Palladium Metallicum

Palladium, one of the rare metals, was first separated from native Platinum by

Wollaston in 1803, and Was named after the planet Pallas, which had been discovered just

before that time by Olbers. Hering, who made the first provings in 1850, says: "If we classify the

Sulphides according to their solubility in dilute acids, Pa//ad. must be placed with Argentum,

Rhodium, Ruthenium, and Osmium, and Platina remains with the less soluble Mercury, Aurum,

and Jridium. Platinum and Palladium, both proved in dust form, showed such similarity in their

effects that the question arose whether corresponding differences might be found. These data can

only be furnished by frequent use of Pallad. in practice." Clinical experience has done much to

distinguish between these two remedies, related as closely in their effects on the human organism

as they are closely related in nature. The chief characteristic of Pallad. is affections of the right

ovary attended with pains which are > by pressure. Skinner cured with Pallad. a young lady who

had excessive pain in the right ovary during the menses. The only relief she could get was by

inducing her sister to sit on that region. This > by pressure distinguishes the pain of Pallad. from

the similar ovarian pain of Plat. Lippe was the first to turn the provings to account, and the

mental symptoms provided his best guides. The chief characteristic of Pallad. in the mental

sphere is "Love of approbation," which lays its victim an easy prey to slights real or imaginary,

and easily gives place to a state of "wounded pride and fancied neglect"; irritability which often

finds vent in violent expressions. Such a patient is > in society, and < after the party or

entertainment. This state of mind (which differs from the hauteur of P/at.), when found

associated with uterine and ovarian disorders, will surely indicate Pallad. There is much uterine

bearing down, and even prolapse. Many head symptoms were noted, and this has been

confirmed: "Headache across top of head from one ear to the other." According to Hering the

pains of Pallad. are fleeting and transient and hard to describe. Peculiar symptoms are: As if he

• ▸had grown taller.
• ▸As if something horrible would happen.
• ▸As if she were going crazy.
• ▸As if she

could not touch anything. As if head were swung from behind forward. As if brain were being

shaken. As if a weight were lying on brain, and were pushed from occiput to forehead. Pressure

on head as from finger-tips. As if something hanging in throat near hyoid bone, or a crumb had

• ▸lodged there.
• ▸Crawling in abdomen.
• ▸As if intestines strangulated.
• ▸As if air-bubbles pressed

forcibly through intestines and passed upward. As if an animal were snapping and biting off

• ▸small portions inside abdomen.
• ▸As if testicles were bruised.
• ▸As if parts of groins would tear.
• ▸As

• ▸if viscera had gone from flanks.
• ▸As if bladder was filled.
• ▸As if uterus would prolapse.
• ▸As if neck

becoming stiff. As if hand shattered. As if heads of femurs were forced out of their sockets and

expanded. The symptoms are: > By touch (headache). > By pressure (pains in kidney and ovary).

> By rubbing (pain in ovary; burning spot on right cheek bone). Warmth > sciatica; colic (hot

• ▸cloths).
• ▸Undressing = itching all over body.
• ▸Cold < sciatica.
• ▸Open air > stitches in chest;

• ▸lameness in arm.
• ▸Rest >.
• ▸Motion <.
• ▸Lying on left side > abdominal symptoms.
• ▸Walking >

• ▸stitches in chest.
• ▸Every step = pain in groin.
• ▸Keeping thigh flexed > pain in groin.
• ▸< After

• ▸exertion.
• ▸< After social excitement, concerts, &c.
• ▸> After sleep.
• ▸Expiration = pushing forward of

weight in head. Cutting pains in uterus are > after stool. Coughing and sneezing < pain in

abdomen. Menses come on at full moon (two weeks late, being due at new moon).

• ▸Weeping mood.
• ▸Love of approbation.
• ▸Pride; easily offended.
• ▸Inclined to use violent language.
• ▸Keeps up brightly when in company, much exhausted afterwards, and pains aggravated.

Extremely fatigued evening; feels mentally "gone.".—Greatly inclined to use strong

language and violent expressions.—Fond of the good opinion of others; also too much weight is

laid on their judgment; therefore very excited in society, and her complaints are < next day.—> In

company, wants to be flattered —Easily wounded pride.—Imagines herself neglected.—Great

• ▸inclination to weep.
• ▸—Depressing news < all symptoms.
• ▸—Mental agitation, esp.
• ▸from society, or

musical entertainments, or excited conversation, or motion, < the pain in r. ovary.—Excited and

impatient (from headache).—Time passes too slowly.

Aversion to make any effort to exercise; must lie down.—Stitches; rheumatic

pains, suddenly changing and often lasting but a short time; soreness as if bruised.

• ▸Feels as if swung backward and forward.
• ▸Temporo-parietal neuralgia with pain in shoulder.
• ▸Pain across top of head from ear to ear; worse after an evening's entertainment, with irritability and sour eructations.
• ▸Sallow complexion.

