FERRUM MAGNETICUM


FERRUM MAGNETICUM symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy FERRUM MAGNETICUM…


INTRODUCTION

FER.MAGN. Lapis Magneticus, Loadstone. See “Biblioth. de Geneve, ” I.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Thirst, sweat, languor, and paleness after a walk. Pricking in various parts. Lameness, excessive languor. Trembling of the extremities. Weakness after walk, as if proceeding from the abdomen.

SKIN.

Itching of the skin. Red spots, like fire, or blue-red. Small warts on the hands.

SLEEP.

Yawning with ptyalism. Drowsiness in the daytime. Unrefreshing sleep, with longer, dullness of the head Confused dreams.

FEVER.

Heat after a walk in the open air, with weakness proceeding from the stomach, vertigo. paleness, feeling as if catarrh would set in. Internal heat, after washing, with slow pulse. Sweat on the least motion. Sour sweat.

MIND AND DISPOSITION.

Irresolute, slow. Important, self-contented look. Vehement.

HEAD.

Headache on stooping, moving the arms, or going up-stairs. Sudden headache, affecting the eyes and nose, as if he would cry and sneeze. Beating headache. Itching of he hairy scalp. Painful pimples on the hairy. Scalp. Falling of the hair.

EYES.

Stinging itching in. the canthi. Swelling of the lower lid. Lachrymation and sensitiveness of the lachrymal glands.

EARS AND NOSE.

Drawing in the ears and fauces on swallowing. Stinging in the ears. Sneezing and coryza.

FACE AND TEETH.

Sunken face, with heat and subsequent redness. The teeth are easily set on edge, and sensitive when chewing.

MOUTH AND THROAT.

Itching of the palate. Sensation as if mucus were accumulating round the uvula.

GASTRIC SYMPTOM’S.

Bitter taste. Flatulence during a meal. After a meal; taciturn, languid, flatulent, pains in the stomach, with anguish, urging to stool, diarrhoea. nausea.

ABDOMEN.

Pains in the let side of the abdomen. Noises from flatulence, with urging to stool and pressure on the bladder, and drawing in the lower limbs down to the toes. Excessive flatulence.

STOOL AND ANUS.

Urging, with flatulence.. Diarrhoea, with languor and pale face. Itching and stinging of the anus.

URINE AND GENITAL ORGANS.

Copious, red urine, becoming turbid. Excessive or deficient sexual instinct.

LARYNX,.

Hawking. Dry cough after a meal, as if dust had got into the larynx. Empty feeling in the chest. palpitation of the heart, on moving the shoulders.

ARMS.

Laming drawing in the arm. Herpetic spots on the hands and fingers dryness and tension in the hands.

LEGS.

Tension and pressure in. the hip-joint. Lancinations in the knee. Prickling in the heel. Jerking the sole. Wen on the foot.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.