Zincum Metallicum

• ▸Weak memory.
• ▸Very sensitive to noise.
• ▸Averse to work, to talk.
• ▸Child repeats everything said to it.
• ▸Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime.
• ▸Melancholia.
• ▸Lethargic, stupid.
• ▸Paresis.

• ▸Feels as if he would fall to left side.
• ▸Headache from the smallest quantity of wine.
• ▸Hydrocephalus.
• ▸Rolls head from side to side.
• ▸Bores head into pillow.
• ▸Occipital pain, with weight on vertex.
• ▸Automatic motion of head and hands.
• ▸Brain-fag; headaches of overtaxed school children.
• ▸Forehead cool; base of brain hot.
• ▸Roaring in head.
• ▸Starting in fright.

• ▸Pterygium; smarting, lachrymation, itching.
• ▸Pressure as if pressed into head.
• ▸Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles.
• ▸Ptosis.
• ▸Rolling of eyes.
• ▸Blurring of one-half of vision; worse, stimulants.
• ▸Squinting.
• ▸Amaurosis, with severe headache.
• ▸Red and inflamed conjunctiva; worse, inner canthus.

Tearing, stitches, and external swelling. Discharge of fetid pus.

Sore feeling high up; pressure upon root.

Pale lips, and corners of mouth cracked. Redness and itching eruption on chin. Tearing in facial bones.

• ▸Teeth loose.
• ▸Gums bleed.
• ▸Gnashing of teeth.
• ▸Bloody taste.
• ▸Blisters on tongue.
• ▸Difficult dentition; child weak; cold and restless feet.

Dry; constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus. Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx. Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing.

• ▸Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus.
• ▸Burning in stomach, heartburn from sweet things.
• ▸Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine. Ravenous hunger about 11 am (Sulph).
• ▸Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough.
• ▸Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed.

• ▸Pain after a light meal, with tympanitis.
• ▸Pain in spot beneath navel.
• ▸Gurgling and griping; distended.
• ▸Flatulent colic, with retraction of abdomen (Plumb).
• ▸Enlarged, indurated sore liver.
• ▸Reflex symptoms from floating kidney.
• ▸Griping after eating.

Hard, small, constipated stool. Cholera infantum, with tenesmus; green mucous discharges. Sudden cessation of diarrhoea, followed by cerebral symptoms.

Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards. Hysterical retention. Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing.

• ▸Ovarian pain, especially left; can't keep still (Viburn).
• ▸Nymphomania of lying-in women.
• ▸Menses too late, suppressed; lochia suppressed (Puls).
• ▸Breasts painful.
• ▸Nipples sore.
• ▸Menses flow more at night (Bov).
• ▸Complaints all better during menstrual flow. (Eupion; Lach).
• ▸All the female symptoms are associated with restlessness, depression, coldness spinal tenderness and restless feet.
• ▸Dry cough before and during menses.

• ▸Testicles swelled, drawn up.
• ▸Erections violent.
• ▸Emissions with hypochondriasis.
• ▸Falling off of hair (pubic).
• ▸Drawing in testicles up to spermatic cord.

• ▸Burning pressure beneath sternum.
• ▸Constriction and cutting in chest.
• ▸Hoarseness.
• ▸Debilitating, spasmodic cough; worse, eating sweet things.
• ▸Child grasps genitals during cough.
• ▸Asthmatic bronchitis, with constriction, of chest.
• ▸Dyspnoea better as soon as expectoration appears.

• ▸Pain in small of back.
• ▸Cannot bear back touched (Sul; Therid; Cinch).
• ▸Tension and stinging between shoulders.
• ▸Spinal irritation.
• ▸Dull aching about the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebrae; worse sitting. Burning along spine. Nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion.
• ▸Tearing in shoulder-blades.

Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of various muscles. Chilblains (Agar).

• ▸Feet in continued motion; cannot keep still. Large varicose veins on legs.
• ▸Sweaty.
• ▸Convulsions, with pale face. Transverse pains, especially in upper extremity.
• ▸Soles of feet sensitive.
• ▸Steps with entire sole of foot on floor.

• ▸Varicose veins, especially of lower extremities (Puls).
• ▸Formication of feet and legs as from bugs crawling over the skin, preventing sleep.
• ▸Eczema, especially in the anaemic and neurotic.
• ▸Itching of thighs and hollow of knees.

