Argentum Nitricum

Mind

(Argentum nitricum)

Loss of memory. ( Anac ., Kreos., Lach., Merc ., Natr. mur., Nux m., Phos. ac.)

Impulsive ; must walk fast.

Melancholic ; does not undertake anything lest he should not succeed. (Aur.)

Feeling as if a cloud hung over him, with great depression ; usually with sighing respiration ; worse in a close room.

Apprehension when ready to go to church or opera, bringing on diarrhoea.

Head

(Argentum nitricum)

Vertigo and buzzing in the ears, and general debility of the limbs and trembling.

Headache relieved by binding something tightly around the head (Sil.) ; worse in the open air.

Boring in left frontal eminence. ( Coloc .)

Head feels much enlarged. (Borax, Cimic., Glon .)

Digging pains in the hemispheres of the brain.

Painful fullness and heaviness in the head.

Excessive congestion of blood to the head. ( Bell .)

Almost constant boring, cutting in bones of forehead, vertex, temples, and face.

Itching, creeping, crawling, as from vermin (Colch., Cupr. m.) ; roots of hair feel as if pulled upward.

Eyes

(Argentum nitricum)

Ophthalmia-with intense pains ; worse in warm room ; better in cool open air. (Puls.)

Intolerance of light. (Acon., Bell ., Euphr., Graph.)

Gray spots and serpent-like bodies move before the vision.

Paralysis of accommodation from errors of refraction ; glasses failing.

Ciliary blepharitis from being over a fire ; better from cold air and cold applications ; ectropion.

Vanishing of sight ; must constantly wipe away the mucus. (Alum., Croc., Puls.)

Acute granular conjunctivitis ; conjunctiva intensely pink or scarlet-red ; discharge profuse, inclined to be muco-purulent. (Merc.)

Canthi red as blood ; the caruncula swollen, standing out like a lump of red flesh ; clusters of intensely red vessels extend from inner canthus to cornea. (Kali iod.)

Opacity of the cornea ; ulceration of cornea in infants ; profuse purulent discharge from the lids. (Merc. cor.)

Nose

(Argentum nitricum)

Discharge of whitish pus, with clots of blood.

Coryza, with stupefying headache over the eyes ; has to lie down ; sneezing ; chilliness ; lachrymation ; sickly look.

Violent itching of the nose.

Face

(Argentum nitricum)

Sickly appearance (Ars.) ; face sunken, pale, bluish Carb. v.) ; yellow, dirty-looking (Iodi.) ; prematurely old look.

Infra-orbital neuralgia, left side.

Mouth

(Argentum nitricum)

Gums tender and bleed easily ( Merc., Nitr. ac ., Phos.) ; but neither painful nor swollen.

Tip of the tongue red ( Ars .) and painful ; papillae erect, prominent.

Red streak down middle of tongue.

Fetor from the mouth ; ptyalism. ( Merc., Nitr. ac .)

Tongue is remarkably dry, with violent thirst.

Throat

(Argentum nitricum)

Thick, tenacious mucus in the throat, obliging him to hawk.

Rawness, soreness, and scraping in the throat. (Arg. met.)

Sensation as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when swallowing (Ailanth., Hep. s., Nitr. ac.), breathing, or moving the neck.

Uvula and fauces dark-red. (Ailanth., Bapt., Bell., Mur. ac., Phyt.)

Burning and dryness in fauces and pharynx. ( Ars .)

Paroxysms of cramp in the oesophagus.

Stomach

(Argentum nitricum)

Irresistible desire for sugar.

Loss of appetite ; much thirst or no thirst.

Violent belchings , with most gastric ailments, after every meal ; difficult ; finally air rushes out with great violence.

Nausea after each meal, especially after dinner.

The vomited substances tinged the bedding black.

Awakens at midnight with oppression at stomach, as from a heavy lump, inducing vomiting ; in the morning throws up glairy mucus, which can be drawn into strings ; during the afternoon desire to vomit, tremulous weakness, and a sensation as if the head were in a vise . (Merc.)

Violent cardialgia, with griping and burning, after ice cream or food.

Stinging, ulcerative pain in left side of stomach, worse from touch and deep inspiration.

Trembling and throbbing in stomach. (Puls., Sep.)

Painful swelling of the pit of the stomach, with great anxiety.

Abdomen

(Argentum nitricum)

Fullness, heaviness, and distension of the abdomen (Ant. crud., Aloe, Cinch.), with anxiety.

Stitches dart through the abdomen like electric shocks on left side, especially when changing from rest to motion.

Pain in the hypochondria.

Flatulence

(Aloe, Carb. v., Lyc.)

