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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.

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Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation.

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Acts prominently on connective tissue.

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The plague.

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Goitre.

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Adenoid vegetations.

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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

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💊 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.

3rd to 30th

Centesimal

📝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 →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Iodium is listed in 441 rubrics across 23 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 151 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System74 Generalities46 Female Sexual System46 Male Sexual System31 Locomotor System31 Abdomen27 Stomach21 Head16 Circulatory System16 Skin16 Throat15 Nose14 Nervous System12 Eyes11 Ears11 Mind11 Fever10 Modalities10 Urinary System9 Mouth7 Face4 Gums2 Teeth1

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