Argentum Metallicum

► Fear of apoplexy, particularly with palpitation of heart. ► Ill-humor, with disinclination to talk. ► Out of humor in forenoon ; in afternoon copious nosebleed. ► Restlessness, anxiety, which drives him from place to place.

► Dizziness on entering a room after a walk. ► While slumbering in bed, before midnight, it seemed as if the head was failing out of bed ; followed by a violent convulsive starting of body. ► Felt suddenly giddy, and as if a mist were before the eyes. ► Attacks of vertigo ; he cannot think rightly. ► When looking at running water, giddy. ► A crawling and whirling in the head, as if drunken.

► Congestion to the head followed by redness of cheeks. ► Cutting stitches from left ear into brain. ► Pressing pain with dullness in forehead, and drawing pressure in occiput. ► Pressive, tearing pain at temporal bones worse by touch. ► Painful sensation of emptiness in head, feeling as if it were hollow, with aching of the whole brain. ► Left-sided headache, as if in the brain substance ; at first only slight drawing gradually becoming more violent at its culmination raging as though a nerve was being torn, ceasing suddenly.

► Tenderness on top of head, painful to touch. ► Pressing, tearing pain in skull, principally in the temporal bones renewed every day at noon, worse by pressure and touch, better in open air. ► Aching of external parts of head.

► Sight vanishes. ► Amaurosis of left eye, contracted pupil, insensible to light. ► Violent itching of lids and in the corners of the eyes. θ Blepharitis. ► Lids greatly swollen. ► Pustules along edges of lids. ► Any effort to separate lids causes edges to be drawn in. ► Lids raw, sore, red, smarting. ► Abundant purulent discharge.

► Corrosive itching ; scratching until bleeding ensues.

► Tickling, crawling sensation in the nose, followed by nosebleed. ► When blowing the nose, violent bleeding. ► Violent fluent coryza with frequent sneezing, mornings.

► Pressing and tearing of the facial bones ; drawing, tearing in the right zygoma. ► Face straw-colored, including lips. θ Scirrhus of os uteri.

► Swelling of upper lip, close under the nose.

► Severe aching in the decayed last molar, left side. ► Teeth adhere together like from glue.

► Sore, burning blisters on tongue, tongue dry.

► Dryness in the mouth. ► Fetid breath. θ Scirrhus uteri.

► Region of submaxillary glands swollen ; the neck stiff ; swallowing difficult as from internal swelling ; has to force every mouthful down the oesophagus. ► Scratching sensation in the soft palate, as from something rough sticking there ; felt most during empty swallowing, forcing him to swallow saliva. ► Painful tension in fauces as from swelling, when yawning. ► Throat feels raw and sore during expiration, or when swallowing or coughing. ► Viscid, fray, jelly-like mucus in pharynx, easily hawked up ; early morning. ► Anaesthesia of the fauces. θ Diphtheria. ► Tension in fauces on right side, felt only when gaping. θ Aphonia.

► Appetite increased ; hungry after eating a full meal. ► Desire for wine. ► At times loss of appetite, with aversion to smoking. ► Want to thirst, even during the hot stage of the fever.

► During and after meals, sweating. ► After dinner, nosebleed.

► Squeamish nausea in region of sternum, with vertigo and burning in scrobiculum. ► Nauseous sensations with hunger ; nausea in his dreams. ► Vomiting, with the stool in the afternoon. ► Bitter, acrid fluid rises up into the throat ; heartburn.

► Burning in the stomach, ascending to the chest. ► Anxiety and pressure in pit of stomach.

► Cutting stitch under the last left ribs.

► Tympanitic puffing of right side of abdomen. ► Sore to hard pressure ; slowly lessened after wind passes. ► Expansion and sensation of fulness in epigastrium, with hunger. ► Loud croaking in the abdomen, with hunger. ► Wind colic. ► Distention of hypogastrium, which was exceedingly sensitive to contact. ► Contraction and tension of the abdominal muscles ; has to walk bent forward. ► Bruised pain over left hip, and on whole left side of pelvis. ► Tension in the groins. ► Painful soreness in the whole abdomen, worse when riding in a carriage.

► Frequent urging in lower part of rectum, with discharge of small quantities of soft stool. ► Dry, stool, like sand, after dinner. ► Alvine evacuation irregular, often lienteric diarrhoea. ► Diarrhoea with constant pain in left side of stomach. ► Sore between the nates, around anus, and in groin, on moderate walking.

► Turbid, sweetish, profuse at night. θ Diabetes. ► Urine : profuse at night ; pale fetid.

► Seminal emissions almost every night, without erection, with atrophy of penis ; after onanism. ► Yellowish-greenish gonorrhoea, of an indolent character from beginning. ► Very profuse gonorrhoea, with contusive pain in testicle. ► Greyish ulcers, with shaggy borders, at the prepuce ; at the same time in the throat. ► Crushed pain in the testicles ; clothing increases the pain on walking ; also evening in bed. ► Scrotum and feet oedematous. θ Diabetes mellitus.

► Pains in the left ovary and loins. ► Purulent, ichorous, sometimes bloody matter flows from uterine ulcers, filling room with an unbearable stench. ► Neck of uterus looks spongy, deeply corroded. ► Metrorrhagia, large lumps with violent pains, increased with every motion. ► Hemorrhages at the approach of the climacteric period. ► Prolapsus uteri ; pain in left ovary ; pain in small of back extending to the front and downwards.

