Spectrum Iron Series 03-2016

FOURTH ROW OF THE PERIODIC TABLE ¦

IRON SERIES

SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY

ULRICH WELTE ¦

OVERVIEW OF THE IRON SERIES

Kalium-ferrocyanatum

Yellow prussiate of potash is an excellent remedy for

severe bleeding of the uterus.

Kali-f-cy, molecular formula K

Fe(CN)

, is a potassium-iron com-

pound with six cyanide anions.

Clinical:

hypermenorrhea or metrorrhagia, also severe uterine

bleeding during the period, especially when associated with

anemia, possibly accompanied by cyanosis.

Signature:

the German name for yellow prussiate of potash is

“Blutlaugensalz,” meaning “blood leach salt,” a term from the

old alchemists. They heated blood with bones, horn, and other

substances containing protein (= nitrogen) together with iron filings

and potassium carbonate (potash). The residue was leached with

water, crystallizing to prussiate of potash.

Case 1: episode of continuous bleeding with severe blood loss.

For the last ten days, she has suffered extreme continuous

bleeding with severe blood loss and large clumps being flushed

out, accompanied by increasing weakness and paleness. She is

a wiry fifty-year-old woman in the menopause, working in a

trucking company. She has her department well under control

(Fe): everyone is pulling together (Fe), getting their work done

with pleasure and gusto. She has an impulsive disposition (stage

1) with a strong sense of duty (Iron series). She is constantly in a

rush (stage 8) and she turns up the pressure (Ferrum). Everything

has to happen in no time at all, including her medical treatment.

She likes blue 15-16C (Kali) but dislikes the airy and footloose

yellow-green 24 C.

First, I try

Ratanhia

but the effect is minimal. Then, as a con-

ventional emergency treatment, she is given methylergometrine

via intramuscular injection. This reduces the bleeding to that

of a normal menses. The next day, I prescribe

Kali-f-cy

200C.

She immediately senses a soothing effect, both the feeling of

weakness and invalidity disappear, and the bleeding stops. The

next day, things get even better with a general sense of improve-

ment. After a few weeks, she has a relapse. She would like the

injection again as it helped the first time (typical Iron series).

Instead, I give her

Kali-f-cy

200C again and she is disappointed

not to be given the injection. Might a nocebo effect delay any

improvement? No, the remedy helps nevertheless within 2-3

hours. This time, she realizes the effect of the remedy and

expresses respect. In subsequent years, she requires Kali-f-cy

on several occasions, which helps each time.

Other good remedies that she had previously taken were

Citrus

decumana

(stage 8 of the Rutaceae, the group of the happy

creators: “hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we go”); she cannot

tolerate grapefruit, and

Angustura

, also stage 8 of the Rutaceae.

Plant code 655.41.08.

Case 2: severe menopausal bleeding with cramps of lower

abdomen and diarrhea.

Fifty-year-old woman with severe menopausal bleeding and

lower abdominal cramps in the Cesarean section scar. For the

last two days, she also had diarrhea, up to five times per hour,

with tenesmus during stool. Pain and diarrhea only in the

daytime, nothing at night (diarrhea daytime, tenesmus during

diarrhea: Kali among others).

She is an impatient woman, industrious, who applies pres-

sure, Iron-like. Since she likes blue 15-16C, a Kalium salt is

indicated (Ferrum prefers pink). The main remedy for massive

metrorrhagia is

Kali-f-cy,

so she is given this as an hourly dose

of 30C. The effect kicks in after two hours: the cramps cease

on the afternoon of the same day, and she feels better. The

next day, she has recovered her enthusiasm and gets stuck in

to things again.

Case 3: hypermenorrhea with large myomas.

Twenty-nine-year-old woman with very strong period blee

ding due to large myomas. She declines an operation because

she wants to have children. For the last four weeks, she has

had continuous bleeding with anemia (Hb below 9). She has

already been given iron infusions.

Kali-f-cy

is recommended

to her by one of our patients with severe bleeding and who

was helped by it. The bleeding stopped after the remedy.

We saw the patient later, when she came to the practice for

other complaints.

2 CALCIUM

Stage 2: shy and adapting – defining one’s position

Shy. Seek protection. Defining one’s position. Where am I here?

Yielding. Covering. Overwhelmed. Observed. Criticized. Con-

formist. Indecisive. Support. Stabilize. Harden. Two.

Iron series:

Work. Rules. Discipline. Standardized. Complete a

task. Teamwork. Be normal, as is right and proper. Inconspi

cuous. What do the others think of me? Company, firm, factory;

village, small town: everyone knows everybody else, everyone

has their place.

CALCIUM – STAGE 2: the conformist aspect of the Iron

series – what others think of them – is accentuated

further by stage 2. Calcium is so hardened in its adapta-

tion that it seems to have lost touch with itself in the

attempt to fit in with the group. A club can provide

protection and escape. You submit to the discipline of

a company and do whatever they ask. The team decides

the rules and you have to just obey. Act normal and fit

in, then everything will be fine.