Ferrum Iodatum

Headache, a confused sensation with heaviness, < in warm room; by smoking; wearing hat; reading; writing; motion;

> in open air; sitting or standing in a draught

Sharp pain from below eye up through head to vertex

Cutting from bridge of nose through the occiput.

Purulent inflammation and photophobia; glands swollen

Exophthalmos after suppressed menses

Trachoma

Painful lancinations in eyes and ears.

Nose stopped; freer towards noon

Thick nose of scrofula

Nose swollen with ulcers and crusts inside

Profuse discharge of mucus from nose and frequent expectoration of mucus from larynx and trachea

A chronic nasal catarrh becomes worse; discharge usually in mornings now lasts all day; blowing gives no relief discharge thick, yellow or green.

Taste: metallic bitter; flat, insipid; inky; pasty sharp, biting; bad in morning; of peppermint

Tongue, thick yellow coat

Burning of tongue and mouth; mucous membrane of mouth and throat uniform red, or dotted with fine dense bright red papular eruption

Burning pain and prickling and swelling of mucous membrane

Dryness of mouth and throat.

Violent tickling and scraping in throat, with sensation as though he would suffocate; hawking of mucus and cough

Rattling of mucus

Food seems to push up to throat as if it had not been swallowed.

No appetite; no relish for smoking

Great thirst

Sour and bitter rising from stomach

Rising up in throat of greasy, acrid, stinging taste

Eructations, nausea, and vomiting.

Tenderness at epigastrium; at same time pinching in back, over spine, directly behind epigastrium

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 forward

Stomach full of wind, every breath gives pain as from a weight in epigastrium

On rising, or at night, when turning in bed, heart beats violently; with pains in epigastrium or lower end of sternum

Dull pain under short ribs

Abdomen swollen; bloated after food or drink; pushed up; food soon satisfies

Rumbling with slight colic before stool

Abdomen, when pressed, feels like a rubber ball

Feeling as of a cord drawn connecting anus and navel, with cutting pain on straightening up from bent position

Abdominal walls numb; if pinched feel sore long after

Inguinal pain extending across hypogastrium, sides feels stiff as after a strain

Feeling in sides, low down, as of needles pricking her;

< raising arms and walking; inguinal region sore on walking

Stitches in r. groin when walking.

Bowels not moved for a week, then stools loose; may have two movements: first costive, second sudden and loose (thin, light yellow), preceded by griping

Small, hard stool, with sticking and pain as from constriction in anus on passage of faeces through it; stool hard

Feeling in rectum and esp. in anus as if compressed; constriction, as if worms were in it; stool easy and painless

Peculiar feeling in rectum and anus as if something twisted and turned about in a circle, and something like drops of water flowed down, and as if a screw were boring upward and downward

Urging to stool with much pain in abdomen (drawings from above navel down r. side), followed by small, yellowish-brown, somewhat hard stool, in the morning

Frequent ineffectual urging.

Pain in both kidneys, esp. l

A feeling in fossa navicularis as if water remained in it and could not be forced out any farther, in the morning

Urine dark-coloured, depositing thick white sediment; urine scalds

Frequent and profuse emission of light-coloured urine, having a sweetish smell, and slight milky sediment

Albuminuria with oedema; in hard drinkers.

Erections at night, with violent pain and burning in urethra; unable to urinate; tenesmus in neck of bladder

Prickling itching in urethra, esp. fore part, with frequent urging to urinate, but very little flow

Crawling tickling in urethra and rectum.

Hysterical attacks; great debility; leucorrhoea, anorexia; finally dropsy of r. ovary; menses scanty, preceded by pain in r. breast and followed by profuse leucorrhoea; three weeks after beginning treatment, sudden loss of consciousness and discharge of two quarts of yellowish fluid from vagina, after which swelling subsided and health was entirely restored

Constant bearing-down as if something was coming away; when sitting feels as if pushing something up

Retroversio uteri; sensation of pressure and protrusion of rectum on standing

Prolapse; inversion; antiversion

Amenorrhoea

Itching, soreness, and swelling of vulva and vagina

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

Shortness of breath; obliged to take a deep breath, with sensation of oppression of chest, and a pressure beneath sternum

Short, hacking cough, with yellowish-white, rather thick expectoration and at times pain in chest

Expectoration of greyish-white, rather tenacious mucus drawn out in threads

Haemoptysis.

Sudden sharp sticking pain extending from l. nipple outward to arm;

< by pressure; frequently returned during afternoon and evening

Scirrhous tumour near r. nipple, small and painless at first, increasing with sharp, lancinating pains from breast to axilla, sensitive to touch (cured).

Running up stairs causes violent palpitation and pain on top of head

Heart-beat so violent, it awoke her from sleep, throbbing all over

Heart beats quickly and seems to force the blood violently through whole body

Blood-vessels throb all over, even when quiet.

Sides of neck sore when touched or on moving

Small of back as if broken; felt only at night; as if lying in a cramped position

Dull pain in back on each side about six inches above kidneys, extending through chest

Painful sensation in back and kidneys and lower portion of spine, starting from lumbar vertebrae.

Weakness and bruised sensation in all the limbs, with aversion to moving about

Periostitis of fingers and toes

Painful drawing in tendons and back of r. hand and l. foot.

Sleep restless; frequent waking; many dreams of long past events; easy erections

Frequent waking with excessive urging to stool and pain on micturition

Dreams of thieves and fighting with them

Dreams that he has grown very large, thirty feet high, and everything about is small and insignificant; the bedstead was too small and short frequent starting in sleep, and waking with a feeling as though paralysed.