Stool And Anus

(Argentum nitricum)

Stools greenish (Amm. mur.), very fetid mucus (Ars.), with noisy flatus, at night ; green mucus (Ars., Bell., Ipec., Puls., Merc., Sulph.) with retching and vomiting of mucus ; scanty and watery, with flatulent colic at night ; like spinach in flakes ; copious fluid ; bloody mucus,-masses of epithelium connected by muco-lymph, looking red, or green, or shreddy, with severe bearing down in the hypogastrium ; advanced dysentery, with suspected ulceration ; diarrhoea as soon as he drinks ( Aloe, Coloc., Ferr .) ; child fond of sugar, but diarrhoea results from eating it.

Urinary Organs

(Argentum nitricum)

Burning during and after micturition (Acon., Canth .) ; urethra feels sore, as if swollen. ( Can. sat .)

Urine passes unconsciously and uninterruptedly. ( Caust .)

Urging to urinate ; urine passes easily and freely.

Quick urging to urinate ; flow copious and clear. (Apoc., Phos. ac.)

Ulcerative pain in middle of the urethra, as from a splinter.

Stream of urine spreads asunder.

Scanty emission of dark-yellow urine.

Male Organs.- (Argentum nitricum)

Want of desire ; organs shriveled. (Agar.)

Coition painful ; urethra as if put on the stretch, or sensitive at its orifice.

Ulcers on the prepuce ; small, covered with pus ; later, spreading, bowl-shaped, with a tallow-like coating.

Contusive pain, with enlargement and hardening, of right testicle.

Female Organs.- (Argentum nitricum)

Coition painful, followed by bleeding from the vagina.

Prolapsus, with ulcerations of os or cervix. ( Hydras .)

Menses irregular, too copious or too scanty, too soon or too late.

Dreams of sexual gratification.

Metrorrhagia, with nervous erethism at change of life ; also in young widows and those who have borne no children ; returns in attacks, region of ovaries painful, with pains radiating to sacrum and thighs.

During pregnancy, stomach as if it would burst with wind ; head feels expanded.

Respiratory Organs.- (Argentum nitricum)

Internal soreness of the larynx and pit of the throat, worse mornings.

Rawness and soreness high up in trachea, when coughing.

Chronic laryngitis of singers. (Arg. met., Arum, Phos.)

Raising the voice causes cough.

Many people in room seem to take away his breath.

Short-breathed, with deep sighs ; much oppression ; violent attacks of dry, spasmodic asthma, forcing him to rise and walk about.

Irritating cough, tormenting evening and night.

Evening cough ; tobacco smoke becomes intolerable. (Ign.)

Expectoration purulent, mixed with light blood.

Heart

(Argentum nitricum)

Heart's action irregular, intermittent ( Digit., Natr. mur .), with an unpleasant sensation of fullness ; worse when noticing it, better on motion in open air.

Violent palpitation of the heart. (Acon., Ars., Bell., Spig., Verat. alb.)

Neck and Back.- (Argentum nitricum)

Indurated glands on neck, with suspicion of former syphilis.

Weakness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if bones were loose.

Lower Limbs.- (Argentum nitricum)

Limbs, especially knees, start up at night, awaking him.

Debility and weakness of lower limbs, with sick feeling and dread of work. (Nux v.)

Calves weary, as after a long journey. ( Cinch .)

Generalities

(Argentum nitricum)

Chorea-like, convulsive motions of all the limbs.

Lassitude ; weariness of forearms and legs.

Tremulous weakness , accompanied with general debility.

Periodical trembling of the body.

Convulsions, preceded by great restlessness.

Epilepsy from fright (Gels., Op., Stram.) during menses. (Cimic.)

Sensation of expansion of the body, especially face and head.

Loss of voluntary motion.

Paraplegia from debilitating causes.

Moral and nervous disturbances come on in quite regular paroxysms.

Dreadful soreness in flesh and limbs.

Sensation of splinter in various parts. ( Nitr. ac .)

Emaciation most marked in legs ; withered look.

Skin

(Argentum nitricum)

Bluish-black eruption ; scarlet fever.

Erysipelatous bed sores.

Sleep

(Argentum nitricum)

Restless, stupefied sleep, with horrid dreams.

Prevented from falling asleep by fancies and images hovering before his imagination.

Amelioration

Therapeutic Range.- (Argentum nitricum)

In various chronic affections of the brain and nervous system ; melancholia ; spinal irritation ; epilepsy ; paralysis and paraplegia ; cardialgia ; gastralgia ; locomotor ataxia.

Septic forms of scarlet fever.

In affections of mucous membranes ; ophthalmia ; dyspepsia ; diarrhoea.

Bone affections, especially caries of small bones.

In chronic laryngitis and asthma.

Angina pectoris.

In urethritis ; diabetes ; gonorrhoea, and chancre.

In chlorosis.

Compare

(Argentum nitricum)

Ars., Alum., Hep. s., Hydroc. ac., Merc ., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac., Phos .

Antidotes

(Argentum nitricum)

Ars ., Merc., Natr. mur ., Nitr. ac.

To large doses : milk, salt in water, mucilaginous drinks.

Argentum Nitricum Antidotes.-

Amm., Caust., Tabac.

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