Ferrum Metallicum
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 230
Questions
Give the general action of Ferrum. Produces a false plethora; an irregular distribution of blood, with headache, nosebleed, dyspnoea, neuralgia, etc. Its action is to dilate the blood vessels. Give six grand characteristics of the drug. 1. Anaemia with plethora. 2. Vomiting of food. 3. Chill with red face and thirst. 4. Flushed face. 5. Coldness of the body. 6. Undigested diarrhoea, worse from eating.
When is Ferrum indicated in Anemia ?
When the patient has an appearance of full bloodedness or plethora, which is followed by a paleness and earthiness of the face, and puffiness of the extremities.
What is the Chill of Ferrum ?
It is a chill with red face and thirst, during the heat there is distension of the blood vessels and headache; the chill is apt to come on about 3 or 4 in the morning.
What are the stomach symptoms?
There seems to be no secretion in the stomach capable of changing the food, and it is vomited as taken. The appetite is ravenous.
What is the characteristic Headache?
It is a throbbing headache at the base of the brain. It seems as if the head would burst; there is congestion and pulsating in the head, worse after midnight, with red face and cold feet.
What is there characteristic about the Vertigo of Ferrum?
It comes on on going down hill, or on crossing water, even though the water is smooth.
What is the Diarrhoea of Iron ?
Undigested, painless, sometimes involuntary stools; there is a desire to go to stool as soon as anything touches his stomach; it is worse just after midnight; there is great hunger, but eating brings on diarrhoea.
Where is a characteristic rheumatic pain of Ferrum?
In the left deltoid muscle. What remedy has Rheumatism in the right deltoid muscle Sanguiyiaria. Give an indication for Ferrum iodatum. Bearing down in the uterine region when sitting; the patient feels as if something sore and painful were being pushed up. Prolapsus uteri.
What is a clinical use of Ferrum aceticum?
In stubborn anaemia and debility. In children who grow tall rapidly and are so active that they become easily exhausted; they keep thin, weak and pale.