Mineral
Zincum Metallicum
Zinc
Repertory abbreviation: Zinc.
The provings picture cerebral depression. The nerv- ous symptoms of most importance. Defective vitality. Impending brain paralysis. Period of depression in disrase. Spinal affections. Twitchings. Pain, as if between skin and flesh. Great relief from discharges. Chorea, from fright or suppressed eruption. Conuvui- sions, with pale fact und no heat. Marked anaemia with prefound prostration. It causes a decrease in the num- ber, and destruction of red blood curpuscles.
Mind
Weak memory. Very sensitive to noise. Averse to work, to talk. Child repeats everything said 787 to it. Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime. Melancholia. Lethargic, stupid. Paresis.
Head
Feels as if he would fall to left side. Head- ache from the smallest quantity of wine. Hydrocepha- lus. Rolls head from side to side. Bores head into pillow. Occipital pain, with weight on vertex. Auto- matic motion of head and hands. Brain-fag; head- aches of overtaxed school children. Forehead cool; base of brain hot. Roaring in head. Starting in fright.
Eyes
Pterygium ; smarting, lachrymation, itching. Pressure as if pressed into head. Jtching and soreness oflids and inner angles. Ptosis. Rulling of eyes. Blurring of one-half of vision; worse, stimulants. Squinting. Amaurosis, with severe headache. Red and inflamed conjunctiva; worse, inner canthus.
Ears
Tearing, stitches, and external swelling. Dis- charge of fetid pus.
Nose
Sore feeling high up; pressure upon root.
Face
Pale lips, and corners of mouth cracked. Red- ness and itching eruption on chin. Tearing in facial bones. Tzansvcrse pains, especially in upper extremity. Soles of feet sensitive.: Steps with entire sole of foot on foor.
Mouth
Teeth loose. Gums bleed. . Gnashing of teeth. Bloody taste. Blisters on tongue. Difficult den- tition; child weak; cold and restless feet.
Throat
Dry; constant inclination to hawk up ten- acious mucus. Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx. Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing.
Stomach
Hiccough, , nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus. Burning in stomach, heartburn from sweet things. Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine. Rav- enous hunger about 1l A. M. [Sulph.] Great greedi- ness when eating; cannot eat fast enough. Atonic dys- pepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed.
Abdomen
Pain after a light meal, with tympanitis. Pain in a spot beneath navel. Gurgling and griping; distended. Flatulent colic, with retraction of abdomen. [Plumb.] Enlarged, indurated sore liver. Reflex symptoms froin foating kidney. Griping after eating. Urine.-- Can only void urine when sitting bent back- wards. Hysterical retention. Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing.
Rectum
Hard, small. constipated stool Cholera in∫antum, with tenesmus; green mucous discharges. Sudden cessation of diarrhcea, followed ly cerebral symptoms.
Male
Testicles swelled, drawn up. Erections vio- lent. Emissions with hypochondriasis. Falling off of s sn ) cord.
Female
Ovarian pain. csprciully left; can't keep still. [Viburn.] Nymphomania of lying-in women. Menses too late, suppressed; lochia suppressed. [Puls.] Breasts painful. Nipples sore. Menses flow more at night. [Boz'.] Complaints all better during menstrual flow. [Eupion: Lach.] All the female sywptoms are associated with restlessness, depression, coianess, spinal Icnacrness and restless feet.
Respiratory
Burning pressure beneath sternum. Constriction and cutting in chest. Hoarseness. De- bilitating, spasmodic cough; worse, eating sweet things. Child grasps genitals during cough. Asthmatic bron- chitis, with constriction of chest. Dyspnaa better as soon as expectoration appears.
Back
Pain in small of back. Cannot bear back touched. [Sul.; Therid.; Cinch.] Tension and stinging between shoulders. Spinal irritation. Dull aching about 789 the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebre; worse sitting. Burning along spine. Nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion. Tearing in shoulder-blades.
Extremities
Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of various muscles. Chilblains. [Agar.] Feet in continued motion; cannot keep still. Large varicose veins on legs. Sweaty. Convulsions, with pale
Skin
V'uricose veins, especially of lower extremi- ties. [Puls.] Formication of feet and legs as from bugs crawling over the skin, preventing sleep. Ec- zema, especially in the anaemic and neurotic. Itching of thighs and hollow of knees. Rctroccssion of erup- tios.
Sleep
Cries out during sleep; body jerks; wakes frightened, stares. Nervous motion of feet when asleep. Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it. Somnambulism. [Kuli phos.]
Fever
Frequent, febrile shiverings down back. Cold extremities. Night-sweat. Profuse sweat on feet.
Modalities
Worse, at menstrual period, from touch, between 5 to 7 p. M.; after dinner, from wine. Better, while eating, discharges, and appearance of eruptions.
Relationships
Compare: Agaric.; Ign.; Plumb. Argent.; Puls.; Helleb.; Tuberc. Inimical: Nux Cham. Compare in amelioration by secretions: Lach. Stan.; Mosch. Compare: Zincum aceticum (effects of night-watch- ing and erysipelas; brain feels sore; Rademacher's solution, five-drop doses three times a day in water, for those who are compelled to work, on an insuficient amount of sieep); Zinc, bromatum (dentition, chorea, hyrocephalus; Zinc. oxydatum (hypochrondriasis due to masturbation); Zinc. cyanatum (as a remedy for meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis, paralysis agitans, chorea, and hysteria, it has received some at- tention); Zinc. ars. (chorea, anemia, profound ex- haustion on slight exertion. Depression and marked involvement of lower extremities); Zinc. carb. (post- gonorrhceal throat affections, tonsils swollen, bluish superficial spots); Zinc. phos. ( (herpes zoster 1x) ; Zinc. muriat. (disposition to pic the bedclothes; sense of smell and taste perverted; bluish-green tin of skin; cold and sweaty); Zinc. phos. (neuralgia of head and face; lightning-like pains in locomotor ataxia, brain- fag, nervousness, and vertigo; sexual excitement and sleeplessness); Ammon. valerian (violent neuralgia, with great nervous agitation); Zinc. picricum (facial paralysis; brain-fag, headache in Bright's disease; seminal emissions; loss of memory and energy); Zinc. sulph. (corneitis; granular lids; tongue paralyzed; cramps in arms and legs; trembling and convulsions).
Dose
Second to sixth potency.