Iodum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Iodum
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Keynotes
Iodium
Iodine. The Element.
Persons of a scrofulous diathesis, with dark or black hair and eyes; a low cachectic condition, with profound debility and great emaciation (Abrot.).
Great weakness and loss of breath on going upstairs (Calc.) ; during the menses (Alum, Carbo an., Coc.).
Ravenous hunger; eats freely and well, yet loses flesh all the time (Abrot., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.).
Empty eructations from morning to night, as if every particle of food was turned into air (Kali c.).
Suffers from hunger, must eat every few hours, anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina, Sulph.) ; feels > while eating or after eating, when stomach is full.
Itching : low down in the lungs, behind the sternum, causing cough ; extends through bronchi to nasal cavity (Coc. c., Con., Phos.).
thyroid, mammae, ovaries, testes, uterus, prostate or other ^ands — breasts may dwindle and become flabby.
Hard goitre, in dark-haired persons (light-haired, Brom. ) ; feels > after eating.
Palpitation, worse from least exertion (compare. Dig. — from least mental exertion. Cal. ars.).
Sensation as if the heart was squeezed together; as if grasped with an iron hand (Cac., Sulph.).
Leucorrhoea : acrid, corrosive, staining and corroding the linen; most abundant at time of menses.
Cancerous degeneration of the cervix; cutting pains in abdomen and hemorrhage at every stool.
Constipation, with ineffectual urging > by drinking cold milk.
Croup : membranous, hoarse, dry cough, worse in warm, wet weather; with wheezing and sawing respiration (Spong.).
Child grasps the larynx (Cepa) ; face pale and cold, especially in fleshy children.
Compare: Acet. ac., Brom., Con., Kali hi., Spong. in membranous croup and croupy affections ; especially in overgrown boys with scrofulous diathesis.
Follows well : after. Hep., Mer. ; is followed by Kali hi. in croup. Acts best in goitre when given after full moon, or when the moon is waning. — Lippe.
Should not be given during lying-in period, except in high potencies. — Hering.
Aggravation., — Warmth; wrapping up the head (reverse of. Hep., Psor.).
What the other books say about Iodum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Iodum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Iodum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Iodum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Iodum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Iodum — Keynotes, pp. 145–146. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/iodum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.