IODUM [Iod]:

- Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.

Iodine

Region

Nutrition

Metabolism

Glands

Liver. Spleen

Pancreas

THYROID

Testes.Prostate

Mesenteric

Mammae

Sebacious

Lymphatic

Mucous

membranes

LARYNX

Lungs (r. apex) or base

HEART.

Blood vessels

Skin. Nerves

Connective tissue

R. side

Worse

HEAT

Warm damp weather

Room. Air. Sun

Wraps. Fire. Bath

Exertion

Ascending

Talking

Fasting. Overeating

Night. Morning

After midnight and noon

Rest. Lying down (dyspnea)

Touch. Pressure

Motion (headache)

Mercury. Quinine. Lead

Nervous shock; grief

bad news , worries

disappointed love

Moon changes

Fats. Heavy food

Better

COLD

AIR.Room

Bathing

Milk

(Constipation)

Open air

Fanning

Motion. Exertion

Occupation

Eating

Walking about,

in open air

Sitting up

Sleep

Sweat

Accelerated. Glandular. Tubercular. Exudative

Toxic. Cachectic. Atrophic. Gouty. Hot. Cancerous

All iodides are nutrition remedies, and therefore germane to scrofula, vegetative disturbances, diabetes, glandular troubles (including endocrinal), indurations, fissures, tumors, phthisis, cancer, arteriosclerosis, even thrombosis, cataract, leprosy, osteomalacia, necrosis.

All iodides are great "absorbents of drains"; they busy themselves in dissolving accretions; second only to fluroides.Thus they are indispensable in the last-repair-stage of constitutional treatments (overhauling) e.g. in diabetes, t.b., gout etc.

The Halogens (Iodides, Fluorides, Chlorides and Bromides) cover all the four miasms (though with syphilis uppermost, like Syph.). They are active, intense, warm blooded and are powerful irritant of mucous membranes.

Make-up : Dark hair (light hair, Brom.); dark yellow tawny skin; exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, black eyed with enlarged lymphatic glands. Patient with a history of goitre in the family or partially cured goitre in themselves.Tubercular type. Oxygenoid. Haggard, hungry and hot. Young persons who grow too rapidly, with weak chest. The aged. Warm-blooded notwithstanding emaciation. Intolerance of external heat (due to increased oxidation); wants a cool place to move, think, read, write and work in.

Children : Alert. Intense restlessness, fidget. Sudden impulsive irritability; break out suddenly (for no apparent cause) into violence. Florid thin with rheumatic troubles.

Highlights : Intensely rapid action. Rapid acceleration of the pace of disease processes; acute as well as chronic; finally ultimating in atrophy. Rapid metabolism (oxidation, combustion, wasting). Diseases characterized by a loss of absorption. Rapid deterioration.

Sluggish vital reaction; hence chronicity in many of its aspects. Acute exacerbations of chronic inflammations. Tendency to congestion. Local torpidity; little or no pus. Painlessness.

Low cachectic conditions with profound debility and emaciation in overgrown boys with weak chests. Great emaciation in spite of voracious appetite and voluminous eating, ''it makes them poor to carry it.''

Tissues

Glands : Hypertrophy of all glands; thyroid, testes, ovaries, prostate, lymph nodes (except mammary which later on dwindle). Nodular. Hard. Swollen and indurated glands after bruises; with cancer. Torpor and sluggishness of glands. Painless glandular swellings. Cold swellings. Scirrhous swelling of inguinal glands. Tabes mesenterica; mesenteric glands felt as knots. Simple goitre. Cervical adenitis (tubercular). "While the body withers, the glands enlarge." Glands grow in proportion to the dwindling of the body and emaciation of the limbs. Growths : New growths and hyperplasias. Scrofulous and syphilitic indurations, effusions and tumors. Lymphatic tumors in various parts. Ovarian cysts. Cervical and uterine cancer. Sarcoma; conjunctivae. Hepatoma. Irradiated cancers with Iod. symptoms, Rad-iod.

Mucous Membranes : Exudative; or dry. Exudation : grayish (ash- colored); white velvety; plastic; membranous; fibrinous. Acute inflammations; throat, liver, spleen, intestines, kidneys, eyes, glands. Discharges: hot, acrid, watery, fetid. Pus: thin, ichorus, salty.

Atrophy : The end result of all pathological processes. Of breasts, uterus, ovaries, testes, sub-cutaneous fat, nerve and brain tissue; glands; old people. Atrophic catarrh of MM.

