IODIUM

Iodine, The element

Clinical Picture:
Scrofulous diathesis, dark hair and eyes; a cachectic condition, with profound debility and great emaciation (Abrotanum).
Great weakness and dyspnea on going upstairs (Caicarea carbonica); during the menses (Alumina, Carbolicum acidum, Cocculus indicus).
Ravenous hunger; eats well, yet continually loses weight (Abrotanum, Natrium muriaticum, Sanicula aqua, Tuberculinum).
Empty eructations from morning to night, as if every particle of food were turned into gas (Kalium carbonicum).
Must eat every few hours, anxious and worried if patient does not eat (Cina, Sulphur); feels better while eating or after eating when stomach is full.
Itching, deep in the lungs, behind the sternum, causing cough; extends through bronchi to nasal cavity (Coccus cacti, Conium maculatum, Phosphorus).
Hypertrophy and induration of glandular tissue, thyroid, mammae, ovaries, testes, uterus, prostate or other glands.
Breasts may indurate and become flabby. Firm goitre, in dark haired persons (light haired: Bromium).
Chronic cervicitis.

Modalities:
Worse:

Warmth.
Wrapping up the head (reverse of Hepar sulphuris calcareum and Psorinum).

Better:

Walking about in open air.

Relations:
Complementary to Lycopodium calavatum and Badiaga.
Similar to Aceticum acidum, Bromium, Conium maculatum, Kalium bichromicum and Spongia in membranous croup and croupy affections, especially in overgrown boys with scrofulous diathesis.
Follows well after Hepar sulphuris. calcareum, Mercurius vivus; is followed by Kalium bichromicum in bronchitis. Acts best in goitre when given after full moon or when the moon is waning.
Should not be given during pregnancy, except in high potencies.

Summary of Indications:
Goitre and other endocrine disorders.

Antidotes:
Antimonium et potassium tartaricum
Aconitum napellus
Apis mellifica
Arsenicum album
Belladonna atropa