FOURTH ROW OF THE PERIODIC TABLE ¦
IRON SERIES
SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY
ULRICH WELTE ¦
OVERVIEW OF THE IRON SERIES
8
Kalium-ferrocyanatum
Yellow prussiate of potash is an excellent remedy for
severe bleeding of the uterus.
Kali-f-cy, molecular formula K
4
Fe(CN)
6
, 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.
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