# Vanadium Metallicum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Vanad. has never been subjected to the test of a homeopathic proving but something of its 
effects upon the human body are known from its accidental absorption by workers. It is an ingredient  in some 
black pigments and of a black, permanent ink. 
Workers become debilitated. They con tract a dry, hard, almost convulsive cough, with hemorrhage. The 
temperature becomes elevated with a diurnal maximum. Diarrhea sets in soon, and flesh and weight is  lost 
rapidly. They are very apt to go from this state into genuine tuberculosis and die.  
 
 
These symptoms suggest it as a remedy in the early stages of tuberculosis. It agrees with the general 
characters of that disease, namely the cough, prostration, fever  with daily rise, emaciation, hemorrhage and 
diarrhea. Vanad. also affects the liver with a degenerative process. 
Its action is that of an oxygen carrier and a catalyzer, hence its use in wasting diseases. Increases amount of 
hemoglobin, also combines its oxygen with toxins and destroys their virulence. It also increases and stimulates 
phagocytes. 
It is a remedy in degenerative conditions of the liver and arteries. Anorexia and symp toms of gastro-intestinal 
irritation. Tremors, vertigo, neuro -retinitis and  blindness. Ane mia, emaciation. Cough dry, irritating and 
paroxysmal, sometimes with hemorrhages. Irritation of nose, eyes and throat.  
Acts as a tonic to digestive functions  and in early tuberculosis. Degenerative states with brain softening. 
Tuberculosis, chronic rheumatism, diabetes. Cold hands and feet. Raynaud’s syndrome.  
Degenerative conditions of liver and ar teries. Fatty degeneration of the heart and liver. Arteriosclerosis, 
sensation as if heart was compressed, as if blood had no room in the aorta . Deeply pigmented patches on 
forehead in liver disorders. Profound weakness. Emaciation and weakness.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Restlessness.
- Gloomy.
- Yielding, easily influenced.
- Crying easily over trifles.
- Fears of failure, criticism, 
being opposed.
- Anticipation.
- Fears of  being late.
- Hysteria and melancholia.
- Mood alternating.
- Manic 
depression.
- Psychosis.
- Anorexia alternating with bulimia.
- Blood - Anemia and nutritional problems.
- Chest - Anxious pressure on whole chest.
- Sore chest.
- Dreams - Dreams of being late, of futile efforts.
- Dreams of paralysis.
- Restlessness.
- Gloomy.
- Yielding, easily influenced.
- Crying easily over trifles.
- Fears of failure, criticism, 
being opposed.
- Anticipation.
- Fears of  being late.
- Hysteria and melancholia.
- Mood alternating.
- Manic 
depression.
- Psychosis.
- Anorexia alternating with bulimia.
- Blood - Anemia and nutritional problems.
- Chest - Anxious pressure on whole chest.
- Sore chest.
- Dreams - Dreams of being late, of futile efforts.
- Dreams of paralysis.

### Head
- Headaches.
- Brain softening.
- Headaches.
- Brain softening.

### Eyes
- Neuro-retinitis and blindness.
- Opacity.
- Arcus senilis.
- Paralysis of optic nerves.
- Amaurosis.

### Mouth
- Teeth problems.
- Tongue green.

### Throat
- Tonsillitis and sore throats, coughing up small, greenish-yellow, bitter mucus.
- Thyroid problems.
- COMMENTS - Burnett told how he came to use Vanad.
- through reading the result of some experiments on 
animals in which the Salts of Vanadium pr oduced “true cell destruction, the pigment escaping, the liver being 
hit hardest.” 
Burnett had at the time a case of “fatty liver, atheroma of the arteries, much pain corresponding to the course 
of the basilar artery, large, deeply pigmented patches on for ehead, profound adynamia.” Vanad.
- restored the 
patient, who was seventy and at eighty he was “hale and hearty.” 
Marc Jousset told of experiments with salts of Vanad., chiefly the meta -vanadate of sodium, by Lyonnet and 
others.
- Animals poisoned by intravenous injections rapidly develop Cheyne-Stokes respiration with little or no 
action on circulation or blood.
- Cachexia.
- These clinical observers gave Vanadates to two hundred patients, suffering from neurasthenia, 
tuberculosis, chlorosis, chronic rheumatism, e tc.
- It produced in nearly all cases increased appetite, strength 
and weight.
- The amount of urea was also increased.
- They regard Vanad.
- as “an ener getic stimulant of 
nutrition,” and probably an oxidant stimulating organic combustion.

### Chest
- Fatty degeneration of the heart.
- Arteriosclerosis.
- Hypertension.
- Sensation as if he art was compressed, as if blood had no room in the aorta.
- Bursting pain.
- Constriction sensation.
- Kidneys - Addison’s disease.
- Albumen, casts and blood in urine.
- Dyspnea, tiredness, weakness.
- Pneumonia and bronchitis.
- Cough dry, irritating.
- Colds with sneezing.
- Tuberculosis.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Loss of appetite.
- Anorexia.
- Bulimia.
- Disturbed fat and glucose metabolism.
- Retarded growth.
- Desires licorice, sweets.
- Weak digestion.

### Urinary & Genital
- Premenstrual symptoms.
- Menses scanty or absent.
- Pain in ovaries.
- Worse at ovulation.
- Lactation 
problems.

### Extremities
- Chronic rheumatism.
- Sciatica.
- Restless and itching legs.
- Paralysis.
- Osteoporosis.
- Liver - Fatty degeneration of the liver.

### Skin
- Pigmented patches.
- Warts.