Platinum Metallicum

The original name of Platinum was "Platina," being a Spanish word meaning

"like silver" (Plata being Spanish for silver). The metal was introduced into Europe from South

America in the middle of the eighteenth century. It is always found in association with other

metals, chiefly Rhodium, Osmium, Iridium, Palladium. Hahnemann was the first to think of it as

a medicine, and his proving in the Chronic Diseases is the basis of our knowledge of its action.

One characteristic symptom, either when found alone or in association with other conditions, has

led to many cures with P/at.—Lost sense of proportion in both ocular and mental vision. Objects

look small or the patient thinks them small. This becomes pride and hauteur in the mental sphere;

the patient (generally a woman) looks down on everything and everybody. This is a keynote of

Plat. Another is the occurrence of cramps, cramping pains and spasms, developing into

convulsions. The cramping pains = numbness and tingling in the parts affected. Pains as if

nipped, squeezed in a vice, and these pains increase gradually to an acme and then as gradually

decline. In the rectum this becomes tenesmus; in vagina, vaginismus. Another general keynote is

the alternation of mental and physical symptoms: as physical symptoms disappear mental

symptoms appear, and vice versa. Nash cured a case of insanity of some duration with Plat.,

being led to the remedy by an alternation of the mental symptoms with a pain the whole length of

the spine. This alternating feature is also seen between one mental state and another: Changing

moods; sad and gay alternately; laughs and cries by turns. There is also a perverse state: Laughs

immoderately, but in the wrong place; laughs at serious things. The mental disorder at times

takes a homicidal form. Jahr cured with Plat. a woman who had an inspiration to kill her child,

• ▸and Jules Gaudy recorded (Jour.
• ▸Belge d'H.
• ▸, quoted Amer.
• ▸H.
• ▸, xxii.
• ▸314) the case of a woman

who was tormented with an almost irresistible impulse to kill her husband, whom she loved

passionately, and with whom she was perfectly happy. The sight of a knife had an irresistible

fascination for her, and she was often obliged to leave the table to free herself from the impulse.

A few months before, she had lost a child a short time after confinement, which had been

followed by profuse and desperately persistent hemorrhage. Recovering from this she became

restless, irritable, and her whole existence was ruled by this terrible impulse. Plat. 6x and 30x

• ▸relieved and finally cured her.
• ▸Kent (Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xxv.
• ▸184) records the case of a middle-aged

lady, mother of several grown-up daughters, who complained of a peculiar mental symptom: A

fear, in the absence of her husband, that he would never return, that he would die, or be run over.

She wept all the time he was away. Kent discovered that she had been treated for uterine

displacement, and was then wearing a pessary. This was removed. Menstrual flow was copious,

black, clotted. The external genitals were so sensitive that the usual napkin was intolerable. Plat.

cured the whole case, including the displacement. Almost every symptom in this case was a

characteristic. The sensitiveness of the external genitals is often so great as to make coition

• ▸impossible.
• ▸Digital examining of such a patient causes great pain.
• ▸The action of Plat.
• ▸to a large

extent centres in and radiates from the sexual organs, male and female. It corresponds to

masturbation before puberty, and also to the effects of masturbation. It was one of Gallavardin's

remedies for the impulse to pederasty and sodomy. Tendency to uncover completely in sleep is a

leading note of it. Excessive desire, especially in virgins. Premature and excessive development

of sexual instinct and organs. Nymphomania < in puerperal state. During menses uterine spasms,

• ▸convulsions.
• ▸Convulsions of puerperal state.
• ▸Catalepsy during menstruation.
• ▸Spasms alternate

between convulsive actions and opisthotonos; full consciousness. Spasms alternate with

• ▸dyspnoea.
• ▸Excessive itching in uterus; pruritus vulve.
• ▸Plat.
• ▸has some characteristic symptoms in

relation to the bowels. Its cramping tendency makes it an antidote to lead poisoning; and it has

constipation scarcely less marked than that of Pb., though differing from it. The stools of Plat.

are tenacious and sticky, adhere to the rectum and anus like putty; or they may be hard as if

burnt; the constipation comes on whilst travelling; in emigrants; during pregnancy. Peculiar

Sensations and Symptoms are: As if her senses would vanish. As if parts of malar bones were

between screws. As if everything about her were very small. As if she were constantly growing

longer and longer. As if she did not belong to her own family. Vertigo as if torn and pulled with

threads. Forehead as if constricted; screwed on; as if a board pressed against it. As if temples too

