Materia Medica de A a Z

IODIUM PURUM (iod)

Region

GLANDS (THYROID. Testes. Mesenteric. Mammæ). MUCOUS MEMBRANES [LARYNX. Lungs (R. Apex or base)]. HEART. Blood-vessels. Skin. Nerves. Connective tissue.

Worse

HEAT (ROOM. Air. Wraps). Exertion (Ascending. Talking). Fasting. Night. Rest.

Better

COLD (AIR. Bathing). Motion. Eating.

General

Intensely rapid action. ALWAYS TOO HOT. Hot, acrid or watery discharges. Persistent or salty secretions. Infiltration. GLANDS, SWELLED, HARD or heavy; later dwindling. Lean, hungry and hot. Weak and rapidly losing flesh; can't talk. Vascular degeneration. Scrofula. Acute exacerbations (Ferr-p). Local torpidity; little pus. Internal tickling. General pulsation or local throbbings. Burnings..................... Dejected or intolerably CROSS and RESTLESS. Excited. Sudden dreadful impulses, amel. if busy, but motion agg. and exhausts. Thinks he is well. Reverberations in head. Prominent eyes. Pain at root of nose. Subject to head colds, agg. open air. Catarrh. Nose red and swelled; much sneezing; it drips hot water. Miserable, withered, brownish, sallow or dusky look. Increased saliva; soapy; foul. Metallic taste. Always hungry, yet emaciates, or variable appetite. Frothy, wheyey, fatty, cheesy or lienteric stools. Sediment in urine like red pepper. Sarcocele. Atrophied testes. Impotency. Menses brown; with weakness; after every stool. Leucorrhoa erodes thighs and linen. Painful, choking hoarseness; grasps the larynx. Laryngitis. Diphtheria; expectorates cast of larynx (Kali-bi). Rough voice. Dry, tickling, croupy cough. Short breath. Raw bronchiæ. Violent pulmonary congestion. Pneumonia; rapid extension. Heart feels squeezed. Palpitation. Heavy mammæ. Hard goitre. Foot-sweat on backs of feet. Skin, dry, rough, dirty; brown spots on. Restlessness in blood prevents sleep. Hyperpyrexia, or external coldness with anxiety or stupor. Hectic. Heat waves to head. Sweats easily. Early morning sweats, with amel..

Complementary: Lyc; Sil.

Related: Ars; Fl-ac; Phos; Spo. (Spong).

Antidotes: Ars; Bell; Hep; Op; Phos.