PLUMBUM METALLICUM- a snapshot

  • Affections more of emotions than of intellect
  • Slow insidious processes
  • Marasmus with large hard abdomen and constipation, in children
  • Impaired memory (compare ANACARDIUM, BARYTA CARB, LAC CANINUM)
  • Changeable incoherent symptoms in single parts
  • Exaggerates illness
  • Impulse to stretch
  • Inclined to cheat, deceive
  • Stiffness
  • Taciturn timid restless anxious
  • Fears assassination
  • Greasy oily shiny skin of face (NAT MUR, SELE, THUJA)
  • Tremors of nasolabial muscle
  • Fainting on going to a room full of people
  • Hysteria only when watched
  • Tendency to abortion
  • It feels as if there isn’t enough space for the foetus to grow
  • Stools
    • Constipation
    • Stool like sheep dung
    • Stools passed with colic
    • Cold sweat during stool
  • Paralysis
    • Touch < the part
    • Of single parts
    • Wrist drop
    • Loss of plantar reflexes
    • Lower limbs
  • Twitching pains and cramps
  • Cold feet during walking
  • Disposition to yawn and stretch
  • Convulsions/ cramps
    • With haemorrhage
    • Periodical
    • Or hyperaesthesia
  • Chronic epilepsy with marked aura
  • Physical labor exhaust the mind
  • Delirium
    • Nocturnal
    • Alternating with colic or pain in limbs
    • Alternating delirium and somnolence
  • Pain in atrophied limb alternating with colic
  • Skin
    • Skin of face oily greasy (compare NATRUM MUR, SANIC, SELENIUM, THUJA)
    • Skin dry and oversensitive
    • Dry burning ulcers
    • Distended veins on forearms and legs
  • Foetid food sweat
  • Falls asleep while speaking
  • Sclerosed spine with lightening like pains > pressure
  • Interstitial nephritis
    • With great pains in abdo
    • With cerebral symptoms and amaurosis
  • Intussusception
  • Strangulated hernias
  • Blue margins along gums
  • Tremors of tongue, can’t put it out
  • Eye
    • Glaucoma
    • Optic nerve inflamed
  • Very dry hair
  • Multiple sclerosis
    • Lightening pains exhorting cries
    • Rapid emaciation
  • Progressive muscular atrophy
  • Rapid and excessive emaciation
  • Paraesthesia or hyperaesthesia after pains