Iodium is also known as Jodam. It is a homeopathic remedy derived from iodine, vital for the body's function. It effectively treats various ailments including appetite, thirst issues, glandular conditions, weakness, and breathlessness. It also addresses mental, nasal, and head issues, as well as female problems like irregular menses. Mother Tinctures are foundational and require strict adherence to quality standards. Schwabe India ensures this, storing tinctures carefully. For more, consult Boericke's Materia Medica on Acidum Phosphoricum Q.

Rapid metabolism and the use of Iodium in homeopathy. It describes characteristics such as loss of flesh, increased appetite with thirst, debility, and perspiration induced by slight effort. Iodium individuals are thin, dark-complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands and a voracious appetite leading to thinness, often associated with a tubercular type. The recommended dosage includes the crude drug in saturated solution or potencies from third to thirtieth, and an indurated solution of Potass iod for expelling tapeworms.

Patient profile of Iodium:

• Mind: Restlessness, sudden violent impulses, need to stay busy, and fearful with suicidal tendencies.
• Head: Headaches with a sensation of blood rushing, throbbing, and feeling of tightness around the head. Vertigo worsened by stooping and in warm rooms.
• Nose: Frequent sneezing, hot discharge, nasal congestion with loss of smell, and associated with high blood pressure.
• Stool: Bleeding during stool, whitish stool, relieved by drinking cold milk.
• Female: Weakness during menses, irregular menses, leucorrhea causing damage to inner parts, and shrinking of mammary glands.
• Respiratory: Hoarseness, throat-grasping cough, blood-streaked sputum, cough with palpitations, craving for cold air, difficulty breathing, and chest weakness.