PLATINUM METALLICUM
The Metal (PLATINA)
Is pre-eminently a woman’s remedy. Strong tendency to paralysis, anaesthesia, localized numbness and coldness are shown. Hysterical spasms; pains expand and minimize steadily (Stannum). Tremulousness.
Mind.–Irresistible impulse to kill. Self-exaltation; contempt for others. Arrogant, proud. Weary of everything. Everything appears changed. Mental bother pressed menses. Physical signs disappear as intellectual signs develop.
Head.–Tense, urgent pain, restricted to a small spot. Cramplike, squeezing pain. Constriction about brow and proper temples. Numbness, with headache.
Eyes.–Objects appear smaller than they are. Twitching of lids (Agar). Eyes sense cold. Cramp-like ache in orbits.
Ears.–Feels numb. Cramp-like twinges. Roaring and rumbling.
Face.–Prosopalgia, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the components have been between screws. Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed in a vise. Coldness, creeping, and numbness, in complete proper facet of face. Pains expand and minimize regularly (Stann).
Stomach.–Fermentation, lots flatulence; constriction; ravenous hunger; power nausea, with anxiousness and weakness.
Abdomen.–Painter’s colic. Pain in umbilical region; extending thru to back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen; extending into pelvis.
Stool.–Retarded; feces scanty; evacuated with difficulty. Adheres to rectum, like tender clay. Sticky stool. Constipation of travelers, who are continuously altering meals and water. Stool as if burnt.
Female.–Parts hypersensitive. Tingling internally and externally (Kali brom; Orig). Ovaries touchy and burn. Menses too early, too profuse, dark-clotted, with spasms and painful bearing-down, chilliness, and sensitiveness of parts. Vaginismus. Nymphomania. Excessive sexual development; vaginismus. Pruritus vulvae. Ovaritis with sterility. Abnormal sexual urge for food and melancholia.
Extremities.–Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped. Numb and weary sensation. Feel paralyzed.
Sleep.–Sleeps with legs a long way aside (Chamom).
Modalities.–Worse, sitting and standing; evening. Better, walking.
Relationship.–Compare: Rhodium; Stann; Valer; Sep. Compare, also: Platinum muriaticum (this treatment has done really helpful consequences after Iodide of Potash failed to treatment in syphilitic affection; violent occipital headaches, dysphagia, and syphilitic throat and bone affections; caries of bones of feet); Plat mur nat (polyuria and salivation); Sedum acre (sexual irritability, relieves inflammation of nerve facilities and offers rest).
Antidote: Puls. Platina antidotes the terrible outcomes of lead.
Dose.–Sixth trituration to thirtieth potency.