Emaciation : Withered oldish look. Infant loses flesh, gets marasmus even without apparent (or substantial) cause; though eating well. E. of single parts; gradual or rapid; almost to a skeleton. Cachexia; stemming from tubercular dispositon (Ars- i.,Carb-s.); malarial; quinine (Nat-m.).

Tension : In abdomen, testicles, neck, chest, throat.

Blood : Congestions. Ecchymosis. Hemorrhages (from nose, bowels, lungs, uterus). Pernicious anemia.

Dropsy : Oedema pedis, hands; face (below eyes); cardiac; hepatic; renal; knees; anasarca.

Joints : Arthritis; deformans. Gout.

Bones : Rickets. Curvature of bones. Nightly bone pains. Necrosis. Caries. Osteomalacia.

Nerves

Powerful excitement of all nervous system. The nervous system is affected (secondary to absorption). The state of erethism : nervousness; restlessness; twitching; subsultus tendinum; trembling.

Weakness : Excessive. Fainting, on going upstairs. Loss of power to breathe. Cardiac. Tubercular. (<)morning ; during menses (Carb-an.). W. when hungry ; (>) eating.

Locomotor ataxia (tabes dorsalis); gait unsteady, hand does not reach straight.

Abdominal reflex, chorea.

Injuries : Cellular inflammation often following a punctured, incised and slight wound. Abscess at umbilicus after a fall, child voracious and emaciating.

Mind : Apprehension : Fear of people; shuns every one even the doctor; thinks he is well. While passing in the street he tries to avoid meeting his best friend. Fears everything will result in some disaster. Apprehends an accident from every trifle. Feels unfit for anything. Unbearable apprehension about nothing at all; waiting in terror for an expected telephone ring; undesirable restlessness and apprehension for no cause. Fears he will go crazy.

Anxiety : A peculiar kind of physical and mental anxiety that comes on if he tries to keep still, and the more he tries to keep still, the more the state of anxiety takes hold of him. Anxiety with a thrill that necessitates a change of positon or place. A wander- lust, a vagrant (like Arg-n., San., Sul., Tub.). Travelling is to him a tonic(Kali-i.). Must keep in motion day and night, otherwise he is overwhelmed with destructive impulses.

Impatience; never sits down nor sleeps at night. "If I rest, I will go mad." Restless agitation. Great hurry, worry and flurry (Medo.). Impatience; feels cannot act fast enough for want of strength; hence is keen to finish off before. Wants to execute or express all their ideas and thoughts at once. Present anxiety and depression; no reference to the future. Anxiety for others, little about oneself.

Impulsiveness : Sudden dreadful impulses to run and to do violence; to kill oneself or others ; beats or quarrels without any rhyme or reason; constantly must be on the move or do something; lest he may kill somebody, destroy things etc. Finds his escape through work ; sluggish notwithstanding inclined to mechanical labour. Threatened insanity. Impulsive insanity.

Mind very sensitive; wants to cry. Scrupulous and timid with blunted sensibilities. Fastidious. Dejected or intolerably cross. Every little nervous annoyance causes trembling. An internal agitation like that which follows bad news or remorse after a quarrel, with inability to fix attention. Melancholy. Hypochondriasis. Illusions of moral feelings. Forgetful. Despondent.

After nervous shock (disappointment in love, grief etc.) : loss of appetite, vomiting, emaciation, loathing of life, stupor.

Select Particulars

Head : Chronic congestive vertigo of the aged; with prostate hypertrophy. (<) stooping, in warm room, rising from a seat, active exertion; (>) eating. V. with red face, palpitation, hysteria, nervousness.

Headache mostly on the l. side with paralytic feeling in arms; (<) heat, motion, noise, speech, from scanty urine; (>)eating. H. alternating with dysmenorrhea and metrorrhagia.

Apoplexy : chronic congestion to brain from hypertrophy of r. ventricle or from compression of blood vessels around neck from struma.

Acute hydrocephalus. Tubercular meningitis; patient glandular. Meningitis may develop after iodoform application on wounds.

Atrophy of nerve and brain tissue.

Hair falls out. Iodine (e.g. in fish) makes hair beautiful.

Eyes: Ophthalmia, esp. from taking cold. Catarrhal, scrofulous affections of the eyes. Lids oedematous. Violent lachrymation. Enlargement of little glands of lids. Sclera dirty yellow. Iritis, esp. if syphilitic. Ulceration of cornea. Acute dacryocystitis. Eye troubles of nephritis (retinopathy).

