Platinum metallicum

Painter's colic. Pain in umbilical region; extending through to back. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen; extending into pelvis.

Illusions of fancy as if everything about her were very small, and all persons physically and mentally inferior, but she herself physically large and superior. Arrogant, proud feeling. Contemptuous, pitiful looking down on people usually venerated, with a kind of casting them off. (She thought she had no place in the world, life was wearisome) but she had a gréa} dread of death, which she believed near at hand. Pride and overestimation of one’s self : looking down with haughtiness on others. The room seemed gloomy and unpleasant, with apprehensive and fretful mood. A numb sensation in forehead, as if constricted. Cramp-like drawing constriction in the head from time to time. Tense, numb sensation in the zygomata and mastoid processes, as if the head were screwed together. (Head-shocks) followed by a numb sensation, as if too tightly bound. Crawling, like formication, on right temple, afterwards extending down along the lower jaw, with a feeling of coldness in it. Headache gradually increasing till very severe, then decreasing as gradually. Painful cramp-like sensation of numbness in the left malar bone. 66i Fermentation in the epigastric region. Constipation : after lead poisoning; while travelling; frequent urging with expulsion of small portions after great straining, after failure of Nux. Painful pressing downwards towards genitals, as during menstruation. (Urging with scanty stool) with a painful sensation of weakness. Voluptuous crawling in genitals arid abdomen. Painful sensitiveness and constant pressure in the mons veneris and genitals. Emission of much clotted blood during first day of M.P. Menses about fourteen days too early and very profuse. Menses six days too early. While sitting a sensation of numbness in coccyx. Tightness of thighs as if too tightly wrapped. Tremulous .crawling and uneasiness in legs while sitting; a sensation of numbness and rigidity. Great numbness. Painful numb sensation, as from a blow, here and there. The parts affected by cramp-like pain are painful to pressure, as if bruised. Sensation of coldness, crawling and numbness in the whole right side of face. (In fever.) Some Curious or Italic Symptoms Indescribably happy especially in open air, so that she would embrace anything, and laugh at the saddest things. Very restless, could remain nowhere ; sadness, so that the most joyful things distressed her. Dislikes her children, calls them too little. Any serious thought is terrifying. Anxiety and trembling of hands with flushes of heat over whole body. Deathly anxiety with trembling, oppressed breathing, violent palpitation. Very peevish, would have beaten anyone without provocation. Out of sorts with the whole world, everything seems too narrow. Weeps with pains. Physical symptoms disappear and mental symptoms appear, and vice versa. The body suffers when the mind is cheerful ; and the body feels well when the mind is affected. It seems to her that she does not belong to her own family ; after a short absence everything seems entirely changed. Disturbed state of mind ; religious, with taciturnity, haughti­ ness, voluptuousness and cruelty. Mental disturbance after fright, grief or vexation. Vertigo : she dare not move her eyes. Feeling as if head were enlarged. Sensation of coldness, crawling, numbness in eyes. Sensation of water in forehead. Numb feeling in brain. Vertigo as if tom and pulled into threads. Sensation of coldness in ears. Coldness, crawling and numbness in whole right side of face. Sensation as if tongue scalded. Ravenous hunger and hasty eating, detests everything around him. Painter's colic : umbilical pain goes through to back. He screams and tries to relieve pain, by trying all possible positions. Ovaries inflamed, with burning pain in paroxysms. Ovarian tumours and cysts. Dreadful, excessive itching in uterus (in spinal irritation). Indurated, prolapsed uterus : parts painfully sensitive to touch. Painful sensitiveness with inward coldness of vulva. * * * * Clarke {Dictionary) explains that the original name of Platinum was Platina, from the Spanish meaning “ like silver ”, Hahnemann was the first to think of it as a medicine, and his proving {Chronic Diseases) is the basis of our knowledge of its action. One characteristic symptom, found alone or associated with other conditions, has led to many cures with Plat.—lost sense of pro­ portion in both ocular and mental vision. Objects look small, and the patient thinks them small : this becomes pride and hauteur in the mental sphere, the patient (generally a woman), looks down on everything and everybody. . . . Another keynote is the occurrence of cramping pains and spasms, develop­ ing into convulsions. Another is the alternation of mental and physical symptoms. He says Nash cured an old case of insanity, where the mental symptoms alternated with pain the whole length of spine. He says, Jahr cured with Plat, a woman who had an inspiration to kill her child : and Jules Gaudy, a woman who was tormented with an almost irresistible impulse to kill her husband, whom she loved passionately, and with whom she was perfectly happy.