Argentum nitricum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

Old, dried up, tremulous and weak. Progressive emaciation. Paralysis, ascending. Parts seem ENLARGED or bound up (Glo.). VIOLENT PAINS; LIKE DEEPLY STICKING SPLINTERS; sharp shooting, like lightning; < down back or legs; cause starting; grinding or radiating. Sinking downward from head. Ulceration, with much yellow, bloody pus (Hep.). .................... Conjoined mental and digestive symptoms. Tormented by strange ideas or emotions. Nervous, impulsive and hurried, yet timid and anxious (Ars.). Fearsome. Dreads ordeals, impending evil, passing a certain point, dark (Stram.), etc. Incoherence. Faltering speech, gait, erections, etc. Nervous headache and nervous diarrhœa. Brain-fag. Head as if in a vise; > tight bandage. Vertigo; epileptic, < night. Compressive or deep head pains; loses his senses (Laur.). Boring in l. frontal eminence, 11-12 A.M. Migraine. Scaly tarsi. Eyeballs feel big (Guai.). Swelled carunculæ; chemosis. Photophobia. Violent purulent ophthalmia. Dilated pupils. Sickly, grayish, muddy color. Painful, red tip of tongue, or (dry) aphthæ on edge. Food lodges in pharynx. Throat sensitive; as of a rough stick (Phyt.) or splinter in, > cool drinks. Dark red fauces and uvula. Craves sugar, which <. Astringent sour or bitter-sour taste and vomitus. Alcoholic gastritis. Gastralgia; in a spot. Eructates ingesta. FLATULENCE; bursting (Lyc.); loud explosive belching (Coca.), discharged upward and downward; noisy diarrhœa. Emotional diarrhœa. Shreddy, mucus stools, turning green; < drinking. Violent pains from kidneys to bladder. Cutting in urethra, with painful priapism. Yellow, bloody gonorrhœa. Painful coition. Cough from laughing. Dyspnœa, nervous or flatulent; < gastric pains. Palpitation, < lying on r. side. Craves fresh air. Laryngitis. Throbbing or weak spine. Trembling limbs. Peripheral neuralgias. Ischias antica. Weakness, rigidity or twisting in calves. Ulcers, angry, deep; hard edges; warty granulations. Adherent crusts. Chill if uncovered, yet smothers when wrapped up. Shivers through bowels; up back.

Worse

EMOTIONS: ANXIETY. Suspense. In room. Sugar. Shut in places. Lying on R side. Looking down. Drinking. Crowds.

Better

COOL: AIR; open. Bath. Hard pressure. Motion.

Region

MIND. NERVES: Cerebro-spinal. ABDOMINAL. MUCOUS MEMBRANE: STOMACH. Bowels. Eyes. Throat. Urethra. Periosteum. Skin. Left side.

Relationships

Complementary: Nat-m. Antidotes: Cina. Nat-m. Related: Lyc. Pul.

What the other books say about Argentum nitricum

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

Argentum nitricum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Argentum nitricum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Argentum nitricum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Argentum nitricum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Argentum nitricum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/argentum-nitricum. 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.