The original name of platinum was “Platina”, being a Spanish word meaning “Like Silver”. The metal was introduced into Europe from South America in the middle of the eighteen the century. It is always found in association with other metals, chiefly Rhodium, Osmium, Iridium, and Palladium. Platina is heavy metal, placed between Iridium & Aurum below palladium in the periodic table. Platinum, palladium, gold & silver are christened precious for the adjective is rooted in price. They could as well as called pricey – “high in price, charging high prices’

      Synonyms: Platina, Metallic Platinum, French : Platine, German: Platin, Chemical Symbol: PL, Habitat. It is to be found in plenty in California, South America and Russia

Description:
      A lustrous greyish malleable and ductile metal; good conductor of heat and electricity. It is stable in air and does not tarnish on exposure to air . It is insoluble in single acid but is soluble in hot aqua-regia with the formation of chloroplatinic acid. Its specific gravity is 21.45. It melts at 1773°. It is found native. Precipitated platinum fit for Homoeopathic trituration, may be obtained by placing polished steel rods in a diluted solution of platonic chloride upon which the metal will be deposited as a spongy iron-grey mass, without luster. The precipitate, after being off the rods with wooden scrapers, is to be boiled with hydrochloric acid, then washed well with water and dried.

History and authority:
      Hahnemann was the first to think of it as a medicine and his proving in the chronic diseases is the basis of our knowledge of its action. One characteristic symptom either when found alone or in association with other conditions, has led to many cures with platina. Allen’s Encyclop. Mat. Med. Vol 574

Preparation :
      In the crude state this metal in found mixed up with various other impurities. Platinum dissolves in lead & advantage is to take the circumstance to separate it from other metallic impurities. The alloy of platinum and lead are melted & exposed to a current of hot air in which the lead oxidizes and falls off as slog. The precipitated metallic platinum is then triturated.

a) Trituration 1X                                    Drug strength 1/10

      Platinum metallicum Precipitated       100 g

      Saccharum Lactis                             900 g

      To make one thousand grams of the trituration.

b) Potencies :

      2x and higher to be triturated to 6x may be converted to liquid 8x, and higher with dispensing alcohol.