ZINCUM METALLICUM

HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

Compare: Agaric; Ign; Plumb; Argent; Puls; Helleb; Tuberc . Inimical: Nux; Cham . Compare in amelioration by secretions: Lach; Stan; Mosch .

Related Remedies
Zincum aceticum (effects of night-watching and erysipelas brain feels sore Rademacher's solution, five-drop doses three times a day in water, for those who are compelled to work, on an insufficient amount of sleep) Zinc, bromatum (dentition, chorea, hydrocephalus) Zinc oxydatum (Nausea and sour taste). Sudden vomiting in children. Vomiting of bile and diarrhœa. Flatulent abdomen. Watery stools with tenesmus. Debility after grip. Fiery red face, great drowsiness with dreamlike unrefreshing sleep. Similar to effect of night watching. Mental and physical exertion (Rademacher). Zinc. Sulph, not repeated frequently (high potency) will clear up opacities of the cornea (McFarland). Corneitis granular lids tongue paralyzed cramps in arms and legs trembling and convulsions. Hypochondriasis due to masturbation nervous headaches Zinc cyanatum (as a remedy for meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis, paralysis agitans, chorea, and hysteria, it has received some attention) Zinc ars (chorea, anæmia, profound exhaustion on slight exertion. Depression and marked involvement of lower extremities) Zinc carb (post-gonorrhœal throat affections, tonsils swollen, bluish superficial spots) Zinc phos (herpes zoster 1x) Zinc muriat (disposition to pick the bedclothes sense of smell and taste perverted bluish-green tint of skin cold and sweaty) Zinc phos (neuralgia of head and face lightning-like pains in locomotor ataxia, brain-fag, nervousness, and vertigo sexual excitement and sleeplessness) Ammon valerian (violent neuralgia, with great nervous agitation) Zinc picricum (facial paralysis brain-fag, headache in Bright's disease seminal emissions loss of memory and energy). Oxide of zinc is used locally as an astringent and stimulant application to unhealthy ulcers, fissures, intertrigo, burns, etc.

Key Symptoms & Indications

  • The provings picture cerebral depression. The word "fag" covers a large part of zinc action. Tissues are worn out faster than they are repaired. Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges. The nervous symptoms of most importance. Defective vitality. Impending brain paralysis. Period of depression in disease. Spinal affections. Twitchings. Pain, as if between skin and flesh. Great relief from discharges. Chorea, from fright or suppressed eruption. Convulsions, with pale face and no heat. Marked anæmia with profound prostration. It causes a decrease in the number, and destruction of red blood corpuscles. Repercussed eruptive diseases. In chronic diseases with brain and spinal symptoms, trembling, convulsive twitching and fidgety feet are guiding symptoms.

Mental & Emotional Symptoms

Weak memory. Very sensitive to noise . Averse to work, to talk. Child repeats everything said to it . Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime. Melancholia. Lethargic, stupid . Paresis.

Physical Symptoms

Head

Feels as if he would fall to left side. Headache from the smallest quantity of wine. Hydrocephalus. Rolls head from side to side. Bores head into pillow. Occipital pain, with weight on vertex. Automatic motion of head and hands. Brain-fag; headaches of overtaxed school children. Forehead cool; base of brain hot . Roaring in head. Starting in fright.

Eyes

Pterygium; smarting, lachrymation, itching. Pressure as if pressed into head. Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles . Ptosis. Rolling of eyes . Blurring of one-half of vision; worse, stimulants. Squinting . Amaurosis, with severe headache. Red and inflamed conjunctiva; worse, inner canthus .

Ears

Tearing, stitches, and external swelling. Discharge of fetid pus.

Nose

Sore feeling high up; pressure upon root.

Face

Pale lips, and corners of mouth cracked. Redness and itching eruption on chin. Tearing in facial bones.

Mouth

Teeth loose. Gums bleed. Gnashing of teeth. Bloody taste. Blisters on tongue. Difficult dentition; child weak; cold and restless feet.

Throat

Dry; constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus. Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx. Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing.

Stomach

Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus. Burning in stomach, heartburn from sweet things. Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine. Ravenous hunger about 11 am ( Sulph ). Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough. Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed.

Abdomen

Pain after a light meal, with tympanitis. Pain in spot beneath navel. Gurgling and griping; distended. Flatulent colic, with retraction of abdomen ( Plumb ). Enlarged, indurated sore liver. Reflex symptoms from floating kidney. Griping after eating .

Urine

Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards. Hysterical retention. Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing.

Rectum

Hard, small, constipated stool. Cholera infantum , with tenesmus; green mucous discharges. Sudden cessation of diarrhœa, followed by cerebral symptoms.

Male

Testicles swelled, drawn up. Erections violent. Emissions with hypochondriasis. Falling off of hair (pubic). Drawing in testicles up to spermatic cord.

Female

Ovarian pain, especially left; can't keep still ( Viburn ). Nymphomania of lying-in women. Menses too late, suppressed; lochia suppressed ( Puls ). Breasts painful. Nipples sore. Menses flow more at night ( Bov ). Complaints all better during menstrual flow. ( Eupion; Lach ). All the female symptoms are associated with restlessness, depression, coldness spinal tenderness and restless feet . Dry cough before and during menses.

Respiratory

Burning pressure beneath sternum. Constriction and cutting in chest. Hoarseness. Debilitating, spasmodic cough; worse, eating sweet things. Child grasps genitals during cough. Asthmatic bronchitis, with constriction, of chest. Dyspnœa better as soon as expectoration appears .

Back

Pain in small of back. Cannot bear back touched ( Sul; Therid; Cinch ). Tension and stinging between shoulders. Spinal irritation. Dull aching about the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebræ; worse sitting. Burning along spine. Nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion . Tearing in shoulder-blades.

Extremities

Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of various muscles. Chilblains ( Agar ). Feet in continued motion; cannot keep still. Large varicose veins on legs . Sweaty. Convulsions, with pale face. Transverse pains , especially in upper extremity. Soles of feet sensitive . Steps with entire sole of foot on floor.

Sleep

Cries out during sleep; body jerks; wakes frightened, stared. Nervous motion of feet when asleep. Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it. Somnambulism ( Kali phos ).

Skin

Varicose veins , especially of lower extremities ( Puls ). Formication of feet and legs as from bugs crawling over the skin, preventing sleep. Eczema, especially in the anæmic and neurotic. Itching of thighs and hollow of knees . Retrocession of eruptions .

Fever

Frequent, febrile shiverings down back. Cold extremities. Night-sweat. Profuse sweat on feet.

Modalities (Better / Worse)

Worse (Aggravation)

, at menstrual period, from touch, between 5 to 7 pm; after dinner, from wine

Better (Amelioration)

, while eating, discharges, and appearance of eruptions

Remedy Relationships

Antidotes

Camph., Hep., Ign., Wine.

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ZINCUM METALLICUM

Zinc (ZINC)

The provings picture cerebral depression. The word "fag" covers a large part of zinc action. Tissues are worn out faster than they are repaired. Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges. The nervous symptoms of most importance. Defective vitality. Impending brain paralysis. Period of depression in disease. Spinal affections. Twitchings. Pain, as if between skin and flesh. Great relief from discharges. Chorea, from fright or suppressed eruption. Convulsions, with pale face and no heat. Marked anæmia with profound prostration. It causes a decrease in the number, and destruction of red blood corpuscles. Repercussed eruptive diseases. In chronic diseases with brain and spinal symptoms, trembling, convulsive twitching and fidgety feet are guiding symptoms.

Mind

Weak memory. Very sensitive to noise. Averse to work, to talk. Child repeats everything said to it. Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime. Melancholia. Lethargic, stupid. Paresis.

Head

Feels as if he would fall to left side. Headache from the smallest quantity of wine. Hydrocephalus. Rolls head from side to side. Bores head into pillow. Occipital pain, with weight on vertex. Automatic motion of head and hands. Brain-fag; headaches of overtaxed school children. Forehead cool; base of brain hot. Roaring in head. Starting in fright.

Eyes

Pterygium; smarting, lachrymation, itching. Pressure as if pressed into head. Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles. Ptosis. Rolling of eyes. Blurring of one-half of vision; worse, stimulants. Squinting. Amaurosis, with severe headache. Red and inflamed conjunctiva; worse, inner canthus.

Ears

Tearing, stitches, and external swelling. Discharge of fetid pus.

Nose

Sore feeling high up; pressure upon root.

Face

Pale lips, and corners of mouth cracked. Redness and itching eruption on chin. Tearing in facial bones.

Mouth

Teeth loose. Gums bleed. Gnashing of teeth. Bloody taste. Blisters on tongue. Difficult dentition; child weak; cold and restless feet.

Throat

Dry; constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus. Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx. Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing.

Stomach

Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus. Burning in stomach, heartburn from sweet things. Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine. Ravenous hunger about 11 am (Sulph). Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough. Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed.

Abdomen

Pain after a light meal, with tympanitis. Pain in spot beneath navel. Gurgling and griping; distended. Flatulent colic, with retraction of abdomen (Plumb). Enlarged, indurated sore liver. Reflex symptoms from floating kidney. Griping after eating.

Urine

Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards. Hysterical retention. Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing.

Rectum

Hard, small, constipated stool. Cholera infantum, with tenesmus; green mucous discharges. Sudden cessation of diarrhœa, followed by cerebral symptoms.

Male

Testicles swelled, drawn up. Erections violent. Emissions with hypochondriasis. Falling off of hair (pubic). Drawing in testicles up to spermatic cord.

Female

Ovarian pain, especially left; can't keep still (Viburn). Nymphomania of lying-in women. Menses too late, suppressed; lochia suppressed (Puls). Breasts painful. Nipples sore. Menses flow more at night (Bov). Complaints all better during menstrual flow. (Eupion; Lach). All the female symptoms are associated with restlessness, depression, coldness spinal tenderness and restless feet. Dry cough before and during menses.

Respiratory

Burning pressure beneath sternum. Constriction and cutting in chest. Hoarseness. Debilitating, spasmodic cough; worse, eating sweet things. Child grasps genitals during cough. Asthmatic bronchitis, with constriction, of chest. Dyspnœa better as soon as expectoration appears.

Back

Pain in small of back. Cannot bear back touched (Sul; Therid; Cinch). Tension and stinging between shoulders. Spinal irritation. Dull aching about the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebræ; worse sitting. Burning along spine. Nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion. Tearing in shoulder-blades.

Extremities

Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of various muscles. Chilblains (Agar). Feet in continued motion; cannot keep still. Large varicose veins on legs. Sweaty. Convulsions, with pale face. Transverse pains, especially in upper extremity. Soles of feet sensitive. Steps with entire sole of foot on floor.