• ▸tightly bound.
• ▸Scalp as if contracted; as if a heavy weight on it.
• ▸As if head were enlarged.
• ▸As if

throat constricted; palate elongated; tongue scalded. As if abdomen, chest, nape, limbs, thigh,

great toe, tightly wrapped or constricted. Back and small of back as if broken. Crawling, tingling,

• ▸numb sensations.
• ▸Spasmodic yawning.
• ▸Pains go from right to left.
• ▸The right side is somewhat

more pronouncedly affected than the left. Severe stitches in right ovary. The symptoms are

periodic and paroxysmal, as well as alternating. Plat. is suited to women with dark hair; thin,

sanguine, bilious; with too frequent and too profuse menses; sexual organs exceedingly sensitive.

• ▸Hysterical and hemorrhoidal patients.
• ▸The symptoms are: < By touch and pressure.
• ▸< Fasting.
• ▸<

• ▸During menses.
• ▸< Rest; sitting; standing; bending backward.
• ▸> By motion.
• ▸Walking and going

upstairs < pressure in genitals; > hysteric rheumatism. Walking against wind = sudden arrest of

• ▸breathing.
• ▸< Evening and night.
• ▸Headache commences on waking.
• ▸< In warm room; > in open air

(but open air = fluent coryza and shaking chill on going from room; heat > cramp pain in legs

and irritability and chilliness. Obliged to stretch, which >.

• ▸Irresistible impulse to kill.
• ▸Self-exaltation; contempt for others.
• ▸Arrogant, proud.
• ▸Weary of everything.
• ▸Everything seems changed.
• ▸Mental trouble pressed menses.
• ▸Physical symptoms disappear as mental symptoms develop.

Sadness, esp. in evening, with strong inclination to weep often (every second day)

alternating with excessive gaiety and buffoonery.—Involuntary inclination to whistle and

• ▸sing.
• ▸—Involuntary weeping.
• ▸—Loud cries for help.
• ▸—Thinks she stands alone in the

world.—Anxietas preecordium to an excessive degree, with great fear of death, which is believed

to be very near, accompanied by trembling, palpitation of heart, and obstructed

respiration.—Sensation of dread and horror.—Fear, with trembling of hands and feet and

confusion of ideas, as if all persons approaching were demons.—Hysterical humour, with great

mental depression, nervous weakness, and over-excitement of vascular system.—Mental

symptoms in general: amativeness; state of disposition.—Great irritability, with prolonged ill-

humour, after a fit of passion—Apathetic indifference and absence of mind.—Pride and self-

conceit, with contempt for others, even for those who are usually most beloved and respected; <

indoors, > in open air and sunshine.—Impulse to kill her own child; her husband; (on seeing a

• ▸knife).
• ▸—Distraction and forgetfulness.
• ▸—Loss of consciousness.
• ▸—Incoherency of

speech.—Delusion of the senses; feeling as of being too large, and, on the contrary, all other

things and persons seem to be too small and too low.—Delirium, with fear of men, often

changing, with over-estimation of oneself—Mania: with great pride; with fault-finding; with

unchaste talk; trembling and clonic spasms, caused by fright or from anger.

• ▸Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot.
• ▸Cramplike, squeezing pain.
• ▸Constriction about forehead and right temples.
• ▸Numbness, with headache.

Tensive confusion in forehead, as if head were compressed in a vice.—Pressing

headache from without to within the forehead and temples, gradually increasing and decreasing,

<in evening from stooping, while it rest, in the room; > from exercise and in open

air.—Transient attacks of vertigo in evening with loss of consciousness.—Vertigo on sitting down

or ascending stairs.—Headache which increases gradually, or by fits, until it becomes; very

violent, and which diminishes progressively in same manner.—Attack of headache, with nausea

and vomiting.—Sensation of numbness in head, and externally at vertex, preceded by a sensation

of contraction of brain and of scalp; < in evening and while sitting, > from motion and in open

air.—Pain in sides of head, as if caused by a plug.—Constrictive headache, as if a tape were

tightly drawn around it, with sensation of numbness in brain, flushes of heat and ill-humour, <

from stooping and exercice.—Formication in one temple, extending to lower jaw, with sensation

of coldness on that spot; < in evening and when at rest, > from rubbing.—Pressive, cramp-like,

compressive pains in the forehead and temples, esp. in root of nose, greatly < by movement and

by stooping, sometimes with heat and redness of face, inquietude, and weeping. —Tingling in

temples, as if caused by insects.—Buzzing and noise in head, like that of a mill.

