Palladium metallicum

Fleeting pains. .................... Love praise. Easily offended. Headache from ear to ear, across vertex. Glairy mucus from throat, or leucorrhœa. Shooting from navel into breasts or pelvis. Hollowness in flanks. Bearing down, > rubbing. Cutting in uterus and bladder, > stool. Menses flow when nursing. Glairy leucorrhœa, before and after menses. Leaden heaviness in pelvis.

Emotions: Lively. Chagrin. Social functions. Standing.

Touch. Pressure. Diversion. Rubbing.

Uterus. Right ovary. Mind.

Related: Asaf. Plat.

Lecture LIX — Platina, Palladium and Alumina

Palladium.

Palladium is chemically and symptomatically near to Platina. It is of use principally for its action on the female genital organs. Its characteristic mental symptoms seem to find origin in the sexual symptoms, and form, with the latter, a useful and precise group for practical use. The patient is inclined to weep. She suffers from mental excitement, particularly in company. She always, has an aggravation of her symptoms* the day following an evening's entertainment. She is easily put out of humor, and is then inclined to use pretty strong language. She imagines herself very much neglected, and as she attaches great importance to the good opinion of others, this annoys her very much. The Platina woman is very different. She is egotistical in another form. Under Palladium, pride is easily wounded. In Platiiia the patient is haughty and egotistical; she looks down on others as not being good enough for her.

Palladium has a very characteristic headache, which makes the patient very irritable. It extends across the top of the head from ear to ear. The face is sallow, with blue rings around the eyes. There are also nausea, usually worse in the evening, and very acid eructations. The bowels are constipated, the stools often being whitish in color. We come now. to the special uterine symptoms of Palladium, and these we find quite numerous. They are as follows: soreness in the abdomen with downward pressure, a very common symptom in uterine diseases; pain in the uterus and bladder after any exertion during the day; knife-like cutting pains in the uterus, which are relieved after stool; constant tired feeling in the small of the back; she is so tired that she actually reels; she feels drowsy; she complains that she feels sore and bruised all over; heaviness as from lead, deeply seated in the pelvis, worse from any exertion, and worse standing; walking is much less irksome to her than is standing; lying on the left side relieves; swelling in the region of the right ovary, with shooting pains from navel into the pelvis, and with this there is bearing down, relieved by rubbing. Jelly-like leucorrhoea. These local symptoms, together with those of the mind, make up the complete Palladium picture. Argentum metallicum, like Palladium, has affections of the ovaries and uterus. It is useful in prolapsus uteriwhen accompanied by symptoms of the left ovary. The special characteristic sensation in Argentum metallicum is a feeling as though the left ovary were growing enormously large.

Still another drug is Lilium tigrinum. This resembles Palladium and Platinum both, and you will have to keep these three remedies together in your minds. They all have irritability, "easily angered," and " things don't go right," but only Palladium has this over-sensitiveness to offence, and only Platinum the hauteur.

Helonias is also similar to Palladium, in its irritability, soreness and. above all, a feeling of " tiredness."

Alumina.

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Bryonia.

Weeping mood. Love of approbation. Pride; easily offended. Inclined to use violent language. Keeps up brightly when in company, much exhausted afterwards, and pains aggravated.

An ovarian remedy; produces the symptom-complex of chronic Oophoritis. Useful where the parenchyma of the gland is not totally destroyed. Acts also on mind and skin. Motor weakness, averse to exercise.

Feels as if swung backward and forward. Temporo-parietal neuralgia with pain in shoulder. Pain across top of head from ear to ear; worse after an evening's entertainment, with irritability and sour eructations. Sallow complexion.

Shooting pain from navel to pelvis. Sensation as if intestines were bitten off. Intestines feel strangulated. Soreness of abdomen, swelling in right groin. Flatulency.

Uterine prolapse and retroversion. Subacute pelvic peritonitis, with right-sided pain and backache; menorrhagia. Cutting pain in uterus; relieved after stool. Pain and swelling in region of right ovary. Shooting or burning pain in pelvis and bearing-down; relieved by rubbing. Soreness and shooting pain from navel of breast. Glairy leucorrhœa. Menstrual discharge while nursing. Stitches in right breast near nipple. It is indicated in that gynæcological condition where the disease had its inception in the right ovary, the uterine prolapse and retroversion, the subacute pelvic peritonitis and concomitant symptoms being secondary (F. Aguilar, M. D).

Pruritus. Tired feeling in small of back. Fleeting, neuralgic pains in extremities, Heavy and tired in limbs. Darting pain from toes to hips. Rheumatic pain in right shoulder; in right hip. Sciatica.

Complementary; Plat. Compare: Arg; Helon; Lil; Apis.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.