Iodum
Remedy of emaciation and glandular enlargement. Eats ravenously yet emaciates. Hot patient, worse from heat. Thyroid enlargement with rapid metabolism. Restless, anxious, must keep busy. Hard, enlarged glands everywhere.
Source
Prepared from elemental iodine (I2), dissolved in alcohol and potentised.
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Keynote Symptoms
Ravenous appetite yet progressive emaciation — eats all the time but wastes away. Better from eating, worse when hungry. Hot patient — intolerant of heat. Glandular enlargement and hardening (thyroid, lymph nodes, ovaries, testes). Restless, anxious, must be occupied. Trophic changes — everything atrophies except the glands.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Anxiety when quiet — must be busy, occupied. Impulsive. Present anxiety with fear of the future. Cross, irritable when hungry. Kills impulse — sudden destructive thoughts. Memory poor. Hurried. Better from occupation.
General Symptoms
Hot patient — worse from warmth, warm room, warm wrappings. Better from cold, eating, open air, motion. Ravenous hunger — must eat or becomes faint, irritable, anxious. Glandular enlargement. Emaciation of all tissues except glands.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Throbbing headache. Vertigo. Chronic congestive headache.
Eyes
Protruding (exophthalmos). Watering. Staring.
Throat
Thyroid enlarged — goitre. Hard. Graves' disease with exophthalmos, tachycardia, tremor. Sensation of constriction.
Stomach
Ravenous, insatiable hunger. Must eat frequently or becomes anxious. Throbbing in stomach. Empty feeling. Better immediately after eating.
Respiratory
Hoarseness. Dry croupy cough. Pneumonia with rapid emaciation. Laryngitis.
Chest
Tachycardia. Palpitation from least exertion. Heart feels squeezed. Cardiac hypertrophy.
Female Genitalia
Ovarian cysts. Ovaritis. Uterine hemorrhage. Leucorrhea — corrosive, excoriating. Atrophy of breasts. Menses irregular.
Male Genitalia
Testicular atrophy. Loss of sexual power. Orchitis.
Extremities
Emaciation. Trembling. Joint pains, worse from rest and warmth.
Skin
Dry, withered, yellow. Glandular swellings. Anasarca.
Modalities
Better From
Cold, eating, open air, motion, walking, occupation
Worse From
Warmth, warm room, rest, fasting, hunger, right side, quiet
Constitutional Type
Dark-complexioned, thin, emaciated individuals. Hot-blooded. Ravenous appetite. Glandular enlargement. Hyperthyroid tendency. Restless, anxious when idle.
Clinical Indications
Hyperthyroidism, Graves' disease, goitre, emaciation, glandular enlargement, ovarian cysts, tachycardia, ravenous appetite with weight loss
Comparative Materia Medica
Natrum muriaticum has emaciation and thyroid involvement but is more reserved and worse from consolation. Bromium has thyroid enlargement but fair-haired and better at sea. Spongia has thyroid but with more croupy cough. Phosphorus is thin but more sociable and thirsty.
Safety Information
Antimonium tartaricum, Arsenicum album, China, Coffea, Graphites, Gratiola, Hepar, Phosphorus, Sulphur. Starch antidotes chemically.
Elemental iodine is corrosive and toxic. Causes severe burns to mucous membranes, thyroid dysfunction, iodism (metallic taste, coryza, salivation, skin rash). Fatal dose ~2g. Use only potentised forms.
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