• ▸Objects look smaller than they are.
• ▸Twitching of lids (Agar).
• ▸Eyes feel cold.
• ▸Cramp-like pain in orbits.

Pain in eyes after fatiguing the sight by looking attentively at an object.—Tension in

sockets, with gnawing pain, as from excoriation in margins.—Cramp-like pain in edges of

• ▸orbits.
• ▸—Compressive tension in eyeballs.
• ▸—Aching in eyes with sleep.
• ▸—Creeping tingling in

canthi.—Sensation of heat or of coldness and smarting in eyes.—Trembling or spasmodic

quivering of eyelids.—Eyes convulsed.—Objects appear smaller than they really are-—Confused

sight, as if directed through a veil, often with painless twitchings round the eye.—Quivering and

sparkling before sight.

Feels numb. Cramp-like twinges. Roaring and rumbling.

• ▸Otalgia with cramp-like pain.
• ▸—Shocks in ears.
• ▸—(Sticking jerking in r.
• ▸outer ear with)

sensation of numbness and of coldness in ears, extending to cheeks and lips.—Gnawing tingling

in ears.—Roaring, whizzing, and ringing in ears —Dull thundering and rumbling in ears.

Cramp-like pain, with sensation of numbness in nose and at root of nose.—Ineffectual

want to sneeze and tingling in nose.—Dry coryza, often semi-lateral.—Corrosive sensation on

nose, as of something acrid.

• ▸Prosopalgia, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws.
• ▸Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed in a vise.
• ▸Coldness, creeping, and numbness, in whole right side of face.
• ▸Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stann).

Face pale, wan, and sunken.—Burning heat and glowing redness in face, with ardent

• ▸thirst and dryness of mouth, esp.
• ▸in evening.
• ▸—Distortion of muscles of face.
• ▸—Sensation of

coldness, with tingling and sensation of numbness throughout (r.) side of face.—Cramp and

tensive pressure in zygomatic processes.—Benumbing, dull pressure in malar bone.—Pulsative

digging in jaws, esp. in evening and during repose, with involuntary

weeping.—Lockjaw.—Gnawing, with pain as from excoriation in lips and chin, which compel

• ▸scratching.
• ▸—Smarting and lancinating vesicles on lips.
• ▸—Lips dry and cracked.
• ▸—Plexus venarum,

of a reddish blue colour, on chin.—Sensation of torpor or coldness round mouth and

chin.—Cramp in jaw.

• ▸Sensation of coldness, esp.
• ▸in mouth.
• ▸—Crawling sensation on tongue.
• ▸—Burnings pain

under tongue.—Sensation in tongue as if it had been burnt or scalded.

Odontalgia with pulsative and digging pain—Cramp-like drawing, which recurs by

fits, in teeth—Numb pain in |. lower teeth.—Fissures in gums.

Sensation as if throat were raw during (empty) deglutition and at other

times.—Cramp-like drawing in throat, like a constriction Sensation as if palate or uvula were

elongated.—Scraping and accumulation of phlegm in throat.—Hawking up of phlegm.

• ▸10.
• ▸Appetite-—Mucous, clammy taste——Sweetish taste on tip of tongue.
• ▸—Adipsia.
• ▸—Loss of

appetite after the first mouthful—Complete loss of appetite—Repugnance to food, arising from

• ▸sadness.
• ▸—Dislike to food.
• ▸—Bulimy.
• ▸—Voracious rapidity in eating, with a disposition to find fault

with everything (to detest everything around, himself).—After a meal, risings, pressure on

stomach; and colic.

Fermentation, much flatulence; constriction; ravenous hunger; persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.

Ineffectual effort to eructate—Empty, noisy eructations.—Serum of a disagreeable

sweetish bitterness ascends throat, and puts patient in danger of choking.—Continued nausea,

with lassitude, trembling, and anxiety—Aching (pressure) in stomach, esp. after a

meal.—Sensation of constriction in pit of stomach, extending into abdomen.—Fermentations in

epigastric region.—Flatulent soreness towards hypogastrium.—Contractive pain in scrobiculus, as

if it were squeezed too tightly.—Pressure or shocks, or else throbbings, shootings, and pinchings

in scrobiculus.—Burning sensation in scrobiculus, sometimes extending from throat into

abdomen.

