Platinum muriaticum
Platinum dichloride (platinous chloride) · Mineral
Platinum Muriaticum is indicated in syphilitic affections, especially bone caries of the nose and tarsus, chronic gonorrhea, condylomata, and gastric carcinoma. The remedy combines platinum's constricting nervous character with the tissue-destroying action of chloride.
Key symptoms
- Caries of nasal bones and bones of tarsus, especially syphilitic
- Severe occipital headache with fever
- Metallic taste in mouth
- Nausea and inclination to vomit with stomach warmth and heaviness
- Violent itching on glans and prepuce with warmth and sticking
- Eruption on glans penis resembling commencing chancre, disappearing in twelve hours
- Fibrillary muscular twitchings
Chloride of Platinum. PtCl4. Solution.
Clinical
Caries. Chancre. Condyloma. Laryngismus. Mercury, abuse of. Œsophagus, stricture of. Stomach, cancer of.
Characteristics
Plat. mur. was experimented with by Hofer, of Pau, who applied locally a saturated solution and administered solutions internally. Fever, headache, constricting sensations and fibrillary twitchings were induced by internal doses; the local application produced acute irritation of the skin and glans penis, with an eruption on the latter like commencing chancre. Plat. mur. has been used in cases of caries (especially of nasal bones and bones of tarsus); of syphilitic caries; syphilitic rheumatism; chronic gonorrhœa; condylomata; gastric carcinoma; acne.
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