Palladium metallicum
Remedy of wounded pride and need for approval. Similar to Platina but wants admiration rather than looking down on others. Right ovarian pain. Better in company, worse after social events when alone. Egotism masked as modesty.
Source
Prepared from metallic palladium (Pd), triturated and potentised.
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Craves approval and flattery — feels better in company when receiving attention, then collapses when alone afterwards. Right ovarian pain extending to umbilicus. Wounded pride — easily feels slighted or neglected. Headache across top of head from ear to ear. Uterine prolapse. Mental excitement followed by depression.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Needs admiration and approval — craves company and social praise. Puts on a brave face in public then breaks down alone. Wounded ego — easily offended, slighted. Imagines she is neglected. Pride disguised as modesty. Puts others first then feels resentful. Keeps up appearances.
General Symptoms
Better from company, attention, flattery, rubbing. Worse after social exertion (when alone again), standing, exertion, after excitement. Right-sided.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Pain across top of head from ear to ear — as if a bar were laid across. Headache after disappointment or social exertion.
Female Genitalia
Right ovarian pain — cutting, shooting, extending to umbilicus. Soreness in pelvis. Uterine prolapse. Bearing-down. Leucorrhea. Subacute pelvic inflammation.
Extremities
Tired, aching. Weakness after exertion.
Modalities
Better From
Company, flattery, attention, rubbing, pressure, touch, after sleep
Worse From
After social exertion (when alone again), standing, mental exertion, evening
Constitutional Type
Women who crave approval and praise. Those who keep up appearances then collapse. Right ovarian types. Wounded ego.
Clinical Indications
Right ovaritis, uterine prolapse, wounded pride, need for approval, headache across vertex, depression after social events
Comparative Materia Medica
Platina is haughty and looks down on others; Palladium craves their approval. Both have genital and ovarian involvement. Pulsatilla also craves attention but is more openly weepy and yielding. Ignatia has wounded feelings but more contradictory symptoms.
Safety Information
Not well established.
Metallic palladium is essentially non-toxic and inert. Used in dentistry. Safe in all potencies.
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