Is so tired that he reels on coming into a room.—Sensation as if head were swung from

behind forward; as if brain were being shaken.—Painful dulness in head with darting to and fro in

1. side of it—Headache across top of head from one ear to the other.—Headache: < in afternoon,

had to lie down; inability to sleep; with pulsations over whole body; < or > after

sleep.—Headache causing irritability and impatience.—Sensation as if a weight lying on centre of

brain; each expiration = sensation as if the weight were pushed from occiput to

forehead.—Morning headache with weakness in back.—Sensation of roughness on forehead and

slight itching.—Itching on sides of head.

Dull, heavy pain in and behind 1. eye, in evening, after walking.—Pustule under r.

• ▸eyelid, < by touch.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸eye, temple, and ear.
• ▸—Pain around |.
• ▸eye, extending beyond r.

eyebrow, while walking at 11 a.m.—Sensation of dryness on the edges of the lids —Small watery

blisters on edges of lower lids.—Dryness and itching of eyes in evening, which is not > by

rubbing.—Blue half-circles under eyes.

Burning in nose with coryza, evening.—When sneezing or coughing, pain in

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Blood pustule r.
• ▸cheek, near wing of nose.
• ▸—Painful pustule on point of nose, bleeds

long after being squeezed.

Itching pimples in the face, on the nose, behind the ears; back of r. and |. zygoma; in

• ▸whiskers.
• ▸—Growth of whiskers more slow.
• ▸—Soreness and painfulness of the r.
• ▸corner of

• ▸mouth.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸and |.
• ▸lower jaw.

Tongue red in the middle (morning).—Burning sensation on surface of tongue near

tip.—Much tough mucus in mouth and slimy taste.

Sensation as if upper incisors projecting.—L. upper and outer incisor sensitive, and

feels like a foreign body.

Accumulation of tough mucus in throat, with slimy taste, which returns after rinsing

out the mouth—Frequent hawking of small solid lumps, which he must swallow.—Dryness in

throat and on tongue, without thirst.—Tickling (or sticking) as if a crumb of bread had lodged in

throat —Sensation when swallowing as if something hanging near hyoid bone.

No desire for beer —At dinner, and after coffee, headache.—Nausea; tasteless

eructations, which do not >.

• ▸Shooting pain from navel to pelvis.
• ▸Sensation as if intestines were bitten off.
• ▸Intestines feel strangulated.
• ▸Soreness of abdomen, swelling in right groin.
• ▸Flatulency.

• ▸Pain and soreness in liver.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸hypochondrium; > by eructations.
• ▸—Pain in

region of spleen.—Crawling sensation in abdomen.—Sensation as if the intestines were entangled

and twisted in different directions.—Stitches in |. side near hip-bone but more inward; in intervals

peculiar pain as if air bubbles pressed forcibly through intestines and passed upward; sometimes

as if an animal tearing off small portions from inside; stitches extend to r. side next

• ▸day.
• ▸—Sensation in flanks as if viscera gone.
• ▸—Violent colic in abdomen, more on the r.
• ▸side;

growing < under continuous eructations; can only endure the pain when lying on 1. side; < from

sneezing, coughing, and urinating, and in afternoon; returning next day in afternoon, with cold

hands and feet, continuous chilliness, and passing of urine like blood mixed with water; after

going to bed cramps in legs, which prevent her from moving in bed; > by external heat (hot

cloths).—Shooting pains from navel to pelvis —(Soreness and shaking pain from navel to

• ▸breasts.
• ▸).
• ▸—Swelling and hardness in r.
• ▸side of abdomen (ovary).
• ▸—Sharp pains, as darts with a

knife, low down in abdomen; > after stool.—Distended abdomen from flatulency.—Every step

hurts in |. groin.—Sensation as if something in groin would tear.

Frequent soft stool.—Diarrhoea with very little pain, night and day; cured

by Chi—Stool in afternoon or evening instead of morning.—Dull stitches felt at approach of a

stool; dull aching twitches |. side of rectum; morning.—Dull pains in rectum, as from too long

retained stool, but without urging, at noon.—Knife-like pains in uterus are > after

stool.—Constipation; stools hard, frequently whitish (like chalk).

Single stitches through bladder, with painful weakness in it—Frequent

micturition; bladder feels full, but little urine is passed.—Pressure in bladder, as if very

full —Dark urine with brick-dust sediment, or colouring, the vessel red.—Muddy (not dark) urine;

urine like water mixed with blood.

