# Ferrum Magneticum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **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 
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 diarrhea after a meal (Ferr.). 
Abdominal sufferings are felt more on the left side. Very abundant and frequent emission of fetid wind.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Indecision and long reflection before undertakin g anything.
- Indolence, slowness of movement.
- Air of 
importance and self-sufficiency.
- Irascibility.
- Indecision and long reflection before undertakin g anything.
- Indolence, slowness of movement.
- Air of 
importance and self-sufficiency.
- Irascibility.

### Head
- Pulsative headache, by fits.
- Circumscribed headache in the morning, generally on right side.
- Headache 
on stooping, on moving the arms, and on going up stairs.
- Itching in the scalp.
- Small, painful eruption on the 
scalp.
- Falling off of the hair.
- Kidneys - 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 
on stooping, on moving the arms, and on going up stairs.
- Itching in the scalp.
- Small, painful eruption on the 
scalp.
- Falling off of the hair.
- Kidneys - 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 
pain on the eyelid, which impedes the sight.
- Swelling of the lower lid, which makes the eye appear smaller.
- Darkness 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 
the pharynx when swallowing.

### Face
- Face dejected with general heat, followed by redness of the face.
- Itching and tingling in the face and 
on the lips.
- Eruptions on the forehead in the eyebrows, at the root of the nose, on the cheeks, the lips and the 
chin.

### Mouth
- Accumulation of water and saliva in the mouth.
- 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 catarrh.

### 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 rheumatism 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 globules 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.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Flatulence 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.

### Urinary & Genital
- 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
- 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.
- Whitlow.
- 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.