# Ferrum Picricum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Sycotic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Ferrum picricum is con sidered a great remedy to complete the action of other medicines. 
Indicated by the functional failure of an organ under exertion. 
This is an unproved medicine, but Dr. Cooper gave the leading indications for its use and these are so clear 
that it has taken a definite position in the Materia Medica. 
Ferr-pic. is a liver medicine and is par ticularly suited to persons with dark hair and eyes and bilious -looking 
patients. A dirty appearance about the joints indicates it, the stain due to bile pigments.  
Senile hypertrophy of the prostate gland, with frequent urination at night, with full feeling and pressure in 
rectum. Smarting at neck of the bladder and penis. Meatus dry. Retention of urine.  
Warts and epithelial growths, corns with yellowish discoloration. Nosebleeds. Chronic deafness and tinnitus 
due to gout. Pseudo-leukemia. Failed voice after public speaking.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Prostration of mind.
- Irritable and sensitive.
- Prostration of mind.
- Irritable and sensitive.

### Head
- Headache after meals, especially in bilious, dark -haired persons.
- Bilious headaches.
- Giddiness with 
disturbance of cerebral circulation, pain in occiput, and inability to walk.
- Kidneys - Frequent urination  at night with full f eeling.
- Retention of urine.
- Smarting at neck of bladder 
andpenis (Baros.).
- Pain along entire urethra.
- Headache after meals, especially in bilious, dark -haired persons.
- Bilious headaches.
- Giddiness with 
disturbance of cerebral circulation, pain in occiput, and inability to walk.
- Kidneys - Frequent urination  at night with full f eeling.
- Retention of urine.
- Smarting at neck of bladder 
andpenis (Baros.).
- Pain along entire urethra.

### Ears
- Tinnitus.
- Humming in ears as from telegraph wires.
- Crackling in ears and low -pitched voice.
- Vascular 
deafness.
- Deafness before menses.
- Dental neuralgia, radiating towards ears and eyes.

### Face
- Lupoid wart on face.

### Mouth
- Dental neuralgia, radiating towards ears and eyes.
- Furred tongue.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Dyspepsia.
- COMMENTS - Acts best in plethoric people with sensitive livers.
- Burnett cured with it rheumatic arthritis in a 
dark-haired subject.
- Effects of fatigue (Pic-ac.), unusual fatigue.
- Cooper described it as the failure of an organ under exertion which 
would not ordinarily strain it, e.g., failure of the voice in public speakers.
- Noises in the ears.
- Nervous deafness, “diffused vasculitis.” 
 
 
Dr.
- Cooper was led to give Ferr -pic.
- in cases of warts by a symptom produced in a patient to whom he was 
giving it for deafness, “sensation as if a wart were growing on the thumb.” 
Cooper observed that warts, especially old pedunculated warts, frequently accompany chronic deafness.
- He 
considered it especi ally indicated for multiple warts on the hand, and noted a case of lupoid warts cured by it.
- P.
- C.
- Majumdar cured a student suffering from anemia and malarious fever off and on for a y ear.
- The student 
had impaired hearing of both ears, buzzing, hissing, and vertigo.
- Indigestion, headache and tired feeling after 
bodily or mental exertion.
- Majumdar considered Ferr -pic.
- suited to the results of malarious fever, sexual 
excesses and blood loss.
- It has a specific action in the prostate gland.
- Puller cured with it a case of albuminuria.
- Dudley Wright confirmed 
Cooper's observation that it will frequently control senile prostate hypertrophy.
- Dr.
- Mende considers Ferr-pic.
- almost specific in nosebleed.
- Ferr-pic.
- is apt to aggravate if given too low.
- Loss of appetite.
- Indigestion.

### Urinary & Genital
- Prostate gland enlarged.
- Modalities - Worse from fatigue.

### Extremities
- Chronic gout.
- Dirty appearance about joints.
- Pain in right side of neck and down right arm.
- Locomotor 
ataxia, ocular stage.
- Hands covered with warts.
- Liver - Liver and bilious disorders.
- Jaundice.
- Liver weakness.
- Liver sensitive, some jaundice.

### Neck & Back
- Pain in right side of neck and down right arm.
- Causations - Overwork, exertion.
- Fatigue, overpowering effects of fatigue.
- Constitutions - Suited to dark-haired, plethoric people.

### Skin
- Warts, multiple, pedunculated.
- Sensation as if a wart were growing on thumb.
- Corns.
- Jaundice.
- Dirty 
looking skin about joints.

### Sleep
- Restless sleep with unpleasant (often erotic) dreams.