Retrocession of eruptions.

• ▸Cries out during sleep; body jerks; wakes frightened, stared.
• ▸Nervous motion of feet when asleep.
• ▸Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it.
• ▸Somnambulism (Kali phos).

• ▸Frequent, febrile shiverings down back.
• ▸Cold extremities.
• ▸Night-sweat.
• ▸Profuse sweat on feet.

Compare: Agaric; Ign; Plumb; Argent; Puls; Helleb; Tuberc. Inimical: Nux; Cham. Compare in amelioration by secretions: Lach; Stan; Mosch.

Compare: Zincum aceticum (effects of night-watching and erysipelas; brain feels sore; Rademacher's solution, five-drop doses three times a day in water, for those who are compelled to work, on an insufficient amount of sleep); Zinc, bromatum (dentition, chorea, hydrocephalus); Zinc oxydatum (Nausea and sour taste). Sudden vomiting in children. Vomiting of bile and diarrhoea. Flatulent abdomen. Watery stools with tenesmus. Debility after grip. Fiery red face, great drowsiness with dreamlike unrefreshing sleep. Similar to effect of night watching. Mental and physical exertion (Rademacher). Zinc. Sulph, not repeated frequently (high potency) will clear up opacities of the cornea (McFarland). Corneitis; granular lids; tongue paralyzed; cramps in arms and legs; trembling and convulsions. Hypochondriasis due to masturbation; nervous headaches; Zinc cyanatum (as a remedy for meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis, paralysis agitans, chorea, and hysteria, it has received some attention); Zinc ars (chorea, anaemia, profound exhaustion on slight exertion. Depression and marked involvement of lower extremities); Zinc carb (post-gonorrhoeal throat affections, tonsils swollen, bluish superficial spots); Zinc phos (herpes zoster 1x); Zinc muriat (disposition to pick the bedclothes; sense of smell and taste perverted; bluish-green tint of skin; cold and sweaty);

Zinc phos (neuralgia of head and face; lightning-like pains in locomotor ataxia, brain-fag, nervousness, and vertigo; sexual excitement and sleeplessness); Ammon valerian (violent neuralgia, with great nervous agitation); Zinc picricum (facial paralysis; brain-fag, headache in Bright's disease; seminal emissions; loss of memory and energy). Oxide of zinc is used locally as an astringent and stimulant application to unhealthy ulcers, fissures, intertrigo, burns, etc.

Second to sixth potency.

Zinc, has a full and substantial proving, including symptoms of

every part of the body. It is an antipsoric, suitable in broken down

constitutions, feeble constitutions ; enfeeblement characterizes the

whole proving.

The Zinc, patient is nervous and extremely sensitive, excitable,

trembling, quivering, twitching of muscles, tearing pains along the

course of the nerves, tingling, excited on the least provocation ; oversensitiveness in one part and lack of feeling in another. This extreme

oversensitiveness is like Nux ; which is inimical. The overworked and

excitable persons belong to Nux and Zinc. Nux is sensitive to the

higher potencies. Further, there is paralytic weakness, emaciation,

prostration ; full of brain and spinal symptoms.

All the functions are slow ; eruptions appear slowly. The whole

economy seems to be tired and feeble, so that when a girl approaches

puberty and it is time for the menses to be established, but the flow

docs not appear, she goes into a decline ; she begins to manifest choreic

symptoms, jerking and twitching, soreness in the back of the neck,

burning of the whole spine, creeping and crawling of the extremities,

hysterical manifestions of all sorts. Sensitive to every little noise,

to people talking in the room, to crumpling of paper. “Talking or

listening is distressing ; much talking of other people, even of those of

who he is fond, affects his nerves and makes him morose.”

Feeble children, feeble girls, mind feeble, memory poor. Tendency

to be docile, but when aroused irascible. If the child comes down with

scarlatina or measles, it goes into a stupor. The eruption does not

come out. There is a tendency to convulsions, drawing in the extremities, suppression of urine, rolling of the head from one side to the

other, and from stupor it goes into complete unconsciousness ; inability

to throw eruptions to the surface.

