PLATINUM
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- woman's mind perverted
- hysterical
- arrogant
- haughty
- pride
- over-estimate of one's self
- imagines she is of high born family
- friends and relatives are of lowly origin
- acquaintances are inferior to herself
- imagines her body is large
- bodies of other people are smaller in comparison
- contemptuous mood
- anxious
- serious over matters that are not serious
- irritable about trifling things
- moody
- sulky over slight vexations
- weeping
- palpitation
- trembling in all limbs during every little excitement
- fears death
- loathes life
- fears that something will happen
- fears that her absent husband will never return
- restless disposition
- excitable
- walking, moving about, and weeping
- mental symptoms alternate with physical symptoms
- strange illusions of fancy
- imagines that she does not belong to this state
- insane over religious matters
- sits in the corner and broods and says nothing
- insanity
- sexual pervert
- utters unchaste speech
- trembles
- spasms from vexation or anger
- whistles, sings, and dances
- talks constantly about fanciful things
- melancholy or mania
- disturbance of pride brings on symptoms
- sexual excitement brings on symptoms
- trembling of the limbs
- sexual excitement
- numbness of various parts of the body and limbs
- compressing sensations
- pressing pains
- pressure of the limbs as if bandaged or constricted
- tension of the skin of the limbs as if bandaged
- numbness of the scalp
- pressing pain in the head
- boring
- compression of the head
- tension of the scalp
- cramplike constrictions of the scalp gradually increasing to violence
- cramplike pains gradually increasing to violence
- squeezing sensation in the head
- pains in the temple
- pains in the top of the head
- pains in the forehead
- crawling, creeping, numbness of the scalp
- sudden shocks in the head
- headaches gradually increase until they are severe
- violent neuralgia in the head with sensitiveness in hysterical persons
- brain were numb
- headaches from chagrin
- headaches from fear
- headaches from vexation
- headaches from haemorrhages
- headaches from sexual excitement
- sparks before the eyes
- spasms of the lids
- objects appear smaller than they really are
- sensation of coldness in the eyes
- spasms
- spasmodic trembling and twitching of the muscles of the eyes
- cramping pain in the ears
- coldness in the ears
- numbness of the external ears
- numbness of the ears extends to the face, nose and scalp
- haemorrhagic remedy
- bleeding from various parts of the body and mucous membranes
- haemorrhages are black clots with fluid
- black, coagulated blood from the nose
- oversensitive to smell
- violent crampy pains at the root of the nose with redness of the face
- sensation of coldness of the face
- numbness of the face
- cramping
- pressing pains in the face
- neuralgia of the face
- crawling, numbness of the face
- numbness of the near bone
- tearing boring pain in the face
- pulsating and digging through the lower jaw
- numbness and coldness
- pains come gradually and go gradually
- sensation as if the tongue were scalded
- crawling in the tongue
- loss of appetite
- ravenous appetite
- hasty eating
- much flatulence
- fermentation in the stomach
- jerking of the muscles of the stomach and abdomen
- sensation as if the whole abdomen were tightly constricted or bandaged
- tension of the skin of the abdomen
- violent, cramping pains in the abdomen
- drawing pains in the navel as if by a string
- retraction of the abdomen
- pressing, bearing down pains in the abdomen
- pressing, drawing pains from incarcerated flatus
- torpor of the intestinal canal
- inveterate constipation
- much flatus
- stool is half digested and papescent or hard as if burnt
- stool is scanty and very difficult
- stool is glutinous and adherent to the anus like soft clay
- frequent urging to stool and inability to strain at stool
- unsuccessful urging to stool
- pain in the abdomen after lead poisoning
- colic after lead poisoning
- constipation in travellers
- prolonged efforts to pass a stool
- aching pains
- burning pains
- protrusion of haemorrhoids during stool
- burning in the rectum during stool
- itching, tickling, and tenesmus of the anus
- extreme sexual erethism
- great sexual erethism driving to secret vice
- epilepsy arising from onanism
- unbearable sexual excitement
- voluptuous crawling in the genitals
- extreme sensitiveness of the external genitals
- impossible for the woman to wear a napkin during menstruation
- extreme sensitiveness of the vagina
- impossible for the physician to make an examination with the index finger
- hyperaesthesia
- increased sexual excitement in young girls
- increased sexual excitement in hysterical girls
- violent sexual desire in married women with itching, tingling, and voluptuous sensations
- pain in the ovarian region, especially the left
- sterility of long standing
- sterility that is supposed to come from excessive sexual excitement
- burning, stitching pains in the ovaries
- inflammation of the ovaries coming with haemorrhage of the uterus
- inflammation of the ovaries during the menstrual period
- ovarian tumors and cystic tumors
- inflammation of the uterus
- bearing down
- prolapsed uterus
- dragging in the pelvis
- polypus of the uterus
- uterine haemorrhages
- copious menstrual flow
- flow is dark, even black, and dotted with much fluid blood
- nervous women constantly feel as if the menstrual flow was going to appear
- menstrual flow comes too early
- menstrual flow is too profuse
- menstrual flow is of short duration
- haemorrhage is somewhat like the menstrual flow in old women
- menstrual periods sometimes return every fourteen days
- menstrual flow may be entirely absent
- vulva and vagina are extremely sensitive during coition
- albuminous leucorrhoea, mostly in the daytime without much sensation
- complaints of pregnancy
- threatened abortion
- exhausting haemorrhages
- discharges of black clotted blood
- contractions are interrupted by sensitiveness of the vagina and internal parts
- impossible for the obstetrician to make the usual examination
- cramping in the limbs during parturition
- profuse haemorrhage during parturition
- hysterical convulsions
- puerperal convulsions
- palpitation
- trembling, numbness, quivering, and excitement in the limbs after mental exertion
- tremulous restlessness in the legs with numbness
- cold feet
- pains in the great toe as if bandaged
- limbs feel as if bandaged about the thigh or leg
- nerves are in a great state of excitement
- prostrated
- paralytic weakness, which is worse during rest
- numbness, stiffness and coldness
- painful tremulousness all over the body, with throbbing in the blood vessels
- shifting, neuralgic pains
- spasmodic affections of hysterical women
- spasms from sexual erethism
- coldness, crawling, and numbness of the skin especially during fever