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Niccolum Metallicum

30CNiccolum

Nickel Metal · "The Periodic Headache Metal"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system, digestive tract, and respiratory organs, particularly in debilitated individuals suffering from chronic headaches and catarrh.

📖 Boericke writes:

(NICCOLUM)

Periodical nervous sick headaches, with asthenopia, weak digestion, constipation. Catarrh. Suits debilitated, nervous, literary patients, with frequent headaches, dyspepsia and constipation.

👤 Constitution

•Debilitated, nervous, and literary individuals who are prone to chronic headaches, digestive weakness, and constipation.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Gone, empty feeling in epigastrium, without desire for food.

gastric

Obliged to set up and hold head.

respiratory

Must put arms on thighs, when coughing.

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for chronic, periodic nervous headaches and migraines, especially those involving pressure on the vertex.

Cracking in cervical vertebrae when moving the head.

Pain on top as from a nail.

Pressure on vertex, in morning; worse till noon and in warm room.

Stitches.

Objects appear too large.

Migraine; first on left side.

Twitching of upper lip.

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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.

Decimal

📝Third trituration

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Magnesium Muriaticum →Platinum Metallicum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Niccolum Metallicum is listed in 37 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 2 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Head9 Modalities5 Stomach5 Female Sexual System4 Respiratory System2 Nose2 Abdomen2 Throat2 Locomotor System1 Eyes1 Mouth1 Fever1 Nervous System1 Skin1

See all 37 rubrics for Niccolum Metallicum →