Homeopathy LibraryArsenicum Album
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General Characteristics-- We find a great amount of anguish in the patient, and the greater the suffering the greater the anguish. Very great restlessness, which is exhibited in an anxious tossing and jerking about, every movement being followed by exhaustion. Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying still, but as soon as he moves he is surprised to find himself so weak. Intense burning sensation, as if from coals or fire--usually found in the abdominal cavity. Fear of death. This is not the Aconite fear, but it is an anxiety, and a feeling that it is useless to take medicine , as they are surely going to die. Deficiency of blood; dropsy of outer and inner parts; inflammation of mucous membranes; strong disposition to lie down, sensations of pressing in the inner parts; burning in the glands, ulcers in the glands.
Mental.-- Delirium; raving; sad; melancholy fits of anguish, compelling tossing, uneasiness, sleeplessness; despairs of life; fear of death, thinks it very near. ( Acon ., inconsolable anguish, fearful and apprehensive that something will happen; predicts day of death.)
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Head
Acts prominently on the scalp; destitute of hair; rough and dirty looking spots. Neuralgia in left temple. Scalp is painful to touch; swelling of head and face; tinea capitis; swelling of cervical glands posterior. Ears, roaring in during paroxysms of pain.
Eyes
Internal surface of the eyelids. Aversion to light in ophthalmia. Blue color around the eyes.
Nose
Fluent catarrhal discharges, often acrid; scabs in; sneezing; cancer of.
Face
Blue color around the eyes; sunken, pale, death-like; puffed; red; bluish. Forehead. Exanthema around the mouth. Puffiness of the face.
Mouth And Throat
Eruption on margin of lips, burning; cancerous eruption with thick crust, and base with appearance of lard on lower lip. Pain in teeth relieved by hot applications. Tongue bluish, brown, or blackish; dry; desires a little water often . Burning in throat; gangrenous; everything seems to stop (lodge) in the throat. Taste saltish; bitter after eating and drinking; desire for cold water or brandy.
Stomach
Qualmishness. Vomiting of black water; of what has been drunk, it comes up immediately; at night; after eating or drinking; of green mucus; of bile; of blood; with diarrhoea. Violent pains in the stomach during vomiting. Excessive pains in stomach; weight in, as from a stone; sensation of pressure in cardiac orifice as though parts were filled with food up to the mouth. Burning in stomach; cancer in; acute and chronic gastritis. Deranged by ice, fruit, acid things, etc. Hiccough with eructations. Sea-sickness.
Abdomen
Intense burning sensation like coals of fire; right side. Pains in; excessive; at night; after eating or drinking; with vomiting and diarrhoea; causing great anguish and despair of life. Cutting in the abdomen; coldness in; excessive swelling in.
Stool And Anus
Constipation; tenesmus. Diarrhoea after eating or drinking; with vomiting; prostration; thirst; evacuations burning, dark green, slimy, black, putrid; white; undigested; painless; stool acrid, stinking, undigested; vomiting, and purging from the bowels at the same time--a strong indication for Arsen . Inflamed varices with burning.
Urine
Burning urine. Involuntary micturition. Paralysis of the bladder.
Chest
Oppressed respiration; cough, with expectoration, only during the day; taste salty. Burning in the larynx; hoarseness, worse in cold air. Dyspnoea; slow and wheezing; worse, ascending; when moving rapidly; accompanied by debility. Burning in chest. Heart very irregular; palpitation of.
Sexual.-- Male : Inflammation and swelling of the parts; gangrenous. Female : Menses too profuse; too soon; amenorrhoea. Leucorrhoea acrid, corroding.
Back
Affections of the back often appear.
Extremities
Right side. Affections of the shin-bones and calves of the legs; cramps in, at night. Tendency to paralysis of lower. Swelling of feet; hot, shiny. Blisters on fingers and toes.
Sleep
Yawning with stretching of the limbs (chills and fever often come on in this way). Complaints preventing sleep; concomitant to waking; waking too early; suffocating fits; sleep anxious and restless; sleeplessness in general, particularly after midnight. Anxious dreams about dead persons; with feeling of embarrassment; fatiguing, full of cares.
Fever
General coldness; chilliness without thirst (if there be thirst during the chill, except for hot drinks, do not give Ars .) Chilly after drinking cold water; after eating; chill and heat together. Wants to be warm, and to be surrounded by warmth; wants to be near a warm stove; complaints concomitant to chilliness. External and internal beat at the same time; heat of single parts; fever with thirst, little and often, followed by great prostration; heat with anxiousness; burning heat, wishing to be covered; dry cough during the fever; complaints concomitant to heat. Shuddering in general. Complaints concomitant to perspiration. Debilitating sweats, sometimes cold and clammy. Pulse small, frequent, intermittent; very feeble imperceptible. Compound fevers in general; heat and shuddering alternately; concomitant complaints during, before, and after fever.
Skin
Acute or chronic burns; burning of the skin; dry skin with sensation of heat; skin like parchment. Exanthema in general, around the mouth, especially the upper lip; blackish, burning, gangrenous, pustulous, whitish, jet black, white miliary, petechiae, fungus haematodes; external swelling in general, swelling blue-black ( Arsen . will change this to a greenish hue, then it will clean up nicely), burning swelling, dropsical, spongy. Skin jaundiced; general anasarca; black blisters. Tetters in general, burning, furfuraceous, prickling. Ulcers in general; indolent; mortifying; turning black; black at the bottom; bleeding, bleeding at edges, with fire-like burning, with sensation as if burnt, destitute of feeling, gangrenous, hard, on the edges, with red halo around, painful edges, spongy; spongy edges, high hard ulcers, with proud flesh in them, with bloody pus, corroding pus, inflamed.
Generalities
Rapid sinking of strength; great emaciation; least effort is exhausting. Marasmus. Convulsions. Stiffness of the limbs. Sufferings often induce shuddering, coldness, anguish, excessive failing of strength, inability to remain up.
Worse.-- In the night; after midnight; from anger with anxiety; before falling asleep; on awakening; on entering a cold place; in cold air, or getting cold; after drinking; from exertion of the body; during, before, and after the fever; while lying down with the head low; on ascending; after moving (movement followed by exhaustion); from cold food; from fruits, milk, wine; during perspiration; from running or walking fast; from a scald or burn; during sleep; during the first hours of sleep; Arsen. always wants to be wrapped up warm , also wants warm things, drinks, etc., etc.; during stool (as vomiting may come on, pains, etc.); from change of temperature; after undressing; in vaulted places, as milk house, cellar, etc.; from vomiting.
Better.-- On going down; lying with the head high; on rising; from warm or hot things; warmth in general; near a warm stove.
Remedies following:-- Apis, Chamom., China, Ferrum, Hepar, Iodium, Ipec., Lycop., Mercur., Nux vom., Sulphur .
Antidotes
Ipec., Hepar, Nux vom .
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