Palladium Metallicum

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Palladium Metallicum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • Palladium, one of the rare metals, was first separated from native platinum by Wollaston in 1803 and was named after the planet Pallas, which had been discovered just before that time by Olbers.
  • The metal is closely associated with platinum and gold.
  • Hering, who made the first provings in 1850 , said that platinum and palladium, both proved in dust form, showed such similar ity in their effects that the question arose whether corresponding differences might be found.
  • Subsequent clinical experience has done much to distinguish between these two r emedies.
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  • Aguilar noted that Pall, is indicated in gynecological conditions where the disease had its inception in the right ovary, the uterine prolapse and retroversion, sub -acute pelvic peritonitisInflammation of the abdominal liningInflammation of the peritoneum, the silk-like membrane that lines the inner abdominal wall and covers organs. and concomitant symptoms be - ing secondary.
  • Pall, affects the ovaries, especially the right, the uterus and the mind.
  • Disorders of the right ovary, attended with pains that are better from pressure.
  • Chronic oophoritis.
  • Bruised soreness.
  • Stitches, rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pains, suddenly changing and often lasting but a short time.
  • Pains fleeting, transient.
  • Every step causes pain in groin.
  • Motor weakness, averse to exercise.
  • Undressing causes itching all over body
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better from diversion, touch, pressure, rubbing, after sleep, rest and stools.
  • SciaticaNerve pain radiating from the lower back down the legsPain radiating along the sciatic nerve, which runs down one or both legs from the lower back., and colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. are better from warmth (hot cloths).
  • Worse from lively emotions, chagrin, socia l excitement, social functions.
  • Worse standing, exertion
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidoted by: Chin, (diarrhea), Glon. and Bell, (headache). Compare: (1) Irid., Osm., Plat. (2)
Right ovary, Apis, Graph.. Podo., Plat. (3) Left ovary, Arg-m. - feeling as if left ovary growing enormously large.
Lach. - worse pressure. Lil-t., Cimic., Sulph. (4) Tired backache, Helon. (5) Hysteria introverted state of mind,
Tarent. (6) Crumb in throat, Hep. (7) Pain in spleen, Cean. (Pall, at menses). Complementary: Arg-n., Helon.,
Lil-t., Apis. Plat.

