Indium Metallicum

The nosode of influenza has with many practitioners taken the place of

Baptisia as the routine remedy in epidemics. It may be given in the 12th or 30th potency, either

in the form of tincture, pilules, or discs; or ten globules may be dissolved in six ounces of water,

and of this a dessertspoonful may be given for a dose. It may be repeated every two hours. This

will be found sufficient to control a large proportion of the cases. The general directions I give to

my patients are these: When "colds" appear in a family let all those who are unaffected take

• ▸Arsen.
• ▸3 thrice daily, and let the patients take /nflu.
• ▸30 every hour or two.
• ▸This generally prevents

the spread of the trouble and clears up the "colds," whether they are of the influenza type or not.

Influenza has the property of developing old troubles, and thus it takes an infinite variety of

forms in different persons, so that /nflu. need not be expected to cure all cases unaided, or,

indeed, to be appropriate to every case.

Mental depression.—Mind feels tired; does not care to work.—Feels stupid and

careless; cannot fix thoughts on anything.—Restless, cannot sit still, must walk about—Sleepy

and irritable with headache.—Feels almost crazed when attempting to study, with headache.

• ▸Pain in head when straining at stool.
• ▸Bursting in head during stool.
• ▸Dull pains in temples and forehead, with nausea, weakness, sleepiness.
• ▸Gone feeling in stomach about 11 am.
• ▸Violent attack of sneezing.
• ▸Sexual psychopathy.

• ▸Difficult concentration of thought.
• ▸Sensation as if mind were void.
• ▸Though confused.
• ▸"Woodeny" feeling in right side of head.
• ▸Right side of scalp sensitive.
• ▸Profuse, watery coryza, better indoors.
• ▸Ozaena.

Vertigo: on rising from a seat; after retiring, with nausea; when sitting and stooping

• ▸slightly; between 3 and 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, < on turning and on rising, cannot sit up.
• ▸—Dull headache in

temples and forehead, with sleepiness and nausea.—Very distressing headache in forenoon; pains

• ▸commence on r.
• ▸side of occiput and extend over head to |.
• ▸eye.
• ▸—Pain at 8 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, extending over r.

side of head from occiput, leaving a bruised spot on vertex.—Severe |.—sided headache in

evening.—Beating, throbbing pain in head, with much heat, and a stupid, cross feeling; >

• ▸washing in cold water.
• ▸—Beating, throbbing headache at 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, lasting till bedtime; head very

hot; face red.—Slight throbbing headache, lasting two hours, with hot head and cold, clammy

hands; afterwards, bruised feeling of brain in vertex, > in cold air.—Headache, in morning on

rising, > eating; an hour afterwards headache returns and lasts till noon.—Severe itching of scalp

on vertex lasting several days, > in morning.

People and things look ghastly pale or saffron coloured.—Mist before eyes, in

evening.—Sharp pain in eyeball from before backward, on turning or moving eyes.—Irritation in

l. eye, as if heavy with sleep, coming and going, not affected by daylight, < from artificial light,

and from closing eye, with a desire to close it; in evening r. eye affected in the same

way.—Spasmodic twitching at outer angle of |. eye.

Throbbing in ears, in evening.—Bright redness of whole r. ear, with a row of very sore

pimples on helix.

Violent attacks of sneezing.—Epistaxis; nose bleeds whenever blown or

touched.—Nasal discharge: green; bloody; then watery; thin, yellowish.

Painful suppurating pimples. Corners of mouth cracked and sore (Condur).

Very painful suppurating pimples on forehead; feel as though pierced with a needle;

skin very red far around each pustule.—Sore pustules all over face; burning stinging. —Face: red

during headache; red and hot; complexion sallow.—Fiery red places about an inch long over I.

eye.—Patches of small vesicles on mucous membrane of lower lip; vesicles contain a colourless,

limpid fluid.—Corners of mouth cracked and very sore.

Uvula greatly enlarged, back part of pharynx covered with thick yellow mucus, very

tough and hard to remove.—Destructive ulceration of uvula, soft palate and tonsils, with thick

yellow secretion in ulcers.—Left tonsil swollen; pain and difficulty in swallowing.—Throat sore

• ▸on r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Tickling in throat inducing continual hawking.
• ▸—Dryness, throbbing, stinging

soreness; swallowing painful —Throat: < in evening; > eating, and drinking cold water.—A fter

eating lobster, taste of iodide of potash._(Post-pharyngeal catarrh with tough, leathery streak of

yellow mucus down back of throat.).

Uvula enlarged, ulcerated; thick, tough mucus in back part of pharynx. Worse evening.

Qualmishness.—Nausea: with headache; during breakfast; with faintness at 11

a.m. and on rising; after retiring, with dizziness and pain in liver —Sick feeling at stomach for

two days; felt as if vomiting would relieve—Fulness and pressure at stomach with soreness.

Stitches in region of liver—Colic; griping; from umbilicus downwards; as if

diarrhoea would set in.

Stool: pasty, brownish-yellow, fetid, with particles of undigested food,

preceded by colic; involuntary, slight, when urinating; small and hard, afterwards pappy; hard

• ▸with blood.
• ▸—Diarrhcea: < by drinking beer; with headache on r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Burning tenesmus and

pain in anus after stool —Violent pain in head when straining at stool.

