Iodium

• ▸Anxiety when quiet. Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the future.
• ▸Sudden impulse to run and do violence.
• ▸Forgetful.
• ▸Must be busy.
• ▸Fear of people, shuns every one.
• ▸Melancholy.
• ▸Suicidal tendency.

Throbbing; rush of blood, and feeling of a tight band. Vertigo; worse from stooping, worse in warm room. Chronic, congestive headache of old people (Phos).

• ▸Violent lachrymation.
• ▸Pain in eyes.
• ▸Pupil dilated.
• ▸Constant motion of eyeballs.
• ▸Acute dacryocystitis.

• ▸Sneezing.
• ▸Sudden violent influenza.
• ▸Dry coryza becomes fluent in open air, also a fluent hot coryza with general heat of skin.
• ▸Pain at root of nose and frontal sinus.
• ▸Nose stopped up.
• ▸Tendency to ulceration.
• ▸Loss of smell.
• ▸Acute nasal engorgement associated with high blood pressure.

• ▸Gums loose and bleed easily.
• ▸Foul ulcers and salivation.
• ▸Profuse, fetid ptyalism.
• ▸Tongue thickly coated.
• ▸Offensive odor from mouth.

• ▸Larynx feels constricted.
• ▸Eustachian deafness.
• ▸Thyroid enlarged.
• ▸Goitre, with sensation of constriction.
• ▸Swollen submaxillary glands.
• ▸Uvula swollen.

• ▸Throbbing at pit of stomach.
• ▸Ravenous hunger and much thirst.
• ▸Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas.
• ▸Anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina; Sulph).
• ▸Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well (Abrot).

• ▸Liver and spleen sore and enlarged.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Mesenteric glands enlarged.
• ▸Pancreatic disease.
• ▸Cutting pain in abdomen.

• ▸Haemorrhage at every stool.
• ▸Diarrhoea, whitish, frothy, fatty.
• ▸Constipation, with ineffectual urging; better by drinking cold milk.
• ▸Constipation alternating with diarrhoea (Ant cr).

Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green (Bovista), thick, acrid with cuticle on surface.

• ▸Great weakness during menses (Alum; Carbo an; Coccul; Haematox).
• ▸Menstruation irregular.
• ▸Uterine haemorrhage.
• ▸Ovaritis (Apis; bell; Lach).

• ▸Wedge-like pain from ovary to uterus. Dwindling of mammary glands.
• ▸Nodosities in skin of mammae.
• ▸Acrid leucorrhoea, thick, slimy, corroding the linen.
• ▸Wedge-like pain in the right ovarian region.

Testicles swollen and indurated. Hydrocele. Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes.

• ▸Hoarse.
• ▸Raw and tickling feeling provoking a dry cough.
• ▸Pain in larynx.
• ▸Laryngitis, with painful roughness; worse during cough.
• ▸Child grasps throat when coughing.
• ▸Right-sided pneumonia with high temperature.
• ▸Difficult expansion of chest, blood-streaked sputum; internal dry heat, external coldness.
• ▸Violent heart action.
• ▸Pneumonia.
• ▸Hepatization spreads rapidly with persistent high temperature; absence of pain in spite of great involvement, worse warmth; craves cool air.
• ▸Croup in scrofulous children with dark hair and eyes (Brom opposite).
• ▸Inspiration difficult.
• ▸Dry, morning cough, from tickling in larynx.
• ▸Croupy cough, with difficult respiration; wheezy.
• ▸Cold extends downwards from head to throat and bronchi.
• ▸Great weakness about chest.
• ▸Palpitation from least exertion.
• ▸Pleuritic effusion.
• ▸Tickling all over chest.
• ▸Iod cough is worse indoors, in warm, wet weather, and when lying on back.

• ▸Heart feels squeezed.
• ▸Myocarditis, painful compression around heart.
• ▸Feels as if squeezed by an iron hand (Cactus) followed by great weakness and faintness.
• ▸Palpitation from least exertion.
• ▸Tachycardia.

• ▸Joints inflamed and painful.
• ▸Pain in bones at night.
• ▸White swelling.
• ▸Gonorrhoeal rheumatism.
• ▸Rheumatism of nape and upper extremities.
• ▸Cold hands and feet.
• ▸Acrid sweat of feet.
• ▸Pulsation in large arterial trunks.
• ▸Rheumatic pains, nightly pains in joints; constrictive sensations.

• ▸Hot, dry, yellow and withered.
• ▸Glands enlarged.
• ▸Nodosities.
• ▸Anasarca of cardiac disease.

Flushes of heat all over body. Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic. Profuse sweat.

Yatren. Iod pathogenesis is similar to that of Carbol acid. Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph; Gratiola.

Complementary: Lycopod; Badiaga.

Compare: Brom; Hepar; Mercur; Phosph; Abrot; Nat mur; Sanic; Tuber.

The crude drug in saturated solution may be required. Third to thirtieth potency. Ioduretted solution of Potass iod (35 grains Potassa and 4 grains Iodine to 1 oz of water, 10 drops three times a day) expels tapeworms dead.

• ▸Locally the most powerful, least harmful and easily managed microbicide.
• ▸Ideal agent to keep wounds clean and disinfected.
• ▸Bites of insects, reptiles, etc.
• ▸Gunshot wounds and compound fractures, excellent.
• ▸Great skin disinfectant.