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liie stomach is slow in digesting ; sour vomiting. The intestines are

sluggish. The, j’cctum becomes impacted. Difficult expulsion of

urine ; paralysis of the bladder and tedious constipation associated with

spinal symptoms ; urine ^low in starting ; can pass it only when sitting

and in some cases only when sitting leaning back against the seat with

hard pressure. Aching in the dorsal, lumbar, and sacral re^ons ; better when walking and worse from rising from a seat. (In Rhus, the

aching is in the sacral region, and better when walking and coming on

• ▸while sitting.
• ▸Calc.
• ▸, Rhus, Phos.
• ▸, Sulph.
• ▸and Sepia have this in the

highest degree. Zinc, occupies a lower grade in the aggravation when

rising from a seat, as do Petr, and Ledum.) , v.

Numbness of the soles of the feet, with cutting pain and soreness

in the heel when stepping ; fulgurating pains, stitching, stabbing, and

tearing ; tabes dorsalis.

Limbs paralyzed ; paresis and finally paralysis of one or both sides ;

jerking, trembling and prostration. Shocks and jerking during sleep.

Trophic centers in a state of anaemia ; emaciation throughout the

body ; the skin looks withered ; the face pallid, wrinkled, unhealthy,

sickly. Always chilly ; sensitive to the cold. Full of neuralgic pains ;

tearing pains in all parts of the body when exposed to a draft ; tension

and drawing in various places. Strange drawing about the eyes as if

strabismus would come on ; drawing in the muscles ; neck drawn back ;

tension and drawing everywhere. When he comes to rest, the limbs

want to draw up, hence, hysterical cohtractures ; drawing the fingers

all out of shape.

The mind is slow and the patient is Weak and tired ; weak memory ;

forgetful. “Repeats all questions befoire answering them.” When an

individual does this it is to make the mind comprehend. He must first

realize what it means and then answers. Such a symptom is found in

typhoid, when the patient does not convalesce ; in a child after brain

affections. Nervous prostration ; waits a moment, looking blank, then

the face lights up and he answers. If you look at the Zincum patient

and do not address him, you would not realize that he was so weak,

but put a question to him and he stares at you in perfect amazement,

then says, “Oh,” and answers.

Zinc, is not suitable in those who are naturally feeble-minded, when

the child is in a state bordering upon idiocy. Baryta curb, feeds such

a mind. He rouses out of a semi-slumber and stares a moment without answering.

Stupor*; aroused by every little noise, startles, twitches all over ; but

soon he goes beyond this, becoming less and less excitable, and finally

passes into unconsciousness and cannot be aroused.

You will find some deep-seated brain troubles that will try your

patience. Some cases go slowly and gradually into unconsciousness ;

rolling of the head for days ; eyes lusterless ; body emaciated, involuntary discharges of faeces and urine in the bed ; tongue dry and parched,

so shriveled that it looks like leather, lips also ; face withered and

each day looks older ; paralysis of one band pr one foot, or it seems

that the whole muscular system is paralyzed. Screaming out in pain

although not so shrilly as in Apis. A dose of Zinc, will sometimes

bring this patient back to life. In a few days after the remedy there

will be a jerking and quivering in the parts that were motionless, or its

action will be shown in a copious sweat, much vomiting ; sudden arousing that is alarming, for it looks like a threatened sinking, but this is

the beginning of reaction. Now, for days and nights while this little

one is coming back to consciousness, the restoration of sensation in the)

parts is accompanied with the most tormenting formication, tingling,

prickling, creeping, and crawling. The mother and the father and the

neighbors will want something done for it, but if you antidote, the

case will return to where it was before. This suffering is but the

awakening to life. It will go on in this way for a week or two and

then will begin to show signs of falling back ; it needs another dose

of Zinc., which will again be followed by a sweat, vomiting, etc. You

will see this in spinal meningitis. The early stage will be that of congestion, and Bell, may palliate, but with the onset of the symptoms

enumerated above. Zinc, is the only remedy that will cure. The Bell,

case will have flushed face, hot head, rolling of the head, flashing eyes,

throbbing carotids. The Bry, case will be docile, stupid, purple,

sleepy ; ameliorated by quiet. The Helleborus case will exhibit but

little fever ; cold extremities, tossing of the head, dilated pupils, unconsciousness, can hardly be aroused ; rolling head from side to side,

but when the reflexes are abolished. Zinc, comes in.

After the relief from Gels,, Bell,, or Bry, give Zinc. Rugged little

fellows who hang on for weeks in this state, emaciating and uncv.nscious.

