with liver spots.

Badly smelling sweat of the feet.

Sciatica, with drawing, pressing pains.-.

Hectic fever, with dry hacking cough, and great exhaustion.- -HEMPEL.

Chronic spinal meningitis, when the paralyzed parts soon fall away in flesh, and the limbs are painfully contracted.– HAHNEMANN.

General or partial paralysis, with atrophy, and rapid wasting away of the tissues.

Complete paralysis, with excessive waste of tissue, is a prominent key for Plumbum.

Especially adapted to diseases, where they arise from disease of the spinal cord.

William Burt
William H. Burt, MD
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881