Platina

► Everything seems strange and horrible to her. ► She thinks all persons are demons. ► Illusion : everything around her is very small and every body inferior to her in mind and body. ► Delirium with fear of men, often changing with overestimation of oneself. ► Disturbed state of mind, also religious, with taciturnity, haughtiness, voluptuousness and cruelty. ► Mania, with great pride ; fault-finding ; unchaste talk ; trembling and clonic spasms ; caused by fright or anger. ► Mood changing ; cheerful or depressed. ► Low-spirited, inclined to shed tears, worse in the evening ; weeps with the pains. ► Past events trouble her. ► Much anguish ; she feels as if she would lose her senses and die soon. ► Satiety of life, with (taciturnity and) fear of death. ► Great indifference. ► Pride and overestimation of oneself ; looking down with haughtiness on others. ► Physical symptoms disappear, and mental symptoms appear, and vice versa. ► After anger, alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death. ► Mental disturbance after fright, grief or vexation.

► Sensation of numbness in head and externally on vertex, preceded by a sensation of contraction of the brain scalp ; worse in evening and while sitting ; better from motion and in open air. ► Neuralgic headache in sensitive or hysterical persons ; cramp-like pressing inwards, with hot and red face, and roaring in head ; pains gradually increase and as gradually decrease. ► Numb feeling in the brain. ► Sensation of water in the forehead.

► Formication in one temple, extending to lower jaw, with sensation of coldness on that spot ; worse in evening and when at rest, better from rubbing.

► Scintillations before the eyes ; headache. ► Sensation of coldness in the eyes. ► Spasmodic trembling and twitching of the eyelids. ► Objects appear smaller than they really are.

► Ringing, rolling or rumbling sound in the ears. ► Thundering jerks like distant cannonade, in right ear. ► Otalgia with cramp-pain, often with rumbling in the ears. ► Sensation of coldness in ears, with sensation of numbness extending to cheeks and lips.

► Numbness and cramp-pain in nose. ► Violent crampy pain at root of nose, with heat and red face. ► Corrosive sensation on nose, as from something acrid.

► Pale, sunken ; red and burning hot, with violent thirst, worse toward evening. ► Sensation of coldness, tingling and numbness in one (right) side of face. ► Cramp-pain, steady compressing, numb feeling and boring in malar bones.

► Purple, net-like appearance on chin.

► Pulsating, digging through whole right jaw, worse toward evening and at rest ; followed by numbness ; pains come and go gradually.

► Sensation as if the tongue were scalded. ► Sweet taste on the tip of the tongue.

► Rhagades in the gums. ► Sensation of coldness, especially in the mouth.

► Cramp-like drawing in the throat, as if it were constricted. ► Hawking of mucus, with scraping in throat. ► Sensation as if the palate was elongated.

► Loss of appetite on account of depressed mood. ► Ravenous appetite and hasty eating, detests everything around him. ► Thirstlessness ; or, thirst during heat.

► Worse on an empty stomach. ► After meals : 17.

► Eructations empty, morning. ► Continuous nausea, with great weakness, anxiety and trembling sensation, through the whole body.

► Pressure in stomach, especially after meals. ► Sensation of constriction in pit of the stomach and in abdomen. ► Burning in pit of stomach, extending into abdomen. ► Jactitation of muscles in region of stomach.

► Painter's colic ; pain in umbilical region, extending through into back ; patient screams and tries to relieve the pain by turning into all possible positions. ► Pressing and bearing down in abdomen, extending into pelvis.

► Constipation ; after lead poisoning ; or while travelling ; frequent urging, with expulsion of only small portions of feces, with great straining. ► After an evacuation, sensation of great weakness in abdomen, or chilliness. ► Itching-tingling and tenesmus at anus, especially in the evening. ► Stools adhere to rectum and anus like soft clay.

► Frequent micturition, with slow flow of urine. ► Urine : pale, watery ; red, with white clouds ; turbid, depositing a red sediment.

► Sexual desire excessive, with violent erections, especially at night. ► Embrace with but little pleasurable excitement. ► Morbid excitement inducing onanism, especially if prepubic.

