Boericke MM

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Just for the record I will post Materia Medica from 5 well known
Ferrum's and Osmium coming from Boericke. No special reason why I
picked him, but here I found the most remedy's in the same outline at
a date (ninth edition 1927) that could be a summary of the most
important information.
That way we will have a sort of roots of stage 8 from the periodic
table on wich we can start building next week.

FERRUM METALLICUM
Iron
Best adapted to young weakly persons, anæmic and chlorotic, with
pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities;
oversensitiveness; worse after any active effort. Weakness from mere
speaking or walking though looking strong. Pallor of skin, mucous
membranes, face, alternating with flushes. Orgasms of blood to face,
chest, head, lungs, etc. Irregular distribution of blood. Pseudo-
plethora. Muscles flabby and relaxed.
Mind.--Irritability. Slight noises unbearable. Excited from slightest
opposition. Sanguine temperament.
Head.--Vertigo on seeing flowing water. Stinging headache. Ringing in
ears before menses. Hammering, pulsating, congestive headache; pain
extends to teeth, with cold extremities. Pain in back of head, with
roaring in neck. Scalp painful. Must take down the hair.
Eyes.--Watery, dull red; photophobia; letters run together.
Face.--Fiery-red and flushed from least pain, emotion, or exertion.
Red parts become white, bloodless and puffy.
Nose.--Mucous membrane relaxed, boggy, anæmic, pale.
Mouth.--Pain in teeth; relieved by icy-cold water. Earthy, pasty
taste, like rotten eggs.
Stomach.--Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite. Loathing
of sour things. Attempts to eat bring on diarrhœa. Spits up food by
the mouthful (Phos). Eructations of food after eating, without
nausea. Nausea and vomiting after eating. Vomiting immediately after
eating. Vomiting after midnight. Intolerance of eggs. Distention and
pressure in the stomach after eating. Heat and burning in stomach.
Soreness of abdominal walls. Flatulent dyspepsia.
Stool.--Undigested, at night, while eating or drinking, painless.
Ineffectual urging; stool hard, followed by backache or cramping pain
in rectum; prolapsus recti; itching of anus, especially young
children.
Urine.--Involuntary; worse daytime. Tickling in urethra extending to
bladder.
Female.--Menses remit a day or two, and then return. Discharge of
long pieces from uterus. Women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet
have a fiery-red face. Menses too early, too profuse, last too long;
pale, watery. Sensitive vagina. Tendency to abortion. Prolapse of
vagina.
Respiratory.--Chest oppressed; breathing difficult. Surging of blood
to chest. Hoarseness. Cough dry, spasmodic. Hæmoptysis (Millefol).
With the cough pain in occiput.
Heart.--Palpitation; worse, movement. Sense of oppression. Anæmic
murmur. Pulse full, but soft and yielding; also, small and weak.
Heart suddenly bleeds into the blood vessels, and as suddenly draws a
reflux, leaving pallor of surface.
Extremities.--Rheumatism of the shoulder. Dropsy after loss of vital
fluids. Lumbago; better, slow walking. Pain in hip-joint, tibia,
soles, and heel.
Skin.--Pale; flushes readily; pits on pressure.
Fever.--General coldness of extremities; head and face hot. Chill at
4 am. Heat in palms and soles. Profuse, debilitating sweat.
Modalities.--Better, walking slowly about. Better after rising.
Worse, while sweating; while sitting still. After cold washing and
overheating. Midnight aggravation.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Ars; Hep.
Complementary.: Chin; Alum; Hamamel.
Compare: Rumex (similar in respiratory and digestive sphere and
contains organic iron).
Ferrum aceticum (alkaline urine in acute diseases. Pain in right
deltoid. Epistaxis; especially adapted to thin, pale, weak children
who grow rapidly and are easily exhausted; varices of the feet;
copious expectoration of greenish pus; asthma; worse, sitting still
and lying; phthisis, constant cough, vomiting of food after eating,
hæmoptysis).
Ferrum arsenicum (enlarged liver and spleen, with fever; undigested
stool; albuminuria). Simple and pernicious anæmia and chlorosis. Skin
dry. Eczema, psoriasis, impetigo (Use 3x trituration).
Ferrum bromatum (sticky, excoriating leucorrhœa; uterus heavy and
prolapsed, scalp feels numb).
Ferrum cyanatum (neuroses with irritable weakness and
hypersensitiveness, especially of a periodical character; epilepsy;
cardialgia, with nausea, flatulence, constipation, alternating with
diarrhœa; chorea).
Ferrum magneticum (small warts on hands)
Ferrum muriaticum (Arrested menstruation; tendency to seminal
emissions or copious urination at puberty; very dark, watery stools;
diphtheria; phlegmonous erysipelas; pyelitis; hæmoptysis of dark,
clotty blood; dyspareunia; pain in right shoulder, right elbow, and
marked tendency to cramps and round red spots on cheeks; bright
crystals in urine. Anæmia, 3x, after meals. Tincture 1-5 drops 3
times daily for chronic interstitial nephritis).
Ferrum sulphuricum (Watery and painless stools; menorrhagia pressing,
throbbing between periods with rush of blood to head. Basedow's
disease. Erethism. Pain in gall-bladder; toothache; acidity;
eructation of food in mouthfuls); Ferrum pernitricum (cough, with
florid complexion); Ferrum tartaricum (cardialgia; heat at cardiac
orifice of stomach).
Ferrum protoxalatum (Anæmia). Use 1x trit. Compare also; Graph;
Mangan; Cupr.
Dose.--States of debility where the blood is poor in hematin require
material doses; plethoric, hæmorrhagic conditions call for small
doses, from the second to the sixth potency.

