====== NICCOLUM METALLICUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Niccolum. {{anchor:s2}}Nickel. {{anchor:s3}}The element. {{anchor:s4}}Found in the mountains of Germany, Hungary and Sweden. {{anchor:s5}}Called Nickel by the old German miners who discovered it, like Kobalt, thinking it a kind of useless or false ore. {{anchor:s6}}It is a white malleable metal, of great density and high melting point, of less oxidability than iron and strongly magnetic. {{anchor:s7}}Proved by Nenning (Hartlaub and Trinks, Annalen, vol. 3, p. 353). ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s9}}- Hiccough, Landesmann, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 118; Dysmenorrhea, Berridge, Organon, vol. 1, p. 419; Hoarseness, C. Hg., MSS. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s11}}Low-spirited, tearful; fears something evil will happen.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Vexed and very angry from least contradiction.\\ {{anchor:s13}}No inclination to talk; fretful.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Anxiety on moving, as if sweat would break out. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s16}}Confused, as after intoxication, in morning.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Heaviness in forehead, sense of reeling.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Dullness, does not comprehend conversation, and is unable to relate properly.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Vertigo: on rising in morning, as from weakness; with nausea and inclination to vomit; when rising after stooping, in evening. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s21}}Heaviness and fullness in head, compelling to rub forehead with hand; feels as if brain was cut to pieces on stooping; stupefied sensation.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Heaviness in forehead in morning, as if she had not slept sufficiently.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Heat and heaviness in forehead (afternoon).\\ {{anchor:s24}}Head feels thick, dull, in morning as from loss of sleep.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Stitches here and there, agg. stooping.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Intolerable beating, sticking or stitches in head, agg. in house, amel. in fresh air.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Pain in top of head, as if a nail was ticking in it.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Headache: in morning after rising, agg. till noon, pressure on vertex, and dullness; all day, in forenoon with vomiting of bile; agg. in room, after walking in open air; returns every two weeks, amel. in open air.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Tearing in head and left eye in paroxysms. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s31}}Vision dim, eyes red and sensitive; after exertion, especially in evening; eyes give out and burn.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Objects appear too large; light appears double; is surrounded by colors of rainbow.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Objects look blue (before right eye).\\ {{anchor:s34}}Cloud before eyes (in morning).\\ {{anchor:s35}}Stitches in edge of eyelids like electric sparks, agg. on touching.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Violent twitching in eye, with lachrymation and difficulty of vision.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Dryness and heat of eyes in evening.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Burning in eyes, agg. morning on awaking and towards evening; amel. after washing.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Heat and redness of eyes with pressing.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Eyelids red and swollen, with lachrymation and swelling of Meibomian glands; agglutination in morning.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Cold water causes redness in eyes with tension. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s43}}Sudden deafness with roaring and humming.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Stinging in ears. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s46}}Violent sneezing without coryza.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Dryness of nose.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Stoppage of nose, cannot breathe through it; agg. at night.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Coryza, fluent during day, dry during night.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Stinging tearing and soreness at root of nose.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Redness and swelling at tip of nose, with burning.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Nasal catarrh. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Sensation in face as if swollen, it seems heavy.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Right side red and swollen, with sore throat.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Redness of face, with burning and itching like erysipelas.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Swelling of right side of face, with sore throat.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Pain in swollen face wakens him at night, agg. by cold.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Skin of face is chapped.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Twitching of upper lip at intervals. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s62}}Herpes on lips and cheeks. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s64}}Teeth feel loose and elongated.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Toothache with tearing in right ear.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Gnawing in right lower molar.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Ulcerated gums.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Sour, offensive water exudes from molars on sucking them. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s70}}Bitter taste, in morning.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Tongue stiff, making talking difficult. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s73}}Breath offensive, not aware of it.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Pimples on inner side of lower lip. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s76}}Right tonsil swollen; sticking on swallowing, as if in uvula.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Spasmodic choking and constriction.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Accumulation of thick mucus in throat, with stinging.