Eyelids (esp.r.) so contracted that it looks like looped into a festoon. Eyes prominent. Staring with wide open eyes; lids seem to be retracted. Pupils dilated. Convulsive movements and quivering of the eyes; of the (lower) eyelids.

Vision : Dimness of vision after application of iodine to any part of the body. Diplopia. Sparks and scintillations before the eyes.

Ears : Chronic catarrh of the eustachian tube, tonsils inflamed. Deafness, chronic; after glandular or throat affections, adenoids. Adhesions in the M. E. or granular enlargement. Reverberations in head. Noises: roaring; as in a mill.

Nose: A confirmed subject of catarrh. Subject to colds in the head. Subacute and chronic catarrhs. Cold extends downwards from head to throat and bronchi. Dry coryza becomes fluent in open air ; also a fluent hot coryza with general heat of skin. Nose red and swollen; much sneezing. Discharge: fetid, grayish, whitish. Pain at root of nose and frontal sinus; influenzal.

Ulceration in nose with bleeding crusts; carious ulceration (ozaena). Loss of smell. Acute nasal engorgement with HBP.

Face: Miserable, withered, brownish, sallow or dusky look. Greasy. Circumscribed redness in chest affections. Lips bluish, with swelling of superficial veins. Oedematous swelling of face under eyes. Mumps.

Mouth : Gums : loose and bleed easily. Little blisters. Absorption of gums and alveolar processes. Aphthous patches in whole buccal cavity. Ulcers: painful, ash colored, inflamed, bleed easily. Profuse fetid ptyalism. Salivation : mercurial; sweetish; with liver, spleen, pancreatic troubles; during pregnancy.

Tongue : white at edges, brown on centre; hard, furred. Biting constriction of tongue, changing to burning.

Stammering from incomplete control of tongue.

Throat : Swollen submaxillary glands. Uvula swollen. Sore throat; from syphilis or mercury, (<) warmth. Throat tumid and red, covered with white spots. Ulcerated. Permanent constriction of the gullet and impeded deglutition. Tonsillitis : Chronic enlargement and induration of tonsils; in hungry, withered, hot parients; torpid cases, no pain, no spasm. Thyroid enlarged. The loss of reproductive and functional powers (of the thyroid) resulting in cellular hypertrophy, the gland assuming the proportion of a morbid growth, due to the same causes as will at other times produce atrophy. "Inveterate cases of goitre; the harder they feel, and the more other symptoms are wanting, the better indicated-" Hering. Goitre: soft and recent ; simple, painless, hard; with vertigo, enlarged heart and protruding eyeballs. Parenchymatous goitre. Diphtheria : expectorates cast of larynx; membrane white grayish, velvety, grayish and pale color, (<) heat, hunger; fibrinous exudation. Stomach: Ravenous hunger. Must eat every few hours; anxious and worried if he does not eat. Hungry before urination; yet emaciates. Variable appetite. Intense thirst, (<) after milk (Lilienthal). Empty eructations from morning till evening, as if every particle of food were turned into gas. A single internal tremor which radiates from the stomach with increased warmth. Weight in epigastric region with internal tremors. The solar plexus people; emotions strike at the pit of stomach. Vomiting of bile, with violent pains in the stomach. Digestion difficult, irregular, feeble; with constipation. Non- assimilation of fats. Gastric carcinoma: burning pain, epigastric pulsation; pale, yellowish complexion with bluish lips (Borland). With diffuse generalised enlargement of the abdominal glands (hard in consistency); enormous appetite; cachexia; violent vomiting renewed by eating. Abdomen : Pancreatic dysfunction. Pacreatitis; chronic. P. with salivation, vomiting, frothy, whey - like stools, constipation; pain across the upper part of the abdomen, with distension, pressing feeling. Liver : Jaundice with pain in liver through to shoulder blade; loss of appetite; clay colored stools; dirty yellow skin; thickly coated tongue; constipation. Chronic jaundice. Cirrhotic liver; after mercury. Hepatoma, primary or secondary. Glands: Enlargement esp. of lymphatic glands of the abdomen and the mesenteric glands; with bloating of abdomen, (<) lying down. Tabes mesenterica, with rapid emaciation, night sweats, slow fever, dry laryngeal cough and diarrhea. Scirrhous swelling of inguinal glands. Large, tumid, doughy abdomen. Pulsations in abdomen; throbbing of abdominal aorta. Incarceration of flatus in l. side of abdomen. Rumbling with gnawing hunger. Rectum : Constipation: hard, knotty stools; abdominal distension; with ineffectual urging; (>)cold milk.Diarrhea: violent, frothy or of sanguineous mucus. Chronic morning diarrhea; of scrofulous children. D. alternating with constipation. Whey-like,fatty in pancreatic affections. Dysentery : thick mucus, or purulent matter; diphtheric.

