Ferrum bromatum
Iron(II) bromide / ferrous bromide · Mineral
Ferrum Bromatum is indicated in spermatorrhoea with anaemia, debility, and depression, and in women with sticky excoriating leucorrhoea and uterine prolapse. The distinctive mental symptom is a sensation of impending death waking the patient at 2 a.m. on repeated mornings.
Key symptoms
- Dead, numb feeling of scalp extending from occiput to vertex
- Severe internal pressure in occiput pressing ears outward
- Head feels enlarged in all directions with ears seeming to protrude
- Sticky excoriating leucorrhoea with weight and discomfort in uterus
- Feeling of impending death waking patient at 2 a.m.
- Heavy feeling in eyes with drooping of lids
- Burning in urethra when urinating
Bromide of Iron. Fe Br2. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Headache. Leucorrhœa. Spermatorrhœa. Uterus, prolapse of.
Characteristics
Hale mentions this remedy as having been highly commended to him in cases of spermatorrhœa with anæmia, debility, and depression. It has been since proved by Dr. Sarah N. Smith, of New York, who took the sixth dilution of Boericke and Tafel's make (Amer. Hom., xxi. 302). It produced (in this order): Very distinct symptoms in the head and eyes; dry mouth and nose, relieved by coryza; a feeling that she might die; diarrhœa; burning in urethra when urinating; sticky, excoriating leucorrhœa weight and discomfort in uterus. The symptoms which made the most impression on the prover were the "dead, numb" feeling of the scalp; the unconscious moaning after stool; and the sticky, excoriating leucorrhœa. The heaviness and discomfort in the uterus was so severe that she declined to continue the proving as it interfered with her work.
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