MIND
  • Love of approbation.
  • Seeks the good opinion of others and attaches great impor tance to them.
  • Desires flattery.
  • Haughty.
  • Pride, easily offended.
  • Wounded pride and fancied neglect.
  • Effected profoundly by slight offensives, real or imaginary.
  • Irresolution in morning.
  • Irritability, takes everything in bad part.
  • Irritability and impatience from headache.
  • Very impertinent.
  • Tries to appear as amiable as possible, but is obstinate.
  • Anger with trembling.
  • Inclined to use violent language.
  • Curses and swears (Anae.).
  • Weeping mood.
  • Keeps up brightly when in company, much exhausted afterwards and pains aggravated.
  • Excitement in company.
  • Conversation aggravates.
  • Desire for company, worse when alone.
  • Averse to mental exertion.
  • Apprehension that something horrible will happen.
  • Depressing news aggravates all symptoms.
  • Ailments from bad news.
  • Feels as if she were going crazy.
  • Time passes too slowly.
  • Delusion that he is neglected, that she is not appreciated, that he has been insulted.
  • Delusion had grown taller while walking.
  • Abdomen - Soreness of abdomen, swell ing in right groin.
  • Hollowness in groins.
  • Shooting pain from navel into breasts or pelvis, better after stools.
  • Intestines feel strangulated.
  • Sensation as if intestines were bitten off.
  • Flatulency.
  • Abdomen feels sore after menses.
  • Pain in abdomen worse coughing and sneezing.
  • Haughty.
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Reels on coming into a room from exhaustion.
  • COMMENTS - Right-sided ovarian tumors (Thuj for the left side).
  • Uterine and ovarian disorders.
  • Bearing down feeling, achiness.
  • Uterine prolapse.
  • “Headache across top of head from one ear to the other.” Hering noted that the pains are fleeting, transient and hard to describe.
  • Pressure relieves pains.
  • “Love of approbation.” Easily hurt from slights, real or imaginary.
  • “Wounded pride and fancied neglect.” Depressed, weep easily (Puls.).
  • Irritability, leading to violent expressions.
  • Can curse and swear (Anae.).
  • Better in society and worse after the party or entertainment.
  • Skinner cured a young woman who had excessive pain in the right ovary during the menses with Pall.
  • The only relief she could get was by inducing her sister to sit on that region.
  • This “better by pressure" distinguishes the pain of Pall, from the similar ovarian of Plat
HEAD
  • Headache, causing irritability and impatience.
  • Headache, better fixing attention on it.
  • Morning headache with weakness in back.
  • Pain across top of head from ear to ear, worse after an evening's entertainment with irritability and sour belchings.
  • Temporo -parietal neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. with pain in shoulder.
  • Sensation as if head were swung from behind forward, as if brain were being shaken.
  • Itching on sides of head.
EYES
  • Blue half-circles under eyes.
  • Dryness and itching of eyes in evening, which is not better by rubbing.
  • Sensation of dryness on the edges of the lids.
  • Small watery blisters on edges of lower lids.
  • Dull, heavy pain in and behind left eye.
  • Pain around left eye, extending beyond right eyebrow.
  • Pain in right eye, temple and ear.
  • Pustule under right eyelids, worse touch
FACE
  • Sallow complexion, blue.
  • Soreness and painfulness of the right corner of the mouth.
  • Pain in right and left lower jaw.
  • Itching pimples on the face, the nose, behind the ears, in facial hair.
  • Slower growth of facial hair
MOUTH
  • Tongue red in the middle (morn ing).
  • Burning sensation on surface of tongue near tip.
  • Tough mucus in mouth, slimy taste.
  • Sensation as if upper incisors projecting.
  • Left upper and outer incisor sensitive and feels like a foreign body.
  • Nose - Burning in nose with coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge., in evening.
  • Painful pustule on point of nose, bleeds long after being squeezed.
  • Blood' pustule on right cheek, near wing of nose.
  • Abdominal pain worse when sneezing or coughing
THROAT
  • Tough mucus in throat, slimy taste.
  • Glairy mucus from throat.
  • Frequent hawking of small solid lumps, which he must swallow.
  • Ti ckling (or sticking) as if a crumb of bread had lodged in throat.
  • Sensation when swallowing as if something hanging near hyoid bone.
  • Dryness in throat and on tongue without thirst
CHEST
  • Stitches in right side of chest, through to the back.
  • Worse from taking a long breath, better when walking in the open air.
  • Pain in region of heart pain with paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of left arm.
  • Pressing deep in the left side of the chest periodical, as if in the heart.
  • Kidneys - Cutting pain in bladder, better sto ol.
  • Pressure in bladder, as if very full, but little urine is passed.
  • Dark urine with brick-dust sediment or coloring the vessel red.
  • Muddy (not dark) urine like water mixed with blood.
  • Stitches in chest on taking a deep breath.
  • Frequent hawking of small solid lumps that he must swallow.
  • When ex pectorating, sensation as if something were pushed into head.
  • Abdominal pain is worse coughing and sneezing
ABDOMEN
  • Nausea.
  • Tasteless belchings, which do not relieve.
  • Temperature - Chilliness with cold hands and feet, with colic.
  • Coldness of the limbs with pain in the back.
  • No desire for beer.
  • Headache at dinner and after coffee
GENITALS ETC
  • Single stitches in urethra, extending down to corona glandis.
  • Sensation as if testicles were bruised with pain in abdomen.
  • In evening and at night no proper erection could be obtained.
  • Menses come on at full moon.
  • Menstrual discharge while nursing.
  • Glairy, yellow leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection. before and after menses.
  • Pain and swelling in region of right ovary.
  • Ovarian tumors.
  • Ovarian pains, better pressure.
  • Uterine prolapse with retroversion.
  • Cutting pains in uterus, relieved after stool.
  • Sub -acute pelvic peritonitis with the right-sided pain and backache, menorrhagiaAbnormally heavy or prolonged menstrual bleedingMenstrual periods with abnormally heavy or prolonged bleeding..
  • Pelvis leaden heavy, worse standing.
  • Shooting or burning pain in pelvis.
  • Bearing-down pains, relieved by rubbing.
  • Soreness and shooting pain from navel to breast
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Fleeting neuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pains in various parts of the body.
  • Sciatica.
  • Rheumatic pain in right shoulder, in right hip.
  • Heavy and tired limbs.
  • Tired feeling in small of back.
  • Darting pains from toes to hips.
  • Itching
BACK AND NECK
  • Tired feeling in small of back.
  • Fre quent, painful spasm in muscles of right side of neck, especially morning.
  • Painful drawing in neck, shoulders and down left arm.
  • Pain in back and hips with coldness of limbs.
  • Breasts - Sharp, stitching pain in right breast near nipple, worse from deep inspiration.
  • Causations - Ailments from bad news
SKIN
  • Itching all over after undressing.
  • Itching and crawling as from fleas on different spots, back, arms, abdomen, thighs, ankles.
  • Redness of knuckles, warts on knuckles
SLEEP
  • Great sleepiness in afternoon (3 p.m.) and early evening.
  • Wakeful until 2 a.m.
  • Starting in afternoon sleep.
  • Dreams every night of buildings, wide stairs, many rooms.
  • Symptoms better by sleep
GENERALITIES
  • As if he had grown taller.
  • As if she could not touch anything.
  • As if head were swung from behind forward.
  • As if brain were being shaken.
  • As if neck becoming stiff.
  • As if bladder was filled.
  • As if uterus would prolapse.
  • As if parts of groins would tear.
  • As if testicles were bruised.
  • As if heads of femurs were forced out of their sockets and expanded.
  • As if hand shattered

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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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