Arsenicum Album

Heart

(Arsenicum album)

RHEUMATISM AFFECTING THE HEART, WITH GREAT PROSTRATION, WITH COLD STICKY SWEAT, GREAT ANXIETY AND OPPRESSION, BURNING ABOUT THE HEART, PULSE SMALL, RAPID AND FEEBLE.

NECK AND BACK . — (Arsenicum album)

Nape stiff as if sprained and bruised.

BURNING, SHOOTING PAINS IN SACRUM AS IF BROKEN.

DRAWING PAINS BETWEEN SCAPULAE NECESSITATING LYING DOWN.

BACKACHE AFTER HARD WORK.

INSUPPORTABLE BACKACHE TOWARD NIGHT and on rising from a seat.

BURNING IN BACK.

SENSATION AS IF SMALL OF BACK WERE BROKEN.

BRUISED PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK WITH SENSATION OF WEAKNESS.

Loss OF STRENGTH IN SMALL OF BACK.

Stiffness of back beginning in region of os coccyx.

PAIN AS IF BRUISED ACROSS SCAPULA.

Violent periodical pains in small of back with stiffness.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Arsenicum album)

Violent tearing jerking pains in right shoulder joint, shoulder, arm, elbow joint and forearm.

Rheumatic pains from elbow up to shoulder.

Pain in arm on which he lies at night.

Drawing and lancinating in arms at night.

Upper limbs weak ; flexors of fingers contracted.

Paralytic pain in arms.

DRAWING AND TEARING FROM ELBOW UP INTO AXILLA AT NIGHT.

Violent rheumatic pains in right elbow.

Sensation of swelling in hands.

DRAWING, JERKING AND TEARING FROM TIPS OF FINGERS INTO SHOULDER.

Cramps in fingers.

Joints of left hand and fingers deformed, contracted, immovable.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Arsenicum album)

Pain back of great trochanter extending down thigh to knee, > by flexing the knee.

Deep drawing boiling sensation with fainting spells from slightest motion.

Severe tearing drawing burning pain in hip, not allowing a moment's rest.

SCIATICA BROUGHT ON BY STANDING IN COLD DAMP PLACES.

TEARING SHOOTING IN HIP, THIGH AND GROIN.

Violent drawing tearing pains in hips and left foot.

CRAMPS of thighs, CALVES AND TOES, IN EVENING, FOLLOWED BY LASSITUDE.

Gluteal muscle sore to touch.

SPELLS OF SEVERE PAIN IN POSTERIOR PART OF THIGH, CALVES, AND HEELS, < FROM ATTEMPT TO WALK, > FROM FLEXING MUSCLES.

PAIN IN KNEE JOINTS AS IF BEATEN.

SWELLING AND PAIN OF KNEES.

(Cracking of knees when walking.)

Stiffness and immobility of knees and feet.

Knees feel as if bandaged.

SENSATION OF SCRAPING IN LONG BONES.

PAIN IN KNEE VERY SEVERE, EXTENDING TO HIP AND ANKLE JOINT.

Stiffness of knees and feet alternating with tearing pains.

Coldness of knees and feet.

TEARING IN TIBIA.

CRAMPS AND DRAWING IN CALVES.

RESTLESSNESS OF LEGS < AT NIGHT, CONSTANTLY CHANGING POSITION.

LIMBS VERY WEAK, CANNOT SUPPORT THE BODY.

Numbness of limbs.

SWELLING OF FEET, EDEMATOUS, WITH GREAT WEAKNESS.

Violent tearing, drawing pain from ankle bones down over heel to sole of feet, > by flexing limb.

Contraction of toes downward.

TEARING STICKING PAIN AS IF IN PERIOSTEUM, ALONG WHOLE LOWER LIMB DOWN TO TIP OF BIG TOE.

TEARING IN WHOLE LOWER LIMB < AT NIGHT.

(Sensation as if feet were made of wood.)

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL . — (Arsenicum album)

Heaviness of limbs.

Painful weariness penetrating to the marrow of the bones.

Rheumatic pains drawing and cutting, < ON LYING ON AFFECTED SIDE, FROM MOTION.

RESTLESSNESS OF LIMBS, CANNOT KEEP THEM STILL.

TREMBLING OF ALL THE LIMBS.

LACK OF POWER IN LIMBS WITH NUMBNESS and heaviness.

EXCESSIVE WEAKNESS AND PROSTRATION OF LIMBS.

PAINS ARE SHOOTING, BURNING AND LANCINATING IN CHARACTER.

Inflammation in periosteum.

Tearing in bones, CARIES OF BONES.

Contraction of limbs.

JOINTS . — (Arsenicum album)

PALE SWELLING OF JOINTS.

CONCOMITANTS . — (Arsenicum album)

DELIRIUM < AT NIGHT, WITH GREAT RESTLESSNESS.

GREAT ANGUISH AND DESPAIR.

DESPONDENT.

MISTRUSTS EVERYONE.

FRETFUL WITH EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING.

FEAR OF DEATH.

RESTLESSNESS, CHANGES POSITION CONSTANTLY.

GREAT DEBILITY AND PROSTRATION WITH EMACIATION.

MALAISE WITH DREAD OF EXERTION.

DIFFICULT BREATHING WITH GREAT ANGUISH.

URINE SCANTY.

HOT AND BURNING.

EXTREME THIRST FOR COLD WATER BUT TAKES ONLY A SIP AT A TIME WHICH IS VOMITED AS SOON AS DRUNK.

TONGUE DRY AND COATED BROWN.

NO APPETITE.

FACE DRAWN, PALE OR YELLOWISH-PALE.

ASCITES.

AGGRAVATIONS . — (Arsenicum album)

AT NIGHT.

IN CLOSED ROOM.

Cold water.

AMELIORATIONS . — (Arsenicum album)

WALKING IN OPEN AIR.

Cold water.