# Cobaltum Nitricum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Cobalt has been  known since ancient times and it was introduced for used in the 
manufacture of blue china, Dutch delftware, Moutier and Gien’s crockery and Sévre porcelain. A great deal of 
research is carried out on it in industry and agriculture, including experiments concerning the toxicity of cobalt 
and its salts. 
In 1899, Pettini and Messina, by administering cobalt chloride in the food of dogs, cats and rabbits, noticed an 
increase in the level of hemoglobin. 
More recently, Polonowski, Sutter and Briska, showed an increase of red corpuscles due to cobalt. Canjolle 
pointed to the com plaints of pulmonary ventilation with a fall in arterial tension. According to Zarone, this 
hypotension is linked to a toxic attack on the myocardium. 
In occupational medicine, Desoille, Merk- len and Cotteril reported cases of poisoning of workers in which the 
clinical symptoms noted respiratory complaints and an increase in the level of red corpuscles.  
A lack of fertility and miscarriage due to bleeding under the placenta. Emaciation, bl uish-red coloring of the 
muscles and viscera, serous effusion. The thyroid gland is the location for pseudo -carcinomatous changes. 
The homeopathic proving was re -evaluat- edby G. Maring in 1955 with fifteen provers, seven men and eight 
women. He used the 3x, 6x, 12x, and 30x potencies. 
Symptoms included general fatigue in the morning, immediately on waking, lasting through the day with the 
feeling of being sleepy and heavy. General lassitude. Face pale, discolored. Frontal headache, vertigo. 
Nervous. 
General emaciation. Irregular appetite, diarrhea. Better during the afternoon. Trem bling hands. Loss of libido. 
Heaviness of the limbs. Pains in the bones. Pleurodynia on the left side. Cardiac pain. Metrorrhagia.  
Syphilitic hemiplegia and paraplegia. Syphilitic radicular neuritis. Tabes. Diffuse meningitis and encephalitis or 
general paralysis. Spasmodic dorsal tabes. Thyroid problems. Every morbid manifestation de veloping either 
from hereditary or acquired syphilis. Hardening processes.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better in the afternoon and evening. Better from eructation. Worse in the morning, on rising.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anxiety.
- Excitability and over-activity, followed by inhibition and general depression.
- Depressive state 
with difficulty in concentrating as a result of a persistent headache.
- Sullen.
- Sadness on waking.
- Memory poor 
on first waking.
- Anxiety.
- Excitability and over-activity, followed by inhibition and general depression.
- Depressive state 
with difficulty in concentrating as a result of a persistent headache.
- Sullen.
- Sadness on waking.
- Memory poor 
on first waking.

### Vertigo
- Vertigoon rising, cannot stand up, aggravated by moving the head.

### Head
- Frontal pressing headache with feeling of the skull sunken above the eyes.
- Itching of the scalp.
- Head 
 
 
numb, as though tied by a band.
- Sensation of heat in the head with icy cold feet.
- Frontal pressing headache with feeling of the skull sunken above the eyes.
- Itching of the scalp.
- Head 
 
 
numb, as though tied by a band.
- Sensation of heat in the head with icy cold feet.

### Eyes
- Purulent conjunctivitis.
- Interstitial keratitis.
- Iritis.
- Inflammation of the choroid and retina.
- Eyelids heavy, 
swollen.
- Sensation of sand in the eyes.
- Boring pain around the left eye.
- Sensation of a veil over the eyes, 
when writing.
- Vision complaints, cannot focus for close work.

### Ears
- Noise like roaring in the ears.
- Deafness.
- Edema of the ear.

### Mouth
- Vesicles around the lips.
- Mouth and throat dry.
- Need to clear the throat.
- Difficult swallowing.
- Sensation 
of swelling and inflammation of the gums.
- Pain in the gums and around the sockets of absent teeth.
- Nose - Snuffling with frequent sneezing and tickling feeling in the nose.
- Purulent coryza.
- Sudden nosebleeds.

### Chest
- Pain on the left side of the chest, aggravated by respiration.
- Palpitations with sensation of roll ing below the ribs.
- Pericardial effusion.
- Shivering in the evening, 
exhausting fever and nightly perspiration.
- Cyanosis of the limbs of the hands and feet.
- Pericarditis.
- Aortitis 
(syphilitic).
- Arteritis (syphilitic).
- Kidneys - Pain in the kidneys.
- Bladder sensi tive with urging and involuntary urination.
- Urine dark, odor of 
garlic.
- Cortical pleurisy.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea in the morning with eructation and headache.
- Sensation of acidity and emptiness in the 
stomach after eating.
- Gastric pains.
- Chronic enteritis.
- Intesti nal rumbling, ameliorated by belchings.
- Pressing abdominal pains, low, 
spreading towards the back.
- Appetite diminished..
- Desire for fried potatoes and fluids.

### Urinary & Genital
- Sexual asthenia.
- Impotence.
- Absence of spermatozoa in the semen.
- Orchitis and syphilitic orchi -
epidydimitis.
- Blood tumors.
- Metrorrhagia.
- Secondary amenorrhea.
- Kraurosis of the vulva.
- Stenosis and atresia of the neck of the 
uterus.
- Hemorrhagic metritis.
- Uterine fibroids.
- Sclera-cystic inflammation of the ovary.
- Recurring miscarriage.
- Sterility.
- Frigidity.
- Lack of libido.
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### Extremities
- Arthritis.
- Charcot's joints.
- Pseudo - tabes from arthritis of the vertebral joints.
- Legs heavy, painful, 
especially in the morning.
- Limping with numbness of the legs as after walking or from exercise.
- Feet icy cold.

### Neck & Back
- Vertebral growth dystrophy in children.
- Dorsal pain accompanied by a sensation of heat and 
headaches.
- Blood - Chlorosis, anemia in young girls.
- Bierme r's anemia.
- Increase of red blood corpuscles, hemoglobin.
- Acceleration of the sedimentation rate.

### Skin
- Vesicular eruption, palms of the hands.
- Urticarial eruptions, aggravated after midnight.
- Skin discolored.
- Skin has cancerous tendency.
- Dryness ofthe palms.
- Sudamina.
- Vitiligo.

### Sleep
- Sleep deep, but unrefreshin g.
- ’Troubled dreams of falling from a height or obscene or unpleasant.
- Wakes tired with the need for more sleep.