PLATINUM.
An element.
Preparation
, Trituration of the metal
precipitated on a steel rod, from a solution in Aqua regia.
Authorities.
Hahnemann’s Chr. Krn.; 1, Hahnemann; 2,
Gross; 3, Dr. Musits, proving on a
woman in perfect health, with one dose of the 200th dil. (MSS. to
editor).
MIND.
►
*Illusions of fantasy on entering the house, after walking an hour
as if everything about her were very small, and
all persons physically and mentally inferior, but she herself physically
large and superior; the room seemed
gloomy and unpleasant, with apprehensive, sad, fretful mood,
whirling vertigo, and discontent with the surroundings of which she was
usually food; everything always disappears in the open-air sunshine, [2]. ►
*It seems to her as if she does not belong in her own family; after a
short absence everything seems entirely changed, [2]. ►
She could not think what was the matter with her, [3]. ► *She thinks
she is left wholly to herself, and stands alone in the world,
[2]. ►
*At first very lively for two days, everything seems joyous, she could
laugh at the saddest thing, then on the third day great sadness, in the
morning, and evening, with weeping even at joyous and laughable things,
also if she is spoken to, [2].
► *Very lively mood, so that she could
have danced, half an hour after weeping, [2]. ►
Involuntary inclination to whistle and sing, [2]. ►
Sensation of increased vigor, mental quiet, and inclination to think, [2]. ►
Very earnest and taciturn the first day, on the next day she made jokes
and laughed, at everything, [2]. [10.] ►►
*Arrogant, proud feeling, [2].
►► *Contemptuous, pitiful looking
down upon people usually venerated, with a kind of casting them off,
in paroxysms, against her will, [2]. ►
*Reserved, cold, absent-minded in the company of friends, in
the open air; she only answers, when spoken to, in a semi-conscious way;
only after having answered does she reflect whether the answer was
suitable; she is constantly absent-minded, without knowing where her
thoughts are, [2]. ► *Silence, with involuntary weeping,
even after the most friendly conversation, so that she was very much
vexed with herself, [2]. ► *Weeping, sad mood, especially in the evening,
[2]. ►
*Weeping mood and sadness, worse in the house, better in the open air,
[2]. ►
Repeated crying spells, with sticky tears, [3]. ► Weeping
and laughing; yawning, again weeping, aversion to everything, [3]. ►
*Weeping mood, and crying after being mildly reproached, [2]. ►
*Very lachrymose and fretful; she often wept involuntarily,
which relieved her, [2]. [20.] ►
*Very lachrymose, and much too easily disturbed by slight causes, [1]. ►
Sad and fretful the first morning, on the next indescribably happy,
especially in the open air, so that she would embrace anything, and
laugh at the saddest things, [2]. ► *Very restless disposition, so that she could
not remain anywhere, with sadness, so that the most joyful things
distressed her; she thought that she had no place in the world, life was
wearisome, but she had great dread
of death, which she believed near at hand, [2]. ►►
*Feeling as if he would die soon, with shuddering at the thought,
[2]. ►
*Feeling as if she would soon die, with very lachrymose mood and actual
weeping, [2]. ► *She sits alone, sad and morose, without talking;
she cannot keep awake; followed by inconsolable
weeping, especially when spoken to, [2]. ►
Depressed, quiet, sad, [2]. ► Sudden great depression, [3]. ► *Morose and
discontented, [2]. ► *Deathly anxiety, as if her senses would vanish,
with trembling of all the limbs, oppression of the breath, and violent
palpitation, [2]. [30.] ►
Anxiety and apprehension about the heart, and fretful all day, [2]. ►
Frequent sudden feeling of anxiety through the whole body, [2]. ►
Great anxiety, with violent palpitation, when attempting to talk in
company, so that talking was difficult, [2].
► Anxiety, with palpitation,
especially on walking, [1]. ► Anxiety, [3].
► *Anxiety, with trembling of the hands
and flushes of heat over the whole body, [2]. ► *Out of
sorts with the whole world, everything seems too narrow, with weeping
mood, [2]. ► Quarrelsome, [3]. ► *Sensitive
mood, [1]. ► *Very peevish and easily excited, he could have
beaten any one without provocation, [2]. [40.] ► *Very peevish and irritable about innocent
things and words, so that she could have beaten herself and friends, at
times, [2]. ► Ill-humored for a long time, from a
slight vexation; spoke only when obliged to, extremely unfriendly,
abrupt, quarrelsome, [2]. ► Very ill-humored and indolent, in the
morning (after forty-eight hours), [2].
