Niccolum metallicum
Nickel · Mineral
Niccolum Metallicum suits debilitated, nervous, literary or intellectual persons with weak digestion, constipation, and recurring periodic headaches. The patient tends to asthenopia and catarrhal complaints of the nose and throat. There is a prominent craving to sit upright during respiratory symptoms with great sensitivity of the throat externally to touch.
Key symptoms
- Periodical nervous sick headaches; pain on top as from a nail; migraine first on left side
- Pressure on vertex worse till noon and in warm room
- Nasal catarrh with violent sneezing; acute pain at root of nose extending to vertex
- Empty feeling in epigastrium without desire for food; acute gastralgia extending to shoulder
- Intense hiccough; diarrhoea and tenesmus after milk
- Obliged to sit up and hold head while coughing; must put arms on thighs
- Profuse leucorrhoea worse after urinating and after menses
- Itching all over worse on neck, not relieved by scratching
Worse (aggravation)
- Warm room (headache)
- Morning until noon (vertex pressure)
- After urinating (leucorrhoea)
- After menses
- Milk (diarrhoea and tenesmus)
Metallic Nickel (NICCOLUM)
Periodical nervous sick headaches, with asthenopia, weak digestion, constipation. Catarrh. Suits debilitated, nervous, literary patients, with frequent headaches, dyspepsia and constipation.
Head
Cracking in cervical vertebræ when moving the head. Pain on top as from a nail. Pressure on vertex, in morning; worse till noon and in warm room. Stitches. Objects appear too large. Migraine; first on left side. Twitching of upper lip.
Nose
Violent sneezing; stopped up. Nasal catarrh, with redness and swelling at tip of nose. Acute pain at root of nose, extending to vertex and through temples.
Throat
Sore, right side with great tenderness; soreness to touch externally. Strangulated feeling.
Gastric
Gone, empty feeling in epigastrium, without desire for food. Acute gastralgia with pains extending to shoulder. Thirst and intense hiccough. Sour, fetid secretions ooze from molar teeth. Diarrhœa and tenesmus after milk.
Female
Menses late, scanty, with great debility and burning in eyes. Profuse leucorrhœa; worse, after urinating (Mag mur, Plat); also worse after menses.
Respiratory
Hoarseness. Dry, hacking cough, with stitches in chest. Obliged to set up and hold head. Must put arms on thighs, when coughing.
Skin
Itching all over, worse on neck, not relieved by scratching.
Modalities
Worse, periodically, every two weeks; yearly, forenoon. Better, in evening.
Dose
Third trituration.
Niccolum metallicum. Metallic Nickel. Ni. (A.W. 58.6). Trituration. Niccolum carbonicum. Carbonate of Nickel. NiCO3. Trituration.
Clinical
Asthenopia. Clavus. Cough. Dysmenia. Face, chapped. Headache; nervous; periodic. Hiccough. Migraine. Nasal catarrh. Neck, cracking in. Ophthalmia. Speech, impeded. Throat, sore. Tongue, stiff. Toothache. Vision, impaired. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics
Nickel is found associated with Cobalt. It is said to have received its name (Nickel, the devil) from the miners, who considered it "false ore" as they were mining for copper. The word Cobalt (Kobold) has possibly a similar derivation. Nickel forms the chief ingredient in the alloy known as "German silver." It was proved by Nenning, and the pathogenesis contains some striking symptoms, many of which have been confirmed. Sir James Y. Simpson used the Sulphate of Nickel (NiSO4) in "periodic headaches of a very severe character," and the provings show that the metal and the carbonate are equally appropriate in this connection. H. …
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