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Iodium
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Iodium Reference Specimen
Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm
The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
Iodof was proved by Underwood and Haines.
The proving symptoms were supplemented
with recorded effects ob served on patients treated with it in old-school practice, as well as cases of fatal
poisoning.
In some instances, the symptoms of acute meningitis have been produced.
Based on this, W.
J.
Martin cured
two cases of tuber cular meningitis with Iodof.
2x.
He put 4 grains in half a tumbler of water and gave a
teaspoonful every two hours.
One case was that of a child, fourteen months old, the symptoms including sleep ing too much, constant
movement of the mouth as though chewing or sucking, boring head back and rolling it from side to side.
Had
been ill twelve days.
Violent convulsions followed, face distorted, eyes squinting, head retracted, neck and back stiffness.
Automatic
movement of one arm and leg.
The child was expected to die that night, but Iodof was given and improvement
set in Fever abated, and in one week all symptoms had passed away.
Tuberculous conditions, especially tubercular meningitis (Bac.).
Chronic diarrhea, stools, greenish, watery,
undigested with irritable temper, due to suspected
tuberculosis.
Sub-acute and chronic diarrhea of children.
Failed sight due to retro-bulbar neuritis, central scotoma, partial atrophy of the optic disc.
Pupils dilated,
contract unequally.
Cannot stand or walk with eyes closed.
Sleep interrupted by sighing and cries.
Mesenteric
glands enlarged.
COMMENTS-A boy of 10 had lodof thickly applied to a point on an amputated limb at which the stitches did
not hold well.
On the third day he was sleepy after a restless night with frequent sighing.
The dressing was
renewed and on the same day, not having eaten anything since the day before, he had several attacks of
vomiting, bilious and easy.
All these symptoms increased during the next few days.
The child was constipated and seemed to suffer from
his head.
Nights very restless, sle ep interrupted by sighing and cries like those of meningitis.
Drowsiness
during the day.
Pupils unequally contracted, reacted slowly to light.
He was perfectly indifferent and did not
recognize those about him.
Later, nightly agitation was replaced by tranquil delirium.
Pulse rapid and small.
On the sixth day the dressing
was changed, on the seventh day the symptoms began to abate and disappeared after the ninth.
In one case of poisoning, a woman, 26 who had taken 42 grains of Iodoform in eighty days, sudde nly after a
hot bath felt very dizzy and weak in the legs, felt unable to knit and diplopia set in Symptoms of mania followed,
weakness, staggering on closing the eyes.
For twelve days she was unable to walk alone.
In one case, that of a soldier who had Iodoform applied to his arm, a scarlatina-like rash appeared, spreading
from arm over the body and ending in desquamation.
Scarlatina was actually diagnosed, but some doubt was raised and suspicion being thrown on the Iodoform, a
piece of silver was placed in the mouth.
Immediately a garlic taste was experienced, showing the presence of
Iodoform, which other tests confirmed.
In cases of medicinal poisoning, the symptoms sometimes come speedily and sometimes only after a long
period of medication.
Symptoms s et in with great suddenness and intensity.
Symptoms are worse from heat
and damp.
Depression.
Marked drowsiness.
Malaise, loss of strength and of appetite.
Occasional vomiting.
Moderate
fever, rapid pulse.
Eczema.
Temperature-Susceptible to hot weather.
Heat at night, keeps laying off covers.
Temperature may be
elevated to 104 F° or more
▲MODALITIES ETC
Better by uncovering.
Worse at night, warmth, touch, motion, riding in cars
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.
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