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Arsenicum Album
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Origin Mineral · Simple
ClarkePreparation Solution and trituration.
Sources 20 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Nash …

Dose Boericke
2X, 3X, ↑
Third to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies often yield brilliant results. Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin. But if only surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies, 2x to 3x trit. Repeated doses advisable

By regionHering
Mind ► Weakness of memory. ► Confusion of the head. ► Aversion to meeting acquaintances because he imagines having formerly offended them, though he knows not how. ► Sad, tearful anxious mood. ► Fears to be left alone, lest he do himself bodily harm. ► Determined to commit suicide he suffers so. ► Fears he will have to murder some one. ► Sees vermin ; throws away bugs by the handful. ► Tears his body injuries his own person ; insanity. ► Dread of death when alone, or on going to bad. ► Anxious and depressed, fears permanent loss of health. ► Intense anxiety and with restlessness, worse after midnight driving out of bed. ► Great anxiety with constriction of chest and dyspnoea. ► Great fear, restlessness, trembling, cold sweat, prostration. ► Self-willed and tearful. ► Vexation with anxiety, restlessness and chilliness. ► Child captious wants to be carried. ► Cannot find rest anywhere changes place continually, wants to go from one bed to another.
Inner Head ► Intense frontal headache with vertigo. ► Drawing pressive pain in right side of forehead. ► Pain as if bruised or sore, over the sore the nose and in the forehead rubbing relieves temporarily. ► Throbbing frontal headache over root of nose. θ Ozaena. ► Headache : beating ; or pressure as from a load on brain ; rising up in bed or motion aggravates ; cold washing relieves temporarily, walking in open air permanently. ► The pain in head and face is especially severe on left side ; cannot lean or rest on that side.
Eyes ► Sensitive to light ; photophobia. ► Snow dazzles with lachrymation. ► Flickering before the eyes. ► Everything appears green ; sees as through a white gauze. ► Weakness of sight ; dim sight. ► Pupils contracted or dilated. ► Eyes sunken or protruding. ► Yellowness of the sclerotica. ► Pain in right eyeball particularly during motion. ► Pulsative throbbing in eyes (at midnight) at every pulsation a stitch. ► Feeling of sand in eyes. ► Violent burning in eyes. ► Chronic trachoma, inner surface of lids rubs eyeballs ; burning, etc. ► Croupous conjunctivitis from ophthalmia neonatorum. ► Conjunctiva looks like a piece of raw beef. ► Trembling of upper eyelid, with lachrymation. ► Eyelids oedematous and spasmodically closed ; also for non-inflammatory oedema (like Apis). ► Agglutination of lids. ► Edges of lids painful during motion, as if dry and rubbing on the ball. ► Extreme redness of inner surface of lids, with uneasy sensation rather than pain. ► Burning in margins of eyelids. ► Ophthalmia of children skin rough, dry and dirty looking photophobia and profuse, acrid lachrymation ; relieved by hot applications.
Stomach ► Pressure in the region of the stomach ; weight, as of a stone. ► Stomach tender to pressure. ► Intense heat and burning in stomach and pit of stomach. ► Violent, tearing, boring pain and cramp, in the stomach and intestines. ► Pain in the stomach relieved by sweet milk. ► Great anxiety about the epigastric region. ► Epigastrium distended and hard ; umbilicus sensitive to touch. ► Pain in the pit of the stomach arresting breathing.
Female Sexual Organs ► Increased sexual desire, with involuntary discharge of mucus. ► Menses : too early ; too profuse ; exhausting menorrhagia. ► Hemorrhage, with lancinating, burning pains ; sudden, of profuse dark blood. ► During menses, sharp sticking in rectum, thence to anus and pubes. ► Painful menses. ► Amenorrhoea. ► Scanty pale menses. ► Thin, whitish, offensive discharge instead of the menses. ► Leucorrhoea : profuse, yellowish, thick and corroding. ► Stitches from the abdomen down into the vagina. ► Burning or tensive pain in the ovary. ► Pressive, stitching pains in region of right ovary. ► Drawing, stitching pain from region of ovary into the thigh, which feels numb and lame ; worse from motion, bending, or sitting bent. ► Burning, throbbing, lancinating pain in uterine region.
