Iron
- Best adapted to young weakly persons, anemic and chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities; over-sensitiveness; worse after any active effort.
- Weakness from mere speaking or walking though looking strong.
- Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes.
- Orgasms of blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc.
- Irregular distribution of blood.
- Pseudo-plethora.
- Muscles flabby and relaxed.
Mind
- Irritability.
- Slight noises unbearable.
- Excited from slightest opposition.
- Sanguine temperament.
Head
- Vertigo on seeing flowing water.
- Stinging headache.
- Ringing in ears before menses.
- Hammering, pulsating, congestive headache; pain extends to teeth, with cold extremities.
- Pain in back of head, with roaring in neck.
- Scalp painful.
- Must take down the hair.
Eyes
- Watery, dull red; photophobia; letters run together.
Face
- Fiery-red and flushed from least pain, emotion, or exertion.
- Red parts become white, bloodless and puffy.
Nose
- Mucous membrane relaxed, boggy, anemic, pale.
Mouth
- Pain in teeth; relieved by icy-cold water.
- Earthy, pasty taste, like rotten eggs.
Stomach
- Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite.
- Loathing of sour things.
- Attempts to eat bring on diarrhea.
- Spits up food by the mouthful (Phos).
- Eructations of food after eating, without nausea.
- Nausea and vomiting after eating.
- Vomiting immediately after eating.
- Vomiting after midnight.
- Intolerance of eggs.
- Distention and pressure in the stomach after eating.
- Heat and burning in stomach.
- Soreness of abdominal walls.
- Flatulent dyspepsia.
Stool
- Undigested, at night, while eating or drinking, painless.
- Ineffectual urging; stool hard, followed by backache or cramping pain in rectum; prolapsus recti; itching of anus, especially young children.
Urine
- Involuntary; worse daytime.
- Tickling in urethra extending to bladder.
Female
- Menses remit a day or two, and then return.
- Discharge of long pieces from uterus.
- Women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a fiery-red face.
- Menses too early, too profuse, last too long; pale, watery.
- Sensitive vagina.
- Tendency to abortion.
- Prolapse of vagina.
Respiratory
- Chest oppressed; breathing difficult.
- Surging of blood to chest.
- Hoarseness.
- Cough dry, spasmodic.
- Hemoptysis (Millefol).
- With the cough pain in occiput.
Heart
- Palpitation; worse, movement.
- Sense of oppression.
- Anemic murmur.
- Pulse full, but soft and yielding; also, small and weak.
- Heart suddenly bleeds into the blood vessels, and as suddenly draws a reflux, leaving pallor of surface.
Extremities
- Rheumatism of the shoulder.
- Dropsy after loss of vital fluids.
- Lumbago; better, slow walking.
- Pain in hip-joint, tibia, soles, and heel.
Skin
- Pale; flushes readily; pits on pressure.
Fever
- General coldness of extremities; head and face hot.
- Chill at 4 am.
- Heat in palms and soles.
- Profuse, debilitating sweat.
Modalities
- Better, walking slowly about.
- Better after rising.
- Worse, while sweating; while sitting still.
- After cold washing and overheating.
- Midnight aggravation.
Relationship
- Antidotes: Ars; Hep.
- Complementary: Chin; Alum; Hamamel.
- Compare:
- Rumex (similar in respiratory and digestive sphere and contains organic iron).
- Ferrum aceticum (alkaline urine in acute diseases. Pain in right deltoid. Epistaxis; especially adapted to thin, pale, weak children who grow rapidly and are easily exhausted; varices of the feet; copious expectoration of greenish pus; asthma; worse, sitting still and lying; phthisis, constant cough, vomiting of food after eating, hemoptysis).
- Ferrum arsenicum (enlarged liver and spleen, with fever; undigested stool; albuminuria). Simple and pernicious anemia and chlorosis. Skin dry. Eczema, psoriasis, impetigo (Use 3x trituration).
- Ferrum bromatum (sticky, excoriating leucorrhea; uterus heavy and prolapsed, scalp feels numb).
- Ferrum cyanatum (neuroses with irritable weakness and hypersensitiveness, especially of a periodical character; epilepsy; cardialgia, with nausea, flatulence, constipation, alternating with diarrhea; chorea).
- Ferrum magneticum (small warts on hands)
- Ferrum muriaticum (Arrested menstruation; tendency to seminal emissions or copious urination at puberty; very dark, watery stools; diphtheria; phlegmonous erysipelas; pyelitis; hemoptysis of dark, clotty blood; dyspareunia; pain in right shoulder, right elbow, and marked tendency to cramps and round red spots on cheeks; bright crystals in urine. Anemia, 3x, after meals. Tincture 1-5 drops 3 times daily for chronic interstitial nephritis).
- Ferrum sulphuricum (Watery and painless stools; menorrhagia pressing, throbbing between periods with rush of blood to head. Basedow's disease. Erethism. Pain in gall-bladder; toothache; acidity; eructation of food in mouthfuls);
- Ferrum pernitricum (cough, with florid complexion);
- Ferrum tartaricum (cardialgia; heat at cardiac orifice of stomach).
- Ferrum protoxalatum (Anemia). Use 1x trit.
- Compare also: Graph; Mangan-act; Cupr.
Dose
- States of debility where the blood is poor in hematin require material doses; plethoric, hemorrhagic conditions call for small doses, from the second to the sixth potency.
