FERRUM


Homeopathic remedy Ferrum drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Iron Hahnemann Metals.

Mind

      Head confused meddled; with cold feet and stiff fingers.

Mind confused cannot collect his thoughts.

Prone to weep or to laugh immoderately; with choking sensation in throat, as if swollen outside.

Not inclined to talk or study; nervous; restless.

Lively in evening.

Depression of spirits; also after menses.

Excitable pettish, least, contradiction angers.

Proud, self-contented look.

Nervous hysterical feeling.

Sensorium

      Vertigo on rising suddenly things grew black, had to lean against something or fall; nausea, prostration, lethargy; as if balancing to and fro, as when on the water; when walking over water as when crossing a bridge.

Inner Head

      Head dull and full, eyelids heavy, apt to sleep while sitting reading.

pain over left eye coming suddenly.

After 3 A.M. with stitches in both temples which spread gradually over whole forehead with chilliness.

Throbbing pain in top of head when moving suddenly Headache on top of head, as if skull was pushed upwards.

Weight in back of head, from ear to ear.

Congestion to head, pulsating, hammering pains; head sensitive; worse after 12 p.m. returning periodically; feeling of an iron band around the head; better from external pressure; face red.

Pain in back of head when coughing Beating in back of head and neck gradually extending to sides and forehead, worse stooping or moving.

Headache occupying left side; with coryza; after menses.

head hot feet cold.

Writing causes headache to re-appear.

Outer Head

      Scalp and hair feels sore drawing in chest.

Pressure on top of head when cold air touched it.

Slight itching in scalp and cold feet.

Eyes

      At right can see in the dark; hysteria.

Dark before the eyes; giddy.

Letters run together when reading or writing.

Eyes weak, with lachrymation.

Pupils contracted.

Pressure in the eyes as if they would protrude; worse right.

Redness and swelling of both lids.

Inflamed eyes, burning, stinging.

Can scarcely open eyes; lids pressed down. Suppurating stye on upper lid.

Ears

      Ringing in right ear.

Oversensitive to sounds.

Stitches in the ears in the morning.

Ulcerative pain of the outer ear.

Nose

      Bloody, puruloid, greenish, whey-like, slimy, acrid discharge; cold in head.

Dropping of fluid from posterior nares or frontal sinuses; headache.

Nose continually filled with clotted blood; especially with coryza.

Epistaxis; in anaemic patients subject to ebullitions.

Scabs out of nose, or coughed up every few weeks.

Face

      Face ashy pale or greenish; it becomes bright red with pain and other symptoms.

Blue rings around the eyes, which are dull, lustreless.

Face feels as if swollen and bloated.

Face pale, with red spots.

Face fiery red, veins large; congestion to head.

Yellow spots on face.

Face pale, collapsed, or expressionless, stiff and stupid; pneumonia.

Lower Face

      Lips pale, dry.

Tongue etc.

      Unbearable, taste of blood.

Taste like rotten eggs.

Bad state, mouth dry, tongue coated white.

Mouth

      Dry in the morning.

Paleness of the buccal cavity.

Throat

      Like a lump in left side of throat, below the tonsil; worse from empty swallowing; not when eating and drinking.

Throat sore; dull, heavy all day, lively in evening.

Constructive sensation in throat.

Desires Aversions

      Appetite good and bad alternately; with diarrhoea.

Loathing sour things.

Aversion to: meat, which disagrees; bear; hot things.

Appetite for bread.

Appetite lessened or natural.

Thirstless, or unquenchable thirst.

Eating and Drinking

      Worse from meat; sour fruit.

Solid food seems dry and insipid while masticating.

All food tastes bitter.

A fear eggs, vomiting.

After fat food, bitter eructations.

Wine agrees, if not acid.

After eating,. heat in stomach, nausea.

After least food or drink, especially after meat spasmodic pressure at the stomach.

Cold water: 2. When eating and drinking:. Hot thing:.

Nausea and Vomiting

      Eructations: sour; foul; burning, relieving burning in stomach.

Nausea: with headache; with nightly diarrhoea; with vertigo.

Vomiting: at midnight, or morning after breakfast; as soon as food is taken.

Stomach

      Heat and burning in stomach, with momentary, cramp-like pain in splenic region.

Heavy pressure in pit of stomach.

Palpitation in stomach and through oesophagus, as if a nerve was quivering, with an occasional suffocating feeling, as if a valve rose in the throat.

Occasional uneasiness at splenic end of stomach.

Hypochondria

      Tightness in right hypochondriac region.

Pain is small of back and liver, all dry.

Fullness in region of liver.

Liver enlarged, sensitive to pressure.

