Iodum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Iodum

This is one author on one remedy. A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative. Read Iodum in every book at once →

Keynotes

Intensely rapid action. ALWAYS TOO HOT. Hot, acrid or watery discharges. Persistent or salty secretions. Infiltration. GLANDS, SWELLED, HARD or heavy; later dwindling. Lean, hungry and hot. Weak and rapidly losing flesh; can't talk. Vascular degeneration. Scrofula. Acute exacerbations (Fer-p.). Local torpidity; little pus. Internal tickling. General pulsation or local throbbings. Burnings. .................... Dejected or intolerably CROSS and RESTLESS. Excited. Sudden dreadful impulses, > if busy, but motion < and exhausts. Thinks he is well. Reverberations in head. Prominent eyes. Pain at root of nose. Subject to head colds, < open air. Catarrh. Nose red and swelled; much sneezing; it drips hot water. Miserable, withered, brownish, sallow or dusky look. Increased saliva; soapy; foul. Metallic taste. Always hungry, yet emaciates, or variable appetite. Frothy, wheyey, fatty, cheesy or lienteric stools. Sediment in urine like red pepper. Sarcocele. Atrophied testes. Impotency. Menses brown; with weakness; after every stool. Leucorrhœa erodes thighs and linen. Painful, choking hoarseness; grasps the larynx. Laryngitis. Diphtheria; expectorates cast of larynx (Kali-bi.). Rough voice. Dry, tickling, croupy cough. Short breath. Raw bronchiæ. Violent pulmonary congestion. Pneumonia; rapid extension. Heart feels squeezed. Palpitation. Heavy mammæ. Hard goitre. Foot-sweat on backs of feet. Skin, dry, rough, dirty; brown spots on. Restlessness in blood prevents sleep. Hyperpyrexia, or external coldness with anxiety or stupor. Hectic. Heat waves to head. Sweats easily. Early morning sweats, with >.

Worse

HEAT: ROOM. Air. Wraps. Exertion: Ascending. Talking. Fasting. Night. Rest.

Better

COLD: AIR. Bathing. Motion. Eating.

Region

GLANDS: THYROID. Testes. Mesenteric. Mammæ. MUCOUS MEMBRANES: LARYNX. Lungs (R. Apex or base). HEART. Blood-vessels. Skin. Nerves. Connective tissue.

Relationships

Complementary: Lyc. Sil. Related: Ars. Flu-ac. Pho. Spo. Antidotes: Ars. Bell. Hep. Op. Pho.

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Iodum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/iodum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.