Sleep

Cries out during sleep; body jerks; wakes frightened, stared. Nervous motion of feet when asleep. Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it. Somnambulism (Kali phos).

Skin

Varicose veins, especially of lower extremities (Puls). Formication of feet and legs as from bugs crawling over the skin, preventing sleep. Eczema, especially in the anæmic and neurotic. Itching of thighs and hollow of knees. Retrocession of eruptions.

Fever

Frequent, febrile shiverings down back. Cold extremities. Night-sweat. Profuse sweat on feet.

Modalities

Worse, at menstrual period, from touch, between 5 to 7 pm; after dinner, from wine. Better, while eating, discharges, and appearance of eruptions.

Relationship

Compare: Agaric; Ign; Plumb; Argent; Puls; Helleb; Tuberc. Inimical: Nux; Cham. Compare in amelioration by secretions: Lach; Stan; Mosch.

Compare: Zincum aceticum (effects of night-watching and erysipelas; brain feels sore; Rademacher's solution, five-drop doses three times a day in water, for those who are compelled to work, on an insufficient amount of sleep); Zinc, bromatum (dentition, chorea, hydrocephalus); Zinc oxydatum (Nausea and sour taste). Sudden vomiting in children. Vomiting of bile and diarrhœa. Flatulent abdomen. Watery stools with tenesmus. Debility after grip. Fiery red face, great drowsiness with dreamlike unrefreshing sleep. Similar to effect of night watching. Mental and physical exertion (Rademacher). Zinc. Sulph, not repeated frequently (high potency) will clear up opacities of the cornea (McFarland). Corneitis; granular lids; tongue paralyzed; cramps in arms and legs; trembling and convulsions. Hypochondriasis due to masturbation; nervous headaches; Zinc cyanatum (as a remedy for meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis, paralysis agitans, chorea, and hysteria, it has received some attention); Zinc ars (chorea, anæmia, profound exhaustion on slight exertion. Depression and marked involvement of lower extremities); Zinc carb (post-gonorrhœal throat affections, tonsils swollen, bluish superficial spots); Zinc phos (herpes zoster 1x); Zinc muriat (disposition to pick the bedclothes; sense of smell and taste perverted; bluish-green tint of skin; cold and sweaty); Zinc phos (neuralgia of head and face; lightning-like pains in locomotor ataxia, brain-fag, nervousness, and vertigo; sexual excitement and sleeplessness); Ammon valerian (violent neuralgia, with great nervous agitation); Zinc picricum (facial paralysis; brain-fag, headache in Bright's disease; seminal emissions; loss of memory and energy). Oxide of zinc is used locally as an astringent and stimulant application to unhealthy ulcers, fissures, intertrigo, burns, etc.

Dose

Second to sixth potency.

Zincum.

Zincum metallicum. Zinc. An Element. Zn. A. W. 64.9. Trituration of the metal.
Clinical

Alcoholism. Amblyopia. Asthma. Brain-fag. Brain, paralysis of. Breasts, affections of. Cataract. Chilblains. Chin, eruption on. Chlorosis. Cholera. Chorea. Constipation. Cracks. Dentition. Diarrhœa, nervous; with stupor. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Dysuria. Earache. Eczema. Enuresis. Eruptions; suppressed. Eyes, affections of; granular lids. Fag. Foot-sweat; suppressed. Gastralgia. Headache; nervous; chlorotic. Heels, pains in. Hernia, inguinal. Hiccough. Hydrocephalus. Hyperpyrexia, nervous. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Inframammary pain. Joints, creaking in. Ups, affections of. Lochia; suppressed. Malar bones, neuralgia in. Masturbation. Memory, weak. Meningitis. Mental weakness. Milk, defective; suppressed. Neuralgia; intercostal; subcostal. Neurasthenia. Nipples, sore. Nose, redness of. Nymphomania. Œsophagus, spasm of. Otorrhœa. Photopsia. Prostatorrhœa. Ptosis. Reaction, defective. Rheumatism. Screaming. Sleepiness. Somnambulism. Spermatorrhœa. Spinal irritation. Spine, affections of. Spleen, neuralgia of. Strabismus. Suppressions. Tarsal tumours. Throat, sore. Tibia, burning in. Typhoid fever. Ulcers. Urine, hysterical retention of. Varicosis; during pregnancy; of external genitals. Whooping-cough. Worms.

Characteristics

Zincum belongs to the Magnesium group of metals, comprising also Cadmium and Glucinum. It has long been known in the arts, especially in its combination with Cuprum in the manufacture of Brass. Zn. was proved by Hahnemann and his associates, and it appears among the remedies of his Chronic Diseases. Zn. poisons the brain and nerve, and it corresponds to nerve-poisoning of various kinds. The word "fag" covers a large part of Zn. action; it may be nerve- or brain-fag; or it may be muscle-fag. Fag means that tissues are worn out faster than they can be repaired. This leaves them poisoned by waste products. Zn. meets the effects of brain-fag from over-study; from night-watching; fatigue. But there is another kind of nerve-poisoning met by Zn.: the poisoning of suppressed eruptions or discharges. The common old-school use of Zinc ointment to suppress eruptions, and Zinc injections to suppress discharges, is based on fact: Zn. does suppress them, and it transfers the morbid action to the nervous system, setting up a poisoning there; and, conversely, in homœopathic attenuations Zn. can reverse the process. It can restore suppressed eruptions, can cure the consequences of suppressions, and can set free the reactive power in conditions of undeveloped disease. Some of the keynotes of Zn. will be present to give the clue. The most important of these is: "Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower limbs; must move them constantly; cannot keep them quiet." These movements may continue even during sleep. Another is: "Too weak to develop exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to understand, to remember." Corresponding to these is: "Relief to all suffering as soon as menses begin to flow," or as soon as other excretory functions are restored. In asthma" the patient cannot expectorate, but as soon as he can he is relieved" (Nash). General twitchings and general trembling are, according to Nash, equally characteristic of Zn. He records this case: Miss X., 20, had been ill for a week with headache, loss of appetite, and especially prostration. Over-study was the cause. Under Gels., and later Bry., she was improving, when she threw off the bedclothes whilst sleeping and perspiring, and took a chill. [Zn. has "cannot bear any covering during the sweat."J. H. C.] The bowels became enormously distended; profuse hæmorrhage occurred (finally controlled by Alumen), a low form of delirium came on, and prostration increased in spite of the cessation of hæmorrhage. This was the condition: Staring eyes rolled upward, head retracted; complete unconsciousness, lying on back and sliding down in bed; twitching, "or rather intense, violent trembling all over so that she shook the bed," her hands had to be held constantly night and day by nurses; hippocratic face, extremities deathly cold to knees and elbows; pulse intermittent, uncountable; all signs, in short, of impending paralysis of the brain." Two drops of Zn. 200 were mixed in two teaspoonfuls of water. One teaspoonful was worked, a little at a time, between the set teeth; and the rest half an hour later. About an hour after the latter dose the patient turned down her eyes and said "Milk." Through a bent tube she swallowed half a glass of milk, the first nourishment she had taken for twenty-four hours. From that time she improved steadily, and received no more medicine for four days. Afterwards she had a dose of Nux. Recovery was perfect. A. W. Holcombe (Hahn. Ad., xxxviii. 27) reports this case: Man, 40, had gonorrhœa suppressed by local treatment three months previously. A week before Holcombe saw him first he was unable to pass water, and had to resort to the catheter. Since then could pass urine, but passed almost pure blood with it. Could only urinate when sitting down with knees spread apart. Great soreness of perinæum; on sitting down had to sit sideways on chair. Zn. cm one dose. Five days later perinæal soreness gone, could urinate freely in any position, and had a profuse whitish discharge from the urethra. Suppression of foot-sweat; of lochia; of milk, are all caused and cured by Zn. Weyner (H. R., x. 152) relates the poisoning of cows pasturing near a cadmium mine, near which Zinc-smelting was carried on. These were some of the effects: General emaciation, skin clinging tightly to the body; eyes pale bluish, drawn back into the orbits; horns and ears unequally warm, mouth hot and shiny and hanging down, at times dry; appetite undisturbed; rumination slower; dung grass-green, thin-flowing and fetid; at times cough. As the disease progressed emaciation increased, the horns became rough, milk dried up, and diarrhœa increased till the animals could no longer rise, and died of total prostration. Zn. meets these suppression-effects: paralysis and vertigo from brain softening following suppressed foot-sweat; chorea from eruptions suppressed by gout; puerperal convulsions from suppressed eruption; nymphomania from suppressed lochia. Zn. has a strong action on the generative sphere, it excites both sexes and causes seminal losses and prostatorrhœa of the male, and nymphomania and masturbation in the female. This may be associated with varicosis or pruritus of the external genitals. A notable symptom of Zn., and one which may indicate it in children and in delirious cases, as well as in affections of the genitals themselves, is that the patient is continually pressing on the pubes or applying the hand to the genitals. With the emission there is backache, which is temporarily > by the emission; and with the female sexual disorders there is also backache and spinal irritation. Dull aching in spine, < when sitting. Burning pains all along the spine. The burning pains of Zn. appear in many parts. Pricking, pressive, cramp-like pains, tension and constriction are also present. Neuralgia in malar bones with pressive pains. Pressure at root of nose as if it would be pressed in. The constriction is especially felt in the chest, and is connected both with respiration and the heart. "Sudden, spasmodic, bursting sensation about heart; it appears to be beating regularly, when it suddenly seems as if it would burst through the chest." Zn. affects the blood-vessels and corresponds to varicosis: varices of the labia; of the thighs, running into the labia; of the legs, with fidgety feet. Numbness, tingling, formication, and fainting spells are other nervous effects of Zn. It has an insatiable craving hunger and goneness, notably at 11 a.m.; thirst quite as great; and "hasty eating" and "hasty drinking" are among the keynote symptoms. Another of the first importance is intolerance of wine: wine aggravates all symptoms. This is noteworthy in states of nervous exhaustion, which usually crave stimulants. There is the aversion to wine. Other characteristic aversions are: Meat (especially veal); sweets; cooked or warm food. Eating as well as wine-drinking < the pain. There is a tearing headache, most in side of head, < from wine, < after dinner. In meningitis there are sharp, lancinating pains in the head, < from the least stimulant. Pain may account for the anxious scream which accompanies the convulsions of Zn. The child springs up in bed, gnashing teeth, eyes rolled up. A characteristic of brain affections of children is "crossness in the evening." On waking there is delirium as if frightened, knows no one. "Child repeats everything said to it" is another leading symptom. "Grits teeth" occurs in these conditions, and will often give Zn. a place in worm cases. Among the symptoms indicating lack of power is "teeth fail to develop." The "fidgety feet" of Zn. are not the only automatic movements of the remedy, though the most characteristic. There are automatic movements of mouth, arms, and hands, and general restlessness. Among other features of Zn. is blueness of surface. Related to this is the tendency to chilblains, which are swollen and painful, and easily made worse by rubbing. There is sensitiveness to frost-bite; the tip of the nose is easily frost-bitten, and the nose remains red long after it has been frost-bitten. The hands and feet are affected with inflammation, painful eruptions, cracks. There is also a "frost-bitten feeling" in the toes. All these point to a lowered state of vitality. Peculiar Sensations are: As if she had a large goître which she could not see over. As if hair bristled. Uneasy, as if he had committed a crime. As if he would have apoplexy. As if scalp were drawn together. Pains as if between the skin and the flesh. As if head were moving up and down, with a similar floating of images of his fancy. As if he saw through a mist. As if he would fall over to other side. As if head were swaying back and forth. Nauseating weakness as after smoking too strong tobacco. As if eyes were drawn together by a cord. Stupefying headache as from coal gas. As if root of nose would be pressed into head. As if head would be drawn backward. As if air forced itself into frontal sinuses. As if head would burst. As if strained in occiput. As if scalp wrinkled up and kept tightening. As if insects were crawling from occiput to forehead. Feeling in eyes as if she had wept much. As if sand in eyes. As if upper lids paralysed. As if teeth would be pulled out with neuralgia. As if teeth long and loose. As if a web drawn across throat. As if a hard body were opposing pressure from pharynx into abdomen. As if food remained sticking in pharynx after dinner. As if stomach compressed or empty. As of a heavy weight in hypochondria. As if abdominal walls were retracted against spine. As if flatus pressing against coccyx. As from worms crawling in anus. As if testicles tightly compressed and drawn up. As if pudenda swollen. Cough with stitches in chest and feeling as if chest would burst. Chest: as if hollow and cold; constricted; cut to pieces. As if a foreign substance rising up throat. Emptiness behind sternum. As if a cap on heart. Pain in cervical muscles as if head had been in uncomfortable position. As if cold water were poured down her back. As if muscles of wrist too short. As if kidney would be twisted off. Wrist and foot as if sprained. As if soles swollen. As if tendons of right sole too short. As if ball of great toe frozen.The headache and eye symptoms of Zn. are well marked, and "Headache with sympathetic amblyopia" may be regarded as a keynote: Kafka (H. R., x. 153) relates the case of a "pale yet vigorous lady of forty" who for two years had had a headache recurring periodically every ten to fourteen days without warning. Simultaneously with the headache was a weakness of vision, she seemed looking through a fog, and could not distinguish even large objects. The pain, which lasted two or three days, now increasing, now diminishing, was a pressure on vertex and forehead from without inward. Face pale, appetite deficient, head muddled, mood cross and peevish. In forenoon the pain was bearable, in afternoon <, and still < evening, when reflex nausea, and even vomiting, occurred. The amblyopia went pari passu with the severity of the pain, and disappeared as the pain left off. Pupils rather contracted, eyes otherwise normal. Zn. 3 was given morning and evening. The pains diminished immediately and were gone in twenty-four hours. The remedy was taken in the evening daily for a week. There was no relapse. F. W. Payne (N. A. J. H., xiv. 131, quoting A. M.) reports this case of cataract: Right eye partially affected, and left practically useless for vision, with bruised, sore, smarting, burning, itching, and stinging sensation; at intervals, suddenly, sensation as if pepper had been thrown into it, causing scalding lachrymation and spasm of the lids. These spells were < in evening. Burning dryness as if a stick under lid scratching eyeball. Flickering before left eye; blue and green rings; green halo round gas-jet at times. Slight irritation of conjunctiva and tendency of lids to adhere. < By warmth, on warm days, by artificial light. Patient nervous, tremulous, impatient, < by mental emotion. Choreic jerkings of individual muscles. Zn. 200, given occasionally, steadily improved the case. In six months right eye was quite clear, and the left steadily gaining. Eleven years later vision was practically perfect, though some small streaks could still be found in the left lens. Gerstel (H. R., x. 97) calls attention to the action of Zn. in fevers with inflammation of the brain. In these cases the seat of inflammation was the meninges. He refers to a case of a child suffering from scarlatina who was in this condition: Entirely motionless; extremities icy cold, body cold, skin all over body bluish red, except the parts about the eyes, forehead and chin, which were white. Zn. was given, and the child gradually recovered. In a case of typhoid (16th day) in a man, in whom mental symptoms had set in: "Muddled feeling in the head, an incapacity to relate anything connectedly, and a sort of half-smiling loquacity;" and later: Staring look, almost hippocratic appearance, pale as wax; carphologia, subsultus tendinum, constant trembling of the handsZn. 2 saved the patient.The symptoms of Zn. are: < By touch. Pressure <; (> conjunctivitis; toothache; left ovarian pain). Rubbing and scratching >. Jarring, riding <. Rest <. Sitting <. Lying <; (> vertigo). < By motion, active or passive: "Child screams out whenever it is moved." Walking; lifting; exertion <. Looking up = vision of falling luminous objects, and dizziness. < Evening and night. 11 a.m. to 12 sinking <. Rheumatism < from over-heating. Wails and moans during sweat. <. By chill when heated. Warm room <. Warm water > conjunctivitis. Open air <; (> headache and drowsiness). Very sensitive to draught. < By cold touch (i.e., when patient touches anything cold). Sea bathing = herpes in mouth. Approach of storm = chills. > While eating; < after. Eating <. Drinking < (as soon as liquid reaches stomach he vomits). < From: Sugar; wine; milk. Emissions > (temporarily). Sensitive to others talking and to noise.

