Arsenicum album
arse-albArsenious Acid Arsenic Trioxide A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application. Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important. Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the peculiar irritability o
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Arsenicum album — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Sudden, intense effects. Restless, anxious and very weak. Maddening pains; BURNING LIKE FIRE, hot neddles or wires, > heat, felt, even during sleep; exciting shortness of breath (Nat- s.) or chilliness. Inveterate neuralgias. Multiple neuritis. VERY RESTLESS, < affected part. Increasingly irritable (Cimi.) or SUDDEN GREAT WEAKNESS, from trivial causes. Rapid emaciation. ACRID, SCANTY, THIN SECRETIONS; coryza, saliva, sweat, etc. PUTRID, CADAVERIC ODORS. Destructive processes. Malignancy. Sepsis. Low vitality. Pale, puffy, baggy SWELLING. Dropsy. Anæmia. .................... Anxious. Oversensitive. Fastidious. EXACTING. Fault-finding. ANGUISH; despairs of recovery (Aco.). AGONIZING FEAR OF DEATH; nightly; yet tired of living. VIOLENCE; self-torture; pulls her hair; bites her nails. Suicidal impulses. Restless and suspicious. Congestion to head, > cold, but neuralgia, > heat. Pain alternates between head and stomach or body. Pain over l. eye. Restless head. Early grayness. Falling hair. Spasm of eyelids. Burning tears. Scrophulous ophthalmia. Takes colds. Nose colds descend to chest. Cold sores; in nose. Sneezing, with biting, watery coryza; but stopped nose. Hay fever. Sensitive smell; loathes odor, sight or thought of food. PALE, anxious, sunken, haggard or distorted countenance; with cold sweat. Black lips. Bluish white tongue. Nightly toothache. INSATIABLE BURNING THIRST; CRAVES ICE COLD WATER, BUT IT DISTRESSES STOMACH (Nux-v.) AND IS VOMITED AT ONCE; with anorexia; during heat. DRINKS LITTLE AND OFTEN. Gastritis. Swelled spleen. Vomiting, with purging, from ptomaine poisoning. Foul, rice water or small, acrid, burning, black, mucous or lienteric stools; < cold drinks. Scanty urine. Uræmia (Pip-m.). Profuse acrid leucorrhœa. As of a vapor in larynx. SHORT BREATH; felt in nose; must sit up; < odors, receding eruptions or ascending. Whistling inspiration. Wheezing breathing. Cough alternately dry and loose; must sit up. Frothy expectoration.
Arsenicum album — mind · James Tyler Kent
The mental symptoms show in the beginning anxious restlessness, and from this a continuation towards delirium and even insanity with all that it involves; disturbance of the intellect and will. "He thinks he must die." I went to the bedside of a typhoid patient once with all the general aspect I have described; he was able to talk, and he looked up at me and said: "There is no use of your coming, I am going to die; you might as well go home; my whole insides are mortifying." His friend was seated on one side of the bed, giving him a few drops of water, and just about as often as he could get there with it he wanted it again. That was all he wanted; his mouth was black, parched and dry. He got Arsenic. One of the characteristic features of Arsenic is thirst for small quantities often, just enough to wet the mouth. It is commonly used as a distinguishing feature between Bryonia and Arsenic for the purpose of memorizing the Bryonia has thirst for large quantities far apart, but Arsenicum little and often, or violent unquenchable thirst. "Thoughts of death and of the incurability of his complaints." "Thoughts crowd upon him; he is too weak to keep them off or to hold on to one idea." That is, he lies in bed tormented day and night by depressing ideas and distressing thoughts. This is one form of his anxiety; when tormented with thoughts, he is anxious.