► Vacillating mood, [2]. ►
Indifference, he does not seem to care whether his absent wife dies or
not, [2]. ►
Disgust for everything, no desire for anything, [3]. ►
Disinclination for mental work, [2].
► Absent-minded, she hears a
conversation, but after it is finished knows nothing of it, [2]. ►
Memory deficient, [3]. ► Very absent-minded and forgetful, she
does not hear what is addressed to her when repeated several times, [2].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. [50.]
► Confusion in the head, [2]. ►
Dull, tensive confusion, like a board in front of the head, frequently, [2]. ►
Vertigo, especially on sitting down or going downstairs, [3]. ►
Transient paroxysms of vertigo in quick succession, as if he would lose
consciousness, in the evening, while standing, [2]. ► Great
vertigo, so that she did not dare to move the eyes, more during the day
than at night, mostly with palpitation, [1].
► General Head. ► Pressive headache, as if water were in
the head, woke her about midnight, with great dryness and a sensitive
scraping in the throat, great ill-humor and general perspiration,
especially on the face, in large drops, [2].
► *Headache, as if tense,
painful dull, [2]. ► Headache, as if torn and lacerated, after
the vertigo, [1]. ► Dull headache, [3]. ► Painful
drawing in various parts of the head, [2].
[60.] ►
Head very much affected, especially in the afternoon and evening, [2]. ►
Forehead. ► Dull, painful
confusion in the forehead, [2]. ► Dulness, especially in the forehead, [2]. ►
Violent pressure in the forehead, as if everything would come out, with
a feeling of a weight upon the head that presses the eyes together and
forces tears out of them, aggravated by stooping and on the slightest
motion of the head; before the attack great anxiety about the heart,
followed by a stupid sensation, so that she could not talk; with
increased anxiety, burning heat, great redness of the face and excessive
thirst, headache increasing till 10 P.M.; it returns several days at the
same hour, [2]. ► Pressive, dull burrowing in the left side
of the forehead, after dinner, while walking in the open air, and
afterwards continuing in the house, [2].
► Pressure beneath the right frontal
eminence, increasing and decreasing at intervals, [2]. ► Dull
pressure inward suddenly in the left side of the forehead (after three
hours), [2]. ►
Compression in the forehead at intervals, [2].
►► *A numb sensation in the
forehead, as if constricted, in a
warm room full of people, soon increasing to a violent dull burrowing
compression, with fretful impatience, and heat in the upper part of the
body, especially in the head, as if anxious sweat would break out;
in the evening in the cool air, an unusual heat, and on beginning to
walk a painful shattering in the brain, as if a ball were beating
against the skull; afterwards, while lying in bed, there was an addition
of whizzing in the ears, when, relieved of pain, he fell asleep, [2]. ►
*Tensive, numb sensation in the whole forehead, as after a blow,
extending to the nasal bone, [2].
[70.] ►►
*Cramplike drawing constriction in the head, from time to time,
especially about the forehead; commencing
slight, increasing till violent, and ending slight, [2]. ►
Drawing from the left side of the forehead into the temple, where it is
a pressure, [2]. ► Violent boring in the middle of the
forehead, gradually becoming weaker and disappearing, [2]. ►
Transient headache above the left eyebrow, [2]. ► *Cramplike
pain in the forehead, as if screwed in, [2]. ►
Transient pain, as if bruised, in the right frontal eminence, [2]. ►
Some dull stitches in the forehead, [2].
► Temples. ► Dull pressure, as from a bruise in the
left mastoid process, on pressure, [2].
► *Pressive cramplike pain in the left
temple, beginning gently, increasing and decreasing, [2]. ►►
*Tense, numb sensation in the zygomata and mastoid processes, as if the
head were screwed together, [2].
[80.] ►
*Cramplike tension in the temples, as if screwed in, [2]. ►
Wavelike pressing inward in the left temple, [2]. ► *Cramplike
pressing inward in the temples, [2]. ► *Sudden
spasmodic, contractive shocks through the head, from the right temple to
the left; followed by a numb sensation, as if
too tightly bound, with
tremulousness of both sides of the head, [2]. ► *Cramplike
pain in the right temple, in the afternoon, [2]. ► Vertex and
Parietals. ► Transient
pressing inward on the middle of the vertex, [2]. ► *A numb
pain on the top of the vertex, as if the scalp would be contracted, and
as if a heavy weight were lying upon it (after half an hour),
[2]. ►
Intolerable painfulness of the parietes of the head, at night, as if he
were lying upon a hard stone; he was obliged to sit up, [1]. ► Dull
pressure in the right parietal bone, as if a plug were sticking in it, [2]. ►
Pain as from a blow on the right side of the head in the forepart, [2]. [90.]
