ZINCUM METALLICUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Cerebral depression
  • Tissues worn out faster than repaired
  • Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges
  • Nervous symptoms
  • Defective vitality
  • Impending brain paralysis
  • Period of depression in disease
  • Spinal affections
  • Twitchings
  • Pain as if between skin and flesh
  • Great relief from discharges
  • Chorea from fright or suppressed eruption
  • Convulsions with pale face and no heat
  • Marked anemia with profound prostration
  • Decrease in number and destruction of red blood corpuscles
  • Repercussed eruptive diseases
  • Brain and spinal symptoms
  • Trembling
  • Convulsive twitching
  • Fidgety feet
  • Weak memory
  • Very sensitive to noise
  • Averse to work
  • Averse to talk
  • Child repeats everything said to it
  • Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime
  • Melancholia
  • Lethargic
  • Stupid
  • Paresis
  • Feels as if he would fall to left side
  • Headache from smallest quantity of wine
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Rolls head from side to side
  • Bores head into pillow
  • Occipital pain with weight on vertex
  • Automatic motion of head and hands
  • Brain-fag
  • Headaches of overtaxed school children
  • Forehead cool
  • Base of brain hot
  • Roaring in head
  • Starting in fright
  • Pterygium
  • Smarting
  • Lachrymation
  • Itching
  • Pressure as if pressed into head
  • Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles
  • Ptosis
  • Rolling of eyes
  • Blurring of one-half of vision
  • Worse stimulants
  • Squinting
  • Amaurosis with severe headache
  • Red and inflamed conjunctiva
  • Worse inner canthus
  • Tearing
  • Stitches
  • External swelling ears
  • Discharge of fetid pus
  • Sore feeling high up nose
  • Pressure upon root nose
  • Pale lips
  • Corners of mouth cracked
  • Redness and itching eruption on chin
  • Tearing in facial bones
  • Teeth loose
  • Gums bleed
  • Gnashing of teeth
  • Bloody taste
  • Blisters on tongue
  • Difficult dentition
  • Child weak
  • Cold and restless feet
  • Dry throat
  • Constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus
  • Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx
  • Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing
  • Hiccough
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting of bitter mucus
  • Burning in stomach
  • Heartburn from sweet things
  • Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine
  • Ravenous hunger about 11 am
  • Great greediness when eating
  • Cannot eat fast enough
  • Atonic dyspepsia
  • Feeling as if stomach were collapsed
  • Pain after a light meal with tympanitis
  • Pain in spot beneath navel
  • Gurgling and griping
  • Distended abdomen
  • Flatulent colic with retraction of abdomen
  • Enlarged indurated sore liver
  • Reflex symptoms from floating kidney
  • Griping after eating
  • Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards
  • Hysterical retention
  • Involuntary urination when walking coughing or sneezing
  • Hard small constipated stool
  • Cholera infantum with tenesmus
  • Green mucous discharges
  • Sudden cessation of diarrhea followed by cerebral symptoms
  • Testicles swelled drawn up
  • Erections violent
  • Emissions with hypochondriasis
  • Falling off of hair pubic
  • Drawing in testicles up to spermatic cord
  • Ovarian pain especially left
  • Can't keep still
  • Nymphomania of lying-in women
  • Menses too late suppressed
  • Lochia suppressed
  • Breasts painful
  • Nipples sore
  • Menses flow more at night
  • Complaints all better during menstrual flow
  • Restlessness
  • Depression
  • Coldness
  • Spinal tenderness
  • Restless feet
  • Dry cough before and during menses
  • Burning pressure beneath sternum
  • Constriction and cutting in chest
  • Hoarseness
  • Debilitating spasmodic cough
  • Worse eating sweet things
  • Child grasps genitals during cough
  • Asthmatic bronchitis with constriction of chest
  • Dyspnea better as soon as expectoration appears
  • Pain in small of back
  • Cannot bear back touched
  • Tension and stinging between shoulders
  • Spinal irritation
  • Dull aching about the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebrae
  • Worse sitting
  • Burning along spine
  • Nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion
  • Tearing in shoulder-blades
  • Lameness
  • Weakness
  • Trembling and twitching of various muscles
  • Chilblains
  • Feet in continued motion
  • Cannot keep still
  • Large varicose veins on legs
  • Sweaty
  • Convulsions with pale face extremities
  • Transverse pains especially in upper extremity
  • Soles of feet sensitive
  • Steps with entire sole of foot on floor
  • Cries out during sleep
  • Body jerks
  • Wakes frightened stared
  • Nervous motion of feet when asleep
  • Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it
  • Somnambulism
  • Varicose veins especially of lower extremities
  • Formication of feet and legs as from bugs crawling over the skin preventing sleep
  • Eczema especially in the anemic and neurotic
  • Itching of thighs and hollow of knees
  • Retrocession of eruptions
  • Frequent febrile shiverings down back
  • Cold extremities
  • Night-sweat
  • Profuse sweat on feet

Allen's Keynotes

  • persons suffering from cerebral and nervous exhaustion; defective vitality; brain or nerve power wanting
  • too weak to develop exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to comprehend, to memorize
  • incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower extremeties; must move them constantly
  • always feels better every way as soon as the menses begin to flow; it relieves all her sufferings; but they return again soon after the flow ceases
  • in the cerebral affections: in impending paralysis of brain; where the vis medicatrix naturae is too weak to develop exanthemata; symptoms of effusion into ventricles
  • child repeats everything said to it
  • child cries out during sleep; whole body jerks during sleep; wakes frightened, starts, rolls the head from side to side; face alternately pale and red
  • convulsions: during dentition, with pale face, no heat, except perhaps in occiput, no increase in temperature; rolling the eyes; gnashing the teeth
  • automatic motion of hands and head, or one hand and head
  • chorea: from suppresse eruption; from fright
  • hunger: ravenous, about 11 or 12 a. m.; great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough
  • excessive nervous moving of feet, in bed for hours after retiring, even when asleep
  • feet sweaty and more about toes; fetid, suppressed foot-sweat; very nervous
  • chillblains, painful, < from rubbing
  • spinal affections; burning whole length of spine; backache much < from sitting > by walking about
  • spinal irritation; great prostration of strength
  • cannot bear back touched
  • can only void urine while sitting bent backwards
  • twitching and jerking of single muscles
  • weakness and trembling of extremities; of hands while writing; during menses
  • during sweat, cannot tolerate any covering
  • < of many symptoms from drinking wine, even a small quantity
  • > symptoms: of chest, by expectoration; of bladder, by urinating; of back, by emissions; general, by menstrual flow

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