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Ferrum Metallicum

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Ferr.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Region:

VASO-MOTORS: CIRCULATION, Blood-vessels

Blood

Spleen

Digestion

Left deltoid

Worse:

NIGHT

Emotions

Violent exertion

Eating

Drinking

Vital losses

Sweats

Quinine

Eggs

Heat and cold

Sudden motions

Raising arms

Better:

Gentle motion

Slight bleeding (Calad, Card-m, Lach)

Leaning head on something

Pale mucous membranes. False erethism or plethora; weak; lies down. Excited, irregular surgings. Wandering orgasms; head, face, chest, etc. Pulsations. Haemorrhages (bright or with small clots); in rapidly growing youths. Relaxed blood-vessels; dilated veins, < during menses, etc. Red faced old men. Exophthalmos. Pressure on chest, stomach, etc. Nightly pains that compel motion of part. Dry; food seems; vagina, etc. Rapid emaciation. Anaemia. Cachexy. Irritable mind and body. Always in the right; excited by the least opposition. Weeps and laughs immoderately. Sensitive and excitable; < least opposition. Brain-tire. Throbbing, hammering headache, starts in the temples; < cough or stooping; > letting hair down; with vertigo Pain over l eye. Blind attacks. Puffy eye-lids. Nose-bleed. Face flushes and pales or reddens from the least thing; florid; feels bloated. Erethistic chlorosis. Toothache, > ice water Stomach won't tolerate any food. Averse to meat. Spits up his food. Nausea at mid-night. Easy vomiting. Diarrhoea; painless, lientery; < while eating; nightly gushing; spluttering; alternating with constipation; < if nervous or tired. Chronic nephritis. Enuresis by day only. Emissions; nightly, with backache; after over-exertion. Raw vagina, < coition Menses pale; intermit. Leucorrhea; acrid, milky, watery, at puberty. Changeable voice. Dry, tickling cough. Blood-spitting (streaked). Constriction of or flying stitches in chest. Dyspnoea or palpitation, > motion. Sudden cramps or tearing boring in limbs. Cracking joints. Omodynia. Swelled hands and feet. Heels pain, if lies on back. Sleepless. Chill, with red face and thirst. Heat, with distended veins. Sweats, clammy, yellow, cold, acrid or debilitating. Soft pulse.

Relations:

Complementary: Chin

Related: Arn, Mang.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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