Bismuthum Subnitricum
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General EN
Bismuthum.
Bismuth (including the Subnitrate "Magistery of Bismuth" Bi2 O3. 2HNO3; the Nitrate Bi O2 HNO5; and the Oxide Bi 03). Trituration.
Clinical EN
Abdominal operations, vomiting after. Angina pectoris. Cholera. Cough. Cystitis. Delirium tremens. Diaphragmitis. Diarrhoea. Gangrene. Gastralgia. Gastritis. Headache. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Stomach, cancer of. Stomatitis. Toothache. Vomiting.
Characteristics EN
Bismuth exerts its chief influence in the stomach and stomach region. It causes a pure gastralgia, not associated with catarrh like that of Nux. There is vomiting of large quantities and intense thirst, with ejection of water immediately after it is taken; food is retained a little longer. Burning, griping, lancinating, with dull pain in back or spasmodic vomiting.
The pains are chiefly piercing, tearing, burning, cramping, and screwing. Headache alternating with gastralgia. There are tearing pressing pains in the bones of the hands and feet, spasmodic affections of the muscles of face and limbs. Haemorrhages; the blood being dark, pitchy.
Anaemia, and with this there is an itch-like eruption. Corrosive itching on side of tibia. Gangrene and gangrenous ulcers, bluish; or dried, parchment-like. Piedvache has recorded a case in which a Bismuth dressing applied to a burn produced the following results: Pseudomembranous stomatitis, with disseminated plaques, the membranes resting on black spots.
Black borders on gums; loosening of the teeth. Pharyngeal angina (uvula, tonsils, and palatine arch); false membrane, slightly adherent, and of slight consistency; slate-coloured spots all over; later, sphacelus of soft palate. Vomiting, hiccough. Pain along oesophagus.
Diarrhoea, albuminuria.
O. W. Smith has verified: "Pain in stomach > bending backward"; and "eructation tasting of food eaten twenty-four hours before." Cold drinks and cold bathing > headache; toothache. When the water in the mouth becomes warm it < toothache. Summer complaints. Headache returning in winter. Motion relieves most symptoms and < some headaches. > Bending backward (pressure in spine). The patient is restless, moving about; anxiety.
Bism. has a great affinity for affections of r. upper extremity or forehead. Sensation of heaviness in inner parts. With gastralgia there is pressing heaviness. In gastric affections with vomiting, purging, and prostration, the surface of the patient is warm.
In summer complaint of children there is cadaverous smell of flatus and of stool. Desires company; child holds on to its mother's hand. According to Teste, Bism. corresponds to slow digestion, with fetid eructations; it is hardly ever indicated where eructations are inodorous or sour; or when gastralgia is accompanied by habitual constipation, without vomiting, or with vomiting of insipid ropy mucus. The stools are preceded by crampy, pinching pains in the stomach.
Teste cured with the oxide a wearing, nightly cough in a hysteric lady; and a case of sub-acute cystitis, with irregular paroxysms of crampy pains in the bladder; also a case of phlegmasia alba dolens (left); Petroz having cured another.
Relations EN
Bismuth is antidoted by: Calc., Caps., Coffee, Nux. Is isomorphic with: Ant c., Ars., Phos. Similar to: Ant. c. (vomiting, white tongue, gastritis);
Ars. (anxiety, gastritis, cancer, gangrene, vomiting); Bell. (gastralgia, cancer, flatus in ridges);
Bry. (toothache, gastritis); Calc., Caps., Chi., Ign., Kali c., Kre., Lach. (sore throat, sleep, ulcers);
Lyc., Merc., Nux (gastralgia, urging to stool); Phos. (vomiting: Bism. vomits immediately; Pho. vomits water as soon as it becomes warm in stomach);
Plumb. (abdomen in ridges, gastralgia; > bending backward; heart disease); Puls., Rhus > by motion);
Sep., Sil., Staph. Useful after: Euonymus (headache).
Causation EN
Abdominal operations.
Mind EN
Discontented, morose, and complaining humour
Inconstancy
Aversion to solitude
Delirium
Delirium tremens
Loss of consciousness
Moral apathy and insensibility.
2, 3.
Head and Eyes
Giddiness in the morning
Vertigo, as if the brain were turning in a circle
Stupor, with mist before the eyes
Headache, chiefly in the sinciput, and extending even to the eyes
Cutting pain in brain, beginning above, r. orbit, extending to occiput
Pressive heaviness on the head, esp. on the forehead, above the root of the nose and in the temples
Constant digging and piercing in the forehead, which extends to the eyes and point of the nose
Headache attended by, or alternating with, gastralgia.
