IODIUM


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


INTRODUCTION

IOD. Iodine. See Hahnemann’s “Chronic Disease, ” IV. Duration of Action: six weeks.

COMPARE WITH.

Arsenicum, Cut., China, cocc., Coffea, Conium, Cuprum, Digitalis, Hepar s., Mercurius, Phosphorus, Rhus., Sabina, Spongia, Squil, Sulphur, Veratrum

ANTIDOTES.

Of large doses: STarch boiled to a thin glue by means of a a large quantity of water, and given to the patient in large quantity; or, in case of necessity, sugar-water, milk especially asses’ milk; tepid baths; Sulphur baths; Mercurius and Arsenicum, Frequent walks in the open air: Opium, Hyos, (in case of endogastritis, brought of n by abuse of Iodine); Gratiola Altschul says he has cured an iodine cachexia with Iodium, 80, two pellets. Antidotes of small doses; Ant., Arsenicum, Camph., China, China Sulph. Coffea, Hepars., opium, Phosphorus, Spongia Iodium is especially useful after, or in alternation with Mercurius

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Erratic pains in the joints. Lacerating in the limbs, particularly the joints. Rheumatic pains in the trunk, neck, and arms. Numb feeling in the thighs and legs. Numb feeling and trembling in the limbs. Paralysis of the limbs,. Liability to take cold, bringing on ophthalmia. Pulsations in all the arteries, at every muscular effort. Seething of the arterial symptom, with dullness of eh head and subsequent headache. the circulation is easily the veins. Inclination to Haemorrhage. Hemorrhage from different of the whole body. Uneasiness in all the limbs. Uneasiness and nervousness, with trembling extending from the region of the stomach to every part of the periphery, as if he would tremble, or sweat all over, with an increase of warmth all over, if coming from the stomach; afterwards pressure in the region of he heart, heaviness on the chest, with difficulty breathing, and acceleration of the pulse by 7 or 9 beats. Trembling of the limbs, especially the hands. Spasms, Convulsions of the limbs and face, with anguish, oppressive fear, palpitation of the heart, vomiting, violent headache, spasmodic fits with foam at the mouth. Subsultus-tendinum in the arms, fingers, and feet. Catching at flocks. a kind of Asiatic cholera. Difficult,. vaccillating gait, from trembling of the limbs. Heaviness of the limbs early in the morning. Complete prostration of strength. Inclination to fainting fits and spasms. General emaciation. Excessive emaciation. Chronic emaciation, pale face, and muscle weakness. Nervous consumption. Emaciation with hectic fever. Curvature of the bones.

CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES.

The pains are aggravated in the morning and night, particularly by movement (walking, riding in a carriage), by contact and pressure, also in the warm open air and by warmth generally.

SKIN.

Stinging itching in different parts of the body. Sensation as of violent flea-bites over he whole body, day and night. Small, red, dry pimples on the arms, chest, and back. Dirty-yellow color of the skin. Rough, dry skin. Glandular indurations. disappearance of single glandular swellings in the nape of the neck, axilla, and groin. Disappearance of a fungus- articularies consequent of measles. Herpes. Oedematous, dropsical swelling. Anasarca. Thickening of the epidermis, which becomes brown-red, with a pain which is at times light, drawing, or burning. Profuse papulous eruption. Eruption like scarlet -rash. Furunculous cutaneous eruption. Redness on the neck and chest, as if ecchymozed.

FEVER.

Cold feet at night. Cold skin. Increased warmth of the skin. Fever; chills alternating with flushes of heat. Feverish sensations. Fever with delirium, and Subsultus-tendinum. Fever with dryness and coldness of the skin, soft, quick pulse, delirium, subsultus tendinum, and picking at flocks. Quartan fever. Pulse strong, large, and full. Quick, hard pulse. Accelerated pulse. Small, hard pulse, and so quick that it was scarcely possible to count the fever, with dry, cold skin, soft quick pulse, delirium, subsultus tendinum, picking at flocks. Violent fever with all the symptoms of typhus-intestinalis. Violent cholera.

MORAL SYMPTOMS.

Despondency. Sad, melancholy mood. Hypochondriac mood. Continued disposition to weep. Anguish. Anxiety. Impatient. Aversion to work,. Increased sensitiveness and irritability Excessive nervous irritation. Illusory feeling. Delirium, Fixed. immovable thoughts.

HEAD.

