Mineral
Arsenicum Album
Arsenious Acid
Repertory abbreviation: Ars.
A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and fis- sue. Its clear-cut chararteristic symptoms and corre- spondence to many severe types of disease make its homeopathic eniployment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful ap- plication. Among these the all-prevailing debility, ex- haustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important. Great erhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the peculiar irritability of fiber, gives the characteristic irritable weakness. Burning pais. Unquenchable thirst. Scaside coinplaints [Nat
Mind
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. Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him from place to place. Miserly, ma- licious, selfish, lacks courage. General sensibility in- creased [Hep.]
Head
Headaches relieved 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. De- lirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Head is in constant motion. Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of are spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and cov- ered with dry y scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot rush hair.
Eyes
Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation. Lids red, ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated. Edema around eyes. External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; burning, hot, and excoriating lachrymation. Corneal ulceration. Intense photophobia; better ex- ternal warmth.( Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain.
Ears
Skin within, raw and burning. Thin, ex- coriating, offensive otorrhoea. Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain.
Nose
Thin, watery, excoriating discharge. Nose feels stopped up. Sneezing zvithout relief. Hay-fever and coryza; worse in open air; better indoors. Burn- ing and bleeding. Acne of nose. Lupus.
Face
Swollen, pale, yellow, cachcctic, sunken, cold, and covered with sweat. [Acetic acid.] Expression of agony. Tearing, necdl -like pains; burning. Lips black, livid. Angry, circumscribed Aush of cheeks.
Mouth
Unhealthy, easily-bleeding gums. Ulcera- tion of mouth with dryness and burning heat. Tongue dry, clean, and red; stitching and burning pain 1 in tongue. 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, burnin9, 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; gulpig up of acid and bitter sub- stances s which seem to excoriate the throat. Long- lasting eructations. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach "extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia 93 from slighest food or drink. Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco. Terrible fear and dyspncea, with gastralgia; aiso faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion.] Malignant symptoms.Everything swallowed seems to lodge in 1 the cesophagus, which seems as if closed and nothing would pass. Ill effects of vegetable diet, melons, and watery fruits generully. Craves milk.
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.
Stool
Sinall, offensive, dark, with much prostra- tion. Worse at night, and a/ter eating and drinking; . from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive. Cholera, witl. intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst. Body cold as ice. [Verat.] Hxmorrhoids burn like fre; re- lieved by heat. Skin excoriated about anus. Urine. —- Scanty, burning, involuntary. Bladder as if paralyzed. Albuminous. Epithelial cells; cylindrica! clots of fibrin and glohules of pus and blood. After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen. Bright's disease. Diabetes.
Rectum
Painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum. Tenesmus. Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus.
Female
Menses too profuse and too soon. Burn- ing in ovarian region. Leucor hcea, acrid, burning, of- fensive, thin. Pain as from red-hot ires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue; better in warm room. Menorrhagia.
Respiratory
Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. Air-passages s constricted. Asthma worse 1 midnight. Burning in chest. Suffocative catarrh. Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back. Expectoration scanty, frothy. Darting pain through upper third of right lung. Wheezing respiration.: Hemoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry, as from sulphur fumes; after drinking.
Heart
Palpitation, pain, dyspncea, faintness. Ir- ritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers. Pulse more rapid in morning. [Sulph.] Dilatation. Cyanosis. Fatty degeneration. Angina pectoris, with pain in necl and occiput.
Back
Weakness in small of back. Drawing in of shoulders. Pain and burning in back. [Oxal. ac.]
Extremities
Trembling, twitching, spasms, weak- ness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swell- ing of feet. Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neu- ritis. Diabetic gangrene.
Skin
Itching, burning, swellings; cedema, erup- tion, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratch- ing.. Malignant pustules. . Ulcers with offensive dis- charge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. Psoriusis. Scirrhus. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma. [Nat. cacodyl.] But if only surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies, 2x to 3x trit.
Sleep
Disturbed, anxious, restless. Suffocative fits during sleep. Sleeps with hands over head. Dreams are full of care and fear. Drowsy, sleeping sickness.
Fever
High temperature. Periodicity marked witl adynamia. Septic fevers. Intermittent. Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion. Hay-fever. Coid sweats. Typhoid, not too early; often after Rhus. Complete exhaustion. Delirium; wurse after midnigl.t. Great restlessness. Great heat about 3 A. M. Sordes. 95
Modalities
Worse, wet weather, after midnight; from cold, cold drinks, or food. Right side. Better from heat; from head elevated; warm drinks. Complementary: Rhus; Carbo; Phos.; Thuja; All. sat. Antidotal to lead poison. Antidotes: Opium; Carbo; China; Hepar; Nux. Chemical Antidotes: Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxide of Iron; Liine Water. Compare: Cenchris contortrix; lod.; Phosph.; China; Verat. alb.: Carbo: Kali phos. Epilobium (intractable Hiarrhoa of typhoid). Hoang Man.- Strychnos Gaul- theriana (Exhaustion with vertigo, nuinbness and tin- ling in hands and feet; involuntary action of lower jaw. Pustules and boils, tertiary syphilis and cancer of glandular structures). Atoxyl.-— Sodium arsanilate 3x, sleeping sickness; commencing optic atrophy. · Levico Water — (containing Ars., Iron and Copper). (Chronic and dyscratic skin diseases, chorea minor and spasms in scrofulous and ancmic children.) Sarcolactic acid (influenza with violent vomiting).
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies have often yielded brilliant results. Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and