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Ferrum Sulphuricum

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Sulphate of Iron · Green Vitriol · "The Iron Sulphate Anaemia Remedy"
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🎯 A mineral remedy primarily acting on blood circulation, congestion, and digestive disturbances associated with menstrual irregularities.
📖 Hering writes:
Ferrum Sulphuricum.
Mind. Sensorium. Inner head. Outer head. Sight and eyes. Hearing and ears. Smell and nose. Upper face. Lower face. Teeth and gums. Taste, speech, tongue. Inner mouth. Palate and throat. Appetite, thirst. Desires.. Eating and drinking. Hiccough, belching, nausea..
Scrobiculum and stomach. Hypochondria. Abdomen and loins. Stools and rectum. Urinary organs. Male sexual organs. Female sexual organs. Pregnancy. Parturition.. Voice and larynx. Trachea.. Respiration. Cough. Inner chest and lungs. Heart, pulse and circulation. Outer chest. Neck and back. Upper limbs. Lower limbs. Limbs in general. Rest. Position. Motion. Nerves. Sleep. Time. Temperature and weather. Fever. Attacks, periodicity. Locality and direction. Sensations. Tissues. Touch. Injuries.. Skin. Relations.
Ferr-s. * Full text * Red and blue only * Red only
Sulphate of Iron ; Copperas. Fe SO4, 7H2O.
The pure sulphate of iron prepared by trituration.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Diarrhoea, Kafka, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 414 ; Menorrhagia, Bojanus, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 155.
👤 Constitution
•Boy, aged thirteen months ; diarrhœa.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Pressing, throbbing headache, especially in the forehead.
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Sensation as if all the blood were rushing into the head and face.
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Face becomes scarlet red and glowing during headaches.
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Headache symptoms are relieved by fresh, open air and aggravated in a warm room.
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Headache accompanied by ringing in the ears.
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Constipation associated with menorrhagia.
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Emaciation occurring in cases of diarrhea.
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Toothache occurring in conjunction with congestive headaches.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Pressing, throbbing headache, WORSE in forehead, with ringing in ears, and sensation as if all the blood were rushing into head and face
  • •face scarlet red, glowing ;
  • •BETTER in fresh, open air ;
  • •WORSE in warm room ;
  • •toothache. ✓ Menorrhagia..
Severe vertigo. ✓ Diarrhoea.
Confusion of head and dull pain through head.
Heaviness and dull pain in upper part of forehead.
Severe burning and pain in head, with thirst.
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Warm room
face red and glowing
↑Better from
Cold air
toothache
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Ferrum Metallicum →Phosphorus →Causticum →Cina Maritima →
📚 Sources & References

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