Platinum metallicum
The metal
Main symptoms
- Is pre-eminently a woman's remedy.
- Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually.
- Tremulousness.
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- Irresistible impulse to kill.
- Self-exaltation; contempt for others.
- Arrogant, proud.
- Weary of everything.
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- Everything seems changed.
- Mental trouble pressed menses.
- Physical symptoms disappear as mental symptoms develop.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot. Cramplike, squeezing pain. Constriction about forehead and right temples. Numbness, with headache.
Eyes
Objects look smaller than they are. Twitching of lids. Eyes feel cold. Cramp-like pain in orbits.
Ears
Feels numb. Cramp-like twinges. Roaring and rumbling.
Face
Prosopalgia, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws. Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed in a vise. Coldness, creeping, and numbness, in whole right side of face. Pains increase and decrease gradually.
Stomach
Fermentation, much gas; constriction; ravenous hunger; persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.
Abdomen
Painter's colic. Pain in umbilical region; extending through to back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen; extending into pelvis.
Stool
Retarded; faeces scanty; evacuated with difficulty. Adheres to rectum, like soft clay. Sticky stool. Constipation of travellers, who are constantly changing food and water. Stool as if burnt.
Female
Parts hypersensitive. Tingling internally and externally Ovaries sensitive and burn. Menses too early, too profuse, dark-clotted, with spasms and painful bearing-down, feeling cold, and sensitiveness of parts. Vaginismus. Nymphomania. Excessive sexual development; vaginismus. Itching vulvae. Abnormal sexual appetite and deep sadness.
Extremities
Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped. Numb and weary sensation. Feel paralyzed.
Sleep
Sleeps with legs far apart.
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