Iodine (IODUM)
- Rapid metabolism: Loss of flesh great appetite.
- Hungry with much thirst.
- Better after eating.
- Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration.
- Iod individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin.
- Tubercular type.
- All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are especially affected; they atrophy.
- Iodine arouses the defensive apparatus of the system by assembling the mononuclear leucocytes whose phagocytic action is marked, at a given point.
- Lead poisoning.
- Tremor.
- Iodine craves cold air.
- Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation.
- Arthritis deformans.
- Acts prominently on connective tissue.
- The plague.
- Goitre.
- Abnormal vaso-constriction, capillary congestion followed by edema, ecchymosis, hemorrhages, and nutritive disturbances are the pathological conditions at the basis of its symptomatology.
- Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects.
- Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes, rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite, and glandular atrophy call for this remedy, in numerous wasting diseases and in scrofulous patients.
- Acute affections of the respiratory organs.
- Pneumonia, rapid extension.
- Iodine is warm, and wants cool surroundings.
- Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs.
- Adenoid vegetations.
- Tincture internally and locally to swollen glands and rattlesnake bites.
Mind
- Anxiety when quiet.
- Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the future.
- Sudden impulse to run and do violence.
- Forgetful.
- Must be busy.
- Fear of people, shuns every one.
- Melancholy.
- Suicidal tendency.
Head
- Throbbing; rush of blood, and feeling of a tight band.
- Vertigo; worse from stooping, worse in warm room.
- Chronic, congestive headache of old people (Phos).
Eyes
- Violent lachrymation.
- Pain in eyes.
- Pupil dilated.
- Constant motion of eyeballs.
- Acute dacryocystitis.
Nose
- Sneezing.
- Sudden violent influenza.
- Dry coryza becomes fluent in open air, also a fluent hot coryza with general heat of skin.
- Pain at root of nose and frontal sinus.
- Nose stopped up.
- Tendency to ulceration.
- Loss of smell.
- Acute nasal engorgement associated with high blood pressure.
Mouth
- Gums loose and bleed easily.
- Foul ulcers and salivation.
- Profuse, fetid ptyalism.
- Tongue thickly coated.
- Offensive odor from mouth.
Throat
- Larynx feels constricted.
- Eustachian deafness.
- Thyroid enlarged.
- Goitre, with sensation of constriction.
- Swollen submaxillary glands.
- Uvula swollen.
Stomach
- Throbbing at pit of stomach.
- Ravenous hunger and much thirst.
- Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas.
- Anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina; Sulph).
- Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well (Abrot).
Abdomen
- Liver and spleen sore and enlarged.
- Jaundice.
- Mesenteric glands enlarged.
- Pancreatic disease.
- Cutting pain in abdomen.
Stool
- Hemorrhage at every stool.
- Diarrhea, whitish, frothy, fatty.
- Constipation, with ineffectual urging; better by drinking cold milk.
- Constipation alternating with diarrhea (Ant cr).
Urine
- Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green (Bovista), thick, acrid with cuticle on surface.
Male
- Testicles swollen and indurated.
- Hydrocele.
- Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes.
Female
- Great weakness during menses (Alum; Carbo an; Coccul; Haematox).
- Menstruation irregular.
- Uterine hemorrhage.
- Ovaritis (Apis; bell; Lach).
- Wedge-like pain from ovary to uterus.
- Dwindling of mammary glands.
- Nodosities in skin of mammae.
- Acrid leucorrhea, thick, slimy, corroding the linen.
- Wedge-like pain in the right ovarian region.
Respiratory
- Hoarse.
- Raw and tickling feeling provoking a dry cough.
- Pain in larynx.
- Laryngitis, with painful roughness; worse during cough.
- Child grasps throat when coughing.
- Right-sided pneumonia with high temperature.
- Difficult expansion of chest, blood-streaked sputum; internal dry heat, external coldness.
- Violent heart action.
- Pneumonia.
- Hepatization spreads rapidly with persistent high temperature; absence of pain in spite of great involvement, worse warmth; craves cool air.
- Croup in scrofulous children with dark hair and eyes (Brom opposite).
- Inspiration difficult.
- Dry, morning cough, from tickling in larynx.
- Croupy cough, with difficult respiration; wheezy.
- Cold extends downwards from head to throat and bronchi.
- Great weakness about chest.
- Palpitation from least exertion.
- Pleuritic effusion.
- Tickling all over chest.
- Iod cough is worse indoors, in warm, wet weather, and when lying on back.
Heart
- Heart feels squeezed.
- Myocarditis, painful compression around heart.
- Feels as if squeezed by an iron hand (Cactus) followed by great weakness and faintness.
- Palpitation from least exertion.
- Tachycardia.
Extremities
- Joints inflamed and painful.
- Pain in bones at night.
- White swelling.
- Gonorrheal rheumatism.
- Rheumatism of nape and upper extremities.
- Cold hands and feet.
- Acrid sweat of feet.
- Pulsation in large arterial trunks.
- Rheumatic pains, nightly pains in joints; constrictive sensations.
Skin
- Hot, dry, yellow and withered.
- Glands enlarged.
- Nodosities.
- Anasarca of cardiac disease.
Fever
- Flushes of heat all over body.
- Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic.
- Profuse sweat.
Modalities
- Worse, when quiet, in warm room, right side.
- Better, walking about, in open air.
Relationship
- Yatren.
- Iod pathogenesis is similar to that of Carbol acid.
- Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph; Gratiola.
- Complementary: Lycopod; Badiaga.
- Compare: Brom; Hepar; Mercur; Phosph; Abrot; Nat mur; Sanic; Tuber.
Dose
- The crude drug in saturated solution may be required.
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Ioduretted solution of Potass iod (35 grains Potassa and 4 grains Iodine to 1 oz of water, 10 drops three times a day) expels tapeworms dead.
- Locally the most powerful, least harmful and easily managed microbicide.
- Ideal agent to keep wounds clean and disinfected. Bites of insects, reptiles, etc.
- Gunshot wounds and compound fractures, excellent.
- Great skin disinfectant.