Relations

Antidoted by: Hep., Ign., Camph. (Lobel., Teste). Antidote to: Baryt. c. Incompatible: Wine, Cham., Nux. Followed well by: Sep., Sul. (bestH. N. G.); Puls., Ign. Follows well: Ap., Bell. Complementary: In hydrocephalus, Calc. p. Compare: Erratic temperature in fevers, Puls. Colics, Pul., Lyc. Abdominal symptoms, Plb., Pod. Tremors, Arg. n. Spinal pains, Cob., Sep. Asthma accompanying great constriction of chest, Cad. s., K. chl., Cact. Boring fingers in nose, Cin., Ver., Ar. t. Scarlatina, Bell. (Zn. follows well when rash fails to come out and child screams whenever moved). Hydrocephalus, Calc. ph. Pain in back < sitting than walking, Sep., Cob., Arg. n. (Arg. n. has pain when rising). Goneness 11 a.m., Sul., Nat. c., Pho., Indm. Paralysis and brain softening, Pho., Pb. Spermatorrhœa, testes drawn up, Con. (Con. lacks the excessive irritability of Zn., and Zn. has temporary > from the emissions). Fag, nervous exhaustion, Pic. ac. Neuralgia, nervous exhaustion, Mg. c. Spinal irritation, Act. r. (Zn. has < sitting and < from wine). Sinking sensation, inability to throw out eruption, Hell. Crying out in sleep, wakes terrified; puts hands to genitals, Stram. Suppressed or undeveloped eruption, Bry. Fidgety feet, Trn. Boring in left ovary ceasing with flow, Lach. Fear of ghosts, Aco., Ars., Bro., Carb. v., Cocc., Lyc., Pho., Pul., Ran. b., Sep., Sul. Pain in right chest, Phell. Pain in throat > when not swallowing, Ign. Too weak to develop exanthemata, Cup., Sul., Bac. Convulsions with pale face, no heat except in occiput, no rise of temperature (Bell. opp.). Automatic movements of hands and head or one hand and head, Apoc., Bry., Hell. Cannot bear back touched, Chi. s., Trn., Ther. Twitching or jerking of single muscles, Agar., Ign. Incipient brain disease from suppressed eruptions, Bac., Hell. Unconquerable sleepiness, Nux m., Op. Diarrhœa with stupor, Op. < From sea-bathing, Ars. Too speedy ejaculation in coitus, Titan. Burning in spine, Pho., Lyc. Headache at root of nose, Ign. Affections of palate, Mang.

Causation

Grief. Anger. Fright. Night-watching. Operations. Frost-bite. Suppressions: eruptions; otorrhœa; menses; lochia; milk.

1. Mind

Hypochondriacal humour.Thoughts of death, as if the end were approaching.Fear of robbers or of frightful spectres.Stares as if frightened on waking, rolls head from side to side.Fretful, peevish humour, morose, with dislike to conversation, esp. in evening.Child cross towards evening, brain affected.The patient is powerfully affected by conversation or by noise.Irascibility and impatience.Tendency to fits of passion, and great uneasiness when left alone.Aversion to labour (and to walk).Fickleness (very variable mood), with sadness towards noon and joy (hilarity) in evening, and vice versâ.Weakness of memory.Forgetfulness (forgets what has been accomplished during the day).Weak memory with stinging pains in head.Unconquerable drowsiness after prolonged night-watching.Absence of ideas.Difficult conception.Incoherent ideas.Thoughtlessness and dulness of intellect.Repeats all questions before answering them.

2. Head

Continued confusion and cloudiness in head.Vertigo deeply seated in brain, principally in occiput (cerebellum), causing patient to fall sidelong (to l.).Vertigo: as if he would have apoplexy; as if head moving up and down; as if he would fall to r. when on a height; with flushing heat; on staying up late, as after smoking too strong tobacco.Vertigo, as if the seat were undulating when sitting up in bed in morning.Vertigo and delirious feeling: kept continually talking in his sleep (agg. from 3x trit.R. T. C.).Stupefying vertigo, with clouded sight (everything gets black before the eyes; < in morning in warm room and after eating; > in open air); and general weakness.Frequent attacks of vertigo, preceded by sharp pressure at root of nose, and a sensation of drawing together of eyes, as if by a cord, followed immediately by excessive nausea, faintness, and trembling of hands.Pain as from a tearing in whole brain.Headache at night, or in evening after lying down.Headache after drinking (even small quantities of) wine.Fit of headache, with nausea and vomiting.Sharp pressure on a small spot in forehead, evening.Pressure at root of nose as if it would be pressed into head.Pressive cephalalgia, principally in morning and in forehead, with confusion; or else in temples and occiput.Pain in sinciput, with dulness, extending into the eyes.Compressive boring, or expansive pressure in head.Drawing in occiput and forehead.Shootings and tearing in the head, esp. in the sides, temples, forehead, and occiput, < after dinner.Hemicrania; < after dinner; tearing and stinging.Frequent screwing together pain in both sides of head in evening.Chlorotic headaches, esp. in patients saturated with iron.Cerebral and nervous exhaustion; brain-fag; anæmia.Pain as from excoriation in head.Pulsative pains in head.Buzzing in head.The headaches are > in open air and < in a room.Itching and sensation of excoriation in the scalp, or pain as from ulceration.Sensitiveness of vertex, as from soreness or ulceration, without regard to touch; < in evening in bed and after eating; > in open air.Forehead cool, base of brain hot.Sensation as if hair were standing on end.The hair falls off from the vertex causing complete baldness, with sensation of soreness of the scalp.Hydrocephalus.

