Plumbum metallicum

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

Lead

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Keynotes

Slow, insidious processes, having violent side symptoms; often of very changeable or incoherent character; coming in single parts, etc. Paralysis. Atrophied limbs with plump body; paralysed parts < touch. Sensitive to open air. Impulse to stretch. Exaggerates her condition. Retraction; anus, testes, navel, etc. Increasing slowness and apathy. Deep, bluish red sclerotic. Abdomen is drawn into uneven lumps (Ars. Ign.). Abdominal distress that impels her to stretch. Urination slow, yet profuse. VIOLENT CONTRACTION. Retraction. Lightning pains that extort cries. Boring. Cramps (periodical), convulsions or (flaccid) paralysis; with hæmorrhage or hyperæsthesia. Chronic epilepsy, with marked aura. Wasting of single (upper) parts, or of paralysed parts. Sclerosis. Gout. .................... Taciturn. Timid, restless and anxious. Fears assassins. Physical labor exhausts the mind. Stupidity. Melancholy. Delirium; nocturnal; alternating with colic or pains in limbs. Twitching of r. face. Yellow sclerotic and inside of mouth. Trembling tongue. Sticky saliva. Sweet taste. Aphthæ. Dysphagia. Foul or fecal eructations. NAVEL FEELS RETRACTED. Colic; accompanies many symptoms. Radiating abdominal pains, or boring, or as if forced through a narrow place. Tense abdomen. Hernia at navel. Anus feels drawn up, or painfully contracted. Stool, granular; of hard, black balls, like sheep dung; passed with an urging cramp. Stubborn constipation or colics of infants. Retracted testes. Pollutions. Bluish, red spots. Dry oversensitive skin. Dry, burning ulcers. Takes odd positions during sleep. Wiry pulse. Coldness from exertion. General cold sweat during stool. Feet cold, when walking only.

Worse

Clear weather. Open air. Exertion. Motion. Company. Grasping smooth objects. Touch.

Better

Hard pressure. Rubbing.

Region

CORD AND NERVES: MUSCLES. ABDOMEN. Kidneys. Navel. Blood-vessels. Blood.

Relationships

Complementary: Rhus-t. Thallium. Related: Op.

What the other books say about Plumbum metallicum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Plumbum metallicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Plumbum metallicum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Plumbum metallicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Plumbum metallicum 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. Plumbum metallicum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/plumbum-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.