Constipation, with hard, dry stools or with adhesive, sticky faeces may be cured by platinum. The former often occurs when the patient is travelling. The latter is more characteristic.
Sexual System.-Exaggerated sexual excitement, after labour or at other times; in men less frequently than women, in young single women, or even girls, with the excessive pudenda sensitiveness may amount to erotomania. Local itching and tingling, extending from the vulva up towards the abdomen, sometimes seem to excite this sexual erethism. Profuse and premature menstruation of dark, clotted blood may accompany the mental symptoms.
Masturbation in young boys has been checked by the administration of platinum.
Convulsions of an hysterical nature may call for it; less likely, puerperal convulsions; it has been used for ovaritis and metritis, and it may certainly be indicated in what appears to be ovarian neuralgia, especially, if on the right side, with burning pain in paroxysms, sensitiveness to touch, &c. Prolapsus uteri, much like lilium or murex cases, may require platinum if its mental characteristics are prominent.
The headaches of platinum patients have been described. They may be definitely neuralgic, with the gradual onset and departure of the pain. Numbness of scalp is very frequent, spasms or twitchings of the eyelids, sparks before the eyes, oversensitiveness of the sense of smell and tinnitus aurium (one or more of them) may accompany the headaches. The main digestive symptom is ravenous hunger, often a pregnancy symptom. Flatulence upwards or downwards may be embarrassing. Definite colic, like lead colic, may require platinum, indeed it has been used to antidote plumbism.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) A sense of tightness, constriction, or of being tightly bound up in many regions.
(2) Numbness is often associated with the foregoing.
(3) Grandiose ideas-of a person’s own superiority and size, a delusion of steadily growing larger; consequent contempt of others who seem inferior; persons and objects seem smaller than in reality.
(4) Weakness nd trembling, or rigidity; pain like a “plug” pressing in (clavus hystericus).
(5) Alternation of mental and physical symptoms.
(6) Gradual onset and departure of pains.
(7) Sexual excitement and sensitiveness of genitalia to touch, may amount to mania, especially in women.
(8) Vertigo on descending, even slightly, ex.gr., on sitting down.
(9) Right side affected more than left.
(10) AEtiological factors; grief, fright, vexation, pride, masturbation.
(11) Used for Vaginismus, nymphomania, satyriasis: and Hyperesthesia of surface-genital and general or patchy. Insanity, especially general paralysis of the insane.
(12) Constipation, especially with sticky faeces.
(13) Dark, thin people, of sanguine temperament and rigid fibre, are especially susceptible to platinum.
AGGRAVATION:
Touch, pressure during menses, evening, warm room, in company, travelling (constipation).
AMELIORATION;
Open air (headache), movement.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,