Arsenicum iodatum
arse-iodIodide of Arsenic Is to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges. The discharge irritates the membrane from which it flows and over which it flows. The discharge may be fetid, watery, and the mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and burns. Influenza, hay-fever, old nasal catarrhs, and catarrh of middle ear. Swelling of tissues within the nose. Hypertrophied condition of eustachian tube and deafness. Senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration. Pulse sh
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Arsenicum iodatum — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Erethistic weakness. BURNING. Profuse, acrid discharges; thin in acute, or thick, gluey, yellow (Hyds.) in chronic affections. Rawness. Scrofula. Consumptiveness (Tub.). Heaviness. Debility. .................... Dull, heavy headache, < occiput. Eyeballs feel heavy. Foul otorrhœa. Persistent, but unsatisfactory sneezing. Nose drips water; hot (Iod.); green; acrid; reddens upper lip (Merc.). Coryza; with dyspnœa (Nit-ac.), post-nasal catarrh. Hay fever. Colds, with hunger. Aching malar bones. Raw throat. Hoarseness. Goitre. Air hunger. Short of breath. Hacking cough. Yellow-green, foul expectoration. Asthma of phthisical or psoric persons. Beginning resolution (Sul-io.). Burning heat in chest. Tubercular pleurisy. Weak heart; with erethism. Dry, harsh or dusky skin. Psoriasis. Ichthyosis. Rapid, irritable pulse. Chilly. Night- sweats.
Arsenicum iodatum — mind · James Tyler Kent
Anger and irritability during all complaints; aversion to answering questions; extreme anxiety, restlessness and fear; worse in a warm bed; confusion of mind morning and evening; delirium during the night; illusions of fancy and delusions about dead people. Sadness, even to despair; discontentment, and he is often in a state of great excitement; mental exertion increases many of his symptoms; there is marked mental weakness; fear of insanity, of misfortune, of people, and he is generally timid. He is impatient and in a constant state of hurry; he becomes indifferent to his friends, to happiness and to his surroundings. Aversion to work. He seems to be going toward insanity. He is unable to decide between two opinions. He suffers from a sudden impulse to kill somebody. Very talkative at times, mirthful; changeable moods and alternating conditions of mind; a degree of mental prostration prevails continuously. He is oversensitives especially to noise. Inclination to sit; averse. to being spoken to and he starts during sleep. Persistent tormenting thoughts; wandering thoughts; stupefaction of mind. In the woman there is much weeping. Vertigo while walking. It will cure the particulars given below when the generals above mentioned strongly predominate.
Arsenicum iodatum — general · James Tyler Kent
From a study of the elements making up this agent, it may be known that it is a deep-acting constitutional remedy. Its complaints come on in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, after midnight. In hectic conditions, with many abscesses. Extreme anaemia, such as belongs to tuberculous subjects. The patient craves open air when not too cold; wants the windows open, is sensitive to a close room. Marked general physical anxiety. The hands and feet tingle as if asleep and the limbs feel as if tied with a band. Complaints are worse from bathing; takes cold from bathing. It has been of the highest use in cancerous affections and has cured lupus and epithelioma. Its symptoms are often found in chlorotic girls; it has cured choreic action of muscles in girls. Some are very sensitive to cold, like Arsenicum, and others to heat, like Iodine; it is sensitive to both heat and cold; cold wind and cold wet weather make the patient worse and bring out symptoms. Always taking cold, which brings on coryza and increases his catarrhal troubles. Many constrictions, internal and external, and constrictions of orifices are found in this remedy. Convulsive movements of limbs. Dropsy, external and internal, like Arsenicum. He is worse when hungry and, like Iodine, better after eating. Increasing loss of flesh and weight in phtisical patients; emaciation in children, extreme aggravation from slight physical exertion. Women: In women who are subject to faintness and fainting spells. Formication all over the body. Haemorrhage from any mucous membrane. A sensation of being too warm, must have fresh air.
Arsenicum iodatum — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Weather: Dry. Cold. Windy. Foggy. Exertion. In room. Apples. Tobacco smoke.
Arsenicum iodatum — modalities better · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Open air.
Arsenicum iodatum — head · James Tyler Kent
Although there is hyperoemia of the brain, the scalp feels cold. Eruptions crusty, scurfy; eczematous; the hair falls out and the head feels heavy; itching of the scalp, with and without eruptions. Pain in the morning and afternoon; better in open air; worse in worm room; better after eating and worse when hungry; worse from motion, noise, walking; pain in head from catarrh of nasal passages, with coryza; periodical headaches from malaria, with heart troubles and from syphilis; pain in forehead in the evening; above the eyes, over the root of the nose; pain in occiput, sides of head, temples and vertex; pressing pain in forehead, with sleepiness; pressing pain in occiput and temples; sore, bruised pain in the head; stitching in head, in temples; tearing pain in head. The head pains are stunning. Perspiration of the forehead; pulsating in the head, forehead, temples.
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