► Sudden bruise in a small spot on
the left parietal bone, [2]. ► Jerklike drawing in the right and left
sides of the head, [2]. ► Sharp stitches in the left side of the
head, in the evening, in bed, [2].
► Dull, corroding stitches in a small
spot on the left parietal bone, at intervals, [2]. ►
Cramplike drawing, extending from the left side of the occipital bone
through the head to the lower jaw, [2].
► Occiput and External Head. ► Cold creeping in the occiput, extending
down to the cheeks, where it was a dull burning pain; afterwards drawing
in a hollow tooth, [2]. ► Burning on the head, [2]. ►
Burning, needlelike stitches in the left temple, disappearing on
scratching, [2]. ►► *Crawling, like formication, on the right
temple, afterwards extending down along the lower jaw, with a feeling of
coldness in it, [2].
EYE.
►
Cornea red and very much inflamed, [3].
[100.] ►
Sensation of burning heat in the eyes, with sleepiness, as if they would
close; less pain on closing them; on looking sharply at anything a
sensation as if they would water; more in the house than in the open
air, [2]. ►
Sleepy pressure in the eyes, in the forenoon, without inclination to
sleep (after two hours), [2]. ► Pain in the eyes in the evening by the
light, and on exerting the vision, at first an itching so that she was
obliged to rub them, then they began to maturate, became very painful,
with shimmering and trembling before the vision, so that she could see
nothing, and was obliged to close the eyes, whereupon she fell asleep, [2]. ►
Feeling as if a grain of sand were in the right eye; she was obliged to
wink, [2]. ►
Painless drawing about the left eye, with dimness of vision, as through
a veil, and a feeling as if the eye were tightly agglutinated, [2]. ►
Smarting and a feeling of coldness in the right eye, [2]. ► Brow and
Orbit. ► Pain as from a
blow on the arch of the right eyebrow, [2].
► *Wavelike benumbing pressure above the
right orbit, [2]. ► *Intermitting cramplike pain near the outer
margin of the right orbit, [2].
► Sore biting, as if denuded,
on the upper margin of the orbit, [2].
[110.] ►
Tensive pain in the upper margins of the orbits and in the eyeballs, as
if pressed together, [2]. ► Lid. ►
*Twitching of the lids, [2].
► Frequent crawling in the right
canthus; he was obliged to rub it, [2].
EAR.
►
Dull sticking jerking in the right outer ear, with numbness and a
feeling of coldness extending through the cheeks to the lips, [2]. ►
Corroding biting in the lobule of the left ear, was obliged to rub it, [2]. ►
Burning warmth in the ears, even perceptible externally, with redness, [2]. ►
Burning in the right, and jerklike drawing in the left ear, [2]. ►
A feeling as if cold air entered the right ear, [2]. ►
Cramplike pain in both ears, [2]. ► Thundering jerks, like distant cannonade,
in the right ear, [2]. [120.] ►
Tearing drawing and dull stitches in the right ear, a kind of earache, [2]. ►
Dull stitches in the right meatus, at intervals, [2]. ► Biting
crawling in the right meatus (after an hour), [2]. ► Hearing.
► Roaring and dull rolling in the ear,
every morning and afterwards, also every evening after lying down; for
several weeks, at the same hour, [2].
► Roaring in the ears, with
stitches in the head, [1]. ► Roaring in the right ear, as from the
fluttering of a large bird, [2]. ► Roaring in the right ear and cramplike
pressive dulness in the head, [2].
► Roaring in the right ear, [2]. ►
Violent ringing and crawling in the right ear, lasting a long time, [2]. ►
Ringing in the ears, [1].
[130.] ►
Ringing in the ears, followed by tearing in them, [2]. ► A sound
of wind in the ears, as if they were stopped, aggravated by the
slightest noise, so that it was difficult to understand what was spoken,
[1].
NOSE.