You must take the mother aside and inform her what will happen

if the child returns to consciousness. If you do not, you may be

turned out of the house. A person advanced in years cannot stand

such an ordeal, but it is astonishing how the little ones can endure the

prolonged congestion and inflammation. After scarlet fever and badly

treated meningitis ; tubercular meningitis. I have carried these severe

forms of brain disease through on Phosphorus, which has a picture

somewhat like that of Zincum. There is no record of any recovery

from tubercular meningitis, but a homoeopath can cure some of these

cases, though it may take two or three months to go down and come

up out of it, with two or three relapses.

Among the eye symptoms we have a peculiar thickening and opacity

of the conjunctiva, which is infiltrated, leathery, has yellow spots on

it and the corners are thickened like pterygium. Dunham made a

remarkable cure of pterygium. The report of the case in the Guiding

Symptoms is as follows: “Pterygium in right eye just encroaching on

cornea ; in left eye extending to the pupil from the inner canthus,”

“Itching and stinging plain in inner angles of eyes with cloudiness

of sight. Much burning* of the eyes and lids in the morning and in

the evening with feeling of dryness and pressure in them.”

Zinc, has cured distressing thickening of the lids, ectropion and entropion ; granular thickening of the lids. In a severe case of entropion

where the lashes were playing up and down the ball with lachrymation,

great inflammation and redness, Zinc, removed the whole trouble-

Violent photophobia ; it seems as if the light would blind him. Zinc,

and Euphr. are closely related in eye troubles.

Strabismus after brain troubles. Ever since scarlet fever, he had

strabismus. She has much trouble with the menses ; dysmenorrhoea.

But here is a striking symptom ; no matter what the violent symptoms

are, pain in the ovaries, in the uterus, hysterical excitement ; as soon

as the menstrual flow appears there is relief. Violent pains in the

ovaries relieved by the flow. This is a great contrast to Cimicifuga,

which has nervous excitement and hysteria during the flow, and the

more copious it is, the more violent are the pains. The Lack, and

Zinc, symptoms are worse before, and better with the flow, but in the

former the pains all return when the flpw slacks up again. Cimicifuga

has at times an intermittent flow, then pain ceasing with each intermission. returning when the flow again appears.

The great nervousness of Zinc, is linifested in the feet. You will

notice a child or a woman keeping one foot going all the time, cannot

keep it still. Many medicines have nPrvous feet and many have relief

of symptoms by motion of the feet. But this is marked in Zinc. A

girl about twelve years of age had no congruity of symptoms and I

co*ld not find the remedy. The mother said the child mortified her

by keeping one foot constantly going in church. On asking why she

did this, she replied that if she stopped she would lose her urine.

Zinc, cured the whole patient. In the text we find double-lined the

two words, “Fidgety feet.”

Zinc, has some striking heart symptoms. Constriction of the whole

chest in weakly subjects.

INDEX

Abies nigta. 717.

Aln’Otanum. 9, 534, 585, 776.

Acetic acid. 10.

Aconiium napel. 11, 46, 49, 50, 52, 91, 118, 180, 146, 199, 230, 236, 239,

260, 316, 320, 375, 475, 498, 503, 540, 586, 658, 689, 800, 803, 886,

887, 889, 852, 872, 875.

Acuea racemosa. 23, 560.

iEsculus hippo. 28, 50, 62, 221, 347, 385, 851.

AEthusa cynapium. 38, 845, 761.

Agaricus muse. 35, 32, 112, 710, 728.

Agnus castus. 41.

Ailanthus gland. 42.

Allium cepa, 46, 447, 774, 807.

• ▸Aloe.
• ▸60, 38.
• ▸546.
• ▸717, 762, 766.

Alumen, 54, 58, 64, 66, 114, 120, 137, 294, 825, 845.

Alumina. 69, ,58, 114, 121, 204, 408, 757, 766, 767, 825, 845.

Ambra grisca. 71, 162.

Ammoniacum. 92, 184

Ammon, carb. 76, 82, 610, 778.

Ammon, mur. 81,

Anacardium orient. 83, 387, 806, 906.

-■^nagallis. 424.

Ancistrodon contortrix. 415,

Anthracinum. 419, 783.

Antim. crud. 86,92, 93, 94, 95, 218, 307, 385, 631, 745, 848.

