Remedy

Argentum nitricum

Nitrate of silver

37 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting; themselves which give certain indications for its homoeopathic employment.
  • Symptoms of inco-ordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically; trembling in affected parts.
  • Is an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation of the throat, and a marked gastro-enteritis.
  • Very characteristic is the great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free muco-purulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes.
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  • Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic.
  • Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion.
  • Head symptoms often determine the choice of this remedy.
  • Pains increase and decrease gradually.
  • Flatulent state and prematurely aged look.
  • Explosive belching especially in neurotics.
  • Upper abdominal affections brought on by undue mental exertion.
  • Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord.
  • Intolerance of heat.
  • Sensation of a sudden pinch. (Dudgeon).

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Mind & mood

  • Thinks his understanding will and must fail.
  • Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window.
  • Faintish and tremulous.
  • Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease.
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  • Time passes slowly. Memory weak.
  • Errors of perception.
  • Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry. Peculiar mental impulses.
  • Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Warmth in any formAt nightFrom cold foodSweetsAfter eatingAt menstrual periodFrom emotionsLeft side

Better

From belchingFresh airColdPressure

Symptoms by body part

Head

Headache with coldness and trembling. Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental exertion, from dancing. Dizziness, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections. Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemi-crania; bones of head feel as if separated.

Eyes

Inner canthi swollen and red. Spots before the vision. Blurred vision. Sensitive to light in warm room. Purulent eye inflammation. Great swelling of conjunctiva; discharge abundant and purulent. Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen. Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily. Eye-strain from sewing; worse in warm room. Aching, tired feeling in eyes, better closing or pressing upon them. Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles. Paretic condition of ciliary muscle. Acute granular conjunctivitis. Cornea opaque. Ulcer in cornea.

Nose

Loss of smell. Itching. Ulcers in septum. Runny nose (cold), with feeling cold, watering eyes, and headache.

Face

Sunken, old, pale, and bluish. Old man's look; tight drawing of skin over bones.

Mouth

Gums tender and bleed easily. Tongue has prominent papillae; tip is red and painful. Pain in sound teeth. Taste coppery, like ink. Canker sores.

Throat

Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking. Raw, rough and sore. Sensation of a splinter in throat on swallowing. Dark redness of throat. Mucus discharge of smokers, with tickling as of hair in throat. Strangulated feeling.

Stomach

Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus. Gas; painful swelling of pit. Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all parts of the abdomen. Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and constriction. Ineffectual effort at belching. Great craving for sweets. Gastritis of drunkards. Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs. Trembling and throbbing in stomach. Enormous distention. Ulceration of stomach, with radiating pain. Desire for cheese and salt.

Abdomen

Colic, with much flatulent distention. Stitchy ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs.

Stool

Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very offensive. Diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking. Fluids go right through him; after sweets. After any emotion with gas. Itching of anus.

Urine

Urine passes unconsciously, day and night. Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter. Urine scanty and dark. Emission of a few drops after having finished. Divided stream.

Male

Erection fails when coition is attempted. Desire wanting. Genitals shrivel. Coition painful.

Female

Gastralgia at beginning of menses. Intense spasm of chest muscles. Orgasms at night. Nervous erethism at change of life. White vaginal discharge profuse, with erosion of cervix. Bleeding easily. Uterine haemorrhage, two weeks after menses; Painful affections of left ovary.

Respiratory

High notes cause cough. Chronic hoarseness. Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in throat. Dyspnoea. Chest feels as if a bar were around it. Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on right side; Painful spots in chest. Angina pectoris, nightly aggravation. Many people in a room seem to take away his breath.

Back

Much pain. Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis.

Extremities

Cannot walk with eyes closed. Trembling, with general debility. Rigidity of calves. Debility in calves especially. Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved. Numbness of arms.

Skin

Brown, tense, and hard. Drawing in skin, as from a spider-web, or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried up. Irregular blotches.

Sleep

Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification. Drowsy stupor.

Fever

Chills with nausea. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.

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