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Ferrum Tartaricum

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Ferrum Tartaricum · Tartrate of Iron · "The Iron Tartrate Salt"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the head and the digestive system, specifically the cardiac orifice of the stomach.
📖 Clarke writes:
Tartrate of Iron.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Uninterrupted sensation as if an immense load were on entire upper portion of head
Gloomy apprehensiveness of congestive apoplexy
Heat from or heat at cardiac orifice of stomach
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Sensation of immense load on entire upper portion of head lasting three days
Heat at cardiac orifice of stomach lasting 12 hours
Heat at cardiac orifice of stomach unaffected by food or drink
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sensation of an immense load on the entire upper portion of the head
Clarke
Gloomy apprehensiveness of congestive apoplexy
Clarke
Heat at the cardiac orifice of the stomach
Clarke
Head sensation lasting for three days
Clarke
Stomach heat lasting for 12 hours
Clarke
Stomach heat unaffected by food or drink
Clarke
Uninterrupted sensation of pressure
Clarke
Symptoms resulting from a 15-grain dose
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
⚙️Generals
Consider for heavy, oppressive head sensations accompanied by anxiety and persistent heat at the cardiac orifice of the stomach.
Uninterrupted sensation, as if an immense load were on entire upper portion of head, causing a gloomy apprehensiveness of congestive apoplexy. It lasted two or three days, and was removed by a dose of Nux 1 (after two days).
Heat from, or heat at cardiac orifice of stomach, lasting twelve hours
  • not affected by food or drink (after two hours)..
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Better from
Nux Vomica
congestive headache
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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