ZINCUM METALLICUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Cerebral depression
- Tissues worn out faster than repaired
- Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges
- Nervous symptoms
- Defective vitality
- Impending brain paralysis
- Period of depression in disease
- Spinal affections
- Twitchings
- Pain as if between skin and flesh
- Great relief from discharges
- Chorea from fright or suppressed eruption
- Convulsions with pale face and no heat
- Marked anemia with profound prostration
- Decrease in number and destruction of red blood corpuscles
- Repercussed eruptive diseases
- Brain and spinal symptoms
- Trembling
- Convulsive twitching
- Fidgety feet
- Weak memory
- Very sensitive to noise
- Averse to work
- Averse to talk
- Child repeats everything said to it
- Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime
- Melancholia
- Lethargic
- Stupid
- Paresis
- Feels as if he would fall to left side
- Headache from smallest quantity of wine
- Hydrocephalus
- Rolls head from side to side
- Bores head into pillow
- Occipital pain with weight on vertex
- Automatic motion of head and hands
- Brain-fag
- Headaches of overtaxed school children
- Forehead cool
- Base of brain hot
- Roaring in head
- Starting in fright
- Pterygium
- Smarting
- Lachrymation
- Itching
- Pressure as if pressed into head
- Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles
- Ptosis
- Rolling of eyes
- Blurring of one-half of vision
- Worse stimulants
- Squinting
- Amaurosis with severe headache
- Red and inflamed conjunctiva
- Worse inner canthus
- Tearing
- Stitches
- External swelling ears
- Discharge of fetid pus
- Sore feeling high up nose
- Pressure upon root nose
- Pale lips
- Corners of mouth cracked
- Redness and itching eruption on chin
- Tearing in facial bones
- Teeth loose
- Gums bleed
- Gnashing of teeth
- Bloody taste
- Blisters on tongue
- Difficult dentition
- Child weak
- Cold and restless feet
- Dry throat
- Constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus
- Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx
- Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing
- Hiccough
- Nausea
- Vomiting of bitter mucus
- Burning in stomach
- Heartburn from sweet things
- Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine
- Ravenous hunger about 11 am
- Great greediness when eating
- Cannot eat fast enough
- Atonic dyspepsia
- Feeling as if stomach were collapsed
- Pain after a light meal with tympanitis
- Pain in spot beneath navel
- Gurgling and griping
- Distended abdomen
- Flatulent colic with retraction of abdomen
- Enlarged indurated sore liver
- Reflex symptoms from floating kidney
- Griping after eating
- Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards
- Hysterical retention
- Involuntary urination when walking coughing or sneezing
- Hard small constipated stool
- Cholera infantum with tenesmus
- Green mucous discharges
- Sudden cessation of diarrhea followed by cerebral symptoms
- Testicles swelled drawn up
- Erections violent
- Emissions with hypochondriasis
- Falling off of hair pubic
- Drawing in testicles up to spermatic cord
- Ovarian pain especially left
- Can't keep still
- Nymphomania of lying-in women
- Menses too late suppressed
- Lochia suppressed
- Breasts painful
- Nipples sore
- Menses flow more at night
- Complaints all better during menstrual flow
- Restlessness
- Depression
- Coldness
- Spinal tenderness
- Restless feet
- Dry cough before and during menses
- Burning pressure beneath sternum
- Constriction and cutting in chest
- Hoarseness
- Debilitating spasmodic cough
- Worse eating sweet things
- Child grasps genitals during cough
- Asthmatic bronchitis with constriction of chest
- Dyspnea better as soon as expectoration appears
- Pain in small of back
- Cannot bear back touched
- Tension and stinging between shoulders
- Spinal irritation
- Dull aching about the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebrae
- Worse sitting
- Burning along spine
- Nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion
- Tearing in shoulder-blades
- Lameness
- Weakness
- Trembling and twitching of various muscles
- Chilblains
- Feet in continued motion
- Cannot keep still
- Large varicose veins on legs
- Sweaty
- Convulsions with pale face extremities
- Transverse pains especially in upper extremity
- Soles of feet sensitive
- Steps with entire sole of foot on floor
- Cries out during sleep
- Body jerks
- Wakes frightened stared
- Nervous motion of feet when asleep
- Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it
- Somnambulism
- Varicose veins especially of lower extremities
- Formication of feet and legs as from bugs crawling over the skin preventing sleep
- Eczema especially in the anemic and neurotic
- Itching of thighs and hollow of knees
- Retrocession of eruptions
- Frequent febrile shiverings down back
- Cold extremities
- Night-sweat
- Profuse sweat on feet