Bromide of Iron. Fe. Br2. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Headache. Leucorrhoea. Spermatorrhea. Uterus, prolapse of.
Characteristics
Hale mentions this remedy as having been highly commended to him in cases of spermatorrhea with anemia, debility and depression. It has been since proved by Dr. Sarah. N. Smith, of New York, who took the sixth dilution of Boericke and Tafel’s make (*Amer. *Hom., xxi. 302). It produced (in this order): Very distinct symptoms in the head and eyes, dry mouth and nose, relieved by coryza, a feeling that she might die, diarrhoea burning in urethra when urinating, sticky, excoriating leucorrhoea, weight and discomfort in uterus. The symptoms which made the most impression on the prover were the “dead, numb ” feeling of the scalp, the unconscious moaning after stool, and the sticky, excoriating leucorrhoea. The heaviness and discomfort in the uterus was so severe that she declined to continue the proving as it interfered with her work.
Relations
Heavy eyes, Conium, Causticum, Gelsemium Smarting while urinating, Cannabis sativa (Can s. has burning while urinating *and after).
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Woke at 2 a.m. with the feeling that I might die, which lasted for a few moments and passed away. Recurred three different mornings at the same hour ( 9 o’clock).
Head
Severe internal pressure in occiput, producing a painful sensation in ears, as if they were pressed from within outwards, after a few hours the same feeling extended to vertex, producing a dead, numb feeling of the scalp extending from occiput to cortex. Head feels enlarged in all direction, the ears seeming the stand out from the head.
Eyes
Heavy feeling in the eyes and dropping of lids, could not keep eyes open. Dull appearance of eyes.
Nose
Dryness of nose. Dryness of nose and mouth better by coryza.
Mouth
Mouth very dry. Tongue dry and stiffened on waking.
Abdomen
Much rumbling in left hypochondrium, accompanied with diarrhoea.
Stool
Diarrhoea followed with a bloody mucus and tenesmus, with the sensation that the lower bowel protruded. After the diarrhoeic stool, unconscious moaning, heard in the next room, accompanied with a distressed noise in the head. Stools excoriating and frequent.
Urinary Organs
Burning, smarting pain in urethra while urinating (appeared near end of week of proving and continued after it).
Male Sexual Organ
Spermatorrhea.
Female Sexual Organ
As the excoriating stools decreased in frequency, a sticky mucus-like excoriating leucorrhoea came on, with the appearance of the discharge came the descent of the uterus, which continued for a week or more, and the discharge several days beyond. “The uterus seems heavy and uncomfortable, so that it interferes with my work. I can scarcely get up and down stairs.”.