3. Eyes

Pain in the eyes in evening after lying down or drinking wine.Pressure on eyes or sensation as if pressed or sunk into head.Pressive and lancinating tearing in eyes.Photophobia; dread of sunlight with watery eyes.Sensitive to light; brain affected.Burning and biting in eyes, esp. in r., as from dust; photophobia and lachrymation; < evenings.Itching, smarting, and feeling of excoriation in eyes, eyelids, and internal canthi; < evening and night; also during menses.(Pterygium.).Burning and inflammation of eyes and lids.Redness and inflammation of internal canthi, with suppuration.Dryness of eyes.Agglutination of lids at night, with pressing, sore feeling.Intense burning in eyes after operations.Falling down and paralysis of upper eyelids.Pupils contracted.Luminous flakes before eyes when looking into the air (at the sky).On looking up felt giddy and saw showers of gold descending (cured with hysterical retention of urine.B. Simmons).When looking up, a dark, diagonal line before l. eye, directed upwards and to the r., about six feet in length.Diplopia, l. eye most affected; strabismus developed.Amaurosis: during severe headache, passing away with headache.

4. Ears

Earache, with tearing lancinations and external swelling, esp. in children.Frequent, acute stitches in r. ear, near tympanum.Earache of children, esp. boys.Increased ear-wax, l. ear, thinner than usual.Tickling in l. ear not > by rubbing.Itching in r. ear, > by boring into it.Flow of fetid pus from ears.Noises: humming; whizzing; ringing; crash as from breaking glass on falling asleep.

5. Nose

Pain as from excoriation in interior of nose.Troublesome pressure at the root of nose, as if it were squeezed.Cutting, crawling in evening, then sneezing.Swelling of nose, internally and externally, sometimes semilateral, with anosmia.Obstruction of nose.Fluent coryza, with hoarseness and burning sensation in chest.Redness of nose, remaining after freezing; tip of nose easily frosted.

6. Face

Pale and earthy countenance.Pale; alternating with redness.Face: cadaverous; pinched; unnatural; earthy, as after long illness; cachectic, bluish-white; waxy, white or yellow; pewter-like.Gloomy and wandering look; vacant; apathetic.Tearing, pressing, stitches, and pain as of a fracture in the bones of the face.Sudden pressing stitch from r. zygoma to upper margin of orbit, deep in bone, followed by great sensitiveness on the spot; evening.Neuralgia of fifth pair of nerves, < from touch and in evening.Spasmodic twitching of musculi risores, with constant inclination to laugh.Cracks in lips and commissures, with internal ulceration.Lips: swollen; dry.Upper lip: violent muscular twitches in l. side; sore; ulcerating in middle; jerking tearing in r. side; fine stitches.Lower lip: tensive, painful smarting: burning smarting on inner surface.Sticking pain in jaw-joint, beneath and in front of l. ear, on moving jaw back and biting strongly, and on pressing finger on joint.Thick, viscid, tasteless mucus on lips.Itching eruption and redness on chin.

7. Teeth

Toothache during mastication.Tearing, lancinating, or drawing toothache, esp. in molars.Pain in teeth, as from excoriation.Frequent toothache, a drawing pain in roots of incisors.Painful jerking in a tooth.Looseness of teeth.Teeth: feel sore; feel elongated.Grits teeth.Copious bleeding of teeth and gums (on slightest touch).Gums white and swollen, with pain as from excoriation.Ulcers in gums.

8. Mouth

Small yellow ulcers in mouth, on internal surface of cheeks.Tingling (crawling) of internal surface of cheeks, and copious secretion of saliva, having a metallic taste.Sticking, biting on palate, close to and in the roots of incisors.Vesicles on tongue.Tongue: dry, doesn't want to talk; coated at root and edges (brain diseases); swollen l. side, hindering talking; covered with vesicles; white or yellowish white; white as from cheese, without taste; covered with white mucus; blistered, painful on eating.Inflammation of palate.Pain in palate and velum palati, esp. on yawning.Herpes in mouth from sea-bathing.

9. Throat

Drawing tearings in bottom of gullet, more frequently when not swallowing than during deglutition (or worse between acts of swallowing than on empty swallowing).Sensation of contraction and cramp in œsophagus, near pit of throat.Dryness and roughness in palate and throat, with rawness, smarting, and scraping.Pain as from excoriation in throat.Copious accumulation of mucus in the throat, which frequently enters the mouth through the posterior nares.Bluish herpes in throat after suppressed gonorrhœa.Pain in throat as from an internal swelling.

10. Appetite

Taste of blood in mouth.Salt taste in mouth.Taste: sweetish; metallic; like spoiled cheese; as after raw peas.Violent thirst: from forenoon till evening; with heat in palms; in afternoon; in afternoon during menses; with hasty drinking; for beer in evening.Diminution of appetite; loss of appetite.Insatiable voracity.Hunger: ravenous, esp. 11 a.m. or 12 noon, with weakness of legs and trembling; greediness and hasty swallowing.Loss of appetite, with a perfectly clean tongue.Dislike to meal (veal), sweet things, fish, cooked and hot food; to wine and brandy.Pressure at stomach, with nausea, after eating bread.Hypochondriacal humour, with aching under false ribs; choking, clawing in abdomen, and fulness, pressure, or burning in the stomach after a meal.< From sugar (heartburn); wine; milk (loud eructations).

11. Stomach

Rising, with pressive pain in chest.Sour risings after a meal, esp. after drinking milk.Pyrosis after taking things sweetened with sugar.Hiccough, esp. after breakfast.Nausea, with retching and vomiting of bitter mucus, renewed by slightest movement.Nausea and headache from least drop of wine.Vomiting: as soon as, first spoonful of liquid reaches stomach; of pregnancy; easy, of watery bile, followed by great relief; acrid, causing burning on face and rawness in throat; almost continuous.Vomiting of blood.Stomachache.Unpleasant sensation in cardia and along œsophagus.Squeezing and pressure in scrobiculus.Tearing and shootings in scrobiculus; from both sides towards each other.Burning in stomach.Burning sensation in epigastrium (extending to œsophagus).Sudden oppression of stomach, has to unfasten dress.Spasm in stomach and constriction of œsophagus; < during inspiration.

12. Abdomen

Spasmodic pains in the hypochondria, alternating with oppression of chest (dyspnœa) after eating.Sticking in r. hypochondrium.Enlarged liver.Violent pressure in hypochondria and sides of abdomen, < by movement and walking.Squeezing, pressure, and shootings in the hepatic region.Shootings in region of spleen.Pressure, shootings, and pain as from excoriation in lumbar region.Sticking in diaphragm.Pains in abdomen in evening after lying down.Violent pressure and tension in abdomen (and sides), with distension.Pain after a light meal, with tympanites.Pressure under short ribs, after eating, with depression of spirits.Pain as from an internal induration in a spot beneath navel.Sensation of pressure on internal surface of trunk, of a nervous character, without flatulency.Spasmodic pain in umbilical region.Squeezing in abdomen.Gripings and pinchings in abdomen, with diarrhœa.Griping after breakfast or cutting after dinner.Tearings and shootings in abdomen.Severe stabbing pains in abdomen.Accumulation of much flatulence, with grumbling (loud rumbling, gurgling rolling) and borborygmi in abdomen, esp. after a meal.Flatulent colic, esp. in evening.Frequent expulsion of hot and putrid flatus.Inguinal hernia.Pressive aching in pubic region.(Erotomania; patient always pressing on pubes.).Cutting upward in l. iliac region, in paroxysms; in a pregnant woman.Swelling of inguinal glands; buboes (l.).

13. Stool and Anus

Constipation.Hard, dry (crumbling), insufficient fæces, often evacuated with violent straining.Constipation of the newborn.Loose, soft evacuations of consistence of pap, or liquid, and often accompanied by a discharge of bright red (or pale) blood.Diarrhœa with stupor.Nervous diarrhœa from depression of nerve centres.Involuntary evacuation.Pain in abdomen during and after evacuation.Tearings, shootings, burning, feeling as of excoriation, and violent itching in anus.Burning in anus during stool.Feeling in rectum as if flatus pressing against coccyx, by which it is retained.Crawling tingling in anus, as from worms.

14. Urinary Organs

Pressing, stinging, and soreness in the kidneys.Pressure in region of l. kidney.Stones (gravel) of kidneys and bladder.Retention of urine when beginning to urinate.Sitting with legs crossed, bending forward, and cannot pass water, or but very little, and feels as if his bladder would burst.Can only pass urine (which she must do every hour) while sitting bent backwards.Hysterical retention of urine (with vision of a golden shower on looking up.B. Simmons).Excessive desire to urinate, also at night.Violent pressure of urine on the bladder.Painful emission of urine.Involuntary emission of urine, esp. when walking, coughing, or sneezing.Frequent emission of a clear yellow urine, which afterwards deposits a white, flocky sediment.The urine becomes turbid, like clay-water, after standing.Sanguineous urine.Burning sensation during and after emission of urine.Acute drawing in forepart of urethra and in penis.Incisive pains in orifice of urethra.Discharge of blood from urethra after painful micturition.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Testes retracted, swollen, painful.Drawing in testes and along spermatic cord (one or the other testicle is drawn up).Pain as from excoriation in scrotum.Contraction of scrotum and shuddering in that part.Orchitis; from suppressed otorrhœa.Strong sexual desire, with difficult or too speedy emission.Permanent erections at night.Emissions at night, without lascivious dreams.Easily excited; the emission during an embrace is difficult or almost impossible.Flow of prostatic fluid (without any cause).Great falling off of hair of genital organs.Hands constantly on the genitals.The child grasps the genitals when coughing.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Sensation of bearing down towards the genital organs.Complaints coming on while the menses are absent, but feels perfectly well during the flow: suffers much pain, particularly in ovaries, will lie so as to press on the affected side, and dangling the limb will swing it about, patient can't keep still.Menses flow more at night.Nymphomania of lying-in women, with great sensitiveness of the genitals.Hands constantly on the genitals.Irresistible sexual desire at night; desire for onanism.Menses too early.Discharge of large clots during the menses.Menstruation too late.Catamenia premature; suppressed.Suppressed menstruation with painfulness of the breasts and genitals.Catamenia retarded.Spasmodic colic on appearance of catamenia.During the catamenia: distension of the abdomen, cuttings, and pressure towards abdomen and loins, with great heaviness and lassitude in legs; cough.Leucorrhœa of thick mucus (bloody mucus; excoriating after menses), sometimes preceded by pains in abdomen.Leucorrhœa with much itching; pain in l. ovary, only > by menstrual flow.Pruritus vulvæ; causes masturbation.Itching of vulva during menses.Varicose veins of external genitals, with fidgety feet.Profuse falling off of hair of genitals.Varices during pregnancy; stagnation of blood in l. leg.Tendency to miscarry.Puerperal convulsions with suppression of (chronic) eruption.Suppressed lochia; nymphomania.Pain as from excoriation in nipples.Suppressed secretion of milk.

