Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Plumbum Metallicum plb.

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Stomach and Abdomen

Drawing pain from before backward, as though the abdomen were drawn in and through towards the back-bone, sometimes making the abdomen concave; sensation as though a string were inside the abdomen drawing it in; generally there is great despondency with this pain. Painters' colic with this sensation as though the abdomen were drawn in and was touching the spine; pulse may be down very low, 50 or even 40; gastralgia with sensation as though the abdomen and backbone met. Great liver remedy; inner belly in general: inner region of the navel: sometimes umbilical hernia, and is an excellent remedy for this. Left side of the abdomen generally.

Stool

Constipation with stools like sheep dung; balls in conglomerate masses, discharged with difficulty; obstructed evacuation by the induration of feces.

Generalities

Jaundice, where the sclerotica of the eye is yellow, face is yellow; urine is yellow; vomiting in bed after retiring for the night, restless, sleepless, etc. Loss of smell; reddish-yellow face. Affections in the lower teeth; tongue; sweetish taste, as in expectoration of cough with sweetish taste. Obstructed flatus with terrible colic. Retraction of soft parts in general; convulsions with jerking; epilepsy without consciousness; pinching pain with sensation of tearing; sphacelus; gray ulcers; paralysis of the limbs of those who work in lead.

Worse

In the night; from rubbing.

Remedies following

Bellad., Lycop., Mercur., Phosphor., Pulsat., Silic., Sulphur (sometimes Arsen.).

Antidote

Platina.