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Ferrum Picricum

Picrate of Iron
12 sectionsBoericke · 6Clarke · 6

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • Senile hypertrophy of the prostate. Epistaxis

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Picrate of Iron

  • Is considered a great remedy to complete the action of other medicines.
  • The symptom that specially calls for it is failure of the function of an organ under exertion; e g, the voice fails after public speaking.
  • Acts best in dark-haired patients, plethoric, with sensitive livers.
  • Warts and epithelial growths; corns with yellowish discoloration.
  • Senile hypertrophy of the prostate. Epistaxis.
  • Chronic deafness and tinnitus due to gout.
  • Meatus dry.
  • Pseudo-leucaemia.
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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke

This preparation has not been proved, but it has been used clinically in low

attenuations in cases of brain congestion and congestive headache, following great losses of

  • blood.
  • If Fe.
  • ph.
  • fails to remove tarsal cysts, Cooper says give Fe.
  • pyroph.

Head

Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Giddiness with disturbance of cerebral circulation, pain in occiput, inability to walk.

Ears

Ears
Boericke
  • Deafness before menses.
  • Crackling in ears and low-pitched voice.
  • Vascular deafness.
  • Dental neuralgia, radiating towards ears and eyes.
  • Humming in ears as from telegraph wires.
  • Tinnitus.
Symptoms — Ears
Clarke

Diffused vasculitis; with liver symptoms.—(Deafness in young people cutting wisdom

teeth.)

Stomach

Stomach
Boericke

Indigestion, furred tongue, headache after meals, especially in bilious, dark-haired persons.

Urinary

Urinary
Boericke

Pain along entire urethra. Frequent micturition at night, with full feeling and pressure in rectum. Smarting at neck of bladder and penis (Barosma). Retention of urine.

Extremities

Extremities
Boericke

Pain in right side of neck and down right arm. Locomotor ataxia, ocular stage. Hands covered with warts.

Skin

Symptoms — Skin
Clarke
  • Warts: multiple; pedunculated.
  • —Corns.
  • —Jaundice.
  • —Dirty looking skin about

joints.—Sensation as if a wart were growing on thumb.

Sleep

Symptoms — Sleep
Clarke

Restless sleep with unpleasant (often erotic) dreams.

Ferrum Pyrophosphoricum.

  • Ferri pyrophosphas.
  • Pyrophosphate of Iron.
  • A scale preparation containing 55 per cent.
  • of

Pyrophosphate of Iron (Fez P2 O7) combined with Citrate of Soda. Solutions and

triturations.

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • Compare: Pic.
  • ac.
  • , Nit.
  • ac.
  • , Thuja.
  • , Amm.
  • pic.
  • , Calc.
  • pic.
  • , and the Ferrum

preparations.

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Second and third trituration.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
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