Arsenicum album

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

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Keynotes

Sudden, intense effects. Restless, anxious and very weak. Maddening pains; BURNING LIKE FIRE, hot neddles or wires, > heat, felt, even during sleep; exciting shortness of breath (Nat- s.) or chilliness. Inveterate neuralgias. Multiple neuritis. VERY RESTLESS, < affected part. Increasingly irritable (Cimi.) or SUDDEN GREAT WEAKNESS, from trivial causes. Rapid emaciation. ACRID, SCANTY, THIN SECRETIONS; coryza, saliva, sweat, etc. PUTRID, CADAVERIC ODORS. Destructive processes. Malignancy. Sepsis. Low vitality. Pale, puffy, baggy SWELLING. Dropsy. Anæmia. .................... Anxious. Oversensitive. Fastidious. EXACTING. Fault-finding. ANGUISH; despairs of recovery (Aco.). AGONIZING FEAR OF DEATH; nightly; yet tired of living. VIOLENCE; self-torture; pulls her hair; bites her nails. Suicidal impulses. Restless and suspicious. Congestion to head, > cold, but neuralgia, > heat. Pain alternates between head and stomach or body. Pain over l. eye. Restless head. Early grayness. Falling hair. Spasm of eyelids. Burning tears. Scrophulous ophthalmia. Takes colds. Nose colds descend to chest. Cold sores; in nose. Sneezing, with biting, watery coryza; but stopped nose. Hay fever. Sensitive smell; loathes odor, sight or thought of food. PALE, anxious, sunken, haggard or distorted countenance; with cold sweat. Black lips. Bluish white tongue. Nightly toothache. INSATIABLE BURNING THIRST; CRAVES ICE COLD WATER, BUT IT DISTRESSES STOMACH (Nux-v.) AND IS VOMITED AT ONCE; with anorexia; during heat. DRINKS LITTLE AND OFTEN. Gastritis. Swelled spleen. Vomiting, with purging, from ptomaine poisoning. Foul, rice water or small, acrid, burning, black, mucous or lienteric stools; < cold drinks. Scanty urine. Uræmia (Pip-m.). Profuse acrid leucorrhœa. As of a vapor in larynx. SHORT BREATH; felt in nose; must sit up; < odors, receding eruptions or ascending. Whistling inspiration. Wheezing breathing. Cough alternately dry and loose; must sit up. Frothy expectoration. Acute pain through upper third of r. lung. Asthma. Pulmonary œdema. Cough; dry, nightly; < drinking. Heart; weak; trembles; palpitates; < slight causes. Stiffness, ascends from coccyx to nape. Alternate internal and skin symptoms. SKIN; LOOKS SEARED; dry, rough, dirty or shrivelled (Op.). Free desquamation. Eczema. Acuminate eruptions. Hives after eating fish. Ulcerative tendency; chronic; with burning. Phagedena. Gangrene. Shocks on dropping to sleep. Restless sleep. Dreams of death. COLD, externally, with internal, burning heat; in spots; sensitive to, yet > in open air (Aur.). Chills; irregular; shaking; craves hot drinks; and can't get his breath. Heat, as of hot water in veins or they burn like lines of fire; burning or coldness in chest (Bry. Lach. Nat-m. Sul.). Hectic. Sweat; with insatiable thirst, dyspnœa or exhaustion; cold. Atypical or larval malaria. Old case of malarias. Waves of icy coldness in blood-vessels or intense boiling heat. Yellow fever (prophylactic).

Worse

COLD: ICES, DRINKS. FOODS. Air. PERIODICALLY: MIDNIGHT; after. AFTER 2 A.M. 14 days. Yearly. VEGETABLES. DRINKING. TIPPLING. Infections. Bad meat. Eruptions: Undeveloped. Suppressed. Quinine. Lying on part. Tobacco. EXERTION.

Better

HOT: APPLICATIONS (dry). FOOD. Drinks. Wraps. Motion. Walking about. ELEVATING HEAD. Sitting erect. Company. Sweating.

Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES. MIND. RESPIRATION. Lungs; R apex. Blood. Heart. Nerves. SPLEEN. Lymphatics. Muscles. SKIN. Serous cavities. Organs.

Relationships

Complementary: Nat-s. Pul. Thu. Related: Sul-ac. Ver-a.

What the other books say about Arsenicum album

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

Arsenicum album in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Arsenicum album in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Arsenicum album in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Arsenicum album 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. Arsenicum album — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/arsenicum-album. 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.