# Indium Metallicum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Indium received its name from the indigo blue line in  the spectrum through which its 
presence was discovered in Zinc-blend. It is a rare metal, nearly like lead in appearance and softness.  
Indium was proved under the direction of Bell, and the symptoms mark it out as allied in action to Sei. and 
Titan, in it s general action. Affects the male sexual sphere. Diminished power and control, frequency of 
nocturnal emissions, sexual dreams of perversion. Sexual psychopathy. Seminal emissions.  
Restlessness, compelling to move about. Headaches and migraines, with sleepiness and nausea. Backaches. 
Throat conditions, worse in evening, better by eating, drinking cold water. The urine is horribly offensive after 
standing a short while.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better out of doors, in cold air, drinking or washing in cold water. Worse in a warm room, motion, 
early morning, 3 a.m. to 4 a.m., afternoon, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Faintness at 11 a.m.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Depression.
- Sleepy and irritable with pain in the occipital region.
- State of indifference.
- Psychologically 
exhausted, cannot work.
- Sexual psychopathy.
- Depression.
- Sleepy and irritable with pain in the occipital region.
- State of indifference.
- Psychologically 
exhausted, cannot work.
- Sexual psychopathy.

### Head
- Sudden violent or beating headaches, especially in the right occipital region.
- Bursting pain in head 
when straining at stool.
- Dull pains in temples and forehead with nausea, weakness, sleepiness.
- Pruritus of 
the scalp with internal head pains.
- Kidneys - Horribly offensive smell of urine after standing a short time.
- Sudden violent or beating headaches, especially in the right occipital region.
- Bursting pain in head 
when straining at stool.
- Dull pains in temples and forehead with nausea, weakness, sleepiness.
- Pruritus of 
the scalp with internal head pains.
- Kidneys - Horribly offensive smell of urine after standing a short time.

### Eyes
- Uncertain sight in the evening.
- People seem pale or yellow.

### Ears
- Painful pustules on the outer ear.
- Helix red and feels sharp, needle-like pains.

### Face
- Painful suppurating pimples.
- Corners of mouth cracked and sore (Cund.).

### Mouth
- Pharyngeal muco-viscous secretions, sticky and yellow.
- Nose - Violent attack of sneezing.

### Throat
- Uvula enlarged, ulcerated.
- Thick, tough mucus in back part of pharynx.
- Generally worse in evening.
- COMMENTS - Depressed.
- Headaches, violent pain in the head when straining at stool.
- Berridge reported the case of a boy, 10, who was constipated five or six years.
- Stool about once a week, dark 
and short, sometimes with blood, anus sore after stool.
- He had to strain much, seizing his thighs with his hands 
and straightening himself forcibly, the effort makes his face red and the head f eels as if it would burst.
- Ind.
- in 
high potencies cured.

### Chest
- Burning pain behind the sternum.
- Pain in the left side of the thorax and towards the left axilla.
- Constitutions - Tubercular types.
- Must breathe deeply.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Acrid dyspepsia.
- Nausea with headaches at breakfast.
- Weakness in the stomach aroun d 11 a.m.

### Urinary & Genital
- Drawing pains along spermatic cord.
- Testicles tender.
- Testes soft, heavy.
- Increased sexual desire, 
nocturnal dis charge followed by insufficient erection, premature ejaculation.
- Emissions too frequent.
- Diminished power.
- Menses prolonged.
- Drawing pains in the low abdomen with marked irritability.

### Extremities
- Pains in the limbs, especially in left arm.
- Jerking in the legs.
- Muscular shuddering.
- Pain in the muscles, 
especially in the right ankle, then moving to the left ankle and spreading over the whole foot.
- Weakness of the 
legs, feels particularly tired after walking, becomes restless and needs to move again.
- Toes itch (Agar.).

### Neck & Back
- Backaches.
- Stiffness at the nape of the neck, neck and shoulders.

### Sleep
- Hallucinatory dreams.