Iod, Iodium

Iod in brief

• Agitation / Impulsiveness (Iod ₳ Tarent)
• Emaciation + High appetite (hyperthyroid patient
• Heat and warm agg (100%)
• Magical thinking (Superstitious) (Arg-n ₳ Iod)

Agitation

• You can easily see Agitation / Restlessness (Zinc) and anxiety (Ars) in him.
• His anxiety is floating. It is as if the patient cannot control it and keeps talking
• He feels that something bad is about to happen and he has to stop it somehow.
• Highly impressionable, Deep impact of events on him

• He dose not tolerate of any conversation or even being ridiculed

MIND - SPOKEN TO; being – aversion

• Anxious, anguish, wants to move, do something, hurry, kill somebody, etc. (Ars ₳ Iod)
• Pulsations all over, stomach, back, even arms, fingers and toes. (Bell ₳ Iod)
• Does not tolerate pressure on the pain site. (Lach, Sil)

OCD

• Magical thinking: superstitious thoughts and illogical connection of events with each other (Arg-n)
• Impulsivity: This does not mean mental impulses, but necessarily behavior
• He is obsessed with keeping himself busy all the time. Busy + Confused + Disordered + Forgetful
• When fearful thoughts come to him and increase his anxiety, he prefers to keep himself busy (Occupation amel)

Hyperthyroid

• Acute hyperthyroidism is Iod, but this sign is very rare, and more chronic signs may require Phos or Nat-m (Iod ₳ Nat-m)
• Acute attacks of illness and weakness and emaciation (Ferr-p)

• Emaciation + High appetite

• Eating disorder: Fasting is intolerable and make him too angry
• Swelling of glands: Hypertrophy of all glands except mammary
• Profuse sweating
• Weight loss + Enlargement of glands (liver, thyroid, lymph gland) gives you a very specific picture
• Hyperactivity + Emaciation + Hungry + Amel while eating.

Entities

• Pharyngitis, laryngitis
• Lymphadenitis: Active and large glands
• Gastroenteritis: In gastroenteritis, Iod also has its own panel. Nausea with clean tongue + excessive salivation and excessive thirst
• Croup: Child grasps the larynx; face pale and cold; in fleshy children.

• Hay fever

Modalities:

• Agg Fasting, Warm air or room, Heat (Iod ₳ Kali-i)
• Amel : While eating; Moving, Cold air

Cough

• Due to irritation of the Larynx/ Trachea
• Croupy and dry coughs
• Amel in the open air / Agg in hot and humid weather.
• Chest burning when coughing
• Cough with shortness of breath
• Croupy, dry coughs and hoarseness and membrane formation in the throat
• Cough with wheezing and like the sound of a saw (Spong)
• Feels like he has to hold his throat when coughing (All-c)
• Internal itching (Phos, Nux-v)

Croup

• In membranous croup and croup-like states in big body children and swollen glands, consider Iod then Acet-ac, Brom, Con, Kali-bi and Spong
• Iod is a good follow well remedy of Hep, Merc and Kali-bi in croup
• Unlike Psor and Hep, it gets worse with heat.

Discharges

• Hot / Watery / Burning.
• Constant salty secretions
• Burning / Destructive leucorrhoea
• Thin / Burning / Watery nasal secretions (Allergic Rhinitis)

Allen

• Severe and deep weakness with emaciation (Abrot ₳ Iod)
• Severe weakness and shortness of breath during activity (Calc), esp during menses (Alum, Carb-an, Cocc)
• Weight loss with great appetite (Abrot, Nat-m, Sanic, Tub)

• Loud eructation from morning to night, whatever he eats becomes flatulence / Flatus (Kali-c)
• Weakness and anxiety caused by hunger (Cina, Sul)
• Itching of the lungs and the back of the chest that causes coughing and extends to the nose (Cocc, Con, Phos)
• Goiter in Iranian type patient (Compare with Brom which is useful in goiter in blond/ European patients ) (Brom ₳ Iod)
• Heart palpitations and exacerbation with little activity (Dig, Calc, Ars)
• As if his heart is crushed between two staples or an iron hand squeezes his heart (Cact, Sul) (Iod ₳ Sul)

Miasms

1. WNE, HCV
2. SARS, HBV
3. MTB, MMP, HTLV-1

Rubrics

• MIND - LOQUACITY - heedless: Iod