Piles protrude and burn; (<) heat. Itching of anus. Worms. Urinary Organs : Uremia; from senile hypertrophy of prostate, urethral stricture and ammonaemia. (Early stage of) Bright's disease; albuminous urine, emaciation. Incontinence of urine in the aged. Urine: scanty, dark yellowish green, milky, with a variegated cuticle. Diabetes with canine hunger (and thirst) but rapid emaciation; assimilative D.; in scorbusis. Male : Hydrocele. Sarcocele. Testes hypertrophied; pain extends to abdomen; or painless; with sexual excitement; offensive sweat. Atrophy of testes; complete loss of sexual power. Female : Menses: brown; with weakness; after every stool; irregular, too early or too late; copious or short and scanty. Amenorrhea. Chronic menorrhagia. Leucorrhea : chronic; acrid; thick, yellow, grayish white; slimy; fetid; (<) during menses; (>) eating; with atrophy of the mammae, goitre, induration of cervix, cancer etc.

Wedge-like pain from r. ovary to uterus giving the sensation of an internal boil. Chronic congestion of either ovary; even cancerous lesions. Ovarian cysts. Atrophy of ovaries and mammary glands, with sterility.

Chronic metritis, with intense pain, nervousness, constant urging to urinate, heat and dryness of vagina. Cancer of uterus, with profuse hemorrhages, corrosive yellow discharge, ravenous appetite.

Mammae : flaccidity and dwindling of mammary glands;with enlarged ovaries ( Sabal-ser.). Bluish red nodosities of skin of mammae. Cancer. Suppression of milk.

Respiratory : Laryngitis; choking hoarseness, (<) morning; membranous. Laryngeal and tracheal ulceration. Laryngeal phthisis. Stridulus due to enlarged bronchial glands. Cough : Dry, deep, barking, croupy; from tickling in throat; also thick, yellow, blood-streaked expectoration; with wheezing and sawing respiration; chronic. Itching nose-tip is a signal for cough to begin. (<) indoors, in warm wet weather, lying on back; (>) day-time, grasping throat, cool open air, eating. Whooping cough: vomits food; great appetite, rapid emaciation.

Respiration : Oppressed on slightest exertion with palpitation and vertigo. Asthma after repeated attacks of coryza with sneezing, lachrymation, hot discharges. "Breathing comes in wave- like expansions " (Hering). Violent pulmonary congestion. Difficult expansion of chest; internal dry heat, external coldness.

Pneumonia: Rapid extension. Localised r. sided pneumonia with high fever. Croupous; beginning of plastic exudation. Hepatization spread rapidly with persistent high temperature; no sticking pains of Bry. or absence of pain inspite of great involvement; (<) warmth, craves cool air; no sweat (Aco., Fer- p. or first stage of Bry.); hungry but no intense thirst; tongue not much coated; mentally more alert ( than Bry.); (<) motion; not necessarily restless; certainly not anxious (contra Aco.). Rattling in the chest, yet nothing comes out. Pleuro- pneumonia, with acute articular rheumatism. Pneumonia with or developing into phthisis.

Phthisis: Of rapidly growing young people thin and dark; after herpes was suppressed by iodine application. Phthisis with rough voice, dry cough, night sweats, lung consolidation, blood- streaked expectoration, suppuration, hectic fever and emaciation." Iodine suits only after the expectoration has become purulent. If diarrhea is present it does not generally act favourably '' (Dewey). In the last stage of phthisis it acts as a tonic, where suppuration sets in without a marked febrile action.

Heart : Affections secondary to glandular or respiratory troubles. Symptoms of functional and incipient organic heart diseases.

Palpitation like 'lightening' when thinking of real or imaginary wrongs. P. (<) motion, menses, least exertion (from walking or going upstairs). Heart feels squeezed, grasped by an iron hand (Cact.) followed by great weakness and faintness. Cardiac disease with purring feeling. A feeling of vibration in the heart, a sensation one gets when stroking a purring cat (Spig.). Tremor of heart with vertigo.

