Iron (The Element)
- Persons of sanguine temperament; pettish, quarrelsome, disputative, easily excited, least contradiction angers (Anac., Coc., Ign.); > mental exertion.
- Irritability: slight noises like crackling of paper drive him to despair (Asar., Tar.).
- 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 (Amyl., Coca.).
- 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; on seeing flowing water; when walking over water, as when crossing a bridge (Lys.); on descending (Bor., Sanic.).
- Headache: hammering, beating, pulsating pains, must lie down; with aversion to eating or drinking. For two, three or four days every two or three weeks.
- Menses: too early, too profuse, too long lasting, with fiery red face; ringing in the ears; intermit two or three days and then return; flow pale, watery, debilitating.
- Haemorrhagic diathesis; blood bright red, coagulates easily (Fer. p., Ipec., Phos.).
- Regurgitation and eructation of food in mouthfuls (Alum.), without nausea.
- Canine hunger, or loss of appetite, with extreme dislike for all food.
- Vomiting: immediately after midnight; of ingesta, as soon as food is eaten; leaves table suddenly and with one effort vomits everything eaten, can sit down and eat again; sour, acid (Lyc., Sul. ac.).
- Diarrhoea: undigested stools at night, or while eating or drinking (Crot. t.); painless with a good appetite; of consumptives [Compare Kent's Lectures].
- Constipation: from intestinal atony; ineffectual urging; stools hard, difficult, followed by backache or cramping pain in rectum; prolapsus recti of children; 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 (Euphr.); relieved by lying down; > by eating (Spong.).
- Dropsy; after loss of vital fluids; abuse of quinine; suppressed intermittent (Carbo v., Cinch.).
Relations
- Complementary: to, Alum., Cinch.
- Cinch.: the vegetable analogue follows well in nearly all diseases, acute or chronic.
- Should never be given in syphilis; always aggravates the condition.
Aggravation
- At night; at rest, especially while sitting still.
Amelioration
- Walking slowly about; in summer.
