FERRUM IODATUM

Iodide of Iron


  • Scrofulous affections, glandular enlargements, and tumors call for this remedy. 
  • Crops of boils. 
  • Acute nephritis following eruptive diseases. 
  • Uterine displacements. 
  • Body emaciated. 
  • Anemia. 
  • Exophthalmic goitre following suppression of menses. 
  • Debility following drain upon vital forces. 
  • Impetigo of the cheek.

Stomach

  • Food seems to push up into throat, as if it had not been swallowed.

Abdomen

  • Fullness, even after a little food; stuffed feeling, as if she could not lean forward.

Throat

  • Sore, as if of a splinter, shooting in different directions. 
  • Hoarse.

Respiratory

  • Coryza; discharge of mucus from nose, trachea, and larynx. 
  • Pressure beneath sternum. 
  • Scrofulous swelling of nose. 
  • Chest feels oppressed. 
  • Hemoptysis.

Urinary

  • Urine dark. 
  • Sweet smelling. 
  • Crawling sensation in urethra and rectum. 
  • Sensation as if urine were stopped at fossa navicularis. 
  • Difficulty in retaining urine. 
  • Incontinence in anemic children.

Female

  • On sitting, feeling as if something pressed upward in vagina. 
  • Much bearing down. 
  • Retroversion and prolapse of uterus. 
  • Leucorrhea like boiled starch. 
  • Menses suppressed or scanty. 
  • Itching and soreness of vulva and vagina.

Dose

  • Third trituration. 
  • Does not keep long.