Painter's colic. Pain in umbilical region; extending through to back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen; extending into pelvis.

Pains in abdomen, with dull and jerking pressure.—Inflation of abdomen, with

difficult and interrupted expulsion of flatus.—Pressing and bearing down in abdomen extending

• ▸into pelvis.
• ▸—Lead colic.
• ▸—Constriction in abdomen.
• ▸—Pinchings in umbilical region.
• ▸—Shootings in

the side of abdomen and in umbilical region —Gnawing in abdomen.—Drawing in groins,

commencing from sacrum.

• ▸Retarded; feces scanty; evacuated with difficulty.
• ▸Adheres to rectum, like soft clay.
• ▸Sticky stool.
• ▸Constipation of travelers, who are constantly changing food and water.
• ▸Stool as if burnt.

Constipation: after lead poisoning or while travelling; sometimes very

obstinate.—The stool is discharged with difficulty, seeming to stick to anus and rectum like

putty.—Frequent want, with scanty evacuation, which is voided in pieces, and with great

• ▸efforts.
• ▸—Evacuations of consistence of pap.
• ▸—Stool hard, as if burnt.
• ▸—Tenia and ascarides are

discharged from rectum during evacuation and at other times.—After evacuation general

shuddering or sensation of weakness in abdomen.—Frequent itching, tingling, and tenesmus in

anus, esp. in the evening (before sleep).—Violent and dull lancinations in rectum.

Red urine with a white cloud, or else which becomes turbid, and deposits

ared sediment.—Slow but frequent emission of urine.

• ▸Parts hypersensitive.
• ▸Tingling internally and externally (Kali brom; Orig).
• ▸Ovaries sensitive and burn.
• ▸Menses too early, too profuse, dark-clotted, with spasms and painful bearing-down, chilliness, and sensitiveness of parts.
• ▸Vaginismus.
• ▸Nymphomania.
• ▸Excessive sexual development; vaginismus.
• ▸Pruritus vulvae.
• ▸Ovaritis with sterility.
• ▸Abnormal sexual appetite and melancholia.

Sensation of bearing down towards genital organs, with aching in

abdomen.—Unnatural increase of sexual desire, with painful sensibility and voluptuous tingling

from genitals up into abdomen.—Nymphomania, which may occur even during the lying-in

• ▸period.
• ▸—Induration of uterus.
• ▸—Sanguineous congestion in uterus.
• ▸—Miscarriage —Metrorrhagia

(with great excitability of the sexual system) of thick, deep-coloured blood, with drawings in

groins.—Catamenia too early and too profuse (blood dark and coagulated), sometimes with

headache, restlessness, and tears —Menstruation, when the discharge is very abundant, thick and

black like tar, and is very exhausting; spasms and screaming at every menstrual

period.—Catamenia too long continued.—Before catamenia, cuttings and pains like those of

labour in hypogastrium.—Cramps at commencement of catamenia.—Painful sensitiveness and

constant pressure in mons veneris and genital organs, with internal chill and external coldness,

• ▸except face.
• ▸—Severe stitches in r.
• ▸ovarian region.
• ▸—During catamenia, pressure as of a general

bearing down towards genital organs, which are very sensitive —Leucorrheea, like white of eggs,

flowing chiefly after urinating, and on rising from a seat.

Burning pain and gnawing in scrotum.—Unnatural increase of sexual

desire, with frequent erections, esp. at night (with amorous dreams).—Voluptuous crawling in

genital organs and abdomen, with anxious oppression and palpitation, then painless pressure

downwards in genitals with sticking in sinciput and exhaustion.—Flow of prostatic

fluid.—Coition of too short duration, with but little enjoyment.

Aphonia.—Short, nervous, dry cough, with palpitation and

dyspnoea.—Short, difficult, and anxious respiration.