Painful urination.—When urinating: loss of power over sphincter

ani.—Horribly offensive smell of urine after standing a short time.

Menses two weeks too soon; bearing-down pains, with cross

temper and weeping mood; face very red.

• ▸Horribly offensive smell of urine after standing a short time.
• ▸Emissions too frequent.
• ▸Diminished power.
• ▸Testicles tender; drawing pains along spermatic cord.

Sexual desire and power diminished, emission too soon, thrill

deficient.—Increase of desire.—Emissions: twice the same night; four nights in succession; at

• ▸night without knowledge.
• ▸—Itching of glans penis.
• ▸—Severe pain in r.
• ▸testicle—Testicles tumefied

and very tender to touch; drawing pains along spermatic cords upwards; |. testicle much <.

Hoarse cough, worse talking; posterior nares feel raw, inflamed, profuse, thick, yellowish discharge. Chronic laryngeal catarrh.

Hoarseness: on rising; with sore throat.—Habitual bronchial

expectoration freer, but a little blood appeared in mucus.—Frequent desire to take a deep breath,

when lying down; < lying on |. side, > lying on back.

Severe pain behind lower r. portion of sternum.—Sharp pains through upper part of

chest.—Burning pain on |. side of chest near sternum, which feels as if drawn towards

• ▸back.
• ▸—Dull pain in |.
• ▸pectoral region.
• ▸—Dull pain in 1.
• ▸axilla.

• ▸Weakness in the kidney region.
• ▸Spinal paresis, especially for the aged and after disease.
• ▸Pressing in groin and left thigh.
• ▸Tension in both thighs, especially left.
• ▸Dislocated feeling in left hip-joint and dull pain toward left gluteal region.

Stiffness of neck and shoulders —Drawing through side of head and neck

to clavicle, first r. side, next day |.—Pressing pain in upper scapular region, with stiffness on

• ▸sitting still, pain < on beginning to move.
• ▸—Severe pain under scapula of 1.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Dull pain under

r. shoulder-blade.—Rheumatic drawing across shoulders up to head; < in riding, turning in bed,

flexure or rotation of head, and morning and evening.—Dull, aching pain in back and lumbar

regions.

Constant pain in |. shoulder, as if bruised.—Intermitting pains in 1.

• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸shoulder, with soreness extending down arm.
• ▸—Severe pain in 1.
• ▸shoulder;

pain runs down to elbow, at times so severe as to disable arm.—Shooting pains in

fingers——Muscles of |. arm and shoulder feel flabby and soft; no power in arm.—Severe

lancinating pains in biceps of |. arm, extending into shoulder; pains < extending arm; paralytic

• ▸weakness.
• ▸—Left elbow feels sore —Slight pains in 1.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Palms of hands sweat

continually.—Itching in palms.

Tired feeling, weariness in legs.—Drawing, strained feeling of muscles of

• ▸inside of r.
• ▸thigh, while walking.
• ▸—Sharp shooting pains in r.
• ▸leg —Legs from knees downward

and feet feel heavy as if loaded.—Peculiar hot tingling in legs—Dull, boring pain in |. great toe-

joint, almost unbearable, must move foot to > it, for three evenings, from 8 to 9—Burning and

intense itching of all the toes the whole day.—Itching of toes in evening.—Feet sweat easily and

feel cold.—Profuse foot-sweat.

• ▸Stiffness in neck and shoulders.
• ▸Pain, especially in left arm.
• ▸Legs restless and weary.
• ▸Toes itch (Agar).

Itching of scalp, toes, &c.—Very painful sore pimples on various parts of the body.

Sleepiness: with headache and nausea; with irritability; from 4 to 6 p.m.; in evening,

in a warm room.—Dreams: lascivious; amorous; of having unsuccessful intercourse with men;

vivid of what had occupied his mind during the day; of annoying accidents; of being in foreign

countries; chased by mad bulls; lost in mountains.—Nightmare: from lying on back; very stupid

on awaking.

Sensitive to cold.—High fever with chilliness on moving, great weakness, sore

throat; thirst, stretching, violent headache and backache.—Fever: with nausea, after eating; > out

of doors.—Easy perspirations.

Influenzinum.

The nosode of Influenza.

• ▸I find Influ.
• ▸compatible with Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, and many others.

Compare: Selenium; Titanium (male sexual organs).

• ▸Compare: Iridium chloride (Produces salivation and stiffness of jaws followed by head and nervous symptoms.
• ▸Congestion of nares and bronchi.
• ▸Dragging pain in lower back.
• ▸Headache worse right side, heavy feeling as of liquid lead).

Compare: Platina; Palladium; Osmium.

Sixth to 200th potency.

Sixth and higher.

The Metal (IRIDIUM)

• ▸Intestinal putrefaction and septicaemia.
• ▸Anaemia, increases red corpuscles.
• ▸Epilepsy; lupus.
• ▸Rheumatism and gout.
• ▸Uterine tumors.
• ▸Spinal paresis.
• ▸Exhaustion after disease.
• ▸Children who are puny, weak-limbed, and grow too fast.
• ▸Nephritis of pregnancy.