====== OSMIUM MET. + -AC. (OLD ABBR.) ====== {{anchor:s1}}Osmium. {{anchor:s2}}(Osmium Metallicum.) {{anchor:s3}}The Element. {{anchor:s4}}Osmium tetroxide (Osmic Acid) OSO4. {{anchor:s5}}The most refractory of all metals; discovered by Vaucquelin, Tennant and Thenard, in 1804. {{anchor:s6}}Proved in 1850, by Hering, Neidhard and Raue. {{anchor:s7}}Triturations of the precipitated metal were used in the provings. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s9}}- Spasmodic cough, Liedbeck, Analyt. {{anchor:s10}}Therap. vol. 1, p. 197; Cough, Burnett, A. H. Z, vol. 3, from Hom. World, 1885. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s12}}Weeping mood, screaming, with the cough.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Anxious, fidgety.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Very impatient, with itching.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Thoughts of accidents having happened; later of doing injury to others.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Misplaces words.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Weak, gives up. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s19}}Dullness, with heat in head. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s21}}Tearing in upper right side of forehead.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Aching like a band around head above ears; in temples, with hoarseness. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s24}}Hair falls off. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s26}}Weakness of sight, could not tell night from day. {{anchor:s27}}~ Glaucoma.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Flame from candle larger, confused; large rainbow ring around it.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Feels a short motion back and forward in ball, with closed eyes.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Eyes water, burn and itch.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Pains around left eye on bone. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s33}}Ringing in right ear.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Severe pains in left petrosum. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s36}}After sneezing, phlegm in larynx looser.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Sneezing and running at nose with tickling in larynx, difficult breathing.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Discharge of mucus from choanae.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Nasal catarrh; coryza; sneezing as from snuff; nose and larynx sensitive to air; small lumps of phlegm easily loosened from posterior nares and larynx. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s41}}Aching from base of brain into jaws.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Cooling jerks in left upper jaw and front teeth.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Chewing causes aching in muscles. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s45}}Gums swell above left eyetooth. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s47}}Taste: corroding; burning; cloverlike; sweetish.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Red sore stripe in middle of tongue, edges rough and pimply; most sensitive to slight touch when eating or drinking.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Tongue coated. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s52}}Aversion to cocoa. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Chronic vomiting, with pressure in stomach. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s56}}In stomach: uneasiness; pressure; contracting after food, more by stimulants; weakness at 6 P. M., amounting to nausea; all evening distension; feeling as if he had swallowed a lot of broken stones. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s58}}Bowels distended in afternoon and evening.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Pressure on both inguinal rings. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Stool: dry, is full of wind; small; hastily passing, with burning in anus; thin, bilious; urging, but only wind passes. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s63}}Urine: dark brown, scanty; suppressed; in evening strongly scented like violets. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Erections earlier in morning and firmer; ejaculations lasting longer.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Violent pain on tip of glans and in foreskin.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Pain in right testicle and left spermatic cord; weakness in both groins towards cord. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s70}}Voice hoarse, weak, soundless.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Hoarseness: after singing; agg. riding or walking in open air.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Tickling in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Irresistible tickling causes short bursts of cough.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Severe pain in larynx, agg. coughing or talking; hoarseness.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Larynx dry with cough.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Mucus: increased; hangs in larynx like a string, hawks, coughs, strains to vomit; sneezing loosens it. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s78}}Chronic dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Heaves in horses. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s81}}Cough: short, irresistible hacking, caused by an irritation low down in chest; with tearing pain in sternum; on rising, violent, without phlegm, returning during day; severe, disturbing sleep until midnight; spasmodic, fingers twitch; sounds as if one coughed into an empty tube, or as if caused by resonance of contiguous parts; dry, hard, shaking whole body.\\ {{anchor:s82}}After sneezing, a little round lump loosens but has to be swallowed.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Paroxysms of convulsive cough. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s85}}Soreness in whole sternum, sensitive to touch; pain independent of cough.\\ {{anchor:s86}}In sternum, shooting upward and downward.\\ {{anchor:s87}}A dull stitch near left lower rib. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s89}}Anxious palpitation of heart. ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== {{anchor:s91}}Sore sternum, painful to touch, independent of cough.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Tearing pain in sternum with cough.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Shooting up and down in sternum. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s95}}Itching on back and shoulders as from crawling insects, agg. evenings going to bed. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s97}}Sweat in axillae smelling like garlic, agg. evening and at night.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Pulsating dull stings, inside of right shoulder joint.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Very severe pinching pain, often repeated, in left upper arm above elbow.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Sensitive pain in middle of left humerus, then in fingers.\\ {{anchor:s101}}In left elbow bone pains; in right forearm pinching; drawing inside of right forearm, burning pressure outside, red spots on dorsum.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Aching in metacarpo-phalangeal joint of left thumb, pain in first phalanx of right forefinger; burning in left ring finger; like fire on inner border of nail.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Stabbing on tips of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Twitching of fingers, with spasmodic cough. