Zincum Metallicum

Zincum Metallicum
The following are the indications of Zincum Metallicum, as it relates to this part. Strongest indications are in bold, the next strongest are in italics, and the remaining indications are in a plain typeface.

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.

mind, behaviour, shrieking, during sleep;

mind, behaviour, shrieking, on waking;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, irritability, evening;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, mood, alternating mood;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, mood, changeable, variable mood;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, excessively religious (see anxiety, despair, fear);

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, sensitive, oversensitive, to noise;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, sensitive, oversensitive, to noise, voices;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, unhappy, lamenting, regretting, moaning, groaning;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, unhappy, sadness, mental depression;

mind, intellectual faculties, impaired thinking, dull, sluggish;

mind, restlessness, nervousness;

mind, talking, conversation, dislike of talking, desire to be silent, taciturn, evening;

mind, talking, conversation, torments everyone by talking about complaints;

mind, unconsciousness, when skin out breaks from disease are slow to appear;

HEAD

Feels as if he would fall to left side

Hydrocephalus

Rolls head from side to side

Bores head into pillow

Automatic motion of head and hands

Forehead cool, base of brain hot

Roaring in head

Starting in fright.

Headache from the smallest quantity of wine

Occipital pain, with weight on vertex

Brain-fag, headaches of overtaxed school children

head, pain, headache, air, open (see walking in open air);

head, pain, headache, affected by certain foods and drinks (improved, brought on or aggravated), from wine;

head, pain, headache, from emotions, nervous;

head, pain, headache, sides, one side;

head, pain, headache, bursting, forehead;

head, pain, headache, tearing, rending, sides of head;

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.

eye, dryness;

eye, dryness, morning;

eye, dryness, evening;

eye, growth, tumour, tumours, tarsal tumours;

eye, inflammation, during period;

eye, pain, evening;

eye, pain, night;

eye, pain, burning, smarting, gnawing, biting;

eye, pain, burning, smarting, gnawing, biting, morning;

eye, pain, burning, smarting, gnawing, biting, afternoon;

eye, pain, burning, smarting, gnawing, biting, evening;

eye, pain, as from something in eye, like sand in eye, evening;

eye, pain, as from something in eye, like sand in eye, night;

eye, pain, pressing, morning;

eye, pain, sore, bruised, tender;

eye, pain, sore, bruised, tender, corner, inner;

eye, pain, stitching, sudden, sharp, corner, inner;

eye, tears, evening;

eye, tears, night;

eye, wine;

vision, foggy;

EARS

Tearing, stitches, and external swelling

Discharge of fetid pus.

hearing, too sensitive, to noises;

hearing, too sensitive, voices and talking;

FACE

PALE lips, and corners of mouth cracked

Redness and itching eruptions on chin

Tearing in facial bones.

NOSE

Sore feeling high up, pressure upon root.

MOUTH

Difficult dentition, child weak, cold and restless feet.

Teeth loose

Gums bleed

Gnashing of teeth

mouth, teeth, looseness;

mouth, teeth, pain, molars;

mouth, teeth, pain, upper teeth;

mouth, teeth, pain, lower teeth;

Blisters on tongue

Bloody taste

THROAT

Dry, constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus

Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx

Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing.

throat, external throat, uncovering throat;

CHEST

chest, breast, milk, absent;

chest, lungs, tuberculosis;

chest, pain, sore, bruised, before and during period;

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

Dyspnoea better as soon as expectoration appears.

respiration, difficult (dyspnea), before period;

COUGH

cough, drinking, wine;

cough, dry cough, morning, before period;

cough, dry cough, after measles, before period;

cough, dry cough, after measles, before period, morning;

cough, dry cough, during measles;

cough, in women, before period, morning;

EXPECTORATION

expectoration, bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage), morning, during period;

expectoration, bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage), before period;

expectoration, bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage), during period;

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 anaemic and neurotic

Itching of thighs and Hollow of knees

retrocession of eruptions.

skin, out-breaks on skin, pimples;

skin, out-breaks on skin, scarlet fever, receding;

skin, out-breaks on skin, suppressed;

skin, becomes sore when lying down, feeling;

BACK AND NECK

nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion

back, pain, aching, neck, evening;

back, pain, aching, neck, while writing;

back, weakness (tired feeling, in spine), neck, while writing;

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 vertebrae, worse sitting

burning along spine

Tearing in shoulder-blades.

back, cracking, lumbar (lower half of back), while walking;

back, pain, while sitting;

back, pain, coccyx (bottom tip of spine);

back, pain, spine;

back, pain, spine, irritation;

back, pain, aching, while sitting;

back, pain, burning, while sitting;

back, pain, burning, spine, while sitting;

back, weakness (tired feeling, in spine);

back, weakness (tired feeling, in spine), while sitting;

ABDOMEN

Burning in stomach, heartburn from sweet things

Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine

ravenous hunger about 11 A.M ( Sulph.) Great greediness when eating, cannot eat fast enough

Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed.

