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Plumbum Metallicum

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

Open remedy: Plb.

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

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

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 < 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 haemorrhage or hyperaesthesia. 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. Aphthae. 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.

Relations

Complementary: Rhus-t, Thallium

Related: Op.

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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