Ferrum Metallicum ferr.

Head confused, meddled; with cold feet and stiff fingers.
Mind confused, cannot collect his thoughts.
Prone to weep or to laugh immoderately; with choking sensation in throat, as if swollen outside.
Not inclined to talk or study; nervous, restless.
Lively in evening.
Depression of spirits; also after menses.
Excitable, pettish, least, contradiction angers.
Proud, self-contented look.
Nervous, hysterical feeling.

Vertigo: on rising suddenly, things grew black, had to lean against something, or fall; nausea, prostration, lethargy; as if balancing to and fro, as when on the water; when walking over water, as when crossing a bridge.

Head dull and full, eyelids heavy, apt to sleep, while sitting reading.
Pain over left eye, coming suddenly.
After 3 A.M., with stitches in both temples, which spread gradually over whole forehead, with chilliness.
Throbbing pain in top of head when moving suddenly.
Headache on top of head, as if skull was pushed upwards.
Weight in back of head, from ear to ear.
Congestion to head, pulsating, hummering pains; head sensitive; worse after 12 P.M.; returning periodically; feeling of an iron band around the head; better from external pressure; face red.
Pain in back of head when coughing.
Beating in back of head and neck, gradually extending to sides and forehead, worse stooping or moving.
Headache: occupying left side of head; with coryza; after menses.
Head hot, feet cold.
Writing causes headache to re-appear.

Scalp and hair feels sore; drawing in chest.
Pressure on top of head when cold air touched it.
Slight itching in scalp and cold feet.

At right can see in the dark; hysteria.
Dark before the eyes; giddy.
Letters run together when reading or writing.
Eyes weak, with lachrymation.
Pupils contracted.
Pressure in the eyes as if they would protrude; worse right.
Redness and swelling of both lids.
Inflamed eyes, burning, stinging.
Can scarcely open eyes; lids pressed down.
Suppurating stye on upper lid.

Ringing in right ear.
Oversensitive to sounds.
Stitches in the ears in the morning.
Ulcerative pain of the outer ear.

Bloody, puruloid, greenish, whey-like, slimy, acrid discharge; cold in head.
Dropping of fluid from posterior nares or frontal sinuses; headache.
Nose continually filled with clotted blood; especially with coryza.
Epistaxis; in anæmic patients subject to ebullitions.
Scabs out of nose, or coughed up every few weeks.

Face ashy pale or greenish; it becomes bright red with pain and other symptoms.
Blue rings around the eyes, which are dull, lustreless.
Face feels as if swollen and bloated.
Face pale, with red spots.
Face fiery red, veins large; congestion to head.
Yellow spots on face.
Face pale, collapsed, or expressionless, stiff and stupid; pneumonia.
Neuralgia after cold washing and overheating.

Lips pale, dry.

Unbearable taste of blood.
Taste like rotten eggs.
Bad state, mouth dry, tongue coated white.

Dry in the morning.
Paleness of the buccal cavity.

Like a lump in left side of throat, below the tonsil; worse from empty swallowing; not when eating and drinking.
Throat sore; dull, heavy all day, lively in evening.
Constructive sensation in throat.

Appetite good and bad alternately; with diarrhœa.
Loathing sour things.
Aversion to: meat, which disagrees; bear; hot things.
Appetite for bread.
Appetite lessened or natural.
Thirstless, or unquenchable thirst.

Worse from meat; sour fruit.
Solid food seems dry and insipid while masticating.
All food tastes bitter.
A fear eggs, vomiting.
After fat food, bitter eructations.
Wine agrees, if not acid.
After eating, heat in stomach, nausea.
After least food or drink, especially after meat spasmodic pressure at the stomach.
Cold water: 20.

Eructations: sour; foul; burning, relieving burning in stomach.
Nausea: with headache; with nightly diarrhœa; with vertigo.
Vomiting: at midnight, or morning after breakfast; as soon as food is taken.

Heat and burning in stomach, with momentary, cramp-like pain in splenic region.
Heavy pressure in pit of stomach.
Palpitation in stomach and through œsophagus, as if a nerve was quivering, with an occasional suffocating feeling, as if a valve rose in the throat.
Occasional uneasiness at splenic end of stomach.

Tightness in right hypochondriac region.
Pain is small of back and liver, all dry.
Fullness in region of liver.
Liver enlarged, sensitive to pressure.
Spleen large; after intermittents.
Shooting pain in left hypochondrium.
Cramp-like sensation in splenic region.

Abdomen hard, distended, but not with flatulence.
Rumbling, with pain in small of back and kidneys, and slight urethral soreness when urinating.
Flatulent colic at night; violent rumbling.
Bowels feel sore when touched, as if bruised, or weakened by cathartics.