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Whole throat feels sore as if ulcerated, on swallowing, agg. in morning; right side of neck is very sensitive, painful to pressure.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Sore throat agg. in evening, when talking and yawning. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s83}}Hunger without appetite or any relish for food, feels amel. after eating.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Thirst: in evening; day and night.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Aversion to meat. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s87}}Generally amel. after eating. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s89}}Violent hiccough, especially in evening.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Hiccough, since two years almost uninterruptedly eighteen to twenty times a minute, with soreness of pit of stomach and hypochondria, coated tongue and loss of appetite, great weakness, emaciation.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Eructation bitter, sour or empty.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Nausea in morning.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Nausea, dull head; sour eructations also mornings after rising. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s95}}Empty, fasting sensation, but no hunger.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Pressure amel. from soup or from eructations.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Sensation of great fullness in stomach after eating.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Painful sensation of constriction of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Stitches: in stomach; in pit of stomach, extending to back.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Burning in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Violent pain like stabs with a knife, in pit of stomach. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s103}}Abdomen bloated, distended.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Tension of abdomen and discharge of flatulence, during menses.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Painless rumbling in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Pinching at navel and tension in back before dinner.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Violent cutting in abdomen, followed by soft stool.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Violent stitches as with knives in hypochondria. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s110}}Much flatus, fetid or inodorous.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Stools: thin, fecal; yellow, mucous, coming out with force and much flatus.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Diarrhea and tenesmus after milk, agg. in morning.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Stool, even if soft, evacuated with great pressure.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Constipation; ineffectual urging; stool hard.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Before stool; urging; pinching; cutting.\\ {{anchor:s116}}During stool: burning, stinging, stitches in rectum; violent urging; tenesmus.\\ {{anchor:s117}}After stool: colic; renewed unsuccessful urging and tenesmus; itching, burning and stitches at anus. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Urine increased, with burning during micturition.\\ {{anchor:s120}}After micturition, discharge of thin leucorrhea. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s122}}Erections: after dinner; in forenoon; at night.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Itching on a small spot on scrotum, not amel. by scratching. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s125}}Menses: early, with pain in abdomen and small of back; late, and scanty; too early, too short, scanty.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Shooting from vertex to forehead, since midnight; weakness; nausea before menses; forcing down abdominal pains, first on left side then on right; anorexia. {{anchor:s127}}~ Dysmenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s128}}During menses, bloated abdomen, colic, pain in small of back, burning of eyes, great debility.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Vomiting and colic after suppressed menses; great restlessness.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Leucorrhea profuse, watery, after urinating and after menses. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s133}}Hoarseness; is scarcely able to speak.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Hoarseness returns annually (in one case with nausea, intolerance of milk, weak eyes); also after exposure to wind.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Roughness in throat, amel. by coughing. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s137}}Cough: from tickling in throat, agg. evening after lying down; dry, scraping, from tickling in trachea, with sleeplessness from midnight till 4 A. M.; violent, at night, must sit up and hold head; dry, concussive, often continuing for hours; with great dyspnea, but little or no expectoration; dry hacking, in paroxysms.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Dry, hacking cough, like tick of a clock in its regularity, continuing for a long time; child must be held up during continuance of cough, otherwise it is seized with spasms; greatest possible degree of dyspnea, no expectoration. {{anchor:s139}}~ Whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Expectoration of white mucus.\\ {{anchor:s141}}When coughing, dyspnea and pressure on chest. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s143}}Stitch in left chest, also striking to in most part of chest and arresting breathing, or causing one to start, or when walking, agg. on drawing breath.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Stitches in chest, left side, when breathing.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Pressure and heaviness on chest. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s147}}Cracking in cervical vertebrae on moving head.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Pain in neck, as from a sprain.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Fine stitches and feeling of tension in nape of neck on motion.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Stitches in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Painful gnawing in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Pain in small of back during soft stool.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Itching and pimples on small of back.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Stitch striking from back to pit of stomach, in afternoon when sitting. