====== COBALTUM METALLICUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Kobaltum. {{anchor:s2}}(Cobaltum Metallicum.) {{anchor:s3}}Cobalt. Co. {{anchor:s4}}A mental known to Hohenheim in the fourteenth century. {{anchor:s5}}Derives its name from the German word Kobold, signifying mischievous spirit, so named by the miners who considered it a profitless ore. {{anchor:s6}}It is found in conjunction with nickel from which it has to be separated, a process first taught in 1807 by a chemist named Lougier, improved by Liebig in 1848, and perfected by Genth, a Philadelphia chemist, who produced absolutely pure Kobalt in 1850. {{anchor:s7}}From this chemically pure Kobalt Hering made his proving in July, 1850. {{anchor:s8}}Further provings were made by Koller, Lippe, Jones and Sparhawk. {{anchor:s9}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 5, p. 361. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s11}}- Hering, Lippe, Pehrson, MSS. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s13}}Great exhilaration of spirits, vivacity and rapid flow of thoughts.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Desire for study.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Indisposed to mental and physical labor; low spirited; thinks too little of himself.\\ {{anchor:s16}}All mental excitement increases sufferings. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s18}}Dizziness; dullness; feeling as if head grew large (during stool). ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s20}}Pain in forehead, with uneasiness in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Frontal or occipital pain, agg. from stooping.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Dull, pressive pain in temples.\\ {{anchor:s23}}At every jar, feels as if top of head would come off.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Frontal headache, with pain back of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Headache in morning, with beating and sore aching.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Headache when getting up from sitting. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s28}}Great itching on hairy scalp, in beard and under chin, burning when scratching.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Sore pimples along edge of hair back of head. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s31}}Dim vision; darting pains in eyes when writing, feeling when opening lids, as if little strings were holding them together and snapping.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Flickering before eyes when reading; letters look blurred.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Darting, shooting pains in eyes, from bright light.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Lachrymation and pain from cold air; sensation as of sand under lids.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Smarting in lids when using eyes. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s37}}Aching, humming in left ear.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Stinging through left ear from roof of mouth. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s40}}Putrid, sickish smell before nose.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Watery discharge, with sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Nose feels obstructed.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Left nostril feels dry; filled with scales; itching. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s45}}Red hard lumps on right cheek. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s47}}Peeling of lips, with soreness and bleeding.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Disposition to keep jaws tightly closed.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Large boils, very painful, on chin and left lower jaw.\\ {{anchor:s50}}A large furuncle in region of left lower jaw. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s52}}Pain in hollow teeth, they feel too long; gums swollen, tender, as if ulcerated; agg. from cold air. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Flat taste; bad taste, with belching in morning.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Tongue coated white; cracks across middle. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s57}}Pricking, stinging in roof of mouth, extending to left ear.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Constant watery secretion, with frequent swallowing. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s60}}Soreness, with rawness when hawking.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Dryness and soreness, mornings.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Hawking up thick, white mucus, which fills throat, in morning.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Feeling of fullness, from stomach to throat. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Diminished appetite, especially for upper. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s68}}Hiccough after eating, with soreness in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Belching of wind, mornings and after stool.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Rising of sour or bitter water, with pain in stomach; afterward, dryness in throat.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Qualmishness, with fullness of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Nausea, with pain in forehead. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s74}}Pain in stomach and abdomen after eating, uneasiness; must move about.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Stomach feels as if it contained undigested food.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Fullness in stomach, extending to throat; qualmishness.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Soreness when inspiring deeply, or from hiccough. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s79}}Shooting, stitching from region of liver down into thigh.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Shooting pains in hepatic region and sharp pain in region of spleen, agg. on taking a deep inspiration; fullness in abdomen after a slight meal; constant dropping of blood with stool. {{anchor:s81}}~ Hepatic derangement.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Sharp pain in splenic region, agg. when inspiring deeply. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s84}}Abdomen feels empty about umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Cutting before stool.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Rumbling in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Fullness in abdomen after a light meal.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Colic at 5. {{anchor:s89}}A. M., followed by large stool and tenesmus. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s91}}Urgent desire for stool while walking, agg. when standing; stool profuse, watery, spouting.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Stool large, soft, with tenesmus and aching in sphincter ani; severe colicky pain in lower part of abdomen; tenesmus after stool; during stool, dizziness.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Costiveness alternating with diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Feces like hazelnuts, with dullness in head.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Pressure in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Constant dropping of blood from anus (stools not bloody). ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s98}}Scanty urine.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Albuminuria.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Frequent discharge of small quantities of urine.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Increased secretion of pale urine, frequent urination in morning, after drinking coffee.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Scanty urine, with greasy pellicle; yellow flocculent, or red sediment, and strong, pungent smell.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Smarting in end of urethra during micturition.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Burning in urethra. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s106}}Frequent nocturnal emissions, with lewd dreams; only partial or no erections; impotence.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Seminal emissions at night, with headache and backache.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Impotence and emissions without erections.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Severe pain in right testicle, amel. after urinating.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Secondary gonorrhea, with a greenish discharge.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Yellow brown spots on genitals (and abdomen). ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s114}}Stitches in anterior part of larynx. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s116}}Frequent sighing.\\ {{anchor:s117}}On taking a deep inspiration, stitches in chest, soreness in stomach and pain in spleen. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Cough, with soreness in throat and rawness when hawking.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Short, hacking cough, with expectoration of bright red blood, which seemingly comes from larynx.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Expectoration of thick, tough mucus, mixed with blood, with fullness and pressive pain in larynx; scratching, rawness and burning in throat, and a disposition to keep jaws tightly closed; agg. from pressure, empty deglutition and cold water.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Copious expectoration of sweetish, frothy, white mucus, with lumps in it. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s124}}Deep stitches in lower part of chest, mostly left side, from deep inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Through chest fullness of stomach to throat. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s127}}Pain, between shoulders, in lumbar region and small of back.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Aching pain in small of back, or spine; agg. sitting, amel. rising, walking or lying down.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Backache, with seminal emissions.\\ {{anchor:s130}}(In sick:) Pain along spine, and from sacrum down through legs into feet, agg. while sitting. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s132}}Aching in wrist joints, with occasional stitches. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s134}}(In sick:) Pain in upper part of right hip bone, agg. sitting.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Shooting into thigh from liver.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Excessive weakness of knees.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Foot sweat between toes, smelling sour or like sole-leather.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Flushes of heat along legs.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Stitches in legs.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Jerks in limbs when falling asleep.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Trembling of limbs, especially legs, aching when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Pricking, as of needles, in feet. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s144}}Bruised pain in all limbs.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Stitches in arms and legs. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s149}}Lying down: backache amel.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Sitting: aching in back agg.; pain along spine; pain in hip bone agg.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Standing: desire for stool agg.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Rising from sitting: headache, backache amel.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Stooping: frontal and occipital pain agg.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Walking: urgent desire for stool; backache amel.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Must move about: pain in stomach with uneasiness. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s157}}Distressing drowsiness, in evening, sleeps ten to eleven hours and still hardly able to get up in morning.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Disturbed, unrefreshing sleep.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Wakeful; can do with less sleep.\\ {{anchor:s160}}On rising, pain in head and small of back.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Lewd dreams, emissions; only partial or no erections. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s163}}Morning: headache with beating and sore aching; belching and bad taste; dryness and soreness of throat; hawking up thick white mucus; frequent urinating.\\ {{anchor:s164}}At 5 A. M.: colic.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Evening: distressing drowsiness.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Night: eyes ache; seminal emissions. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s168}}Getting warm in bed: itching all over.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Cold air: lachrymation and pain in eyes; pain in teeth agg. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s171}}Chilly from 11 to 12 A. M.; headache, with nausea and languor from noon to 2 P. M., then fever and sweat.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Chilliness, with yawning, from 4 to 5 P. M.; feels dull and weak, with aversion to mental exertion.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Flushes of heat: with sweat; along legs. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s175}}From 11 to 12 A. M.: chilly.\\ {{anchor:s176}}From noon to 2 P. M.: nausea and languor.\\ {{anchor:s177}}From 4 to 5 P. M.: chilliness with yawning. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s179}}Right: red, hard lumps on cheek; severe pain in testicle; pain in upper part of hip bone.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Left: aching, humming in ear; stinging through ear to roof of mouth; larger boils on lower jaw; large furuncle in region of lower jaw; stitches in side of chest. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s182}}As if head grew large; as if top of head would come off; as if little strings were holding eyelids together; as of sand under lids; teeth feel too long; gums as if ulcerated; stomach as if it contained undigested food: pricking as of needles in feet.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Pain: in forehead; in head; in occiput; back of eyes; in stomach; in forehead; in abdomen; in back; in spleen; between shoulders; in lumbar region; in small of back; along spine; from sacrum down through legs into feet; in upper part of right hip bone.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Severe pain: in right testicle.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Sharp pain: in region of spleen.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Shooting: in eyes; from region of liver down into thigh; in hepatic region; into thigh from liver.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Cutting: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Darting: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Severe colicky pain: in lower part of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Stitches: in anterior part of larynx; in chest; in wrist joints; in legs; in arms.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Stitching: from region of liver down into thigh.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Stinging: through left ear from roof of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Burning: on hairy parts of head when scratched; in urethra; in throat.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Sore aching: in head.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Soreness: of lips; of throat; in pit of stomach; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Smarting: in lids; in end of urethra.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Pressive pain: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Bruised pain: in all limbs.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Aching: in eyes at night; in left ear; in small of back; in wrist joints; in legs; in sphincter ani.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Beating: in head.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Pricking: in roof of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Dryness: of throat.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Pressure: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Dull, pressive pain: in temples.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Fullness: from stomach to throat; in abdomen; in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Itching: on hairy scalp; in beard and under chin; in left nostril; all over. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s210}}Pressure: disposition to keep jaws tightly closed agg.\\ {{anchor:s211}}At every jar: feels as if top of head would come off. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s213}}Much itching all over, when getting warm in bed.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Pimples on shoulders, pit of stomach and buttocks; bleed easily when scratched. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s216}}Compare Agnus cast., impotency; Zincum, pain in back agg. while sitting. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r327|Cobaltum metallicum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r327|Cobaltum metallicum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1884 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}