Prolapsus recti; with children.
Straining for stool all day, sick at stomach, disagreeable taste, worse drinking cold water.
Diarrhœa, with undigested good; painless and involuntary during a meal.
Rice-water discharges; cold, with cold, sour sweat.
Stools: watery, with burning at the anus; slimy, with discharge of ascarides; stools with blood and mucus.
Costive: stools hard and difficult, followed by backache.
Itching at the anus at night, from ascarides.
Piles, copious bleeding or ichorus oozing; tearing pains, with itching and gnawing.

Pains in bladder.
Slight soreness in urethra.
Involuntary urination at night, and also when walking about by day.
Urine more copious and clear; with relaxation and prostration, making him very nervous.
Urine alkaline.
Hot urine; metrorrhagia.

Sexual desire increased.
Impotence.
Seminal emissions.
Gleet, copious, painless, milky.

Desire lessened, sterility.
During coitus, insensible; painfulness of the vagina.
Dropsy of uterus; face flushes red.
Sharp pains in abdomen, bearing down in uterus, with aching below it.
Sticking, shooting pains in uterus.
Pains near mouth of uterus when lying down.
Passive flow, dark, grumous. θ Menorrhagia.
Swellings and indurations in the vagina.
Vagina too dry.
Prolapsus of vagina.
Before menses, stinging headache, ringing in ears, discharge of long pieces of mucus from uterus.
Menses: too late, long-lasting and profuse; flow watery, or in lumps; preceded by labor-like pains; varices in legs worse; intermit two or three days, then return; uterus displaced; come on with a physical languor and mental displaced; come on with a physical languor and mental depression unfitting her for work; could overcome them by forced exertion. Hysterical symptoms after menses; suppressed.
Leucorrhœa milk, milky, or itching, sharp, with soreness.
Much itching of vulva; delicate women, with red face.

Prevents abortion.
Promotes expulsion of moles.
Spasmodic labor-pains.
Uterine hemorrhage with labor-like pains, glowing face; flow watery, or containing lumps; pulse full, hard.

Voice: hoarse; almost extinct.
Roughness of the throat; hoarseness.

Breath hot.
Dyspnœa increases slowly. θ Pneumonia.
Difficult inspiration, as from heaviness of the chest.
Breathing dry, loud, anxious; sometimes in children, rattling.
Oppression from orgasm of blood; chest scarcely moves in breathing; nostrils dilated during expiration.
Asthma, worse after 12 P.M. must sit up; better walking slowly about and talking; better uncovering chest; after itch.
Suffocative fits evening, in bed, with warmth of neck and trunk, limbs cold.
Breath fails at end of coughing fit.

Spasmodic, from tickling in trachea; at night, must sit up to raise the sputum; spasmodic, after eating with vomiting of food; after drinking; with stitches and soreness.
Sputa: copious, putrid, purulent greenish or frothy, worse morning; copious when moving; scanty, thin frothy, with streaks of blood.
Dry, trickling cough, with blood spitting.
Cough, worse from abuse of tea, quinine, brandy, tobacco smoke; loss of fluids.
Hæmoptysis morning and at night; blood, bright, coagulated, scanty during slight cough with interscapular pains, heavy breathing; must sit up; better walking slowly about, notwithstanding weakness obliges lying down; palpitation.
Hæmoptysis: of onanists; consumptives; from severe exertion; after loss of fluids; from suppressed menses.

Shooting-stinging in chest.
Feeling of dryness in the chest.
Slight heaviness in upper part of left lung, making breathing rather difficult; sore feeling below clavicle and left nipple, cannot take a long breath.
Slight, dull, heavy pain across upper part of chest, rendering breathing uneasy.
Sticking and bruised sensation in the chest.
Constricting spasm of chest.
Flying pains in chest; blood-spitting; persons who flush easily and get epistaxis, dyspnœa, palpitation.

Consecutive heart disease; chlorosis.
Hard, strong beating of the heat; pseudo-plethora.
Palpitation, better walking slowly; also in onanists; after loss of fluids; with blood-spitting.
Throbbing in all blood-vessels; soft bellows sound at apex.
Pulse: full, hard; increased by exertion.

Drawing in chest and around heart; scalp sore.

Neck: sore as if bruised; stiff.
Neck and shoulder painful when lying on right side.
Constant pains along back, worse in those parts she had to lie on.
Lumbago all night, goes off on rising.
Pain in region of kidneys, with desire to make water.