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s156}}Left shoulder as if sprained or dislocated, agg. from violent motion.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Itching on shoulders; scratching does not relieve.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Rheumatic pains in elbows, extending to hands.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Hands feel heavy, tremble, feel bruised.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Rheumatic pains in fingers. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s162}}Itching herpes on hips.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Pain as from weariness in legs, pressing towards groins, diarrhea, during menses.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Stitches in right patella.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Rheumatic pains from knees downward.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Feet feel heavy, tremble and are weak.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Itching and stitches in left heel. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s169}}Tearing in scapulae, down arms, in hips and down legs.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Left arm and leg feel as if they would fall asleep; afternoon, sitting.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Hands and feet heavy, agg. by motion. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s175}}Sitting: stitch from back to pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Must sit up and hold head: cough.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Stooping: as if brain was cut to pieces; stitches agg.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Rising: after stooping, vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s179}}After rising: cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Compelled to change position continually.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Motion: anxiety; of head; cracking of cervical vertebrae; fine stitches and feeling of tension in nape of neck; violent pain in left shoulder amel.; heaviness of hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Talking and yawning: sore throat agg.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Walking: stitch in left chest.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Must rise and walk to obtain relief from restlessness. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s186}}Great restlessness; agg. at night; compelled to change position continually; vomiting and colic after suppressed menses.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Feels sick and feverish, as if a severe illness was impending.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Great debility, especially in evening.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Heaviness in hands and feet, amel. by motion.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Literary men and others who suffer from periodical nervous headaches; weak, asthenopic, weak digestion, constipation; agg. in morning on awaking. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s192}}Yawning, drowsiness.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Restless sleep; wakefullness; at 3 A. M., restlessness and heat; feels sore all over; must rise and walk about to obtain relief.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Awakens after midnight with colic. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s196}}At 3 A. M.: restless sleep.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Morning: confused; on rising, vertigo; as if she had not slept sufficiently; head feels thick and dull; after rising, headache; clouds before eyes; burning in eyes agg.; agglutination; bitter taste; sore throat agg.; nausea; sour eructations after rising; diarrhea and tenesmus agg.; sweat.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Forenoon: headache, with vomiting; erections.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Before dinner: pinching at navel and tension in back.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Till noon: headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Day: thirst.\\ {{anchor:s202}}After dinner: erections.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Afternoon: heat and heaviness in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Evening: vertigo; eyes dim and sensitive; dryness and heat in eyes; towards, burning in eyes; sore throat agg.; thirst; violent hiccough; cough agg.; great debility; in bed, shivering followed by sweat; heat, followed by chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Night: stoppage of nose agg.; dry coryza; awakes with pain in swollen face; thirst; erections; violent cough; great restlessness agg.; heat, restlessness and vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s206}}From midnight till 4 A. M.: sleeplessness and tickling in trachea.\\ {{anchor:s207}}After midnight: awakes with colic; sweat.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Since midnight: shooting from vertex to forehead. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s210}}Fresh air: stitches in head amel.; headache amel.\\ {{anchor:s211}}In house: stitches in head agg.; headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Warmth of stove: shivering in back amel.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Exposure to wind: hoarseness.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Cold: pain in face amel.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Washing: burning of eyes amel.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Cold water: causes redness of eyes. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s218}}Chilliness predominates.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Chill is preceded by or begins with yawning and sleepiness.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Shivering in back, amel. from warmth of stove.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Shivering and heat alternately.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Chill with chattering and shaking, followed by profuse general sweat, in evening in bed.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Heat: followed by chilliness, in evening, continuous chill, with moist palms of hands.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Sensation of heat all over, with anxiety and prostration.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Anxious heat with violent thirst.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Dry heat with thirst every afternoon at 3 o'clock.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Heat, restlessness and vomiting at night, must rise.