Spleen large; after intermittents.

Shooting pain in left hypochondrium.

Cramp-like sensation in splenic region.

Abdomen

      Abdomen hard, distended, but not with flatulence.

Rumbling, with pain in small of back and kidneys, and slight urethral soreness when urinating.

Flatulent colic at night; violent rumbling.

Bowels feel sore when touched, as if bruised, or weakened by cathartics.

Stool etc.

      Prolapsus recti; with children.

Straining for stool all day, sick at stomach, disagreeable taste, worse drinking cold water.

Diarrhoea, with undigested good; painless and involuntary during a meal.

Rice-water discharges; cold, with cold, sour sweat.

Stools: watery, with burning at the anus; slimy, with discharge of ascarides; stools with blood and mucus.

Costive; stools hard and difficult, followed by backache.

Itching at the anus at night, from ascarides: Piles, copious bleeding or ichorus oozing; tearing pains, with itching and gnawing.

Urine

      Pains in bladder.

Slight soreness in urethra.

Involuntary urination at night, and also when walking about by day.

Urine more copious and clear; with relaxation and prostration, making him very nervous.

Urine alkaline.

Hot urine, metrorrhagia.

Male Sexual Organs

      Sexual desire increased.

Impotence.

Seminal emissions.

Gleet, copious, painless, milky.

Female Sexual Organs

      Desire lessened, sterility.

During coitus, insensible; painfulness of the vagina.

Dropsy of uterus; face flushes red.

Sharp pains in abdomen. bearing down in uterus, with aching below it. Sticking, shooting pains in uterus.

Pains near mouth of uterus when lying down.

Passive flow, dark, grumous. Menorrhagia.

Swellings and indurations in the vagina.

Vagina too dry.

Prolapsus of vagina.

Before menses, stinging headache, ringing in ears, discharge of long pieces of mucus from uterus.

Menses: too late, long lasting and profuse; flow watery, or in lumps; preceded by labor-like pains; varices in legs worse; intermit two or three days, then return; uterus displaced; come on with a physical languor and mental displaced; come on with a physical languor and mental depression unfitting her for work; could overcome them by forced exertion. Hysterical symptoms after menses; suppressed.

Leucorrhoea milk, milky, or itching, sharp, with soreness.

Much itching of vulva; delicate women, with red face.

Pregnancy

      Prevents abortion.

Promotes expulsion of moles.

Spasmodic labor-pains.

Uterine hemorrhage with labor-like pains, glowing face; flow watery, or containing lumps; pulse full, hard.

Larynx

      Voice; hoarse; almost extinct.

Roughness of the throat; hoarseness.

Breathing.

      Breath hot.

Dyspnoea increases slowly. Pneumonia.

Difficult inspiration, as from heaviness of the chest, Breathing dry, loud, anxious; sometimes in children, rattling.

Oppression from orgasm of blood; chest scarcely moves in breathing; nostrils dilated during expiration.

Asthma, worse after 12 P.M. must sit up; better walking slowly about and talking; better uncovering chest; after itch.

Suffocative fits evening, in bed, with warmth of neck and trunk, limbs cold.

Breath fails at end of coughing fit.

Cough

      Spasmodic, from tickling in trachea; at night, must sit up to raise the sputum; spasmodic, after eating with vomiting of food; after drinking; with stitches and soreness.

Sputa: copious, putrid, purulent greenish or frothy, worse morning; copious when moving; scanty, thin frothy, with streaks of blood.

Dry, trickling cough, with blood spitting.

Cough, worse from abuse of tea, quinine, brandy, tobacco smoke; loss of fluids.

Hemoptysis morning and at night; blood, bright, coagulated, scanty during slight cough with interscapular pains, heavy breathing; must sit up; better walking slowly about, notwithstanding weakness obliges lying down; palpitation.

Haemoptysis: of onanists; consumptives; from severe exertion; after loss of fluids; from suppressed menses.

Lungs

      Shooting-stinging in chest.

Feeling of dryness in the chest.

Slight heaviness in upper part of left lung, making breathing rather difficult; sore feeling below clavicle and left nipple, cannot take a long breath.

Slight, dull, heavy pain across upper part of chest, rendering breathing uneasy.

Sticking and bruised sensation in the chest.

Constricting spasm of chest, Flying pains in chest; blood-spitting; persons who flush easily and get epistaxis, dyspnoea, palpitation.

Heart Pulse

      Consecutive heart disease; chlorosis.

Hard, strong beating of the hear; pseudo-plethora.

Palpitation, better walking slowly; also in onanists; after loss of fluids; with blood-spitting.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.