Platina

A rare, dense, silver-white precious metal discovered in South America, known for its high resistance to corrosion and lustrous beauty. In homeopathy, it is prepared by trituration of the pure metal.

Widely used in jewellery, catalytic converters, laboratory instruments, and electronic components. Historically prized for its unreactive nature and rarity.

First proved by Dr. Stapf and others under Hahnemann’s supervision; published in Materia Medica Pura

• Mind and Emotions – egotism, superiority, alienation
• Female genital organs – hyperesthesia, spasms, painful menses
• Nervous system – numbness, coldness, trembling, spasms
• Face and jaw – neuralgia
• Digestive tract – constriction and spasm
• Extremities – cramps, trembling, coldness
• Sexual system – exaggerated or perverse desire

• Walking in open air (especially for mind and melancholy)
• Pressure (relieves abdominal or uterine pain)
• Bending double
• Motion (some symptoms improved by continued movement)
• Conversation (sometimes temporarily distracts mental symptoms)

• Evening and night
• Sitting still
• Touch (particularly genital or abdominal region)
• Emotional shocks, mortification
• Suppressed sexual or emotional expression
• Menses (before, during, and after—symptoms persist throughout)
• Sexual abstinence or frustration

• Pulsatilla – Both have emotional, changeable moods, but Pulsatilla is yielding and timid; Platina is cold and proud
• Sepia – Indifference and aversion to family, but Sepia lacks Platina’s grandeur and hypersensitivity
• Ignatia – Also hysterical, but more contradictory, grief-based, and tearful
• Lachesis – Talkative and jealous, but more passionate and expressive; Platina is more repressive
• Staphysagria – Suppressed sexuality and indignation, but lacks Platina’s aloofness and regal delusion

• Complementary: Belladonna, Palladium
• Antidotes: Pulsatilla, Camphora
• Follows well: Sepia, Nux vomica
• Precedes well: Lachesis, Staphysagria

Platina metallicum is the remedy of inflated identity, sexual tension, and isolated grandeur. It typifies the cold, untouchable, emotionally detached figure who suffers internally from enormous pressure—social, sexual, or moral. The physical symptoms reflect this compression and separation—tight bands, numbness, spasms, and induration. Ideal for women with deep pride, sexual conflict, and concealed pain. The Platina patient can become trapped in their own elevation, suffering from the pressure of maintaining superiority while secretly craving intimacy.

• Excellent for neuralgia of the face with numbness, especially left-sided
• Consider in menstrual disorders with pride, sexual repression, or emotional coldness
• Key in hysterical or spasmodic conditions with great emotional suppression
• Use when physical constriction mirrors psychological detachment or superiority complex
• Particularly effective for hypersensitive genitalia, especially with emotional isolation

Mind

• Delusions, grandeur
• Contemptuous behaviour
• Haughty, proud, reserved
• Fear of insanity
• Sexual thoughts, excessive

Female

• Vulva, hypersensitive
• Menses, profuse, dark
• Ovarian pain, left-sided
• Sexual desire, increased or suppressed

Face

• Neuralgia, zygoma
• Numbness, alternating with pain
• Cramping pain in jaw

Extremities

• Numbness, legs
• Trembling, spasmodic motion
• Coldness, hands and feet

Generalities

• Spasms, hysteria
• Numbness alternating with sensitivity
• Worse evening, rest, sexual suppression

Samuel Hahnemann – Materia Medica Pura: First proving, detailing mental and uterine symptoms

James Kent – Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Focused on pride, delusions, sexual pathology

William Boericke – Pocket Manual: Clear outlines of Platina’s sexual and neuralgic uses

John Henry Clarke – Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica: Expanded symptom descriptions and modalities

C. Hering – Guiding Symptoms: Noted key peculiarities: alternating numbness, facial neuralgia, hysteria