Homeopathy Remedy Osmium


Osmium homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Osmium…


      The pure metal is triturated for use.

General Action

      It produces most violent irritation and catarrh of the whole respiratory tract, with a secretion of tough mucus, difficult to expectorate. The kidneys also become inflamed. Its eye symptoms are valuable and extremely interesting, since it has actually cured glaucoma!

Generalities

      Tearing to and fro deep in r. upper side of forehead and in bones of limbs, in evening. General sick feeling. Restless. Weakness; all day, with muddled head and aching limbs and body; on rising; on rising after a restless night.

Mind

      Morose, Angry. Indolent. Misplaces words in the same phrase. Thoughts of accidents having happened to others, these thoughts of accidents having happened to others, these thoughts grow upon him, as if he were to do the same injuries to others. Weakness in evening when riding.

Head

      Aching in base of brain and in jaws at night; extending from base of brain into jaws; (<) temples, with pain in larynx and hoarseness; nearly preventing sleep; like a band around head above ears. Muddled. dullness and heat; D. and fulness; D. (<) l. frontal eminence, with pressure and heaviness. Heaviness. Peculiar feeling. Headache above and under eyes, on one side, tearing towards ear, (<) under brows, eye waters and is weak. Compressive pain in forehead and temples,. Pain in organs of ideality; in r. upper side of forehead; forehead at 9. P.M.; in l. petrous bone above and behind ear; in occiput; vertex and occiput all the afternoon, (<) throwing head backward, with fulness. The falling of hair is increased.

Eyes

      Veins of fundus large and tortuous. Pain; sharp, lids spasmodically closed, light distressing, pain in globe, conjunctive and sclera injected, lachrymation, dim vision; burning. Burning, with lachrymation. Smarting. (>) open air. but leaving them weak, so as to prevent reading, all objects surrounded by a colored halo, eyes red and swollen. Irritable and suffused, and sight weak. Sensation as if axis of vision were moved back and forth, without moving eyes, in evening, with closed eyes. Lachrymation. (<) fixing eyes upon any object. Twitching of levator of r. upper lid in morning, (>) rubbing. but returning. Itching in l. inner canthus. Pain in balls; externally on l. orbit. Burning in conjunctiva.

Vision dim; (<) r. eye. Letters run together when reading. Flame of a lamp seems confused and larger than natural. Candle-light surrounded by a yellow circle; by a rainbow-hued circle; by a green circle with red margin, larger or smaller according to distance; by a bluish-green circle with ashy gray margin, becoming larger as the light was removed; by bluish-green circle, the outer margin of which is bright red, if the light is ten or fifteen paces from eyes the flame seems enveloped by dust or smoke.

Clinical Violent supraorbital and infraorbital neuralgia, with lachrymation. Glaucoma, with iridescent vision and severe pain around the eyes.

Ears

      Pain in r., then l. in evening. Ringing in r.; with pain.

Nose

      Sensation as if blood rushed into it from head. Burning irritation; as from hot water, and in throat, oesophagus and trachea. Full sensation, as if coryza would come on. Prickling, with increased mucus. Sensitiveness to inspiration; to cold air, and in larynx. Irritation of Schneiderian membrane as from snuff. Ineffectual efforts to sneeze. Sneezing. Coryza. Constant discharge. Constant running, with sensation as if it were full. Smell similar to chlorine; the stinking odor of the drug remained long in nose, afterwards changed to a sensation as from a blow on nose (odor of blood). Smell diminished.

Clinical Violent fluent coryza, with tickling in the larynx and dyspnoea.

Face

      Pain in muscles on chewing after eating wheat bread. Cold jerks in l. upper jaw and front teeth.

Mouth

      Teeth creak more than usual when rubbed with the finger. Jerking pain in a r. upper hollow molar, often preventing speech, afterwards the pain returned but was drawing, (>) sucking it with tongue. Sudden swelling of gum above root of an upper l. incisor after eating pears, (>) Silicea, with pain and numbness. Tongue coated and sensitive to hot and cold drinks; coated, and bad taste to coffee; fissured and one spot denuded; red stripe on middle, paining as if sore, edges of T. rough and covered with pimples, T. sensitive to touch when eating and drinking. Mouth sticky and pasty. Salivation; with constant expectoration of mucus, causing nausea; watery, with eructations of the odor and taste of drug and nausea. Taste of blood; T. metallic; unusual to tobacco, it causes scraping in throat, cigars cannot be smoked because they provoke cough and aggravate the rawness in larynx; blunted.

