ARSENICUM ALBUM uses [Ars uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Insecurity.
Anxiety. Restlessness. Weakness. Chilly. Midnight aggravation
Intense thirst for frequent sips. Burning pains > heat
Periodicity, alternation of symptoms
COMMON NAME
White oxide of Arsenic
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
A/F
| - | Cold fruits, watery fruits, melons ice-cream, ice |
| - | Sour beer |
| - | Bad sausage |
| - | Alcoholic drinks |
| - | Strong cheese |
| - | Vegetable diet |
| - | Poor diet |
| - | Chewing tobacco |
| - | Anthrax poison |
| - | Dissecting wounds |
| - | Stings of venomous insects |
| - | Quinine |
| - | Ptomaine poisoning |
| - | Sea bathing |
| - | Travelling |
| - | Mountain climbing |
| - | Care |
| - | Grief |
| - | Fright |
MODALITIES
| < | After midnight |
| < | Exertion |
| < | Cold, cold drinks and food |
| < | Sea shore |
| < | Periodically, 14 days, yearly |
| < | Alcoholism |
| < | lying on affected side / with head low |
| < | Watery fruits |
| < | Bad meat, food |
| > | Warm wraps |
| > | Open air |
| > | Company |
| > | Sweating |
| > | Motion |
| > | Walking |
MIND
| - | RESTLESS
mentally, but physically too weak to move, restlessness in affected part |
| - | Restlesness, cannot relax, anxious |
| - | FEARS being alone, cancer, robbers, poverty, DEATH. Fear of death, comes
at the later stage of disease, thinks it useless to take medicine, disease
is incurable |
| - | Worry things will go wrong, anxiety for others |
| - | ANXIOUS. Highly sensitive. Anguish. Anxiety about health. Later despair of
recovery. Anorexia nervosa (first remedy) (Nat-m, Sep, Nux-v, Ign, Verat,
Abrot, Sulph) |
| - | Insecurity, feels vulnerable in an unsafe world |
| - | FASTIDIOUS, obsessed with order and tidiness. Fault finding |
| - | Violence, self-torture, pulls her hair, bites her nails, suicidal
impulses, mania, wants to be held. Suicidal. Impulse to kill, fear of
killing |
| - | Selfish. Seeking security |
| - | Demanding help, company |
| - | Delusion that she is being watched. Hears voices and sees animals, after
taking alcohol |
| - | Mixture of depression and irritation |
| - | Immaculate outer appearance |
| - | Avaricious, collecting |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Extremely
CHILLY, wants to be wrapped up warmly, hugs the fire. Chilly with rheumatic
complaints, warm blooded in headaches |
| - | Great prostration, with rapid sinking of the vital forces, out of
proportion to the rest of his illness |
| - | BURNING pains, affected parts burn like fire, pains maddening, even felt
during sleep, cause shortness of breath Burning > heat, hot drinks, hot applications |
| - | Thirst - Burning, for cold water, but it lies like a stone in stomach,
drinks often but little at a time, it can't assimilate, gurgling in
oesophagus when drinking |
| - | Thirstlessness in chronic diseases |
| - | Cannot bear smell, sight or thought of food. (Colch, Sepia) |
| - | Discharges of mucous membranes |
|
- |
ACRID, thin, SCANTY |
|
- |
coryza, saliva, sweat |
|
- |
Putrid cadaveric odours of discharges |
| - | Haemorrhages - black, offensive |
| - | Tendency to ulcerations, phagedenic with intense burning. WEAKNESS and
emaciation rapid |
| - | Dryness of skin, or rough like parchment, lips dry, dry gangrene. Scanty
discharges |
| - | Sleep- RESTLESS, anxious, disturbed, talks in sleep |
| - | Dreams of death, full of care, sorrow and fear |
| - | Sweat - COLD or CLAMMY |
| - | Periodicity: midday or midnight, every day, 3rd/4th day, every fortnight,
every 6 weeks, every year etc |
| - | Hydrogenoid - < water in any form e.g. watery fruits, damp places, etc |
| - | Craving - sour, brandy, coffee, milk |
| - | Aversion - sweets, butter, fat, meat |
| - | Dropsical states - anasarca, skin pale, waxy or earth coloured. Acts as a