17. Respiratory Organs

Roughness and dryness in throat and chest, esp. in morning and after dinner.Hoarseness; with burning in trachea as if chest filled with mucus.Frequent tickling in region of larynx.Discharge of black blood when hawking.Cough, with oppression.Violent cough.Cough, with stitches in the head.Dry cough also at night, with violent stitches in chest and feeling as if it would burst.Cough, with expectoration of viscid mucus, followed by a sensation of coldness and excoriation in chest as if it were raw.Cough, with expectoration of blood, burning sensation, and pain as from excoriation of chest.Debilitating, spasmodic cough from tickling in larynx, extending to middle of chest, with expectoration of yellow, purulent, blood-streaked, tenacious mucus, tasting disagreeably, sweetish-putrid, metallic; or of pure blood in morning or during day.The cough is < after eating, during rest, sitting, standing, from milk, sweets, spirituous liquors, during menstruation.Child grasps genitals when coughing.

18. Chest

Difficult respiration and oppression, with pressive pain in the chest, esp. in evening.Constrictive sensation around the chest, with pain in the chest, as if cut to pieces.Dull stitches in r. side of chest.Stitches in a spot in l. side of chest, with feeling as if corroded and bruised.Tightness in evening, with pressure in middle of sternum; small, rapid pulse.Spasmodic dyspnœa.Shortness of breath, caused by flatulence after a meal.Sensation of emptiness in the chest.Chest loaded with mucus.Pressure at chest.Tensive pain in sternum.L. intercostal neuralgia < by motion; fatigue; at times with palpitation.Sticking beneath l. breast.Tearings in chest.Shootings in chest, esp. in region of heart.Burning sensation in chest.Pain beneath costal arches.

19. Heart

Palpitation of heart, with or without anguish.Irregular movements of heart.Shocks in heart and intermittent palpitation, with suffocation.Tension and stitches in the præcordial region, < by violent expiration.Stitches at apex.Sudden, spasmodic, bursting sensation about heart.Feels as if a cap were over heart; spine affected.Violent pulsations in blood-vessels during heat.Rapid pulse.

20. Neck and Back

Lancinating tearings, stiffness, and tension in nape.Tearing in r. side of neck.Nape of neck feels weary from writing or any exertion.Spinal irritation with prostration; numbness of lower limbs.Pains in loins, esp. when walking and seated.Sensation of paralytic weakness in back and loins.Rheumatic pains in back.Itching tetters on back.Tension and shootings in and between shoulder-blades.Burning in scapulæ.Pressive tension beneath the r. scapula.Burning pressure upon spine above small of back.Burning along whole spine, < when sitting.Pains at last dorsal vertebra.Violent, long-lasting ache about last lumbar vertebræ.Stiffness and pain in upper dorsal muscles.Pushing, aching, at times pinching pains in coccyx; lancinating in sacrum; pressive tension and weakness in lumbar and sacral regions.

21. Limbs

Tearing in limbs, < when over-heated or when taking exercise.Drawing tearing in hollow bones, with pain so violent that the limbs can give no support.Stiffness of joints, with sharp, lancinating pains above joints, always transverse, not lengthwise of the limb.Coldness of extremities.Drawing, tearing pains in all limbs.Violent itching in all joints.Spasmodic pain and cramp in the limbs.Visible quivering and jerking in different parts of the muscles.Tingling in the limbs.

22. Upper Limbs

Rheumatic drawing and lancinating tearing in shoulders, arms, elbows, joints of hands and fingers.Painful sensation of paralysis in arms.Furunculi in arms.Burning in l. forearm at night.Paleness and paralysis of hands.Weakness and trembling of the hands when writing.Spasmodic tension in r. hand.Lameness and deadness of hands; they look bluish.Herpetic, rough, and itching spots on hands.Dry skin, with rhagades on hands.Dry herpes on the hands and fingers; they are rough and itch.Chilblains itch and swell.Cracks between the fingers.Numbness of fingers when rising in morning.

23. Lower Limbs

Rheumatic drawings and tearings in legs, knees, ankles and joints of the feet.Varices in thighs and legs.Legs œdematous.Itching of thighs and hollow of knees.Tensive pain in knees.Nocturnal pains in knees.Sensation as if the blood did not circulate in the legs.Drawing and tensive stiffness in calves when walking.Tingling in calves.Burning pain in tibia.Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of tendo Achillis.Intolerable boring pain in heel after drinking wine.Stiffness of joint of the foot after being seated for some time.Wrenching pain in joints of feet and toes.Burning sensation in feet.Inflammatory swelling of feet.Weakness and trembling of feet.Paralysis of feet: from spinal or chronic nervous disease, softening of brain or cerebral hæmorrhage; from suppressed foot-sweat.Feet sweaty and sore about toes; fetid suppressed foot-sweat with much nervous excitement.Coldness of the feet at night.Nervous, fidgety movement of the feet; after retiring and during sleep.Tearing in margin of r. foot.Painful chilblains on feet.Itching, heat, redness, and swelling of toes as if they were frozen.Pulsative lancinations in toes.Sprained pain in bends of toe-joints.Ulcerative, boring pains in heels; < when walking than when sitting.Profuse sweat on the feet.

24. Generalities

[Affections in general appearing in the l. inguinal ring; l. side of back; upper jaw, and troubles of the teeth in lower jaw; loins; posterior surface of thigh; tendo Achillis; big toe; joints of toes.Patient can't keep still, must be in motion all the time.Chilblains of the hand, much swollen, very painful.In fevers or nervous complaints one keeps the feet in continual motion.Variable mood; clay-like sediment in the urine; biting, pungent pain; lancinating pains; exanthema of long standing, esp. with a biting sensation.< In the evening, sometimes lasting all night; after swallowing food.> While eating.H. N. G.].Pain as from excoriation.Varices.Pain, which sometimes seems to be between the skin and the flesh.Formication on the skin.The symptoms are aggravated to an extraordinary degree by Chamomile, Nux, and wine, substances which also excite them, particularly the nocturnal uneasiness and constipation.The majority of the symptoms manifest themselves after dinner and towards evening.Sensation of soreness in internal and external parts.General insensibility of the body.Sensation of coldness in bones.Violent pulsation throughout body.Violent trembling (twitching) of whole body, esp. after mental emotion.Twitching of children.Chorea.Heaviness, lassitude, and excessive weakness, < when walking or on waking in morning.Aversion to movement.

25. Skin

Itching in bends of joints.Itching, with violent lancinations, esp. in evening in bed, disappearing immediately on being touched.Tingling between the skin and the flesh.Chronic eruptions.Eczema of back of r. hand with terrible irritation, little oozing and fissuration, < in cold weather and excited by rubbing (R. T. C.).Tetters and herpetic ulcers.Ganglia, chilblains, and liability of the external parts to become frozen.Rhagades.Small furunculi.Varicose veins.

26. Sleep

Sleep by day, and continued disposition to sleep, esp. in morning or after a meal; with inclination to yawn.Unconquerable drowsiness.Retarded sleep.Disturbed sleep, with frequent waking.Unrefreshing sleep (with unpleasant dreams).Fantastic, frightful, agitated, or disgusting and terrific dreams, with talking and cries during sleep.Excessive coldness of the feet at night.Shocks in body during sleep and frequent starts.

27. Fever

Febrile shuddering along back.Constant shivering, with increased internal heat.Chill begins generally after eating, and continues till late in evening and during the night.Chilliness in open air and when touching a cold object.Chilliness on approach of stormy weather.Febrile shuddering, with flushes of heat; violent trembling of limbs, short and hot breath, and pulsation throughout the body.Pulse small and rapid in the evening, slower in morning and during the day.Pulse at times intermitting.Violent pulsations in the veins during the heat.Internal heat, with sensation of coldness in abdomen and on feet.Tendency to perspire in the day.Night-sweat.Profuse perspiration during whole night, with inclination to uncover oneself.Badly-smelling perspirations.[" Brass-founders ague," which is supposed to be due to inhalation of Zinc fumes, begins with malaise and feeling of constriction across the chest, nausea occasionally, the symptoms occurring in after part of day are followed in evening at bed-time by shivering, sometimes by an indistinct hot stage, but always by profuse sweating; the worse the sweating, the less violent the attack; attacks always irregular. (R. T. C.).]

Zincum Metallicum

Generalities

• This remedy corresponds to the poisoning of NERVES and BRAIN.

• BRAIN AND NERVES ARE FAGGED; tissues are worn out faster than they can be repaired; causing depression and enervation.

• Can not throw thing off; can not develop exanthemata or discharges.

• Period of depression in disease.

• Marked anaemia; increasing weakness; agg. eating; with restlessness.

• Poisoning by suppressed discharges and eruptions.

• Isolated effects; formication.

• One part numb another sensitive, one part hot, other part cold.

• Pain in spots; between skin and flesh.

- Trembling; internal.

• Convulsive twitching or jerking agg. at night, during sleep, spasms; from spinal injuries.

• Fidgety feet and other automatic motions of mouth, arms and hands.

• Feels numb, all over, on lying down.

• Neuralgia after shingles amel. touch.

• Transverse pains; shooting pains.

• Descending paralysis.

• Disabling bone pains.

• Chilblains; blueness of the surface.

• Bloody discharges.

• Ill effects of grief; anger; fright; night watching; operations, excessive study.

• Chorea from fright or from suppressed eruptions, agg. during sl eep, the feet esp. affected.

• Ill effects of concussion of brain.

Worse

• EXHAUSTION; mental or physical.

• Noise.

• Touch.

• Wine.

• After being heated.

• Suppressed eruptions; menses; discharges.

• Sweet things.

• Milk.

• After eating.

