FERRUM IODATUM


Homeopathic remedy Ferrum Iodatum drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Iodide of Iron. Fel2.

Ears

      Roaring.

Face

      Injected, red.

Abdomen

      Fulness even after a little food as if she had eaten too much, a sort of upward pressure; stuffed feeling as if she could not lean forwards.

Urine

      Dark colored, depositing a thick white sediment; urine scalds.

Female Sexual Organs

      Constant bearing down as if something up; she can touch the cervix uteri (confirmed).

Retroversion of the uterus (many clinical cases).

Leucorrhoea like boiled starch; when the bowels move, the discharge is stringy.

Itching and soreness of vulva and vagina; parts much swollen.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.