trocar |
| - | Head - Headache congestive > cold temporarily |
| - | Restless head, it is in constant motion |
| - | Scalp very sensitive |
| - | Early graying and falling of hair |
| - | Eye - Oedema around eyes |
| - | Intense photophobia |
| - | Burning with acrid lachrymation |
| - | Everything appears green, sees as through a white gauze |
| - | Face - pale, anxious, sunken, hippocratic, tearing needle-like pains, covered with cold sweat |
| - | Tongue |
|
- |
bluish white, taste bitter to water, after drinking or eating |
|
- |
sour, saltish, sweet in morning |
| - | Vomiting and stools simultaneously < eating and drinking Vomiting immediately after eating or drinking of (especially cold) water or mucus to bile, blood and coffee ground substances |
| - | Rectum - Haemorrhoids with stitching pain < walking or sitting, not at stool, with burning pain < by heat |
| - | Stools |
|
- |
Rice water, foul, small, acrid, involuntary, burning, black, mucus, lienteric, cadaveric |
|
- |
< cold drinks with prostration |
| - | Nose - Thin, watery, excoriating nasal discharges, sneezing without relief |
| - | Colds descend to chest |
| - | Dyspnoea felt in nose |
| - | Respiratory system - Cough dry <-> (alternates with) loose, dry at night, < drinking
> sitting up |
| - | Asthmatic breathing < after 12 o'clock, unable to lie down for fear of
suffocation, > sitting up / bent forward |
| - | Darting pain through upper third of right lung |
| - | Extremities - Sciatica > walking, > hot application |
| - | Skin - Dry, scaly, cold, blue, wrinkled, like parchment, burning pain,
black vesicles |
| - | Psoriasis or gangrenous inflammations, itching without eruption |
| - | Fever - Low grade, like typhoid |
| - | Externally cold with internal burning |
| - | Coldness in spots > open air |
| - | Dyspnoea with chill, sweat with great thirst |
KEYNOTES
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Old
broken down constitutions, extremely prostrated, chilly, who hug the fire
all the time with evidence of destruction of tissues causing ulcerations,
putridity, acridity or irritability |
| - | Mentally anxious and restless with great anguish and fears especially of death. A mixture between depression and irritation |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
CLINICAL
| - | Lower
potencies are used in malignant tissue and blood diseases |
| - | Higher potencies for nervous and mental ailments |
| - | Shouldn't be used in patients with low vitality even though characteristic
symptoms are present, as it may produce rapid death without pain |
| - | Post partum retention of urine - Dr. Chaudhary |
| - | As a diuretic in all forms of dropsy - Dr. Bahr |
| - | When peptic ulcer is at the pyloric end - Dr. Pope |
| - | For the very severe form of multiple neuritis with paralysis, Ars. 30
will be called for - Dr. Joseph. T. O. Conner |
| - | Ars. is proved specific to conteract effects of penicillin - Dr. M. B.
Desai |
| - | For pellagra, in low potency - Dr. Honder Shiles |
| - | Ars. for nail biting - Dr. Dixm |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Complements: All-s, Carb-v, Phos
Followed Well By: Aran-d, Iod, Nux-v, Rhus-t, Sulph
Follows Well: Acon, Arn, Bell, Bry, Calc, Carb-v, Cinch, Ferr, Hep,
Iod, Ip, Lach, Lyc, Merc, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Sil, Sulph, Verat
Similar: Acon, Apoc, Arg-n, Ars-m, Bell, Bism, Calc, Cann-i, Carb-v,
Cinch, Ferr, Hyos, Ip, Kreos, Lach, Lyc, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Rhus-t, Sil,
Tab, Verat
Antidoted By: Camph, Chin, Chin-s, Ferr, Graph, Hep, Iod, Ip, Nux-v,
Sambu, Tab, Verat
It Antidotes: Carb-v, Chin, Ferr, Graph, Hep, Iod, Ip, Lach, Merc,
Nux-v, Phos, Samb, Stry, Tab, Verat
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