Dullness of the head, with great disinclination to nervous labor. Dullness of the head, becoming 0n oppressive pain. headache, so violent that it makes him almost crazy. Pain in the forehead and top of the head, increasing at every noise or conversation. Headache as if a band were tied round the head. Headache in the forehead; the brain feels bruised and is extremely sensitive; the whole body, and especially the arms, are weak and feel paralysed. Aching above the eyes, towards evening. Violent aching at the base of the occiput in the afternoon. Aching and sometimes lancination headache. Throbbing in the head at every motion. Congestion of blood to the head. Pain in the forehead, as from subcutaneous ulceration. falling off the hair.

EYES.

Pain in the orbits. Pressure in the eyes as from sand. Redness and swelling of the eye-lids. with nightly agglutination. Soreness of the eyes. Inflamed eyes. Watery white swelling of eye-lids. Lachrymation. Twitchings of the eyes. Pale-red furuncle of the size of a hazel-nut on the right eye-brow. Dilation of the pupils with constant motion of the eye-ball. Obscuration of sight. Weak sight. Occasional twinkling before the eyes. Sparks before the eyes. Fiery curved rays are shooting downwards.

EARS.

Dragging pain in the left ear. Sensitiveness to noise. Hardness of hearing. Frequent din in the right ear as of a mil. Buzzing in the ears. Movable painful lymphatic swelling in front of the right ear.

NOSE.

Red, burning spot on the nose, under the eye. Profuse bleeding of he nose. Dry coryza, becoming fluent in the open air.

FACE.

Pale face. yellow complexion. The yellow complexion becomes more pale. The features become disagreed, altered. Sunken eyes. Convulsive twitchings of the facial muscles. Suppurating ulcer on the cheek with swelling of the surrounding glands.

TEETH AND JAWS.

Painless swelling of the submaxillary glands. Toothache in alternate places, in the molar teeth, on both sides. Cutting drawing and sore feeling in the roots or the gums of the lower incisors. Pain, as from looseness, in the teeth and gums. The gums are puffed up.

MOUTH.

Aphthae in the mouth, with ptyalism. Mercurial putrid smell frojt ehmotu. Troublesome dryness of the tongue Tongue thickly coated. Swelling and elongation of the uvula Ulceration in the mouth, redness, interstitial distention of the gums, standing off the of the gums, with slight bleeding,, small, ash- colored, painful ulcers with profuse fetid ptyalism.

THROAT.

Constrictive sensations in the fauces. Tormenting constriction of the throat Feeling of fullness in the throat. Pain in the oesophagus, increase by pressing on the larynx. Lacerating in the throat, above the larynx. disagreeable scraping in the fauces. with copious secretion of saliva. Burning in the fauces. Inflammation and ulcers of the oesophagus.

TASTE AND APPETITE.

Abominable taste in the mouth. Bitter taste. Sourish offensive taste. Taste as of soap. Thirst, dry and night. Decrease of appetite. Increase of appetite. Gnawing hunger. Voracity. Canine hunger. Alternate canine hunger and want of appetite. Very weak digestion. Weak feeling of sickness all over the body after dinner.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

Continued empty eructations Sourish eructations with burning. Heartburn, particularly after heavy food. Hiccough. Nausea. nausea immediately after rising, with spasmodic pain at the stomach. inclination to vomit, in paroxysms, with heartburn. Vomiting. Continual vomiting with diarrhoea. Yellowish saltish vomiting. Vomiting of bile. Increased secretion of bile. Gastric derangement with constipation.

STOMACH.

Pains in and over the stomach. Excessive pain in the stomach and bowels. Pains in the stomach, with copious bilious evacuations. Fullness and distention of the stomach, with trembling and increased warmths in the abdominal cavity. Spasmodic pains in the stomach. Spasms of the stomach, frequently recurring. Gnawing, corroding pains in the stomach. Pulsations in the pit of the stomach. Burning in the stomach. Inflammations of the stomachs in the region of the orifice.

HYPOCHONDRIA.

Decrease of pain in the region of the liver and pit of the stomach. Pressure in the region of the liver, painful to the touch.

ABDOMEN.

Pain in the epigastrium. Great painfulness of the whole abdomen, as if from inflammation of the omentum. Frequent paroxysms of pressure in the abdomen, mostly when sitting. Painful tension of the abdomen, with unusual pressing. Colic. Pinching and aching colic. Labor-like abdominal spasms. Cutting in the umbilical region, with papescent stools. Drawing and pressure in the on the region of the kidneys. Pulsations in the abdomen. the abdominal symptoms recur after eating. Ascites. disappearance of the swelling of the inguinal glands. Incarceration of flatulence. Pressing movements in the abdomen.

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.