ARGENTUM METALLICUM [Arg-m]
ARGENTUM METALLICUM uses [Arg-m 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"
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Overuse
of voice. Thickened secretions. Cartilage affections.
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COMMON NAME
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Silver
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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MIND
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Apprehensive about their health.
- Disinclination to talk.
- Imbecility from disorders of intellect and memory. Forgetful.
- Mental exertion <.
- Sensation of expansion.
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | For
broken down constitutions, suffering from loss of muscular power and
trembling.
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| - | Epileptic attacks followed by delirious rage, jumping about, striking those
near.
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| - | It affects the CARTILAGES, bones, condyles, joints, larynx and mucous
membranes. Thickening of the tissues, especially cartilages, larynx. Ailments
with thickening, infiltrations, induration, cysts, tumours, ulcerations and
epithelioma.
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| - | Secretions of mucus membranes are thick, gray or tenacious or like boiled
starch.
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| - | Ill effects of onanism and sunstroke.
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| - | Emaciation, a gradual drying up.
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| - | Desire for fresh air, dyspnoea.
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| - | Symptoms appear gradually or suddenly, disappear suddenly.
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| - | Left sided pains are characteristic.
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| - | Loss of control over MIND or body.
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| - | Tremulous weakness of the whole body, hands and feet. Palpitation with
general trembling.
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| - | It is a chilly remedy. Wants to be kept warm, pains are > from warmth.
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| - | Headache gradually increasing, then ceasing suddenly. Head feels empty,
hollow. Frontal headache of businessmen. Right sided headache > tight
bandaging.
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| - | Hoarseness of professional singers and public speakers with total loss of
voice.
Easy expectoration of gray tenacious mucous. Feeling of raw spot over the
bifurcation of trachea. < use of voice. Cough from laughing.
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| - | Alternation in timbre of voice in singers and public speakers (Arum-t).
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| - | While reading, patient has to hem and hawk to clear the throat and
expectorate the mucus.
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| - | Great weakness of the chest, stitches in the heart, impending breathing
while reading aloud or talking < lying on left side.
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| - | Exhausting fluent coryza with sneezing.
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| - | Extreme dryness of mouth. Tongue sticks to palate (this symptom with
polyuria points to diabetes in which Arg-m is particularly indicated if there
is swelling of the ankles).
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| - | Great hunger even after a full meal.
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| - | Palpitation < sudden exertion > sighing.
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| - | Electric-like shocks during sleep or on going to sleep.
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| - | Articular rheumatism without swelling (hysterical rheumatism).
Electric shocks in joints and limbs. Gets up with a start.
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| - | Chronic gonorrhoea, yellow greenish urethral discharge in gonorrhoea.
Crushed pain in testes. Seminal emissions after onanism almost every night,
without sexual excitement, without erection, with atrophy of penis.
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| - | Metrorrhagia, large lumps, with violent pains < every motion. Leucorrhoea
foul, bloody water, excoriating. Ovarian cyst, tumours. Eroded spongy cervix.
Prolapsus with pain in left ovary and back, extending forward and downward.
Climacteric haemorrhage.
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KEY NOTES:
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- Secretions of mucous membranes are thick, gray or tenacious or like boiled
starch.
- Feeling of raw spot over bifurcation of trachea.
- Hoarseness of professional singers or public speakers with total loss of
voice or alteration of timbre of voice.
- Calf muscles feel too short on going downstairs.
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NUCLEUS OF THE REMEDY:
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- Indicated in nervous and broken down constitution who are always chilly.
- Ill effects of onanism, sunstroke, anger, fear, fright.
- Affection of mucous membranes, cartilages, bones.
- Secretions of mucous membranes are thick, gray or tenacious or like boiled
starch.
- Rheumatic complains from damp weather, with swelling of joint.
- Great weakness of the chest with easy expectoration.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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Secretion of mucous membranes are thick, gluey, tenacious, gray, like boiled
starch.
- Raw spot at the bifurcation of the trachea.
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CLINICAL
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Laryngitis.
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Followed
Well By: Calc, Puls, Sep
Follows Well: Alum, Plat
Compare: Pall, Stann, Zinc
Antidoted By: Alum, Plat
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