Shortness of breath, with constrictive oppression of chest.—Inclination to draw a

long breath, prevented by a sensation of weakness in chest.—Anxious oppression of chest, with

sensation of heat, which ascends from epigastrium.—Pain in chest, as if a weight were pressing

upon it, with want to take a full inspiration, which is hindered by a sensation of

weakness.—Tension, pressure, and shootings in sides of chest, which do not permit lying down

on either side.—Aching and dull blows in chest.—Spasmodic pressure in one side of

chest.—Spasmodic pain in chest, commencing slightly, increasing to a certain intensity, and

gradually diminishing in same way.—Dull lancinations in sides of chest, during an inspiration.

Burning and sticking low down by heart.—A dull pressure in region of apex of

heart.—Anxious palpitation of heart.

Rigidity of nape of neck.—Weakness and sensation of tensive numbness in

nape of neck (the head sinks forward).—Contusive pain in loins and in back, esp. when pressing

upon them, or else when bending backwards.—Pains in back and small of back as if broken, after

a walk < bending backwards.—Spasmodic pain in loins.—Sensation of numbness in coccyx, as

after a blow.

Heaviness and lassitude of arms, with paralytic pulling.—Paralysed sensation

• ▸in |.
• ▸arm; in both arms.
• ▸—Aching and spasmodic pain in forearms, hands, and fingers, esp.
• ▸when

grasping anything firmly.—Itching, gnawing, pricking, and burning sensation in arms, hands, and

• ▸fingers.
• ▸—Sensation of stiffness in forearms.
• ▸—Painful throbbing in fingers.
• ▸—Distortion of

• ▸fingers.
• ▸—Numbness of fingers —Trembling of r.
• ▸thumb, with numbness.
• ▸—Numbness of little

finger.—Ulcers on fingers.

Spasmodic pain and tension in thighs, feet, and toes —Weakness of thighs

• ▸and knees, as if they were broken.
• ▸—Pain as from a blow in |.
• ▸knee.
• ▸—Shocks and blows in

legs.—Lassitude of legs.—Restlessness and trembling in legs, with a sensation of numbness and

rigidity.—Lassitude and numbness in feet when seated.—Coldness of feet—Gnawing, excoriation,

and smarting in ankle-bones, greatly < by least touch.—Painful throbbing in toes.—Swelling on

ball of toe, with tearing and nocturnal pulsations.—Ulcers on toes —Pain in great toe as if too

tightly enveloped.

24. Generalities—Dark-haired females.—Face changing colour frequently —Rising in

throat—Tapeworm, other symptoms agreeing. —Contraction of inner parts.—Catalepsy; epilepsy

• ▸with rigor; tonic spasms.
• ▸—Very great paleness of skin.
• ▸—Spasmodic yawning.
• ▸—Pains like labour

• ▸pains.
• ▸—Sensation as of a hoop around parts.
• ▸—Violent shocks as if from pain.
• ▸—Sensation of

prickling in the outer parts.—Sensation of coldness in outer parts—Compressive, cramp-like,

constrictive, or pressive pains, as if caused by a plug, or by dull blows.—Cramp-like, jerking, and

drawing pains in limbs and joints.—Tension in limbs, as if bound too tightly with

ligatures.—Pains, as from a contusion, a blow, or a bruise, esp. when pressing on part

affected.—Pains, slight at commencement, increase gradually, often at regular intervals, and

diminish in same manner.—Sensation of torpor and paralytic rigidity in various parts, often with

trembling and palpitation of heart —Attack of spasmodic rigidity in limbs, without loss of

consciousness, but with clenching of jaws, loss of speech, eyes convulsed, and involuntary

movements of commissures of lips and eyelids.—The spasmodic attacks manifest themselves

chiefly at daybreak.—A ffections caused by fright, by vexation, or by a fit of passion.—Moral and

physical affections, appearing alternately.—Excessive weakness (paralytic weakness in

limbs).—Dull, pushing, or inward pressing pains, as from dull blows.—Tingling restlessness,

sensation of weakness and trembling in limbs, esp. during repose and in open air.—Mapjority of

symptoms < by repose, in the evening; from anger; more in females than males; after lying down

and rising again; when sitting; after rising; and > by movement.—The affections which are > in

open air are generally < towards evening and in a room.

Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped. Numb and weary sensation. Feel paralyzed.

Tingling gnawing, with pain as of excoriation, and itching or burning, pricking, and

shooting pain on various parts of skin, which provokes scratching. —Ulcers (on fingers and toes).

Sleeps with legs far apart (Chamom).

