🧬 Remedy Miasm: Sycotic Miasm
The Sycotic miasm is characterized by overgrowth and retention. It manifests as warts, tumors, fibroids, joint pain, excessive discharges, and suspicious or secretive mental states.
▲GENERAL
Caspari is the authority for Ferr-ma.
Teste, who put Ferr-ma in the Arnica group along with
Led., Crot-t., Rhus- t and Spig., had some experience with it.
Indicated for the sycotic constitution.
Small warts
on hands.
Ferr-ma produces par alytic weaknesses like the other iron preparations, of which this; is the most peculiar:
after perspiring during a moderate walk, weakness and lassitude, which seem to proceed from the abdomen.
Difficulty of movement and relaxation of muscles.
Prickings, lancinations, tingling and itch ing in different parts.
Pains and itchings, some of which reappear at
intervals of four weeks.
Pain in nape of neck.
Trembling in the legs and arms.
Excessive lassitude.
Fatigue on
taking the slightest exercise.
Worse during a meal, flatulency, grumblings, movements in abdomen with urgent diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. after a meal (Ferr.).
Abdominal sufferings are felt more on the left side.
Itching sensation in the posterior part of the palate.
Neck - In the morning, pain in the nape of the neck, as if from having lain in an inconvenient position.
Nose - Sneezing, with stoppage of one nostril and catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane.
▲THROAT
Bitter and rancid taste in the pharynx, on hawking.
Sensation as if mucus were adhering to the uvula.
Lancinations in the throat.
Pressure in the esophagus, as if too much had been swallowed at one time.
COMMENTS - Ferr-ma relieved, after Spig failed, in an old man suffering from chronic rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. of the
nape of the neck with irritable disposition.
Cured a case of compound capsular cataract in a gouty patient.
A third patient had rheumatism of both thighs,
coming on after violent exercise.
This patient was treated in two at tacks.
In the first attack he received Arn first and then Ferr-ma.
In the second, Ferr-ma was given at once and the effect was speedy and marked.
Teste noted the case of a patient who had a very unpleasant experience with the medi cine.
He suffered from
a mercurial neurosis and was very sensitive to medicines.
Teste was led to give the medicine due to a painful
contraction of the posterior cervical muscles, against which no remedy he had tried had produced any effect.
Teste gave Ferr-ma., four globulesSmall medicated sugar pillsTiny spherical pills made of sucrose/lactose, used as a carrier for liquid homeopathic dilutions. in a tumbler of water, two tablespoonfuls every day.
The first tablespoonful,
taken in the morning, seemed to produce a sensible improvement.
A quarter of an hour after the second dose,
taken at 4 p.m., the sight became dim, a halo of fire, red and violet, was seen first in front of the right eye, and
afterwards in front of the left eye.
Soon after, this halo, which formed a circular zigzag -shaped line, became nar rower and narrower.
Finally
produced such a complete blindness, that the patient assured Teste he was unable to distinguish night from
daylight.
This lasted one hour and did not pass off entirely until after a meal.
Much more distressing phenomena fol lowed towards 8 p.m.
The pain in the nape, which first was seated on
the left side, passed
Ferrum magneticum to the right invading the whole extent of the trapezoid muscle, where it became literally
frightful.
“For two days and nights the patient, who was a brave and strong man and whom I had seen bear the most
painful surgical operations without uttering a sound, suffered to such an extent that he uttered heart -rending
cries.”
Camph., Puls, and Bry failed to relieve, the first rather aggravated.
Rhus -t effected some relief.
But it did not
prevent the recurrence, for eight days in succession of the vis ual phenomena, though with less intensity then
the first time, at irregular intervals, generally 6 or 7 a.m and sometimes even at night in perfect darkness
▲CHEST
Tearing and lancination in the left side of the chest, when breathing.
Sensa tion of emptiness in the
chest.
Frequent hawking of mucus.
Dry cough after dinner, proceeding from an irritation in the trachea, as if
one had swallowed dust
▲ABDOMEN
FlatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. during a meal, afterwards fatigue and burning pain in epigastrium, especially on
breathing.
Nausea.
Abortive risings.
Teeth - Bleeding of the gums, when slightly pressed upon.
Painful sensibility of the teeth during mastication.
Temperature - Shivering and cold in the side opposite to that on which the patient has lair Heat, as if a catarrh
were developing its.
If with lassitude and downcast eyes.
Internal heat with perspiration and slow pulse after washing the body.
The pulse is slow and small.
Perspiration
on the slightest exercise.
Sweat in the morning on the body and on the occiput.
Sweat of an acid smell, as in
measles.
Movements and grumbling in abdomen.
Loose evacuations with much flatulency, especially left
side, with pullings in legs.
Abundant and frequent emission of fetid flatus
▲GENITALS ETC
Itching and lancination in the scrotum and in the extremity of the glans.
Increased sexual desire, with
and without erection, or absence of all sexual desire, yet without importance
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Cramp-like, paralytic pullings or jerking pullings in the forearms and hands.
Paralytic pulling in the
right arm.
Pain, as from dislocation in the wrist.
Dryness and tension in the hands.
Small warts on the back of
the hands and on the wrist.
WhitlowPainful abscess on finger or toe tipA highly painful, localized infection or abscess near the fingernail or fingertip..
Acute lancination in the
knee.
Ganglion of the foot.
Tingling and pricking in the heels.
Starting in the soles of the feet.
Painful little toe
▲SKIN
Itching and tingling in different parts, especially in the evening, mitigated by scratching, but appearing
in other parts.
Red spots, sometimes of a bright red or bluish red some disappear on being pressed.
Small
warts on the hands
▲SLEEP
Violent and noisy yawnings with accumulation of water in the mouth.
Drowsiness with prompt sleep
on lying do wn or even when seated.
Absurd dreams at night.
Dreams immediately after lying down, waking
with a start, coldness causing trembling.
Inclination to remain in bed in the morning.
After rising, weakness in
the knees
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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