HOMŒOPATHIC
MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T
Arsenicum Album
Arsenious Acid-Arsenic Trioxide
A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut
characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease
make its homeopathic 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. Great exhaustion after the slightest
exertion. This, with the peculiar irritability of fiber, gives
the characteristic irritable weakness. Burning
pains. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat. Seaside
complaints (Nat mur; Aqua Marina).
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).
Arsenicum should be thought of in ailments
from alcoholism, ptomaine poisoning,
stings, dissecting wounds, chewing tobacco; ill effects from decayed food
or animal matter; odor of discharges is putrid;
in complaints that return annually. Anæmia 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. Septic
infections and low vitality.
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, malicious, selfish, lacks courage.
General sensibility increased (Hep).
Sensitive to disorder and confusion.
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 lachrymation. Lids red, ulcerated, scabby,
scaly, granulated. Œdema around eyes.
External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; burning,
hot, and excoriating lachrymation. Corneal ulceration. Intense
photophobia; better external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with
fine burning pain.
Ears.--Skin within, raw and burning.
Thin, excoriating, offensive otorrhœa.
Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain.
Nose.--Thin,
watery, excoriating discharge. Nose feels stopped
up. Sneezing without relief.
Hay-fever and coryza; worse in open air; better indoors. Burning
and bleeding. Acne of nose. Lupus.
Face.--Swollen, pale, yellow, cachectic,
sunken, cold, and covered with sweat (Acetic acid).
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, œdematous, 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 eructations. 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.
Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco. Terrible
fear and dyspnœa, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great
exhaustion. Malignant symptoms. Everything swallowed seems to lodge in
the œsophagus, which seems as if closed and nothing would pass. Ill
effects of vegetable diet, melons, and watery fruits generally.
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.
Rectum.--Painful, spasmodic protrusion
of rectum. Tenesmus. Burning pain and
pressure in rectum and anus.
Stool.--Small,
offensive, dark, with much prostration. Worse at night, and after eating
and drinking; from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled
meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive. Cholera, with intense agony,
prostration, and burning thirst. Body cold as ice (Verat).
Hæmorrhoids burn like fire; relieved by heat. 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. Bright's disease. Diabetes.
Female.--Menses too profuse and
too soon. Burning in ovarian region. Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive,
thin. Pain as from red-hot wires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue;
better in warm room. Menorrhagia. Stitching
pain in pelvis extending down the thigh.
Respiratory.--Unable to lie down;
fears suffocation. Air-passages constricted. Asthma worse 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.
Hæmoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough
dry, as from sulphur fumes; after drinking.
Heart.--Palpitation, pain, dyspnœa,
faintness. Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers. Pulse
more rapid in morning (Sulph).
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 (Oxal
ac).
Extremities.--Trembling, twitching,
spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of
feet. Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene.
Ulcers on heel (Cepa; Lamium). Paralysis
of lower limbs with atrophy.
Skin.--Itching, burning, swellings;
œdema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse
cold and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive
discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, 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. Suffocative fits during sleep. 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. Typhoid, not too early; often after Rhus. Complete exhaustion.
Delirium; worse after midnight. Great restlessness. Great heat about 3
am.
Modalities.--Worse,
wet weather, after midnight; from cold, cold drinks, or food. Seashore.
Right side. Better from heat; from
head elevated; warm drinks.
Complementary: Rhus; Carbo; Phos. Thuja; Secale.
Antidotal to lead poison.
Antidotes: Opium; Carbo; China; Hepar; Nux.
Chemical Antidotes: Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxide of Iron; Lime Water.
Compare: Arsenic stibatum 3x (Chest
inflammations of children, restlessness with thirst and prostration, loose
mucous cough, oppression, hurried respiration, crepitant rales). Cenchris
contortrix; Iod; Phosph; China; Verat alb; Carbo; Kali phos. Epilobium
(intractable diarrhœa of typhoid). Hoang Nan.
Atoxyl. Sodium arseniate 3x, sleeping sickness; commencing optic
atrophy. Levico Water--(containing
Ars, Iron and Copper of South Tyrol). Chronic and dyscratic skin diseases,
chorea minor and spasms in scrofulous and anæmic children. Favors
assimilation and increases nutrition. Debility and skin diseases, especially
after the use of higher potencies where progress seems suspended. Dose.
Ten drops in wine glass of warm water 3 times a day after meals (Burnett).
Sarcolatic acid (influenza with violent
vomiting).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
The very highest potencies often yield brilliant results.
Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher
in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin. But if only surface conditions
call for it, give the lowest potencies, 2x to 3x trit. Repeated doses advisable.
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