Convulsive and spasmodic yawning, esp. in afternoon.—Great disposition to sleep in

• ▸evening.
• ▸—Prolonged sleep in morning.
• ▸—Anxious dreams of wars and bloodshed.
• ▸—Lascivious

dreams.—Waking at night, esp. after midnight (with frightful dreams, want of consciousness), or

with anxious, sad, and distressing thoughts.—Bewilderment at night on waking.—At night patient

lies on back, with arms above head, legs drawn up, with strong inclination to uncover them.

Pulse small, feeble, frequently tremulous.—Constant shivering and shuddering over

whole body, esp. in open air.—Shaking chill when going from the room into the open, even warm

air.—Chilliness predominates, with low spirits, which ceases during heat.—Heat with sensation of

burning in face, without any visible change in colour of face (she thought she was very red, but

colour the same as usual).—Flushes of heat, interrupted by chilliness——Gradually increasing, and

in the same manner gradually decreasing heat.—Perspiration only during sleep, ceasing as soon

as one wakens.

• ▸Amenorrheea.
• ▸Chlorosis.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸De/usions.
• ▸Dentition.
• ▸Depression

• ▸of spirits.
• ▸Dysmenia.
• ▸Erotomania.
• ▸Fear.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Hemorrhage.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Lead

• ▸poisoning.
• ▸Masturbation.
• ▸Melancholia, Menorrhagia.
• ▸Menses, suppressed.
• ▸Mind, affections of.

• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Neurasthenia.
• ▸Numbness.
• ▸Nymphomania.
• ▸Ovaries, affections of.
• ▸Pruritus vulve.

• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Sexual perversion.
• ▸Spasms.
• ▸Tapeworm.
• ▸Uterus, induration of.
• ▸Vaginismus.

Yawning, spasmodic.

• ▸Antidoted by: Puls.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸sp.
• ▸d.
• ▸(Teste, who classes Plat.
• ▸with Thuj.
• ▸, Brom.
• ▸, and

• ▸Castor, says Colch.
• ▸is the best antidote to all four).
• ▸Antidote to: Lead.
• ▸Complementary: Pallad.

• ▸(both affect right ovary, but Pallad.
• ▸has > from pressure).
• ▸Compatible: Bell.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸,

• ▸Rhus, Sep.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸Compare: Pride, Pall.
• ▸(Plat.
• ▸egotistical, despises others; Pall.
• ▸easily wounded,

attaches importance to others), Lyc. (imperious). Spasms and emaciation from antepuberty

• ▸masturbation, Staph.
• ▸Uterine affections, nymphomania, Aur.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸(the nymphomania of Plat.
• ▸is

• ▸more intense; Plat.
• ▸is intermediate between Aur.
• ▸and Sep.
• ▸in weariness of life; the uterine cramps

of Plat. are followed by numbness; those of Sep. are a clutching as if suddenly seized then

• ▸Suddenly relaxed).
• ▸Hysteria, indurated ulcers, Tarent.
• ▸Sees ghosts and demons, Hyo.
• ▸, K.
• ▸bro.

• ▸Shamelessness, uncovers, Pho.
• ▸, Hyo.
• ▸(Hyo.
• ▸sees things larger; Plat.
• ▸smaller).
• ▸Thinks death near

• ▸and fears it, Aco.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸Dark, stringy hemorrhage, Cham.
• ▸, Croc.
• ▸(Croc.
• ▸has sensation of

• ▸something alive).
• ▸Pains come and go gradually, Stan.
• ▸, Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸(Bell.
• ▸and Lyc.
• ▸, suddenly).

• ▸Sensitive to coitus, Sep.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸(dry vagina), Fer.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Apis (with stinging in ovary), Thuj.
• ▸,

• ▸Kre.
• ▸(followed by bloody flow), Murex, Orig.
• ▸Constipation when travelling (Lyc.
• ▸when from

• ▸home; Bry.
• ▸when at sea).
• ▸Weak and exhausted feeling for two hours after stool, Sep.
• ▸Sticky

stools like soft clay, Alm. Hysteria, pressure at root of nose, Ign. Excessive sexual development,

• ▸especially in virgins, K.
• ▸pho.
• ▸Masturbation in girls, Orig.
• ▸, Gratiol.
• ▸Dark-haired women, Sep.

• ▸Laughs immoderately at serious things, Anac.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Pho.

