🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Iridium Metallicum. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
Iridium is a rare metal of the platinum group, found in platinum ore.
It is one of the heaviest
known substances.
It shares with Osm., Pall, and Plat, a place in the treatment of rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. and goutArthritis with severe joint pain and swellingA disease in which defective metabolism of uric acid causes arthritis, especially in the smaller joints of the feet..
Boring, contracting pains.
Sensations of being swollen, blown up, heavy, full.
Shocks and twitching.
EpilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions.,
clonic, tonic, tetanic.
Spinal paresis.
Numbness and paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body..
Trembling.
Parkinson's disease.
Multiple
sclerosis.
LupusAutoimmune inflammatory diseaseA chronic autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs..
AnemiaLack of healthy red blood cells or hemoglobinA condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness. with decreased red corpuscles.
Exhaustion after disease.
Weakness, ner vousness and
restlessness.
Weakness after influenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh..
Cerebral hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
Conges tion of blood.
Affections of bones,
necrosisDeath of cells or body tissuesThe premature death of cells or tissues in a localized area, caused by injury, infection, or lack of blood flow. and inflammation.
Abscesses.
Septicemia.
Intestinal putrefaction.
Trypanosoma infections.
Glands swollen, inflamed, indurated.
Problems with testes and ovaries, inflam mations, cancer, cryptorchism.
Uterine tumors.
Sterility, amenorrheaAbsence of menstrual periodsAn abnormal absence of menstruation., metrorrhagia.
NephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling. of pregnancy.
Children who are puny, weak -
limbs and grow too fast
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
Compare: ( 1 ) Plat, Pall., Osm.. (2) In uterine diseases, Aur. and Aur -mur. (3) In exhaustion
after disease, Chin. Irid-m.
▲MIND
Facilitates mental labor.
Forgetful.
Dif ficult concentration.
Sensation as if mind were void.
Confusion,
loses his way in well-known streets.
Feeling of self confidence.
Anxiety on waking, as if something bad is going to happen.
Clinging to persons.
Bites nails.
Averse to being
disturbed.
Irritability from noise.
Weeping after anger.
Sadness, better walking in open air.
▲HEAD
Right side of scalp sensitive.
“Wooden” feeling in right side of head.
Heaviness of head like liquid lead.
Swashing sensation.
Numbness in occiput.
Pains in middle of occipital bone.
Open air and noise seem to
bruise the head.
Pain, like cold metal pressing across forehead.
NeuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. of head especially temples, drives
one crazy.
▲EYES
Eyes red, heavy.
Eye inflammations.
Itching in morning on waking.
Desire to close the eyes.
Feeling
as if eyes were being affected from below upward.
Ingrown eyelashes.
Far sig hted.
Visual disturbances
▲EARS
Feeling of numbness in ears and throughout the body lasting a short time.
Heat of ears when lying
down.
Sounds seem distant
▲FACE
Face swollen.
Sensation of swelling in morning on rising.
Sensation of elonga tion of left side of face.
Numbness of lips.
Stinging pain in the left malar bone.
Pain, pressure in right malar bone.
Animated expression
▲MOUTH
Increased saliva, with sensation in malar bones, which is more perceptible on left side.
Sensation as if an iron rod is standing straight in the heart region.
Kidneys - Weakness in kidney region.
Nephritis during pregnancy.
Difficulty breathing deeply.
Short of breath, aggravated from climbing the stairs.
Hoarse cough, worse
talking.
Profuse, thick, yellowish discharge.
Chronic laryngeal catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane.
▲ABDOMEN
Cramps in stomach.
Nose - Posterior sinuses feel raw inflamed.
Bridge of nose painful, feels too narrow.
Profuse, watery coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge.,
better indoors.
Ozaena.
Profuse, thick, yellowish discharge.
Vision - Colors look brighter.
Everything looks golden.
Zigzags, in shape of circle.
COMMENTS - A J.
Tafel took 20 grains of the 3c triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy..
He experienced a number of symptoms, all within
two hours of taking the dose.
Prominent among them were a sensation of numbness in ears and throughout the body.
A feeling as if they
eyes were being affected from below upward.
A feeling as of a triangle in face, the based formed by the two
malar bones, the apex in the vertex.
Cramp -like contractions in the right calf.
The majority of symptoms
appeared on the left side.
Laboucher said it is “admirable in all cases of anemia.” He c laimed it was better than Chin, for the aged and
persons exhausted by disease, for puny, weak-limbed children and for those who grow too fast.
He mentioned
a particular alternation of symptoms or reaction.
Painful weakness of lower limbs and kidney region, followed
by a favorable reaction, self confidence and facilitated mental labor.
Laboucher gave Irid in the 4c potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration., Pall, in the 3c, Plat, in 2c and Osm in the 1c.
He said Irid is superior
to Pall., Plat, and to Osm in uterine tumors.
Dragging pain as if menses would come in abdomen.
Desire for carbonated drinks.
Aversion to brown bread.
Worse from cold drinks, oranges
▲GENITALS ETC
Swelling of ovaries without dropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues..
Corroding and suppurating ul cers of uterus, bluish patches on
uterus.
Uterine tumors with suppuration.
Sterility.
Amenorrhea, metrorrhagia
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Neuralgia of the limbs.
Dislocated feeling in left hip joint and dull pain to ward left gluteal region.
Pressing in groin and left thig h.
Tension in both thighs, especially left.
Achilles tendon painful, aggravated by
walking.
Achilles tendon torn from jumping
▲BACK AND NECK
Spinal paresis, especially for the aged and after dise ase.
Weariness in back and limbs.
Weakness of
cervical region, as if it could not support weight of head.
Breasts - Piercing, gnawing pains in breasts
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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