Argentum metallicum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Silver
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Keynotes
Slow, deep, low grade processes. THICKENED SECRETIONS, cartilages, tarsi, etc. Gray or tenacious mucus. Sore rawness. Increasingly violent pains, suddenly cease; < touch; with polyuria. Arthralgia. Loss of power; mental, over limbs, etc. Epilepsy, then rage. .................... Hasty; deceitful. Talkative and forgetful. Whirling vertigo. Emptiness or crawling in head. Itching canthi, eyelids or earlobes. Exhaustingly profuse coryza. Pale, sallow and weak. Sticky teeth (Lach.). Croaking in abdomen (l). Emissions. Chronic urethritis. Foul leucorrhœa. Easily raises gray, gelatinous or starchy mucus; < laughing. Hoarseness or aphonia, < using voice. Weakness in chest (l). Heart stops, then trembles and throbs; > inspiration. Swelled ankles. Diabetes. Nervous itching. Shocks on dropping to sleep.
Worse
USING VOICE. Mental strain. Noon. Cold damp. 3 to 5 A.M.
Better
Motion. Coffee. Wrapping up.
Region
NERVES. Cartilages, mucous membranes: LARYNX. Bones. Condyles. Joints. Genito-urinary. Left side; ovary. Testis (R).
Relationships
Related: Sele. Stan. Zin.
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 Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Argentum metallicum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/argentum-metallicum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.