Better

• Motion.

• Hard pressure.

• Warm open air.

• FREE DISCHARGES; menses etc.

• Rubbing, scratching.

• Eating.

Mind

• Repeats all questions before answering them.

• Fears arrest on account of supposed crime.

• Fretful, peevish; cries if vexed or moved; during sleep (children).

• Easily, startled; excited or intoxicated.

• Forgetful.

• Screams with pain.

• Averse to conversation; to work.

• Sensitive to others talking and noise.

• Stares as if frightened on walking, and rolls head from side to side.

• Muddled.

• Brainfag.

• Weeps when angry.

• Lethargic.

• Thinks of death calmly.

Head

• Violent vertigo with stupor.

• Headache of varying intensity.

• Pressive pain on vertex; at the root of the nose; extending to eyes; with weak vision agg. warmth; amel. hard pressure; open air.

• Heavy aching pain in temples agg. biting.

• Dragging down back from occiput; as of a blow on occiput then weak legs.

• Crashing in head, on falling to sleep.

• Rolls head; bores in pillows and grinds teeth.

• Occiput hot, forehead cold.

• Hair falls from vertex.

• Hair brittle, bristle, sensitive.

• Brain paralysis.

• Vertex bald with soreness of scalp.

• Headaches, of overtaxed school children; from drinking small quantity of wine.

• Headache with dim vision agg. heat.

• Meningitis.

• Hydrocephalus after infantile cholera or diarrhoea.

Eyes

• Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles.

• Conjunctivitis agg. inner canthi.

• Feel drawn together.

• Lachrymation on eating.

• Pterygium.

• Rolling of eyes.

• Squint.

• Sees luminous bodies or intense burning after operation.

Ears

• Frequent acute stitches; in children (boys).

• Otorrhoea of foetid pus.

• Itching amel. boring into it.

Nose

• Swollen.

• Pressure upon the root.

• Dry, sore.

Face

• Pale; alternating with redness.

• Bluish; miserable.

• Lips; sticky, dry, cracked.

Mouth

• Grinds the teeth.

• Bleeding gums.

• Echo speech.

• Herpes in mouth from sea bathing.

• Bitter or bloody taste.

Throat

• Pain in muscles of throat externally while swallowing.

• Pain in fauces when yawning.

• Bitter taste in.

Stomach

• Ravenous hunger about 11 a.m.

• Heart burn agg. from sugar.

• Great hastiness when eating, or drinking.

• Can not eat fast enough.

• Loss of appetite with clean tongue.

• As if a worm crawling up to the throat from the pit of stomach; causing coughing.

• Sweetish rising into throat with sweet taste.

• Globus hystericus rising from pit of stomach.

• Aversion to meat esp. veal; sweets; cooked or warm food.

• Wine agg. liquids are vomited immediately after drinking.

Abdomen

• As of a lump in liver region or at Navel.

• Hypogastric flatulence.

• Liver enlarged, hard and sore.

• Reflex symptoms from floating kidneys.

• Piles drawn down amel. heat; agg. walking.

• Stools; large, dry difficult, followed by involuntary urination.

• Itching at anus during stools.

• Ulceration of piles.

• Cholera-like diarrhoea in infants.

• Nervous diarrhoea.

• Affections of brain from sudden stoppage of diarrhoea; constipation of new born.

• Hot, putrid flatus.

• Neuralgia; of spleen; intercostal.

• Jerking from groins to penis.

Urinary

• Violent urging, but urinates only in odd positions; bending backwards, crossing limbs etc.

• Hysterical retention.

• Bleeding after urination.

• Pressive cutting about kidneys.

• Unable to retain the urine unless the feet are in constant motion.

• Floating-kidney.

• Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing.

• Vicarious bleeding from suppressed menses.

Male

• Easy sexual excitement; emission too rapid or difficult during embrace.

• Discharge of prostatic fluid without any cause.

• Grasps the genitals; with cough etc.

• Falling of public hair.

• Sadness after emission.

• Swelling of testicles with retraction.

• Neuralgia of testes agg. walking.

Female

• Sexual desire increased.

• Desire for masturbation; during menses.

• Nymphomania of lying-in women; from suppressed lochia.

• Profuse lumpy menses.

• Menses flow more at night.

• Itching of vulva during menses; causing masturbation.

• Varicose veins during pregnancy.

• Breasts painful, nipples sore.

• All complaints better during menstrual flow.

• Pain in ovary (left).

• Restlessness, sadness, coldness of the body, sensitiveness of the spine and fidgety feet, all these symptoms are found in women's complaints.

• Mammae and genitals painful, with suppressed menses.

Respiratory

• Dyspnoea agg. flatulence amel. expectoration.

• Debilitating spasmodic cough, agg. eating sweet things.

• Constricted chest.

• Dry cough, before and during menses.

• Fumbles the genitals while coughing esp. children.

Heart

• As if a cap over the heart.

• Hard heart beat.

• Irregular spasmodic action of the heart; occasional one violent thump.

• Violent pulsations during heat.

Neck and back

• Nape of neck feels weary and tired from writing or any mental exertion.

• Neck feels lame, then stupor.

- Burning along whole spine agg. sitting.

- Aching in spine; small of the back agg. turning in bed; sitting or in the act of sitting down, and stooping.

• Spine sensitive, can not bear it touched.

• Cutting pain in inter-scapular region amel. eructations.

• Dull aching pain about last dorsal or first lumbar vertebrae.

• Weakness in lumbar region agg. standing.

Extremities

• Pains in the limbs on becoming heated.

• Weakness and trembling of the hands; when writing; during menses.

• Eczema on hands.

• Transverse pain esp. in upper limbs.

• CAN NOT KEEP FEET AND LEGS STILL; cramps, when cold.

• Toes; feel swollen; sore; tips ache.

• Soles sensitive.

• Bones of the feet feel broken.

• Stumbling, spastic gait; totters while walking esp. in the dark and with closed eyes.

• Painful varicoses; chronic.

• Lightning-like pain of locomotor ataxia; sweaty feet with sore toes.

• Formication of feet and legs as of insects crawling over the skin, prevents sleep, amel. rubbing and pressure.

• Hysterical contractions, drawing the fingers out of shape.

• Burning in tibia.

• Paralysis of feet.

• Ulcerative pain in heel agg. walking.

• Pain in deltoid agg. raising arm.

Skin

• Itching of thighs and hollow of knees.

• Eczema; in the anaemic and neurotic; of hands.

• Varicose veins of legs and genital organs.

• formication of feet and legs as from a bug crawling over the skin, preventing sleep.

Sleep

• Broken, unrefreshing.

• Loud screaming in sleep without being aware of it.

• Jerks and starts on falling to sleep.

• Somnambulism after suppressed emotions.

Fever

• Chilliness in the back; as if fever would appear.

• Hands and legs become cold.

• Profuse sweat at night.

• Sweaty feet.

Complementary

• Puls; Sep; Sulph.

Related

• Hep; Ign; Kali-p; Lach; Pic-ac.

ZINCUM METALLICUM

  1. Relief comes from the appearance of discharges or eruptions.
  2. Valuable in various neuroses arising from profound disturbances of the nerve centres of the brain and spinal cord, especially cerebral exhaustion.
  3. Nervous, fidgety moving of the feet, especially after retiring and during sleep.
  4. Headaches from drinking even small quantities of wine.

Zincum

Head:

Headache from drinking even small quantities of wine.

Sight and Eyes:

Itching and stinging in inner angles of eyes, with cloudiness of vision.

Sight and Eyes:

Inflammation of conjunctiva, worse in inner canthi; pains worse during evening and night, as from sand, with frequent lachrymation.

Urinary Organs:

Sitting with the legs one over the other bending forward; can make but very little water; and still feels as if his bladder would burst.

Urinary Organs:

Constant urging to pass water; only when sitting and bending backward can he discharge the same; much sand in the sediment.

Female Sexual Organs:

Heart-burn, swollen feet, varicose veins, during pregnancy.

Female Sexual Organs:

The flow of menses reliever her other sufferings, but they return soon after the cessation of the menses.

Female Sexual Organs:

All her other complaints during menses feel quite well while the flow is on.

Respiratory Organs:

Cough after eating sweet things.

Respiratory Organs:

Spasmodic cough, with such as have large varices.

Respiratory Organs:

Cough during catamenia.

Respiratory Organs:

Troublesome cough; as soon as he brings up something he feels much relieved (suppressed expectoration).

Heart and Pulse:

Sudden shocks and jerks in cardiac region.

Neck and Back:

Pain in back worse when sitting; cannot keep feet still.

Neck and Back:

Nape of neck feels weary and tired, from writing or any exertion.

Extremities:

Constant trembling of limbs with cold extremities.

Extremities:

Incessant and painful fidgety feelings in the feet or lower limbs, must move them constantly.

Generalities:

Twitching and jerking of single muscles (Agar, Ignat, Hyos).

Generalities:

Defective vitality, brain or nerve power too weak to develop exanthemata, or menses; to expectorate; to urinate; to comprehend; to memorize.

Generalities:

Especially in the anaemic; brain exhausted; not able to develop exanthemata.

Causes and Modalities:

Most symptoms appear after dinner and toward evening, or from wine (Nux vom.), while sitting, > during the menses.

Causes and Modalities:

Wine greatly aggravates all the symptoms.

Causes and Modalities:

Symptoms of chest > by expectoration, of bladder > by urinating; of back > by emissions; (< by cobalt); general, by menstrual flow.

Constitution and Temperament:

In anaemic subjects, brain exhaustion; not able to develop; exanthema.

Zincum Metallicum

Zinc. has a full and substantial proving, including symptoms of every part of the body. It is an antipsoric, suitable in broken down constitutions, feeble constitutions; enfeeblement characterizes the whole proving.

The Zinc. patient is nervous and extremely sensitive, excitable, trembling, quivering, twitching of muscles, tearing pains along the course of the nerves, tingling, excited on the least provocation; oversensitiveness in one part and lack of feeling in another.

This extreme oversensitiveness is like Nux; which is inimical. The overworked and excitable persons belong to Nux and Zinc. Nux is sensitive to the higher potencies. Further, there is paralytic weakness, emaciation, prostration; full of brain and spinal symptoms.

Slowness

: All the functions are slow; eruptions appear slowly.

The whole economy seems to be tired and feeble, so that when a girl approaches puberty and it is time for the menses to be established, but the flow does not appear, she goes into a decline; she begins to manifest choreic symptoms, jerking and twitching, soreness in the back of the neck, burning of the whole spine, creeping and crawling of the extremities, hysterical manifestations of all sorts.

Sensitive to every little noise, to people talking in the room, to crumpling of paper.

