Remedy

Arsenicum album

Arsenious acid - arsenic trioxide

63 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue.
  • Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homoeopathic employment constant and certain.
  • Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application.
  • Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important.
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  • Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion.
  • This, with the peculiar irritability of fibre, gives the characteristic irritable weakness.
  • Burning pains.
  • Unquenchable thirst.
  • Burning relieved by heat.
  • Seaside complaints.
  • Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones.
  • Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency.
  • Fear fright and worry.
  • Green discharges.
  • Infantile Kala-azar. (Dr. Neatby).
  • Anaemia and chlorosis.
  • Degenerative changes.
  • Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition.
  • Reduces the refractive index of blood serum (also China and Ferr. Phos.).
  • Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location.
  • Malarial cachexia.

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Mind & mood

  • Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone.
  • Great fear, with cold sweat.
  • Thinks it useless to take medicine.
  • Suicidal.
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  • Hallucinations of smell and sight.
  • Despair drives him from place to place.
  • Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage.
  • General sensibility increased.
  • Sensitive to disorder and confusion.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Wet weatherAfter midnightFrom coldCold drinksFoodSeashoreRight side

Better

From heatFrom head elevatedWarm drinks

Symptoms by body part

Head

Headaches relieves by cold, other symptoms worse. Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold skin. Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness. Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Head is in constant motion. Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair.

Eyes

Burning in eyes, with acrid watering eyes. Lids red, ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated. Swelling around eyes. External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; burning, hot, and excoriating watering eyes. Corneal ulceration. Intense sensitive to light; better external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain.

Ears

Skin within, raw and burning. Thin, excoriating, offensive ear discharge. Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain.

Nose

Thin, watery, excoriating discharge. Nose feels stopped up. Sneezing without relief. Hay-fever and runny nose (cold); worse in open air; better indoors. Burning and bleeding. Acne of nose.

Face

Swollen, pale, yellow, cachectic, sunken, cold, and covered with sweat. Expression of agony. Tearing needle-like pains; burning. Lips black, livid. Angry, circumscribed flush of cheeks.

Mouth

Unhealthy, easily-bleeding gums. Ulceration of mouth with dryness and burning heat. Epithelioma of lips. Tongue dry, clean, and red; stitching and burning pain in tongue, ulcerated with blue color. Bloody saliva. Neuralgia of teeth; feel long and very sore; worse after midnight; better warmth. Metallic taste. Gulping up of burning water.

Throat

Swollen, oedematous, constricted, burning, unable to swallow. Diphtheritic membrane, looks dry and wrinkled.

Stomach

Cannot bear the sight or smell of food. Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time. Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking. Anxiety in pit of stomach. Burning pain. Craves acids and coffee. Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat. Long-lasting belching. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia from slightest food or drink. Indigestion from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco.

Abdomen

Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire; relieved by heat. Liver and spleen enlarged and painful. Ascites and anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful. Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing.

Rectum

Painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum. Constant urge to pass stool. Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus.

Stool

Small, offensive, dark, with much extreme weakness. Worse at night, and after eating and drinking; from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive. Body cold as ice. Skin excoriated about anus.

Urine

Scanty, burning, involuntary. Bladder as if paralyzed. Albuminous. Epithelial cells; cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and blood. After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen.

Female

Menses too profuse and too soon. Burning in ovarian region. White vaginal discharge, acrid, burning, offensive, thin. Pain as from red-hot wires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue; better in warm room. Heavy periods. Stitching pain in pelvis extending down the thigh.

Respiratory

Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. Air-passages constricted. Burning in chest. Suffocative mucus discharge. Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back. Phlegm coughed up scanty, frothy. Darting pain through upper third of right lung. Wheezing respiration. Coughing up blood with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry, as from sulphur fumes; after drinking.

Heart

Palpitation, pain, dyspnoea, faintness. Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers. Pulse more rapid in morning. Dilatation. Cyanosis. Fatty degeneration. Angina pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput.

Back

Weakness in small of back. Drawing in of shoulders. Pain and burning in back.

Extremities

Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet. Nerve pain down the leg. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene. Ulcers on heel.

Skin

Itching, burning, swellings; swelling, rash, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Hives, with burning and restlessness. Psoriasis. Scirrhus. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma of the skin. Gangrenous inflammations.

Sleep

Disturbed, anxious, restless. Must have head raised by pillows. Sleeps with hands over head. Dreams are full of care and fear. Drowsy, sleeping sickness.

Fever

High temperature. Periodicity marked with adynamia. Septic fevers. Intermittent. Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion. Hay-fever. Cold sweats. Complete exhaustion. Delirium; worse after midnight. Great restlessness. Great heat about 3 a.m. Sordes.

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