FERRUM METALLICUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Ferrum Metalicum from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to persons of sanguine temperament; pettish quarrelsome, disputative easily excited least contradiction angers; women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic yet have a very red face.

General haemorrhagic diathesis.

Extreme paleness of the face which becomes red and flushed on the least pain, motion or exertion.

Erethic chlorosis, worse in winter.

Red parts become white.

Menses too soon, too profuse, too long-lasting, with fiery red face; ringing in the ears; intermit two or three days and then return; flow pale, watery debilitating.

Vertigo: with balancing sensation as if on the water; on seeing flowing water; when walking over water like when crossing a bridge when descending.

Headache: for two, three, or four days every two or three weeks; hammering, beating pulsating pains, must lie down in bed; with aversion eating or drinking.

Vomiting of food immediately after midnight.

Stools watery but always with much flatulence and more frequent after taking food or water; undigested.

Difficult breathing and oppression of the chest as if some one pressed with the hand upon it.

Dyspnoea.

Great weakness.

Chill: with thirst during the chill the face got flowing hot; hands and feet cold and numb; feet very cold, toes cold as ice, fingers stiff.

Heat without thirst.

Sweat from early morn till noon every other day, preceded by headache.

Strong-smelling clammy, debilitating night-sweat; stains yellow.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.