Materia Medica de A a Z

PLUMBUM METALLICUM (plb)

Region

CORD AND NERVES (MUSCLES. ABDOMEN. Kidneys. Navel). Blood-vessels. Blood.

Worse

Clear weather. Open air. Exertion. Motion. Company. Grasping smooth objects. Touch.

Better

Hard pressure. Rubbing.

General

Slow, insidious processes, having violent side symptoms; often of very changeable or incoherent character; coming in single parts, etc. Paralysis. Atrophied limbs with plump body; paralysed parts agg. touch. Sensitive to open air. Impulse to stretch. Exaggerates her condition. Retraction; anus, testes, navel, etc. Increasing slowness and apathy. Deep, bluish red sclerotic. Abdomen is drawn into uneven lumps (Ars, Ign). Abdominal distress that impels her to stretch. Urination slow, yet profuse. VIOLENT CONTRACTION. Retraction. Lightning pains that extort cries. Boring. Cramps (periodical), convulsions or (flaccid) paralysis; with hæmorrhage or hyperæsthesia. Chronic epilepsy, with marked aura. Wasting of single (upper) parts, or of paralysed parts. Sclerosis. Gout..................... Taciturn. Timid, restless and anxious. Fears assassins. Physical labor exhausts the mind. Stupidity. Melancholy. Delirium; nocturnal; alternating with colic or pains in limbs. Twitching of r. face. Yellow sclerotic and inside of mouth. Trembling tongue. Sticky saliva. Sweet taste. Aphthæ. Dysphagia. Foul or fecal eructations. NAVEL FEELS RETRACTED. Colic; accompanies many symptoms. Radiating abdominal pains, or boring, or as if forced through a narrow place. Tense abdomen. Hernia at navel. Anus feels drawn up, or painfully contracted. Stool, granular; of hard, black balls, like sheep dung; passed with an urging cramp. Stubborn constipation or colics of infants. Retracted testes. Pollutions. Bluish, red spots. Dry oversensitive skin. Dry, burning ulcers. Takes odd positions during sleep. Wiry pulse. Coldness from exertion. General cold sweat during stool. Feet cold, when walking only.

Complementary: Rhus-t, Thallium Thal.

Related: Op.