Throat

      Lumps of mucus easily loosened from posterior nares. Hawking of mucus, often with nausea. Burning irritation in pharynx. Warmth along oesophagus, in chest.

Stomach

      Appetite diminished; lost; lost for dinner. Aversion to coffee and tobacco, disgust at their odor. Eructations of the odor of radishes. Nausea; in morning, with discomfort in pit of stomach; on coughing; after eating, with pain and heaviness in pit of stomach and discomfort; in pit of stomach when riding in open air; (>) empty eructations; with accumulation of water in mouth, obliging frequent spitting; with discomfort below navel and weakness. Vomiting of watery mucus of the odor and taste of the acid, with blackish-gray flakes of mucus; paroxysmal V. of water, afterwards of yellowish and tenacious substances.

Distention of stomach and abdomen in evening, with difficult passage of flatus; D. of stomach and abdomen all the evening after a dinner of roasted mutton and potatoes. Constriction in forenoon; in epigastrium before dinner (which I take at 12.30), with weight, and often a feeling in stomach as if I had swallowed stones. Uneasiness increasing to anxiety and contraction, (<) food and stimulants. Weakness at 6.P.M., almost amounting to nausea, after meat pudding, (>) 10.30 by a glass of brandy and water, with aversion to cocoa. Indigestion.

Abdomen

      Distention in afternoon, and evening, in afternoon, with sensitiveness. Tumbling and movements; R. and gurgling, and one could feel bubbles of air passing through intestines, but no pain. Griping at night. Pain; in groins, that on coughing extended into testicles. Pressure on inguinal rings. Weakness in groins towards spermatic cords.

Rectum and Anus

      Tendency to piles. Urging, but passage of only flatus; U., then stool, first part hard, then soft, with burning in anus preventing sleep, with desire for stool, but evacuation of only a little yellow mucus.

Stool

      Diarrhoea nine or ten times daily, preceded or followed by colic, nearly always with black blood (no haemorrhoids); (D. after coffee). Mushy, frequent. Soft at 9 P.M. after a normal one at 10 A.M. Bilious, partly fluid, delayed, hasty, with burning at anus. Constipated; and small, delayed. hard, then soft, orange- colored. Dry, full of air, delayed, next day scanty and small. Only a small lump like a marble, difficult.

Urinary Organs

      Nephritis, urine at first scanty and of the color of porter. Urine high-colored, smelling of violets, apparently full of bile. Urine scanty and brown, next morning scanty and strongly scented, third day scanty and dark. Urine albuminous. Bright red sediment on bottom and sides of vessel.

Sexual Organs

      Glans red on l. side, during coition a long-lasting emission of semen; throbbing, stinging, pinching on l. side of G.; undefined pain in tip and in foreskin. Hard erections; often after midnight, always on waking in morning later they last longer, even after rising, desire moderate; E. every morning, earlier and harder. Pain in r. testicle; in testicles. preventing sleep all night; in spermatic cords, (<) l.; in spermatic cords, extending into testicles, with inflammatory swelling of r. inguinal glands. Appetite suppressed, the conjugal act done by act of volition, and the usual thrill in ejaculation absent.

Respiratory Organs

      Mucus; in trachea, with constant inclination to cough. Bronchitis. Larynx, lumps of mucus easily loosened; mucus hangs like a thread, irritates to hawking and cough and causes vomiting, after sneezing it is easily loosened; pain, with cough and coryza and pain on talking; sore pain; rawness; scraped, raw sensation and prickling; scraped, raw sensation in epiglottis; tickling, also in trachea; irritation, with hacking cough; irritation, and in trachea; burning irritation, and in trachea; sensation causing hawking. Hoarseness; with pain in larynx, the H. (<) singing and worse entering house.

Cough only in morning; C. from scraping in larynx; with pain in larynx; with constriction of trachea; convulsive; in short bursts on rising, without expectoration; in short bursts (after coryza) returned during the day, disturbing sleep till midnight, from tickling in larynx, after sneezing a lump is loosened, which he must swallow; dry, spasmodic; dry, rattling, difficult to loosen; short dry, paroxysmal, as if mucous membrane would be torn off, with and followed by raw, sore pain in larynx and trachea, extending to middle of sternum. Hacking cough; (>) deep inspiration; (<) motion in open air, with irritation in larynx. Cough, with secretion of colorless mucus. Expectoration of mucus causing nausea.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.