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Iodium

30C / 200CIodium
Iodine · Elemental Iodine · "The Eat and Waste Remedy"
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🎯 Acts on glandular structures and metabolism to cause rapid wasting and atrophy despite a voracious appetite.
📖 Boericke writes:
(IODUM)
Rapid metabolism:Loss of flesh great appetite. Hungry with much thirst. Better after eating.Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration. Iod individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin. Tubercular type.
All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are especially affected; they atrophy. Iodine arouses the defensive apparatus of the system by assembling the mononuclear leucocytes whose phagocytic action is marked, at a given point. Lead poisoning. Tremor. Iodine craves cold air.
Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation. Arthritis deformans.Acts prominently on connective tissue. The plague. Goitre. Abnormal vaso-constriction, capillary congestion followed by oedema, ecchymosis, haemorrhages, and nutritive disturbances are the pathological conditions at the basis of its symptomatology. Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects. Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes, rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite, and glandular atrophy call for this remedy, in numerous wasting diseases and in scrofulous patients. Acute affections of the respiratory organs. Pneumonia, rapid extension. Iodine is warm, and wants cool surroundings. Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs.Adenoid vegetations. Tincture internally and locally to swollen glands and rattlesnake bites.
👤 Constitution
•Exceedingly thin, dark-complexioned individuals with enlarged lymphatic glands and a voracious appetite.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration.
introduction
Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation.
introduction
Acts prominently on connective tissue.
introduction
The plague.
introduction
Goitre.
introduction
Adenoid vegetations.
introduction
Acute dacryocystitis.
eyes
Acute nasal engorgement associated with high blood pressure.
nose
Eustachian deafness.
throat
Wedge-like pain from ovary to uterus.
female
Dwindling of mammary glands.
female
Wedge-like pain in the right ovarian region.
female
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for states of intense anxiety, restlessness, and a compulsive need for activity.
Anxiety when quiet.
Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the future.
Sudden impulse to run and do violence.
Forgetful.
Must be busy.
Fear of people, shuns every one.
Melancholy.
Suicidal tendency.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3rd to 30th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝The crude drug in saturated solution may be required.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Lycopodium Clavatum →Badiaga →
🚫 Antidotes
Sulphur →Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →Gratiola Officinalis →
⏭️ Similar
Carbolicum Acidum →
🔄 Compare With
Phosphorus →Sulphur →Abrotanum →Bromium →Natrium Muriaticum →Sanicula Aqua →Tuberculinum →Hepar Sulphur →
📚 Sources & References

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