Cobaltum metallicum
Cobalt · Mineral
Cobaltum metallicum is adapted to neurasthenic individuals with spinal weakness and sexual debility. The patient suffers from constant interchange of mental moods, backache worse while sitting, and seminal emissions with associated weakness of the back and legs.
Key symptoms
- Adapted to neurasthenic spinal states with sexual disturbances
- Fatigue, agitation, and bone pains worse in morning
- Headache worse bending head forward; itching of hairy scalp and beard
- Constant dropping of blood from anus, no blood from the stools
- Pain in right testicle better from urinating; emissions without erection; impotence
- Backache in lumbar region and weak legs after emissions
- Pain in back and sacrum worse while sitting; better walking or lying
- Weak knees, trembling in limbs, tingling in feet, foot-sweat between toes
- Lewd dreams disturbing sleep
- All mental excitement increases suffering
Worse (aggravation)
- Morning (fatigue, agitation, bone pains)
- Bending head forward (headache)
- While sitting (back and sacrum pain)
- Mental excitement increases all suffering
Better (amelioration)
- Walking (back and sacrum pain)
- Lying down (back and sacrum pain)
- Urinating (pain in right testicle)
The Metal Cobalt (COBALTUM)
Adapted to neurasthenic spinal states. Sexual disturbances. Fatigue, agitation, and bone pains, worse in morning.
Mind
All mental excitement increases suffering. Constant interchange of mental moods.
Head
Aches; worse, bending head forward. Itching of hairy scalp and beard.
Teeth
Feel too long. Pain in teeth. Cracks across tongue. Coated white (Ant cr).
Abdomen
Shooting in liver. Pain in spleen.
Rectum
Constant dropping of blood from the anus, no blood from the stools.
Male
Pain in right testicle; better, urinating. Emissions without erection. Impotence. Backache in lumbar region and weak legs. Lewd dreams. Pain in end of urethra; greenish discharge; brown spots on genitals and abdomen.
Back
Pain in back and sacrum; worse while sitting; better, walking or lying. Weakness in legs and backache after emissions.
Extremities
Aching in wrist-joints. Shooting into thighs from liver. Weak knees. Trembling in limbs. Tingling in feet. Foot-sweat, mostly between toes.
Sleep
Unrefreshing; disturbed by lewd dreams.
Skin
Dry and pimply. Pimples about nates, chin, hairy scalp.
Relationship
Compare: Cannab. Ind; Sepia; Zinc; Agnus; Selen.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.
Cobalt. Co. (A. W. 58.6). Trituration.
Clinical
Constipation. Eye, affections of. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhages. Headache. Impotence. Liver disorders. Lumbago. Masturbation, effects of.
Characteristics
The most characteristic symptom of Cobalt is a very pronounced backache < sitting; > rising up, walking, or lying down. Backache with seminal emissions. Other symptoms are: Frequent nocturnal emissions; with lewd dreams; With partial or no erections; impotence. Headache < bending head forward (Clematis < bending head backward). Pimples on the head and elsewhere; itching of the skin when warm in bed at night. Smarting, darting pains in eyes. Lachrymation in open air. Pain in hollow tooth, which feels too long and is sensitive to touch. Tongue thickly coated white; cracks across middle. No appetite for supper. Urine has strong pungent smell. Drowsiness; unrefreshing sleep. Sitting and stooping <; Lying down, rising from sitting, walking >. Most symptoms are < morning. Cold air = lachrymation, and < pain in teeth. Warmth of bed = itching all over. Jarring < headache.
Neck and Back
Aching pains in small of back, or in spine, worse while sitting, better on rising, walking or lying down.
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