General Indication: Fevers and inflammations.
Cell Salt Indication: This salt is found primarily in the hemoglobin
of the red blood corpuscles.
Expanded Indication: Malaise, feeling as if he had not had
sufficient sleep, aching in occipital-cervical region, sensitiveness to cool
air and desire for warmth. Fevers and inflammations. Right side most affected.
Symptoms worse bending forward.
Expanded Cell Salt Indication:
It retains the leading features of the other Iron preparations: anemia, hemorrhages,
and disorders of the veins. Inflammation, induration and enlargement of blood-vessels,
great physical and mental lassitude, indisposed to physical exertion, nervousness,
prostration, rheumatic paralysis. Acute inflammatory rheumatism. The right shoulder
is affected as in Ferr-m. The right-sideness of Ferrum phos.
is as, marked as that of the other Ferrum preparations. Schüssler deduced
the following indications for Iron: "When the muscular cells which have
grown flaccid through loss of iron receive a compensation for their loss, the
normal tensional relation is restored, the annular fibres of The blood-vessels
are shortened to their proper measure, the capacity of these vessels again becomes
normal, and the hyperemia disappears, and in consequence the inflammatory fever
ceases. Iron will cure:
• The first stage of all inflammations.
• Pains
• Hemorrhages caused by hyperemia
• Fresh wounds, contusions, sprains, etc., as it removes the hyperemia.
"The pains which correspond to iron are increased by motion, but relieved
by cold, In the muscle-cells iron is found in the form of a phosphate, we should
therefore in therapeutics use Ferrum phosphoricum."
As an instance of hyperemia of a low order may be mentioned a case of Raynaud's
disease of the fingers and toes, in which amputation seemed inevitable.
Ferrum phos. is suited to the leucophlegmatic temperament, to young
persons with varicose veins. Pains go from below upward. Great emaciation. Takes
cold easily. Results of checked perspiration on a warm summer day (peritonitis):
Open air worse cough, and there is sensitiveness to cold air. Warm drinks worse,
cold and cold drinks better toothache. Aversion to meat and milk. While eating
at table, chill. Worse By eating. Worse From meat, herring, coffee, cake. Worse
From tea. Rest better, motion worse, gentle motion better pain in upper arms
and shoulders. Worse At night, and 4 to 6 a.m. Sensitive to touch and every
jar.
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