Iodoform
- Should not be forgotten in the treatment of tubercular meningitis, both as a local application to the head and internally (Bacil).
- Tuberculous conditions.
- Subacute and chronic diarrhoea of children.
Head
- Sharp, neuralgic pain.
- Head feels heavy, as if it could not be lifted from pillow.
- Itching of occiput.
- Meningitis.
- Sleep interrupted by sighing and cries.
- Very drowsy.
Eyes
- Pupils, dilated; contract unequally, react poorly.
- Diplopia.
- Failing sight due to retro-bulbar neuritis, central scotoma-partial atrophy of optic disc.
Chest
- Sore pain in apex of right lung.
- Feeling of a weight on chest, as if smothering.
- Cough and wheezing on going to bed.
- Pain in left breast, like a hand grasping at the base of the heart.
- Haemoptysis.
- Asthmatic breathing.
Abdomen
- Scaphoid abdomen.
- Chronic diarrhoea with suspected tuberculosis.
- Abdomen distended; mesenteric glands enlarged.
- Cholera infantum.
- Chronic diarrhoea; stools greenish, watery, undigested, with irritable temper.
Extremities
- Legs weak; cannot stand and walk with eyes closed.
- Weakness of knees when going upstairs.
Dose
- Second trituration.
- Three grains on the back of the tongue will relieve attack of asthmatic breathing.