► Rawness and soreness in upper part of larynx, when coughing, not when swallowing. ► Hoarseness ; especially of professional singers, speakers, etc. ► Cannot speak a loud word ; constant tickling in the throat, provoking cough. ► Laughing produces mucous in larynx and excites cough. ► When stooping ; or ascending stairs, mucus rises into the throat, easily brought up by a single cough. ► A gray, gelatinous phlegm is easily raised from trachea. ► Over the bifurcation of the trachea, a raw spot ; hoarseness ; worse when using the voice.

► When reading aloud in the evening, he has to hem and hawk. ► Stitches between the sixth and seventh ribs, worse when inhaling. ► With a deep inhalation, pressing-out pain below the second and third ribs. ► With every deep breath cutting on both sides on last ribs. ► Violent stitches in chest impede inhalation and exhalation. ► Want of breath, also in diabetes.

► Dry, caused by irritation in the bronchia, with a sore pain ; drawing stitches on lowest rib, near spine ; in attacks, rattling by day and in room, not at night not in open air ; with easy expectoration, white, thickish, looking like boiled starch ; from laughing ; from dull cutting, which becomes a stitch in the air passes from below upwards, with mucus in chest.

► Stitches in right chest from within outwards he can neither inhale nor exhale without feeling it. ► Great weakness of the chest, worse left side.

► Beats sometimes omit. ► Palpitation increased by sudden muscular exertion. ► Full feeling in region of heart. ► Frequent spasmodic, but painless twitching of whole cardiac muscle, especially on the back ; fears apoplexy. ► Pulse : often unchanged ; more frequently in evening, in bed ; slow in the morning.

► Cutting left side, in cartilages of false ribs. ► Chest feels sore to touch. ► Boil near last rib.

► The sterno-cleido mastoid muscles hurt when stretched by turning of head. ► Itching between the shoulder-blades. ► On right of pelvis, near sacrum, skin feels cold as if touched with ice ; returns after eating.

► Upper arms feel powerless, as after severe labor. ► Tearing in bones of arms, especially of hands and fingers. ► A short paralytic drawing on the outside of upper arm ; on pressure it pains as if beaten ; same in wrist-joint.

► Stitches in the hip when walking. ► From time to time crampy pains in the thighs. ► Weariness about the hip-joints, worse walking ; feel bruised on hard pressure after rising. ► Stiffness in the hips in the morning. ► Knee pains as if bruised, while sitting. ► Knees knock together when walking. ► Calves feel as if too short on going down stairs. ► When stepping, feet feel sore, as if ulcerated. ► Feet oedematous, swollen. ► Tearing in the feet, at times in the soles, dorsa, heels or toes, in tarsal or metatarsal bones.

► Numbness in limbs, as if asleep. ► All the limbs feel stiff. ► Loss of power ; after walking, unusual fatigue. ► Heaviness. ► Joints of hands and feet feel sore ; drawing in the joints.

► Painless twitching : around right shoulder and right thigh ; of right thumb, abducting it while writing. ► Spasmodic, painful twitching of muscles on temple, forehead, and throat, near thyroid cartilage. ► Convulsive shocks of whole body ; after previous vertigo ; mostly when dropping off to sleep, preventing sleep. ► Epileptic attacks, followed by delirious rage, jumping about, striking those nearer. ► Weary, forced to lie down and sleep. ► Paralytic weakness on motion ; bruised feeling. ► Lame, weakness with all pains.

► Gaping, drowsy ; depressed in mind. ► Like electric shocks on going to sleep. ► Restless sleep ; anxious, frightful dreams, on awaking believes them true. ► Nausea in dreams. ► On awaking : fatigue ; upper arm weak, legs powerless.

► Coldness on small spots. ► Chill : in the afternoon and evening, until asleep ; before midnight, every time the bed clothes are raised. ► Chilly, stupid ; chill spreads from the back. ► Heat in the forenoon without thirst, heat all over, but less on the head. ► Hectic, 11 A.M. to 12 M., or 1 P.M. ► Sweats easily ; during and after eating ; upper part of body, or only front of body. ► Sweat after midnight. ► Sweat on abdomen, chest.

► Pains increase gradually, disappear suddenly. ► Sudden momentary pains ; belly, back, right shoulder, etc. ► Cough in attacks.

► Soreness and rawness in internal organs. ► Articular rheumatism, without swelling, with burning, lancinating pains, like from the sting of a wasp, severe at the knee, still more at the elbow. ► Pains as if sprained ; as if beaten.

► Drawing pains in maxillary and parotid glands. ► Acts on cartilages and joints. ► Joints feel weak, sore ; especially in lower limbs when descending. ► Arthritic bruised pains in joints ; boring. ► Emaciation. ► Tenderness, pressure or tearing in the bones ; gnawing, especially in the long bones, and in those of the face.

► Itching, unchanged by scratching. ► Sore exanthemata, cannot bear to have them touched, even the motion of the skin is almost unbearable. ► A pimple on left temple sore to the touch. ► Stinging as from fleas here and there.

► Tall, thin people of irritable temperament. ► Affections from onanism.

► Cured gonorrhoea, after Cannab., Copaiva and Mercur. failed. ► Cured scirrhus of os tincae, after Conium, Cicuta, Sepia and Lycop. failed. ► Uterine and ovarian similar to Pallad., the latter on the right side ; Argent. met. on the left. ► Ailments from abuse of mercury. ► Antidotes to Argent. met., Mercur., Pulsat. ► After Argent. met. follows well : Calc. ostr., Pulsat., Sepia, Argent. met., follows after Alum., and Platin. ► A return of trembling palpitation four months after delivery, after being cured in the third month of pregnancy by Argent. met. was relieved by Rhus tox. ► Compare Stannum in cough excited by laughing.