RADIUM BROMATUM

Radium bromatum is an important homoeopathic medicine, Derived from Radium with a radio-activity of 1,800,000 units, this medicine is useful in treating chronic rheumatism, gout, various skin disorders (acne rosacea, nævi, and moles), ulcers, cancers, and conditions associated with profound systemic weakness. It is notable for severe, aching pains relieved by motion, trophic changes in tissues, and a marked increase in polymorphonuclear neutrophiles. Symptoms often appear late and are associated with low blood pressure, restlessness, and delayed healing, especially of ulcers from radium burns.

Common Names:
English: Radium Bromide
SBL’s Radium bromatum can be helpful in the following conditions:

• Mind and Emotions
• Helps in apprehension and depression, especially fear of being alone in the dark.
• Desire for company, emotional tiredness, and irritability.

• Headaches and Nervous System
• Supports in reducing vertigo and heaviness of the head, especially occipital and vertex pains linked to lumbar aching.
• Radium bromatum relieves severe pain over the right eye spreading to the back of the head, better in open air.
• Aids in violent trifacial neuralgia and aching in the jaw angle.

• Mouth and Nose Symptoms
• Treats dryness of the mouth with a metallic taste.
• Prickling sensation on the tongue’s tip and dryness/itching of nasal cavities, improved in fresh air.

• Digestive Issues
• Empty or warm sensation in the stomach.
• Aversion to sweets and ice-cream; nausea with belching.
• Treats abdominal pain, violent cramps, bloating, rumbling, and alternating constipation and diarrhoea.
• Helps in flatulence, pain over McBurney’s point, and pruritus ani with piles.

• Urinary Disorders
• Increased solid elimination (especially chlorides).
• Treats renal irritation with albuminuria, granular and hyaline casts.
• Helps in nephritis linked to rheumatic symptoms; enuresis (bed-wetting).

• Female Health
• Useful in pruritus vulvæ and delayed, irregular menstruation with associated backache.
• Aching over the pubic area during menstruation.
• Manages soreness in the right breast, relieved by hard rubbing.

• Respiratory Complaints
• Persistent dry, spasmodic cough with tickling in the suprasternal fossa.
• Helps in dry, constricted feeling in the throat and soreness of chest.

• Back and Spine
• Aching in the neck, cervical pain & lameness worsened by dropping head forward, better by standing, or sitting erect.
• Useful for lumbar and sacral backache, better from continued motion.
• Aids in backache between shoulders and in the lumbar-sacral region, relieved after motion.

• Extremities and Joints
• Treats severe, sharp pains in all joints, notably knees, ankles, shoulders, hands, and fingers.
• Sensation as if bones in arms, legs, and neck are hard, brittle and could break.
• Useful for heavy arms, cracking shoulders, sore hip joints, calf pain, and popliteal space discomfort.
• Aids in trophic changes in the fingernails and dermatitis of the fingers.
• Helps in chronic rheumatic arthritis, aching pain worse at night and soreness of leg and hip muscles.

• Skin Conditions
• Helps in small pimples, erythema, dermatitis with itching, burning, redness, and swelling.
• Useful for necrosis, ulceration, and burning sensations as if the skin were on fire.
• Indicated for epithelioma (epithelial cancer).

• Sleep Disturbances
• Restlessness at night, sleepiness with daytime lethargy.
• Vivid, busy dreams, often involving fire.

• Fever and Circulatory States
• Treats internal coldness, chattering of teeth until midday.
• Radium bromatum manages internal chilliness followed by skin heat, often accompanied by bowel movements and flatulence.