► Nymphomania, worse in the lying-in ; tingling or titillation from genitals up into abdomen. ► Painful sensitiveness and continual pressure in region of mons veneris and genital organs ; body, except the face, feels cold. θ Prolapsus uteri. ► Induration of the uterus ; ulceration, with co-existing ovarian irritation. ► Ovaries inflamed with burning pains in paroxysms, stitches in the forehead. Also chronic ovaritis. ► Frequent sensation as if the menses would appear. ► Menses too early, too profuse and too short-lasting ; flow dark, clotted ; preceded by spasms, much bearing down, desire for stool, or backache ; during the flow, pinching in abdomen, excruciating pains in uterus, twitchings, with screams ; melancholy. ► Metrorrhagia, the body feels as if growing large ; genitals very sensitive ; nymphomania. ► Hemorrhages in clots, with uterine cancer, fibroids, etc. ; even the fibroid may be cured. ► Leucorrhoea like white of egg, only by day, after urination and after rising from a seat. ► Pruritis vulvae ; voluptuous tingling, with anxiety and palpitation of the heart. ► Vulva painfully sensitive during coitus.

► Contractions interrupted by sensitiveness of vagina and external parts ; labor-pains ; spasmodic, painful, but ineffectual. ► After labor, so sensitive, she cannot bear touch of napkin.

► Loss of voice. ► Spasm of the glottis.

► Difficult, anxious respiration. ► Shortness of breath, as if the chest was constricted. ► Deep breathing from sensation as of a weight on the chest.

► Hysterical dry cough, from stifling beneath upper fourth of sternum.

► Cramp-pain in left chest, gradually increasing and decreasing in intensity.

► Great anxiety and palpitation ; commencing endo or pericarditis. ► Pulse regular, but small and weak, sometimes tremulous.

► Nape of neck weak ; head inclines forward. ► Cramp in posterior muscles of neck ; tensive, numb feeling close to occiput, as if tied together. ► Pains in back and small of back, as if bruised or broken ; worse from pressure or bending forward. ► Pressing from small of back upon the pelvic organs. ► Pain in small of back, going to groins and down limbs. ► Numbness in sacrum and coccyx.

► Weak, relaxed feeling in both arms, as after holding a heavy weight, better from motion of arms. ► Sore burning at the elbow, as if scraped.

► Weakness of thighs and knees, as if beaten. ► Pain like after a severe blow, in left knee. ► Tremulous restlessness in legs, with numb and torpid feeling when sitting ; worse evenings. ► Numb and tired feeling in feet, only while sitting.

► Tension in limbs, as if wrapped tightly. ► Cramp-like pains ; numbness in limbs and joints. ► Spasmodic, jerking and drawing pains in limbs and joints. ► Ulcers on fingers and toes.

► Spasmodic affections of hysterical women and of children ; tetanic-like spasms, with wild shrieks, alternating with catalepsy ; spasms alternating with dyspnoea to suffocation ; twitches of single muscles, trembling, shivering ; worse at dawn. ► Spasms from sexual erethism. ► Tonic spasm, without loss of consciousness ; face pale, sunken ; child, after the spell, lies on its back, kicks off the clothes, and draws up its knees and spreads them apart. ► Paralytic weakness, worse at rest ; numbness, stiffness and coldness.

► Great inclination to violent, almost spasmodic yawning. ► Awakes, at night and has difficulty in collecting his senses. ► During sleep, lies on back, arms over head, thighs drawn up, and with legs uncovered. ► Intense nervous wakefulness.

► Chill in evening, with trembling and tremulous feeling through whole body. ► Shaking chill when going from room into open, even warm, air. ► Chilliness predominates, with irritability, which ceases during the heat. ► Heat, with sensation of burning in face, without any visible change in color of face. ► Flushes of heat, interrupted by chilliness. ► Gradually increasing, and in like manner decreasing heat. ► Sweat only during sleep, ceases on wakening.

► Pains increase and decrease slowly and gradually.

► Trembling through whole body : 16. ► Dull pushing pains, as from a plug.

► Sensation of soreness, tingling, smarting and itching, or pricking, stinging, burning with inclination to scratch on different parts of the body.

► Dark hair ; rigid fibre. ► Especially suited to females.

► Platin. antidotes : bad effects of lead. ► Antidotes to Platin. : Pulsat., Spir. nitr. dulc. ► The facial neuralgia of Verbasc. is like a crushing with tongs, and occurs often twice a day.