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Argentum metallicum

Silver

9 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnoea, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic.
  • The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligaments.
  • Here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result.
  • They come on insidiously, lingering, but progress.
  • The larynx is also a special center for this drug.

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Mind & mood

  • Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

From touchToward noon

Better

In open airCough at night when lying down

Symptoms by body part

Head

Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very tender to touch. Dizziness, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water. Head feels empty, hollow. Eyelids red and thick. Exhausting runny nose (cold), with sneezing. Pain in facial bones. Pain between left eye and frontal eminence.

Throat

Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throat sore on coughing. Profuse and easy morning phlegm coughed up.

Respiratory

Hoarseness Aphonia. Raw, sore feeling when coughing. Total loss of voice of professional singers. Larynx feels sore and raw. Easy phlegm coughed up, looking like boiled starch. Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa. Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing. Hectic fever at noon. On reading aloud, must hem and hawk. Great weakness of chest; worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice. Pain in left lower ribs.

Back

Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of chest.

Urine

Diuresis. Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor. Frequent urination. Polyuria.

Extremities

Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee. Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs. Swelling of ankles.

Male

Crushed pain in testicles. Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement. Frequent micturition with burning.

Female

Ovaries feel too large. Bearing-down pain. Prolapse of womb. Eroded spongy cervix. White vaginal discharge foul, excoriating. Palliative in scirrhus of uterus. Pain in left ovary. Climateric haemorrhage. Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by jarring. Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs.

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