Materia Medica

Niccolum Metallicum

Metallic Nickel

10 sectionsBoericke · 10

Essence

Prologue

Boericke

Metallic Nickel (NICCOLUM)

Periodical nervous sick headaches, with asthenopia, weak digestion, constipation. Catarrh. Suits debilitated, nervous, literary patients, with frequent headaches, dyspepsia and constipation.

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Modalities

Boericke

Worse

periodically, every two weeks; yearly, forenoon

Better

in evening

Head

Boericke

Cracking in cervical vertebrae when moving the head.
Pain on top as from a nail.
Pressure on vertex, in morning; worse till noon and in warm room.
Stitches.
Objects appear too large.
Migraine; first on left side.
Twitching of upper lip.

Nose

Boericke

Violent sneezing; stopped up. Nasal catarrh, with redness and swelling at tip of nose. Acute pain at root of nose, extending to vertex and through temples.

Throat

Boericke

Sore, right side with great tenderness; soreness to touch externally. Strangulated feeling.

Female

Boericke

Menses late, scanty, with great debility and burning in eyes. Profuse leucorrhoea; worse, after urinating (Mag mur, Plat); also worse after menses.

Respiratory

Boericke

Hoarseness. Dry, hacking cough, with stitches in chest. Obliged to set up and hold head. Must put arms on thighs, when coughing.

Skin

Boericke

Itching all over, worse on neck, not relieved by scratching.

Posology

Dose

Boericke

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

Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.

Additional notes

Gastric

Boericke

Gone, empty feeling in epigastrium, without desire for food.
Acute gastralgia with pains extending to shoulder.
Thirst and intense hiccough.
Sour, fetid secretions ooze from molar teeth.
Diarrhoea and tenesmus after milk.

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