- Vanad has never been subjected to the test of a homeopathic provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. but something of its effects upon the human body are known from its accidental absorption by workers.
- It is an ingredient in some black pigments and of a black, permanent ink.
- Workers become debilitated.
- They con tract a dry, hard, almost convulsive cough, with hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
- The temperature becomes elevated with a diurnal maximum.
- DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. sets in soon, and flesh and weight is lost rapidly.
- They are very apt to go from this state into genuine tuberculosis and die.
- These symptoms suggest it as a remedy in the early stages of tuberculosis.
- It agrees with the general characters of that disease, namely the cough, prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness., fever with daily rise, emaciation, hemorrhage and diarrhea.
- Vanad also affects the liver with a degenerative process.
- Its action is that of an oxygen carrier and a catalyzer, hence its use in wasting diseases.
- Increases amount of hemoglobin, also combines its oxygen with toxins and destroys their virulence.
- It also increases and stimulates phagocytes.
- It is a remedy in degenerative conditions of the liver and arteries.
- Anorexia and symp toms of gastro-intestinal irritation.
- Tremors, vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., neuro -retinitis and blindness.
- Ane mia, emaciation.
- Cough dry, irritating and paroxysmal, sometimes with hemorrhages.
- Irritation of nose, eyes and throat.
- Acts as a tonic to digestive functions and in early tuberculosis.
- Degenerative states with brain softening.
- Tuberculosis, chronic rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues., diabetes.
- Cold hands and feet.
- Raynaud’s syndrome.
- Degenerative conditions of liver and ar teries.
- Fatty degeneration of the heart and liver.
- Arteriosclerosis, sensation as if heart was compressed, as if blood had no room in the aorta .
- Deeply pigmented patches on forehead in liver disorders.
- Profound weakness.
- Emaciation and weakness.
- COMMENTS - Burnett told how he came to use Vanad through reading the result of some experiments on animals in which the Salts of Vanadium pr oduced “true cell destruction, the pigment escaping, the liver being hit hardest.” Burnett had at the time a case of “fatty liver, atheroma of the arteries, much pain corresponding to the course of the basilar artery, large, deeply pigmented patches on for ehead, profound adynamia.” Vanad restored the patient, who was seventy and at eighty he was “hale and hearty.” Marc Jousset told of experiments with salts of Vanad., chiefly the meta -vanadate of sodium, by Lyonnet and others.
- Animals poisoned by intravenous injections rapidly develop Cheyne-Stokes respiration with little or no action on circulation or blood.
- CachexiaWasting of body tissues due to chronic illnessWeakness and wasting of the body due to severe chronic illness, such as tuberculosis or cancer..
- These clinical observers gave Vanadates to two hundred patients, suffering from neurastheniaNervous exhaustion and chronic fatigueAn ill-defined medical condition characterized by chronic physical and mental fatigue, headaches, and irritability., tuberculosis, chlorosis, chronic rheumatism, e tc.
- It produced in nearly all cases increased appetite, strength and weight.
- The amount of urea was also increased.
- They regard Vanad as “an ener getic stimulant of nutrition,” and probably an oxidant stimulating organic combustion