Arsenicum album — general · James Tyler Kent
From the time of Hahnemann to the present day Arsenicum has been one of the most frequently indicated medicines, and one of the most extensively used. In the Old School it is most extensively abused, in the form of Fowler's solution. Arsenic affects every part of man; it seems to exaggerate or depress almost all his faculties, to excite or disturb all his functions. When all our medicines have been as well proved we will effect wonderful cures. It is a substance easily proved because of its active nature, and from its very abuse we have learned much of its general nature. While Arsenic impresses the whole economy and disturbs all the functions and tissues of man, there are certain prevailing and striking features in it. Striking features: Anxiety, restlessness, prostration, burning and cadaveric odors are prominent characteristics. The surface of the body is pale, cold, clammy, and sweating, and the aspect is cadaveric. In chronic sickness with great debility, anaemia, from long exposure to malarial influence, in the poorly fed and from syphilis this remedy is of great service. The anxiety that is found in Ars. is intermingled with fear, with impulses, with suicidal inclinations, with sudden freaks and with mania. It has delusions and various kinds of insanity; in the more active form, delirium and excitement. Sadness prevails to a great extreme. So sad that he is weary of life; he loathes life, and wants to die, and the Arsenic patient does commit suicide. It is a remedy full of suicidal tendencies. The anxiety takes form also in the restlessness, in which he constantly moves. If he is able to get up lie goes from chair to. chair; the child goes front nurse to mother, and from one person to another.
Arsenicum album — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Very violent delirium, especially at night, with great restlessness. Her desire exceeds her need (eats and drinks more than is good for her ; walks further than she needs to do). Despairs and weeps : imagines no one can help him, that he must die ; is cold and chilly, and afterwards generally weak. Anguish. Excessive anguish. Anguish and despair driving from one place to another, for relief. With great anguish he turns and tosses to and fro in his bed. Anxiety at 3 o’clock after midnight. Violent anxiety at 3 o’clock in the night ; he now felt hot, now as if he would vomit. Dread of death coming on suddenly when alone. The greatest fear and anguish (sees ghosts day and night). (Great heaviness in the head ; it goes off in the open air ; but returns as soon as he enters the room.) Burning in eyes. Eyelids oedematous, often completely closing the eyes. Corrosive tears, making cheeks and eyelids sore. . Excoriating discharge from nostrils. Watery discharge from nose—went off in the open air ; watery nasal discharge causes smarting and burning, as if nostrils were made sore by it. Face expressive of genuine mental agony. Deathly colour of face.
Arsenicum album — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Q2 A rsenicum is another of the very important homoeopathic remedies : that is to say, when it is given in homoeopathic potencies for its own striking and characteristic symptoms, previously brought out in provings and in poisonings. One remembers a man, brought dying into our hospital, poisoned : and one knew from the symptoms that the poison was Arsenic or Phosphorus. Dr. (now Sir) Bernard Spilsbury when a few hours later, he carried away organs for examination, said ‘ ‘ probably A rsentc, as more common '’, and he proved to be correct. The man lay there, deeply jaundiced, convulsed from time to time, quite unconscious, and gulping up mouthfuls of dark blood. Arsenic is a terrible poison : it is almost incredible that persons should deal such death to themselves or others : but they do ! Poisoner and suicide are not discriminating. In slow Arsenic poisonings the symptoms are also unbelievably cruel : the deadly nausea, vomiting and purging : the appalling anguish, fear and restlessness, combined with weakness and collapse . . . and it is just in terrible cases of similar suffering and prostration, that Arsenic does its most rapid and brilliant curative work. Arsenicum for ptomaine poisoning years ago, gave us a homoeopathic doctor : and we have watched its absolute magic in other ptomaine poisonings. These are the ghastly sufferings and symptoms for which we homoeopaths prescribe .drsemc with confidence and joy . . . Restlessness—despair—intolerable anguish—fear : a restlessness that will not suffer the patient to stay in one room—in one bed : and withal prostration out of all proportion to the apparent con dition.
Arsenicum album — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: After midnight (1 to 2 a.m. or p.m.); from cold; cold drinks or food; when lying on affected side or with the head low. Amelioration: From heat in general (reverse of Sec.) except headache, which is temporarily > by cold bathing (Spig.); burning pain > by heat.
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