Platina in Homeopathy – Best Remedy for Hysteria, Neuralgia & Genital Disorders

• Common Name: Platinum
• Source: The pure metal
• Preparation: Triturated with sugar of milk

Sphere of Action

Acts powerfully on the nervous system, female sexual organs, and mind, producing extreme sensitiveness, nervous exaltation, and hysteria-like symptoms.

Constitutional Indications

• Best suited to hysterical, proud, arrogant women
• Individuals with strong sexual desire but also emotional coldness
• Often useful in neurosis, vaginismus, dysmenorrhoea, and hysteria

Mind

• Pride and haughtiness; looks down on others
• Feels everything is inferior to herself
• Contemptuous, irritable, easily offended
• Hysterical behavior with alternation of moods – laughing and crying
• Fear of death, especially at night
• Feels as if she were two persons or separated from the world

Characteristic Sensation

• Numbness and coldness, especially in localized areas
• Sensation of enlargement of parts (e.g., feels vulva is enlarged)
• Tingling and crawling like electric current

Female Sexual System

• Excessive sexual desire, even with emotional coldness
• Vaginismus, painful coition, overly sensitive genitals
• Menses too early, profuse, dark, and clotted
• Leucorrhoea with great sexual excitement
• Ovarian pain, especially left side
• Uterine prolapse or neuralgia

Respiratory System

• Dry cough with chest oppression
• Oppression with spasmodic breathing

Extremities

• Cramps in calves and thighs
• Numbness in limbs, especially in standing position
• Stiffness and heaviness of limbs
• Trembling and coldness

Miasmatic Background

• Mainly sycotic and hysterical type

Keynotes

• Arrogance and pride
• Sensation of enlargement of body parts
• Hysterical, erotic women
• Numbness, crawling, tingling as if part is asleep
• Extreme genital hypersensitivity
• Alternating mood states: joy and sadness

Modalities

Worse From	Better From
Evening and night	Open air, motion
Touch, rest, pressure	Walking slowly
Sitting long	Bending forward slightly

Relationship

Compare With	Complementary	Antidotes
Ignatia, Sepia, Lilium tigrinum, Nux vomica	Palladium	Pulsatilla, Coffea

Potency & Dosage

• 6C to 200C used depending on the intensity and sensitivity
• Higher potencies often indicated in mental and emotional conditions

One-Line Summary

"Platina suits proud, hysterical women with numbness, genital hypersensitivity, and alternating mental states."