Thyroiodinum
Sarcode
Thyroiodinum is indicated for goiter, especially with compressive symptoms causing dyspnea, hoarseness, and whistling breathing, and for simple obesity with associated fatigue and vertigo. Its primary action is to reduce thyroid enlargement and promote diuresis with loss of weight. It is complementary and closely related to Thyroidinum.
Key symptoms
- Goiter with enlargement of all lobes; hard and resistant nodules becoming elastic and smaller
- Compression of neck causing dyspnea, whistling respiration, hoarseness, dry cough, vertigo
- Obesity with vertigo, dyspnea, and weariness; reduction of weight under treatment
- Increased and abundant urine without albumen
- Cystic swelling of thyroid gland
Iodothyrinum. Trituration.
Clinical
Goître. Obesity. Urine, increase of.
Characteristics
Thyroiodine is now more generally named Iodothyrine, but I retain the former as more convenient. Hoenigschmied (Aerz. Cent. Zeit., No. 6, 1900, quoted A. H., xxvii. 211) says of it that it is present in only small quantities in the thyroid of the sheep. It is completely free from albuminous substances, stable, and directly assimilated. The iodine exists in organic combination, and Thyri. contains 0.003 parts of Iodine to every gramme. The general effects of the drug are─increased secretion of urine and corresponding loss of flesh. Hœnigschmied gives two cases: (1) Labourer, 42, for several years had enlargement and induration of all lobes of thyroid, the enlargement causing compression of the structures of the neck, dyspnœa, whistling respiration, hoarseness, short, dry cough, vertigo. Thyri., 5-grain tablets, one every evening; at the end of a week twice daily. After using twenty-five tablets the gland was …
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