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s106}}Violent itching above crest of left ilium towards abdomen, the place red with many small pointed spots.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Sore pain in left gluteus and leg.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Itching and rash on thighs and on ankle.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Legs and feet feel too full.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Restless in legs, quite unbearable, has to lie down at 9 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Pains in right ankle, pinching, flying, cutting in bones and joints of right foot.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Pain in bones of heels.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Drawing, aching in tendon each side of top of patella; occasional shoots below external malleolus and on instep.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Scarlet rash on thighs and ankles. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s116}}Pain deep in bones, same as in head.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Aching of limbs and body all day. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s121}}Chewing: causes aching in muscles. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s123}}Weak, easily tired for a long time. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s125}}Itching and cough disturb sleep.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Restless nights, dreams of painful events; arose jaded.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Less sensitive to disturbance of sleep, arose very tired; muddled head, aching limbs and body. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s129}}Morning: erections earlier; violent cough.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Day: aching in limbs and body.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Afternoon: bowels distended.\\ {{anchor:s132}}At 6 P. M.: weakness in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s133}}At 9 P. M.: has to lie down from restlessness in legs.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Evening: headache, eyes and ears worse; cough; sweat in axilla; restless in legs; weakness; itching; distension in stomach; urine scented like violets; itching on back agg.; sweat in axillae; smelling of garlic agg.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Till midnight: cough disturbs sleep.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Night: sweat in axillae smelling like garlic agg.; restless. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s138}}Less subject to taking cold, in November.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Air: larynx sensitive; hoarseness agg. walking. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s141}}Cough: in attacks. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s143}}Right: tearing in upper side of forehead; ringing in ear; pain in testicle; pulsating, dull stings inside of shoulder joint; pinching drawing in forearm; pain in first phalanx of forefinger; pain in ankle; cutting, pinching, flying in bones and joints of foot.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Left: severe pain in petrosum; cooling jerks in upper jaw and front teeth; gums swell above eye tooth; pain in spermatic cord; dull stitch near lower rib; pinching oft repeated in upper arm; sensitive pain in middle of humerus; bone pains in elbow; aching in joint of thumb; burning in ring finger.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Upward and downward: shooting in sternum. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s147}}As of a band around head; sneezing, as from snuff; as after having swallowed broken stones; cough, as if caused by resonance of contiguous parts; as of crawling insects on back and shoulders; legs and feet as if too full.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Pains: around left eye; in right testicle and left spermatic cord; in bones of left elbow; in first phalanx of right forefinger; in bones of heels; in right ankle; deep in bones.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Violent pain: on tip of glans and in foreskin.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Severe pains: in left petrosum; in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Very severe pinching pain: in left upper arm above elbow.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Pinching, flying, cutting in bones and joints of right foot.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Stabbing: in tips of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Tearing: in upper right side of forehead; in temples; in sternum.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Pinching drawing: in right forearm.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Shooting: in sternum; below external malleolus and on instep.\\ {{anchor:s157}}A dull stitch: near left lower rib.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Pulsating dull stings: inside of right shoulder joint.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Sore pain: in left leg.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Sensitive pain: in middle of left humerus, then in fingers.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Aching: around head above ears; from base of brain into jaws; in muscles of jaw; in metacarpo-phalangeal joint of left thumb; in tendon each side of top of patella; of limbs and body.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Burning pressure: outside of forearm.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Burning: in eyes; in anus; in left ring finger; on inner border of nail.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Heat: in head.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Soreness: in whole sternum.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Pressure: in stomach; on both inguinal rings.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Irritation: low down in chest.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Restlessness: in legs.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Uneasiness: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Weakness: in stomach; in both groins towards cord.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Dryness: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Dullness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Sensation of short motion back and forward: in eyeballs.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Cooling jerks: in left upper jaw and front teeth.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Itching: in eyes; on back and shoulders; violent, above crest of ilium towards abdomen on small spots. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s180}}Touch: tongue sensitive to slightest; sternum sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Riding: hoarseness agg. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s183}}Itching on small spots.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Burning stitches on many places.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Prickly heat going to lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Syphilitic tetters. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s188}}Girl, aet. 1 1/2 years; spasmodic cough. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s190}}Antidoted by: sulphuretted hydrogen, Phos. ac; Silic. (swollen gums); Hepar and Spongia (pain in larynx); Bellad. and Mercur. (laryngeal catarrh).\\ {{anchor:s191}}Compare: Argentum, Arsen., Iridium, Manganum, Selen., Sulphur, Tellurium, Bromine (eyes and lungs). ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r2536|Osmium Met. + -ac. (old abbr.)]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r2536|Osmium Met. + -ac. (old abbr.)]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1889 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}