Shoulders sore to touch, painful, also arm.
Pinching in right deltoid.
Boring in right shoulder, and from biceps to elbow; worse from motion; better from heat; worse from weight of bedclothes.
Right arm lame.
Irresistible desire to bend arm, with intense pain; derives out of bed. 2 A.M.; better walking slowly about.
Arms nearly rigid.
When writing the hand trembles, does better when writing fast.
Hands cold, stiff, numb; palms hot.
Fingers; stiff, numb, contracted.

Violent pain in the hip-joint, worse evening until 12 P.M.; must get out of bed and walk about; can hardly put foot to the ground; but pain lessens while walking.
Varicose veins inside of right thigh, then of left.
Numbness of thighs.
Neuralgia, throbbing at night; worse rest; better moving.
Legs feel weak.
Calves weak, as if bruised.
Cramps in calves, worse at rest, especially at night.
Toes contracted.
Shooting-pricking in right instep.
Cramp in soles of feet.
Heel pains.
Feet cold, numb, stiff.
Soles feel hot.

Nightly tearing in arms and legs.
Swelling of hands; also of feet to the ankles.

Motion: 3, 32, 33, 40. Walking: 2, 21, 26, 27, 29, 32, 33, 36. Exertion: 5, 23, 27, 29. Stooping: 3. Lying: 23, 27, 31, 36; on back: 37. Sitting: 3, 37. Must sit up: 26, 27. Rising: 2. Must bend arm: 32. Rest: 33.

Increased bodily irritability; excitable.
Restlessness, must walk slowly about.
Tired, aching, as from lying long in one position.
Prostration, lethargic dulness, vertigo.
So weak she must lie down.
Paralysis from loss of fluids.

Falls asleep: from debility; while sewing, sitting and studying.
Sleep at night with inability to sleep.
Anxious tossing in bed after 12 P.M.
Can lie only on the back, at night.
Child does not sleep because of itching from ascarides.
Dreams: vivid; confused; unpleasant.
Nightmare.

Morning: 6, 12, 16, 27, 40. Morn till noon: 40. Evening: 1, 13, 26, 33, 40. Night: 5, 16, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 40. After midnight: 3, 26, 37. Day: 13, 20, 21, 40.

Generally worse in cold, or wet weather; better in warm air.
Cold air: 4 ; weather: 44. Cold washing: 8. Over heating: 8. Heat: 32. Warmth of bed: 26. Inclines to uncover: 40.

Chilly every evening: hectic fever.
Frequent short attacks of chilly shivering.
Chill with hot and red face, thirst.
General coldness in evening, in bed, often lasting all night.
Chilly and want of animal heat.
Thirst with chill.
Dry heat, worse towards evening; face red; inclined to uncover; better moving or speaking, and after meals.
Sweat profuse, long-lasting, as well by day at every motion, as at night and morning, in bed.
Clammy, generally debilitating sweat.
Every other (third) day sweat from morn till noon.
Strong-smelling night-sweat (with cramps of different parts).
Sweat stains yellow, is fetid on going to sleep.
Worse while sweating.
Intermittent fever after abuse of quinine; congestions to head; veins distended; vomiting ingesta; swelling of spleen; anæmia masked by pseudo-plethora.

Periodical attacks of pain.
Menses intermit.
Every other day: 40.
Pains increase gradually.

Left: 3, 13, 17, 18, 28, 40, 46. Right: 5, 6, 18, 31, 32, 33. Right to left: 33. Left to right: cramp in feet; pain in lungs.

Red parts become white.
Hemorrhages; blood light or lumpy; coagulates easily.
Blood-vessels distended, especially those of head, face, feet.
Varices.
Pseudo-plethora; congestions, etc., yet anæmic; the face is earthy, flushing easily.
Erethic chlorosis, worse during cold weather.
Dropsy after loss of fluids, abuse of Cinchon., intermittent fever; anasarca.
Gland swollen, with rending, tearing pains.
Bones disposed to soften or bend; fractures unite slowly.
Cracking in joints.
Sudden emaciation; muscles lax, limbs cold; weak digestion.

Touch: 19, 32, 46. Pressure: 18. Weight of bedclothes: 32.

Dry skin. θ Pneumonia.
Skin pale, yellow, sallow, dirty, withered, flabby.
Yellow-brown spots, sore to touch.
Scarlatina during desquamation.
Skin peels off on shoulders and left hand.
Warts on fingers and backs of hands.
Ulcers pale, œdematous.

Delicate, chlorotic women.
Weak, nervous; yet face is very red.
Sanguine, choleric.

Ailments from Arsen., Iodium, Cinchon.
Complementary to: Alum., Cinchon.
Antidotes to Ferrum: Arsen., Cinchon., Hepar, Ipec., Pulsat.