Iod, Iodium
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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.
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)