Homeopathy Remedy Ferrum


Ferrum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Ferrum…


      Pure Iron, reduced by Hydrogen, is triturated for use.

General Action

      Iron acts chiefly on the blood, producing more rapid oxydation, with rise of temperature, at first an increase of red color ( or of red corpuscles), but subsequently a diminution of red corpuscles and profound anaemia. The use of the various preparations of iron for febrile and inflammatory states has been greatly neglected.

Allies.– Cinchona, Belladonna, Mangan., Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Lycopodium

Generalities

      Emaciation. Trembling; in frequent attacks; anxious T., alternating with fatigue. Blood darker, corpuscles intensely colored, more colorless corpuscles, coagulating in a shorter time; darker corpuscles intensely colored, sharply margined, more and larger colorless corpuscles, fever elementary corpuscles, longer in coagulating, serum darker; corpuscles deeply colored, colorless corpuscles smaller, longer in coagulating; serum increased in one case, diminished in four, dried serum diminished, ashes of serum increased in four cases, diminished in one, coagulum increased in three cases, diminished in two, dried coagulum increased in two, diminished in three, ashes of coagulum increased, red sediment increased in three cases, diminished in two, fibrin increased in one, diminished in four, water increased, dry residue diminished, fat increased in two, diminished in two, sol. salts in ashes increased, iron in ashes increased in one case, diminished in three, calc. phos. in ashes increased in two cases, diminished in three.

Periodical pains. Wandering about at night on account of pains. Magnetized sensation on waking, irresistible sleepiness. Nervousness; after menses; for three successive monthly periods, with headache and varicose veins in l. ankle; and hysterical feeling, proneness to weep or laugh immoderately, with choking in throat as if it were swelling outwardly. Restlessness.

Weakness; all day, with sleepiness; by day, with sleepiness (little (>) by sleep); in afternoon; general, from mere speaking; from walking; walking in open air; during menses; at beginning of menses, (>) exercise, with mental depression, and the pain usually felt at beginning of menses disappeared; (<) towards evening; with falling asleep; with drowsiness and disinclination to talk or work; with aching in all limbs;l periodical, then persistent (after increase of physical and mental energy), (<) walking. Tired aching as from lying long in one position. Inclination to lie down. Syncope; when walking, darkness before yes, feeling as if she would have apoplexy and at every step roaring in ears; then weakness.

Aggravation in evening; A. by sitting; when standing, by motion, hat, eating, drinking water, conversation, the sight of any person, even the dearest, noise, the sound of voices. Amelioration from gentle movement; A. from rest, sitting, lying, cool weather, after vomiting or evacuations, silence and solitude.

Clinical Profound prostration, generally with restlessness and general relief from walking slowly, cannot keep quite, but feels worse from any active effort. General oversensitiveness to pain (Headache, neuralgia, etc.) General anaemia, but with tendency to flushing of the face and head and liability to violent headaches; in anaemia the extremities are generally cold, and the feet and hands often swollen.

Mind

      Wandering and discontented. Excited by the slightest opposition. Anxiety; from slight cause, with throbbing in pit of stomach; with alternations of trembling and weakness; as if she had done something bad, also at night, with sleeplessness and tossing about. Depression before menses; during menses, with excitement; after menses; when alone, but without complaints or weeping; (as from too loose bowels). Ill humor; after menses; with disinclination for labor; with indifference, also periodically. Sober and uncomfortable, but not gloomy. Quarrelsome, insisting that he is right. Disinclination to talk or work. Desire for solitude. Too gay one evening and sad the next. My surroundings seem large, and I am inclined to attribute great importance to trifles and am usually earnest. Dullness and heaviness all day. Stupor, with headache; S. with vertigo. Indisposition to think and confusion of head. Memory weak.

Clinical Hypochondriasis or even melancholia, with profound anaemia.