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Heat with sweat and thirst, followed by chill.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Sweat in morning in bed, or after midnight. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s231}}Alternately: shivering and heat.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Periodical nervous headache.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Eighteen to twenty times a minute: hiccough.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Every afternoon at 3: dry heat, with thirst.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Every two weeks: headache returns.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Annually: hoarseness returns.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Since two years: hiccough. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s239}}Right: objects look blue before eye; swelling of side of face; tearing in ear; gnawing in lower molar; tonsil swollen; side of neck sensitive; stitch in patella.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Left: tearing in eye; stitch in chest; shoulder as if sprained or dislocated; itching and stitches in heel; arm and leg feel as if they would fall asleep.\\ {{anchor:s241}}First left then right: abdominal pains. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s243}}As if sweat would break out; as if brain was cut to pieces; as if she had not slept sufficiently; as if a nail was sticking in head; face as if swollen; teeth as if loose; sticking as if in uvula; throat as if ulcerated; pain in neck as from a sprain; left shoulder as if sprained; as if left arm and leg would fall asleep; as if a severe illness was impending; itching as if from fleas.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Pain: in top of head; in swelled face; in teeth; in abdomen and small of back; in neck; pressing towards groins.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Intolerable beating, sticking, or stitches: in head; in right patella.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Violent pain, like stabs of a knife: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Violent cutting: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Violent stitches: in hypochondria.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Tearing: in head; in left eye; in right ear; in scapulae, down arms, in hips, down legs.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Shooting: from vertex to forehead.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Painful gnawing: in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Gnawing: in right molar tooth.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Pinching: at navel.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Stitches: here and there; in edge of eyelids; in stomach; in pit of stomach, extending to back; at anus; on left chest; in small of back; striking from back to pit of stomach; in left heel.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Burning, stinging, stitches: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Stinging, tearing and soreness: at root of nose.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Stinging: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Sticking: in tonsil.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Rheumatic pains: in elbows, to hands; in fingers; from knees downward.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Soreness: of throat; of pit of stomach; all over.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Painful sensation of constriction: of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Tension: in back.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Burning: in eyes; at tip of nose; of face; in stomach; at anus.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Heat: of eyes; all over.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Violent twitching: in eye.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Twitching: of upper lip.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Pressure: on vertex; in eyes; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Heaviness: in forehead; in head; in chest; of hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Fullness: in head; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Thick feeling: in head.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Tickling: in throat; in trachea.\\ {{anchor:s272}}Roughness: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Dryness: of eyes; of nose.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Itching: of face; at anus; on a small spot on scrotum; on small of back; on shoulders; herpes on hips; in left heel; over whole body. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s276}}Catarrhs. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s280}}Touch: stitch in edge of eyelids.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Pressure: throat painful.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Must rub forehead with hand: heaviness in head.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Scratching: does not amel. itching on a small spot on scrotum; does not amel. itching on shoulder; followed by small tubercles. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s285}}Itching over whole body, but mostly on neck, as from fleas; not amel. by scratching, but followed by small vesicles.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Fine burning, stinging, biting.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Burning stinging as from bees.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Small tubercles after scratching. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s290}}Girl, aet. 19, menses appeared at 14; dysmenorrhea. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s292}}Relations: Hyosc., Natr. mur., Phosphor. in objects appear large; Hyosc., Platin., Stramon. in objects appear small; Lycop., Stramon., Zincum in objects appear blue; Phosphor., Gelsem. in diplopia; in rainbow colors around light; Nux vom. and Sulphur in coryza; Sulphur in redness of tip of nose; Ferrum in red face; Mangan. in toothache with tearing in ear; Gelsem., Silic. and Sulphur in periodical headache; Carbo an., Ignat. and Sepia in emptiness of stomach; Petrol. in cracking in neck and stiffness of jaw; Pulsat. in headache, menses, chilliness; Fluor. ac. and Kobalt. in feeling better in morning without having slept; Arsen. in annual hoarseness; Nux vom. in literary men. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r160|Niccolum metallicum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r160|Niccolum metallicum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1889 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}