Indium metallicum
Indium (metal) · Mineral
Indium suits depressed, mentally tired individuals who cannot fix their thoughts, feel stupid and careless, and are irritable with headache. The male sexual sphere is markedly affected, with diminished power, frequent emissions, and sexual psychopathy. There is restlessness compelling movement despite general aggravation from motion.
Key symptoms
- Violent pain in the head when straining at stool
- Dull headache in temples and forehead with sleepiness and nausea
- Frequent nocturnal emissions; sexual desire and power diminished
- Horribly offensive smell of urine after standing a short time
- Uvula greatly enlarged, covered with thick yellow mucus
- Stiffness of neck and shoulders with rheumatic drawing
- Faintness at 11 a.m.
- Mental depression; does not care to work, feels stupid and careless
Worse (aggravation)
- Motion: walking, rising, sitting up, stooping, turning, moving eyes
- Warm room
- Evening (throat symptoms, headache)
- Morning and evening (rheumatic drawing in shoulders)
Better (amelioration)
- Out of doors and in cold air
- Drinking or washing in cold water
- Eating (morning headache better after eating)
- Throat symptoms better from eating and drinking cold water
The Metal Indium (INDIUM)
Headaches and migraine. Seminal emissions. Backache.
Head
Pain in head when straining at stool. Bursting in head during stool. Dull pains in temples and forehead, with nausea, weakness, sleepiness. Gone feeling in stomach about 11 am. Violent attack of sneezing. Sexual psychopathy.
Face
Painful suppurating pimples. Corners of mouth cracked and sore (Condur).
Male
Horribly offensive smell of urine after standing a short time. Emissions too frequent. Diminished power. Testicles tender; drawing pains along spermatic cord.
Throat
Uvula enlarged, ulcerated; thick, tough mucus in back part of pharynx. Worse evening.
Extremities
Stiffness in neck and shoulders. Pain, especially in left arm. Legs restless and weary. Toes itch (Agar).
Dose
Sixth to 200th potency.
Relationship
Compare: Selenium; Titanium (male sexual organs).
A metal. In. (A.W. 1137). Trituration of the pure metal.
Clinical
Backache. Epistaxis. Foot-sweat. Headache. Megrim. Pollutions. Sexual perversion. Sore throat. Throat, ulceration of. Uvula, enlarged; ulcerated.
Characteristics
Indium (which receives its name from the Indigo blue line in the spectrum through which its presence was discovered in Zinc-blende) is a rare metal, nearly like lead in appearance and in softness. It has been proved under the direction of Bell, mostly in the potencies, and the symptoms mark it out as allied in action to Selenium and Titanium in its general action, and particularly in the male sexual sphere. There is diminished power and control; frequency of nocturnal emissions; sexual dreams of perversion which should render it of service in some cases of sexual psycopathy. The mental condition of Indm. is one of depression, curiously not unlike that of Indigo, whose colour it shows in the spectrum. Headaches were very marked in the proving, and one notable symptom appears: …
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