►
Increased discharge of mucus from the nose, [2]. ► Stopped
catarrh in one nostril, afterwards, on walking in the open air, profuse
fluent catarrh, with sneezing, followed by stoppage of the other
nostril, and subsequently again fluent coryza, [2]. ►
Crawling in the nose, with ineffectual attempts to sneeze and
lachrymation; he was obliged to rub it, [2].
► A pulling above the left wing of
the nose, as if it were pulled by a hair, followed by a sensation of
numbness, as if a hair had been pulled out, [2]. ►
Cramplike pain in the right side of the nasal bone, with a feeling of
numbness, [2]. ► Cramplike jerking in the left wing of the
nose, at rhythmical intervals, [2].
► Biting on the nose, as from something
acrid, [1].
FACE.
►
Face pale, sunken, [2].
[140.] ►
Pale suffering expression, for several days, [2]. ► Cheek and
Lips. ► Dull stupefying
pressure in the right malar bone and whole half of the nose, [2]. ►
Sharp neuralgic pain in left malar bone, [3]. ►►
*Painful cramplike sensation of numbness in the left malar bone,
[2]. ►
Biting on the cheeks, disappearing after scratching, which it provokes,
soon recurring, [2]. ► Sore biting about the mouth, provoking
scratching, as after shaving with a dull razor, [2]. ► A fine
burning stitch in the left cheek; he was obliged to scratch, [2]. ►
Desquamation and bleeding of the lips, for many days, with violent pain,
smarting in the open air, [2]. ► A vesicle on the inner margin of the
upper lip, with violent sticking pain, only when touched, [2]. ► Upper
lip dry as if burnt, [2]. [150.] ►
Great dryness and roughness of the lips, [2].
► Intermitting cramplike jerkings in
the upper lip, in the morning in bed, [2].
► Smarting of the inner surface of
the lip, with a painful feeling of looseness of the upper teeth, [2]. ►
Smarting of the inner surface of the lower lip, and in the gums of both
jaws, [2]. ►
Smarting of the lower lip just below the red, as if denuded, [2]. ►
Chin and Jaw. ► Small
bluish veins on the chin, like varicose veins, without pain, for several
days, [2]. ►
Slow, intermitting, dull shocks beneath the chin, [2]. ► Dull
painful sensation of coldness on the chin beneath the corner of the
mouth, [2]. ►
Dull jerkings in the chin, as if it had been knocked up, [2]. ► Sore,
corrosive biting on the chin, was obliged to rub it, [2]. [160.] ► Tense, numb sensation in the chin, as if
screwed in, [2]. ► Cramplike pain on the lower margin of the
lower jaw, not affected by motion, [2].
► Cramplike pain in the left side of
the lower jaw, [2].
MOUTH.
►
Continuous burrowing drawing in a hollow, and in a sound tooth
(incisors), [2]. ► Drawing and throbbing in a molar, first
upper, then lower, as if hollow, [2].
► *Numb pain in the left lower teeth, in
the morning after rising, [2].
► Transient toothache, a cramplike
drawing through the upper and lower teeth, [2]. ► *Feeling on
the tongue as if burnt, very much aggravated by rubbing it
against the teeth, [2]. ► Burning beneath the tongue, and also on
the right side, [2]. ► *Crawling on the tongue, [2]. [170.]
► The mouth is glutinous and slimy
all day, especially after eating, also in the morning, with great
ill-humor, [2]. ► Smarting, as if raw, and sore on the
right half of the palate, with crawling in the left nostril, [2]. ►
Collection of water in the mouth at times, [2]. ► Sweet
taste on the tip of the tongue, [2].
THROAT.
►
Mucus in the throat, from time to time, with scraping; she was obliged
to hawk, [2]. ► Painful sensation of rawness in the
throat, as if a piece of skin were hanging down, on empty swallowing and
at other times, [2]. ► Throat scraped, as if raw, in the evening
after lying down, and on the next day, at times provoking a short cough,
[2]. ►
Scraping in the throat, as in catarrh, or as from biting food; she was
frequently obliged to hawk, that caused sticking pain, [2]. ►
Pressure on the throat, as if it were constricted, [2]. ►
Cramplike drawing in the throat about the hyoid bone, as if everything
were constricted, [2]. [180.] ►
Slight pain in the throat, extends suddenly through the head as a
drawing, heavy sensation, [2]. ► Slight aching and tickling in the goitre,
especially on touch (immediately), [2].
► Sensation as if the uvula were
elongated, [2]. ► Painful swelling of the right tonsil, [1].® 2000
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