Compare: Rhodium; Stann; Valer; Sep. Compare, also: Platinum muriaticum (this remedy has achieved beneficial results after Iodide of Potash failed to cure in syphilitic affection; violent occipital headaches, dysphagia, and syphilitic throat and bone affections; caries of bones of feet); Plat mur nat (polyuria and salivation); Sedum acre (sexual irritability, relieves irritation of nerve centers and gives rest).

Antidote: Puls. Platina antidotes the bad effects of lead.

Sixth trituration to thirtieth potency.

Sparks before the eyes, spasms of the lids, and objects appear smaller

than they really are. Senstion of coldness in the eyes, spasms, spas^

modic trembling and twitching of the muscles of the eyes* Cramping

pain in the ears, coldness in the ears, numbness of the external ears*

The numbness of the ears extends to the face, nose and scalp. Platinum is a haemorrhagic remedy. Bleeding from various parts of the

body and mucous membranes. The haemorrhages wherever observed

are black clots with fluid. On examining the symptoms of the nosd

haemorrhage is observed. Black, coagulated blood from the nose.

Ovensensitive to smell. Violent crampy pains at the root of the nose

with redness of the face.

Sensation of coldness of the face, numbness of the face, cramping,

• ▸pressing pains in the face.
• ▸Neuralgia of the face.
• ▸Coldness, crawling, numbness of the face.
• ▸Numbness of the malar bone.
• ▸Tearing

boring pain in the face.

Pulsating and digging through the lower jaw, especially the right

side, together with numbness and coldness. The pains come gradually

and go gradually. Sensation as if the tongue were scalded, crawling

in the tongue. Loss of appetite on account of the depressed mood or

at other times a ravenous appetite ; hasty eating, eats everything around

her. Much flatulence, fermentation in the stomach. Jerking of the

muscles of the stomach and abdomen. Sensation as if the whole abdomen were tightly constricted or bandaged. Tension of the skin of the

abdomen. Violent, cramping pains in the abdomen, drawing pains in

the navel as if by a string, which causes a sensation of retraction of

the abdomen. Pressing, bearing down pains in the abdomen. These

pains are much like Plumbum and Patinum has been used as an antidote to Plumbum, Pressing, drawing pains from incarcerated flatus.

The torpor of the intestinal canal is much like that which is found in

Plumbum, Inveterate constipattion, much flatus.

The stool is half digested and papescent or hard as if burnt, or may

be scanty and very difficult, of* may be glutinous and adherent to the

anus like soft clay, Frequci|t urging to stool and inability to strain

at stool, inveterate constipation and unsuccessful urging to stool. Pain

in the abdomen after lead ||>isoning and colic after lead poisoning.

Constipation in travelers. jT^longcd efforts to pass a stool. Aching

pains, burning pains and ^protrusion of haemorrhoids during stool.

Burning in the rectum during stool. Itching, tickling, and tenesmus

of the anus, especially in the evening. Extreme sexual erethism is

found in both male and female. In the male there is great sexual

erethism driving to secret vice. It has cured epilepsy arising from

onanism. Sexual erethism is one of the most prominent features of

Platinunt in women. Unbearable sexual excitement and voluptuous

crawling in the genitals. Such extreme sensitiveness of the external

genitals that it is impossible for the woman to wear a napkin during

• ▸menstruation.
• ▸Such extreme sensitiveness of the vagina that it is impossible for the physician to make an examination with the index finger.
• ▸It is not an inflammation but a hyperaesthesia.
• ▸Increased sexual

excitement in young girls, in hysterical girls. Violent sexual desire in

married women with itching, tingling, and voluptuous sensations.

Pain in the ovarian region, especially the left. It has cured sterility of

long standing, especially sterility that is supposed to come from excessive sexual excitement. Burning, stitching pains in the ovaries.

Infl^tmmation; of the ovaries coming with haemorrhage of the uterus^

Cramp-like jerking and drawing pains in limbs and joints.—Tension in limbs (esp.

thighs) as if bound too tightly with ligatures.—Attack of spasmodic rigidity in limbs, without loss

of consciousness, but with clenching of jaws, loss of speech, eyes convulsed, and involuntary

movements of the commissures of lips and eyelids.—Tingling restlessness, sensation of weakness

and trembling in limbs, esp. during repose and in open air.