Antim. tart. 90, 58, 80, 117, 307, 539, 626, 827, 828, 848.

Apis mellif. 96, 36, 104, 105, 106, 107, 213, 240, 415, 498, 545. 611, 617,

655,721,720,762,881,861.

Apocynum cann. 104, 100.

Argentum met. 109, 68, 69, 84, 640, 643, 710, 801, 825.

Argentum nit. 117, 111, 112, 38, 228, 478, 507, 661, 691, 707, 708, 713

802, 915.

Arnica raont. 124, 23, 138, 155, 259, 347, 420, 443, 520, 521, 522, 611, 63'J

718, 766, 783, 801, 804, 829, 852.

Arsenicum alb. 130, 31, 37, 64, 86, 88, 93, 122, 125, 126, 127, 148, 15f

173, 203, 246, 265, 266, 278, 290, 305, 315, 878, 385, 410, 419, 42(

444, 445, 446, 448, 449, 465, 495, 531, 532, 537, 634, 686, 646, 65<

659, 671, 682, 709, 710, 736, 739, 774, 775, 778, 780, 783, 800, 80

807, 813, 815, 817, 829, 821, 881, 889, 893, 899. 903, 920, 885, 83

842, 860, 863, 876.

Arsenicum iod. 148, 775.

Arum triph. 154, 46, 208, 213, 244.

iNoex

Asafoetida. 168, 606, 606, 862.

• ▸Aurum met.
• ▸162, 9, 158.
• ▸160, 172.
• ▸213, 278, 4fl4, 497, 498.
• ▸529, 585.

Aurura mur. 170, 160.

Aurum m. n. 319, 709.

Bacillinum. 914, 916.

Badiaga. 120. •

Baptbia. 173, 42, 45, 202, 244, 420, 639. 766, 783, 784.

Baryta carb. 178, 5.5, 64, 253, 292, 294, 923, 841, 844.

Baryta iod. 282.

Baryta mur. 187, 183, 184.

Belladonna. 191, 23, 45, 46, 52, 84, 91, 129, 177, 185, 192, 285, 236, 242,

260, 262, 268, 284, 287, 317, 320, 329, 363, 366, 373, 390, 399, 407,

408, 410, 440, 497, 515, 516, 542, 556, 586, 608, 638, 661, 689, 748,

762, 7a5, 767, 781, 644, 809, 886, 887, 924, 844. 862, 864.

Beilis. 730.

Benzoic acid. 215, 220, 586.

Berberis. 220, 846.

Borax. 228, 64. 292, 384, 682.

Bromium. 230, 636, 780.

Bryonia alb. 235, 9, 23, 52, 91, 101, 129, 134, 1.55, 173, 195, 210, 229, 265,

268, 317, 365, 366, 430, 439, 450, 4,54, 457, 477, 585, 659, 689,

714, 715, 716, 717, 748, 780, 800, 827, 832. 888, 889, 924, 858.

Bufo. 262.

Cactus grand. 258, 56, 477, 623, 856.

Cadmium sulph. 265, 658.

Caladium. 267, 614.

Calcarea carb. 270, .35, 55, 74, 100, 128, 141, 167, 179, 212, 215, 247, 303,

313, 368, 384, 446, 471, 478,' 507, 520, 576, 585, 686, 593, 634, 643,

668, 709, 768, 800, 887, 918, 915, 921, 923, 837, 888, 841, 846, 848,

860, 872, 874, 876.

Calbarea ars. 289.

Calc, fiuor. 291.

Calc. iod. 56.

Calc. phos. 292, 482, 543, 629, 763, 781, 912, 846.

Calc, sulpli. 296, 842, 845.

Calendula. 613, 612.

Calomel. 505, 663, 761.

Camphor. 8<», 31, 428, 429, 610, 822, 920, 863.

Cannabis Indie. 807, 308, 855.

Cannabis sat. 308, 780, 909.

Cantharis. 810, 102, 304, 473, 515, 910, 864.

Capsicum. 818, 266.

Carbo animal. 817, 158, 188, 386, 523.

Carbo veg. 819, 9, 15, 122, 158, 183, 305, 386, 353, 395, 438, 442, 488, 490,

• ▸491, 498, 524, .
• ▸561, 566, 689, 727.
• ▸774.
• ▸775, 776, 799, 841, 845, 851.