Lungs ► Tightness of chest as if bound with a hoop. ► Constriction of chest : with great anxiety and restlessness, evenings ; when going up hill. ► Stitches in upper right chest ; in left chest only during inspiration. ► Stitching pain in sternum, from below up, when coughing. ► Pleurisy with tendency to syncope. ► Chilliness in chest, evenings. ► Burning in the chest. ► Catarrh on the chest, great suffocation ; child tosses about in agony. ► Gangrene of the lungs with green, ichorous sputum.
Neck And Back ► Nape stiff, as if bruised or sprained. ► Neuralgic pains on left side of neck. ► Drawing pains : between scapulae ; necessitate lying down ; from small of back to the shoulders. ► Stiffness of the spinal column, beginning in the region of the os coccygis. ► Loss of strength in small of back. ► Bruised pain in small of back.
Limbs In General ► Twitching ; trembling ; violent starting while falling asleep ; numbness ; lassitude ; weariness. ► Excessive weakness and exhaustion of limbs oblige him to lie down. ► Violent tearing in the upper and lower limbs ; cannot rest on the affected side ; pain least felt when moving affected part.
Sleep ► Yawning and stretching. ► Frequent startings in and from sleep ; awakened by pains, worse 12 P.M. ► Sleeplessness with restlessness and moaning ; mal-nutrition ; nerves exhausted. ► After sleep, feels as if he had not slept enough ; eyes are weary ; cannot get out of bed. ► Dreams : full of care, sorrow and fear ; about thunder-storms ; fire ; of black water and darkness ; of death.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Undefined development of chill (and heat) ; either simultaneously, or in alternation. ► Shuddering without thirst, worse in open air. ► Chill in forenoon not relieved by anything. ► Internal chill, with external heat and red cheeks. ► Chill without thirst, followed by heat with much thirst and no sweat ; a sweat comes hours afterwards whereupon ailments increase ; liver and spleen swollen. θ Dropsy. ► External coldness, with cold, clammy sweat. ► During chill (and during heat) aggravation of symptoms which existed previously, but were a slight importance. ► Nursing children having no distinct chill must be covered ; are very thirsty. ► Blue nails and lips during chill. ► Internal burning, dry heat ; inclination to uncover. ► Dry heat, evening and night, with thirst and frequent drinking of but a small quantity at a time. ► Excessive heat with small, feeble and very frequent pulse ; mouth dry, tongue so dry it is painful to move it ; thirst followed by adipsia. θ Typhoid. ► Heat at night, as if hot water were poured over one. ► Sweat at the end of fever, with cessation of all previous symptoms ; sweat relieves with pains ; rheumatism. ► Sweat in the morning without relief ; cold clammy or sour and offensive smelling. ► Sweats on going to sleep ; goes off after sweating a little. ► Profuse sweat about the knees, at night. ► During the sweat unquenchable thirst.
Skin ► Skin very white and pasty looking, later yellow, scaly. ► Skin dry and scaly. ► Blue spots on skin. ► Burning, itching parts painful after scratching. ► Very painful black eruption. ► Pimples burning violently, causing almost unendurable anguish. ► Herpetic eruption itching and burning ; eczema, dry desquamation burning pruritus. ► Urticaria, large and very prominent. ► Eruption resembling red petechiae, from the size of a fleabite to that of a lentil. ► Eruption delays or suddenly pales, becomes livid or intermixed with petechiae, malignant sore throat : dropsy ; or eruption well out, but with disproportionate weakness, mild delirium, vomiting, etc. θ Scarlatina. ► Black vesicles causing burning pain. ► Variola, asthenic cases ; pustules sink, areolae grow livid ; also in hemorrhagic and septic forms. ► Ulcer, with high edges ; discharges black, coagulated blood. ► Ulcer on leg covered with grey crust and surrounded with an inflamed border ; burning and painful. ► Painful sensitiveness of old ulcers. ► Purulent, fetid secretions from eruptions. ► Gangrenous aspect of sores. ► Carbuncles. ► Cancers with burning pain. ► Itch-like eruption in bend of knees.

Books*
Antidoted by Nux Vomica 5, Cinchona Officinalis 3, Euphorbium Officinarum 3 +43
Complementary Phosphorus, Allium Sativum, Secale Cornutum +4
Follows well Aranea Diadema, Iodium, Mercurius Solubilis +3
Compare Phosphorus, Arsenic Album, Cinchona Officinalis +36

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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