Head

      Shooting before menses with singing in ears. Intermittent tearing. Aching as if brain were torn; in morning slumber. Aching all day,. (<) in evening, (<) on r. side of forehead, going down to r. nostril; in afternoon, with fever; every evening, with Dullness over root or nose; in evening after a walk in the open air; after menses; from writing; (<) when walking or stooping, (>) when sitting; (>) towards evening during a foot bath, but soon returning more violent then ever; with languor and stiffness of head; with coryza; extending into nostrils; acute, then dull, (>) towards night, with stupor; intermittent, during the day; undulating; drawing. Sick headache after menses, with hot head and cold feet; sick H, a few days after menses, which till within six months (after Veratrum), always preceded or followed menses, this time with throbbing in vertex as if a vein were too full, pulsation in stomach extending through oesophagus, as if a nerve were quivering, causing at times a sensation of suffocation as if something rose in the throat like a valve, hysterical sensations. Hammering and beating, so that she must lie down, for two, three or four days every two or three weeks, then aversion to eating and drinking. Pulsations. with sticking.

Emptiness. Heaviness; in morning on waking; with stupefaction in forehead and pressure in temples; with fulness, every pulsation is felt in temples,. Fulness in afternoon; F., (>) sleep. Dullness in morning; on waking as after a wakeful night, with heaviness; at 8 A.M., gradually (>) towards night; with heaviness of eyelids. Confusion; (>) after motion, with aching on one or other temple; as after a sleepless night. Congestion. Rush of blood, swelling of veins of head, and flushes of heat in face (Belladonna) Beer rises to head. Intoxication. A giddy shock in brain. Vertigo; when walking; on descending (see Mercurialis), as if everything went round with her, on looking at running water; on sudden rising after sleep in the afternoon, with sensation as if a dark curtain were slowly let down before the eyes, nausea, prostration and lethargic Dullness, then sleep from which it was difficult to rouse himself, two attacks of V., in afternoon as if balancing to and fro on water; on lying down, as if shoved forward or as if driving in a coach, (>) shutting eyes; with cold hands; with stupor, restlessness and inability to apply the mind. Symptoms, except the fulness, (>) after sleep.

Forehead.– Sticking over l. eye; S. inward; cutting. Prickling in l. sinus, then in r., changing to pressure, (>) at 3 P.M. Sharp pain over r. eye. Pain as if it would burst. Pain all day, with cold day, with cold feet; P. waking at 1.30 A.M., with rumbling and gurgling in abdomen; over eyes; over l. eye, with lachrymation; in eminences in morning after dressing, then extending over forehead to vertex, then changing to pressive pain from without inwards, (<)descending stairs, transiently (>) pressure, decidedly (>) in open air, changing at 2.15 P.M., to pressure, (>) towards 8 P.M. also lasting from 4 to 6 P.M.; in eminences, then in whole F. Sudden intermittent pain over l. eye. Pulsating, tickling pain, and in head. Drawing pain, with hot head and feet; sharp D. pain., Pain above l. brow, towards nose. Dullness and heaviness in forepart of head. Heaviness in F. and over eyes in morning.

Temples.– Sticking; as with a penknife, waking at 3 A.M., extending over forehead, with chilliness, preventing sleep. Pain, (>) lying quietly; P. extending over forehead. Heaviness. Pulsation.

Pain in vertex, waking at 2.15 A.M., (<) every change of position and preventing sleep till 4 A.m.,; throbbing P. on moving suddenly or quickly ascending steps; peculiar pain in cool open air. Soreness in vertex, (<) r. side. Shooting in l. side of head in afternoon; l-sided headache; all day; r-sided, with itching in eyebrows and nose. Pain in occiput and neck at 8 A.M., gradually extending to forehead. Periodical beating pain in occiput and neck, gradually extending to sides and forehead, (<) moving or stooping. Weight from ear to ear. heaviness in occiput in afternoon. Falling of hair, with pain in scalp and formication. Pain in scalp as if blood were extravasated, with pain on touching hair. Soreness of scalp; (<) in front. Itching.

Clinical So called congestive headache, with violent throbbing, flushed face, extreme sensitiveness to all external impressions (like Belladonna), the pain greatly (<) any sudden motion or by noise; the pain generally begins in one temple or one side of the head, and may involve the whole head, sometimes the skull feels as if it would burst open; with this very hot head there are generally cold extremities, feeble pulse, etc.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.