Description
PLATINUM METALLICUM – PLATINUM METALLICUM
Source: The Metal (PLATINA)
Is pre-eminently a woman’s remedy. Strong tendency to paralysis, anaesthesia, localized numbness and coldness are shown. Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually (Stannum). Tremulousness.
Mind
–Irresistible impulse to kill. Self-exaltation; contempt for others. Arrogant, proud. Weary of everything. Everything seems changed. Mental trouble pressed menses. Physical symptoms disappear as mental symptoms develop.
Head
–Tense, pressing pain, confined to a small spot. Cramplike, squeezing pain. Constriction about forehead and right temples. Numbness, with headache.
Eyes
–Objects look smaller than they are. Twitching of lids (Agar). Eyes feel cold. Cramp-like pain in orbits.
Ears
–Feels numb. Cramp-like twinges. Roaring and rumbling.
Face
–Prosopalgia, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws. Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed in a vise. Coldness, creeping, and numbness, in whole right side of face. Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stann).
Stomach
–Fermentation, much flatulence; constriction; ravenous hunger; persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.
Abdomen
–Painter’s colic. Pain in umbilical region; extending through to back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen; extending into pelvis.
Stool
–Retarded; feces scanty; evacuated with difficulty. Adheres to rectum, like soft clay. Sticky stool. Constipation of travelers, who are constantly changing food and water. Stool as if burnt.
Female
–Parts hypersensitive. Tingling internally and externally (Kali brom; Orig). Ovaries sensitive and burn. Menses too early, too profuse, dark-clotted, with spasms and painful bearing-down, chilliness, and sensitiveness of parts. Vaginismus. Nymphomania. Excessive sexual development; vaginismus. Pruritus vulvae. Ovaritis with sterility. Abnormal sexual appetite and melancholia.
Extremities
–Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped. Numb and weary sensation. Feel paralyzed.
Sleep
–Sleeps with legs far apart (Chamom).
Modalities
–Worse, sitting and standing; evening. Better, walking.
Relationship
–Compare: Rhodium; Stann; Valer; Sep. Compare, also: Platinum muriaticum (this remedy has achieved beneficial results after Iodide of Potash failed to cure in syphilitic affection; violent occipital headaches, dysphagia, and syphilitic throat and bone affections; caries of bones of feet); Plat mur nat (polyuria and salivation); Sedum acre (sexual irritability, relieves irritation of nerve centers and gives rest). Antidote: Puls. Platina antidotes the bad effects of lead.
Dose
–Sixth trituration to thirtieth potency.
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