Iodum

► Feels constantly as if she had forgotten something. ► Fixed, immovable thoughts. ► Fear of evil, with overcarefulness. ► Shrinking and fear when anyone comes near, particularly the physician (this is not in gout). ► Mind very sensitive during digestions, felt like crying. ► Melancholy mood, low-spirited. ► Irritability and sensitiveness. ► Excessive excitability. ► Must keep in motion day and night, brain felt as if it were stirred up, felt as if going crazy.

► Vertigo : only on left side ; with throbbing in head and all over body, tremor at heart, fainting ; worse immediately after rising from a seat or bed ; or by sitting or lying down after slight exercise.

► Headache ; left side and top, sometimes paralytic feeling of the arms. ► Headache, as if a tape or band were tightly drawn around head. ► Headache worse : in warm air ; when riding a long time in a carriage ; from walking fast. ► Pressure on a small spot above root of nose. ► Throbbing in the head, at every motion.

► Optical illusions in bright colors. ► Obscuration of sight. ► Like a veil before the eyes. ► Protrusion of the balls. ► Smarting in the eyes. ► Constant tearing pain around right eye ; passing backwards from inner canthus to articulation of jaw. ► Trembling of the lids. ► Dilation of the pupil, with constant motion of the balls. ► White of the eye dirty yellow. ► Oedematous swelling of the lids.

► Sensitiveness to noise. ► Hearing first sensitive, then dull. ► Buzzing in the ears. ► Adhesions in the middle ear.

► Sensation as if the alae were spread wide open and nose dry ; loss of smell ; in the evening, sneezing. ► Dry coryza, becoming fluent in the open air. ► Chronic fetid discharge from nose ; nose painful and swollen.

► Face : pale, yellow, or soon changing to brown ; sallow, distressed ; pale, alternating with red. ► Convulsive twitchings of the facial muscles. ► Coldness of the face in very fleshy children.

► Toothache, gums swollen and bleeding. ► Little blisters form on the gums. ► Gums puffed, red, inflamed, painful to touch, and bleed easily.

► Taste : salty ; sourish ; sweetish, on tip of tongue. ► Tongue : dry ; brown and dry ; thickly coated.

► Mouth filled with mucus on awaking in the morning, with putrid taste, not relieved by washing mouth with water. ► Copious, sweet saliva. ► Ptyalism ; also, that after mercury. ► Aphthae in the mouth. ► Ulcers in the mouth, gums red swollen, receding from the teeth, bleeding slightly, and with small ash-colored painful ulcers ; profuse fetid ptyalism. ► Thick, brown, croup-like exudation in mouth and fauces.

► Swelling and elongation of the uvula. ► Inflammation of the throat, with burning pain. ► Sensation of constriction (fulness or pressure) in the larynx, with impeded deglutition. ► Ulcers in the throat, with swelling of the gland of neck. ► Inflammation and ulceration of the oesophagus.

► Hunger, suffering from it, must eat every few hours ; gets anxious and worried if he does not eat. ► Eats freely, yet loses flesh all the time. ► Alternate canine hunger and want of appetite. ► Much thirst : 40.

► Fasting causes pain in the chest. ► Eating : 16, 17 ; heavy food : 16. Drinking milk : 20.

► Hiccough. ► Heart-burn, after heavy food. ► Empty eructations from morning till evening. ► Sour eructations, with burning there from. ► Qualmishness, nausea, with spasmodic pain in stomach. ► Violent vomiting renewed by eating. ► Vomiting : of bile, with violent colic ; of milk.

► Spasmodic pains in stomach, renewed by eating. ► Pulsations in the pit of stomach. ► Tenderness of the epigastrium. ► Stitches in stomach, relaxed feeling must loosen clothing ; milk disagrees ; intense thirst.

► Region of liver sore to pressure. ► Swelling of the spleen, after intermittent fever ; vague pains down to left iliac region.

► Swelling and distention of the abdomen. ► Incarceration of flatulence in left side of abdomen. ► Violent throbbing of the aorta abdominalis. ► Swelling of the inguinal glands.

► Stools : of watery, foaming, whitish mucus, always in the morning ; copious, papescent ; dysenteric, mucous, without feces ; whey-like ; fatty. ► Constipation alternating with diarrhoea. ► Constipation, with ineffectual urging, better after drinking milk. ► Stools hard, knotty, dark-colored.

► Incontinence of urine in the aged. ► Urine : dark, thick, ammoniacal ; dark, yellowish-green ; acrid ; milky ; with a variegated cuticle on its surface.

