Mineral
Platina
The Metal
Repertory abbreviation: Plat.
Is pre-eminently a woman's remedy. Strong tendency to paralysis, anasthesia, localized numbness and cold- ness are shown. Hysterical spasms; pains increase and decrease gradually. [Stannum.] Tremulousness.
Mind
Irresistible impulse to ill. Self-exaltation ; contempt for others. Arrogant, proud. Weary of every- thing. Everything seems changed. Mental troubles, as- sociated with suppressed menses. Physical symptoms disappear as mental symptoms develop.
Head
Tense, pressing pain, confned to a small spot. C'ramp-like, squcesing pain. Constriction about forehead and right temples. Numbness, with headache.
Eyes
Objects look snailcr than they are. Twitch- ing of lids. [Agar.] Eyes feel cold. Cramp-like pain in orbits.
Ears
Feels numb. ( Cramp-like twinges. Roaring and rumbling.
Face
Prosopalgia, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws. Pain at root of nose, as if squeezed in a vise. Coldness, creep- ing, and numbness, in whole righit side of face. Pains increase and decrease gradually. [Stann.]
Stomach
Fermentation, much flatulence; constric- tion; ravenous hunger; persistent nausea, with anxiety and weakness.
Abdomen
Painter's colic. Pain in umbilical region ; extending through to back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen, extending into pelvis.
Stool
Retarded ; faces Santy ; evacuated with dif- fculty. Adheres to rectum, like soft clay. Sticky stool. Constipation of travelers, who are constantly changing food and water. Stool as if burnt.
Female
Parts hypersensitive. Tingling internaily and externally. [Kali brom.; Orig.] Ovaries sensitive and burn. Menses too early, too profuse, dark-clotted. with spasms and painful bearing-down, chilliness, and sensitiveness of parts. Nymphomania. Excessive sex- ual development; vaginismus. Pruritus vulva. Ovar- itis with sterility. Abnormal sexual appetite and melan- cholia.
Extremities
Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped. Numb and weary sensation. Feel paralyzed.
Sleep
Sleeps with legs far apart. [Chamom.]
Modalities
Worse, sitting and standing; evening. Better, walking.
Relationships
Compare: Rhodium; Star.; Valer.; Scp. Compare also: Platinum muriaticxm (this rem- edy has achieved beneficial results after Iodide uf Pot- ash failed to cure in syphilitic affection; violent occi- pital headaches, dysphagia, and syphilitic throat and bone affections); Plat. mur. nat. (polyuria and saliva- tion); Sedum acrc (sexual irritability, relieves irrita- tion of nerve centers and gives rest). Antidote: Puls. Platina a:tidotes the bad effects of lead.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.