Iodium

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Iodium Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
GENERAL
  • Iodof was proved by Underwood and Haines.
  • The provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. symptoms were supplemented with recorded effects ob served on patients treated with it in old -school practice, as well as cases of fatal poisoning.
  • In some instances, the symptoms of acute meningitis have been produced.
  • Based on this, W.
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  • Martin cured two cases of tuber cular meningitis with Iodof.
  • 2x.
  • He put 4 grains in half a tumbler of water and gave a teaspoonful every two hours.
  • One case was that of a child, fourteen months old, the symptoms including sleep ing too much, constant movement of the mouth as though chewing or sucking, boring head back and rolling it from side to side.
  • Had been ill twelve days.
  • Violent convulsions followed, face distorted, eyes squinting, head retracted, neck and back stiffness.
  • Automatic movement of one arm and leg.
  • The child was expected to die that night, but Iodof was given and improvement set in Fever abated, and in one week all symptoms had passed away.
  • Tuberculous conditions, especially tubercular meningitis (Bac.).
  • Chronic diar rhea, stools, greenish, watery, undigested with irritable temper, due to suspected tuberculosis.
  • Sub-acute and chronic diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. of children.
  • Failed sight due to retro -bulbar neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area., central scotoma, partial atrophy of the optic disc.
  • Pupils dilated, contract unequally.
  • Cannot stand or walk with eyes closed.
  • Sleep interrupted by sighing and cries.
  • Mesenteric glands enlarged
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better by uncovering.
  • Worse at night, warmth, touch, motion, riding in cars
RELATIONSHIPS
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MIND
  • Apathetic.
  • Irritable.
  • Weak -minded.
  • Forgetful.
  • Amnesia for recent events.
  • Did not recognize persons.
  • Nightly restlessness.
  • Mel ancholia.
  • Excitement.
  • Anguish.
  • Fear of death, bemoans her approaching death.
  • Drowsiness developing into perfect coma.
  • Hallucinations of sight and hearing, delusions.
  • Screams out, leaves her bed but falls down after walking a few steps.
  • Talks nonsense.
  • Excessive talkativeness.
  • Sees double.
  • Dresses himself in strange costumes.
  • Imagined he had the best tenor voice in the world and proceeded to hire a large concert hall.
  • Abdomen - Flatulent colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
  • Rumbling in abdomen.
  • Scaphoid abdomen distended, mesenteric glands enlarged.
  • Cutting in abdomen.
  • Warmth in abdomen.
  • Right inguinal region, sharp pain, cutting, with desi re for stool, sore pain.
  • Anguish.
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Sudden giddiness.
  • Confusion with nausea.
  • Feeling as if he had been intoxi cated.
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. on sitting up in bed.
  • COMMENTS - A boy of 10 had lodof thickly applied to a point on an amputated limb at which the stitches did not hold well.
  • On the third day he was sleepy after a restless night with frequent sighing.
  • The dressing was renewed and on the same day, not having eaten anything since the day before, he had several attacks of vomiting, bilious and easy.
  • All these symptoms increased during the next few days.
  • The child was constipated and seemed to suffer from his head.
  • Nights very restless, sle ep interrupted by sighing and cries like those of meningitis.
  • Drowsiness during the day.
  • Pupils unequally contracted, reacted slowly to light.
  • He was perfectly indifferent and did not recognize those about him.
  • Later, nightly agitation was replaced by tranquil deliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations..
  • Pulse rapid and small.
  • On the sixth day the dressing was changed, on the seventh day the symptoms began to abate and disappeared after the ninth.
  • In one case of poisoning, a woman, 26 who had taken 42 grains of Iodoform in eighty days, sudde nly after a hot bath felt very dizzy and weak in the legs, felt unable to knit and diplopiaDouble visionThe simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. set in Symptoms of mania followed, weakness, staggering on closing the eyes.
  • For twelve days she was unable to walk alone.
