- Source: Derived from elemental iodine, a non-metallic halogen, prepared for homeopathic use through serial dilution and succussion to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for endocrine, respiratory,.
- Cardiovascular, psychological, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving glandular hyperactivity, emaciation, and restlessness.
- It is noted for symptoms such as thyroid enlargement,.
- Rapid metabolism, chronic cough, anxiety, and wasting, often aggravated by warmth, rest, or fasting,.
- And ameliorated by cold air, eating, or motion.
- Modern Context: Indicated for endocrine conditions (e.g., hyperthyroidism, goiter), respiratory conditions (e.g., chronic bronchitis, asthma), cardiovascular conditions (e.g., palpitations,.
- Hypertension), psychological conditions (e.g., anxiety, depression), and systemic conditions (e.g.,.
- Cachexia, fatigue).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by glandular hyperactivity, rapid metabolism , respiratory distress , emotional restlessness , or emaciation,.
- Typically exacerbated by warmth, rest, or fasting, and often seen in individuals with thyroid disorders, chronic respiratory conditions, or stress-related anxiety.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a hypermetabolic, restless constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like weight loss or palpitations alongside psychological symptoms like irritability or nervousness, commonly observed in patients with Graves’ disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease🩺 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary DiseaseClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., or generalized anxiety disorder triggered by metabolic or environmental stressors.
- COMMENTS-ScrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. and syphilitic indurations, effu sions, tumors and goiters.
- Affinity for the glands and thyroid.
- Hy pertrophy of the glands, and emaciation of the body.
- Hyperthyroidism.
- Goiters of the thyroid, exophthalmic goiter (Grave's dis ease), where the eyes bulge out.
- Indurated goiters, thyroidcys ts, swollen thyroid.
- Facial paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. and epilepsy🩺 EpilepsyClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., following suppression of goiter.
- Tumors with keynote hardness and at rophy.
- Emaciation or enlargement of the glands.
- Hyperactivity with swollen glands.
- Affinity for salivary glands and pancreas, especially when there is a diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. of milky, whey-like stools.
- Indurations or atrophy of testes, ovaries and uterus.
- Ovarian, uterine and cervical cancer🩺 Cervical CancerClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Atrophy of the breasts.
- Characteristic one breast larger than the other.
- Failure to thrive in infants with emaciation and swollen glands, always hungry.
- Emaciation of single parts.
- Keynote ravenous eating, yet emaciation.
- Increases or decreases appetite.
- Severe hy poglycemia.
- Canine hunger.
- Severe ranges of blood sugar, with erratic, manic behavior.
- Can get violent and angry when hungry.
- Burning pains, better eating.
- Produces atrophy of nerve and brain tissue, as well as of other tissues.
- Acute hydrocepha lus.
- Pleuritic effusions.
- Tubercular disease, tabes mesenterica, pulmonary tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., tuberculosi s of rapidly-growing young people, thin and dark.
- Pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and tubercular disorders with lung consolidation.
- Dyspnea, cough with blood-streaked expectoration, tickling all over chest, weakness and emaciation.
- Symptoms worse in a warm room.
- Croup🩺 CroupClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. or for a croupy cough (Spong., Brom.🌿 Brom.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Heart disorders.
- Palpitation from the slightest cause, like lightning.
- Sensation as if being squeezed.
- HypertrophyAbnormal enlargement of an organThe increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells..
- With the heart symptoms there is a “gone,” exhausted feeling and the patient is scarcely able to breathe or walk.
- Excessive weakness.
- Nervousness, rest lessness, twitching, subsultus tendinum.
- Sense of trembling in inner parts.
- Fainting on going upstairs.
- VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with throbbing in the head, agitated, vivid dreams and restless sleep.
- Nocturnal sweat, pulse quick, small, and hard.
- RheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
- Growth defects, curvature of bones, in children's ailments (follows Calc well).
- Characteristic hot-bloodedness.
- Sensitive to heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Irritable, cross.
- Anxious, apprehensive.
- Extremely restless, hurried, must move about Tearful and sad.
- Shuns persons.
- Effects of amorousness and disappointed love.
- Averse to all intellectual labor.
- Excessive mental excitement.
- Panic attacks.
- Irresistible impulse to run.
- Feels she will fall if she walks.
- May be useful for AIDS when there is psychosis with swollen glands and emaciation.
- Impulse to murder.
- Clarke saw it given with excellent effect in the lower potencies when swollen and deformed joints have been left behind after an attack of acute rheumatism.
- He used it with excellent effect in the case of a young woman who had a nervous shock and had lost all appetite and desire to live.
- She was much emaciated and had quietly made up her mind to starve herself to death.
- Clarke gave five drops of lod.
- 3x in a wineglass of water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. half an hour before me al-times and her appetite returned with such vigor she could not choose but eat and was soon restored to a normal mental and bodily state.
- C. S. McKay noticed lumbrici passed by an infant who had tasted iodine acciden tally and used the experience in another case, giving a dilute solution (one part of the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. to three of water of this three drops every three hours) and produced the expulsion of lumbrici when Sant, had completely failed.
- Grimmer wrote that when it is indicated it cures cancer of the breast and uterus.
- Nash noted that lod is one of the remedies affected by the moon's changes.
- In cases of goiter where it is indicated, he gave a powder of lod.
- 100.000c. every night for four nights after the full moon.
- Temperature-Shaking chilliness, in warm room.
- Cold chills run up back.
- Hands, nose, feet icy cold feet the whole night.
- Chill alternating with heat.
- Flushes of heat all over the body, heat waves to head.
- Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apatheti c.
- Hyperpyrexia or exter nal coldness with anxiety or stupor.
- Hectic fever.
- Internal heat, with coldness of skin.
- Heat with inclination to uncover.
- Swelling and distension, or emaciation and sinking in of abdomen.
- Cutting pain in abdomen.
- Trembling in abdomen.
- Incarcerated flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind..
- Pan creatic disease.
- Region of spleen very painful.
- Enlarged spleen, with salivation.
- Liver and spleen sore and enlarged.
- Violent throbbing of aorta abdominalis.
- Mesenteric glands enlarged.
- Swelling of inguinal glands.
- Variable appetite.
- Ravenous hunger with great thirst.
- Loses flesh, yet hungry and eating well (Abrot.).
- Only feels well while eating in any diseased condition.
- Gets anxious or worried if he does not eat.
- Food doesn't nourish or strengthen.
- Desire for meat, spirituous liquors, acid things.
- Drinking cold milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. helps constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass..
- Milk causes vomiting.
- Heartburn after indigestible food
