{"id":879,"remedy_name":"Ferrum Magneticum","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Sycotic Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Caspari is the authority for Ferr-ma. Teste, who put Ferr-ma. in the Arnica group along with \nLed., Crot-t., Rhus- t. and Spig., had some experience with it. Indicated for the sycotic constitution. Small warts \non hands. \nFerr-ma. produces par alytic weaknesses like the other iron preparations, of which this; is the most peculiar: \nafter perspiring during a moderate walk, weakness and lassitude, which seem to proceed from the abdomen. \nDifficulty of movement and relaxation of muscles. \nPrickings, lancinations, tingling and itch ing in different parts. Pains and itchings, some of which reappear at \nintervals of four weeks. Pain in nape of neck. Trembling in the legs and arms. Excessive lassitude. Fatigue on \ntaking the slightest exercise. \nWorse during a meal, flatulency, grumblings, movements in abdomen with urgent diarrhea after a meal (Ferr.). \nAbdominal sufferings are felt more on the left side. Very abundant and frequent emission of fetid wind.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Indecision and long reflection before undertakin g anything. Indolence, slowness of movement. Air of \nimportance and self-sufficiency. Irascibility. Indecision and long reflection before undertakin g anything. Indolence, slowness of movement. Air of \nimportance and self-sufficiency. Irascibility.","Head":"Pulsative headache, by fits. Circumscribed headache in the morning, generally on right side. Headache \non stooping, on moving the arms, and on going up stairs. Itching in the scalp. Small, painful eruption on the \nscalp. Falling off of the hair. \nKidneys - Urine red and copious, which becomes the color of clay after having stood some time. Pulsative headache, by fits. Circumscribed headache in the morning, generally on right side. Headache \non stooping, on moving the arms, and on going up stairs. Itching in the scalp. Small, painful eruption on the \nscalp. Falling off of the hair. \nKidneys - Urine red and copious, which becomes the color of clay after having stood some time.","Eyes":"Pricking itching in the canthi. Painful sensibility of the lachrymal sac with profuse lachrymation. Pressive \npain on the eyelid, which impedes the sight. Swelling of the lower lid, which makes the eye appear smaller. \nDarkness before the right eye, causing it to wink.","Ears":"Tingling in the ears. Itching, wringing and cold lancinations in the auditory duct. Pullings in the ears and \nthe pharynx when swallowing.","Face":"Face dejected with general heat, followed by redness of the face. Itching and tingling in the face and \non the lips. Eruptions on the forehead in the eyebrows, at the root of the nose, on the cheeks, the lips and the \nchin.","Mouth":"Accumulation of water and saliva in the mouth. Itching sensation in the posterior part of the palate.  \nNeck - In the morning, pain in the nape of the neck, as if from having lain in an inconvenient position. \nNose - Sneezing, with stoppage of one nostril and catarrh.","Throat":"Bitter and rancid taste in the pharynx, on hawking. Sensation as if mucus were adhering to the uvula. \nLancinations in the throat. Pressure in the esophagus, as if too much had been swallowed at one time.  \nCOMMENTS - Ferr-ma. relieved, after Spig. failed, in an old man suffering from chronic rheumatism of the \nnape of the neck with irritable disposition. \nCured a case of compound capsular cataract in a gouty patient. A third patient had rheumatism of both thighs, \ncoming on after violent exercise. This patient was treated in two at tacks. In the first attack he received Arn. \nfirst and then Ferr-ma. In the second, Ferr-ma. was given at once and the effect was speedy and marked. \nTeste noted the case of a patient who had a very unpleasant experience with the medi cine. He suffered from \na mercurial neurosis and was very sensitive to medicines. Teste was led to give the medicine due to a painful \ncontraction of the posterior cervical muscles, against which no remedy he had tried had produced any effect.  \nTeste gave Ferr-ma., four globules in a tumbler of water, two tablespoonfuls every day. The first tablespoonful, \ntaken in the morning, seemed to produce a sensible improvement. A quarter of an hour after the second dose, \ntaken 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 \nafterwards in front of the left eye. \nSoon after, this halo, which formed a circular zigzag -shaped line, became nar rower and narrower. Finally \nproduced such a complete blindness, that the patient assured Teste he was unable to distinguish night from \ndaylight. This lasted one hour and did not pass off entirely until after a meal.  \nMuch more distressing phenomena fol lowed towards 8 p.m. The pain in the nape, which first was seated on \nthe left side, passed \nFerrum magneticum to the right invading the whole extent of the trapezoid muscle, where it became literally \nfrightful. \n\u201cFor two days and nights the patient, who was a brave and strong man and whom I had seen bear the most \npainful surgical operations without uttering a sound, suffered to such an extent that he uttered heart -rending \ncries.\u201d \nCamph., Puls, and Bry failed to relieve, the first rather aggravated. Rhus -t. effected some relief. But it did not \nprevent the recurrence, for eight days in succession of the vis ual phenomena, though with less intensity then \nthe 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 \nchest. Frequent hawking of mucus. Dry cough after dinner, proceeding from an irritation in the trachea, as if \none had swallowed dust.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Flatulence during a meal, afterwards fatigue and burning pain in epigastrium, especially on \n \n \nbreathing. Nausea. Abortive risings. \nTeeth - Bleeding of the gums, when slightly pressed upon. Painful sensibility of the teeth during mastication.  \nTemperature - Shivering and cold in the side opposite to that on which the patient has lair Heat, as if a catarrh \nwere developing its. If with lassitude and downcast eyes. \nInternal heat with perspiration and slow pulse after washing the body. The pulse is slow and small. Perspiration \non the slightest exercise. Sweat in the morning on the body and on the occiput. Sweat of an acid smell, as in \nmeasles. Movements and grumbling in abdomen. Loose evacuations with much flatulency, especially left \nside, with pullings in legs. Abundant and frequent emission of fetid flatus.","Urinary & Genital":"Itching and lancination in the scrotum and in the extremity of the glans. Increased sexual desire, with \nand without erection, or absence of all sexual desire, yet without importance.","Extremities":"Cramp-like, paralytic pullings or jerking pullings in the forearms and hands. Paralytic pulling in the \nright arm. Pain, as from dislocation in the wrist. Dryness and tension in the hands. Small warts on the back of \nthe hands and on the wrist. Whitlow. Acute lancination in the \nknee. 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 \nin other parts. Red spots, sometimes of a bright red or bluish red. some disappear on being pressed. Small \nwarts on the hands.","Sleep":"Violent and noisy yawnings with accumulation of water in the mouth. Drowsiness with prompt sleep \non lying do wn or even when seated. Absurd dreams at night. Dreams immediately after lying down, waking \nwith a start, coldness causing trembling. Inclination to remain in bed in the morning. After rising, weakness in \nthe knees."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}