Palladium metallicum
Palladium · Palladium · Mineral
Palladium met. is most suitable for people who need approval and praise. They tend to interpret things in a self-centered light and constantly feel neglected, insulted, and unappreciated. Usually enjoying company, they behave in an attention-seeking, excited way, but may later collapse from exhaustion and fear of imagined slights.
The classic symptom picture for this remedy focuses on the uterus and ovaries. Ovarian pains and cysts tend to be right-sided. The pains are worse for jarring, after menstruation, and for excitement; and better for bending the legs and lying on the left side. The uterus may prolapse or become displaced, and an infection may develop in the abdomen.
Palladium met. may also be used to treat pains in the head and limbs, including headaches that develop across the top of the head from one ear to another. They are often accompanied by irritability and impatience. Tired, cold, or tense limbs may respond well to the remedy. In addition it is prescribed to ease the pain of sprained limbs.
Key symptoms
- An ovarian remedy; produces the symptom-complex of chronic Oophoritis.
- Useful where the parenchyma of the gland is not totally destroyed.
- Acts also on mind and skin.
- Feels as if swung backward and forward.
- Temporo-parietal neuralgia with pain in shoulder.
- Shooting pain from navel to pelvis.
- Sensation as if intestines were bitten off.
- Uterine prolapse and retroversion.
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
The Metal (PALLADIUM)
An ovarian remedy; produces the symptom-complex of chronic Oophoritis. Useful where the parenchyma of the gland is not totally destroyed. Acts also on mind and skin. Motor weakness, averse to exercise.
Mind
Weeping mood. Love of approbation. Pride; easily offended. Inclined to use violent language. Keeps up brightly when in company, much exhausted afterwards, and pains aggravated.
Head
Feels as if swung backward and forward. Temporo-parietal neuralgia with pain in shoulder. Pain across top of head from ear to ear; worse after an evening's entertainment, with irritability and sour eructations. Sallow complexion.
Abdomen
Shooting pain from navel to pelvis. Sensation as if intestines were bitten off. Intestines feel strangulated. Soreness of abdomen, swelling in right groin. Flatulency.
Female
Uterine prolapse and retroversion. Subacute pelvic peritonitis, with right-sided pain and backache; menorrhagia. Cutting pain in uterus; relieved after stool. Pain and swelling in region of right ovary. Shooting or burning pain in pelvis and bearing-down; relieved by rubbing. Soreness and shooting pain from navel of breast. Glairy leucorrhœa. Menstrual discharge while nursing. Stitches in right breast near nipple. It is indicated in that gynæcological condition where the disease had its inception in the right ovary, the uterine prolapse and retroversion, the subacute pelvic peritonitis and concomitant symptoms being secondary (F. Aguilar, M. D).
Extremities
Pruritus. Tired feeling in small of back. Fleeting, neuralgic pains in extremities, Heavy and tired in limbs. Darting pain from toes to hips. Rheumatic pain in right shoulder; in right hip. Sciatica.
Relationship
Complementary; Plat.
Compare: Arg; Helon; Lil; Apis.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.
Palladium. The Metal. Pd. (A. W. 106.5). Trituration.
Clinical
Constipation. Egotism. Eyelids, margins, blisters on. Headache. Hysteria. Leucorrhœa. Ovaries, affections of. Sciatica. Sexual power, diminished. Uterus, affections of; prolapse of. Warts.
Characteristics
Palladium, one of the rare metals, was first separated from native Platinum by Wollaston in 1803, and Was named after the planet Pallas, which had been discovered just before that time by Olbers. Hering, who made the first provings in 1850, says: "If we classify the Sulphides according to their solubility in dilute acids, Pallad. must be placed with Argentum, Rhodium, Ruthenium, and Osmium, and Platina remains with the less soluble Mercury, Aurum, and Iridium. Platinum and Palladium, both proved in dust form, showed such similarity in their effects that the question arose whether corresponding differences might be found. These data can only be furnished by frequent use of Pallad. in practice." Clinical experience has done …
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