# Lithium Iodatum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Hering introduced and made the first provings of Lith -c. It affects the entire organism, but 
notably the head and eyes, urinary organs, heart andjoints. Uric acid diathesis. Gout and tophi. Acidity. 
Chronic rheumatism connected with heart lesions  and asthenopia. Rheumatism connected with heart or 
eye lesions. Rheumatic nodes. Arthritic complaints accompanied with heart or eye symptoms. Recurring 
attacks of acute inflammation of the small joints. 
Whole body feels sore and heavy.  Pressing from within outward in head, abdominal ring, perineum, chest. 
Pain as of adull point. Violent sharp pains, as from red hot needles. Paralytic stiffness of the whole body. 
Prostration. Increase of bulk and weight. 
Dry and harsh skin. Hot water aggravates the itching. Effects of bruises and falls. Bruised spots from falls and 
blows. Open air causes post -nasal dripping from nose and constriction of chest. Inspired air f eels cold even 
into lungs.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Absent-minded.
- Slow, confused mind.
- Concentration difficult.
- Difficulty in remembering names.
- Makes 
mistakes while talking, omitting words, mispronounces, words.
- Want of self confidence.
- Timidity, bashful.
- Restless, nervou s.
- Anxiety and hopeless ness at night, about future.
- Startled easily.
- Oversensitive.
- Easily 
irritable.
- Impatient.
- Quarrelsome, scolding.
- Averse to being spoken to, to being touched.
- Wants to be left alone.
- Depression.
- Sadness, despondency.
- Disposed to weep about his lonesome condition.
- Staring, thoughtless.
- Manic depression.
- Obsessive compulsive disorders.
- Claustrophobia.
- Fear in narrow places.
- Absent-minded.
- Slow, confused mind.
- Concentration difficult.
- Difficulty in remembering names.
- Makes 
mistakes while talking, omitting words, mispronounces, words.
- Want of self confidence.
- Timidity, bashful.
- Restless, nervou s.
- Anxiety and hopeless ness at night, about future.
- Startled easily.
- Oversensitive.
- Easily 
irritable.
- Impatient.
- Quarrelsome, scolding.
- Averse to being spoken to, to being touched.
- Wants to be left alone.
- Depression.
- Sadness, despondency.
- Disposed to weep about his lonesome condition.
- Staring, thoughtless.
- Manic depression.
- Obsessive compulsive disorders.
- Claustrophobia.
- Fear in narrow places.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Feels swollen as if distended with wind.
- Cannot endure slightest pressure of clothes from fullness 
in epigastrium (Lach., Lyc.).
- Pressure, pain in hepatic region.
- Pain in left abdominal ring like a pressing from 
within outward.
- Indurated inguinal glands.
- Syphilitic bubo in left groin.

### Neck & Back
- Pressure as from a dull point, here and there.
- Sticking pain in sacral region.
- Soreness in right side, 
extending to sacrum.
- Prostration in sacrum at night.
- Bladder - Tenesmus of bladder, while and after urinating.
- Soreness of bladder with frequent urination.
- Pain in 
bladder extending to spermatic cord after urination .
- Flashes of pain in region of bladder, more towards right, 
before urination.
- Burning in urethra.
- Sub-acute and chronic cystitis.
- Breasts - Pain in breast glands, which extends into the arms and fingers.