Plumbum metallicum

Plumbum metallicum

Lead. The Metal.

Adapted to diseases from spinal origin (Phos., Pic. ac.. Zinc.).

Excessive and rapid emaciation ; general or partial paralysis; extreme, with anaemia and great weakness.

Muscular atrophy from sclerosis of spinal system.

Lassitude; faints on going into a room full of company.

Slow of perception ; intellectual torpor, gradually increasing apathy (in fevers, Phos. ac. ).

Weakness or loss of memory; unable to find the proper word (Anac., Lac c.).

Delirium alternating with colic.

Assumes strangest attitudes and positions in bed.

Complexion : pale, ash-colored, yellow, corpse-like, cheeks sunken; expressive of great anxiety and suffering.

Skin of face, greasy, shiny (Nat. m., Sanic.).

Distinct blue line along margin of gums; gums swollen, pale, show a lead-colored line.

Excessive pain in abdomen, radiating to all parts of body.

Sensation in abdomen at night, which causes patient to stretch violently for hours; must stretch in every direction (Amyl. n.).

Violent colic, sensation as if abdominal wall was drawn as if by a string to the spine.

Intussusception, with colic and faecal vomiting; strangulated hernia, femoral, inguinal or umbilical.

Constipation: stools hard, lumpy, black like sheepdung (CheL, Op.) ; with urging and terrible pain from spasm of anus; obstructed evacuation from indurated faeces, dryness of the excretions, paralysis or muscular atony; during pregnancy; from impaction of faeces; when Platina fails.

Bright’s disease : colic pain ; abdomen retracted ; rapid emaciation ; excessive debility ; contracted kidney.

• Feels a lack of room for foetus in uterus; inability of uterus to expand; threatening abortion.

Spasms: clonic; tonic; from cerebral sclerosis or tumor; epilepsy or epileptiform convulsions.

Yellow skin: dark brown “liver spots” in climacteric years; jaundice, the eyes, skin and urine yellow.

Pod. in retraction of navel ; Nux in strangulated hernia ; Pod. the vegetable analogue.

The bad effects of Plumbum are antidoted by Alum., Petr., Plat., Sulph. ac.. Zinc.

Aggravation. — At night (pains in limbs).

Amelioration. — Rubbing; hard pressure.