Materia Medica de A a Z

FERRUM PICRICUM (ferr-pic)

It considered a great remedy to complete the action of other medicines. The symptom that specially calls for it is failure of the function of an organ under exertion: e.g., the voice fails after public speaking. Acts best in dark-haired patients, plethoric, with sensitive livers. Warts and epithelial growths; corns with yellowish discoloration. SENILE HYPERTROPHY OF THE PROSTATE. EPISTAXIS. Chronic deafness and tinnitus due to gout. Meatus dry. Pseudo-leucaemia.

Ears

Deafness before menses. Crackling in ears and low-pitched voice. Vascular deafness. Dental neuralgia, radiating towards ears and eyes. Humming in ears as from telegraph wires. Tinnitus.

Stomach

Indigestion, furred tongue, headache after meals, especially in bilious, dark-haired persons.

Urinary

Pain along entire urethra. FREQUENT MICTURITION AT NIGHT, WITH FULL FEELING AND PRESSURE IN RECTUM. SMARTING AT NECK OF BLADDER and penis. [Baros] Retention of urine.

Extremities

Pain in right side of neck and down right arm. Locomotor ataxia, ocular stage. Hands covered with warts.

Dose

Second and third trituration.