Remedy

Platinum metallicum

The metal

25 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Is pre-eminently a woman's remedy.
  • Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually.
  • Tremulousness.

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Mind & mood

  • 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.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Sitting and standingEvening

Better

Walking

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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