Ferrum

Characteristic symptoms

It produces a veritable state of anaemia, characterized by great emaciation, paleness of the skin, puffiness of the face and eyes, dropsical swellings, hypertrophy or dilatation of the ventricles of the heart, cardialgia, nausea, loathing of food, vomiting, frequent diarrhoeic stools, fullness of the chest, difficult breathing, copious urinary discharges, great languor, weakness, faintness, drowsiness, tremulousness, tendency to spasms and cramps. Hammering, pulsating pain in head ; humming in ears ; congestion to the head with pale face ; intolerance of all spirituous liquors ; dread of movement with loss of muscular tone and debility. Rushes of blood ; congestions and haemorrhages with vascular irritation ; tearing and stitching, especially at night, with disposition to move the affected parts ; haemorrhages, the blood being bright-red and fluid or black and clotted ; many of the symptoms appear at night, are aggravated by sitting, relieved by slight motion ; debility with trembling ; pains in the limbs; constant disposition to be lying down ; burning and soreness of a great many spots on the skin ; the natural heat of the body is diffident ; perspires easily when walking ; night sweat with strong smell ; morning sweats after headache ; vehement, quarrelsome, disputative; vertigo on looking at flowing water; pain about the head as from subcutaneous ulceration and painfulness of the hair, when touching it ; burning and pain in the eyes as from excessive drowsiness ; load in the stomach after eating; watery diarrhœa and lienteria; indigestion especially after beer or sour food ; discharge of ascarides ; disposition to miscarriage; uterine haemorrhage with labor pains in the abdomen and small of the back ; pains after coitus ; spasmodic cough with vomiting of mucus or food ; haemoptysis and purulent expectoration, asthma as if from constriction of the chest.