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM
Phosphate of Iron
In the early stages of febrile conditions, it stands midway between
sthenic activity of Aconite and Bell, and the asthenic sluggishness
and torpidity of Gels. The typical Ferr phos subject is not full
blooded and robust, but nervous, sensitive, anæmic with the false
plethora and easy flushing of Ferrum. Prostration marked; face more
active than Gels. The superficial redness never assumes the dusky hue
of Gels. Pulse soft and flowing; no anxious restlessness of Acon.
Susceptibility to chest troubles. Bronchitis of young children. In
acute exacerbation of tuberculosis, a fine palliative of wonderful
power. Corresponds to Grauvogl's Oxygenoid Constitution, the
inflammatory, febrile, emaciating, wasting consumptive.
The remedy for first stage of all febrile disturbances and
inflammations before exudation sets in; especially for catarrhal
affections of the respiratory tract. Ferr phos. 3x increases
hemoglobin. In pale, anæmic subjects, with violent local congestions.
Hæmorrhages, bright from any orifice.
Head.--Soreness to touch, cold, noise jar. Rush of blood to head. Ill
effects of sun-heat. Throbbing sensation. Vertigo. Headache better
cold applications.
Eyes.--Red, inflamed, with burning sensation. Feeling as of sand
under lids. Hyperæmia of optic disc and retina, with blurred vision.
Ears.--Noises. Throbbing. First stage of otitis. Membrana tympani red
and bulging. Acute otitis; when Bellad fails, prevents suppuration.
Nose.--First stage of colds in the head. Predisposition to colds.
Epistaxis; bright red blood.
Face.--Flushed; cheeks sore and hot. Florid complexion. Facial
neuralgia; worse, shaking head and stooping.
Throat.--Mouth hot; fauces red, inflamed. Ulcerated sore throat.
Tonsils red and swollen. Eustachian tubes inflamed. Sore throat of
singers. Subacute laryngitis with fauces inflamed and red (2x). After
operations on throat and nose to control bleeding and relieve
soreness. First stage of diphtheria. Ranula in vascular, sanguine
constitutions.
Stomach.--Aversion to meat and milk. Desire for stimulants. Vomiting
of undigested food. Vomiting of bright red blood. Sour eructations.
Abdomen.--First stage of peritonitis. Hæmorrhoids. Stools watery,
bloody, undigested. First stage of dysentery, with much blood in
discharges.
Urinary.--Urine spurts with every cough. Incontinence. Irritation at
neck of bladder. Polyuria. Diurnal enuresis.
Female.--Menses every three weeks, with bearing-down sensation and
pain on top of head. Vaginismus. Vagina dry and hot.
Respiratory.--First stage of all inflammatory affections. Congestions
of lungs. Hæmoptysis. Short, painful tickling cough. Croup. Hard, dry
cough, with sore chest. Hoarseness. Expectoration of pure blood in
pneumonia (Millefol). Cough better at night.
Heart.--Palpitation; pulse rapid. First stage of cardiac diseases.
Short, quick, soft pulse.
Extremities.--Stiff neck. Articular rheumatism. Crick in back.
Rheumatic pain in shoulder; pains extend to chest and wrist. Whitlow.
Palms hot. Hands swollen and painful.
Sleep.--Restless and sleepless. Anxious dreams. Night sweats of
anæmia.
Fever.--Chill daily at 1 pm. All catarrhal and inflammatory fevers;
first stage.
Modalities.--Worse, at night and 4 to 6 pm; touch, jar, motion, right
side. Better, cold applications.
Relationship.--Compare: (Oxygenoid Constitution. Acon; China;
Arsenic; Graphit; Petrol). Ferrum pyrophosph (congestion of brain and
headache following great loss of blood; tarsal cysts); Acon; Gelsem;
China.
Dose.--Third to twelfth potency.