Pain in spot beneath naevi

Gurgling and griping, distended

Flatulent colic, with retraction of abdomen ( Plumb.) Enlarged, indurated sore liver

Reflex symptoms from floating kidney

Griping after eating.

abdomen, pain, cramping, griping, after breakfast;

abdomen, pain, cutting, after breakfast;

abdomen, pain, pressing, behind lower ribs, after eating;

abdomen, bladder, paralysis;

abdomen, bladder, paralysis, in hysterical people;

abdomen, bladder, retention of urine (see urination delayed), in hysteria;

abdomen, bladder, urination, delayed, difficult, can only pass urine while sitting;

Pain after a light meal, with tympanitis

abdomen, pain, cramping, griping, after dinner;

abdomen, pain, cutting, after dinner;

abdomen, stomach, nausea, after drinking, wine;

Stomach, Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus

RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Hard, small, constipated stool

Cholera infantum, with tenesmus, green mucous discharges

Sudden cessation of diarrhoea, followed by cerebral symptoms.

stool, dry;

stool, hard;

GENITALS ETC

Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards

Hysterical retention

Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing.

urine, sediment;

urine, sediment, clay-coloured;

urine, sediment, sand;

Male, Testicles swelled, drawn up

Drawing in testicles up to spermatic cord.

genitals, male, pain, pressing, testes;

Erections violent

Emissions with hypochondriasis

Falling off of hair (pubic)

Female, Ovarian pain, Especially left, can’T keep still ( viburn.) Nymphomania of lying-in women

Nipples sore

genitals, male, ejaculation, too soon, premature;

genitals, male, sexual passion, increased;

genitals, male, sexual passion, increased, excessive;

genitals, male, sexual passion, increased, easy excitement of passion;

genitals, male, sexual passion, violent;

genitals, female, pain, boring, ovaries;

genitals, female, pain, boring, ovaries, left;

genitals, female, sexual intercourse, desire increased, forcing to masturbation;

Menses too late, suppressed, lochia suppressed ( Puls.) Breasts painful

Menses flow more at night ( Bov.) Complaints all Better during menstrual flow ( Eupion, Lach.) All the female symptoms are associated with restlessness, depression, col

Dry cough before and during menses.

genitals, female, pain, womb (see abdomen, pain), before period;

EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

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.

extremities, limbs, hands and feet, chilblains, feet;

extremities, limbs, movements and positions, jerking, during sleep;

extremities, limbs, movements and positions, jerking, lower limbs;

extremities, limbs, movements and positions, jerking, lower limbs, during sleep;

extremities, limbs, numbness (see tingling), while lying down;

extremities, limbs, numbness (see tingling), upper limbs;

extremities, limbs, numbness (see tingling), wrist;

extremities, limbs, numbness (see tingling), wrist, in measles;

extremities, limbs, pain, foot, heel, after drinking wine;

extremities, limbs, pain, boring, foot, heel, after drinking wine;

extremities, limbs, pain, burning, leg, shin;

extremities, limbs, pain, pulling, hip;

extremities, limbs, pain, sore, bruised, toes, between toes;

extremities, limbs, pain, stitching, sudden, sharp, joints;

extremities, limbs, pain, stitching, sudden, sharp, joints, transversely;

extremities, limbs, pain, stitching, sudden, sharp, thigh, transverse;

extremities, limbs, pain, stitching, sudden, sharp, thigh, above the knee, transverse;

extremities, limbs, pain, tearing, joints;

extremities, limbs, pain, tearing, shoulder;

extremities, limbs, pain, tearing, upper arm;

extremities, limbs, pain, tearing, knee;

extremities, limbs, perspiration, foot;

extremities, limbs, perspiration, foot, suppressed;

extremities, limbs, perspiration, toes, between toes, causing rawness;

extremities, limbs, restlessness;

extremities, limbs, restlessness, night;

extremities, limbs, restlessness, lower limbs;

extremities, limbs, restlessness, lower limbs, leg;

extremities, limbs, restlessness, lower limbs, leg, evening;

extremities, limbs, restlessness, lower limbs, feet;

extremities, limbs, restlessness, lower limbs, feet, evening, in bed;

extremities, limbs, restlessness, lower limbs, feet, while sitting;

extremities, limbs, skin, chicken pox (see swelling), lower limbs;

extremities, limbs, skin, chicken pox (see swelling), leg;

extremities, limbs, skin, skin cracks at bends of joints, hands (see chapping);

extremities, limbs, skin, itching, knee, bend of knee;

extremities, limbs, skin, out-break on skin, hand, herpes;

extremities, limbs, weakness, lower limbs;

FEVER AND CHILL

Frequent, febrile shiverings down back

Cold extremities

Night-sweat

Profuse sweat on feet.

chill, external;

chill, stormy weather;

fever, continued fever, dazed from fever;

GENERALITIES

generalities, lethargic, tired;

Cries out during sleep, body jerks, wakes frightened, startled

Nervous motion of feet when asleep

Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it

Somnambulism ( Kali-phos.)

generalities, convulsions, children;

generalities, convulsions, when out-breaks on skin fail to break out;

generalities, convulsions, when measles-like rash repelled or do not appear;

generalities, afternoon;

generalities, evening;

generalities, night;

generalities, eating and food, after breakfast;

generalities, eating and food, eating;

generalities, eating and food, after eating;

generalities, jerking, muscles;

generalities, pain, gnawing, biting;

generalities, pain, burning externally, internally;

generalities, pain, burning externally, bones;

generalities, pain, cutting, internally;

generalities, pain, pressing, internally;

generalities, pain, sudden, sharp, externally;

generalities, pain, tearing, externally;

generalities, pain, tearing, muscles;

generalities, pain, tearing, muscles, sticking in muscles;

generalities, paralysis, in chronic indigestion;

generalities, in women, symptoms before period;

generalities, in women, symptoms during period;

generalities, pulse, frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid;

generalities, during sleep;

generalities, trembling, externally;

generalities, twitching;

generalities, twitching, twitching, involuntary movements (chorea), during period;

generalities, twitching, here and there;

generalities, twitching, during sleep;

generalities, twitching, of tendons;

generalities, uncovering;

generalities, weariness (see weakness);

generalities, wine;