Platina
Remedy of pride, haughtiness, and physical hypersensitivity. Everything looks small and contemptible. Genitalia extremely sensitive. Numbness and tingling with constriction. Dark, early, profuse menses.
Source
Prepared from metallic platinum (Pt), triturated and potentised.
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Keynote Symptoms
Arrogance and haughtiness — everything looks small and insignificant, people seem physically and mentally beneath her. Extreme genital hypersensitivity. Numbness, tingling, and band-like constriction sensations. Dark, early, profuse menses with dark clots. Pains gradually increase and gradually decrease.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Haughty, proud, contemptuous. Looks down on everyone. Sense of physical superiority — everything and everyone seems small and insignificant. Alternation of physical and mental symptoms. Fear of death. Weeping. Anger from contradiction. Strong sexual desire. Ailments from wounded pride. Delusion she is neglected, forsaken.
General Symptoms
Numbness and tingling accompany most complaints. Band-like, constricting sensations. Pains gradually increase and gradually decrease. Worse from touch, emotions, evening, rest, standing. Better from walking in open air. Left-sided or right-to-left.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Numb, constricted feeling. Headache gradually increases and decreases. Crampy pain over root of nose.
Face
Neuralgia with numbness. Prosopalgia — pain gradually increases and slowly subsides. Feels cold.
Stomach
Ravenous hunger with hasty eating. Nausea with pressing, constrictive sensation.
Abdomen
Pressing, contracting pains. Drawing in of navel. Lead colic with retraction.
Rectum
Constipation — stool sticky, adheres to rectum like soft clay. Frequent unsuccessful urging. Constipation of travelers.
Female Genitalia
Menses too early, too profuse, dark, clotted. Genitalia hypersensitive — cannot bear touch, even of clothing. Vaginismus. Nymphomania. Bearing-down sensation. Ovarian pain — left side.
Male Genitalia
Excessive sexual desire.
Extremities
Numbness and tingling. Bandaged sensation around limbs. Restless legs. Weakness in legs.
Skin
Numb, tingling. Formication.
Sleep & Dreams
Sleepless from excitement. Anxious, frightful dreams. Wakes unrefreshed.
Modalities
Better From
Walking in open air, sunshine, stretching
Worse From
Touch, emotions, evening, rest, standing, sitting, coition, fasting
Constitutional Type
Tall, slender women of dark complexion. Proud, haughty bearing. Strong sexual nature. History of wounded pride.
Clinical Indications
Menstrual disorders, vaginismus, nymphomania, neuralgia with numbness, constipation, haughtiness, wounded pride, ovaritis
Comparative Materia Medica
Palladium has similar pride but needs approval and is more wounded by neglect. Veratrum album has mania with haughty delusions but with more physical collapse. Ignatia has contradictory symptoms and more sighing.
Safety Information
Pulsatilla, Spiritus nitri dulcis.
Metallic platinum is inert and non-toxic. Safe in all potencies.
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