• ▸Uterine prolapse and retroversion.
• ▸Subacute pelvic peritonitis, with right-sided pain and backache; menorrhagia.
• ▸Cutting pain in uterus; relieved after stool.
• ▸Pain and swelling in region of right ovary.
• ▸Shooting or burning pain in pelvis and bearing-down; relieved by rubbing.
• ▸Soreness and shooting pain from navel of breast.
• ▸Glairy leucorrhoea.
• ▸Menstrual discharge while nursing.
• ▸Stitches in right breast near nipple.
• ▸It is indicated in that gynaecological condition where the disease had its inception in the right ovary, the uterine prolapse and retroversion, the subacute pelvic peritonitis and concomitant symptoms being secondary (F.
• ▸Aguilar, M.
• ▸D).

Pain and weakness as if uterus were sinking down; every motion

• ▸was esp.
• ▸painful; she could not well stand.
• ▸—Heaviness, like a weight in pelvis.
• ▸—Bearing-down

• ▸pain.
• ▸—R.
• ▸ovary swollen, sore to pressure, with bearing-down pains.
• ▸—In the region of r.
• ▸ovary,

drawing down and forward; > by rubbing (pressure).—Pain in r. ovary; urgency to urinate but

scanty emission and sensation of weight and bearing down in pelvis; prolapsus uteri—Swelling

and induration of r. ovary, with soreness and a shooting pain from navel to pelvis; with a

heaviness and weight in pelvis; < from exertion and while standing up, > lying on 1.

side.—Menses appeared later, at full moon instead of new moon, and accompanied by headache,

&c., which were > by Glon. and Bel// —Pain in abdomen and region of spleen at return of

menses.—Feels sore in abdomen after menses, with fear and apprehension that something

horrible will happen.—Menstrual discharge while nursing.—Leucorrheea transparent, like jelly; <

before and after menstruation.—Yellow leucorrhcea turned white and thicker and then

disappeared.

In evening and at night no proper erection could be obtained.—Single

stitches in urethra, extending down to corona glandis.—Sensation as if testicles were bruised,

with pain in abdomen.

Frequent hawking of small solid lumps which he must

swallow.—When making an expectoration, sensation as if something were pushed into head;

when taking a deep breath, stitches in chest—Coughing and sneezing < pain in abdomen.

Stitches in r. side of chest, through to the back; < from taking a long breath, > when

walking in the open air.—Stitches in r. breast near nipple, running in deep; < deep inspiration.

Pain in region of heart.—Pressing deep in the I. side of the chest periodical, as if in

the heart.—Pain in heart, with paralysis of |. arm.

• ▸Frequent painful spasm in muscles r.
• ▸side of neck; esp.
• ▸morning.
• ▸—Painful

drawing in neck, shoulders, and down |. arm.—Pain in back and hips, with coldness of

limbs.—Tired feeling in back.

Sudden stitches in r. shoulder-joint; rheumatic pains in r.

• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Sensation as if sprained in r.
• ▸shoulder-joint.
• ▸—Stitches from shoulders into middle of

• ▸chest.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸arm and temple.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸wrist extending into forearm.
• ▸—Sensation of

numbness in |. arm, as if paralysed—Numbness of r. arm and hand at night.

• ▸Rheumatic pains in the r.
• ▸hip.
• ▸—Sciatica: r.
• ▸side; dull aching pain; < towards

night and in evening, in cold and from motion; > by warmth and rest.—Darting pain from toes to

hip, or from trochanter to hollow of knee.—Tension in 1. calf; while walking it becomes tensive

in hamstrings.—Itching in 1. ankle.

• ▸Pruritus.
• ▸Tired feeling in small of back.
• ▸Fleeting, neuralgic pains in extremities, Heavy and tired in limbs.
• ▸Darting pain from toes to hips.
• ▸Rheumatic pain in right shoulder; in right hip.
• ▸Sciatica.

Redness of knuckles; warts on knuckles.—Itching and crawling as from fleas on

different spots, back, arms, abdomen, thighs, ankles.

Great sleepiness; in afternoon (3 p.m.), and early in the evening —Wakeful till 2

• ▸a.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Starting in sleep; afternoon.
• ▸—Dreams: every night; of buildings; wide stairs; many

rooms.—Symptoms > by sleep.

Chilliness with cold hands and feet, with colic.—Coldness of the limbs, with pain in

the back.

Pancreatinum.

Extract of Pancreatic and Salivary Glands of Ox or Sheep. Trituration.

• ▸Diabetes, pancreatic.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Mumps.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Pancreas, disease of.

Characteristics——Pancreatinum has been used with success in conditions due to disease or

faulty action of the pancreas on the analogy of Thyroidin and the other Sarcodes. Burnett says

pancreatics are often of great service in gout.

• ▸Compare: In action on pancreas and salivary glands, Ir.
• ▸v.
• ▸, Nux, Puls.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸,

jabor., Pilocarpine.

Complementary; Plat.

Compare: Arg; Helon; Lil; Apis.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.