"Talking or listening is distressing; much talking of other people, even of those of who he is fond, affects his nerves and makes him morose."

Mind

: Feeble children, feeble girls, mind feeble, memory poor.

Tendency to be docile, but when aroused irascible. If the child comes down with scarlatina or measles, it goes into a stupor. The eruption does not come out. There is a tendency to convulsions, drawing in the extremities, suppression of urine, rolling of the head from one side to the other, and from stupor it goes into complete unconsciousness; inability to throw eruptions to the surface.

Slowness again

: The stomach is slow in digesting; sour vomiting.

The intestines are sluggish. The rectum becomes impacted. Difficult expulsion of urine; paralysis of the bladder and tedious constipation associated with spinal symptoms; urine slow in starting; can pass it only when sitting and in some cases only when sitting leaning back against the seat with hard pressure.

Back and limbs

: Aching in the dorsal, lumbar, and sacral regions; better when walking and worse from rising from a seat. (In Rhus, the aching is in the sacral region, and better when walking and coming on while sitting. Calc., Rhus, Phos., Sulph. and Sepia have this in the highest degree. Zinc. occupies a lower grade in the aggravation when rising from a seat, as do Petr. and Ledum.)

Numbness of the soles of the feet, with cutting pain and soreness in the heel when stepping; fulgurating pains, stitching, stabbing, and tearing; tabes dorsalis.

Limbs paralyzed; paresis and finally paralysis of one or both sides jerking, trembling and prostration. Shocks and jerking during Sleep.

Trophic centers in a state of anaemia; emaciation throughout the body; the skin looks withered; the face pallid, wrinkled, unhealthy, sickly. Always chilly; sensitive to the cold. Full of neuralgic pains; tearing pains in all parts of the body when exposed to a draft; tension and drawing in various places.

Strange drawing about the eyes as if strabismus would come on; drawing in the muscles; neck drawn back; tension and drawing everywhere. When he comes to rest, the limbs want to draw up, hence, hysterical contractures; drawing the fingers all out of shape.

The mind is slow and the patient is weak and tired; weak memory; forgetful.

"Repeats all questions before answering them."

When an individual does this it is to make the mind comprehend. He must first realize what it means and then answers. Such a symptom is found in typhoid, when the patient does not convalesce; in a child after brain affections.

Nervous prostration; waits a moment, looking blank, then, the face lights up and he answers. if you look at the Zincum patient and do not address him, you would not realize that he was so weak, but put a question to him and he stares at you in perfect amazement, then says, "Oh," and answers.

Zinc. is not suitable in those who are naturally feeble-minded, when the child is in a state bordering upon idiocy. Baryta carb. feeds such a mind. He rouses out of a semi-slumber and stares a moment without answering.

Stupor; aroused by every little noise, startles, twitches all over; but soon he goes beyond this, becoming less and less excitable, and finally passes into unconsciousness and cannot be aroused. You will find some deep-seated brain troubles that will try your patience.

Some cases go slowly and gradually into unconsciousness; rolling of the head for day s; eyes lusterless; body emaciated, involuntary discharges of faeces and urine in the bed; tongue dry and parched, so shriveled that it looks like leather, lips also; lice withered and each day looks older; paralysis of one hand or one foot, or it seems that the whole muscular system is paralyzed.

Screaming out in pain although not so shrilly as in Apis. A dose of Zinc. will sometimes bring this patient back to life. In a few days after the remedy there will be a jerking and quivering in the parts that were motionless, or its action will be shown in a copious sweat, much vomiting; sudden arousing that is alarming, for it looks like a threatened sinking, but this is the beginning of reaction.

Now, for days and nights while this little one is coming back to consciousness, the restoration of sensation in the parts is accompanied with the most tormenting formication, tingling, prickling, creeping, and crawling. The mother and the father and the neighbors will want something done for it, but if you antidote, the case will return to where it was before. This suffering is but the awakening to life.

It will go on in this way for a week or two and then will begin to show signs of falling back; it needs another dose of Zinc., which will again be followed by a sweat, vomiting, etc. You will see this in spinal meningitis. The early stage will be that of congestion, and Bell. may palliate, but with the onset of the symptoms enumerated above, Zinc. is the only remedy that will cure. The Bell. case will have flushed face, hot head, rolling of the head, flashing eyes, throbbing carotids. The Bry. case will be docile, stupid, purple, sleepy; ameliorated by quiet.

The Helleboruscase will exhibit but little fever; cold extremities, tossing of the head, dilated pupils, unconsciousness, can hardly be aroused; rolling head from. side to side, but when the reflexes are abolished, Zinc. comes in.

After the relief from Gels., Bell., or Bry. give Zinc. Rugged little fellows who hang on for weeks in this state, emaciating and unconscious.

You must take the mother aside and inform her what will happen if the child returns to consciousness. If you do not, you may be turned out of the house. A person advanced in years cannot stand such an ordeal, but it is astonishing how the little ones can endure the prolonged congestion and inflammation.

After scarlet fever and badly treated meningitis; tubercular meningitis. I have carried these severe forms of brain disease through on Phosphorus, which has a picture somewhat like that of Zincum. There is no record of any recovery from tubercular meningitis, but a homoeopath can cure some of these cases, though it may take two or three months to go down and come up out of it, with two or three relapses.

Eyes

: Among the eye symptoms we have a peculiar thickening and opacity of the conjunctiva, which is infiltrated, leathery, has yellow spots on it and the corners are thickened like pterygium. Dunham made a remarkable cure of pterygium. The report of the case in the Guiding Symptoms is as follows:

"Pterygium in right eye just encroaching on cornea; in left eye extending to the pupil from the inner canthus."

"Itching and stinging plain in inner angles of eyes with cloudiness of sight.

Much burning of the eyes and lids in the morning and in the evening with feeling of dryness and pressure in them."

Zinc. has cured distressing thickening of the lids, ectropion and entropion; granular thickening of the lids. In a severe case of entropion where the lashes were playing up and down the ball with lachrymation, great inflammation and redness, Zinc. removed the whole trouble. Violent photophobia; it seems as if the light would blind him. Zinc. and Euphr. are closely related in eye troubles.

Strabismus after brain troubles. Ever since scarlet fever, he had strabismus. She has much trouble with the menses; dysmenorrhoea.

Menses

: But here is a striking symptom; no matter what the violent symptoms are pains in the ovaries, in the uterus, hysterical excitement; as soon as the menstrual flow appears there is relief.

Violent pains in the ovaries relieved by the flow. This is a great contrast to Cimicifuga, which has nervous excitement and hysteria during the flow, and the, more copious it is, the more violent are the pains.

The Lach. and Zinc. symptoms are worse before, and better with the flow, but in the former the pains all return when the flow slacks up again. Cimicifuga has at times an intermittent flow, then pain ceasing with each intermission, returning when the flow again appears.

The great nervousness of Zinc. is manifested in the feet. You will notice a child or a woman keeping one foot going all the time, cannot keep it still. Many medicines have nervous feet and many have relief of symptoms by motion of the feet. But this is marked in Zinc. A girl about twelve years of age had no congruity of symptoms and I could not find the remedy.

The mother said the child mortified her by keeping one foot constantly going in church. On asking why she did this, she replied that if she stopped she would lose her urine. Zinc. cured the whole patient. In the text we find double-lined the two words,

"Fidgety feet."

Zinc. has some striking heart symptoms. Constriction of the whole chest in weakly subjects.

Zincum Metallicum.

Zinc. (The Element.)

Persons suffering from cerebral and nervous exhaustion; defective vitality; brain or nerve power wanting; too weak to develop exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to comprehend, to memorize. Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower extremeties; must move them constantly. Always feels better every way as soon as the menses begin to flow; it relieves all her sufferings; but they return again soon after the flow ceases. In the cerebral affections: in impending paralysis of brain; where the vis medicatrix naturae is too weak to develop exanthemata (Cup., Sulph., Tub.); symptoms of effusion into ventricles. Child repeats everything said to it. Child cries out during sleep; whole body jerks during sleep; wakes frightened, starts, rolls the head from side to side; face alternately pale and red. Convulsions: during dentition, with pale face, no heat, except perhaps in occiput, no increase in temperature (rev. of Bell.); rolling the eyes; gnashing the teeth. Automatic motion of hands and head, or one hand and head (Apoc., Bry., Hell.). Chorea: from suppresse eruption; from fright. Hunger: ravenous, about 11 or 12 a. m. (Sulph.); great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough (incipient brain disease in children). Excessive nervous moving of feet, in bed for hours after retiring, even when asleep. Feet sweaty and more about toes; fetid, suppressed foot-sweat; very nervous. Chillblains, painful, < from rubbing. Spinal affections; burning whole length of spine; backache much < from sitting > by walking about (Cobalt., Puls., Rhus). Spinal irritation; great prostration of strength. Cannot bear back touched (Chin. s., Taren., Ther.). Can only void urine while sitting bent backwards. Twitching and jerking of single muscles (Agar., Ign.). Weakness and trembling of extremities; of hands while writing; during menses. During sweat, cannot tolerate any covering.

Relations

. - Compare: Hell., Tuber., in incipient brain diseases from suppressed eruptions.

Aggravation

. - Of many symptoms from drinking wine, even a small quantity (Alum., Con.).

Amelioration

. - Symptoms: of chest, by expectoration; of bladder, by urinating; of back, by emissions (< by Cobalt.); general, by menstrual flow. Is followed well by, Ign., but not by Nux, which disagrees.

Inimical

- Cham., and Nux; should not be used before or after.

Zincum Metallicum.

Mind and Disposition.

Very variable mood : at noon, low-spirited ; and in the evening, hilarity, or vice versa.

Morose and indisposed to converse (especially in the evening).

Great sensitiveness to the talking of others and to all noise.

Aversion to work and to walk.

[5] Weakness of the memory.

Thoughtlessness and dulness of the intellect.

Head.

Vertigo in the cerebellum (when he walks, he feels as if he should fall to the left side).

Sharp pressure on a small spot in the forehead (evening).

Tearing and stinging pains in the sides of the head ; worse after dinner.

[10] Pressure on the root of the nose, as if it would be pressed into the head.

Sensation of soreness in the head.

Stupefying headache ; every thing gets black before the eyes ; worse in the morning in the warm room and after eating ; better in the open air.

Sensitiveness of the vertex, as from soreness or ulceration, without regard to touch ; worse in the evening in bed and after eating ; better after scratching.

The hair falls off from the vertex, causing complete baldness, with sensation of soreness of the scalp.

[15] Hydrocephalus.

Headache from drinking even small quantities of wine.

