Argentum metallicum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnœa, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic. The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligament's. Here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result. They come on insidiously, lingering, but progress. The larynx is also a special center for this drug. Mental.––Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.
Modalities
Worse from touch, toward noon. Better in open air; cough at night when lying down (opposite Hyoscy).
Head
Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very tender to touch. Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water. Head feels empty, hollow. Eyelids red and thick. Exhausting coryza, with sneezing. Pain in facial bones. Pain between left eye and frontal eminence.
Throat
Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throat sore on coughing. Profuse and easy morning expectoration.
Urinary
Diuresis. Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor. Frequent urination. Polyuria.
Male
Crushed pain in testicles. Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement. Frequent micturation with burning.
Female
Ovaries feel too large. Bearing-down pain. Prolapse of womb. Eroded
spongy cervix. Leucorrhœa foul, excoriating. Palliative in scirrhus of uterus. Pain in left ovary. Climateric hæmorrhage. Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by jarring. Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs.
Respiratory
Hoarseness Aphonia. Raw, sore feeling when coughing. Total loss of voice of professional singers. Larynx feels sore and raw. Easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch. Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa. Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing. Hectic fever at noon. On reading aloud, must hem and hawk. Great weakness of chest; worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice. Pain in left lower ribs.
Back
Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of chest.
Extremities
Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee. Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs. Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer's cramp. Swelling of ankles.
Relationships
Antidotes: Mercur; Puls. Compare: Selen; Alum; Platina; Stannum; Ampelopsis (Chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients).
Dose
Sixth trituration and higher. Not too frequent repetition.
What the other books say about Argentum metallicum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Argentum metallicum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Argentum metallicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Argentum metallicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Argentum metallicum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Argentum metallicum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/argentum-metallicum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.