  • In one case, that of a soldier who had Iodoform applied to his arm, a scarlatinaScarlet fever bacterial infectionAnother term for scarlet fever, an acute contagious bacterial disease causing a red rash.-like rash appeared, spreading from arm over the body and ending in desquamationPeeling or shedding of skin layersThe shedding or peeling of the outer layers of the skin, typically in scales or sheets, following inflammation or infection..
  • Scarlatina was actually diagnosed, but some doubt was raised and suspicion being thrown on the Iodoform, a piece of silver was placed in the mouth.
  • Immediately a garlic taste was experienced, showing the presence of Iodoform, which other tests confirmed.
  • In cases of medicinal poisoning, the symptoms sometimes come speedily and sometimes only after a long period of medication.
  • Symptoms s et in with great suddenness and intensity.
  • Symptoms are worse from heat and damp.
  • Depression.
  • Marked drowsiness.
  • Malaise, loss of strength and of appetite.
  • Occasional vomiting.
  • Moderate fever, rapid pulse.
  • EczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches.
EYES
  • Pupils, dilated, contract unequally, react poorly.
  • Eyes bloodshot and painful.
  • Sensitive to light.
  • Vision double.
  • Failing sight due to retro-bulbar neuritis, central scotoma-partial atrophy of optic disc
EARS
  • Sticking in right ear, sticking, then fullness.
  • Ears feeling dry and feverish, and full.
  • NeuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pains in left ear.
  • Dull hearing
FACE
  • Drawing, pressing pains in malar - bones, in zygomatic muscles, worse motion and bending forward.
  • Stiffness of zygomatic muscles.
  • Twitching of facial muscles.
  • Aching in right lower jaw.
  • Lips and throat dry, lips dry and stinging.
  • Head - Meningitis.
  • Sharp, neuralgic pain.
  • Head feels heavy, as if it could not be lifted from the pillow.
  • Stitching in temples.
  • Frontal pain, worse from descending stairs.
  • Headache on waking.
  • Itching of occiput
MOUTH
  • Metallic taste.
  • Sharp pain in upper teeth.
  • Aching in teeth feel sore and too long.
  • Perspiration - Sweats easily from motion.
  • Sweats on head
THROAT
  • Aphonic disturbance of voice.
  • Stitching in right side of throat.
  • Dryness of throat, with bitter taste, dryness with rawness on swallowing
CHEST
  • Sore pain in apex of right lung.
  • Feeling of a weight on chest.
  • Pain in left breast like a hand grasping at the base of the heart.
  • Sticking through heart.
  • Kidneys - Urine very yellow, smelling like saffron.
  • Albumen and casts in urine.
  • Cough and wheezing on going to bed.
  • Cough from the dryness of throat.
  • He moptysis.
  • Asthmatic breathing.
  • Respirationirregular, deep inspirations alternating with apnea.
  • Smothering sensation
ABDOMEN
  • Nausea, at times.
  • Temperature - Susceptible to hot weather.
  • Heat at night, keeps laying off covers.
  • Temperature may be elevated to 104 F° or more
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Legs weak.
  • Weakness of knees when going upstairs.
  • Cannot stand and walk with eyes closed
BACK AND NECK
  • Contraction of muscles of neck.
  • Bruised sensation in nape.
  • Spine sore, does not wish it touched.
  • Pain along spine, along right side of dorsal vertebrae, in lumbar region, with weakness and straining.
  • Sharp pain in angle of scapula
SKIN
  • Red rash over loins, back of arms and elbows.
  • Fine eruption of macules, papules and vesicles.
  • Diffuse redness with edemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body..
  • Horrible irritation all over body
SLEEP
  • Sleepiness.
  • Very drowsy.
  • Sleep interrupted by sighing and cries.
  • Jerks and shocks in nerves when trying to sleep.
  • Wakefulness.
  • Restless sleep, full of dreams.
  • Confused dreams, of accidents

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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