IODUM
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
REGION
- GLANDS: THYROID. Testes. Mesenteric. Mammæ.
- MUCOUS MEMBRANES: LARYNX. Lungs (R. Apex or base).
- HEART.
- Blood-vessels.
- Skin.
- Nerves.
- Connective tissue.
WORSE
- HEAT: ROOM. Air. Wraps.
- Exertion: Ascending. Talking.
- Fasting.
- Night.
- Rest.
BETTER
- COLD: AIR. Bathing.
- Motion.
- Eating.
- Intensely
rapid action. ALWAYS TOO HOT. Hot, acrid or watery discharges. Persistent or salty secretions. Infiltration. GLANDS, SWELLED, HARD or heavy; later dwindling. Lean, hungry and hot. Weak and rapidly losing flesh; can't talk. Vascular degeneration. Scrofula. Acute exacerbations (Fer-p.). Local torpidity; little pus. Internal tickling. General pulsation or local throbbings. Burnings. .................... Dejected or intolerably CROSS and RESTLESS. Excited. Sudden dreadful impulses, > if busy, but motion < and exhausts. Thinks he is well. Reverberations in head. Prominent eyes. Pain at root of nose. Subject to head colds, < open air. Catarrh. Nose red and swelled; much sneezing; it drips hot water. Miserable, withered, brownish, sallow or dusky look. Increased saliva; soapy; foul. Metallic taste. Always hungry, yet emaciates, or variable appetite. Frothy, wheyey, fatty, cheesy or lienteric stools. Sediment in urine like red pepper. Sarcocele. Atrophied testes. Impotency. Menses brown; with weakness; after every stool. Leucorrhœa erodes thighs and linen. Painful, choking hoarseness; grasps the larynx. Laryngitis. Diphtheria; expectorates cast of larynx (Kali-bi.). Rough voice. Dry, tickling, croupy cough. Short breath. Raw bronchiæ. Violent pulmonary congestion. Pneumonia; rapid extension. Heart feels squeezed. Palpitation. Heavy mammæ. Hard goitre. Foot-sweat on backs of feet. Skin, dry, rough, dirty; brown spots on. Restlessness in blood prevents sleep. Hyperpyrexia, or external coldness with anxiety or stupor. Hectic. Heat waves to head. Sweats easily. Early morning sweats, with >.
Complementary: Lyc. Sil.
Related: Ars. Flu - ac. Pho. Spo.
Antidotes: Ars. Bell. Hep. Op. Pho.