Schuessler recommended trituration and dilutions from the 6x to the 12x. As said, his idea seems to have been to feed in the drug, probably in a potency in which it could be utilized. But, for the more subtle purposes of stimulation, the higher potencies, in less frequent repetition may do even more brilliant work.
So much for theory: now for the practical experiences of successful prescribers.
NASH has a page of appreciation for Ferrum phos. We will glean.
A valuable remedy in some inflammatory diseases.
In keeping with its element of iron, it presents the local congestive tendencies of that remedy; in its Phosphorus element- its affinity for lungs and stomach; and in its combination proves a great haemorrhagic remedy.
The haemorrhages are of bright blood, and may come from any outlet of the body.
He also says, further provings and clinical use will enable us to employ it more scientifically than now.
So far as he has observed, it is less adapted to the full blooded., sanguine arterial subjects, with an over-plus of red blood that Aconite cures, but rather to the pale and anemic, who are subject so sudden and violent congestions and inflammations, like pneumonia, or sudden congestion to head, bowels, etc., or to inflammatory affections of a rheumatic character. It is only useful in the first stage of such attacks, before the stage of exudation appears. In dysentery, in the first stage with a good deal of blood in the discharges it is valuable and often cures in a very short time.
“A very valuable remedy’ and ought to receive to thoroughly Hahnemannian proving.”
BOGER (Synopsis):
LUNGS. Ears. Worse at night (6 a.m.) Motion. Jar checked sweat.
FULL, SOFT, FLOWING PULSE. (rev. of Aconite)
Excited and talkative.
Violent earache.
Frequent stools of bloody water.
Laryngitis of singers.
Chest congested.
Fevers.
Pneumonia.
Hemorrhagic measles, etc., etc.
MARKED SYMPTOMS
From, Hearing’s Guiding Symptoms, and from Boericke and Dewey’s Edition of Schuessler’s Work.
“Sows eat up their young; a transient mania depending upon hyperaemia of brain.:
All febrile disturbances and inflammations at their onset. before exudation commences.
Vertigo from congestion to parts of brain or head.
Frontal headache, followed and relieved by nose-bleed.
Congestion to brain; early meningitis.
Top of head sensitive to cold air, noise, jar, or stooping.
Perhaps a feeling as if head were pushed forward, with danger of falling.
Severe headache with soreness; can’t bear hair touched; with hot, red face, and vomiting of food.
Rush of blood to head (Comp. ell, Glonoine)
Eyes inflamed, red, burning, sore.
On stooping cannot see; as if all blood ran into eyes.
First stage of otitis.
Epistaxis (Viper)
A florid complexion.
Ulcerated throat, to relieve congestion, heat, fever, pain and throbbing (Bell). “First stage of diphtheria.”
Worse after meat, herring, coffee, cake.
Toothache relieved by cold.
Vomiting of blood.
Haemorrhoids, inflamed or bleeding.
Stools of pure blood.
Haemorrhage from bladder and urethra.
Initiators stage of all inflammatory affections of the respiratory tract.
Pneumonia with expectation of clear blood.
Haemoptysis after concussion or fall.
Pleuritis and pneumonia, first stage.
Coughs clear blood., with nose-bleed.
“Full pulse, less bounding than Aconite, but not so flowing as in Gelsemium”
Articular rheumatism. Acute. Attacking one joint after another. Joints puffy but little red;worse slightest motion.
Felons, at the commencement(Bell).
High fever. Skin hot and dry. Scarlet fever (Bell)
Copious night sweats, not relieving the great pains of rheumatism, driving out of bed. Sweat between 4 and 6 a.m.
All febrile disturbances at their onset, especially before exudation commences.
“In many inflammatory and some eruptive fevers,.it seem, s to stand between the intensity of Acon.and Belladonna, and the dullness of Gelsemium”
“In anemia compare with China, with which it has many symptoms in common. The tree from which China is obtained is always found in a ferruginous locality.”
“Measles with conjunctivitis and photophobia (35 cases).”
One has seen very rapid curative action with Ferrum phos. in many early colds without very definite symptoms; and also astonishing cures of pneumonia, without the definite symptoms that would call for Aconite, m Bry, or phos.
Not having been extensively proved, Ferrum phos, has not yet taken the place it richly deserves in Homoeopathic literature. Its sphere seems to be simple, active hyperaemia. It should be useless in septic cases.
“Ferrum phos. is a constituent of China, Gelsemium, Veratrum, Aconite, Arnica,Ailanth., Anis., Stil., Phyto., Berberis, Rhus., Asafoetida, Viburnum., Secale (25 per cent), Graph (2,74 per cent.)” BOERICKE.
