IODOFORMIUM

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.