FERRUM IODATUM
Iodide of Iron
Scrofulous affections, glandular enlargements, and tumors call for
this remedy. Crops of boils. Acute nephritis following eruptive
diseases. Uterine displacements. Body emaciated Anæmia Exophthalmic
goitre following suppression of menses. Debility following drain upon
vital forces. Impetigo of the cheek.
Stomach.--Food seems to push 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.
Throat.--Sore, as if of a splinter, shooting in different directions.
Hoarse.
Respiratory.--Coryza; discharge of mucus from nose, trachea, and
larynx. Pressure beneath sternum. Scrofulous swelling of nose. Chest
feels oppressed. Hæmoptysis.
Urinary.--Urine dark. Sweet smelling. Crawling sensation in urethra
and rectum. Sensation as if urine were stopped at fossa navicularis.
Difficulty in retaining urine. Incontinence in anæmic children.
Female.--On sitting, feeling as if something pressed upward in
vagina. Much bearing down. Retroversion and prolapse of uterus.
Leucorrhœa like boiled starch. Menses suppressed or scanty. Itching
and soreness of vulva and vagina.
Dose.--Third trituration. Does not keep long.

FERRUM PICRICUM
Picrate of Iron
Is considered a great remedy to complete the action of other
medicines. The symptom that specially calls for it is failure of the
function of an organ under exertion; e g, the voice fails after
public speaking. Acts best in dark-haired patients, plethoric, with
sensitive livers. Warts and epithelial growths; corns with yellowish
discoloration. Senile hypertrophy of the prostate. Epistaxis. Chronic
deafness and tinnitus due to gout. Meatus dry. Pseudo-leucæmia.
Ears.--Deafness before menses. Crackling in ears and low-pitched
voice. Vascular deafness. Dental neuralgia, radiating towards ears
and eyes. Humming in ears as from telegraph wires. Tinnitus.
Stomach.--Indigestion, furred tongue, headache after meals,
especially in bilious, dark-haired persons.
Urinary.--Pain along entire urethra. Frequent micturition at night,
with full feeling and pressure in rectum. Smarting at neck of bladder
and penis (Barosma). Retention of urine.
Extremities.--Pain in right side of neck and down right arm.
Locomotor ataxia, ocular stage. Hands covered with warts.
Dose.--Second and third trituration.

FERRUM MAGNETICUM
Loadstone
Marked symptoms in intestinal tract. Pain in nape of neck. Paralytic
weakness. Small warts on hands.
Stomach.--During a meal, flatulence; afterwards lassitude taciturn
and hot, pain in epigastrium, especially on breathing.
Abdomen.--Movements and grumbling in abdomen. Loose evacuations with
much flatulency, especially left side with pullings in legs. Abundant
and frequent emission of fetid flatus.
Dose.--Third potency.
OSMIUM
The Element
Irritation and catarrh of respiratory organs. Eczema. Albuminuria.
Pain in trachea. Increases and gives odor to local perspiration.
Causes adhesion of the nail fold.
Head.--Feels as if a band around head. Falling off of hair (Kali
carb; Fluor ac).
Nose.--Coryza, with full feeling in nose. Nose and larynx sensitive
to air. Small lumps of phlegm from posterior nares.
Eyes.--Glaucoma; with iridescent vision. Violent supra and infra-
orbital neuralgia; violent pains and lachrymation. Green colors
surround candle-light. Conjunctivitis. Increase in intra-ocular
tension, dim sight, photophobia.
Respiratory.--Acute laryngitis; cough and expectoration of tough,
stringy mucus. Convulsive cough; feels as though membrane were torn
from larynx. Noisy, dry, hard, cough, in violent short bursts, coming
from low down, shaking the whole body. Talking causes pain in larynx.
Hoarse; pain in larynx; sore sternum. Twitching of fingers, with
spasmodic cough.
Skin.--Eczema, with pruritus. Irritated skin. Itching pimples.
Bromidrosis, sweat in axilla smelling of garlic, worse evening and
night. Fold remains attached to growing nail.
Relationship.--Compare: Argent; Iridium; Selen; Mangan.
Dose.--Sixth potency.