The headaches are worse in the room, better in the open air.

Eyes.

Pressure on the eyes ; they feel as if they were pressed into the head.

Itching, biting, pricking, and sensation of soreness of the eyes, lids and inner angle of the eyes. (Pterygium).

[20] The upper eyelids fall down, as if paralyzed.

When lifting up the eyes he sees luminous flakes.

Ears.

Otalgia, with tearing stitches and external swelling (especially with children).

Discharge of fetid pus from the ear.

Nose.

The nose feels sore internally.

Swelling (of one side) of the nose, with loss of smell.

[25] Coryza, with hoarseness and burning in the chest.

Face.

Paleness of the face.

Tearing and sore pain in the facial bones.

Lips and corners of the mouth cracked, with ulceration of the inside of them.

Thick, viscid, tasteless humor on the lips.

[30] Redness and itching eruption on the chin.

Mouth and Throat.

Sensation of soreness of the teeth.

Looseness of the teeth.

The teeth and gums bleed.

The gums are swollen, white, sore and ulcerated.

[35] Small yellow ulcers on the inside of the cheek (and in the throat).

Tingling on the inside of the cheek, with ptyalism of metallic taste.

Blisters on the tongue.

Sensation of soreness in the throat.

Sensation of constriction and spasm in the oesophagus.

[40] Accumulation of mucus in the throat, which frequently enters the mouth through the posterior nares.

Bluish herpes in the throat after suppressed gonorrhoea.

Stomach and Abdomen.

Saltish taste in the mouth.

Taste in the mouth as from blood.

Voracious appetite and insatiable hunger.

[45] Aversion to meat, fish, and cooked or warm food and sweet things.

Sour eructations, especially after drinking milk.

Heartburn after eating sweet things.

Nausea, with retching and vomiting of bitter mucus ; renewed by the least motion.

Hiccough, especially after breakfast.

[50] Vomiting of blood.

Burning in the stomach.

Disagreeable sensation (of heat) in the upper orifice of the stomach, extending to the oesophagus.

Pain in the hypochondria, like a spasm, alternating with dyspnoea.

Pressure under the short ribs, after eating with depression of spirits.

[55] Stitches in the spleen.

Pressure and tension in the abdomen.

Flatulent colic, especially in the evening.

Expulsion of hot, fetid flatus.

Inguinal hernia.

Stool and Anus.

[60] Constipation ; stool hard and dry ; insufficient ; frequently only expelled by hard pressing.

Soft, papescent, or thin diarrhoeic stools, frequently with discharge of pale blood.

Involuntary stools.

Sensation of soreness, and violent itching at the anus.

Tingling at the anus, as from ascarides.

Urinary Organs.

[65] Pressing, stinging and soreness in the kidneys.

Violent pressure of urine on the bladder.

Retention of urine when beginning to urinate.

Can only pass urine (which she must do every hour) while in a sitting posture.

Excessive desire to urinate, also at night.

[70] Urine turbid, loam colored in the morning.

Frequent micturition of pale-yellow urine, which later deposits a white flaky sediment.

Discharge of blood from the urethra after painful micturition.

Burning during and after micturition.

Cutting pain in the orifice of the urethra.

[75] Involuntary discharge of urine when walking, coughing and sneezing.

Stones (Gravel) of the kidneys and bladder.

Sexual Organs.

Men. Painfully swelled (sore) testicles.

One or the other testicle is drawn up.

Drawing in the testicles, extending up the spermatic cord.

Violent and long-lasting erections.

[80] Great falling off of the hair of the genital organs.

Women. Nymphomania of lying-in women, with great sensitiveness of the genitals.

Menstruation too late.

Suppressed menstruation, with painfulness of the breasts and genitals.

Lochia and the secretion of milk are suppressed.

[85] Sore nipples.

Respiratory Organs.

Spasmodic oppression of breathing.

Constrictive sensation around the chest, with pain in the chest, as if cut to pieces.

Shortness of breath from flatulence after eating.

Accumulation of mucus in the chest.

[90] Burning in the chest.

Coldness in the chest.

Stitches in the chest (left side) and heart.

Palpitation of the heart ; irregular beats of the heart ; occasionally one violent thrust of the heart.

Tension in the sternum.

Burning and soreness in the pharynx.

[95] Hoarseness.

Roughness and dryness in the chest.

Sensation of emptiness in the chest.

Debilitating spasmodic cough from tickling in the larynx, extending to the middle of the chest, with expectoration of yellow, purulent, blood-streaked, tenacious mucus, tasting disagreeably, sweetish-putrid, metallic ; or of pure blood in the morning or during the day.

The cough is worse after eating, during rest, sitting, standing, from milk, sweets, spirituous liquors, during menstruation.

Back and Neck.

[100] Pain in the small of the back on walking or sitting.

Stiffness and tension of the neck.

Itching herpes on the back.

Tension and stinging between the shoulder-blades.

Extremities.

Upper. Rheumatic pains and stinging in the shoulders, arms, elbows, wrists, hands and fingers.

[105] Lameness and deadness of the hands.

Weakness and trembling of the hands when writing.

Dryness and cracked skin of the hands.

Cracks between the fingers.

Dry herpes on the hands and fingers ; they are rough and, itch.

[110] Lower. Rheumatic pains in the legs, knees, ankles and feet.

Varicose veins on the upper and lower legs.

Tension in the knee.

Formication in the calves.

Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the tendo Achilles.

[115] Stiffness of the ankles after sitting.

Weakness and trembling of the feet.

Paralysis of the feet.

Coldness of the feet at night.

Pulsating stitches in the toes.

[120] Painful chilblains on the feet.

Sleep.

Continuous desire to sleep, especially after meals, with yawning.

Unrefreshing sleep, disturbed by unpleasant dreams, with talking and loud crying out.

Generalities.

Violent trembling twitching of the whole body.

Pulsations through the whole body.

[125] Sensation of soreness in internal and external parts.

Twitching of children.

St. Vitus' dance.

Convulsions after a fright.

Rheumatic pains in the extremities, aggravated from becoming heated and from exertions of the body.

[130] The pains seem to be between the skin and flesh.

Tearing in the middle of the bones ; the limbs lose their hold, from the pain.

Fever.

Pulse small and rapid in the evening, slower in the morning and during the day.

Pulse at times intermitting.

Violent pulsations in the veins during the heat.

[135] Chill begins generally after eating and continues till late in the evening and during the night.

Chilliness in the open air and when touching a cold object.

Chills run down the back.

Chilliness on the approach of stormy weather.

Internal heat, with sensation of coldness in the abdomen and on the feet.

[140] Flushes of heat, with trembling and short, hot breath.

Profuse perspiration during the whole night, with inclination to uncover oneself.

Perspires easily during the day, on exercising.

Badly-smelling perspirations.

Skin.

Itching in the bends of the joints.

[145] Violent itching at night in bed, disappearing as soon as one touches himself.

Formication between the skin and flesh.

Sensation of coldness in the bones.

Rhagades.

Suppurating herpes.

[150] Varicose veins.

Conditions.

Most ailments appear after dinner and towards evening.

Aggravation after having eaten, from small quantities of wine, in the warm room.

Ameliorations, in the open air, while eating.

Chamomilla and Nux vomica cause restlessness at night and constipation ; and if they do so, Zincum will remove them, frequently.

ZINCUM METALLICUM

REGION:
BRAIN AND NERVES: Occiput. Spine. Orbital region.
Root of nose.
Blood.
Inner canthi.

WORSE:
EXHAUSTION; mental.
Suppressions.
Noise.
Touch.
Wine.
After being heated.

BETTER:
Motion
.
Hard pressure.
Warm open air.
FREE DISCHARGES.

Fagged, enervated or depressed; can't throw things off; develop exanthema or discharges, etc. Increasing weakness; < eating; with restlessness. Isolated effects; one part numb, another sensitive; formication; pain in spots; between skin and flesh, etc. Transverse pains. Automatic acts.

Tremor. Jerkings; nightly. Spasm. Shootings. Descending paralysis. Disabling bone pains. Bloody discharges.Fretful and sensitive; cries if vexed. Easily startled, excited or intoxicated. Muddled.

Forgetful; repeats the question, then answers. Brain-fag.

Screams; if moved; during sleep; with pain, etc. Violent vertigo; with stupor.

Headache of varying intensity; pressive on vertex or root of nose; into eyes; with weak vision; < warmth, > hard pressure. Temples; heavy ache in; pain, < biting. Occiput; dragging, down back; as of a blow on, then weak legs; heat in. Crashing in head on falling to sleep. Rolls head and grinds teeth. Brain paralysis. Hair painful; on vertex; bristles. Eyes feel drawn together. Squint. Lachrymation on eating. Pterygium. Swelled nose. Pale, bluish, miserable face. Sticky lips. Bitter mouth. Voracity. As of a lump in liver region or at navel. Hypogastric flatulence. Itching at anus during stool. Piles draw down, > heat < walking; ulcerate. Violent urging but urinates only in certain positions, bending backward, crossing limbs, etc.; blood follows urine. Pressive cutting about kidneys. Grasps genitals; with each cough, etc. Sexual excitement. Onanism; during menses. Profuse, lumpy menses. Pain (boring) in l. ovary. Spasmodic dyspnœa, < flatulency > expectoration. Bursting, one hard throb or as of a cap over heart. Hard heart beat. Constricted chest. Nape tired; < mental exertion; lame, then stupor.

Spine aching, burning along, < sitting; sensitive; inter-scapular cutting, > eructations; weak lumbar, < standing.

Spasms, from spinal injuries. Pains in limbs on becoming heated. Hands tremble; eczema on. CAN'T KEEP FEET AND LEGS STILL; cramp when cold. Toes feel swelled; sore; ache in tips. Sensitive soles. Bones of feet feel broken. Sweaty feet, with sore toes. Stumbling. Spastic gait. Varicoses; painful; chronic; on genitals. Broken, unrefreshing sleep.

 

REMEDY RELATION

Antidote: Tab.
Complementary: Pul.
Related: Ign. Kali-p. Lach. Pic-ac

Deathly sickness at the stomach with marked nausea.
Pallor of the body surface, with low fevers, inclining to coma.
Variableness of the symptoms.

Twitching of the members.

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"ZINCUM MET. corresponds to a depressed, exhausted and irritable condition of the nervous system, such as may arise from a variety of causes, principal among which are injuries, sexual excesses, mental exertion or trouble, insufficient food or exercise producing anaemia, exhausting diseases and affections of the uterus and its appendages."

By Dr. Bube Exhausted Nervous System

Remedy Profile

  • Type Remedy
  • Common Name HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
  • Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency

Second to sixth potency.

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