Platinum metallicum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Platinum
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Keynotes
A remedy of pains. For prim old maids. Oversensitive mind and nerves. Violent cramping, squeezing, thrusting or numbing pains, and then spasms. Neuralgia. Many and various ovarian or uterine reflexes. Irregular spasm, congestion of blood or coldness of single parts, eyes, ears, etc. Tremor. Alternate mental and physical or sexual symptoms. Numbness; scalp, face, coccyx, calves, etc. Bandaged feeling. Sticky; tears, stool, menses, etc. .................... Laughs at wrong time. Unkind, abrupt and quarrelsome. Disordered sense of proportion; objects seem smaller, strange, frightful, etc. Hysteria. Horrors; fears death. CONTEMPT. Hauteur. Proud and erotic (Aur.). Alone, deserted feeling. Mentally < in twilight. Bad humor, yet weeps. Gradually increasing, then slowly lessening headache. Clavus. Tense scalp. Cramp at root of nose. Grimaces. Boring in jaws. Congestion to abdomen. Colic. Hard, black, scant or soft, difficult stools; of tourists; of pregnancy. Crawling itching anus in evening. Painfully sensitive genitals, with itching, tickling or crawling. Dark, thick, profuse menses, with dragging. Heat in ovaries. Ovarian irritation. Vaginismus. Dysmenorrhœa, with shrieks and jerks. Eroticism. Onanism. Spasmodic yawning. Bruised backache, < pressure or bending backward. Knees drawn up and spread apart. Cramp in calves. In sleep wants to uncover entirely.
Worse
EMOTIONS: Sexual. Coition. Chagrin. TOUCH. Nerve exhaustion.
Better
Walking in cool air. Sunshine.
Region
FEMALE ORGANS. Nerves: Vagus. Sensory. Trifacial.
Relationships
Related: Cup. Ign. Plb. Stan.
What the other books say about Platinum metallicum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Platinum metallicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Platinum metallicum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Platinum metallicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Platinum metallicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Platinum metallicum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/platinum-metallicum. 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.