Osmium
Mineral
Osmium suits individuals with marked irritation and catarrh of the entire respiratory tract, particularly laryngitis with painful convulsive cough worse from talking. It is also indicated in glaucoma with iridescent vision and in skin conditions including eczema and offensive axillary perspiration.
Key symptoms
- Acute laryngitis with tough, stringy mucus expectoration
- Noisy, hard, dry convulsive cough in violent short bursts shaking the whole body
- Pain in larynx on talking
- Glaucoma with iridescent vision and green colors around candlelight
- Coryza with full feeling in nose; nose and larynx sensitive to cold air
- Eczema with pruritus and itching pimples
- Axillary bromidrosis smelling of garlic, worse evening and night
- Feels as if a band around the head
- Falling off of hair
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse from talking (pain in larynx)
- Worse in the evening and at night (axillary odour)
- Worse from cold air (nose and larynx sensitive)
The Element
Irritation and catarrh of respiratory organs. Eczema. Albuminuria. Pain in trachea. Increases and gives odor to local perspiration. Causes adhesion of the nail fold.
Head
Feels as if a band around head. Falling off of hair (Kali carb; Fluor ac).
Nose
Coryza, with full feeling in nose. Nose and larynx sensitive to air. Small lumps of phlegm from posterior nares.
Eyes
Glaucoma; with iridescent vision. Violent supra and infra-orbital neuralgia; violent pains and lachrymation. Green colors surround candle-light. Conjunctivitis. Increase in intra-ocular tension, dim sight, photophobia.
Respiratory
Acute laryngitis; cough and expectoration of tough, stringy mucus. Convulsive cough; feels as though membrane were torn from larynx. Noisy, dry, hard, cough, in violent short bursts, coming from low down, shaking the whole body. Talking causes pain in larynx. Hoarse; pain in larynx; sore sternum. Twitching of fingers, with spasmodic cough.
Skin
Eczema, with pruritus. Irritated skin. Itching pimples. Bromidrosis, sweat in axilla smelling of garlic, worse evening and night. Fold remains attached to growing nail.
Relationship
Compare: Argent; Iridium; Selen; Mangan.
Dose
Sixth potency.
OSMIUM. The Element. Os. (A. W. 190.3). Trituration of the precipitated metal.
Clinical
Asthma. Bronchitis. Cold, liability to. Coryza. Cough, spasmodic. Eczema. Erections. Glaucoma. Headache. Hernia. Herpes iris. Larynx, pain in. Penis, sores on. Pollutions. Post-nasal bleeding. Post-nasal growths. Spermatic cords, pains in. Sternum, pain in. Syphilis. Syphilitic eruptions. Testicles, pains in. Tongue, sore. Trachea, pain in.
Characteristics
Osmium is a metal of the Platinum group, in association with which it is always found. It is the heaviest of them all and the most refractory, having never been fused. It derives its name (όσμή odour) from the pungent odour of the fumes of Osmic acid, which are evolved in the process of separating Platinum from its ore, and the effects of which have supplied a number of valuable symptoms in cases recorded by J. G. Blackley (C. D. P.). In the arts it is used in the alloy with iridium (Iridosmium or Osmiridium) for making the tips of gold pens. Triturations …
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