► Bearing down, or twisting, in the seminal cord. ► Swelling and induration of testicles, and of prostrate gland. ► Painless swelling of the testicles, with offensive sweat.

► Menses : sometimes too early, at others too late ; premature, violent and copious. ► Uterine hemorrhage, renewed after every stool. ► Metrorrhagia, with acute pain in mammae ; or, mammae dwindle away and become flabby. ► Induration and swelling of the uterus and ovaries. ► Dropsical affections of the ovaries, with pressing down toward the genitals. ► Dull, pressing, wedge-like pains, from right ovary toward the uterus. ► Leucorrhoea : acrid, corroding the limbs ; worse at time of menses. ► Bluish-red nodosities, size of a hazel-nut, in the skin of both mammae ; dry, black points at the tips.

► Iodum should not be given during lying-in, except in high potencies.

► Hoarseness, lasts all day, phlegm in small quantities and tough, constant hemming and hawking. ► Tightness and constriction about the larynx, with soreness and hoarseness. ► Oedema glottidis (may be used by inhalation). ► Membranous croup, with wheezing and sawing respiration, dry, barking cough, especially children with dark eyes and dark hair ; child grasps the throat with the hand, raises large, tough flakes (not stringy exudation) ; fever.

► Shortness of breath, palpitation and feeling of weakness on going up stairs.

► Dry morning cough, from tickling in the larynx. ► Dry cough, with stitches and burning in the chest. ► Cough, with expectoration of large quantities of mucus, frequently blood-streaked. ► Expectoration : salty ; sourish ; grey or white.

► Sensation of weakness in the chest. ► Sharp, quick, piercing pains. ► Tendency to bronchial and pulmonary congestion and hemorrhage. ► Hepatization, worse upper part of right lung ; high fever, restlessness, thirst apathy. ► Rapid hepatization ; tightness across the chest.

► Violent palpitation, worse from the least exertion. ► Sensation as if the heart were squeezed together. ► Heart acts tumultuously, with hard, full pulse ; or, pulse, small, weak. ► Constant, heavy, oppressive pain, in region of the heart. ► Pulse : large, hard and accelerated, with orgasm of blood and beating in the blood-vessels ; rapid, but weak and thread-like ; accelerated, by every slight exertion.

► Goitre, with marked hardness. ► Swelling and induration of the cervical glands. ► Spinal complaints, with gressus vaccinus.

► Weariness of the arms, as if paralyzed, in the morning, in bed. ► Painful weakness in the extensors. ► Pains in the left elbow. ► Coldness of the hands and feet. ► Fingers "go to sleep".

► Hot, bright red swelling of the knee, with inflammation, pricking and burning ; aggravated by touch or pressure. ► Violent itching nettle-rash, particularly around the knee ; on outer side of left knee especially. ► Oedematous swelling of the feet. ► Acrid, corrosive sweat of the foot. ► Painful corns.

► Subsultus tendinum of hands and feet. ► Chronic arthritic affections, with violent nightly pains in the joints, no swelling.

► Twitchings of muscles. ► Trembling of limbs or whole body. ► Great debility ; sweats, even from talking. ► Rapid failing of strength.

► Sleeplessness after midnight. ► Restless sleep, with vivid or anxious dreams.

► Cold feet, the whole night. ► Chill, with shaking, also in the warm room. ► Chill, frequently alternating with heat. ► Flushes of heat over the whole body. ► Internal heat, with coldness of the skin. ► Marked fever, restlessness ; thirst, throbbing headache, circumscribed red cheeks ; mind apathetic. θ Pneumonia, croup, etc. ► Profuse night-sweat. ► Debilitating sour-smelling sweat in the morning hours, with much thirst.

► Swelling and induration of the glands. ► Plastic exudations. ► Nightly bone-pains. ► Arthritic affections of the joints, with effusion, and with great emaciation.

► Rough, dry skin. ► Dirty yellow, clammy, moist skin. ► Scars itch, break open, or pimples break out on them. ► Nodes.

► Dark hair and eyes. ► Overgrown boys ; weak chests. ► Scrofulous diathesis. ► Aged persons.

► Iodum is frequently suitable in ailments from Arsen., Mercur., Calcar. or Arg. nitr. ► Iodum follows well after Mercur., and is followed by Kali bichr. (croup). ► Iodum and Lycop. are complementary. ► Antidotes to Iodum : of large doses, starch or wheat flour, beat up in water ; of small doses, Ant. tart. ; Arsen., Bellad., Camphor., Chin., Sulph., Cinchon., Coffea, Hepar, Opium, Phosphor., Spongia, Sulphur.