Materia Medica

Ferrum Iodatum

Iodide of Iron

Scrofulous affections, glandular enlargements, and tumors call for this remedy. Crops of boils. Acute nephritis following eruptive diseases. Uterine displace- ments.

Throat

Sore, as if of a splinter, shooting in differ- ent directions.

Stomach

Food seems to pus up into throat, as if it had not been swallowed..

Abdomen

Fullness, even after a little food ; stuffed feeling, as if she could not lean forward.

Urinary

Urine dark. Sweet smelling. Crawling sensation in urethra and rectum. Sensation as if urine were stopped at fossa navicularis. Difficulty in retain- ing urine.

Female

On sitting, feeling as if something pressed upward in vagina. Much bearing down. Retroversion and prolapse of uterus. Leucorrhoea like boiled starch. Menses suppressed. Itching and soreness of vulva and vagina.

Respiratory

Coryza; discharge of mucus from nose, trachea, and larynx Pressure beneath sternum. Scrofulous swelling of nose. Chest feels oppressed. Haemoptysis.

Dose

Third trituration.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 323. Public domain.

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