Ferrum magneticum
Magnetite (Fe3O4) · Mineral
Ferrum Magneticum is indicated in patients with intestinal disorders, paralytic weakness, and rheumatism of the neck and joints. The remedy may be related to the sycotic constitution given the tendency to wart formation, and is useful in chronic rheumatism of the nape of the neck.
Key symptoms
- Weakness and lassitude after perspiring during moderate walk, seeming to arise from abdomen
- Abundant and frequent emission of fetid flatus especially on left side
- Pain in nape of neck with paralytic weakness
- Grumbling and movements in abdomen more on left side
- Small warts on hands
- Flatulence and pain in epigastrium during meal
Worse (aggravation)
- During a meal brings on flatulence and epigastric pain
- After a meal causes urgent diarrhoea and abdominal symptoms
Loadstone
Marked symptoms in intestinal tract. Pain in nape of neck. Paralytic weakness. Small warts on hands.
Stomach
During a meal, flatulence; afterwards lassitude taciturn and hot, pain in epigastrium, especially on breathing.
Abdomen
Movements and grumbling in abdomen. Loose evacuations with much flatulency, especially left side with pullings in legs. Abundant and frequent emission of fetid flatus.
Dose
Third potency.
Sesquioxide of Iron. Loadstone. A black oxide of iron. FeO Fe2 O3.
Clinical
Amaurosis. Diarrhœa. Flatulence. Ganglion. Rheumatism. Vision, disorders of. Warts. Whitlow.
Characteristics
Caspari is the authority for Fer. magnet. It produces paralytic weaknesses like the other Iron preparations, of which this is the most peculiar: "After perspiring during a moderate walk, weakness and lassitude, which seem to proceed from the abdomen." As with Ferrum, there is < during a meal; flatulency, grumblings, movements in abdomen; with urgent diarrhœa after a meal. The abdominal sufferings are felt more on the left side. Very abundant and frequent emission of fetid wind. Many rectal and urinary symptoms are recorded. The appearance of warts may indicate that Fer. magn. is related to the sycotic constitution.
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