Platinum metallicum

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

Platinum

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Keynotes

Platina metallicum

Adapted to women, dark hair, rigid fibre; thin, of a sanguine temperament; who suffer from too early and too profuse menses.

Sexual organs exceedingly sensitive; cannot hear the napkin to touch her; will go into spasms from an examination; vulva painfully sensitive during coitus; will faint during, or cannot endure, coitus (compare, Mur., Orig.).

The pains increase gradually and as gradually decrease (Stan.) ; are attended with numbness of parts ( Cham. ) .

F or hysterical patients ; alternately gay and sad, who cry easily (Croc., Ign., Puls.) ; pale, easily fatigued.

Arrogant, proud, contemptuous, and haughty; pitiful “looking down” upon people usually venerated ; a kind of “casting them off” unwillingly.

Mental delusions, as if everything about her were small ; all persons physically and mentally inferior, but she physically large and superior.

Sensation of growing larger in every direction.

Trifling things produce profound vexation (Ign., Staph. ) ; remains a long time in the sulks.

Satiety of life, with taciturnity and fear of death (Acon., Ars.).

Mental disturbances after fright, grief, vexation; onanism, pride.

Mental symptoms appear as physical symptoms disappear and vice versa.

Headache : numb, heavy pain in brain or on vertex ; from anger or chagrin; hysterical, from uterine disease; pains gradually increase and decrease.

Nymphomania: < in lying-in women; excessive sexual development, especially in virgins (Kali p.) ; vaginismus, spasms and constriction.

Menses too early, too profuse, too long-lasting; dark-clotted, offensive, with bearing down spasms; pains in uterus with twitching; genitals sensitive.

Excessive itching in uterus; pruritus vulvse.

Constipation: while travelling (at sea, Bry.); after lead poisoning : from inertia of bowels ; frequent, unsuccessful urging; stools adhere to rectum and anus like soft clay (Alum.); of emigrants; of pregnancy; obstinate cases after Nux has failed.

Metrorrhagia : flow in black clots and fluid ; thick, black, tarry or in a grumous mass (Croc.).

Puls., Sep., Stan.; Val. the vegetable analogue.

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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. Platinum metallicum — Keynotes, pp. 226–228. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/platinum-metallicum. 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.