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Ferrum Metallicum

30C / 200CFerrum Met
Iron Metal · "The False Plethora Remedy"
ferr.PolychrestMineralCommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the blood and circulation, specifically addressing and conditions where blood is poorly distributed.
📖 Boericke writes:
Best adapted to young weakly persons, and chlorotic, with pseudo-, who flush easily; cold extremities; oversensitiveness; worse after any active effort. Weakness from mere speaking or walking though looking strong. Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes. Orgasms of blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc. Irregular distribution of blood. Pseudo-. Muscles and relaxed.
👤 Constitution
•Typically young, delicate, and pale individuals who flush easily, have cold extremities, and feel weak despite appearing robust.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Slight noises unbearable.
mind
Pain in teeth; relieved by icy-cold water.
mouth
Spits up food by the mouthful (Phos).
stomach
immediately after eating.
stomach
after midnight.
stomach
Intolerance of eggs.
stomach
Pulse full, but soft and yielding; also, small and weak.
heart
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for irritable, sensitive individuals who are easily provoked.
Irritability.
Slight noises unbearable.
Excited from slightest opposition.
Sanguine temperament.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

2nd to 6th
Decimal
📝Plethoric, hemorrhagic conditions call for small doses.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
China Officinalis →Alumina →Hamamelis Virginiana →
🚫 Antidotes
Arsenicum Album →Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →
⏭️ Similar
Ferrum Magneticum →Lithium Bromatum →Ferrum Muriaticum →Ferrum Sulphuricum →Ferrum Pernitricum →Ferrum Aceticum →Ferrum Bromatum →Ferrum Tartaricum →
🔄 Compare With
Graphites →Rumex Crispus →Cuprum Metallicum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

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Ferrum Metallicum is listed in 287 rubrics across 21 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 55 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System48Stomach34Abdomen31Locomotor System24Generalities22Head21Modalities16Respiratory System15Circulatory System14Fever13Nervous System11Urinary System9Mind9Face8Skin3Teeth2Taste2Tongue2Mouth1Eyes1Male Sexual System1

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