# Indigo Metallica

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Afternoon

## Keynote Indications
It has been extensively proved by homeopaths  and observations have also been made of 
its effects on epileptic patients who were receiving large doses from old -school practitioners. 
Marked action on the nervous system. Epilepsy, when the attacks are preceded by a furious excitable 
disposition followed by melancholy, timidity andmildness. Undulat ing sensation in the brain with obscuration 
of vision or sensation as if the brain were frozen, before the attack. 
Neurasthenia and hyst eria. Excited mood and desire to be busy. Pain in the limbs worse after every meal. 
Sciatica pain from middle of thighs to the knee. Stricture of esophagus, blue color (Cupr.).

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better pressure, rubbing, motion, walking. Worse during rest and sitting, in afternoon, evening. 
Worse after eating and after evening meal. Warmth rushes to head on entering a warm room after walking in 
cold air.

## Symptoms by System

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with nausea.
- Vertigo with headache, better in evening and worse in ope n air.
- COMMENTS - Neuralgic and nervous symptoms.
- Brachial and sciatic neuralgia, worse while sitting, better by 
moving about.
- Catarrhal cough, coming in long paroxysms in eve ning.
- Dry suffocative cough in evening and 
after going to bed.
- Cough with nosebleed.
- Whitish, moist tongue.
- Sour or foul breath.
- A large but soft abdomen.
- Diarrhea of two or three stools in twenty-
four hours like grayish paper, sour.
- Ascarides in rectum, even crawling out during sleep.
- Epilepsy with great melancholy or a furi ous excitable disposition before the attacks and mild and timid after.
- Sudden attacks, apparently originating in the solar plexus from which flushes of heat arise to the head, induced 
by cold or fright.
- Undulating sensation in the brain (which Clarke also observed in a case of epilepsy benefited by Cimic.), with 
obscured vision.
- Chilliness.
- Nash noted the case of a hard-working man, over 70, who gradually became unable to work.
- Weak, stiffness 
all over, especially right side, arm and leg.
- Pain in right hip runnin g down leg, worse begin ning to move after 
resting.
- Could hardly turn over in bed.
- Appetite poor, stomach distressed, four or five hours after eating, if he ate more than a very little.
- Pains in the 
limbs decidedly worse after every meal.
- Indg.
- cured promptly.
- Teste tried Indg.
- in cases of epilepsy, but with little success, except in cases arising from the presence of 
worms.
- In cases of worm fever he used it with great effect.
- The patients were children from ten to twelve years 
old, lymphatic, apathetic, peevish, who ate a great deal.
- Teste also used Indg.
- with success for semi -liquid diarrhea (three to four stools a day, coming on especially 
after exercise in a stout old man, frequently given to excess of eating).
- Chronic catarrh of the bladder.
- Stricture 
of urethra after old gonorrhea with Plb.
- and Sep.

### Head
- Convulsions.
- Undulating sensation thr ough whole head.
- Sensation of a band around forehead.
- Sensation as if brain were frozen.
- Hair feels pulled from vertex.
- Gloomy, cries at night.
- Kidneys - Catarrh of bladder, kidney colic.
- Stricture of urethra.
- Frequent desire to urinate with burning in the  
fundus of the bladder.
- Urine turbid.
- Convulsions.
- Undulating sensation thr ough whole head.
- Sensation of a band around forehead.
- Sensation as if brain were frozen.
- Hair feels pulled from vertex.
- Gloomy, cries at night.
- Kidneys - Catarrh of bladder, kidney colic.
- Stricture of urethra.
- Frequent desire to urinate with burning in the  
fundus of the bladder.
- Urine turbid.

### Eyes
- Convulsive twitching and quivering of the eyelids, impeding the sight.
- Pres sure in the eyeball.
- Inflammation of the meibomian glands on the lower lids.

### Ears
- Pressure and roaring.

### Face
- Tearing, piercing and gnawing pains in bones of the face and especially of lower jaw.
- Pricking in right 
malar bone.
- Pain in the submaxillary glands extending to the teeth.
- Congestion in the face with burning cheeks.

### Mouth
- Sensation of burning on the tongue and in the bottom of the palate.
- Vesicles on the tip of the tongue.
- Metallic taste in tongue with contracted feeling in pharynx.
- Spitting of bloody  saliva.
- Numbness of interior of 
mouth in the morning after waking.
- Nerves - Excessive nervous irritation.
- Epilepsy, flashes of heat from abdomen to head, fit begins with 
dizziness.
- Aura from a painful spot between shoulders.
- Hysterical symptoms where pain predominates.
- Reflex 
spasms from worms.
- Nose - Excessive sneezing and bleeding from nose.
- Nosebleed with vanishing of sight.
- Tearing and incisive 
pains in the bones and cartilages of the nose.

### Chest
- Rumbling and grumbling in the chest at every inspiration.
- Violent, suffocating cough induc ing vomiting, bleeding of the nose, in the evening, before and af ter 
lying down.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Tingling pain in the pit of the stomach.
- Bloated st omach.
- Flushesofheat rising from stomach to 
head.
- Belchings.
- Empty risings.
- Retching and vomiting of watery fluid.
- Vomiting of glue-like mucus.
- Anorexia.
- Teeth - Drawing, gnawing, tearing pains in teeth (right).
- Teeth as if being pulled out.
- Temperature - Chilliness with cold hands and violent headache with constant de sire to urinate, urine turbid.
- Great heat, particularly in the face with increased secretion of urine.

### Urinary & Genital
- Depressed sexual desire.
- Itching of the urethra, glans and scrotum.
- Menstruation too early.
- Acts as an emmenagogue.

### Extremities
- Pain in limbs worse after every meal.
- Drawing in the muscles, in deltoid.
- Convulsive startings in the 
arms.
- Weakness of arms.
- Veins of the hands red, inflamed and tense.
- Sciatica.
- Aching, stinging, bruised pain 
in sciatic nerve.
- Tearing in the lower limbs, especially in the toes.
- Pain from middle of thigh to knee.
- Boring 
pain in knee joint, better walking.

### Neck & Back
- Sharp pain between the scapula.
- Sharp pain in the small of the back, going off after an evacuation.
- Breasts - Shooting pains in and around the breasts.
- Stinging in the breasts, going off momentarily by rubbing.
- Burning in the breasts during the menses.

### Skin
- Face and whole body covered with pimples.
- Fine heat -rash, especially left side of face extending from 
forehead to throat.
- Boils on ribs and various parts.
- Itching in face and various parts of body, better by rubbing.
- Itching of skin with constipation.

### Sleep
- Sleepiness in the evening and disturbed sleep at night.
- Children aroused at night with horrible itching 
at anus.
- At night, anxious waking with a start.
- Anxious dreams.
- Nervous irritation.
- Pre dominance of cold.
- Sudden convulsions.
- Illusory sensations.