FERRUM METALLICUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- persons of sanguine temperament
- pettish, quarrelsome, disputative, easily excited, least contradiction angers
- better from mental exertion
- irritability: slight noises like crackling of paper drive him to despair
- women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a fiery red face
- extreme paleness of the face, lips and mucous membranes which becomes red and flushed on the least pain, emotion or exertion
- blushing
- erethitic chlorosis, worse in winter
- red parts become white; face, lips, tongue and mucous membrane of mouth
- vertigo: with balancing sensation, as if on water
- vertigo: on seeing flowing water
- vertigo: when walking over water, as when crossing a bridge
- vertigo: on descending
- headache: hammering, beating, pulsating pains, must lie down
- headache: with aversion to eating or drinking
- headache: for two, three or four days every two or three weeks
- menses: too early, too profuse, too long lasting, with fiery red face
- menses: ringing in the ears
- menses: intermit two or three days and then return
- menses: flow pale, watery, debilitating
- haemorrhagic diathesis; blood bright red, coagulates easily
- regurgitation and eructation of food in mouthfuls without nausea
- canine hunger, or loss of appetite, with extreme dislike for all food
- vomiting: immediately after midnight
- vomiting: of ingesta, as soon as food is eaten
- vomiting: leaves table suddenly and with one effort vomits everything eaten, can sit down and eat again
- vomiting: sour, acid
- diarrhoea: undigested stools at night, or while eating or drinking
- diarrhoea: painless with a good appetite
- diarrhoea: of consumptives
- constipation: from intestinal atony
- constipation: ineffectual urging
- constipation: stools hard, difficult, followed by backache or cramping pain in rectum
- constipation: prolapsus recti of children
- constipation: itching on anus at night
- always feels better by walking slowly about, although weakness obliges the patient to lie down
- cough only in the day time
- cough: relieved by lying down
- cough: better by eating
- dropsy; after loss of vital fluids
- dropsy: abuse of quinine
- dropsy: suppressed intermittent
- worse at night
- worse at rest, especially while sitting still
- better walking slowly about
- better in summer