RADIUM BROMATUM
Radium Bromide (RADIUM)
An vital addition to the Materia Medica, in particular because the provings through Diffenbach have precisionized its use. Radium brom of 1,800,000 radio-activity was once employed. Found positive in the remedy of rheumatism and gout, in pores and skin affections generally, pimples rosacea, naevi, moles, ulcers and cancers. Lowered blood pressure. Severe aching pains all over, with restlessness, higher transferring about. Chronic rheumatic arthritis. Lateness in look of symptoms. Ulcers due to Radium burns, take a lengthy time to heal. Marked amplify in the polymorphonuclear neutrophiles. Great weakness.
Mind.–Apprehensive, depressed; worry of being on my own in the dark; splendid want to be with people. Tired and irritable.
Head.–Vertigo, with ache in again of head, left when in bed. Occipital and vertex pain, accompanying extreme lumbar aching. Severe ache over proper eye, spreading returned to occiput and to vertex, higher in open air. Head feels heavy. Frontal headache. Both eyes ache. Itching and dryness of nasal cavities, higher in open air. Aching ache in attitude of proper decrease jaw. Violent trifacial neuralgia.
Mouth.–Dryness of mouth. Metallic taste. Prickling sensation on give up of tongue.
Stomach.–Empty feeling in stomach. Warm sensation in stomach. Aversion to sweets, ice-cream. Nausea and sinking sensation, belching of gas.
Abdomen.–Pain, violent cramps, rumbling, full of gas; ache over McBurney’s point, and at place of sigmoid flexure. Much flatulence. Alternating constipation and free movements. Pruritus ani and piles.
Urinary.–Increased removal of solids, in particular of chlorides. Renal irritation, albuminuria, granular and hyaline casts. Nephritis with rheumatic symptoms. Enuresis.
Female.–Pruritus vulvae. Delayed and irregular menstruation and backache. Aching pains in stomach over pubes when waft comes on. Right breast sore, relieved by means of tough rubbing.
Respiratory.–Persistent cough with tickling in suprasternal fossa. Dry, spasmodic cough. Throat dry, sore, chest constricted.
Back.–Aching in again of neck. Pain and lameness in cervical vertebrae, worse losing head forward, higher standing, or sitting erect. Lumbar and sacral backache, ache seems to be in bone, endured movement relieves. Backache between shoulders and lumbar-sacral region, higher after walking.
Extremities.–Severe ache in all the limbs, joints, specifically in knee and ankles, sharp pains in shoulders, arms, arms and fingers. Legs, hands and neck sense challenging and brittle, as even though they would smash on moving. Arms experience heavy. Cracking in shoulder. Pain in toes, calves, hip-joint, popliteal spaces. Muscles of legs and hips sore. Arthritis, aching pains, worse at night. Dermatitis of the fingers. Trophic adjustments in the finger nails.
Skin.–Small pimples. Erythema and dermatitis, with itching, burning, swelling and redness. Necrosis and ulceration. Itching all over body, burning of skin, as if afire. Epithelioma.
Sleep.–Restless. Sleepiness with lethargy. Dreams vivid, busy. Dreams of fire.
Fever.–Cold sensation internally, with chattering of enamel till noon. Internal chilliness observed with the aid of warmth of the skin, related with bowel moves and flatulence.
Modalities.–Better, open air, endured motion, warm bath, mendacity down, pressure. Worse, getting up.
Relationship.–Compare: Anacardium (the ulceration produced by way of it is like Radium. It can also show up some place else than on location of contact and appear late). Compare: X-Ray; Rhus; Sepia; Uranium; Ars; Pulsat; Caustic.
Antidotes: Rhus ven; Tellur.
Dose.–Thirtieth and twelfth trituration.
