ZINCUM METALLICUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- persons suffering from cerebral and nervous exhaustion; defective vitality; brain or nerve power wanting
- too weak to develop exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to comprehend, to memorize
- incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower extremeties; must move them constantly
- always feels better every way as soon as the menses begin to flow; it relieves all her sufferings; but they return again soon after the flow ceases
- in the cerebral affections: in impending paralysis of brain; where the vis medicatrix naturae is too weak to develop exanthemata; symptoms of effusion into ventricles
- child repeats everything said to it
- child cries out during sleep; whole body jerks during sleep; wakes frightened, starts, rolls the head from side to side; face alternately pale and red
- convulsions: during dentition, with pale face, no heat, except perhaps in occiput, no increase in temperature; rolling the eyes; gnashing the teeth
- automatic motion of hands and head, or one hand and head
- chorea: from suppresse eruption; from fright
- hunger: ravenous, about 11 or 12 a. m.; great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough
- excessive nervous moving of feet, in bed for hours after retiring, even when asleep
- feet sweaty and more about toes; fetid, suppressed foot-sweat; very nervous
- chillblains, painful, < from rubbing
- spinal affections; burning whole length of spine; backache much < from sitting > by walking about
- spinal irritation; great prostration of strength
- cannot bear back touched
- can only void urine while sitting bent backwards
- twitching and jerking of single muscles
- weakness and trembling of extremities; of hands while writing; during menses
- during sweat, cannot tolerate any covering
- < of many symptoms from drinking wine, even a small quantity
- > symptoms: of chest, by expectoration; of bladder, by urinating; of back, by emissions; general, by menstrual flow