Bismuthum subnitricum

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

Bismutum Subnitricum (+ -o.)

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Keynotes

Bismuth

Hydrated Oxide of Bismuth.

Solitude is unbearable: desires company, child holds on to its mother’s hand for company (Kali c., LiL, Lyc.).

Anguish ; he sits, then walks, then lies, never long in one place.

Headache returning every winter; alternating with, or attended by gastralgia.

Face, deathly pale, blue rings around the eyes. Toothache > by holding cold water in mouth (Bry., Coff., Puls.).

Vomiting: of water as soon as it reaches the stomach, food retained longer (vomits food and water, Ars. ) ; of enormous quantities, at intervals of several days when food has filled the stomach; of all fluids as soon as taken; and purging, offensive stools (watery stools, Ver.) ; with convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain, after laparotomy (Nux, Staph.).

Stomach : pressure as from a load in one spot; alternating with burning; pain crampy, spasmodic; with irritation, cardialgia and pyrosis.

Cholera morbus and summer complaint, when vomiting predominates ; stools foul, papescent, watery, offensive, very prostrating (Ars., Ver.).

What the other books say about Bismuthum subnitricum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Bismuthum subnitricum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.

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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Bismuthum subnitricum — Keynotes, p. 59. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/bismuthum-subnitricum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.