FERRUM PICRICUM

Picrate of Iron


  • Is considered a great remedy to complete the action of other medicines. 
  • The symptom that specially calls for it is failure of the function of an organ under exertion; e.g., the voice fails after public speaking. 
  • Acts best in dark-haired patients, plethoric, with sensitive livers. 
  • Warts and epithelial growths; corns with yellowish discoloration. 
  • Senile hypertrophy of the prostate. 
  • Epistaxis. 
  • Chronic deafness and tinnitus due to gout. 
  • Meatus dry. 
  • Pseudo-leukemia.

Ears

  • Deafness before menses. 
  • Crackling in ears and low-pitched voice. 
  • Vascular deafness. 
  • Dental neuralgia, radiating towards ears and eyes. 
  • Humming in ears as from telegraph wires. 
  • Tinnitus.

Stomach

  • Indigestion, furred tongue, headache after meals, especially in bilious, dark-haired persons.

Urinary

  • Pain along entire urethra. 
  • Frequent micturition at night, with full feeling and pressure in rectum. 
  • Smarting at neck of bladder and penis (Barosma). 
  • Retention of urine.

Extremities

  • Pain in right side of neck and down right arm. 
  • Locomotor ataxia, ocular stage. 
  • Hands covered with warts.

Dose

  • Second and third trituration.