# Platinum (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Platina
- **Miasm:** Sycotic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Platinum is very famous for the treatment of diseases of arrogant
women.  However these days, this drug is used less frequently.
Maybe, in the old days there were more arrogant women than now.
Nowadays times have changed, and one rarely finds women who are
proud and arrogant i.e. who consider  themselves superior to everyone
else.  Women belonging to rich families, who are brought up with a
silver spoon in their mouth, consider themselves above everyone else.
Such women are a typical example of Platinum constitution.  Platinum
is by far a more expensive element than gold.  It is strange but
understandable that Platinum induces an artificial feeling of richness
and makes even poor women proud and arrogant.

The Platinum patient thinks himself far superior and of very high
status.  He becomes irritated about minor  things and despises others.
Considering himself to be the most important person, he remains
always fearful of danger to his life.   This state of his mind changes
him physically also.  The patient is  always scared that something
harmful is going to happen to him.

In a Platinum patient, the heart beats fast, the limbs tremble and soon,
fear of death overtakes him.  The patient is a religious fanatic.  The
female patient thinks of herself an alien.  All these are the symptoms
of insanity, which ultimately l eads to more severe form.  The sexual
trends of Platinum resemble those of  Hyoscyamus.  The patient has
spasm of muscles with convulsions.   The convulsions slowly become
worse, affecting the muscles.  Th e skin becomes numb.  The bleeding
is of dark reddish colour.  The nose bleeds in the form of dark clots.
There is cramping at the root of the nose, which is very painful.  The
affected area feels caught in a vice.  The patient feels a neuralgic type
of pain on the face.  The bones feel insensitive.

If the ovaries become inflamed , and the patient ha s been unable to
conceive for a long time and there is heightened sexual urge without
any apparent reason, then Platinum ma y be kept in mind to treat this
condition.

If the sterility is due to an excessive leucorrhoeal discharge, then
Borax is the remedy of choice.  In Platinum, the symptoms of other
diseases of the uterus  are also found i.e. hard ening of the uterus, the
tendency to develop fibr oids and the downward sagging of the uterus
with excessive bleeding.  The bleedi ng is usually dark in colour, with
the formation of blood clots.  The menstrual bleeding starts before it is
due.  This symptom is very common.  However, if the other symptoms
of Platinum are present, then Platinum will prove to be a promptly
effective remedy.

Stomach conditions like excessive formati on of gas and nausea, are
also common in Platinum.  The pati ent feels very uncomfortable and
restless.  The motions are intermittent and small.  The patient feels
exhausted.

In Platinum, the symptoms of the disease become worse in the
evening and on sitting as well as standing.  The symptoms improve
with movement and on walking.

Antidote: Pulsatilla
Potency: 30 or higher

## Symptoms by System