Ferrum Metallicum


Ferrum Metallicum symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Ferrum Metallicum? Keynote indications and uses of Ferrum Metallicum…


COMMON NAME:

      IRON.

Symptoms

      Great emaciation (Arsenicum, Bar-C., Calcarea, China, Graphites, Iodium, Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, Nit- Ac., Phosphorus, Silicea, Sulphur, Tuberculinum).

Weakness amounting to paralysis (Arsenicum, Causticum, Gelsemium, Kali-P., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Plb., Sepia).

Restlessness in he affected limbs (Rhus toxicodendron, Zincum met.).

Cracking in the joints (Calcarea, Caps., Kali bichromicum, Ledum, Natrum carbonicum, nitricum acidum, Petroleum, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia, Thuja).

Disposition to languor and rest on account of internal weakness (Bryonia, Calc-p., Gelsemium, Kali-P., Acid phosphoricum., Sepia, Silicea, Zincum met.,).

Walking in the open air greatly affects him.

Produces a false plethora: and irregular distribution of blood, with headache, nose bleed, dyspnoea, etc. (D).

Chill with red face and thirst (D)

Fever mal-treated by quinine (A.).

Profuse, long-lasting debilitating sweat; clammy and cold at night (A.).

During the day-time, sudden spasms of the limbs are complained of.

Vomiting of ingesta after every cough (Bryonia, Ipecac., Nux vomica) (N.).

RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTS (Bryonia, Calcarea, Kali-M., Rhus toxicodendron, Ruta, Silicea).

RHEUMATIC PAIN IN THE LEFT DELTOID MUSCLES (Rhus toxicodendron) (D).

Nightly emission with backache (B.).

Contortion of the limbs (Cuprum, Magnesia phos., Secale).

EXTREME PALENESS OF THE FACE, WHICH BECOMES RED AND FLUSHED ON THE LEAST PAIN, MOTION OF EXERTION (Amyl. nitrosum) (A).

Varices (Calcarea fluorica., Hamamelis, Natrum muriaticum, Sepia).

Vertigo: On going down hill, or on crossing water, even though the water be smooth (D.).

BLUSHING (Amyl. nitrosum, Coca) (A).

CHLOROSIS (Alumina, Arsenicum, Calcarea phos., Cyclamen, Ferr-Arsenicum, Graphites, Lycopodium, Mang., Nat- M.,Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, k Pulsatilla, Sepia).

COLOUR OF THE FACE YELLOW, OR ELSE EARTHY (Calcarea, Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Sepia).

Circumscribed red area on the cheeks (Lachesis, Phosphorus, Sulphur).

RED PARTS BECOME WHITE-LIPS, FACE, TONGUE (A).

Congestions (not limited to any part of the body, but useful throughout).

Swelling and distention of blood vessels (Gloninum, Natrum muriaticum, Verat-V.) (G).

METRORRHAGIA WITH RED FACE AND SWELLED VEINS (Belladonna, Gloninum, Sanguinaria).

Menses intermit for a few days (Pulsatilla, Sepia) (Bl).

CATAMENIA: TOO EARLY AND TOO PROFUSE (Arsenicum, Belladonna, Bovista, Calcarea, Cocc., Cyclamen, Ipecac., Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Platina, Rat., Sabina,).

Milky, corrosive Leucorrhoea (Calcarea) (R.).

Constipation: from intestinal atony (Alumina, Bry,. Opium); ineffectual urging; stools hard and difficult, followed by backache or cramping pain in the rectum (A.).

HAEMORRHAGIC DIATHESIS, BLOOD BRIGHT RED; COAGULATES EASILY (Ferr-P., Ipecac., Phosphorus) (A.).

SPITTING BLOOD, WITH FLYING PAINS IN THE CHEST, RELIEVED BY SLOWLY WALKING ABOUT (N).

Haemorrhages in debilitated or anaemic subjects (N.).

Headache; hammering, beating pulsating pains; must lie Down with aversion to eating and drinking (A.).

Headache after the menses (C).

PALPITATION WITH FEVER, AMELIORATED BY SLOWLY WALKING ABOUT N).

Impotence (Agn., Bar-C., Calc, Conium, Graphites, Kali-P., Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Natrum muriaticum, Nux- V., Phosphorus, Selenium, Sepia, Sulphur,

Pettish, quarrelsome, disputative, easily excited; least contradiction angers (Anacardium, Nux-v., Sulph) (A).

Desire for solitude (Ignatia, Acid phosphoricum., Sepia, (R.).

Anxiety from slight cause (R.).

Bellows-sound of the heart, and anaemic murmur of the arteries and veins (Bt.).

Aversion to fat food and vomiting of what has been eaten (Cyclamen, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla).

Bad effects from the abuse of tea and from the abuse of quinine (Pulsatilla).

Ravenous appetite (Iodium, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Tuberculinum) (D.).

Alternate canine hunger and anorexia (N.).

Regurgitation and eructation of food in mouthfuls (Alumina)(, without nausea (A.,).

Aversion to met (B).

Dropsy; after loss of vital fluids (China); abuse of quinine (Arsenicum, Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Sep): suppressed intermittent (Carbo vegetabilis, China) (A).

AGGRAVATION:

      At night, towards morning; while rest; when sitting quietly; and during menses.

AMELIORATION:

      By slow motion; from walking slowly about; and in summer.

RELATIONSHIP:

      complementary to: Alumina and China

China its vegetables analogue follows well in nearly all diseases, acute or chronic.

ANTIDOTES: China, Pulsatilla and Thea.

Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)