Constant heavy oppressive pain in the region of heart, with sharp piercing movable pain. Constrictive pain. Anguish, dyspnea. Precordial anxiety, obliging change of position (cp. Ars.). Violent orgasm of blood.

Valvular insufficiency; pains about the heart after typhoid, r. side dilated. Valvular affections following endocarditis. Myocarditis, painful compression about heart. Pericarditis after typhoid, complicating a pneumonia or rheumatism; (<) motion. Hypertrophy (e.g.of housemaids) from overexertion (Arn.).Fatty degeneration; of an hypertrophied heart (Ars.,Phos., Stry-ph.).

Aneurism, on a syphilitic basis.

Blood vessels : Abnormal vaso- constriction, capillary congestion followed by oedema. Vascular degeneration.Violent pulsations all over.H.B.P. (See Nose).

Pulse: rapid, small, weak, irregular.

Back : Swelling of the exterior of neck. Spinal complaints, with gressus vaccinus. Diseases of the periosteum; bones curve.

Extremities : Joints: inflammed and painful. Chronic arthritic affections. Osteoarthritis. Arthritis deformans; after mercury. Nightly joint pains (also bone pains); without swelling. Gonorrheal rheumatism. Swollen and deformed joints left after an attack of rheumatism. Wandering rheumatism, seems to attack even the brain meninges; metastasis to heart. hot, bright red (dropsical) swelling of knees. Sub-acute synovitis with fistulous opening; with bloody ichorous discharge.

Oedema of hands, feet. White swelling of knees. Patellar hygroma.

Paralytic weakness of arms, early morning on waking. Fingers: convulsive movements; go to sleep. Limbs become cold and black with muscular wasting Acrid sweat on the feet.

Osteomalacia.

Skin : Hot, dry, rough, dirty; yellow, dark dusky and withered; brown spots on. Pale, dingy and livid.

Tetters. Furfur. Panaris. Erythematous/ papular/pustular eruptions of weakly children. Psoriasis. Nettlerash, violent itching, esp. on the outer side of the 1. knee. Lipoma. Nodosities. Scrofulous ulcers, esp. ulnar with swollen glands, spongy edges, discharging a bloody, ichorous, even purulent matter.

Addison's disease; brown skin, or sudden turning of yellowish color into brown, as if smoked.

Sleep : Sleeplessness at night but weariness by day. Restless in bed; also feels well in bed, the complaints appear after rising and beginning the days duties.

Dreams : agitated; anxious; vivid; of eating.

Thermic : Chill : shivering, even in a warm room. Chill alternates with heat. Cold feet all night. Cold hands and feet; during labour, with cold sweat.

Heat : flushes of heat all over body. Heat waves ext. to head. Burning heat of the hands. Internal heat with external coldness; hyperpyrexia, or external coldness with anxiety or stupor; restlessness; apathy. Fugitive heat.

Sweat : profuse night sweats in phthisis; morning sweat, acid; debilitating; corroding.

Fever after neglected injuries.

Hectic fever with cachexia. Slow fever. Ague. West Indian fever. African fever. Typhus.

Malaria : old suppressed by quinine and arsenic; old chills. influenza. Tendency to get sudden violent .

Influenzal attacks.

Relations : Antidotes : Aco., Ant-t., Apis., Arg-n., Ars., Bell., Calc., Camph., Chin-s., Cinch., Coff., Colo., Ferr., Grap., Grat., Hep., Merc-c., Merc-s., Op., Phos., Spong., Sul., Thuja.

Complimentary : Am-iod., Ars., Badiaga, Bac-7, Calc-c., Hep., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Sil., Spong.

Followed well by : Aco., Arg-n., Calc-c., Calc-p., Kali-bi., Lyc., Merc-s., Nux-v., Phos., Puls., Tub.

Similar : Abro., Ars., Brom., Cact., Calc-f., Carb-ac., Carb- ani., Carb-s., Caus., Con.,Dig., Flu-ac., Hed-h., Hep., Iris., Kali-bi., Kali-m., Lil-t., Merc., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Phos., Ph-ac., Puls., Sanic., Sep., Spong., Sul.,Tarn-h., Tub.

lod. is a midway between Arg-n. and Tub., also between Arg-n. and Kali-i.

Hedera Helix may be called a "Vegetable lod.

Kali-i. and Sul-i. (both"Syphilitic Sul.") carry further the work of lod.

Temperature and emaciation more marked than in Kali-i.