# Chromium Metallicum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Discharges thick, tough, stringy, sticky, green and yellow.  Pains changing place or in 
one spot. Boring, scraping pains. Cancer. Paralysis. Collapse, coma. Ear infections. Sinusitis. Heart diseases. 
Arteriosclerosis. 
Anemia. Pain under the heart. Hyper cholesterolemia. Stomach complaints. Vom - iting blue or green. 
Affections of pancreas. Diabetes. Cystic fibrosis. Diarrhea, green or bluish. Flatus. Affections of kidneys. Blood 
and albumin in urine. Sciatica. Itching. 
Suddenness. “Symptoms appear and disappear suddenly and return periodically.” [Clarke]  
Wandering pains. “Disagreeable pricking and itching here and there, with uneasiness in limbs, so that he wa s 
obliged to get up from sitting or lying and walk about.” [Hering] 
“The rheumatic pains shift suddenly from one part to another. This type of pains are felt in the eyes, when they 
are sudden, and momentary in both eyes.” [Blackwood] 
Mucus secretions increased, tough, stringy. At night sensation as if eyes were enlarged. Fetid, musty smell 
in posterior nares, chiefly perceived during expiration. 
“Sensation during the eating of the food, which tastes well and natural, as if the exhaled air smelt putrid, almost 
causing nausea. He smells several times of the food, thinking that the stench might proceed from that.” [Allen]

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better motion. Worse morning. Worse 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. Worse cold. Worse least draft of air. Worse 
cold water. Worse night and early morning. Worse 2 a.m. to 6 a.m.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Weakness of memory, how to make several letters.
- Restlessness during pain.
- Restlessness in 
morning, better rising.
- Restlessness in morning before rising.
- Delirium in meningitis cerebrospinalis or encephalitis.
- Scolding in meningitis.
- Delusion of being heavy.
- Comes 
across as a closed personality.
- Have difficulty in expressing themselves.
- When answering, always considering whether they are revealing bad 
things about themselves.
- Weakness of memory, how to make several letters.
- Restlessness during pain.
- Restlessness in 
morning, better rising.
- Restlessness in morning before rising.
- Delirium in meningitis cerebrospinalis or encephalitis.
- Scolding in meningitis.
- Delusion of being heavy.
- Comes 
across as a closed personality.
- Have difficulty in expressing themselves.
- When answering, always considering whether they are revealing bad 
things about themselves.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with inclination to fall to the right side.
- Vertigo while walking.

### Head
- Headache.
- Fullness at night, with peculiar sensation of lightness at the heart.
- Headache.
- Fullness at night, with peculiar sensation of lightness at the heart.

### Eyes
- Sensation of enlargement at night.
- Cutting pain in evening.

### Ears
- Sensation of water in right ear, appearing and disappearing suddenly.

### Face
- Heat at 10 p.m.

### Mouth
- Epithelioma of tongue.
- Putrid odor while eating.
- Prickling of tongue.
- Ranula, periodic.
- Metallic taste 
during dinner.
- Nose - Tumor, posterior nares.

### Throat
- Constant disposition to swallow from thick mucus.

### Chest
- Sensation of emptiness at region of heart.
- Like fine twine threads.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea better walking.
- Transient nausea when stomach is empty.
- Vomit ing, breakfast.
- Teeth - Pain extending to ear, extending to forehead.
- Rumbling in morning, better emission of flatus.
- Rumbling in morning on waking.
- Worse cold drinks.
- Worse tea.

### Urinary & Genital
- Offensive, fetid lochia.

### Neck & Back
- Pain in dorsal region, at inner angle of left scapula.
- Aching pain in lumbar region in morning in bed 
(Chr-o.).

### Skin
- Wounds, bites of rabid dogs.

### Sleep
- Waking with heart symptoms.
- Dreams of riding horses through a stream.
- Dreams of being poisoned.
- Dreams of urinating.
- Dreams that he had an attack of strangury, which the next morning proved to be the fact, 
he did not get over it for two hours.
- Dreams of crossing a stream of water on horseback, and water froze.