Strontium bromatum
Strontium bromide · Mineral
Suited to middle-aged and elderly persons with chronic venous and circulatory insufficiency, particularly women who suffer from leg swelling, phlebitis, varicosis, and indigestion. The type is often debilitated, rheumatic, and easily fatigued, with a tendency to edema of the lower limbs and offensive urine.
Key symptoms
- Swollen, hard, tender legs with pitting edema
- Veins of legs prominent, inclining to inflame
- Indigestion with pain and sickness after food
- Urine thick, offensive, dark with red sand deposits
- Vertigo with momentary darkness over sight
- Cannot keep awake in the evening
- Rheumatic complaints with recurrent sciatica
- Restless sleep; bowels confined
Worse (aggravation)
- After eating (pain and nausea)
- Long-standing rheumatic or circulatory complaints
Bromide of Strontium. SrBr2. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Dyspepsia. Gravel. Legs, swollen. Phlebitis. Varicosis. Urine, offensive.
Characteristics
Cooper gives me the following experiences with Str. bro.: (1) A woman, 40, had tenderness of limbs, and veins of legs show up and incline to inflame (chronic cellulitis), left ankle inclined to swell; vertigo, at times darkness comes over sight; appetite not good, bowels regular, menses every three weeks, cannot keep awake in evening. Great relief came from Str. bro. 3x, but after taking it for ten days, severe ardor urinæ, with constant enuresis day and night, set in, which yielded to Ferr. phos. 6x., after failure with other remedies. (2) Woman, 60, had left leg and left foot swollen, hard and tender, red and pitting; right also but less in degree; indigestion with pain after food, and sickness after food for seven or eight years; is rheumatic and has had sciatica, off and on, for two years; bowels confined, sleep very restless generally. Str. bro. …
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