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Argentum Nitricum

ARG N · 17 entries across 17 books
PreparationTrituration and solution. Clarke
3X–30X
Third to thirtieth potency. Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses. This solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxideDose · Boericke

Reason for use

This caustic produces destruction of tissue wherever applied.

Taken internally, it produces a profound anaemia and general malnutrition, ecchymosis especially. Its action on the liver and kidneys is marked, increasing at first the flow of bile, and finally causing degeneration of the liver, albuminuria, etc. It produces violent tetaniform or epileptiform convulsions, followed sometimes by paralysis. Dilute solutions produce a violent inflammation of mucous membranes, characterized by a profuse muco-purulent secretion.

The full T. F. Allen text, by section

Generalities

Tremblings, twitchings, convulsions.

General restlessness.

Weakness ; paralytic symptoms.

General stinging pains.

Mind

Irresolute.

Apprehensive.

Nervous faintness.

Imbecility ; loss of memory.

Head

In general, dull, aching fullness of head, ameliorated by tight binding.

Full, throbbing, congested feeling.

Dull, stupefying ache.

Vertigo, with buzzing in ears, weakness and trembling.

Boring in left frontal eminence.

One side of head feels enlarged.

The roots of the hair feel pulled ; scalp tender.

Eyes

Violent ophthalmia ; conjunctiva swollen ; eyeball congested ; very profuse purulent discharge.

Caruncula lachrymalis intensely red, swollen.

Eyeballs unsteady from lack of muscular tone.

Asthenopia from muscular paresis, especially from lack of power of accommodation.

Photophobia.

Vision dim.

Vision distorted.

Floating opacities, like filaments or serpents.

Illusions of vision ; seems to see serpents (mental).

Ears

Deafness.

Whizzing or ringing in ears.

Nose

Catarrh (like Arg. met.).

Coryza, with stupefying headache.

Loss of smell.

Face

Sickly looking, pale or even cyanotic.

Facial neuralgia, left side ; boring pain (usually).

Mouth

General sensitiveness to cold things.

Toothache from sour or cold things, aggravated by chewing.

Gums loose, tender, bleed easily.

Tongue red at tip, dry, papillae enlarged.

Saliva increased, thin, fetid.

Throat

Dark, red.

Inflamed, with sensation of a splinter or a stick when swallowing.

Throat raw and sore.

Rough.

Much tenacious mucus, with much hawking.

Dryness and burning.

Stomach

Craving for sugar.

Nausea.

Retching ; vomiting ; ejecta become black.

Flatulent distention of stomach, extreme.

Pit of stomach painfully swollen.

Bursting sensation in pit, ameliorated by eructations.

Eructations difficult, as if oesophagus were spasmodically closed.

Vomiting of glairy mucus.

Pain in pit, extends around sides or into the chest.

Abdomen

Flatulent distention.

Flatulent pains, often sharp, followed by evacuations of gas and green, fetid mucus.

Pain around hypochondria.

Rectum and Anus :

Itching.

Burning.

Haemorrhoids.

Stool

Green, fetid mucus.

Watery, with flatulence.

Mucus in shreds, white or green, sour or fetid.

Bloody mucus.

Diarrhoea, chronic, resulting from emotional disturbances.

Urinary Organs

Urine usually clear and copious.

Urethra inflamed ; violent, acute inflammation, great swelling, burning ; profuse purulent discharge ; urine bloody.

Priapismus, with shooting pains, severe inflammation, etc.

Sexual Organs

Inflammation of prepuce, ulceration.

Female (Vagina sensitive, bleeding. Ulcerations, purulent leucorrhoea, etc. - Clin .)

- Sexual dreams and orgasms at night (in an epileptic).

Respiratory organs :

Hoarseness.

Cough, suffocative, aggravated by tobacco smoke.

Larynx sore, raw.

Suffocative dyspnoea.

Chest

Burning.

Heaviness.

Tension in muscles as if a clamp were around the chest.

Heart

Anxiety.

Palpitation.

Pulse irregular, intermitting.

Neck and Back :

Backache, ameliorated by standing or walking.

Heaviness in sacrum, as before menses.

Paralytic sensations ; must stretch and walk.

Extremities

Tremblings.

Twitchings.

Paralysis.

Upper : Various pains ; tremblings.

Lower : Weakness ; paralytic heaviness.

Sleep

Sleepless, or restless sleep.

Dreams of snakes or of strange figures ; wakes in fright.

Fever

Chilly ; feverish ; no thirst.

Sweat in morning, or at night.

Complete text of the Argentum Nitricum entry in T. F. Allen - A Primer of Materia Medica; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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  3. Reproducibility of the effects of homeopathically potentised Argentum nitricum on the growth of Lemna gibba L. in a randomised and blinded bioassayMajewsky V, Scherr C, Schneider C et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2017 · doi
  4. Identification of unknown homeopathic remedies by delayed luminescenceLenger K, Bajpai RP, Spielmann M · Cell biochemistry and biophysics · 2014 · doi
  5. The effect of individualized homeopathic treatment on the semen quality of bulls with reproductive disorders: a case seriesde Souza MF, Costa-e-Silva EV, Macedo GG et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2012 · doi
  6. Treating menopausal symptoms with a complex remedy or placebo: a randomized controlled trialvon Hagens C, Schiller P, Godbillon B et al. · Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society · 2012 · Randomized Controlled Trial · doi
  7. Development of a test system for homeopathic preparations using impaired duckweed (Lemna gibba L.)Jäger T, Scherr C, Simon M et al. · Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2011 · doi
  8. Assays of homeopathic remedies in rodent behavioural and psychopathological modelsBellavite P, Magnani P, Marzotto M et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2009 · Review · doi
  9. Effects of potentised substances on growth rate of the water plant Lemna gibba LScherr C, Simon M, Spranger J et al. · Complementary therapies in medicine · 2009 · doi
  10. Duckweed (Lemna gibba L.) as a test organism for homeopathic potenciesScherr C, Simon M, Spranger J et al. · Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2007 · doi
  11. The effects of homeopathic Argentum nitricum on test anxietyBaker DG, Myers SP, Howden I et al. · Complementary therapies in medicine · 2003 · Clinical Trial · doi
  12. Effects of homeopathic Argentum nitricum on test anxietyLeckridge B · Complementary therapies in medicine · 2003 · doi

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