Burning contraction in the head, esp. in the forehead and in the eyes
Aching of the eyeballs
Secretion of humour in the corner of the eyes.
Nose EN
Nose-bleed, dark blood.
Face EN
Earth-coloured, sickly, and wan (with distorted features), with livid circle round the eyes
Aching pain in the cheek-bones;
> running about and holding cold water in the mouth
Face pale and cold.
7, 8.
Teeth and Mouth
Pressive, tractive odontalgia
Toothache > taking cold water into the mouth, < when the water becomes warm
Gums swollen, with pain like excoriation
Painful sensibility of the interior of the mouth, as if from excoriation
Constant secretion of a brownish, thick saliva, of a metallic taste
In the morning, taste of blood in the mouth, with spitting of sanguineous mucus
In the evening, tongue white and loaded (without heat or thirst)
In the evening, great thirst, with preference for cold drinks.
Throat EN
Inflammation of the whole throat
Burning pain in the throat, sometimes insupportable
Phagedenic ulceration of uvula, with burning and tearing; difficult swallowing of fluids, which return through nose.
11, 12.
Stomach and Abdomen
Nausea after every meal.—> By cold water (drink)
Water is vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach
Vomiting, convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain in stomach (after operations on abdomen)
Nausea, with inclination to vomit, esp. after having eaten
Violent risings of a putrid smell
Strong inclination to vomit, with violent retching
Cancer of stomach
Vomiting of brownish matter
Vomiting (of bile) with oppressive anxiety, small pulse, vertigo and prostration
Vomiting and diarrhoea
Vomiting of all fluids (children)
Cramp-like and pressive pains in the stomach, esp. after having cater
Pressure like a load in the stomach, esp. after a meal
Burning in the stomach.—(Inflammation of the stomach.)
Borborygmi and rumbling in the abdomen
Colic with pinching, pressure, and an inclination to go to stool
Great inflation of the abdomen
Abdomen bloated in ridges; rumbling of wind along colon, passes rarely, but then relieves
Painful sensibility of the abdomen to the touch.
Stool And Anus EN
In the evening, ineffectual efforts to go to stool
Aqueous diarrhoea of a putrid smell
Stools: cadaverous smell
Cholera; cholerine; fluids vomited as soon as taken.
Urinary Organs EN
Frequent and copious emission of aqueous urine.—Emission of urine entirely suppressed.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Aching pains in the testes
Nocturnal pollutions without dreams
Pressing, aching in the (r.) testicle.
Chest EN
Cough, day and night, with copious expectoration
Aching in r. half of chest, near sternum, in a small spot
Pressure and squeezing across the chest, in the region of the diaphragm
Hot, burning constriction of the chest, with difficulty of respiration and of speech
Burning and piercing in the chest and in the back.
Heart EN
Beating of the heart.
Limbs EN
Pressive and drawing pain, with paralytic weakness in the forearms and in the bones of the wrist
Trembling of the hands after eating
Tearing in r. index finger, also in tips and joints of fingers
Acute drawing pains under the nails of the fingers
Excessive dryness of the palms of the hands and of the soles of the feet
Cramp-like contraction of the hands and of the feet
Sharp and pressive pains in the bones of the foot
Itching and gnawing in the tibia and in the back of the foot, increased by scratching
Tearing in maleolus of r. foot., in paroxysms, terminating in tendo-Achillis
Thighs and feet bluish.
Generalities EN
Sensation of heaviness in the inner parts.—Screwing pains.—Pressing pains (eyes, head, abdomen, testicles).—Pressing-tearing (bones of the hands and of the feet).—Cramp-like contractions in all the muscles.—Aching pains, or aching and pulling pains together.
Skin EN
Ulcers, gangrenous bluish
Dry gangrene; parchment-like
Burning smarting in the skin.
Sleep EN
Languor and weakness
Frequent waking, as if in a fright
Night sleep disturbed by lascivious dreams, with or without emissions
Great sleepiness in the morning after rising
Awaking from sleep with a start, and in a fright
Voluptuous dreams
Lassitude on awaking in the night.
Fever EN
Coldness of the whole body, externally
Great heat
Flushes of heat, esp. on head and chest
Intermittent, small pulse.